May20

Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger Episode 6 Review

by tokujoe on May 20th, 2012 at 4:36 am
Posted In: Uncategorized

*Episode 6*

Episode 6 starts with Hakase and one of the waitresses in a rather close circumstance but when Nobuo enters the café it turns out they were modelling for Yumeria as she was having writer block and needed something for an Yaoi doujinshi (self-published works) market. Nobuo has a package that needs to be delivered to Toei studios (the makers of Sentai) and takes Mitsuki with him.

Yumeria out of ideas goes for a walk and finds two guys complaining about traveling so far to see an idol show that is sold out. A man approaches them saying he has tickets but they may be a little expensive but do come with backstage passes. While driving to Toei Nobuo runs into Sayaka and there is a pointless detour to drop her off at her office. The man selling the tickets is this week’s monster who has nipple clamps, ummm okay. Yumeria enters the grand delusion and the others join in quickly after.

They are transported to a small theatre. They are quickly attacked with invisible stage walls, tape mine battlefields and the monster from the dark. They lose this fight. Mitsuki , now in a bad mood wants to go home but Nobuo convinces her to stay by making up that she will learn the true meaning of sentai battle. After making the delivery they sneak off into the main studio. Nobuo commences to fanboy over everything as would I. Mitsuki gets angry and storms off but Nobuo follows closely behind.

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May18

NickToons to Air “Ninja Storm” Marathon

by admin on May 18th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Posted In: Nick, Promos

NickToons has announced that as a part of their Morphenomenom Marathons they are set to air a Ninja Storm 48 Hour Marathon beginning Friday June 1st at 7pm ET!

Thanks to Ranger Crew Media for the promos!

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May17

Super Samurai to go on 16-Week Hiatus

by admin on May 17th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Posted In: Nick, Power Rangers Super Samurai

Thanks to BurgundyRanger‘s tweet it looks like Super Samurai is going on a 16- Week Hiatus.
Of course this is a “guesstimation”!
This would slate the Samurai Rangers’ return to September 8th the Saturday after Labor Day, with Episode 14 “A Crack In The World.”
This actually makes sense for a good return for the second half of Super Samurai where we will finally see the end of the Nighloks!

So it looks like its going to be a little while before we see the Female Red Ranger, Lauren.

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May16

To Skirt or Not to Skirt? Part 3 (Other Rangers)

by admin on May 16th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
Posted In: 20th Anniversary, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

Check out Part 1 (MMPR-Wild Force) here & Part 2 (Ninja Storm-Samurai) here

The Final part of my “To Skirt or Not to Skirt?” series ends with other gender changes that are not within the context of the Ranger team. Skirts added to Red Rangers or 6th Rangers, stuff of that nature!

 

Here is a change when the Gokaigers became all one color, in this case black, we have already seen the gender swap for the Black RPM Ranger (Go-on Black) but this time the Yellow Ranger has morphed into the Black Alien Ranger (NinjaBlack). Because of this change a skirt is added and the Ranger becomes female.

 

Here the Rangers have morphed into an all Red Team, the Pink and Yellow Rangers then add skirts to the Red Rangers they morph into.
On the left, the Pink Ranger has changed into the Red Mystic Ranger (MagiRed) creating an awesome looking Female Red Mystic Ranger. On the right, the Yellow Ranger has transformed into the Red Galaxy Ranger (GingaRed). I don’t know about you but I love the look of Female Red Rangers.

 

Here is another all Red Change, we have seen the Female Mystic Ranger but on the left the Pink Ranger has morphed into the Red Jungle Fury Ranger (GekiRed) adding a skirt to the suit. I love both looks!

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May16

Elgar/Auric the Conqueror Voice Actor Added to Morphicon!

by admin on May 16th, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Posted In: Appearances, Power Morphicon


“Click above to Register for PMC3!

Another guest has been added to the PMC3 Roster!

Derek Stephen Prince
Voice actor for Auric the Conqueror in Power Rangers Zeo,  Elgar in Power Rangers Turbo and Treacheron in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy!

