Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

Bonjour reader! Well it's that time for another Lupinranger vs. Patranger review! This time, after last week's rather weak episode (at least for me anyway so don't get mad if you liked it) -- I find this episode to be very pretty intense! As it turns out, Destra is already out there to do his task and prove himself to the Ganglers once and for all! Le episode begins with Keiichiro somehow showing how his kind heart always makes up for his somewhat dull mind. So are we getting a glimpse of Keiichiro's background since he mentions his parents who just gave him some preserved tomatoes? Will we ever see her like we saw Umika's father? Anyway, there's a bit of shiptease yet again with Umika and Sakuya yet again. As it turns out, Destra showing up with him wanting to prove that he's a worthy successor to Don Dogriano. What he does is his plan to actually trap le Patrangers and execute them in front of his master! Is it me or do plans like that actually n...

I remembered a couple of rants ago when I started raising some questions like " How many old school Super Sentai have you watched? " and when I made a list of Super Sentai series I've watched from start to end . I admit, there are many reasons why there are times I can't accept change and why I can accept them. For instance, I wasn't too happy with some seasons past Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters then I find myself really enjoying Ucchu Sentai Kyuranger and this year's Kaito Sentai Lupinranger vs. Keisatsu Sentai Patranger -- though I still have my concern on this year's tendency where the personalities of Kairi and Keiichiro sort of start to exchange! Anyway, I'd like to write about the Super Sentai completionist challenge after I wrote the Kamen Rider completionist challenge post as a "response" to Sentai Bandicoot's related blog entry  which this post is the "second response". But remember that I'm enjoying new school Kamen...

Bonjour my readers! Well I decided to simply focus more on Lupin vs. Pat episodes as of right now considering that there's other stuff that always catch my interest. Now it's time for le review of worrying too much!   Le episode starts with Kairi acting all suspicious which actually causes his friends to worry. They see him sneak out more often than not. This gives both Touma and Umika le right to worry about it. Just then a new Gangler known as Dugong Manatee to show up. He uses some smoke attack which would allow le two to worry too much! What makes me think WTF Akatsuki Yamatoya is his tendency to well add really bad humor to good one. His humor is hit and miss. I did mention earlier how I did enjoy his Shinkenger episodes (especially the Mr. Brown episode) or maybe I could name that really funny episode where we had a dance groove . But in this case, it kinda got boring here since I wanted to see more of le Patrangers in action. Noel shows up with Umika and...

Bonjour my readers! I decided not to write anything during le last week because of no Super Hero Time. An interesting trivia is that December 21 of every year in France is Fried Shrimp Day  though it's still a month away, isn't it? Anyway, back to discussion and it turns out that someone who we thought died two weeks ago is up and running! Le episode has a bit of Noel doing some investigations on le criminal named Zamigo. Yup, le same ice eating freak who's appeared months ago, disappears and reappears every now and then. Keiichiro runs into Kairi. Is Keiichiro getting a lead or not of who le Lupinrangers are? Maybe not. Keiichiro is always playing le concerned citizen over Kairi but how will this work out when le former will discover le secret identity of le latter?  This is where things get tight. Noel's investigations are now even leading to clues. He asks both Umika and Touma of whether or not they both know who Zamigo is. I don't blame Umika and To...

It's Halloween and I think about trying to imitate Shogo B'Stard's post on "One Good Scare" where he talked about Spielban's Youki and Flashman's Zoburanda  (where Changeman actor Hiroshi Kazuoki appeared as a guest star) -- I just thought I'd want to get nostalgic about those "good old days of Long Long Ago 20th Century" -- back when Super Sentai had that much nightmare fuel together with some Kamen Rider and Metal Hero. But as said, this entry is subject to criticism for whatever I've missed! So try to bear with this rather long rant on nightmare fuel! 80s nightmare fuel I could think about the pros and cons of 80s to 90s Tokusatsu series. 1987 is perhaps a nightmare fuel year with Kamen Rider Black, Hikari Sentai Maskman and Chojinki Metalder. Yes, I'm talking about Metalder and just watching the cult classic which only lasted for 39 episodes (presumably due to lack of appeal to younger audiences and budget) made me think, ...

Bonjour my readers! It's time for another weekly Lupinranger vs. Patranger review -- which I'd actually like to do another review. Yup, it's a Lupin Collection in space. I almost wanted to sing Kyuranger's theme song or wished the Kyurangers were here or the Dekarangers but none. Anyway, it's a fun episode with new Bandai merchandise.  There's a new top secret intel and whether or not you guessed it right at first is something. I was thinking that le top secret intel was actually le Lupin Collection called le Victory Striker. Both sies of the coin namely le Lupinrangers and Patrangers are after it. Sidenote -- ever noticed that Noel keeps on talking about le need to gather le collection together and he has "confidential issues"? I guess he's le one who hired le Lupinrangers in le first place and they don't know it! Zamigo shows up and shows he's no pushover. I was impressed at his fight scenes with Lupin Red are something. He sh...

Fiveman may be one season that some counted as problematic due to it being the lowest point of Hirohisa Soda's career. Chevalier is somehow regarded as a "very goofy villain" though he became one of my favorite villains in Fiveman due to how cool and charismatic he is -- while his smug personality reminded me of another villain I like namely Kiros from Maskman. He returned after his supposed retirement as Vulgyre's captain and gave a really cool song. I always wondered what song that was and I fell for that song! I remembered how his song made people unaware of the danger that his arrival posed. It even caused Kasumi and Remi to swoon over his charisma to the point that the Fiveman team was divided. Zone's two females Dordora and Zaza both also had a crush on him because of his charisma. So what's the song's lyrics and translation? It's sung by Kai Band and not surprisingly -- it's covered by Anime/Toku theme singer Ichiro Mizuki! So was Mi...