Mirai Sentai Timeranger 12 – Wish Upon A Star

A boy named Hayato requested the help of Future Research to look for an alien because of his friend said that he met an alien. And since Sion is the only alien in the group, he takes the case. Meanwhile, some jewels, money and other precious items suddenly disappeared.

Sion is one of my favorite Timerangers and it's been a while since the series had an episode focused on this alien. What better way to make a Sion focused episode by making him look for an alien? This is when we meet a man who knows magic but if we just based on how he did his magic trick, maybe this is not a magic trick, but some ability that he can do. Sion is right in following him.

In the guy's hideout, Sion tested his abilities and confirmed that he is indeed an alien. One thing that I like about this scene is how enthusiastic Sion is in meeting an alien in the 20th century. It didn't help that he thought he is the only alien in this time period! As we all know, a sight of an alien in this era will cause massive hysteria and humans wanting to dissect this alien to know about anatomy. That is why it is no surprise that the alien just wants Sion out of his place since he doesn't know if Sion is an alien or not or one of those geeks who love looking for aliens in the sky.

Meanwhile, a crime involving disappearing items with value is reported on newspapers. As expected, Londarz is the primary suspect but Tac's data of the criminals locked in the old Londarz facility didn't have a data about a criminal who can do such a thing. If we considered the ability of the alien that Sion met, it is likely that he is the culprit. It is no surprise that Sion will go to the alien's place and yes, he confirmed that the alien is somewhat involved with the case of disappearing valuable objects.

To sum it up, the mastermind of the plan kinda looks like he is the type of guy that they can just beat up without breaking a sweat. That is why I am a bit surprised that he is bullying Sion's newfound alien "friend" to do some theft. Because he is sick of stealing stuff for him, the Londarz member named Geymark "promised" that this will be the last time he will steal or else his friend will be in danger. Considering that these guys like to lie a lot, Sion transforms into TimeGreen and attempts to arrest the Londarz member only for it to escape at the end.

Because Sion is determined to help a fellow alien, we learned the name of this alien. His name is Argo and he left his home planet that is currently on war. He ends up on Earth by accident where he met Hayato. What's funny about it is that Hayato didn't notice that the stranger that he met in the river is wearing some odd clothes and just give him something to eat. Oh well, maybe the kid thinks that he is some guy who attended some sci-fi convention who was beaten up by nerds who think that his costume is bad. But whatever, the kid didn't notice that there is something odd with what he is wearing!

The flashback also showed us how the two became good friends that at one point, Argo used his alien abilities to save Hayato. Unluckily, Geymark saw it and the rest is like what they say, is history. Sion's attempt to convince that he can help Argo only ends up with him rejecting his offer because he doesn't have the confidence that Sion can do it and just believed in Geymark's promise. Speaking of which, during one of the times the two friends are bonding, Geymark appears and kidnaps Hayato in a rather subtle way.

The next day, Argo proceeds to their plan only to be stopped by Sion. This is when Argo learned that both of them are the same. Both of them are aliens and survivors of a war that happened to their planet at the same time. The only difference is that Sion ended with scientist after he was send to Earth while as for Argo, he met a kid whom he became good friends with. But unlike Argo, Sion is a Timeranger and has friends whom he sort of disregarded after meeting Argo. At the end, they were able to convince Argo to help them with his problem with Geymark.

As expected, Argo delivered the merchandise and saw how he performs the delivery of the goods. This made me assess that he can do long transports if he wants to. But since he already met the Timerangers and it is expected that Geymark's promise is just one big lie, he delivered the fake one and the Timerangers arrived just in time to beat Geymark. Before talking about the fight in this episode, I can't help but notice that they updated Sion's CGI helmet wearing scene. Instead of seeing Sion's blue hair that is usually used in all of his transformation stock footages, his hair in the footage is dirty yellow green, the exact hair color he has in this episode.

Remember what I said that Geymark looks like he is some alien that can be easily beaten? I was wrong about it. For starters, Sion is electrocuted by him a couple of times and that the Timerangers barely stand up every time he whips his whip. Thankfully, Argo helps them by transporting the whip somewhere, giving the Timerangers a better advantage in battle. At the end, they beat Geymark and before they can freeze him, he enlarged himself.

