Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

Transformers is a series dear to a lot of 80s to 90s children. Having been born in the 1990s meant I've watched a lot of them. There were Transformers Season 1 and Season 2 followed up by the controversial Season 3. So what are these  Transformers Season 3 Transformers Season 3 was a continuation of the movie. It's a rather daring departure. Remember when the death of Optimus Prime caused children to cry? I admit I cried THAT HARD when I saw Transformers: The Movie on Philippine television when I was only a child. It was a really, really hard thing to take. But I was told that heroes die and it was a war. It's a very realistic scene though there's also the controversial and perhaps rather UNFAIR   hatred for Hotrod -- not especially when he became Rodimus Prime! Rodimus' doubts as a leader are because he didn't want to become one. Yet he had plenty of interesting character development.  IMHO, I thought that Transformers Season 3 had some intere...

I was a fan of Transformers as a kid. I remembered watching Season 1, Season 2, The Movie, and then there came Season 3. Who can remember the five-part mini-series called the Five Faces of Darkness? The animation was no longer vibrant, it was what you'd call the mistake that many animated series commit later with inferior artwork. Yet, there was an interesting exposition with the mini-series which still made it an interesting watch. But, I'd like to share the whole nightmare fuel associated with the series. I always found the Quintessons (who had become the titular villains for this five-part arc) to be pretty scary. There were the Sharkticons and the brutal culture of the Quintessons. The mock trials in the movie were enough to make me cringe. What makes it interesting was that the Quintessons were overthrown out of Cybertron by the first Transformers. They were, in fact, responsible, for the rise of the Transformers race to start with. Talk about the similarity of Cobra-L...

Street Fighter has been one of my favorite game franchises which caused me to question why Capcom gave us the extremely broken Street Fighter V. There was Street Fighter II series which had extremely broken A.I. at the arcade. I did manage to play through Street Fighter II series on the Playstation One though I enjoyed the Street Fighter Alpha series better. Then there's Street Fighter IV series which is basically a miles upgrade of Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Remember whenever you fought a new opponent that the plane flew between countries or you moved from one country to another in most entries? Take for example that I'm using Ryu (my favorite Street Fighter character) and I am fighting different opponents. The first opponent is Chun Li then I defeat her, then I must fly to Russia to fight Zangief, then I must fly back to Japan to fight E. Honda. Isn't that a lot of money spent right there? Not to mention both Street Fighter II series and Street Fighter IV serie...

While The Lion King isn't exactly a copy of Jungle Emperor Leo (and we know, inspiration begets inspiration) -- you can't deny that both shows are well-loved franchises that defy logic in several levels. I can't decide which is weirder between The Lion King and Jungle Emperor Leo with that logic defiance. Both of them have plenty of WTF logic considering that you've got talking animals who act and feel like human beings. I can't even decide which is dumber between Simba eating bugs and Kimba trying to become a herbivore. There are many similar characters in both well-loved franchises -- yet there are differences too. Kimba is trying to act grown-up for a lion cub while Simba is your typical child who matures into a great king. Scar is Simba's uncle while Claw isn't related to Leo or better known as Kimba in the west.  What's so weird about both shows? The lion is the king of the jungle. In real life, the lion eats other animals. Remember the who...

Well, I finally finished Jiban and I'm thankful I gave it a chance. I wasn't really such a fan and sometimes -- rewatching something can be good. It's like how I decided to rewatch ToQGer to finally give me the, "Well, it's got its own charm like the way I can appreciate Fiveman." I think Jiban is probably one of those shows that get eclipsed. After Jiban -- Winspector finally came which was a totally different type of Metal Hero series. Jiban was loosely based on Robocop. Then in 1993, we would have Janperson who, unlike Jiban, is a fully mechanical version of Robocop. So what's with Jiban? I thought that the show would be the first time the late Noboru Sugimura would work with Tokusatsu. Only that, I think I'd probably still watch Zyuranger any day over Jiban. But on its own -- Jiban still has its charm as a little bit more child-friendly Robocop despite the later tragedies that the show would have. The loss of both Harry Boy and Seiichi Yanagida ...

There are great new games but just because it's new -- it doesn't mean that it's new then it must be good. That's a problem that some people have if they only care something is new -- rather than care if something new delivers the results it intended. The same can be true for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. I wouldn't call it to be extremely horrendous. Like Tekken 7 -- it had potential but it really missed out on what it could've done. The game's potential was reduced to severe levels. At first, I had great hopes for the game. Megaman X and Zero? Check! Two vs. two is finally back? I ended up disliking three vs. three seeing how ultra-chaotic and unfocused it is! A story mode? I really say that the story mode has some interesting concepts such as Sigma and Ultron coming in. But the game has ruined itself. Maybe, this game also helped me see how making Shao Kahn as paid DLC if you didn't pre-order Mortal Kombat 11 to be a bad thing. Wasn't Sigma ...

I remembered writing about my mixed reaction towards Tekken 7's Devil Gene revelation that the curse was with the Hachijo (Kazumi's family) than with the Mishima family. So, I decided to come up with my own creative way of how the Devil Gene could've been revealed. I thought about a couple of stuff while replaying Tekken 5 to rinse myself of Tekken 7's lackluster outcome (and I had very HIGH expectations for said game) -- I thought about the one person that was Jinpachi Mishima. Jinpachi was the first originally unplayable Tekken character. He was also an interesting point because he is the Mishima patriarch though nothing is known yet about his wife (Heihachi's mother) and the only matriarch who was revealed is Kazumi. I thought that if Katsuhiro Harada wanted to make it look like Heihachi was evil at his own free will -- why not make the Mishima as the SOURCE of the Devil Gene and made it skip Heihachi like a black sheep or something like that? I simply have m...