Kamen Rider Fourze Episode 36 Review: True Melody

I'm sorry, but I had issues with my computer so I'm just going to give my opinions, for some reason nothing saved and I don't fell like doing everything again (next time I'm going to make sure I got copies). Episode 36 is much better than the previous episode, but shares similar flaws. First is Gotou who mostly did nothing, but to be a punk. He just got in the way and he never had any attempt at redemption which was disappointing. He even loses his memory in the end so yea he was mostly useless. The only thing he has done was show proof that the Core switch is still around. This is because of Gotou playing his music and it making the switches react to it. Gamou now knows that a student as the switch so now the plot thickens a little. Jake was great in this episode and I loved the final scene he had where he talks to himself. It was like he had made Gene as another half of himself and he soon gets rid of Gene. So yes Jake gives up on his dream, but it's for the best he said since he wants to cherish the present and his friends. The fights got a little better, but that's only because of the scenes with Leo and Meteor. Meteor actually got a win for once so it was nice to see that for chance and another thing that was different is that Meteor won with a strategy. He aimed for the right leg constantly and soon Leo's leg started to act up. Leo had to retreat for once and it was nice to see a fight like this because the series haven't had one for a while with Meteor. Overall a lot of things got better, but there was still that huge glaring mistake which was Gotou. I give it a B-

Gotou-chan not nice!

Akibaranger Episode 7 Review: Tear Down The Wall!

The episode begins with the team telling Hiroyo about Malshina appearing in the real world. Of course Hiroyo is shocked, but more important she wonders what Malshina looks like. The team is confused since she monitors the fights, sadly though she can only hear what is going on when a delusion is occuring and she says she doesn't even know what the Akibarangers look like. To help Hiroyo is out, Moegi draws what the Akibarangers look like and it's dead on. She even draws Malshina and like the last one it is very accurate and Hiroyo is speechless for a while. Nobuo asks if she recognizes her as she says no. It seems that she does know of Malshina though as she talks to herself. Hiroyo then tells her that the team must have been seeing things and try to calm them down about the issue. Later that day when the cafe is empty we see Hiroyo looking at the picture some more and she goes to a safe in her office and in it is another picture of Malshina. On the original picture is a name and the name also matches to the blue prints of the Z-cune gun. Hiroyo talks about why her father left theses to her. Then at night we see Malshina looking for a place to stay at as she finds a building.

Going to the next day we see that Mitsuki is cosplaying as Aoi-tan and Moegi is Satomi and of course Nobuo is just loving this. The two girls play out a scene and there is a guy following what they are saying. Mitsuki is a first timer with role playing, but she is happy with it and Moegi is experienced with this and it always makes her happy. Soon the Ponpoko boss shows up and Nobuo hides. She carries flowers with her and on them is a card about a new cafe with Malshina on it. The three head off to investigate the so-called evil base and find Malshina sitting in a chair. They talk for a while, but Malshina says that people are being turned into vampires as the three look out the window. It seems to be true as the team head off to help out the people and there they transform. For the fight it seems that there are only grunts around, but a fight is a fight. The team perform their role calls as Red talks about Commander Sugata from Maskman, Blue doing her long, but awesome roll call, and yellow rambles on like usual. Before they finish it though, Blue brings up the fact that Malshina isn't around. Malshina actually played a trick on them and with the help of civilians acting as vampires she got the team into the delusion world.

This time the MOTW is actually a grunt, but it's special because it has a spider on it's back. The spider is actually the monster as it can control it's host. Yoyo is much tougher than the team thinks as it as incredible speed. He is also strong as he kicks the team around. While on the ground the team try to shoot him, but that is what the creature wanted as he is now gonna try to take their weapons. Hiroyo is confused why the creature wants those items and soon Malshina appears in the cafe. One of the workers try to fight her, but she is defeated quickly and Hiroyo is held at gun point. There Malshina knows who she is and it is because she is somehow related to her father. There Malshina sprays her with knock out gas as Hiroyo passes out. Back with the fight, Yoyo is performing many flips heck he even flips on walls. He knocks the two guns out of Blue's and Yellow's hand as they get into the hands of the grunts. Meanwhile Red takes punches a grunt down to the ground and soon Yoyo appears and knocks his gun and it also goes into a grunt's hands. Malshina is also imitating Hiroyo's voice as she tells the team that they need to get them back ASAP. The grunts and the team go through a hurdle, but sadly Yoyo eats the devices! The team try to get him, but he sprints away with amazing speed.

There is no need to worry though since their car appears when Red calls for it. They get close to him thanks to Yoyo though he makes a bike appear and he gets much faster. Malshina gives them more advice about focusing only on the monster as they can break through the walls of the delusion. Hiroyo wakes up and asks Malshina what she is doing. It seems that Malshina was always trying to find a way into the real world and now she wants the wall to be broken since something will happen as she takes Hiroyo. The team then only focus on the enemy as the environment changes into a Tron like world and the monster transforms into a giant spider. They need to fight it and soon they transform the car into the robot and send the monster into the sky. Both of them get on different platforms and fire at each other soon though Yoyo jumps into the sky and blasts them with a fireball. The team begin to fall and they get stuck in the rubble of the ground. The monster then summons another fireball, but this time the Z-cune guns fall out of the grunt. I think they try to get their blasters back, but the robot hand pushes them into the wall and a bright light appears. A portal appears and now the Akibarangers are in the real world!

The monster also follows them and the fight continues as Malshina and Hiroyo watch along with other civilians. The team throw a sign at the monster and soon it becomes a gun! With it the team finish off the monster and the robot vanishes for some reason. The team confront Malshina who is holding Hiroyo as a hostage as she shoots at them. In the background we still see that even though Akibaranger is in the real world in reality the team actually don't transform. We see the three in a corner like how the team usually is when they are in a delusion. When they see themselves the Akibarangers vanish as the three try to think what exactly happened. Malshina then lets go of Hiroyo and leaves saying the team did a great job. While recouping the team now are real superheroes now since the Akibarangers have appeared and fought in the real world. Ever since that day Malshina hasn't appeared for a while as we see the three living out their normal lives. In the cafe we see an employee dressed up as Mei and dances to Aoi's theme song. There's a phone call as Moegi picks it up and says it's for Hiroyo. The call is not from Malshina or any villain, but from Tsukasa a producer for Toei!

Episode 7 is very good as it actually seems Akibaranger is going to have a story. The story is actually really interesting right now as there are many things that haven't been cleared up as it builds up on a nice mystery. Malshina is doing something, but we don't know exactly why yet, but she knows a lot about the real world and the delusion world which makes me wonder how she even knows that. There is a connection with Hiroyo's father as he is probably Malshina's creator and the one who made the Z-cune guns. As Hiroyo wonders I am also wondering why things are happening. The villains are really getting good! Malshina is a very smart villain as she plots to break down the wall between the delusions and the real world. I am even surprised that she has some control of the delusion as she gets her minions to do as she says even though she isn't there anymore. Now that the Akibarangers have appeared in the real world this mostly means that there will be more fights in the real world and I love that idea. In this world Sentai is just a show and the unofficial team is the real one. Overall this is probably a near perfect episode, it wasn't as funny like some of the other episodes, but the writing is very good and I am surprised that this series is having a story like this, an A+

Next Time: Cannon Finisher!

