Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

There's a Chinese legend as to why the cat never made it to the zodiac. In Eto Ranger , it was slightly changed when (spoilers) that Chocolat, a once innocent cat became the instrument of Bagi who only appeared as a pair of disembodied red eyes (and seldom showed a sinister smile). Apparently, Bagi is female though the character is Evil God Bagi or Jyarei Shin Bagi. I'll just assume Bagi is female due to the voice being by actress Ikuko Tani. Now, moving on... The plot of Chocolat was of betrayal. A fake Princess Aura showed up and told Chocolat that she could leave five minutes early. This, however, caused Chocolat to be disqualified from joining the fabled 12 animals. The next part was that Bagi offered Chocolat a chance for revenge. Bagi turns Chocolat into Nyanma (Mostar in the dub). Later, Chocolat (as Nyanma) joins the 12 others to finally defeat Bagi who uses Dark Kirinda as her body. Why Bagi was never given a human form (if ever) was just stupid. Also, Dark Kirinda...

The upcoming Chinese New Year is the YEAR OF THE RABBIT, right? I remembered in 1998 when CARTOON NETWORK had a gag that Daffy Duck wants to make it the year of the duck. My little sister hated Cream  (known to her as Kelly due to the Tagalog dub). She even wrote a parody (as a child) that both Cream (as Kelly) and Bugs Bunny kept saying, "I HATE YOU!" to each other when it became the Year of the Duck. Well, it was still the Year of the Rabbit in real life.  For some reason, Cream was presented as a weak character. It seemed that she was damsel-in-distress to her official inter-species pairing with Bakumaru. Oh boy, I wonder which is funnier between Kermit and Piggy or Cream and Bakumaru. It seems that if Cream and Bakumaru ever breed - they'll have rat sons and rabbit daughters like how Kermit and Piggy had children in A Muppet Christmas Carol . Now, being Bakumaru's official girlfriend doesn't automatically grant her the main heroine status. Sometimes, the hero...

Image Source Eto Ranger is probably one Anime that either you heard of it or you haven't. It was an Anime series during the late 90s by Shaft Studios and aired on NHK. It does take inspiration from the Super Sentai franchise and somehow Ucchu Sentai Kyuranger had inspired it one way or another. Now, it's time to remember the time ABC-5 (now TV-5) used to air it in the Philippines with dubbed names. I could remember Bakumaru (my favorite character) dubbed as Powell and Cream dubbed as Kelly. Right now, it's all about the actual Japanese names that make it feel more authentic. The Tagalog dub just phases out of my head eventually. So, here's the REAL names and not the names that were given in the Tagalog version: Bakumaru the rat Hols the bull Gao (Growl) the tiger Cream the rabbit Drago the well, dragon Nyori the snake Pakarachi the horse Souffle the sheep Monk the monkey (and he even temporarily became Sun Wukong!) Tart the chicken (and nope, it's ...