Sean Akizuki's Super Sentai Blog

Now begins the two-parter King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger crossover. As expected, King-Ohger is showing signs of being celebratory . That's why I'm going to make some crazy assumptions through and through! Take note that Koichi Sakamoto is involved in this episode. Why was Riku Sanjo wasn't asked to write this episode since he wrote all the episodes of Kyoryuger ? Quite interestingly, Daigo Kiryu isn't around because the actor Ryo Ryusei really has his hands full. Now, for the first part of this crossover! Also, more interestingly was that the Dino Charge episodes of Beast Morphers didn't have a complete cast either. Hilarious in hindsight? Maybe, maybe not.  Last week's episode had the convenient use of portals . Coincidence or not it's also the anniversary of the FLOP Super Mario Bros. (1993) movie. Yes, that crazy movie where King Koopa was more human-looking, Toad was a rapper, Yoshi couldn't be ridden on, and it was a darker twist of the Lighter and Softer...

This week's episode connects to the last week's cliffhange r. I guess King-Ohger is now effectively a reboot after Donbrothers with the way things are going. Donbrothers did have Toshiki Inoue and it felt like a direct sequel to Zenkaiger but it isn't. In this show, almost every episode seems focused on dramatic elements. Jeramie's mother returns but is it her? Warning for spoilers or some may have predicted the outcome too early.  After last week's episode, Gira asks Jeramie about the latter's mother. Jeramie talks about her warmth and how the Bugnarok-human war began. As revealed by DugDEAD Dujardin - he started interspecies wars in planets for some inhuman reason. This also results in other interesting conversations. There's also the desire for Trial by Combat. Speaking of which, I do miss Racules' stupidity just hearing that phrase. Who knows what Racules would do and it doesn't seem Masato Yano is out of the set yet. I feel Masato's probably...

There are times when superhero shows can be full of strange logic. Yet, I still want to make sense of the rule, "Never escalate a fight unless the villain forces you to." The rule has somewhat been given in a lot of superhero team shows. Maybe, I might've missed a comic book issue of The Avengers or The Justice League . Maybe, Toei Ltd. was reading some comics before they created the superheroes. There's also the sense of honor and protocol in real-life military defense. With Super Sentai literally meaning Super Taskforce - it's no surprise that there's this really old but useful code of honor given way before Himitsu Sentai Goranger . Super Sentai had carried out that rule in some way. Kosoku Sentai Turboranger managed to play Zordon's threefold rule before Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers came to be . There are some Super Sentai teams (and Power Rangers teams in extension) that didn't follow the third rule which was not to let anyone know they'r...

King-Ohger isn't an anniversary season yet the budget can be MIND-BLOWING. Is it because Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers entered its 30th year and Toei wants to remember one of its biggest moments in the international market? Then I remembered 1988 was also the year of Chojuu Sentai Liveman . Now, it's time to point out another wacky wishful casting.  Don't get me wrong I do still think Yutaka Morioka does a good job being Douga. Douga's a sideline character so it doesn't require that much skill. That's as long as the actor does a good job in doing what they do, right? However, I felt that some of the Liveman alumni should've returned to play the role of the royal bodyguard. It's quite a bummer that Super Sentai alumi Daisuke Shiima retired last 2013. I kinda of wanted to see Red Falcon's actor act as Douga - the royal bodyguard of the Husty family. It would've been interesting because he'd be a former Red Ranger actor acting as a bodyguard...

  One of the best things I liked about the older Super Sentai series (mostly from 1980s to 1990s) was the abudance of human-looking villains. The 1980s did have a budget for mostly human-looking villains. However, there are cases when humanoid villains get outnumbered by suit villains. The first obvious instance was Himitsu Sentai Goranger where the Black Cross Fuehrer later had a HUMAN ACTOR (and had a total of three different actors) and most of the Black Cross Army generals (who replaced each other) were played by suit actors and given different voices. With Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' 30th anniversary this year - I still feel like writing this one.  Here are those other obvious instances where suit villains severely outnumbered humanoid villains... For the first half of Kosoku Sentai Turboranger - the lame personifications of wickedness were mostly suit actors. Ragorn, Zulten, and Zimba are all suit villains. If I'm not wrong, Naoki Ofuji was Zimba's suit actor a...