Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

In Super Sentai, some Super Sentai rangers were named after their actor or actresses. Here's a list of who I can remember: Diane Martin was named after her actress Diane Martin. I'll always find that to be very funny. Ryuusuke Oowashi was named after the singer Ryuusuke Kawasaki. Takayuki Hiba was named after the actor Takayuki Godai. Kinya Shijima was named after the actor Kinya Sugi and Asao Hyou was named after Asao Kobayashi. Megumi Misaki was named after her actress Megumi Mori. Why couldn't they name Hurricane Blue as Nao after Nao Nagasawa? Kasumi Momochi is named after Kasumi Yamaya. Missed any? Let me know!

Picture taken from Orends Range While reading Orends Range, a few days ago the blog revealed that that Zyuohger was getting a crossover with Kamen Rider Gaim . In the past, we have Kamen Rider Decade meeting Shinkenger , ToQGer meeting Kamen Rider Gaim and last year's Kamen Rider Drive meeting the Ninningers . In the case of the Ninningers, they also appeared in the Kamen Rider Drive Grand Prix film though the movie treated the previous crossover independent from the Drive/Ninninger crossover. If you remember how the three Super Sentai/Kamen Rider crossovers were made, two were TV specials while the first one didn't. Kamen Rider Decade's version of the crossover happened when the cast of Decade enter into the World of Shinkenger. The Decade/Shinkenger crossover happened as two episodes of Decade. Later, they tried the movie concept twice with ToQGer/Gaim and Drive/Ninninger each with varying results. I'll admit that all of them had their charm but I really couldn...

Do you ever have a favorite Tokusatsu head writer from Toei? If so, there are really times you'll find out that they've badly burned out. Here are some cases of writers burning out. Just because a headwriter does a good job at first doesn't mean they won't reach their limitations. So here's a list of writers you may have liked but also wrote something bad because they just reached their limits that time. Hirohisa Soda Hirohisa Soda is pretty much "hail to the king". This was probably what many Super Sentai fans considered as "the best era ever" with Hirohisa Soda as the head writer and Takeyuki Suzuki as the head producer for many of his shows. As a writer, Soda started out with Goggle V which had a small bit of the science theme, Dynaman didn't explore on it much. He would also be responsible for writing the "science trilogy" with Bioman, Flashman and Liveman which all focused on the high consequences of reckless use of tec...

While watching Zyuohger, I observed the use of cubes. I agree with some Super Sentai fans who call the Zyuohking which I'll dub as the "Minecraft Megazord", some might say, "What's up with the cubes?" But I guess I can speculate for now why Zyuohger came out the way it is. If you take a look at Zyuland at a "bird's eye view" (pun not intended), you can see the whole land is built on cubic architecture. It does look like a child's building blocks but I feel like there's something than more than meets the eye. I feel like the anthropomorphic animal residents of Zyuland are dressed up like tribal people. Now where do we see that kind of concept?

After reading some top tens and top twenties and everyone had their varying opinion on who should be on top. I would share these girls in chronological order. Now it's time to check my list of worthy contenders from my own point of view with others in it. Momoko herself can be a worthy contender. I have to admit her beauty is pretty unique. After watching Bioman as a child, I cannot deny while Hikaru Katsuragi was my first Tokusatsu crush but she had turned me on much more. There's the overstatement that Kimberly Ann Hart is every 90s first crush. Not really because there were other girls before her. While Hikaru was my first crush (and she was dubbed as Kimberly in that cheesy dub) but I can't deny her unique beauty got me the most. After watching Zyuranger, I could say well Mei is cute but I cannot deny she's way more attractive IMO. She's still top one for me appearance-wise.

Here's my list of top ten Super Sentai villain hotties from top to bottom. This is a real challenge. After seeing this list of hot Power Rangers villains , I decided I could "respond" to it with my own list with Super Sentai villains. While watching Abaranger, I do find Jeanne/Mahoro to be attractive but not that much. If people find Vypra in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue hot, well I do find Venus in GoGoFive also attractive. I thought both actresses playing their parts weren't all that good with expressing but they did really still present some impressive fighting prowess. In her human disguise, she's really attractive. Both Venus and Vypra are really never to be underestimated.

I was pretty nervous before Zyuohger's premiere. I thought that after Gokaiger, there was really this "fatigue season". I do like Go-Busters but the series wasn't really popular with the rest so it might as well be considered as a fatigue point for Super Sentai. Then came Kyoryuger or what I want to dub as KYOOOOOORRRRYUUUGER which I thought didn't appeal to me. ToQGer was another season which I felt was a real fatigue point due to the writer Yasuko Kobayashi was burning out beyond belief. It was Kamen Rider Gaim that filled my Tokusatsu void during the airing of ToQGer, Kyoryuger, Samurai and Megaforce. It's time for Zyuohger and I really can't believe I'm getting a real huge breathe of fresh air from this series. With Junko Komura (main writer of Satria Bima Garuda) doing the job, I wonder how will she fill the void left by other writers? The story starts with the entrance of Yamato Kazakiri (who's revealed to have gotten that cube from a Zy...