Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

It's no secret that Tokusatsu societies can be full of rumor mills. I'll try to speak in a less biased way since people know I usually don't watch Power Rangers except if I have some dumb reasoning behind it (ex. hot girls) but I get a lot more of that from Super Sentai. Now it's time to look at the rumor mill that I've encountered but this isn't even a full list. These aren't even provable and are just circulated for the sake of being a Power Rangers snob. Rumor mill: Mighty Morphin' is more popular than Zyuranger I acknowledge the fact that Mighty Morphin' did get dubbed in Japan though I still can't get over why in the world is Reiko Chiba dubbing Kimberly?! I'd actually prefer it if Kimberly were dubbed by Natsuki Takahashi. So what's wrong with this one? There's no real evidence to back that up. Both shows have their pros and cons. I still like Kimberly better than Mei while preferring Zyuranger over Mighty Morphin'. ...

Spike's actually nothing more than a useless guy for Power Rangers Samurai just serving an utter stupid purpose... fan service! He doesn't do anything plus the actor Felix Ryan is wasted. He could have been a better Antonio but sigh. Spike's maternity is left unclear. Some speculate his mother is Kimberly (UGH) but the series never made it clear, even the whole idea Skull married Kimberly is disgusting. Looking at the fact Bulk calls Spike his "favorite nephew" suggests that Bulk's sister is Spike's mother. For Spike to be 14 as of 2011, he could be born around in Power Rangers Turbo. Knowing Bulk and Skull could have been held back several times, it's possible Skull got married behind the scenes and sired Spike. Spike could be an illegitimate child. But it seems that Skull may have married Bulk's sister which Bulk didn't object. So maybe Bulk's sister got preggers first then Skull married her when Spike was over a year old. Another l...

I would say these guys could have been done better.  So why all the ethnic misplacement?  I could care less if Jayden is white but the fact he is treated Japanese when he isn't is dumb.  And so don't tell me they're Japanese, you got to be kidding!  Besides, this was practically a season that was not only plagued by inadequate acting but the worst part has to be the execution but then again, I'd probably watch this show over Kamen Rider Faiz any day but Spongebob is always more welcome than this show. The cast.  Okay I can't really comment on them and at least nobody is a bad remake of the past.  What I hate is why they just lazily edited the MMPR theme song for this show than make a new song.  I thought that Saban was getting lazy or should I say Neo-Saban, which Toei could consider should either terminate the contract or send somebody to help Saban improve the franchise.  Made me think, nobody annoys me from them but other than that, they end...

Well as much as I won't write a hate fic against Power Rangers Samurai because horrible hate fics are a huge waste of time and I acknowledge Toei giving Saban the license to adapt Power Rangers, however I'd like to share HOW MUCH I dislike Power Rangers Samurai but relax, I won't write any hate fic against them but I'd just like to express my dislike. First, I would talk about how lazy Jonathan Tzachor's writing is.  I can have no problem if the red ranger is not Asian, that's not an issue worth fuzzing about and it can be tossed aside. But the writing style is too lazy. It seems all the time he just copies/pastes the samurai story into a cast of non-Japanese rather than create a story that fits well with them.  Plus, I think they are far more wooden no offense!  Plus that Mega Mode is Mega Muck gimmick just to sell more toys.  Stories are so bad, heck it's not worth writing about them!  In short, the more I watch this show the more it numbs my brain that...

Here are characters in the Power Rangers franchise that I think that are useless, not all of them annoy me though. Bulk and Skull- As a child I thought they were funny BUT the gag soon got sour.  For season 1-2 I did tolerate their existence or that stupid plot where they wanted to figure out the identity of the Power Rangers. I did chuckle at them UNTIL I realized they were getting corny.  So yeah from MMPR down to PR in Space they were souring out. Professor Phenomenus was introduced in Power Rangers in Space.  He was a loony old man that did little or none, he remained in Lost Galaxy.  Overall, just a useless character and I thought that his concept was done well when it came to Santa-Chan in Kamen Rider W.  Just a joke character sad to say but he didn't annoy me. Cassidy and Devin I REALLY DAMN HATED THESE TWO to death!  Need I say more? Boom.  Well I'd say at least he is part of the technical crew but still, didn't like SPD for a lot o...

It's been quite some time since a prettier babe joined the PR cast.  Hmmm... quite interestingly she is also born in 1988.  Hee hee.  FYI she's Australian. But in my humble opinion, Runa Natsui is prettier.

Hmmm flame at me all you want but here's the reality, I don't like the Power Ranger Samurai season for the following reasons: They just don't get creative with what they get.  So you've got a two whites, one Chinese girl (presumably) and at least one African set as the characters.  So okay, if they were not able to get an Asian red ranger (which I think could have been great just for this season but well, auditions do affect casting with whose the best vs. whose the worse) however, the whole issue is that they can't get creative. Trying to port the Shinkenger story into these guys is lame.  They could have at least handled things differently like the last samurai of Japan found them to be his new pupils rather than import the Shinkenger story into them and it's just being forced.  Jayden could have at least been a "karate kid" type of character than a carbon copy of Takeru- a much nicer guy than Takeru was.  Also Mia as a bad cook is lacking the char...

Okay so a LOT of revisions did happen to the character casting thanks to uncontrollable circumstances.  I figured out that they could have at least gotten creative with the storyline for Power Rangers Samurai rather than try to replicate the Shinkenger storyline in whole because one, these guys are them, not the Shinkengers.  So how would I handle it?  Well... given that there's a Japanese mentor over non-Japanese guys, so I personally thought the characters could have been given their uniqueness.   The story: Well it would start out where the last of the Samurai heads for America and finds five worthy new pupils to defend the world from the invasion of the underground kingdom of Lord Xandred, an evil monster that has already corrupted the underground.  Now with five new people learning the ancient and most secret art of the samurai and having no samurai blood of their own, will they succeed? Here's how I would have handled these characters: Jayden- A white ...