Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman 04 – Everybody is Getting Drunk!

Never mess with my first Sentai waifu!

In this episode, Zone's next plot to destroy planet Earth is to get everyone drunk? What?! Anyway, because of the effects of Zone's really silly plot, Remi got drunk but will she let drunkenness be her weakness?

The title of the episode is speaks for itself, it is about Zone making everyone drunk to destroy it. From kids, adults, students, and much to my surprise, dogs! To make it a bit crazier, this episode also featured drunken cars! Yup, this episode is indeed crazy. As for Remi, lucky enough, she is near to the dam where she is training for her kung-fu. This leads us to her fight with Zaza, one of the sub commanders of Zone.

Her fight with Zaza is fun to watch, the out of suit action is great and that's it. What's important about this scene is that she falls on the dam, causing her to get drunk. Now that she is drunk, her siblings are worried if she can still fight in that condition. Much to my surprise, we saw her stand up and figured out a way to fight Zone in this episode.

Applying what she learned from her training and Arthur telling her that she is drunk, we saw her perform a Drunken Fist Kung-Fu style! This my friends is one of the reasons why Remi is my favorite Yellow and one of my childhood Super Sentai crushes until now. It's fun watching a cute kung fu girl do Drunken Fist Kung-Fu! Her fight with the MOTW is seriously fun to watch; the out of suit action is really great and is probably, the strongest points of this series thus far.

After her siblings saw her fight, they got more inspired to finish the MOTW. For quite some time now, aside from the small commercial bumper logo on the right side of the show, I can't help but notice that this is the first Super Sentai series that featured a real time transformation scene, something that Go-Busters tried to revive 22 years later. This made me realize that Fiveman tried to be unique back then, I am not sure why people find the show bad but I guess I will find it out in later episodes.

After defeating the MOTW, it is time for the giant battle. The giant battle in this episode is probably, the most rad and the most unique giant battle I ever saw in my entire life. I mean seriously, aside from letting a drunk woman pilot the Five Robo, the robot is fighting in Drunken Fist Style! I heard about robots doing kung-fu but this is the first time I saw a robot doing Drunken Fist Kung-Fu! It's hard to describe my thoughts about this so it is best for you to watch it. The new finisher involving splitting the sword into two is quite cool and I didn't expect them to this finisher involving Drunken Fist Kung-Fu.

At the end, Arthur formulated an antidote that fixed everyone and that Remi doesn't want to have another drink of liquor just for that day! Well that's expected because she is drinking liquor for the entire day! So yeah, she prefers drinking water now and hopefully, Arthur fixed the issue with the dam so that she will not end up drinking liquor!

Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger Season 2 Promo

Remember the Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger Season 2 promo that was posted on the Japanese official website? Someone finally ripped it and you can watch the video below!


Akihabara's unofficial Super Sentai team is back with a new member replacing the original Blue! But that's not all, our heroes will have some upgrades as they will face new enemies and Malsheena finally transforming?

Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger Season 2 will premiere this April 5th at BS Asahi and on April 8th on TOKYO MX and Kansai's Sun TV.

Rin Takanashi to Star in "Houkago Groove" Drama!

Rin Takanashi (Samurai Sentai Shinkenger) is going to star in an upcoming TBS late-night drama called "Houkago Grove", making this her first time to star in a TV drama.

In the series, Takanashi will play a P.E. teacher with no dancing skills. Moreover, she was once a delinquent or a yankee during her student days and left school during senior high school. But because of her persistence and fighting spirit, she somehow managed to become a teacher. She believes that you should always see something through once you got a taste of it.

Takanashi commented about her role, "When I heard about the story, I immediately wanted to get this role. A sports-minded former delinquent is a fresh character and a nice challenge. I’m already all excited about this."

Director Ken Iizuka (Arakawa Under the Bridge) is bound to give this drama a peculiar charm similar to his previous works and Takanashi is looking forward to work with him. She said, "I'll work hard so that the viewers can enjoy all those surreal interactions between the characters."

Houkago Grove will air on TBS every Monday shortly after midnight starting on April 22nd.

Source: tokyohive

Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger S2 Promo Images

The official promo of Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger Season 2 was recently posted on the show's official website. Sadly, the promo is only available in Japan so for now, have some images coming from the said promo.


The new promo featured the new Akibaranger suits, AkibaRed having a new weapon, new foot soldiers and much to my surprise, Malsheena finally transforming!

Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger Season 2 will premiere this April 5th at BS Asahi and on April 8th on TOKYO MX and Kansai's Sun TV.

Images courtesy of DecaEnd of HJU.

