Thursday 22 November 2012

Gekisou Sentai Carranger 08 – I Lost My Accel Brace! (Green Racer Edition)

That feel your transformation device needs a key.

In this episode, Minoru aka Green Racer had a race against YY Bingo, who claimed to be as the fastest member of Bowzock. But because of his reckless driving, he ends up dying. Since Green Racer is partly responsible for his death, he thinks of himself as really cool and when he practicing his pose, he ends up losing his Accel Brace!


The race between Green Racer and YY Bingo is one of the reasons why this show is called Racing Sentai Carranger. It's intense; it's fun but most importantly, it wacky. What made it wacky is the fact that YY Bingo shoots some lasers just to cheat the race! Another thing that this episode seriously made an emphasis at is that if you don't wear a seatbelt and you got into a vehicular accident, you will surely die. That is what happened to YY Bingo in this episode. Instead of hitting the brakes when he is in a curve that he can't pass, he continues to drive and rush forward only to end up crashing in some concrete barrier.

As for Green Racer, he passes the curve and safely escaped YY Bingo who ends up crashing his car. I find it seriously funny that Green Racer did some speech about justice and start practicing the speech even if he is partly responsible to YY Bingo's death! What made it funnier is that after he did his pose and revert back to normal, he continues practicing his pose just to, well, look cool that caused his Accel Brace to fly out from his wrist! I still can't help but be disappointed on Minoru since he didn't feel that something heavy left his wrist. Seriously, he didn't feel that his Accel Brace fly out from his wrist?!


Because of YY Bingo's death, his brother YY Gonza swore that he will avenge his brother from Green Racer! Umm, your brother died because of reckless driving and not wearing a seatbelt, why avenge him for his reckless driving? I forgot Bowzock is a space biker gang. YY Gonza found Green Racer's Accel Brace and thinks is a tail accessory. Wow, he is stupider compared to his brother, it's a freakin' watch that can't time for crying out loud!

YY Gonza begins his rampage on the city and after Minoru showed his design for a truck with rocket boosters, he decides to fight YY Gonza and this is when he realized that there is something missing in his wrist. Wow, that took you a few hours to realize it! Since he lost his Accel Brace, he asked help to his fellow Carrangers to fight YY Gonza and asked Dappu if he can make a new Accel Brace only to receive a slap coming from him.


To put it simply, each Carranger only has a single Accel Brace; in short, there are only 5 Accel Braces in existence. In short, Minoru is not anymore a Carranger... unless he finds his Accel Brace and transform at the end of the episode or it will just magically appear out of nowhere. Either way, the only thing he can do right now is to do what every former superhero must do, to fight and I admire Minoru for that. Even though he lost his Accel Brace, he fights YY Gonza as a regular citizen. We see Minoru getting beat up by YY Gonza but he continues on fighting and I seriously like it.

Seeing Minoru's determination, the other Carrangers decided to help him finish YY Gonza but shooting them with the Auto Blaster and later, Auto Punisher. Now that he is weakened, he has no choice but to eat a piece of imoyokan that he previously refused since he claims that he is the fastest Bowzock alive and he doesn't need one! Funny, he graciously accepted the imoyokan like he wanted it.


Because he change in terms of size, the Accel Brace fell from his tail and luckily, it fell near Minoru and transformed into Green Racer! Because of his appearance as Green Racer, YY Gonza decided to begin his revenge! The scene is seriously cool since it is just Green Racer and his great driving skills just evading every attack thrown by YY Gonza. What made it much cooler is that he is just riding the standard Carranger vehicle and not his respective giant vehicle during the chase! Much to my surprise, he beat YY Gonza but since he just fell on his knees, they still haven't finished him.

Since this is a Green Racer episode, he is the one who did the attack before the main finisher, the RV Namiwa Kick! Since this is the 90's they just took a picture of the RV Robo doing a kick pose and zoom it fast to make it look like he did a kick! They beat YY Gonza for good and the team decided to bandage Minoru because of what he did earlier and Dappu commended them for growing more as heroes... or so we thought!