Go-Busters Episode 12 Review: The Metaroid Trap

The episode begins with Yoko testing out her piloting skills with a simulation. Yoko isn't happy for some reason and she wants to go through ion simulation once more. Ever since the last fight, Yoko is embarrassed that she was blown into the sky and wants to train more than ever. Nakamaru asks about what Yoko does on her days off and the response it mostly training or sleeping since she hates studying. Naka is worried because she is only 16 and yet she isn't having any fun. Meanwhile we see Enter talking to Messiah about the upcoming plan and with the team they are told about the next possible target. Enter could be after some crystals for the Megazords' eyes. The mission is to protect the crystals and their owner and that person is an actress named Angie. They are shown a picture of her and it looks just like Yoko. We then cut to the beginning of the mission as Ryuji is disguised as a waiter, Hiro is a clown, and Yoko is just watching. She sees Angie entering the building and has discovered that the crystals are in her earrings. Enter is already making his move as cp makes the Copyroid from a projector.

We see Ryuji giving tea to Angie her tea and he has a hard time with this since she looks like Yoko. The team is soon told about the reading of a Metaroid near them and the Alpha Megazord will appear in over 4 hours. Yoko then barely sees the Metaroid thanks to her camera and the team get ready for a fight, but the roid disguises himself by copying a person's appearance. Thanks to this the readings have even vanished and Yoko cannot trace it anymore. The roid easily gets through the team and tries to get Angie, but Ryuji jumps in and saves her. Hiro then apprehends the roid and he is easily catching on to the disguise since normal women aren't this strong. The roid shows his true self though and runs off, but he stumbles and falls to the ground. Yoko is confused on how it can hide it's readings, but there is no time as the team transform into the Busters. They easily kick and punch the roid around, but the roid runs for it and disguises himself again. After the fight they now know of the roid's ablitiy and realize when he got away. Now they predict that the roid will strike again when the press conference begins and that will be at 3 pm the time the Megazord will appear. The Busters come into where Angie is and Hiro tries to tell her manager to cancel the conference. The manager won't listen though since protecting Angie is the Buster's job in the first place and Angie's dreams are at stake (wait a second). Angie says she wants to be a well known actress and she cannot stop here (very familiar). Now they try to suggest to not have the earrings, but they are important since they fit the theme of the movie. Yoko finally comes in and yells at them since they are putting a lot at stake just for a movie. The manager quickly realizes that she looks like Angie and Angie is happy of what Yoko said. She asks Yoko if she has any dreams of her and says that the earrings are all she has left of her mother (of course). Ryuji has a plan now and since the enemy is impersonating people, why shouldn't they do the same?

The plan is to use Yoko as a decoy since she looks like Angie. Then Hiro will face the Megazord in the Ace as it's get approved by the commander. Before the plan begins Yoko thinks about what Angie said and thinks of her mother. Nakamaru then asks about when Yoko's mom was sent to the cyberspace which was 13 years ago. She is sad to see a normal girl like Yoko being involved in this, but Usada says that it was all the love and affection from Ryuji and the commander that has shaped Yoko in the girl she is today. Then before Hiro goes away he is asked about his dreams by Yoko. Hiro then asks her and she says she wants to defeat the Vaglass, but Hiro says that isn't a dream. Yoko agrees with him and since a dream shouldn't be something that someone has to do. Ryuji then says that after the fight they can look for their dreams. We then see Angie checking up on Yoko as she is preparing for the conference. Angie sees how similar Yoko is to her and she came to apologize about what she said before. Yoko though is fine with what she said since it's important for her. Yoko then begins to talk about how she never really had a dream before since she had to think about fighting all the time. Angie helps her out with the makeup and there she asks if Yoko is fine with this since she seems to be a normal girl. Yoko is fine since she wants to fight. The mission is beginning as Yoko steps put into the conference and Red starts fighting the Alpha zord. He starts with by throwing a sword straight at the zord as it falls down to the ground. A new sword is sent to the Ace and the zord copies the Ace's appearance. The two clash their swords, but the copy seems to be winning so far as it slashes the Ace two times. Ryuji is backstage and there he sees a man walking up towards the desk. There he suspects that is the roid as he tells Yoko. The man tries to get her, but she kicks him in the face and into the crowd. Ryuji was also right as the Copyroid gets rids of his disguise. Yoko fights him out of suit and she does well on her own as she gets the roid on the ground. To calm everyone down the manager appears and says this is all part of the event. The roid attacks again and Yoko defends the manager, but one of the earrings comes off and gets into the roid's hand. Yoko gets higher up and drop kicks the roid and tells him that he will not get the other earring since it is important for Angie.

The roid makes a run for it and gives the earring to Enter. Ryuji then appears as the conference continues with the real Angie. The two then morph into Blue and Yellow Buster and the fight begins with Blue tossing the roid down to the ground. Then Yellow jumps in and kicks the roid after Blue gets out for a while. Blue comes back in and gets the roid back on the ground, but this time he breaks the roid's copy arm. Blue gets on the ground then and blast the roid into the sky and it drops on the ground. Yellow runs in and slashes the roid and jumps over him. Both Yellow and Blue use the Special Buster finisher as it kills the roid. Now the two of them try to help Red, but since there are two Aces they cannot tell which one is real. To find out which one is which Yoko opens fires at the two Aces. Soon the copy ability wears off as the zord is revealed. With that out of the way the team combine into Gobuster-oh and finish the zord with Dimension Crush. We get back to the base and we see that Yoko gets an e-mail from Yoko. She doesn't want to since she lost one of the earrings, but she does anyways. It's in English sadly and Yoko cannot read it. The letter is mostly a thank you from Angie and it has a link to a video which shows Yoko fight the roid when she was disguised.

This episode played differently than I expected, but that is one of it's flaws. First the character Angie didn't do much at all which is sad to see since I thought she was going to have more interactions. I know the series is using execution methods with common sentai episodes, but there should still be more focus on the minor character. Angie is sadly a cliche character though so maybe I can see why there was less screen time for her. I mean she had the passion to continue for her dream like Jake from Fourze and she has a dead mother (it's like were in a Disney film). Yoko was great in this episode from seeing her deal with her thoughts and her out of suit fight was fun to watch. It is pretty interesting to see that Yoko really never had any big dreams since she was training at a very young age and doing that for a long time with a young mind can make people forget about other things. Enter was good like always and I just love how he plans things out. Enter keeps doing this and it just shows that Enter is really smart and since his plans actually work is a huge step up compared to other villains. The other fights were good I like how they used the Copyroid since he was a fighter that much, but what he had was more sneaky than other roids. The best fight was with Blue and Yellow since they have the closest bond they fight very well together. Yoko is the light hitter and can distract an enemy so that Ryuji can go for the big move then. The mecha fight was good since it did the copy thing and seeing how Yoko dealt with it made me laugh because a lot of times other episodes would take so much time to solve an issue like that. A thing that got me is that this episode is similar to episode 35 of Fourze since they both deal with dreams. Go-Busters didn't focus on it that much though since Angie was kinda ignored. Overall, there are really good things in this episode, but it's disappointing to see Angie have very little interaction even though the previews made it look like she was going to have more, a C+

Next Time: A Day Off?

