Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

  It's no secret that Mortal Kombat (2011)  is called MK9 by the fans (and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is called MK8 even if it's obviously NOT CANON and a stinker to many). I was wondering if MK9 could've benefited from a delay in its release. The reboot was released on April 19, 2011, which many were hyped. Yet, looking at the timeline - the first Mortal Kombat game was released on 1992 and not 1991. In short, it was 19 years after the first game was released. This is where I asked myself if the game was prematurely released. There was the hype but it seemed Netherrealm Studios may have not known what it was doing by releasing it a bit too early. Though, take note that the Komplete Edition was released in 2012 - the twentieth anniversary of the first game! This is my opinion that the game, in all its hype, could've learned a lot. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 came out on the arcade on September 2011. Mortal Kombat was a game no longer interested in the arcade market. Heck...

Last year was the tenth anniversary of Mortal Kombat's grand reboot. I wonder why Netherrelam Studios didn't decide to release the game on 2012 instead of 2011? It would've been a worthy competition to Tekken Tag Tournament 2 . I decided to take a look at some villains in Mortal Kombat which I feel have bene underappreciated. One of them is how I'm a fan of Kintaro even if more people preferred Goro as that legendary sub-boss. Now, I'd like to talk about how Rain is a cool but underappreciated villain. Rain started out as a joke character for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the arcades. The home consoles brought him in as a playable character. I never had UMK3 but I had Mortal Kombat Trilogy where it's one incredibly broken game better off forgotten IMHO. I did think about MK9 and how it's probably the best game ever. Sure, the next two games had some cool mechanics. However, I'm afraid that the next two reboot entries of MK have been more focused on gettin...

I remembered watching Conan the Adventurer before watching that VERY ADULT Conan the Barbarian (1982) movie. What followed next was that I saw Conan and the Young Warriors followed by Conan the Destroyer. This is pretty much a coincidence (or not) that the performance of the two Conan films and the two Conan animated adaptations are VERY SIMILAR. Conan the Adventurer had a throwback to Conan the Destroyer with Queen Mesmira . Heck, I wanted Sarah Douglas to voice Mesmira as much as I wanted James Earl Jones to be Ram-Amon .  Conan the Barbarian (1982) was clearly a success that launched Arnold Schwarzenegger's career. The violent R-18 movie would make me think, "What was I thinking watching the cartoon?" The cartoon was launched. Rather than getting canceled like Galtar and the Golden Lance - Conan the Adventurer ended up having 65 episodes. The adventures of Cartoon Conan against Wrath-Amon and the serpent men made a good premise. Hasbro did put some clear references suc...

  It's no secret that Janperson has taken a lot of pop culture references. Robocop was just one of them. Yet, Jiban was practically also a Robocop in his own right. Unlike Robocop, Janperson really had no human past even if he's visually designed after Robocop. I did rewatch both Jiban and Janperson . It would be easy to see how some of the weapons in Janperson were obviously taken from Jiban's arsenal. The Jic Cannon and the Spindle Cannon were taken from two of Jiban's weapons - the Daedelus Cannon and the Auto Derringer. Though, the Spindle Cannon was handled by Janperson's later partner, Gun Gibson. After doing an extensive Janperson review (which I didn't feel for Jiban ) - I felt of the nearly unspoken directives similar to Robocop.  These are the following directives that Jiban has been shown on-screen in the battle against the Biorons: Mobile Cop Jiban, under any circumstances, can arrest the criminal without a warrant. Mobile Cop Jiban, in case the enem...

  I wrote  an unpopular opinion on why Power Rangers in Space is an overhyped franchise saver . Now, I feel like I want to write about why Power Rangers Lost Galaxy is just overrated. Sure, it had its fans. However, I'm here to write my OPINION on why I felt it was overrated. Back then, there was the rumor that Lost Galaxy was supposedly more popular than its source material, Seijuu Sentai Gingaman , in Japan. That has been disproven. Maybe, Lost Galaxy is more popular than its source material by Power Rangers fans checking out Super Sentai and that one is more believable if it happens in America . Some Power Rangers fans may be checking out some more pre-Zyuranger entries as well. Now, it's time to write about how this show just got overrated. I feel Power Rangers has been held back by  TOO MANY THROWBACKS . Space was a direct continuation of the cliffhanger that's Power Rangers Turbo . Space ended with Zordon's sacrifice destroying the active evil of its day - the Uni...