Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

Looking back at my personal biases, I always thought about the fact that I used to think that serious would mean good. I can discuss with just Super Sentai and in extension, Power Rangers, to stress a point that a more serious Super Sentai season doesn't mean it's better. I can discuss some eras based on my rather limited knowledge on Super Sentai series I watched from start to end . Hirohisa Soda's era and Toshiki Inoue as Jetman's headwriter I haven't seen much of Hirohisa Soda's era but I am very familiar with Bioman, Maskman, Liveman, Turboranger and Fiveman from start to end on how they went. So if anybody can really share more about the rest of Soda, I would be happy but I can actually talk a bit of how my opinions were molded by Soda's era plus Jetman to at least discuss my thoughts on more serious and less serious Super Sentai seasons. I can start by talking about the Soda era. As a writer, Soda started off with some less serious seasons l...

Pardon my use of this picture but I always found myself startled even by my own current set of preferences. As a child, I'll confess that I was more fond of solo heroes like Kamen Rider Black, Gavan and Shaider than I was with Super Sentai and Power Rangers. Sideline, I was more fond of the Spiderman animated series than I was of the X-Men and some years later, my opinions changed again and I have returned to my old opinion. The experience was really weird for me especially with how I didn't really care too much about Tokusatsu in general due to other stuff then I would return to it. After I returned to watching Super Sentai (and in extension, Power Rangers) I soon thought I had abandoned Kamen Rider but I was so wrong. Maybe I was too used to seeing Kamen Rider villains with their plain absurd, convoluted and/or unbelievable plots which were Super Sentai's fodder. I didn't immediately like the format that the Heisei Riders took such as the TV drama format, the monst...

Well it's time for some nostalgia and yes, I am feeling old (I am after all, thirty years old) but not any wiser or am I feeling wiser? So I did learn some things about what not to do (thanks to some critics), I would also want to take a bit of flashback. Now it's time for a bit of a flashback or a huge flashback, depending on how much my mind allows me to remember and pour out.. here goes nothing... I always thought of the time that I envied others for the toys they had. I remembered the time I envied somebody having a toy Dino Megazord and I didn't really have any expensive toys and I was just some foolish kid trying to fit in. As much as I watched some available Super Sentai, Power Rangers or Kamen Rider on broadcast I was more into reading books than comics, I did have a few toys, I remembered playing the Zyuranger game on the Family Computer thinking it was Power Rangers, later I would play other Power Rangers games on the Playstation... but I always had my desire ...

Well I felt this episode of Ninninger had people I'm happy for namely Yoshi Sudarso (Power Rangers DIno Charge) and for the Ninningers, for meeting a childhood hero. Okay, I only heard of Jiraiya just NOW and yes, NOW and I felt like Ninninger's sending me on the mission to watch... JIRAIYA.  Yoshi Sudarso is seen speaking in English in this episode and Yakumo Kato and he speak in English. So I was wondering, was he simply going "uhhhh..." like any guy who can't understand Japanese. Perhaps the actor Gaku Matsumoto was able to interpret everything so, lucky him. He's the first Power Ranger to actually make a cameo role and honestly, I wish there were more scenes though but time may have not allowed it. Here's Sudarso's video and sure, he really looks happy in this one. All I can say is congratulations to him for his fun moment. Not everyone has the opportunity to even make a cameo. I just wish he had more screen time. But again, did he just d...

Image taken from Shogo B'Stard 's similar post which I hope I can expand on.... Whether it's new Super Sentai or Power Rangers, there's always where I couldn't help but laugh, "Hmmm how do those rangers survive in their spandex?" Most of the time, the show tends to fail to explain what material they are made of and it may vary from show to show. Looking at the top most image, one can see that Super Sentai suits aren't really spandex on paper just as rubber monsters don't have rubber for skin script-wise. Another picture by Shogo (above) also reveals what might be the blueprints of the Changeman suits. I haven't seen much of Changeman nor Flashman to actually make a clearer judgment. Looking at the pictures Shogo has shared from his blog, it can be seen that apparently, most Super Sentai suits are made of spandex (costume-wise) but indeed, they are really made of some fictitious metal or mystical cloth (for some) explaining why sparks fly ...

So some of you may say I'm too backwards because I prefer the older Super Sentai series but as said, it doesn't mean I'm not open towards modernization and I can't enjoy a new seriers. It's not modernization that's the problem but it's the writing style and quality. Like ToQGer could have been a good series but IMO, assigning a burnt out Yasuko Kobayashi instead of Naruhisa Arakawa (or any new writer) was a terrible mistake. Now for Ninninger, one thing is certain, I still find the series to be pretty entertaining. As much as I want to call Takaharu as Bakaharu because he's an idiot but I couldn't find him annoying. I'll admit, I may make fun of his idiocy but I find him to be "another Ban". I know I didn't immediately like Ban in Dekaranger but I warmed up to him, the same happened with Takaharu, I slowly warmed up to him considering the guy is not an attention grabber. Everyone in Ninninger is starting to show some signs of imp...

"Your mission is far from over, you've only seen 26 episodes for now!" So I've watched Gogo Five a few weeks ago and I can say, I have finished my 26 episodes plus the movie in a short amount of time, because it's FREAKING AWESOME. What's better is that, now that I can understand it thanks to the English subs provided by Another Imagination Station, it's time for me to share my feelings on this series. Although I haven't felt any dislike for Fiveman and I still like Fiveman, I felt like Gogo Five is an improved version of Fiveman but I felt there's more nostalgia to this show than just the sibling team. I can go ahead and scream, "FIVEMAN! FIVEMAN! FIVEMAN!" to this show but I thought the idea of a rescue team, where have I seen that before? There was the Rescue Police Trilogy (which these shows had no real main villain in contrast to Dekaranger which had Agent Abrella but as a sideline salesman), what was amazing was that in 1990, w...