Kamen Rider Fourze Episode 35 Review: Heavy Metal

The episode starts with Jake as he owns a radio show and is broadcasting during the night. He gives advice to listeners as well and it's all online and he does his own singing. It's morning now and we see that Kengo is telling the team about how the cosmic power in AGHS is much stronger ever since the hole vanished in Kyoto. Now there are worries about the upcoming Horoscopes, but Gen has no worries since he has the Cosmic Switch (even though he got beaten around by Leo). Then we see a girl listening to what Jake said on the radio as she splashes water on his face. It also seems that Jake is keeping his radio identity as he is called Gene. The radio show as also been very popular as Gen and Yuuki get frantic at Kengo and Ryusei for not knowing who Gene is. The group starts walking out of the cafeteria as Yuuki talks about the Milky Night Carnival and we the two girls from before talking about the show. Jake then talks to Gen about Gene and Gen likes the guy a lot and his singing, but Yuuki says his singing is for comedic purposes since he sounds bad. Everyone seems to like the show which is good and now Gen is going to find Gene and befriend him. After that we see the Taurus Zodiart rocking out on the roof as he is excited to give Gene a request.

It's night again as we see Jake reading an e-mail from a fan. It's a request for a song, but sadly Jake won't accept since it doesn't fit with the theme. The show begins and Jake reads another e-mail with just a phone number. He calls the person and on the other side is a guy trying to play an electric guitar, but he's not that good. Jake starts to realize something and before he could say anything the man request that the two meet tomorrow at 2 pm in Pan's store. Meanwhile with the Rider Club we see Yuuki rocking out with a guitar as it is plugged into Fourze's Beat switch. Yuuki wants to start up a band because of Gene as Tomoko joins with another guitar and even Kengo wants to join since he has some experience with the drums. Kengo also recently listened to the show and he's a fan now. Now Gen is more enervated to find Gene, but where? Yuuki reminds the group that Gene is meeting a fan at a bread store. Tomoko corrects her though saying "Pan" is a name for a music store and we then cut to that store. Jake walks around and hears the voice from before as they sing a couple of lines from a song. Jake's old friend is named Gotou (must resist Date insert joke) and he has recently came to AGHS. Gotou has something to show him though as he shows him the Horoscope switch. He then transforms into Taurus and begins to rock out and he does much better than before. Gotou also gets Jake to sing as his voice gets much better for some reason.

The group then appear hearing singing in the store as they think they found Gene. Jake tries to get away, but he is seen, but he keeps his identity a secret by faking fear around the new Horoscope. Gen transforms and takes the fight outside of the store. Ryusei also transforms and enters in the fight and it seems Gotou doesn't have full control over his powers. Also it seems it's not the Taurus Zoidart it's the Capricorn whoops. Either way Gen is told to use Cosmic States to quickly finish him off. He does so and goes into Cosmic States and he starts by inserting the Elek switch in the sword. Gen gets a couple of hits on him and Jake can't watch this anymore as he runs into Gen and tries to stop him from fighting. Then the Cosmic States starts to act up a little and soon Meteor gets his finisher ready. Libra appears though and takes Capricorn with him. After the fight Gen gives Kengo the Cosmic switch to look at and the two girls talk about how they didn't find Gene. They even talk about the singing from before and say that it couldn't have been Gene since it was good. With the villains we see that with Libra's new eye he can see if someone can become a Horoscope. Tatsugami isn't impressed with the new guy as he doesn't seem that sharp and his obsession with rock is annoying. Libra wants him to keep playing his guitar and Gotou soon does with Capricorn's powers. All of a sudden the other Horoscope switches start to react to the guitar. We don't know what it does to the switches exactly, but Tatsugami is happy to see this. He will now train Gotou so that he can mater his powers and so that the Core Switch could be found.

After school we see Jake is having issues with the current situation. Gen comes around though and talks about the request that is sent. Gen has now found out that Gene is Jake because only he would know about that e-mail. The two talk about "Gene" and Jake says that is only a character that is just the remains of his dream. Jake's father was a guitar player and Jake loved to sing along when he was younger. Since then Jake thought of himself as the rock star Gene and hopes for the day when he comes famous. During middle school though he tried singing along with Gotou, but no one liked their performance. Even Gen admits that Jake's singing isn't the best, but he has heart. Jake then says that the only reason the radio show is because he thought no one would listen. Now Jake could have another chance of reaching his dream. Back to the radio show we see that Jake is beginning a new segment with his friend "God" as it is called Gene God's Night Carnival. Jake is now working with Gotou who is Capricorn and the two start to play a song. This time Jake's singing is much better and two fans are ecstatic over it. There is another band around though as Yuuki, Tomoko, and Kengo start playing. It sounds pretty bad as everyone else around is covering their ears. Ryusei gets the group away from the singing as he talks about a couple of accidents happening to some students. These students have been getting worked up like how those three are right now and some of them are getting injured because they are going out of control. The factor is that they have been listening to the same show which is Gene's show. Jake then talks about how it could because of the Zodiart around and there Gen reveals that Jake is Gene. Jake then storms out and promises that he won't be airing today.

Jake then appears at the broadcasting area as Gotou is ready to rock. Jake wants to stop because of the students hurting themselves, but Gotou wants to continue. Jake even tries to get the switch from Gotou, but the two start to bicker about how they can finally become stars. Friendship is more important for Jake though, but then Gotou talks about Jake's father. Sadly the show starts and now Gen and Ryusei come to stop them. They find the two rock stars thanks to the roid and Gotou quickly attacks the two. Gen transforms into Fourze and when the fights gets inside a building Meteor jumps in. Meteor takes Capricorn on and Fourze goes into Cosmic States. Capricorn has a pick now to use and his powers have been amplified. Meteor soon releases the Storm form and during the fight Jake appears. Gen talks to him and asks why he still aired the show. Jake thinks that he has to focus on the future right now as he doesn't want to end up like his father who had to give up on his dream. Jake wants to be a star and since high school is only a fraction of his life he doesn't want to miss his chance. Gen starts to get angry with him and Jake says that he will quit the Rider Club. When that is said the Cosmic Switch starts to act up again as it lifts itself out of the belt and soon Fourze is back to Base States.

