Thursday, 31 January 2013

Tensou Sentai Goseiger 08 – Power Trouble

EPIC on the Fail. I know, bad movie reference.

Because of Fantafo of the Folly's ability to alter someone's neurons, Alata can't properly use his Invocations, causing him to be stuck in his transformed state for quite some time! Can Alata get out of this mess?


For starters, I just love Fantafo for being that MOTW that his superiors didn't like initially, that is until he starts doing his job of changing the neuron transfer in humans or changing the ways how a machine works, causing traffic accidents and the like. But the best thing this guy did is that Alata can't revert back to normal and that every time he tries using an Invocation, he always ends up casting a different Invocation, which leads to disaster!

Speaking of disaster, it's fun watching Nozomu think of a future wherein Alata can't revert back to normal, causing him to do things that normal people do in a regular basis while in suit! What made it fun is that Nozomu thinks of absurd situations such as going to a barber or do grocery shopping. The way these scenes are presented and the fact that Nozomu never thought if Alata can still eat while his helmet is what makes this scene really fun to watch. Seriously, how can Alata eat while wearing a helmet?


More of this disasters, when Agri suggested that he should use all of his Guardian Power to drain his energy by using his Invocations, it always end up with Alata casting a different Invocation at the end. From almost transforming back to normal and to casting Comprethunder in Nozomu's house that hit his father, it's loads of fun just thinking of the possibilities on what will happen if he inserts this x card in his Tensouder in x amount of times!

The next day, I am still surprised that Alata is still quite energetic even though it is obvious that he hasn't eaten anything thanks to his current situation. What's more is that his situation is getting a lot more worse as his reverts back to normal without doing anything and then all of a sudden, he wears his suit! After Nozomu's dad left, Fantafo attacks the city. But because they don't know how they can bring Alata back to normal, they decided to admit defeat. Wait, what?! If I will base Hyde's face, it seems that he has a plan on how they can beat Fantafo. The plan is basically praising Fantafo till he has the guts to reveal his weakness. Much to my surprise, the plan worked. It also confirms how gullible this creature is.


After the other four Goseigers transform, it is time to fight the MOTW when all of a sudden, Alata reverts back to normal. This is getting more difficult for our heroes now that Alata's problem continues to go worse. Even without Alata, the Goseigers tried to manage to win the fight that is until Bladerun appeared and without breaking a sweat, he defeated the Goseigers with ease. What's more, Alata can't do a thing about it as his cards are now grayscale and that the problem in regards to his Invocations is getting worse!

But that didn't stop Alata, after listening to the words coming from his friends, Alata showed pure determination just to fight the MOTW. After Bladerun enlarged the MOTW, it is time for them to summon GoseiGreat but because Alata's powers are still a bit wonky, he cannot summon the Dragon Headder, which now leads us to the weirdest scenes in this series. I was caught off guard when Alata decides to pick up some oil pastels a kid dropped during the MOTW's attack in the city. With it, he draws the Dragon Headder... which kinda looks like a horse to me.


Alata uses this card and all of a sudden, this lead to the creation of the Exotic Brothers! The Headders are basically colored repaints of the Gosei Dragon and I can deal with it because they were able to destroy the MOTW's antennae! Now that everything is done, it is time for the giant battle. Exotic GoseiGreat looks cool and I am happy that instead of using different faces in the chest, they decided to stick it with different suit recolors of Gosei Dragon. As for the fight itself, it is really quick, which reminded me of the 80's and early 90's giant fights.

At the end, because of what happened, Alata is on a groove to paint more even though he is seriously bad at it! As for the Exotic Brothers, those creatures are basically one-shot mecha because Alata's new drawing didn't summon a new group of Exotic Headders! As for Alata's drawing skills, it is so bad that I find it really funny that he is taking this too seriously! Did I mention that the show has a new opening featuring the GoseiMic?