Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

Just because it's popular doesn't mean that I should like it. Just because something is unpopular doesn't meant that I should hate it. I'll admit that I hate Megaman X7 with all my heart . However, I'm one to defend Megaman 7 and  Megaman X6 to be at least decent games. I still feel that some things are just overhyped. I still think Conan the Adventurer is pretty much an overhyped cartoon after seeing Conan the Barbarian (1982) . This post will be controversial (but this is just MY OPINION so if you like the show, okay) since Power Rangers in Space is widely praised. I was able to not think about the show while watching Denji Sentai Megaranger (its source material) but ended up thinking about it while watching Dengeki Sentai Changeman. Strange but true! I decided to try and watch the "important episodes" of Power Rangers Turbo which includes the finale. The finale had the Command Center destroyed by Divatox. It was pretty much where four out of five rang...

  It's no secret that I dislike Power Rangers and did a poor job hiding it. It's no secret now that I'm also critical of newer Super Sentai every now and then (but some seasons are still good) even when I prefer Super Sentai over Powr Rangers. Now, I decided to write my OPINION PIECE (yes, take note of that) on two Power Rangers shows that got a lot of love from its fandom - Power Rangers in Space and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy . The two shows succeeded each other with the space hype.  Let's talk about Space first and why I think it's overrated Space was the show that saved the Power Rangers franchise from cancellation. It's often hailed as a good season. However, I decided to think about how the story was a DIRECT continuation of Power Rangers Turbo . One reason why I prefer Choriki Sentai Ohranger over Power Rangers Zeo is the use of the self-contained continuity where I didn't need to watch EVERY OTHER SENTAI to understand it. Yup, I could watch Ohranger w...

I gave a thought on what if Trakeena were a Power Rangers in Space villain instead of the would-be main antagonist of Lost Galaxy. I imagined what impact it would have on the story with the United Alliance of Evil. What if they ended up a threatening force to deal with who's going to be called as Trakeena the terrible. She would probably arrive midseason when Astronema keeps failing at the Dark Specter's request. But this isn't exactly going to come as good. Maybe she would have some dark past trying to get rid of the Dark Specter for her own personal purposes. I could imagine her arriving as a midseason villain. Maybe we'd see her disguising as some attractive woman (which she did in Lost Galaxy and Ahames did in Changeman) and maybe injure one of the rangers. She may start her own little campaign and she would create the Psycho Rangers. She would probably have the Barilian Bug as her first few monsters. Carlos would probably fall victim and she would probably show ...

With Gingaman getting a DVD release anytime soon after Megaranger is released, I thought of what if Dr. Hinelar wasn't demoted to Furio for Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. I thought that these following events could have happened. Trakeena would have either never existed or she would have taken the place of Darkonda. Another alternative is that Darkonda would have become the right hand man of the Dark Specter. Trakeena may end up arriving as a midseason game-changing villain as Power Rangers' own version of Queen Ahames. Maybe, she may never be Scorpius' daughter at all. She may have a plot where she and Darkonda once worked to get rid of the Dark Specter but failed. She returns "begging" for mercy but she has her own plans to take over and rule the Universe. Maybe Astronema would have been redeemed in the same way as Shiima from Changeman. Maybe, just maybe Ecliptor would have probably "killed" Astronema, he and Andros have a final duel and he ends up dy...

Power Rangers in Space deviated from Megaranger's computer theme.  So what's going on?  Here's some of the Changeman elements taken into the series: Dark Specter would be similar to Bazoo in Changeman although the former is NOT a living planet plus I hate how Darkonda easily spelled Dark Specter's end (Judd Lynn has a problem with finale arcs).  Like Bazoo, Dark Specter had an alliance of evil from different areas of the Universe except his formed a much larger (but also more incompetent scale) of villains.  Ahames could totally kick the asses of the United Alliance of Evil! If Trakeena would be my pick for who would have been the Ahames of Power Rangers, another character from Super Sentai who was inspired was... well Astronema.  So who's similar to Astronema?  It goes back to the Hirohisa Soda era of Changeman, the villain Shiima.  So what do these girls have in common?  Shiima was taken away from her home planet as a baby and brainwashed ...

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...