This episode is very interesting. First I like that it focuses more on Jake as the series hasn't been focusing on the minor characters recently IMO. Jake's dream is very realistic since he is a fan of music and knowing his father worked with music it adds up with it. Also seeing how he reacts to it and seeing that school isn't that big just pushes him more. Nothing is wrong for following dreams, but it's just how people think about it. Jake is not thinking this fully through since he is hurting others just for his own desires. This does remind me of OOO a little. Gotou is nothing special, hes the character who is just making the situation worse. He does have a nice background connection with Jake, but it's very little and basically his character is a punk. The fights were ehh. In the first fight there was a little mistake as it seems there is a tear in the Fourze suit and this time it's really noticeable. Both of the fights though are the same, Jake interferes and it causes a bad thing to happen. Jake stops Gen from attacking which leads to Capricorn not being defeated and now with him leaving it causes an issue with friendship and causes the switch to go haywire. This episode has something interesting going for it, but the execution is nothing special as it feels dry. This episode gets a D+ because of the good idea of Jake wanting to be a star, but the character who is mixed with this is just boring and the interactions aren't that good either. Another thing I have no idea why I thought the Zodiart was Taurus maybe because of the horns, but a ram has horns as well so yea my bad.

Next Time: Play Me Out Gen!

2012 Kamen Rider Saido?

 More and more rumors appear, but it seems that both the tablet and painter rider could be false since it seems next year the rider will be a ninja. There is an actual image unlike the other two rumors so this could be the one. First I am sooo hoping that this is the rider because I am in love with his design. The first thing is the belt it looks more like the standard rider belt and it means the franchise is going back like how Go-Busters went back to armlets. The ninja star visor is amazing and the overall black coloring reminds me of older riders like the original Ichigo, Black, and Black RX. Also the belt does remind me of Black a little. Now the name Saido means color saturation which is probably what lead to the painter rider rumors. This is a fanart picture to the original image, but it seems very real to me and I hope it's true. This will be the first full ninja themed rider, sure there is ZX, but there are only little things that represent that theme. I am amazed on how the rumors are going crazy right now, this is probably the first time where completely different rumors are coming up for the next hero. I mean there are three different rumors to follow now and each one seems more reasonable after the other. The difference with this one is that there is a name and some sort of image to go with it. Overall the ninja theme is really there and the bug theme still exists with it and I think the idea of his name can be realistic since he is a ninja and changing colors can help in different situations.

Akibaranger Episode 6 Review: Action!

Things already go into the weird as it seems Hiroyo and one of her co-workers are acting out Jetman fan fiction which is being written by Yumeria. Nobuo comes in and has great news, but he stops as he notices that the two girls are going to kiss. It seems that Hiroyo was just helping Yumeria get out of her writer's block and she doesn't kiss the co-worker (TEASE!). Yumeria is out of it as she decides on the title which is called "Fall For
Me." Nobuo picks up that it's like the Jetman episode and yes the fan fic is with Grey and Gai... Anyways Nobuo shows Hiroyo a package he has to deliver and it's going to Toei. Both Hiroyo and Nobuo are excited since it's the mecca of Sentai. He then decides to take Mitsuki along so that she can learn something about the official heroes. Yumeria doesn't join because she has to corrupt the world? We see her walking around the city and she finds two guys with disappointment in their faces. The two men are fans of a female singing group and missed their chance for tickets, but luckily a man appears to give them backstage tickets. Back to Nobuo and Mitsuki they are almost out of range, but when he stops at the red light he sees Sayaka crossing the street. There she asks of Nobuo to take her to the office since her heel broke. Back to the two fans and we see that they have been tricked. They have been given different tickets and soon the salesman uses magic to seal them on their foreheads. The salesman is today's MOTW as he sends the two fans flying out. There Yumeria transforms and since the other two are still in range they transform after they drop off Sayaka.

The fight is about to begin, but this time the setting is very different. They are on a stage as the creature attacks with ash trays. The team try to escape since it's too cramped, but the grunts appear and make an invisible box around them by stage direction. It seems that the creature as the power to throw reality out of the door with his screen play directions as the grunts use their boxes as heavy weapons. The grunts start to put white "X's" around the stage as act two is beginning. It's called Battlefield and whenever the rangers step on an "X" an explosion will occur. Blue falls for this first and soon the rest of them are flailing around getting hit by the explosions. Next Shimo turns out the lights and makes himself hide in the darkness, but in reality he is hiding behind a black wall that is moved around by the grunts. The team has lost and the delusion is cancelled. Nobuo doesn't mind though as he wants to get moving quickly, but Mitsuki doesn't want to go anymore. Nobuo though tells her that if she goes she will learn the truth about Sentai battle. The Carranger theme starts to play as the package gets delivered and now the two sneak their way further inside the building. The two do get further in and Nobuo sees the Greek Pillars which was recently used in Gokaiger and Fourze. Nobuo then notices a building prop that was used in episode 6 of Gekiranger (dang now that's hardcore knowledge) he tries to get a picture of him near it. Next the two reach Oomori hill where Nobuo reactants a scene from episode 39 of Timeranger where Ayase fell down when it was raining. Mitsuki quickly gets pissed off seeing that Nobuo lied about the true meaning of battle and runs off.

Nobuo tries to stop her and luckily she does when she notices an older man. He is doing some stunts with another stunt actor as they fight with wooden swords. Mitsuki is impressed with the man and Nobuo says it is Niibori. He is a very stuntman who has been every red warrior since Goranger and until Jetman. Mitsuki quickly goes up to him as tells him that she is the Blue warrior in Akibaranger and she wants some help with her matrial arts. Niibori is surprised to hear the name and thinks it's going to be the next Sentai. Now she sees that Nobuo wasn't lying, but in reality he was. Her first lesson is about her role call which is something she doesn't really do well at. She just says the name, but Niibori tells her that the pose draws from her skills and without it the fight won't do well. Back to Yumeria who is still going on with her fan fiction and she mentions the words grey zone as it activates another delusion. We then see Mitsuki learning more from Niibori as Nobuo narrates for a little while and is sad that he isn't joining. The next lesson starts as he ties a cloth around her eyes since the helmet will nearly blind her. Mitsuki is confused by this, but does it anyway with perfection. Yellow soon appears back on the stage and before the others join Mitsuki learns one more thing. Niibori tells her about the magic behind the camera and that is whatever the camera catches it's reality in the world of film. She is then called by Hiroyo to enter in the delusion as she runs off with Nobuo, but he wanted to get an autograph. The two enter into the delusion and get Yellow away from Shimo. The role call begins with Blue as she performs a much better, but longer one. Red talks about how he liked Niibori as Red Hawk the most and Yellow talks about her rottenness.

Malshina then appears and tries to shoot down the heroes. Red though switches the scene as Malshina and Shimo are transported into a classroom from Awa High? The scene starts and kids start to flood the room, some go to Malshina about their platters and Shimo is picked on for his bad grades. Malshina soon gets inside of a locker and Shimo is attacked by balls of paper thrown by the kids and for some reason they hurt. The team soon shows themselves as they are in the Toei studio and now they will torment the villains with their delusions. Shimo jumps out of a window, but another scene change occurs and he is in a destroyed set. Malshina gets out of the locker and there she sees a drawing of Hiroyo when she was younger. With Shimo he is attacked by three priest (kinda odd how the same costumes were used in Fourze recently). It ends up it was the team disguised as they disrobe them off. Shimo tries to attack, but all of a sudden Red Hawk appears! Red Hawk slashes and kicks Shimo into different scene where Shimo is now in a movie theater. The movie starts as it stars the team as a gangsta team as they shoot their guns at Shimo. Another scene change and this time Blue is fighting alone as Red and Yellow film the action. With Malshina we see portals coming out of nowhere around her as she starts to walk towards them. Thanks to the magic of film Blue can even hit Shimo, but in reality she didn't even touch him. With the camera facing Shimo's back though it looks like she did hit him. Soon Shimo turns out the lights by destroying them with his ash trays, but Blue uses the eyes in her mind to fight him. The scene is then changed once more to the outside and there Shimo tries to fly away, but Red Hawk soon appears and gives Red his powers. Red Hawk transforms into a pair of wings and Akibared starts to fly in the air he then dashes through Shimo, finishing him off. After the fight the team regroup and somehow Malshina is in the real world!