Much to my surprise, they remembered TimeJet Gamma! I mean, for most of the time, it's either TimeRobo Alpha or TimeRobo Beta in battle and seeing this formation is a breath of fresh air of episodes featuring TimeRobo Beta. Though it mind sound like I hate TimeRobo Beta but nope, I love that formation, it's just that we barely see the TimeJet Gamma in action in this series. At the end, they finally put Geymark to cyrostasis, ending the giant battle.

The stolen goods are back to their original places and that Argo plans to return to his home world... or go to some other planet that doesn't have any war in it. But before he leaves our planet, he needs to show something to Hayato, a kid who believes in aliens. Fulfilling the kid's dream to see a UFO is one beautiful sight to see. Earlier in the episode, the other kids think that he is crazy thinking about aliens living in our time. Aside from the sight of a UFO, he gave his friend a special coin. It's one emotional sight to see and at the end, it made Sion realize that maybe, just maybe, he is not the only alien in this era.

Mirai Sentai Timeranger 11 – The Deathtrap City

The episode in a nutshell.

The journalist from last time is back and now, she has a name. Her name is Honami Moriyama and after getting the scoop about the Londarz family having dinner in some fine dining restaurant, her next objective is to discover the identities of the Timerangers! Meanwhile, in some town, Sadist Gougan is wreaking havoc using his hypnotizing device that causes people to have an urge on trying to kill each other!

From the 11 episodes of this series that I have watched so far, this is the darkest episode in the bunch. The way this episode is shot added up to the mystery of the town that our heroes investigated. It didn't help that the criminal in this episode, Gougan loves carnage and doesn't matter if someone will get hurt because of his crime just as long as he gets entertained to see people trying to kill each other! What gave me chills about his M.O. is that one of the previous incidents involving him had 80% of the town's population wiped out in just three days. With that in mind, the Timerangers must stop this mad man as fast as possible.

Making things a bit difficult for our heroes is the photo journalist named Honami Moriyama who is willing to risk her life just to get a scoop. She is your traditional nosy reporter who doesn't know her limits. To be honest, I hated her guts because during the time our heroes had the perfect opportunity to destroy Gougan's hypnotizing device, she is there taking pictures of it and the blast of Time Pink's VolSniper can kill her because she is at range of the weapon's target! As expected, this endangered her as Gougan discovers her presence and then the presence of the Timerangers!

Our heroes then fight Gougan only to end up getting trapped inside a glass prison. As expected of our journalist, she tries to distance herself from the battle and takes pictures from her current range. She is that nosy that every time she clicks her camera, she always gets into my nerves! That is why I just love the scene were Time Pink just slaps her because what she did is so stupid. Even though it is part of the job of a journalist to get a scoop earlier than your competitors, but there are some limits about that department or else you might end up becoming a stalker or something along those lines.

Unluckily, night came and according to Tac's info, they can only destroy the hypnotizing machine before night or else the machine will be unstoppable. Because of this, Honami sees the error of her ways. For once, our nosy reporter finally knows her place in this situation. She should distance herself in this area and click her camera somewhere else.

Comforting her with her suffering is Time Yellow and she then develops an admiration for this guy. Luckily, the signal of the hypnotizing machine is still intact and because of this, they still have a chance to destroy it. The fights in this episode is fantastic, though Time Yellow's fight in this episode look like he is trying to impress Honami it is so fun seeing Domon making a good impression on a girl. The giant fight in this episode relied more on Time Robo Beta's speed and I like it. To be honest, Time Robo Beta and Time Jet Gamma needs a lot more screen time in this series since Time Robo Alpha always does the finishing move.

At the end, even though Gougan didn't gave the any Londarz money, it satisfied Gien's rather wicked taste of entertainment, seeing humans suffer. It is quite important to note this since unlike his associates, he is the only member of the family who is not interested in money. Since they are time criminals and he is the only one who is interested in carnage and suffering, I guess he might have an episode that involves Gien doing something big that might alter the future drastically.

As for the Honami, she finally got her scoop about the appearances of the Timerangers outside their helmets and as expected, she deduces that Time Pink is the hot chick in leather. As for Time Yellow, she deduces that he is the dude wearing a blue tank top and a black leather jacket. For a chick who is calling herself a journalist, she has a hard time to figure out which guy goes which color. I mean, even a kid who barely watch Sentai or Power Rangers can deduce that the guy in blue is Time Blue, the guy in red is Time Red and the guy in green with strange hair is Time Green.