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May16

Jason David Franks cancels for Morphicon on 05/08/12

by admin on May 16th, 2012 at 1:24 am
Posted In: Appearances, Power Morphicon, Ranger Legacy

I have absolutely no idea how I missed this, but it looks like Jason David Frank has canceled for Power Morphicon 3.
It was reported on their site on May 8th, 2012 that due to other commitments he will not be attending.

I cannot say how much this truly sucks. I mean, he was at 2010′s and so was I but I was kind of sick at the time and didn’t end up meeting my favorite Green Ranger. I was hoping that this year was the time I would finally get his autograph but I guess it wasn’t meant to be! Perhaps at another time!

:(

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May15

Power Rangers Samurai DVDs: New Info!

by admin on May 15th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
Posted In: DVD Releases, Power Rangers Samurai

(Thanks to RangerCrew)
(thanks to LinearRanger for his info on Rangerboard)

As I’ve previously reported Lions Gate will soon be released the first two volumes of “Power Rangers Samurai” DVD Sets.
Lions Gate also has the rights to the Blu-Ray releases, however this news is currently DVD news.
Here is some new info released on what we can expect from these releases:

Firstly, each Volume contains 4 Episodes, will contain bonus features and will be released in Foil-O card packaging!
(Again, they will retail for $14.98 and will be released June 19th, 2012)

Volume 1: The Team Unites will showcase Auditions, “Train Like a Ranger” featurette, a Character gallery, the Power Rangers Swarm Video and Trailers
*Subject to change
Assuming that they do not change the order of the episodes as aired on Nickelodeon, these episodes will be on volume 1:
“The Team Unities,” “Deal With A Nighlok,” “Day Off,” and “Sticks and Stones”
Pre-Order on Amazon Here

Volume 2: A New Enemy will showcase Bloopers, the “Ask a Ranger” featurette, a Weapons gallery and Trailers
*Subject to change
Assuming that they do not change the order of the episodes as aired on Nickelodeon, these episodes will be on volume 2:
“Fish Out of Water,” “There Go The Brides,” “I Got A Spell On Blue,” and “Forest For The Trees”
Pre-Order on Amazon Here

Will You Buy These Releases?

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May14

Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger Episode 5 Review

by tokujoe on May 14th, 2012 at 5:14 am
Posted In: Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, Reviews, Super Sentai

** Episode 5**

 The episode starts with Nobuo coming in to the sentai café with everyone already there. Yumeria is there cosplayed as an alien adding pi, pe and po to her sentences. She informs them her mother is coming to visit. Of course Nobuo thinks it will be the normal sentai parental episode and tells Yumeria they’re coming to her house.

At Yumeria’s room it’s all full of otaku stuff looking around you can see a lot of cool sentai merch including a cuddly Speedor from Go-onger, somebody get me one please. Nobuo tells them to hide everything as in the normal parental visit episode the parents try to make them leave the group. We find out that Nobuo still lives with his Mom who threw away some of this figures and try to throw away his hug pillow.

 Nobuo trying to hide stuff finds Yumeria’s Yaoi closet and Mitsuki throw’s him out. Nobuo sees a couple and runs back in asking if Yumeria has a boyfriend, they think he’s hitting on her but he just wants to cover up encase it’s a marriage interview episode. Mitsuki says that it might be best if Yumeria gets in to some normal but the doorbell rings and incomes Yumeria’s Mom also dressed as an alien. Turns out Yumeria’s Mom was also a famous cosplayer ba

ck in the day and Yumeria real name is Yamada Yuko, Yumeria is just her cosplay name. They all go out to Akihabara together.

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May10

Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters: Mission 7-8 Reviews

by Kadam1991 on May 10th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Posted In: Reviews, Super Sentai, Tokumei Sentai Gobusters

I enjoy how this episode showed us the ‘behind the scenes’ of the Energy Management Centre, even going as far as showing us the maintenance routines. This is something is obviously takes place with most Mecha in previous seasons, but it’s something we don’t usually get to see. It showed that the maintenance team are just as important as the Go-Busters themselves in the war against the Vaglass.