Episode 6 is a very good episode, probably my favorite so far. First I like that the show gave more focus to the stunt actors and played with some jokes about filming. Yumeria going on her own was kinda odd and seemed pointless, but someone had to stay around I guess. I loved seeing Niibori and it was nice to see him on film for once, but sadly Kotaro Tanaka didn't return for his role. It was odd just seeing a soundless Red Hawk fight and it reminds me off how Basco summoned rangers. At least they could of had Niibori be the man behind the helmet. The action was amazing as it blended with some comedy like episode 3 did. I loved seeing all of the scene directions as it made a good original fight. Another thing that was nice is that it started with play direction and then it moved to film direction. Both of those scenes show major differences in how are executed which made them more enjoyable to watch. The play scenes had focus on the actual script, but for film it was more focus for the director and the camera. Overall a lot of things worked greatly and I can't wait to see how the heroes will fight Malshina since she is real now, an A

Next Time: Machine Itasshar's first fight!

Go-Busters Episode 11 Review: A Helping Hand

The episode starts with the team catching Enter has he gets into a fuse box. He quickly attacks as the team blocks his attacks and during the fight something on Ryuji starts going off. It says that his temperature is increasing and in 820 seconds he will overheat. Yoko wonders what it is as we get some back story from Ryuji. It seems Gorisaki has made this device to help Ryuji with his weak point as it can read temperatures. The two get back in the fight with Hiro, but Enter is easily dodging them. He vanishes for a second, appears behind them, and attacks as all three get hit by his wire. The device starts going off again as Ryuji tries to take on Enter, but he is sent back on the ground. His temperature keeps increasing, but soon he just turns it off since it's too noisy. Enter attacks once more, but this time he gets his wires wrapped around Ryuji's wrists. Ryuji tries to fight back, but the two stop him before his temperature spikes up anymore by cutting the wires. After that Enter calls it a day and retreats. At the base we see Gorisaki is stressing out with the fact his device was useless in the fight. Nick tries to cheer him up, but it doesn't seem like he is helping much. The team soon come in and talk about Enter since it doesn't seem he had a target this time. There weren't any readings of a Megazord either, but the commander reminds the team that Enter always has motives.

Soon Ryuji sees Gorisaki all worried and the others wonder why he is acting like this. Nick comes around to tell them about how the device was more of a nuisance than an aid and Hiro and Yoko didn't help with that saying it was noisy. Gori is devastated by this and soon some bickering occurs as Nick yells at Hiro and Yoko yells at Usada for saying that Yoko is nosiy. Ryuji gets Gorisaki's hopes back up by saying that he can't get it perfect the first time. He walks away as Hiro follows and Nick tells Gori that Ryuji wasn't mad at all since he is an adult. Back to Enter as he is looking at Blue in overheat mode and how his temperature increases. Already cutting to the heroes we see Gorisaki giving Ryuji an updated device and this time it can cool him off. Gori tries to activate it and soon it does, but unexpectedly. It sprays Ryuji with tons of freezing gas and when Gori turns it off and apologizes he is told to not over do it next time. Gori starts to walk away as he sees Yoko and Usada having an argument about cleaning the RH-03.  He also overhears another discussion with Nick and Hiro talk about how Hiro acted recently. When Gori is at the rooftop Nick comes up to him with a can of Enertron trying to help him out. He thinks it's about the safety device, but Gori is just a little jealous over Nick and Usada. Since those two can argue with their partners it shows that they show how they really feel about each other. Nick than talks about how him and Usada are jealous since Ryuji is an adult. Gori than goes on about how Ryuji always acted like an adult ever since they met as we get the flashback of thirteen years ago. Since Ryuji was fifteen he already had establish many things about himself and doing things at that age is hard so Gori believes that he cannot see the real Ryuji. Nick thinks he is holding back on Ryuji and Gori agrees, but he thinks that Ryuji is also holding back on himself.

With Enter we see that he is going to make a Metaroid with a fan. Back with Nick and Gori continuing their talk, but soon the alarm goes off. The Buster are sent to go, but Gori stops Ryuji to show him that he has made many other devices. Ryuji doesn't need it though since he has modified the original one.The team get to the location and they are soon blown by a strong gust. The team then changes their guns to the camera mode and look around the area. Ryuji finds the target and transform for battle. Red charges straight for the building, but he is blown away by the Fanroid who soon comes out of hiding. Blue and Yellow then try to attack him from both sides, but with soon activates his fan and moves out of the way. He then gives off another gust of wind that sends the three flying. Ryuji then holds onto the door and the others hold on as well. Ryuji keeps his hold and soon gets on the ground, but he wonders why the roid is acting like this. He soon gets the other two on the ground as they stand behind the wall to avoid the wind. With one minute left before the Megazord appears Red will go to fight it. With Red gone, the Fanroid soon comes out and starts to suck Yellow in. Blue gets a hold of her and gets her out the way of the incoming punch from the roid. The Ace appears, but the Megazord hasn't for some reason. The Beta Megazord appears from the sky and zaps the Ace with electricity. Since the enemy is in the sky they need the RH-03 to fight it so Yellow as to leave as well.

Now Blue fights on his own and tries to get the roid with his sword since it's trying to suck him in, but the roid soon changes the fan and blasts him away. Blue gets a firm grip on the ground and holds on for dear life. He is pushing himself too far though and the device soon starts going off which means his temperature is increasing or it's almost time for overheat to take in. Back with the Megazord it starts to suck Enertron in from above and Red cannot attack with the it zapping him. Yellow appears in her mecha and helps out as she dodges the lightning attacks. When she is close though the zord blasts her with a gust of wind and she is blown away. Back to Blue as he is deciding to let overheat mode takeover and there Enter appears. Gorisaki finds out that Enter was after Ryuji's weak point this time. Enter wants Ryuji to be in overheat mode since he loses control of his body and than getting rid of him will be easier since he will going into a resting states afterwards. Gori decides that he has to take action even if it defies the commander. With time running out Blue has to risk his life, but Gori appears and blocks the wind. Gori tells Blue to attack now and even though he doesn't want Gori damaged this is the only way right now. Blue fires at the Fanroid's fan and then gets ready for the Special Buster finisher. He destroys the roid with the attack and Enter retreats once more. Soon Gori falls down and when Ryuji tries to help Gori tries to give him an icepack. Ryuji though starts to yell at Gori because of his rash decision and Gori is then happy to be yelled at for once. Soon though they recuperate and head off to help the others. Red tries to reach to the zord, but it is too far. Blue comes though and gets a plan ready as Gori says that they can launch the Ace into the sky. Red uses Blue's mecha has a spirngboard as it shoves it into the air. There Red uses the finisher to destroy the zord. We then go to Ryuji and Gori on the roof talking about holding back. Now since Gori spoke his mind Ryuji tells him the device is helpful, but is too noisy. We then end the episode off with Gorisaki ranting on how Ryuji should act and that soon causes the two to fight.

