Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

As the Heisei era comes to an end -- I think about it whether or not the Showa era of Tokusatsu by Toei is going to be soon a "long forgotten thing" due to generation gap issues. The Showa era may no longer be so familiar with the new school era of Tokusatsu fans but I just feel like I want to remember the Showa era days and how it's probably my favorite era of Super Sentai (in terms of storytelling) and how I usually just don't bother with old school Kamen Rider of this era (though Kamen Rider Black is still a favorite of mine) as well as Metal Hero. The 1970s can be considered to be very old now. Many shows today from that era would have entered their 40s. You can think of it that Battle Fever J and Skyrider are 40 years old. The first Kamen Rider is already almost 50 years old. Goranger turned 40 last 2015. This would be the era where there was a struggle of new ideas. I heard that the idea of making Super Sentai was derived from the popularity of Kamen Rider...

It's the first day of 2019 and it's going to be time for that annual role call for major anniversaries this year. I'd like to greet the following series that will be celebrating their major anniversaries this year! 40th anniversary Battle Fever J Battle Fever J was the first series to be called "Super Sentai" prior to the retroactive inclusion of both Goranger and JAKQ in the 90s. So why is this series important? It featured the arrival of the first giant robo or Megazord, it brought the yearly Super Sentai franchise back on track (after JAKQ got cancelled for its lack of popularity) and Super Sentai has been a yearly franchise ever since! Skyrider Skyrider is pretty much the reimagining of the Showa era Kamen Rider franchise. The show was succeeded by the less popular Kamen Rider Super-1 (and I'd actually pick Kamen Rider Fourze any day). I just had a thought that I wonder if a new generation of Kamen Riders after Zi-O would probably try to mo...

It's no secret that the Heisei era is really about to come to an end around next year. So I decided to do a ramble post on what I'd call the "different eras" of the Heisei era which would come to an end by April 30, 2019 and it began on January 8, 1989. 1989 was a bit of a transition for some series. Black RX was caught in between the Showa era and the Heisei era -- making Kamen Rider Black the last true pure Showa era Kamen Rider. Chojuu Sentai Liveman's final episodes were in the Showa era making Hikari Sentai Maskman the last true pure Showa era Super Sentai. Then if we had any "pure Heisei starters" -- they would be Kosoku Sentai Turboranger and Mobile Cop Jiban which were aired after the death of Emperor Hirohito and the ascent of Emperor Akihito who's about to abdicate the Chrysanthemum Throne. 1989 was somewhat a shaky period for Super Sentai as Hirohisa Soda was now starting to burn out. Personally, I'm a fan of Liveman but I always f...

Well 2018 is coming to an end and 2019 is coming in -- this has me getting excited (and nervous) at the same time about the upcoming series Kishiryu Sentai Ryuusoulger. Now I decided to read through Ukiyaseed concerning both the staff and the plot to get more information. The staff The staff is revealed as follows: The upcoming series will be produced by Toei producers Shinya Maruyama (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) and Kazuhiro Takahashi (Kamen Rider Ghost). The series will be written by Junpei Yamaoka (Majisuka Gakuen, Kamen Teacher), making this the first time he has written a tokusatsu series. The series will be directed by Kazuya Kamihoriuchi (Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FINAL), who is best known for his work in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid and Kamen Rider Build. This is his first time directing a Super Sentai Series. Lastly, the series will feature music composed by Kiyoshi Yoshikawa (CSI: Crime Scene Talks).  Now this is where I want to shout "I'm freaking clueless...

Bonjour my readers and a Merry Christmas or should I say Joyeux Noël (and hence maybe that's why Lupin may have decided to name Noel as Noel as his human identity). Now it's time for what I'd call le mandatory Super Sentai Christmas special (which wasn't always done until Gosei Sentai Dairanger which started le yearly tradition ) which IMHO can go from weird to good. So far, this is one funny scenario which sort of touches the Japanese tradition of having friend chicken as part of le celebration.  Le series opens up with a child inviting Sakuya over to a Christmas party where they want to eat chicken. I'm just surprised we're not getting any product placements of either McDonald's Japan or KFC Japan here. Meanwhile at le Global Police headquarters -- both Keiichiro and Tsukasa (love shipping them) are now finding the list of people who have either died or gone missing. This is all part of their plan to put an end to le Ganglers. Sakuya drops ...

Bonjour my readers! Well I'm just getting nervous at le thought of what could come next year especially when I was enjoying last year and this year so much. Now back on topic -- last week's episode involved a leakage of Noel's true nature as not being human. Now this is where something predictable (or not) is about to happen so read on! I just can't blame whatever denial Keiichiro passes through. This part further cements to why he's currently my favorite character in le show. He's headstrong, stubborn and wants to beat up reality yet he wants to find out if Noel was truly guilty. I just feel sorry for Keiichiro as he starts to really grow really upset one way or another! Noel revealsle Back World and how a race of humanoids once co-existed with several races. This has me wondering is Noel also older than he looks? This race would later escape to Earth and mingle with humans. So Kogure isn't from Earth too? This is getting pretty interesting. ...