Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

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 ...

Looking at the Mortal Kombat franchise, here are some examples of Chinese mythology in action.  They are as I see it and this is just an IFFY post: The places: The concepts of having different realms such as Heaven, Earth, Hell, Order, Chaos, Outworld and Edenia. Hell is divided into eighteen sections based on Chinese mythology.  The chamber of grinding and the chamber of dismemberment were shown in Mortal Kombat Deception. The characters: The way the Elder Gods are seem to display it from Chinese mythology. Raiden although his name was derived from a Japanese god called Raijin, his appearance looks more like a Buddhist/Taoist god instead.  The same treatment was given to Fujin.  Apparently Raiden's character is based on the Chinese lightning god Erlang Shen. Shinnok the fallen elder god is apparently inspired by Yang Wang, the fallen elder god in Journey to the West who was condemned to the Netherworld for rebellion against the Elder Gods. Bo Rai Cho...

Transformers... more than meets the eye. It started all with Hasbro and Sunbow productions in the U.S. which was one of the 80s series that had caught the eyes of children. Yup. And who couldn't forget how the jump the shark moments, the joy and pain of the Autobots vs. Decepticons and here's how it went: Season 1-2 - The plot was basically Optimus Prime leading in battle against the evil Decepticon warlord Megatron. It was basically where Megatron frequently got into a fight with his scheming deputy Starscream (who I disliked) because of power issues. Starscream was a traitor at best. Also, it was probably more violent than G.I.Joe was. The Movie- Well I have to say but I hated the fact that Optimus Prime was killed and he was replaced by Hot Rod who was simply introduced as a newbie.   Season 3 - Hot Rod's transformation to Rodimus Prime was pretty boring for some but he did a good job maturing as the series went. Galvatron deserved a better opponent....

The Vegeta-Bulma relationship is my favorite pairing in Dragon Ball. Why? I for one am a big Vegeta fan. Anyway, I thought of it that Bulma is kind of a crazy girl (and I seem to get attracted to crazy girls myself) who is an only child, spoiled and selfish which kind of matches her with Vegeta. But they didn't have the normal relationship- nope- Vegeta was practically the enemy of the Z warriors when he first arrived and later, he was forced to team up with Goku to defeat Freeza. After his first revival, he ended up on Earth which later resulted to him marrying Bulma even if at first, he found her to be practically cheap. Actually, it could be hard to really understand to why Vegeta would fall for her and so would Bulma when in fact, they didn't meet each other in such good conditions. It's all but accidentally in love!

Megaman (or Rockman in Japan) apparently draws several influence from Tokusatsu. I think these are the series that have inspired Rockman's conception in the first place: I think Megaman is most likely inspired by Metalder which was inspired by Kikaider. Why? Some of the robot masters in Megaman are almost based on Metalder but not all. Metalder was an android created to combat the evil Emperor Neros. Parallelisms would be Metalder's creator Dr. Ryouichiro Koga would resemble Dr. Light, Springer would resemble Rush and Emperor Neros as Dr. Wily being the scientist rival who seeks to conquer the world but he's WAY more evil. Emperor Neros is a cyborg. Some robot masters in Megaman that would be inspired from Metalder are Yamatoman, Gyroman, Napalmman and Shadowman.  However I do see a Bioman resemblance too with Dr. Wily being a lighter version of Dr. Man.  For Bioman I can't help but do this comparison of inspiration- Juuoh (Darkman Robots), Messerjuu (Tenguman,...

Crash Bandicoot... ah yes one of those childish games I used to play. Honestly speaking, I personally and NEVER got to get 100% in any of the games and later quit trying to get the complete score because of the stress plus I had to study or fail. So anyway he was a genetic soldier created by Cortex who was viewed as a failure and eventually rebelled against his creator to save the world. In the first two games, Crash Bandicoot foils Neo Cortex. However the second game would give a prelude to a much bigger revelation. When the space station crashed, it set free the ultimate enemy of the Crash Bandicoot universe, the evil Uka Uka who is Crash Bandicoot's ultimate enemy and the personal enemy of Aku Aku, revealing that Neo Cortex was receiving orders from a higher power all along. Think of it- so Neo Cortex and Uka Uka have a Wrath-Amon to Set relationship with Crash being Conan the Adventurer which became the plot of the third game which Uka Uka seeks ultimate power to dominate ...

He-Man, supposedly inspired by Conan in many ways but loosely anyway. So I thought about it that the hero is Prince Adam who transforms into a barbarian-like hero with a giant tiger named Battlecat (in the comics, Conan had a lion named Amra) whenever he used the mystical sword to battle the evil sorcerer Skeletor who is somewhat a parody of the Robert E. Howard version of Thulsa Doom while He-Man somewhat combined aspects of Kull and Conan except that Kull must have inspired the creation of He-Ro instead of He-Man as He-Man may supposedly be Conan. In the Conan comics (not the novels), the skull headed wizard Thulsa Doom was a major enemy too. So I personally thought that only a few characters here were ever inspired by Conan. Most of them were derived from other sources, which prevents He-Man from becoming a Conan rip-off as alleged. A spin-off series was called She-Ra: Princess of Power revealing that He-Man had a twin sister and an interesting side story of He-Man's archene...