Episode 11 is another great episode as it does something that the other episodes haven't been focusing on for a while. Sure it's similar to the previous Buddy roid focus episodes, but this pair is much different. Ryuji is a much older person and it shows since he is very gentle. The truth is that he should act out more since showing his true self can help out with other problems. I always liked how Ryuji and Gori treat each other, first Ryuji actually acts like the guardian most of the times since he has to support Gori to get his emotions back up. Gori is very nervous all the time and since Ryuji is kind to him it's hard to speak out against him. These two are my fave of the series and seeing them act out of character for a while was nice to watch. The fights were good since it just shows of awesome Enter is. Again he really thinks of what to do and it shows. Even though his main focus seems to be getting Enertron most of the time he tends to focus on other things like actually killing the heroes. If he does that he knows there would be less trouble. Then how he used the roid and the Megazord just to aim for Blue was genius. The other characters also had some nice interactions since they shown what Gori always wanted and how the talk between Nick and Gori was a nice change since I don't really see the Buddyroids have deep conversations like this before. Overall this is probably the strongest Buddyroid focus episode so far as it shows that true emotions should be used more often, an A.

Next Time: Oh...it's one of those episodes.

Poll Results #27

Did You Like Episode 33 Of Fourze?

Yes- 15

No-1

Did You Like Episode 34 Of Fourze?

Yes- 12

No- 0

Did You Like Episode 10 Of Go-Busters?

Yes- 17

No- 0

Did You Like Episode 11 Of Go-Busters?

Yes- 11

No- 0

Did You Like Episode 4 Of Akibaranger?

Yes- 20

No- 0

Did You Like Episode 5 Of Akibaranger?

Yes- 13

No- 0

Do You Think That The Magic Painter Will Be the Next Rider?

Yes- 13

Yes, but some info is wrong- 12

No- 4

No, it will be the Tablet Rider- 2

Forgot to mention this, whenever I think of magic paint I think of this game.

Do You Like The Idea Of Monster Ranger?

Yes- 8

No- 6

More info: Monster Ranger will be tributing Liveman in some ways.

My Thoughts

First I will talk about my own Sentai. I knew there was going to be some hate around and I think I know why. It could because of the death of the leader since it never happened in a Sentai series before. That is what I want though something different, but still having tribute elements. Liveman is a dark series and I really enjoy it for that as it used dark plot twists with near perfection. Liveman is a revolutionary Sentai series and I hope it will always be remembered. For the Fourze episodes... this was probably my least fave 2-ep arc so far. Yukina was annoying and it feels odd that now we get some movement with the plot. Go-Busters episode 10 was handled very well with Hiro's sister finally seeing what the team actually does. The MOTW for that episode is the best so far and a lot of drama and action were great. For episode 11 well you will fine out what I think later today. Akibaranger is still full of laughs as episode 4 gave more focus on the parent episode, again it was following the some of the Sentai cliches, but had a different ending. For episode 5 I will post a review of that tomorrow. Next is the Magic Painter and I am happy with this idea even though they are giving five items to use in battle for his belt (Decade-1, Double-2, OOO-3, Fourze-4, and now 5). I am still happy to see that a magic rider will be appearing though as it could be a game changer for the franchise. Finally, once per every week starting June I will start Movie Month! I will review a toku movie and I will start with a recent film (hint it's with a recently ended Sentai).

Kamen Rider Fourze Episode 34 Review: Progression

I'm am soooooo sorry that this is a much later review it's just I am in the final weeks of my days in high school so I got to get a lot of things done. Don't worry though in June I will be back with rapid speed and I will do a special for that month. So for a little recap from episode 33, Gen and his classmates are in Kyoto now for a school trip and hanging around them is a girl named Yukina who is completely annoying and is trying to get Gen as a boyfriend. Also we find out that in Kyoto the Horoscopes are taking action with a plan of theirs which rely on the riders. With a huge amount of cosmic power colliding pillars are revealed and now Libra is off to destroy them. We left off with the riders fighting Libra and now Leo enters the fight. Beginning the episode is Leo who goes Wolverine on the two riders and slashes them with his claws. During this Libra gets free and destroys another pillar. Even with Cosmic and Meteor Storm they are no match for Leo as he roars once more and vanishes. After the battle Kengo notices that one of the pillars destroyed and is thinking. Now Yukina returns as Gen hides the Cosmos switch by throwing it to Kengo. She complains about an injury on her leg (just a little cut) and says that Gen needs to carry her. Ryusei tries to tell her to go back to the inn, but she bounces him off and wants to stay around Gen. Soon he agrees and takes Yukina to the next destination.

Now we go to the hotel where we see Yukina and Yuuki palying ping pong. Yukina starts to talk about how the Yuuki and the others hang around him a lot, but they don't know a single thing about him. She then begins to completely school Yuuki in the game. With the guys Gen is tired from being wiped all day and Ryusei sees that she could get in the way of Gen being Fourze. He is talking to the other members as Jake has nothing on her, Tomoko sees her of being a fearsome person since she is following her heart, then Miu and Shun wish that she would just stop liking Gen since he has to have Fourze to be a secret. They all leave before Ryusei ends his talk and soon Kengo shows him the pillars that were destroyed from before. Gen overhears that the pillars had a circle and an "X" design as he transforms to show them that Fourze has the same symbols. There Kengo asks him to go into a position and uses where the symbols match on the map to find the locations of the remaining two pillars. Gen then sees that the other symbols match Fourze as well and Kengo explains that his father based Fourze designs on the pillars. Also he knows that Libra is destroying the pillars so that the Hole will disappear over Kyoto giving Ama High more cosmic power. Now heading to the villains we see that Hayami isn't happy about Tatsugami interfering. Tatsugami explains that he only wants results for Gamou and he thinks Libra could be defeated by Fourze since he defeated two Horoscopes before and Fourze as Cosmic so it's not looking good for Libra who won't use Supernova for some reason. Soon the two walk out to fight in their Horoscope forms and Hayami gets defeated pretty quickly and there Tatsugami tells Hayami that if he doesn't destroy the northern pillar it will be over for him.

