Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

I never thought I'd do another rant like this one given the circumstances. With GoGo-V getting its official release this April 24, 2018  then a Timeranger official release may just be around the corner. I'd like to discuss an era which Sentai Bandicoot describes as the Sci-Fi Revival Era where GoGo-V and Timeranger fall into: Succeeding Takatera for the position of Chief Producer was Metal Hero veteran Jun Hikasa, who’d go on to produce every Sentai from GoGoFive to Abaranger, as well as producing Kamen Rider Blade, Boukenger, Go-onger, first half of Goseiger, and Akibaranger. This short lived 2 year long era delves the franchise into a style where it’s elements are never quite seen as much in Sentai again. It brings back the hard sci-fi approach which was very prominent during the Soda Era. However, unlike the Soda Era, the Sci-Fi Revival Era does not focus particularly on the hero vs villain plots. Rather, these two shows focus more on continuing Takatera’s grounded appr...

This week's Kyuranger is what I'd call a suspense episode. So much for my previous plan to just cram the last four episodes into one massive post! On the other hand, I've decided to relax w posting Kamen Rider Build and Hwayugi updates for now. The Kyurangers finally return to Earth where they discover that the newest Consumarz has set foot on Earth in the last episode. The hostile reception was expected. This would be a huge hurt to everyone since most of the Kyurangers' operations were on Earth for some time. So why the Earth? It's rich in Planesium and it would make the ultimate bomb. Kotaro gets reunited with his younger brother. But the reunion is cut short when Professor Anton shows up to "greet" the Kyurangers. Worse, something else happens. Don Armage finally shows up revealing his plan to possess the Universe and restart it as he sees fit. Again, I'm still reminded of that episode in X-Men: The Animated Series by Saban Enterta...

This just brings back memories whether it's my crude and unrefined humor (which led to an old shame where I laughed so evilly while writing said story) or just the fact that I tend to be unreasonable towards people. Heck, there are times Ichijou just reminds me of how I tend to be that petty towards others (such as when I slapped a working student when I could have just reported her over to the authorities for her misbehavior) or how uncontrolled jealousy can be dangerous to anyone. Shogo B'Stard has been reviewing Chojin Sentai Jetman (and I have my extreme favoritism for that show) and I want to review on the two Jetman episodes that focused on the Neo-Jetman episodes (40-41). These were written by sub-writer Kenichi Araki. Even better, we get to see Yuuta Mochizuki in action giving viewers a hint that he would be Geki in Zyuranger. Radiguet, Maria and Gure were planning to overthrow the man-child Tranza. This plot was somewhat copied into GoGoFive when Drop is force-grow...

I remembered writing a rant on the continuation of the legend of Arsene Lupin . Now it's time for me to make another rant so maybe, just maybe I'll be trying to think about the two teams that are in rivalry. It's truly a VS. series and I wonder why in the world did Toei Ltd. approve of the crossover series to have a VS. when Super Sentai teams aren't fighting each other? Two Super Sentai teams in one season? The main team is Lupinranger and their constant opposition is Patranger. Here's what JEFusion has revealed about them: Lupin Red/Kairi Yano (Itou Asahi) - A young man who is not to be trusted and is good at making fast decisions. Lupin Blue/Toma Yumiachi (Hama Shougo) - A gentleman at nature but sometimes gets easily lost in the battle against the Ganglers. Lupin Yellow/Umika Hayami (Haruka Kudo) - The female member of the team with a strong appearance. Kogure (Youichi Hotaru) - The Lupinranger's trusted butler who is a descendant of the gentleman t...

This week's episode reveals who Don Armage is. Nope it's not one of them and I'm just using the Spaceballs screenshot for some weird humor. No, Don Armage is NOT Mel Brooks either. So who is he? Just read and find out! Pega-San is back though why did it take the writers SO LONG before they brought him back? I thought he could have been used a couple more times. I guess, he could have a fallen, forgotten Bandai Merchandise. The downside has always been too many ideas can leave potential unmet huh? Pegasus then learns about Don Armage and everyone recalls their adventures. One of them is where they find out he's been cheating death one way or another.  Everyone goes for the Kuervos System and lands on Planet Verona. They are there only to find out that Jark Matter has created a new kind of Consumarz. Tsurugi also recalls his past here 300 years ago and how it was used as a concentration camp... back when the technology was much lower. Tsurugi recalls h...