The conflict between Hiromu and Koyama, the maintenance crew member who broke Ace, was interesting since they’re on entirely different levels in the Energy Management Centre. Hiromu, stubborn as ever, doesn’t forgive Koyama at all for not properly maintaining Ace, even thought it was a mistake. The scene where Hiromu realizes the amount of work that goes into maintaining Ace was nice, especially when he appreciates that Koyama didn’t quit as soon as he made the mistake.

I haven’t mentioned Enter in a while, so I’ll talk a little about him. He is still awesome to me, from his gratuitous French to his disguises. I like how he’s actively coming up with new methods to steal large amounts of Enetron. I thought it was strange that we only have one subordinate villain this year, but I think it really works. If we had more villains, they’d just be stood around without a purpose.

This episode marks the second appearance of GoBuster-Oh and unfortunately, it did not improve much of Mission 6’s appearance. It was given a small amount more screen time, but it still didn’t actually do much apart from swing its sword. I’m still holding onto the hope that we’ll see more of GoBuster-Oh in the future.

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May09

To Skirt or Not to Skirt? Part 2 (Ninja Storm-Samurai)

by cupofwater03 on May 9th, 2012 at 1:19 am
Posted In: 20th Anniversary, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, Ranger Legacy, Super Sentai

Continuing with my “To Skirt or Not to Skirt” articles, we now take a look at the Disney era of Power Rangers, Ninja Storm through Power Rangers RPM and then onto Samurai. During this era of Power Rangers there are a lot of different changes as well as some color swaps!
*in this article the 20th Season of Power Rangers is referred to as Mega Force.

Check out Part 1 (MMPR-Wild Force) here:
http://morphinlegacy.com/2012/05/to-skirt-or-not-to-skirt-part-1-mmpr-wild-force.html

Let’s take a look at the next 8 Seasons of Power Rangers, how the genders have swapped and how it will be shown in Power Rangers Mega Force (PR2013)

In the 11th Season of Power Rangers, Ninja Storm introduced the intro of 3 Ranger teams. Later, the two Thunder Rangers were introduced  and added to the team (only in different shades of two previously used colors). This was also the first time where we see a Female Blue Ranger but we have seen a Male Yellow Ranger before.

In Gokaiger, we get some interesting changes we haven’t seen before. First, the Male Blue Ranger converts the Female skirted version to a standard Male version. The Yellow Ranger now has a skirt to coincide with the gender of Mega Force’s Yellow Ranger. Another interesting change is that the Pink and Green Rangers become the Navy and Crimson Rangers and a skirt is added to the Navy Ranger as the Pink Ranger uses his key!

In Dino Thunder there was only one Female Ranger, just as Ninja Storm had been. Here the Yellow Ranger has a skirt but since there is only one Female Ranger in the team another skirt had to be added. The Green Ranger will also become a Black Ranger in this change.

Here is an image of the entire team as the Dino Thunder (Abaranger) team, although in this shot the Pink Ranger is comically morphed into AbarePink which was never shown in Power Rangers. Previous episodes of Gokaiger show the Pink Ranger as the White Dino Ranger (AbareKiller) which adds the skirt to this Ranger who is technically considered a “6th Ranger” even though he only makes fifth.

Power Rangers SPD marked the first time in Power Rangers where there were no skirts at all, however Dekaranger is not the first time this has occurred. Although the suits still seem stylized to look more feminine that than Male Ranger suits, even the SPD Kat Ranger and Nova Ranger have no skirt.

As you can see, no changes will happen to the SPD team when the Mega Force use their Ranger Keys.

In Mystic Force we see another Gender Swap, since in Mega Force the Blue Ranger is Male and the Yellow Ranger is Female when the Ranger Keys are used the genders switch. The Pink Ranger and White Mystic Ranger retain their skirts as no Males use their keys.

Here you can see the gender switch, the Blue Ranger is now Male and has no skirt. The Yellow Ranger now has a skirt as the Female Mega Force Ranger uses that key. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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