It's morning now as the gang try to head out quietly as Kengo and Ryusei go to the Eastern pillar and the other two will go north. Sadly though Yukina comes out and throws a pillow at Gen saying that they will go to Kiyomizu Temple. With Kengo he starts to notice that Ryusei is changing a lot since he doesn't have to hide anything anymore. They also talk about Tachibana and Kengo is curious about him, but Ryusei doesn't have much info on him. The two split up as Kengo notices Gamou walking up some stairs as he follows him. Before he could catch up though Leo appears and Ryusei notices him. Meteor appears to fight and fight Leo as Kengo leaves. Back to Gamou as he is near the Triangle pillar. With the fight, Meteor is having a hard time as he attacks don't work. He tries Mars, but quickly goes into Meteor Storm. Going to the other part of the team we see that Gen and Yuuki are ignoring Yukina and trying to find the northern pillar. Gen tries to get her to leave, but she won't so Gen decides to show her the truth. He transforms thinking that this will shock Yukina, but she already knows since she watches Gen a lot (creepy). She actually shows her true motive as she only wanted to give Gen a good time in Kyoto since he is always busy fighting monsters. She wants him to stop being Fourze as she takes the driver and runs away. Round two of the fight goes to Leo again as he deflects Meteor Storm Punisher and blasts him away with a roar. Leo then leaves saying that Meteor is too weak for him to even be fighting.

Kengo then catches up to Gamou and Emoto is around as well. There Kengo wonders why the two are meeting up and he finds out that Gamou was also with his father. Gamou then talks about how Kengo's father was a great man and he comes here with Emoto so that they can apologize to him for their sins. Gamou then just tells Kengo that he killed his father as we see the first events from episode 1 where Gamou leaves his friend on the moon. Gamou says that this wouldn't have happened if the research on the cosmic power just stopped and that he regrets his decision. Gamou tells him that if Kengo wants to follow his father footsteps he needs to think through fully as the two leave. Ryusei appears as they both soon find the pillar, but it is destroyed. Yukina then accidentally ends up at the last pillar and of course Libra is around. Gen appears and kicks him away from Yukina and tries to get the driver back. Yukina won't though saying he should just run away like a normal person. With that Gen goes into the fight without the driver and yea this doesn't go well. Yuuki soon comes to Yukina saying that even Gen is not Fourze he will always be the same. Also saving his friends is normal for Gentarou. Yukina finally realizes that Gen needs to be Fourze as she runs to Gen to give him the driver back. In return though she wants a picture with Gentarou after the fight and he agrees. 

The real fight starts as Fourze starts with the Pen switch and makes three Kanji's of Daimonji and uses one of them to attack Libra. Next is the use of the Cosmic Switch as Fourze goes into Cosmic States and uses his sword to fend off Libra. He gets the finisher ready as he takes Libra into space and his staff flies out and almost hits the pillar. In space Gen finishes off Libra with it, but sadly Libra still wins as he retreats and his staff destroys the pillar. The hole is now gone and Hayami is sent to the meeting room. Gamou appears before Hayami saying that the plan was a success, but Libra has lost his fight. Hayami starts to beg for his life as Gamou gives Virgo the command to send him away to the Dark Nebula. Before he is sent though he transforms and goes into Supernova as he gets an all seeing eye and he notices that Gamou has the light of Sagittarius and because of that he is saved as Gamou will keep him so that Hayami can divine the astrological fate of others. Back at the Rabbit Hutch the team take a look at the souvenirs and Gen has the promised picture. Kengo takes it out of his hands and shows the whole group as he tries to get it back from the others.

Episode 34 saves this arc. First I hate Yukina she is one of those character that just get annoying to watch. In this episode though she gets better since we find that she has good qualities. I actually respect that she wanted to give Gen a fun time even though she started to act more annoying by taking the belt. Overall her character was annoying, but there were good parts and she was handled decently. The fights were very lacking in this episode. Seeing Meteor getting tossed around was boring since I knew it was going to happen and the fight with Fourze and Libra was way too short. I did like how Gen fought Libra without Fourze, but again too short of a moment. The best part is how Gamou tells Kengo the truth about how he is the murderer. I was thinking that Gamou just did it for power, but for some reason I am having different thoughts. Gamou actually feels guilty about his decision and for proof Emoto knows about this as well. Maybe Gamou could have been lying, but that scene really got my attention and gives new light to Gamou as he could be a different villain than I thought. Also it's nice to see the villains win as this should progress the show a lot which brings me up to another point. I know the series was focused with Ryusei for a while, but it seems to have taken a while for the series to have movement like this. The series is feeling a little slow, but I think episode is going to boost the progression hopefully. Overall the fights were so-so, but there were some good dramatic scenes, but again Yukina was annoying.... a C+

Next Time: Rock Out!!!

Akibaranger Episode 5 Review: A Mother's Love

The episode starts off with Nobuo entering the cafe as he orders some curry and we can see that Magiranger episode 24 of Magiranger (my fave episode!). When he gets his order of safari curry, Nobuo notices Moegi in her new cosplay outfit. Today she is an alien and in the background is playing a very familiar tune. When Nobuo says she was getting signals from space (he's just playing along) Moegi responds saying her mother is coming today. Now Nobuo thinks about Sentai once more as he remembers about the "parental visit" episodes and now he demands to go to where Moegi lives. They get to her room as Mitsuki is seeing an otaku's room for the first time and Nobuo is happy to be in a girl's room...(creepy). The first thing Nobuo does is trying to hide all the otaku items. When Mitsuki asks why Nobuo starts to talk about the "parental visit" episodes as he worries that Moegi's mother could hate the idea of her daughter fighting. He wants to make a good impression so that Moegi can keep fighting along with the team. Moegi says that he shouldn't be doing this, but Nobuo insists that he does. Mitsuki thinks that since it's just delusions things should be fine, but after thinking a little more it's dangerous in a different way. Nobuo rants on about how parents can be agaisnt the otaku pride as he says his mother throws out a lot of his figurines and then yesterday she was going to throw away a pillow of Aoi. The two females now just learn that Nobuo is still living at home and look at him differently. He quickly gets back to work as he tries to put somethings in a closet. Inside of that closet though was Moegi's fantasies and Nobuo is completely horrified of them (it also doesn't help that we hear noises... I don't want to describe them). After that disturbing moment, Mitsuki kicks Nobuo out calling him a pervert and saying that her and Moegi will do the cleaning.

Nobuo is confused on why he was called a pervert and when he sees a normal couple he starts to think of something. Inside of the room Mitsuki notices that Moegi makes her own cosplay outfits from scratch and wonders if Moegi makes normal clothing. The two start to look around the clothing and Nobuo pops in asking if Moegi has a boyfriend. He comes in at the wrong time since the Moegi has panties and a bra out. We cut out of the scene and when the screen comes back we see that Nobuo got a hard smack to the face as the mark is still there. There he asks the same question and Mitsuki thinks Nobuo is trying to make a move. Nobuo says no and says he is being serious and Moegi responds with a no and that her type of males aren't in this dimension. Noe Nobuo is afraid of the other common Sentai trope in the visiting episodes. This is the trope when a parent forces the heroine to find someone for marriage, but it's just a way so that their daughter can be off the team. Moegi tries to say no to that, but Nobuo brings up Chisato (Mega Yellow) and how her grandmother tried to force her out of the team by that method. Now Moegi agrees and sees that Nobuo should act as her boyfriend. He is shocked by this and enters a delusion where he sits next to Moegi on a park bench. He thinks of the two about to kiss, but Sayaka in a wedding gown appears? She is sadden to see Nobuo around Moegi and runs off as Nobuo starts to yell out her name and soon Mitsuki hits him with a toy hammer. The two could easily imagine what Nobuo was thinking and like before they show disgust on their faces. Back to the plan now as Mitsuki recommends to get Moegi into some normal clothes. The doorbell rings and Moegi tries to answer it, but Nobuo stops her. She thinks it just a package, but it is her mother as she appears wearing some classy clothing. Under it though is a similar alien outfit and everyone is in shock to see her. The two introduce themselves to her and Moegi's mother is happy to finally meet the two Yuko talks about. There the two realize that Yoko is Moegi's real name and she says her name was Miyabi when she was famous. Moegi is now happy and Nobuo is relieved that there is nothing to worry about.