That leaves us to the guy in orange who is obviously Time Yellow! As for the Timerangers, Yuri warned them to distance themselves from her since it will be dangerous once she knows about their identities; well they are sorta late about it because she already knew their faces but not their names. As for Domon, she doesn't mind Honami snooping around and it seems he is smitten by her.

Mirai Sentai Timeranger 10 – Escape to the Future

Tac detected a time-space pulse somewhere and Tatsuya and Ayase are assigned to check this pulse. The two opened a box that contained the pulse, which destroyed their Chrono Changers. Tatsuya tried to contact the other Timerangers with his phone but it's out of service thanks to an unpaid bill. Turns out that the pulse was set up by a mercenary named Ogur since he wants any of the Timeranger's head for a bounty!

The episode continued what was concluded in the previous episode since it focused a lot on Ayase's secret that he hides from the team, which was one of the reasons why he didn't pursue his dream as a race car driver. One thing I noticed in this episode is Tatsuya's concern on Ayase since every time he tries to talk to him about it, Ayase just ignores it. What made Tatsuya more concerned is how Ayase is willing to throw his life for other like he doesn't care if he dies. With that in mind, you can easily hypothesize that Ayase is just wants to die as fast as possible by being a Timeranger and he just wants to die in combat. It became clear later in the episode.

Ogur's hunt of Tatsuya and Ayase is really fun to watch just like every other bounty hunter chases. What made it more fun is the fact that they can't transform, lessening the chance of their survival in the situation they faced right now. What's impressive about it is that Ogur knows the area very well that he can easily hunt the Timerangers wherever they will go within the perimeter. At the end, they were captured, Tatsuya was injured and they are locked in a Cold Storage facility... which bothered me for a bit but what the heck, it's for the sake of drama!

Inside the facility, we saw more of Ayase's "suicidal" tendencies as he gave his jacket to Tatsuya to keep him warm only to refuse it at the end. Since they are alone and Ayase has no chance to divert the issue, Tatsuya finally asked Ayase what is wrong with him. As it turns out, Ayase has some disease called Osiris Syndrome that can only be acquired by intense magnetic radiation from space and once you have one, your heart will stop beating for the next year or two. And by the looks of it, this disease has no cure in the future, no wonder he kinda looked like hopeless in the earlier episodes of the series till Tatsuya came along and gave him hope.

His hopelessness and how he ended up becoming a Timeranger is properly expanded in this episode. His reaction that he is basically has two or less than a year to live is something I expected but since that this is a kid's show, they need to water it down and we have Ayase picking up fights almost every day and if I look at it in a much deeper sense, it feels like he is really desperate to die just to end the burden he is carrying. But because of those beat ups he faced every day, this is when realized that he needs to live. I find it ironic at first since it kinda looked like he wants to die as fast as possible but only to end up realizing the value of life.

This irony made much more sense after Ayase explained the reason why he always put himself to danger, he wants to protect others since he himself is on the verge of death and he wants to protect them from it. Tatsuya's response on Ayase's suffering is something I didn't expect to see. To review, he is the one who told Ayase that we can change the future but as it turns out, he just said it on impulse. His realization on how fragile human life is made the man realize that saying such fairy words to a guy who will die anytime soon is something stupid. Even if that is the case, Ayase stay firmed on what Tatsuya said and believes that someday they can change the future as Timerangers; I this exchange between the two of them.

Speaking of life and death, thankfully, Yuri asked Sion to pay Tatsuya's phone bill and Sion is able to save the two from the Cold Storage facility and fixed the Chrono Changers. With their Chrono Changers fixed, it's time to fight Ogur and as expected, they were able to put him to cyrostasis but what I didn't expect is that the giant battle last for less than 2 minutes, something that rarely happens in a Super Sentai series. Guess the drama with Ayase's disease took most of the focus in this episode and I am fine with it. At the end, Yuri asked Tatsuya to pay his phone bill that Sion paid and starts begging his teammates to help him pay the bill. Poor Tatsuya, guess he needs to work harder from now on then!