Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

Well I'd like to talk about the evolution of Megaman and Megaman X games.  First I'd like to talk about the series that started it all... The ORIGINAL Megaman... (I wouldn't be talking about the Game Boy ones sorry...) The original Megaman was in fact one difficult game.  No password saves and when a boss defeated you, you had to play back all the way from a certain checkpoint.  Luckily there was the "pause glitch" which made  life a little easier but it was removed in the anniversary collection.  It featured six bosses to which one can start with. Megaman 2 went from six robot masters to an eight as Dr. Wily wishes to avenge his defeat from the first game.  Also the "Atomic Fire" was probably the charged buster's spiritual ancestor of sorts.  In Megaman II it had the use of the three Items which are an extra platform, a rocket board and a wall crawler.  The password system was introduced.  The most frustrating boss had to be the...

It would just be downright unfair for fans of the Heisi era not to give credit to the Showa era.  So here are the contributions... Having an extra rider hero type.  The first Kamen Rider added a second Kamen Rider in Kamen Rider Nigo and in V3, we have Riderman.  The idea was taken for a twist to create... The evil Kamen Rider concept which started in Kamen Rider Black.  Please do not confuse this with the fake riders.  Fake riders are created as xerox copies of the Kamen Riders, this one is an inspired evil.  While Kamen Rider Black took the idea of Takeshi Hongo and placed it into Kotaro Minami (but with the twist of taking Nobuhiko Akizuki with him), it became Shadow Moon.  Shadow Moon was proven popular more evil riders were created.  In the case of Ryuki, the show had more than one!  In the case of Heisi evil riders, they weren't brainwashed most of them were evil at their own free will. Civilizations on Earth that threaten mank...

Well here have been a few of my favorite Slapstick Comedies (which had both live and cartoon formats) as a kid... Laurel and Hardy was one.  To be honest, I find this MUCH BETTER than Dumb and Dumber.  It was fun to see how Laurel could be so dumb and Hardy while being dumb was less dumb.  It was funny to see their various misadventures together.  I used to really get excited over these guys. The Three Stooges namely Moe, Larry and Curly.  I did like them a lot as well.  Hmmm and I'm advised to rewatch this series if I want to be better at comedy. :P

While I did enjoy Beetleborgs for awhile but this show totally made me consider Beetleborgs to be a garbage show eventually.  So here's a little bit of B-Fighter- you don't have three typical average kids who free the ghost to make them B-Fighter, no not that!  So here's how it goes- invaders from another world known as Jamahl (Magnavores in Beetleborgs) are about to enter our dimension and three youngsters get chosen to fight them.  So what makes it even cooler is that it's no comic book coming to life enemies but rather REAL LIFE threatening situations, no annoying Flabber but rather we have... Warning: SPOILERS below... Insect Elder Guru who granted the B-Fighters their powers.  No they didn't free him from a pipe organ, he was really there.  So he was aware of the threat of Jamahl so he called them. Professor Kenzou Mukai who worked as the mentor.  He does look like an uncle of mine. :P  He was the mentor at Academia.  I've seen this ...

I have to admit that Zaido has to be really an awful, awful Tokusatsu adaptation.  In fact, I just feel like it was a huge knockoff on the three Space Sheriffs that had entertained the children of the 80s-90s with that huge really, awful adaptation which is worse than when Super Sentai got adapted as Power Rangers.  So why do I say Zaido is awful?  While trying to be a Metal Hero adaptation, all it does is drag the plot, destroy the real monster-of-the-week theme and trying to link the Space Sheriffs into that story was just not effective.  In fact, it was so awful it got cancelled overseas.  While some Pinoys dare say, "We should be proud of it because it's Pinoy!" but one thing is for sure, it's AWFUL PINOY not QUALITY PINOY just like Rhodissa Montemayor on Operation OVERDORK wasn't a good thing.  So all I can say is that, I hope that a mistake like Zaido doesn't get conceived again while avoiding horribifucus bad hate fics.  And to be honest, I'd ra...

One of the many things that intrigued me was how different Captain Phoebus was (who was usually portrayed as a jerk in most of the Hunchback of Notre Dame adaptations) to that of Disney.  Now I'll use Jetlag version as his placeholder and to that of the Disney's. While the Disney's Phoebus was pictured to be heroic, gallant and chivalrous... not so much with most interpretations that were taken from the tragedy or even happy ending versions.  While the Disney's Phoebus did love Esmeralda and even married her, had a son named Zephyr with her... the real Phoebus was a jerk and a seducer.  He was seen cheating on his fiance Fleur de Lys with Esmeralda whom he only wanted to satisfy his perverse fantasies.  In the Jetlag version (which is faithful to the book except Quasimodo and Esmeralda had a happy ending and Jehan never existed or that Frollo's death was made less brutal), he like the book version refused to prove Esmeralda's innocence and had a fiance named ...

In Disney there were a few villains who were either villainized or were made more monstrous than their original counterpart.  They are... Kaa in Disney was made into a villain in contrast to the Rudyard Kipling book where he was a mentor to Mowgli like Baloo and Baghera.  I was pretty surprised to find out that Kaa was a good guy in most of the Jungle Book adaptations I saw! Claude Frollo in the Disney movie was portrayed to be more maniacal than his book counterpart aside from just changing his position from priest to judge except his character was based on Jehan in the 1939 version.  Compared to the movie, the novel Frollo voluntarily took care of Quasimodo after his mother REALLY abandoned him as an unwanted child, though he later came to "regret" that decision.  Also the novel Frollo though he was intolerant towards gypsies didn't persecute them openly.  He was merely annoyed at their activities and begged them to stay away from the Cathedral though ...