Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

So here's some logic in the Mortal Kombat Universe.  How do they operate?  Here are some: You bleed a lot during kombat.  Yup that's what puzzles me is how strong are they anyway to survive all that beating and bleeding?  This is puzzling if every punch or kick you inflict releases blood all the time and yet they are still standing. The x-ray moves are another.  Many times the teeth fly out, the jaw is broken and eyeballs are even lost YET after the move is executed the teeth are still complete, any attack using the mouth can still be done and the eyes are still complete. Some special moves could have claimed your life already in one hit like being frozen by Sub-Zero's freeze, Stryker's gun or impaled by Scorpion's spear.  Not to mention many moves from special bosses could actually kill you in one hit like Shao Kahn's hammer. Most problems are settled by getting even.  Yup, in Mortal Kombat most people prefer to perform fatalities than let...

While Robocop is obviously a dead man revived into a cyborg (which was copied into Jiban) while Janperson isn't but Robocop influence managed to make it into the show in the way it was written.  I guess Robocop's popularity prompted Toei's producers to make their own Robocop type series while copying some plots and modifying them into Janperson's characters.  Janperson was closer to Robocop than any other Metal Hero as well. Gun Gibson like RoboCable was originally programmed to destroy the protagonist of the show, later becoming allies.  But unlike RoboCable, he is also a full robot like Janperson. Apparently Janperson's biggest nemesis Ryuzaburo Tatewaki being a psychotic gang leader might be based on Clarence Boddicker who was from the first Robocop movie.  Both of the were businessmen who were head of their own gangs while being a coward at best.  Unlike Clarence Boddicker, Tatewaki eventually transformed into a Janperson bootleg known as Billgodly bu...

While I personally don't hate Power Rangers but I'm thinking that Disney's era with Bruce Kalish up to Saban's return, everything was just really bad.  So what do I think of Saban's return?  At first, I was excited for Saban to return but things got really bad.  So here's what I really think... Saban's crew isn't trying anything new and two, Jonathan Tzachor.  Jonathan Tzachor had good ideas back then but no, not PR Samurai.  Why does he just copy/paste the Shinkenger plot into an obviously not all Japanese gang?  I mean, the show is too much a bland version of Shinkenger with minor differences that all I say is it's no better than most of Kalish's seasons.  Times like these, Spongebob's post-movie seasons are more welcome than this unfortunate garbage.  In other words, too much throwback to MMPR. Nickelodeon just sucks when it comes to Power Rangers.  In fact, I don't think I even want Nickelodeon Japan to start doing a Sentai mara...

For me, if there was one movie that really well captured my attention it was Beauty and the Beast.  I bought the DVD edition which actually revealed a lot of times the film was shelved.  And some research actually had these elements brought from the book like the Beast's curse as a result of his unkind heart in his younger years and another, Belle's name was really Belle in the novels. Belle's story was altered yet again.  Rather than give her two rude sisters, she's the only child.  Her character has become a wide reader, my ideal type of girl to have.  Plus the fact she stands up against her pursuer Gaston makes her no damsel in distress most of the time, though at time she has become one.  I was thinking maybe Disney didn't have any idea what to do with Belle's sisters so they wrote them off into non-existence.  Was just thinking if Belle had sisters, maybe she is the fairest of them and they will both also try to get Gaston's attention like they...

Well I'm tired or sort of about telling people MMPR isn't fake and Super Sentai came first, so now let's move on to another rant which is why I think MMPR should have just ended sooner.  Yeah MMPR Season 1 was still tolerable for me but let's go on to some points done: Overextension.  MMPR was supposed to end at 40 something episodes with the MMPR team defeating both Lokar and Cyclopsis but at last minute turn or what, they decided to actually extend it because it was a monster hit.  That was the problem with shows back then- overextension destroys its quality.  You can go ahead and think about the following- Dragon Ball later suffered because of that, One Piece is starting not to get interesting because of that, you could name a lot of them.  In the case of MMPR it overextended to the point that nothing made sense like they still kept their dinosaur suits while zords change.  And you can say the stories were getting bad, characters were getting bland an...

Although Arnold Schwarzenegger will resume his role as Conan as a much older Conan, I thought that Jason Momoa can play two characters for the film.  One as Conan's oldest son Conn and the other as the younger Conan.  I mean he did make a very good Conan, one that really see he really knew how to carry his character.  The problem was the script, not Jason Momoa.  Good cast, bad script.  So made me think even Arnold Schwarzenegger should have appeared as Corin in the 2011 version instead of Ron Perlman (who voiced Conan in the Conan the Dark Axe computer game). Just my thought.  I would really wish that seeing a scene where Arnold (as Conan) and Jason (as Conn) talking about his responsibilities as future king would be nice.  Too bad this is just a mere wish!  I mean, really seeing the two Conans in one film will be cool!

So far Jason Momoa is a more impressive version of Marvel's Conan BUT cast in what many considered a lackluster script, I was thinking that the movie actually tried to copy elements from the two Conan films.  Some plots from the 1982 film were taken like the forging of the blade, the murder of the Cimmerians when Conan is just a child (but his mother in the 2011 version died giving birth to him) and there is the "Riddle of Steel" which Conan learns but doesn't apply much in the final battle. You could consider the villains.  First you have Khalar Zym the big bad.  While he's no snake worshiping cult leader like the movie version of Thulsa Doom but the two are malevolent charismatic warlords who can lead people to their deaths (more like a more evil version of Wrath-Amon with his bad temper).  Meanwhile, his daughter Marique would be the Queen Taramis (no not the good queen but Sarah Douglas' role) of this film, wicked witch without being the main villain. ...