Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

  After the introductory arc, we have episodes 8-13 that feature Sadak before Prince Sincline (Lotor) arrives. Rewatching these episodes makes me think of Galra's For the Evulz MO. We get a good idea of Galra's depraved activities. There are times they do come up with something good. However, some of their plans seem to just gloat in "Look at me! I'm evil!"  Episode 8  This episode quickly debuts after Princess Fala replaces Takashi. Come on, the ending sequence already gave it off! The episode starts off with Fala trying to get used to things. Isamu is training Fala to become a better pilot. Fala still has a LOT TO LEARN about piloting the Blue Lion. Yes, it's really easy to look down at Fala early on. Fala's not in the same league as Chizuru of Combattler V and Megumi from Voltes V. However, it doesn't mean Fala can be underestimated!  The episode features some obvious foreshadows. Bambara is a villain and Hysteria foreshadows it. Honerva wasn't ...

  I remember watching an edited version of Conan the Barbarian as a child . The movie scared me a lot -- even if it lacked prolonged torture scenes. I thought the movie was for children. However, seeing the film has made me look at Conan the Adventurer more as an old shame. If there's one character that I thought defined the late James Earl Jones (JEJ) -- it's not Darth Vader (as a voice) but him as Movie Thulsa Doom. Most adaptations of Thulsa Doom resembled Skeletor from the He-Man series. Movie Thulsa was more akin to the snake wizard Thoth-Amon. It's unknown why they used the name Thulsa Doom instead of Thoth-Amon. Was it because the name Thulsa Doom sounded scarier than Thoth-Amon?  Movie Thulsa was the leader of the snake worshipers. He was portrayed as a cowardly character who used psychological manipulations and magic. The film begins with Movie Thulsa's two henchmen Rexor (played by the late Ben Davidson) and Thorgrim (played by Steve Ole Thorsen) leading the a...

  Yes, you got that right! I was planning on doing this. Sure, I understand that Hyajakuu Sentai Golion was too violent for TV Y7-FV. It should be interesting that Golion aired on March 4, 1981. That would take place on the fifth anniversary of Combattler V . However, in Eastern reckoning, it may be the fifth anniversary of Chodenji Machine Voltes V . I remember watching Lion Voltron back in the 1990s. It was a rerun of a cartoon in 1984 -- three years after Golion wasn't well-received in Japan. Just a bit of a warning: I'm VERY biased against American remakes of Japanese shows -- even if they had a license. Expect my review to be biased against Lion Voltron like I'm PERSONALLY biased against Power Rangers .  Who can remember Lion Voltron's cheesy voice and the censorship? The show was connected to Vehicle Voltron . However, Golion was NEVER connected to Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV -- a show that's still better than Vehicle Voltron but lacks focus. Yes, that whole fle...

Video game series can be full of strange retcons throughout the years -- no company excluded! I remember the Super Street Fighter II games -- the ones that introduced Fei Long, Cammy, T. Hawk, and Dee Jay. Eventually, Akuma became a hidden character in Super Street Fighter II Turbo . As a child, I had this thing for Cammy more than Chun Li. I believe it was a result of the American superiority mentality going on -- never mind I actually dislike MOST American localizations of Japanese shows (and the vice-versa can be very true).  It's quite funny how Street Fighter II V and the American Street Fighter cartoon came out in 1995. The American Street Fighter live movie was in 1994. Cammy's first non-canon adaptation was in the  Street Fighter movie. Cammy had two different adaptations. I prefer the Japanese Anime due to its better execution. Cammy was somewhat of a love interest for Guile in the American cartoon. However, Guile was canonically a family man and Ken Masters' broth...

The Marvel vs. Capcom series is built on a What-If storyline. Interestingly, Charlie was brought into the Marvel vs. Capcom series instead of Col. William Guile. Guile made his debut in the Street Fighter II series. Charlie's story was set up in the Street Fighter Alpha series -- which took place after the first Street Fighter game but before Street Fighter II series. Charlie made it into X-Men vs. Street Fighter   with a slightly modified version of his fate. Street Fighter Alpha 3 gave some interesting details such as how Cammy was made as a female version of the Dictator (which is just bad writing IMHO) and Charlie's death.  X-Men vs. Street Fighter has some what-if endings. However, Charlie's ending was confirmed canon. Charlie went missing and was assumed dead. However, it turned out that the Dictator decided to turn Charlie into Shadow. Shadow was a secret playable character in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter and a Special Partner in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of...

  I wrote how the Sindel revelation in Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath was pretty WTF . However, I realized that part of me enjoyed the Shao Kahn x Sindel retcon. I remember a quarrel I had over some a**hole who claimed he was Jerrod, I was Shao Kahn, and the woman was Sindel. The story back then was that Shao Kahn murdered Jerrod, forced Sindel to be his (but that woman reminds me of Mileena now), and adopted Kitana as his daughter. That was the story that people all grew up with. The story went on in Mortal Kombat (2011) . By then, I already overcome that so-called crush and recalled my real first crush. However, I still remember that A**HOLE and how he still messed up my life. I fantasized about performing a fatality on that A**HOLE and getting the woman back then. However, things changed when Mortal Kombat 11 came into the picture.  Mortal Kombat 11 truly shaked things -- perhaps for the worse. Sindel's ladder ending reveals that she came up with the story of how she was force...

I remember playing Mortal Kombat (2011) more than 10 years ago. Honestly, I feel like the game's getting neglected by Warner Bros. The game needed to get a remaster during the PS4 era. Now, it's the PS5 era. Mortal Kombat (2011) had paid DLC characters namely Kenshi, Rain (who's really THAT mistreated in the reboot trilogy), Skarlet (who was a rumored fighter back then), and the PS3-exclusive Kratos. Interestingly, Kratos was a guest character in the PSP-exclusive Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny . Kratos was banned from tournaments due to his exclusive status. As I was playing Mortal Kombat (2011) -- I found Kratos to be a fascinating guest character. God of War is supposedly a VERY VIOLENT SERIES. Kratos would fit more in Mortal Kombat than he would in Soul Calibur . Soul Calibur is rated Teen compared to Mortal Kombat . Kratos carried out his violence with less restraint. Soul Calibur wasn't really meant to be a bloody series. Why Sony tried out Kratos in Soul Calibur be...