Now the whole group go on a walk around Akiba. During the walk Nobuo calls Hiroyo about joining in on the fun, but she rejects the offer. The group enter a store where there is Aoi Doujins and Miyabi remembers this artists and Moegi is collecting Aoi Doujin's from the same artist. Mitsuki sees them as well and thinks it's an Aoi manga, but Nobuo quickly tells her to not read them. Next Moegi and Miyabi gets the attention of some local men as they take pictures of the two and also get interested with Mitsuki mistaking her for a cosplayer. Now they enter into a wig store as Moegi finds a pink one and Miyabi gives it to her for her birthday present. The team asks if it is really her birthday and it is as Moegi is now 24. Mitsuki wishes she would have a present and Nobuo finds one at the stores as it is some sexy laundry (hopefully he was joking or he gets more creepy points). Meanwhile Hiroyo is looking up about Moegi's mother and in fact she was very famous back in the days. Finally the group stop near a resturant as Moegi and her mother go in since they ate their when Moegi had her first birthday in Akiba. The two enter as Nobuo and Mitsuki let them be. The two continue to walk around ans Nobuo notices that a cafe that opened recently has already been closed. Near the cafe was a poster for the opening of a host club and Nobuo is angered by this. They soon realize that there are even more host clubs around and one of them has replaced a Super Sentai store where Nobuo was planning to buy the Bioman Super-Electric deluxe set (those fiends!). With Nobuo enraged they enter the host club and see the men hitting on the women. They are creep-ed out by the place and notice a familiar face. One of the host is Kabukicho from episode 3 (let this by less creepy, please!). Kabuki then notices the two and transforms into his monster form and the old lady around him was Malshina. Kabuki was revived by Malshina and the other host turn into the grunts. Kabuki then tells the two about his new plan to make Akiba into Kabukicho. Nobuo says that this city is for the people who are bad around the opposite sex (I found my new home!) and there the transformation starts!

Before the fight even starts, Nobuo is confident in himself since revived monsters are always weaker than the original and they probably don't need Moegi's help. Back to Moegi as she is getting her cake and Hiroyo calls her about the fight. She decides to go and leaves her mother at the table saying she will be back in a minute. Yellow appears after the drones are already defeated and when she sees Kabuki her heart soars. The two get her out of her love delusion (thank goodness I don't want to see "that" again) as the team start their role calls. Red mentions that his favorite parental episode was with Vul Panther and Yellow does her usual rambling, but what is different is that their explosion goes off at the wrong time. They try to get a do-over, but the fight has to begin and Kabuki isn't that weak this is because the last time they fought him was when Red and Yellow were drunk and that is when they are stronger in the delusion world. Kabuki gets a hold of Yellow and tries to make a regular at the club. She rejects the offer saying she doesn't love him like that and Kabuki punches her so hard that the transformation cancels out! Kabuki then stomps on Moegi's stomach and tries to stomp on her head, but she holds onto his foot. She shoves him away, but he quickly kicks her in the face. Soon her Z-cune Aoi device is knocked out and her mother appears to save her! The team wonder how she gets her. She sees that Kabuki is the type of character that Moegi will go moe for, but she would rather want Kabuki to torture another man than her own daughter (so that is where Moegi got that from). She then picks up the device and transforms into Akiba Yellow! She goes into role call calling her self the seductive cosplaying MILF, Akiba Yellow! She actually performs a role call unlike the original Yellow.

Now the new Yellow enters the fight and does a cut move on Kabuki. She then performs a usual thing Miss America does in Battle Fever if I am correct and we learn that Miyabi cosplayed as Miss America once. Now Nobuo sees that this is the type of episode when the parent is actually very happy with her child being a hero. Malshina then attacks, but Yellow gets the first attack and gropes her and Malshina does the same to Yellow. Malshina then gets out of the fight and tells Kabuki to defeat her and if he does she will order another bottle. The two hold onto each other as Yellow takes him and herself higher up onto a cliff where she starts to throw him around like a rag doll. She gets Kabuki on the ground and uses her seduction moves on him. Yellow promises that she will make Kabuki the number one host, but it was all a distraction as Red and Blue open fire on him. Malshina is very disappointed in Kabuki saying he is the type who just flutter to other woman and she stomps away as Kabuki tries to get her back. Miyabi goes back to normal and gives Moegi her device as she transforms back into Yellow. With her back in action she flies and kicks Kabuki and Red and Blue take out their weapons from the official teams. Kabuki is soon caught by the Deka Cuffs and the team perform a new finisher. It reminds me of GoGoV a little, but it's more like a parody of the cannons in Super Sentai as it is the Mega Moe Fire version of the Moe Magnum finisher! Kabuki is killed and Miyabi comes to congratulate her daughter. She sees that Moegi is having a lot of fun without her around and it's all thanks to the otaku education she gave to Moegi. Yellow then tells her mother that she is happy to be her daughter and the team head on back. They appear in Moegi's apartment for some reason and she doesn't have her pink wig on. Miyabi is also not around and that is because she died five years ago. We then hear the backstory of this as Miyabi died in a car crash a month later when she visited Moegi in Tokyo. Moegi usually spent her birthdays with her mother in her mind, but today she finally got to say more to her mother thanks to the power of delusions. Also the reason Miyabi appeared is because of Nobuo's sentai delusion about the parental visit episodes. We end the episode with a real birthday part for Moegi, but the cake soon starts to fly for her face...whoops!

Episode 5 was very interesting. First I liked how they played with this type of episode and the ending is actually very touching. I wasn't really expecting her to be dead, but it does make sense since only the three heroes can enter that world. There are laughs in the episode and it thanks to Nobuo again with how he acted with the situation. The fights were good with Miyabi's fight being great and funny. Going to that character, Rica Matsumoto was a blast to have in this episode. She acted very well with the otaku mother and the character herself is very excitable like Moegi, but what she had was more of an attitude. The villains were a little better than usual with how Malshina and Kabuki were acting like a couple. Overall it plays with the Sentai theme well and keeps the Akibaranger comedy along with a touching little story about a mother's love. I give it an A-

Next Time: Darn if only Gai was around he would be ecstatic over this.