Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

Mr. Sinister had some kind of obsession with Cyclops and Havok but mostly Cyclops, and other obsession was Jean Grey.  He already had theorized and maybe even discovered that any child born out from the genetic material of Cyclops and Jean Grey will be one powerful mutant.  I always thought about it that he had that in mind when the Jean Grey clone awakened thanks to the Phoenix. Cyclops' mutant characteristics are as follows.  He can absorb ambient energy from his surroundings and store them into his cells.  While Havok absorbed cosmic energy, Cyclops absorbed ambient energy.  Ambient means from his surroundings which was probably why Mr. Sinister had a greater interest in Cyclops.  Cyclops' powers may not be that much of a global destructive force but serves as an "enhancer". On the other hand Jean Grey was a powerful psionic mutant.  She possessed telepathy and telekinesis.  Her telepathy did more than read minds, she can also copy thought...

Considering Classic Megaman was a lighter series than its darker and edgier successor Megaman X, Dr. Wily is purposely incompetent since it was a child's game.  One can see how he is usually referred to as "half-brained" plans by his own creation Bass.  Which I thought Dr. Wily always has his incompetent side as a scientist, at the same time he is also a scheming character.  You cannot deny he started resorting to more serious schemes such as kidnapping (Megaman 4) and framing (Megaman 5 and 9) or in Megaman 7, he had a back-up plan.  But there's always the incompetent nature that makes him a funny villain. So it's a good idea to create a counter-Megaman, your very own Megaman but Bass is insolent and rebellious because maybe, Wily failed to see the possible hazard that his new robot may bring.  In short, you can credit Dr. Wily for actually creating a robot that has better free will than Megaman.  Creating Bass only gave him more headaches considering t...

It was said Gavan inspired Robocop then Robocop inspired Jiban.  Jiban copied from Robocop the concept of reviving a dead police officer into a cyborg.  Unlike Robocop, Jiban fought monsters of the week called Bioron.  Execution-wise, Janperson was closer to an Asian Robocop.  But why did they make him fully mechanical instead of a human revived as a cyborg?  I guess they wanted to try a different type of Robocop after Jiban was created. Janperson was formerly MX-A1 a malfunctioning robot.  He was scrapped off but Kaoru Sagasa rebuilt him and taught him human emotion.  I guess they wanted to have their own Robocop that was purely mechanical vs. Jiban as a Robocop-inspired hero.  I guess they wanted to explore more of the Asimov's Law of Robotics or to actually recreate the Metalder/Kikaider concept but in a more Robocop type of show.  It could also be viewed that Janperson was going to be a purely mechanical Robocop to avoid copying too m...

It's amusing how Claude Frollo can be deleted entirely in some Hunchback of Notre Dame adaptations or two, he becomes a good guy.  Here's two characters that were obviously copied from Gaston: Jean-Claude from "Enchanted Tales" is not Jehan Frollo at all.  He is a suave rich guy who lusts after Melody (the replacement of Esmeralda).  So far, he is not even related to Claude Frollo at all. In "Secret of the Hunchback", we have Jehan Frollo once again villainized and the wayward brother of Claude.  So Claude again is a good guy here like the 1939 version.  But he's a sheriff, not a judge.  However he looks like a bad combination of Jafar and Gaston.

Power Rangers Wild Force was one season I saw before its source material Hyajakuu Sentai Gaoranger . I had no idea it was a weaker season, it was criticized for bad acting compared to critics including good acting in their criticism of Time Force. Now what's with the season that got me mixed? So I'll do my review on Wild Force and what I thought was good or bad. I'm now writing this after I saw Gaoranger and wanted to do some criticism myself. As much as I don't think highly about Power Rangers -- I thought that Wild Force could've been a cool season. Here are some of the stuff that I thought Wild Force was able to do better... I think Cole Evans is more badass than his counterpart Kakeru Shishi I know Cole's been a subject to Internet jokes, Rick Medina's had a rather bad reception but I could talk about some positive aspects of said character. Just IGNORE the actor and focus on the character himself since the fictional character isn't t...

As a Megaman fan I've played the Classic Megaman (available at the Megaman Anniversary Collection) and Megaman X.  I have played other Megaman spin-offs such as the different universe Megaman Legends.  I haven't played Megaman Battle Network though.  The series that got my attention the most is the Megaman X series.  What do I love about it?  Let me tell you some things that I love about the Megaman X series. It explores Dr. Light's robotics to a whole new level.  While Classic Megaman was a fun series, X takes a more mature spin to Megaman in a hundred years later.  Dr. Light created the new Megaman robot called "X" symbolizing the limitless potential.  Although the test was supposed to be for 30 years, Megaman X only awakened in 21XX.  He and Zero represented the new type of robots called Reploids.  Although darker than Classic Megaman, Megaman X still throws back at Classic Megaman regardless.  X now has human capacity and so...

While Power Rangers Time Force did copy some things from Timeranger like it's too easy to see Wes, Trip and Jen as Westernized versions of Tatsuya, Sion and Yuuri (oh please don't let her and Jen join forces)... one cannot deny some toning down happened.  So what caused the toning down?  It was serious but remember, Power Rangers is usually less serious than Super Sentai.  Maybe Judd Lynn got a series of complaints when he wrote Lost Galaxy.  So I believe a lot of events in Time Force were more of a result of executive meddling than Judd Lynn at the work. One toning down to consider is how Eric Myers was handled differently than Naoto.  Sad to say but I think Eric Myers deserves better praise for someone who normally likes Super Sentai better.  So Eric didn't try to exploit the secret location of the Time Force Rangers or seize control of the Silver Guardians even if he's still a jerk.  So why did Judd Lynn decide to change the scenario?  My on...