Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger was a great show, full of in-jokes for fans and just as fun for newbies. Akibranger is my favorite of the season (better then the normal sentai of the year), they even did a episode about the "Powerful Rangers" recently which probably offended a lot of people.kndy wrote:Hey Ryoran,ryoran wrote: I have all of Kaizoku Ranger, I saw about 4 episodes so far and liked it, even though I don't know the history. I just look it up, but I love seeing them use all the ranger moves from previous shows. I have Akibaranger also, but haven't watched it yet.
I just watched the first episode of Unofficial Sentai Akibranger and I absolutely enjoyed the tie-in of Super Sentai, classic sentai, anime and Akihabara wackiness. I'm definitely going to watch all episodes now! Lol...
Sentai and I go way back and its interesting how I got back into it.
I was a big fan of Power Rangers when it came out (and in love with Tommy) and watched it avidly until sometime before the second movie came out. In the late 90s I saw a few raw episodes of Zyuranger, but that's about all I did with that. Had a friend that continued to watch it into the 2000s and would occasionally mention things going on.
Flash forward to Youtube coming into existence. I knew that sentai started every February and would go once a year to check out the opening and laugh at stuff. I did this for many things, so its not that exciting. February of 2008 was the year of Go-onger. That opening was so damn catchy I ripped a tv-size for my Ipod.
Now it is October of 2008. I had immense free time (school, no job) and my anime backlog has dwindled down to Clannad (which was airing at the time) and nothing else. Never in my life before (or after) did I run out of anime to watch. I went on the hunt for anything to watch. TV-Nihon had Transformers, PGSM, and things like that. They also had sentai. I remembered the name Go-onger and since it was a direct download I figured what the heck?
What a mistake. I ended up buying the entire show on R2 DVD (movies and all), the crazy large robot (check this thing out: http://ooebihara.sakura.ne.jp/toys/sent ... in10c.html), photobooks, sofubis, you name it. I even cosplayed as Go-on Green. Besides the other sentai I ended up watching (both forwards and backwards) it got me started on Kamen Rider. Now I'm trapped for the long run, since neither series will ever end. I even saw the stage show at Tokyo Dome City and the displays at Toei Village.
In this modern age of everything under the sun being streamed the above situation would never happen again.
Anyone that wants to try a sentai, I very much recommend Go-Busters. We keep calling it "Evangelion for kids". It has a smart, competent villain (that learns from his mistakes and keeps the viewer on their toes), interesting world dynamics, a great cast that grow and change, an episode 30 that left my jaw on the floor, and a sobering ending.