DX Gabutyra Toy Hacked Revealing All Super Sentai Team Names

YouTube's cranejoe uploaded a video of him hacking the DX Gabutyra from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. Because of this, it revealed the names of all Super Sentai teams!


It is not sure how will these sound effects be incorporated in the show, but if Bandai and Toei's recent toy marketing is an indication, it is likely related to the arcade games.

Special thanks to Henshin Justice for the link to the video.

Voice Actor Shuuichi Ikeda Joins Madhouse's Hunter x Hunter Anime Cast!

It was recently reported that Shuuichi Ikeda (Mobile Suit Gundam's Char Aznable) will voice Kite in the upcoming anime adaptation of Hunter x Hunter's Chimera Ant arc!

Kite is the disciple of Ging Freecss, the father of the show's main character Gon Freecss. Kite is the one who influenced Gon to become a hunter in the first place. In the original Nippon Animation adaptation of the anime, Kite was voiced by Yuuji Kishi (Street Fighter's Ken Masters, Carranger's Red Racer) who appeared in the show's first episode.

Some meta stuff about the casting, Megumi Han is the daughter of Keiko Han, the actress who played Char's love interest Lalah Sune. To put it simply, the new Hunter x Hunter anime will feature Char and Lalah's daughter! Outside the series, Ikeda acted like a father to Megumi as he is the one who gives her advice when it comes to voice acting, and is happy that he will be playing a father figure character to her character.

The anime adaptation of Hunter x Hunter's Chimera Ant arc will premiere on April 21.

Source: Anime News Network, Crunchyroll News

Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman 03 – Gaku and his Student

Badass teacher.

One of Gaku's students doesn't want to study in his new school and keeps on bothering his old teacher. Meanwhile, Zone will put to their advantage the fact that the Fivemen love their students so much with the help of Billion's partner, Toraru Gin.

This episode is basically a Gaku and Billion focused episode. It's a Gaku episode in a sense that we see him more as a teacher and how much he cares for his students. It's a Billion episode in a sense that we learned what makes this guy tick, what is running in his mind and most especially, how he thinks of himself. Let's go first with the Gaku parts in this episode. I already expected that he will not lay a finger on his student as seen in this episode; he just lets his student hit him until Toraru Gin leaves the student's body.

Before talking about what happened next, one thing that I would like to note is the amazing use of wires to give us an impression that he has skills beyond of those of a human being. The make-up that we saw occasionally on the kid also gives us an impression that he is possessed by a monster. Now that Gaku knows their plan and that the student is safe for now, it is time to fight Billion and his men. The fight scenes in this one is fantastic and that we saw some great bike action courtesy of the siblings who used some of its weapons. But at the end, Billion continues to use the Fivemen's love for the kids and kidnaps the boy.

This is when we saw Gaku's dedication as a teacher. Even though he is not anymore the kid's teacher, he still continues to care for him. He remembers the day he is being annoyed by him because that's what makes the kid special and will do everything to save him, even if it will cause his freedom. The flashback scene and Gaku's declaration made me say to myself that this show has some badass teachers. Hopefully, we will see more of these badass teacher moments in this series. We all admire teachers as kids and seeing them as a superhero is really something for a kid, and that's what Gaku will do in this episode.

After getting possessed by Toraru Gin when he is trying to save the kid from his possession, we saw Billion's true colors. He is a man who will do anything for the sake of his own ambition. That ambition is to conquer Earth with his own power even if he needs to sacrifice someone that considers him as a friend. To be honest, this trait of his is something I saw in a lot of villains; I don't see anything special in it. Hopefully, they can expand more on the villains since I still find them too generic right now.

Because his supposed friend betrayed him, Toraru Gin declares that he will fight on his own, causing him to possess Billion's body in one amazing motorcycle fight scene. No seriously, the motorcycle action in this episode is fantastic and that includes the fight on Billion's motorcycle. After some brief moment in Billion's body, the Fivemen were able to drive him out of it and finally, defeated it. For some reason, it felt like the episode should end in that part but nope, Billion decides to help his former comrade by enlarging him.

Arthur sends the Five Trailer; the first thing I observe in this thing is the parts of the Five Robo neatly aligned to form a truck. It's kinda cool the way they stored the mecha in this manner. The Five Trailer is kinda like a carrier mecha that is not a carrier mecha in that sense. After the amazing formation sequence, we see something quite neat, the machinery inside Five Robo's metallic skin. It's kinda neat to see that sort of thing in Super Sentai mecha.

Now for the giant fight, it's interesting but what made it really interesting is that they showed us the features of the Five Robo and that includes the cannons on its arm before doing the finisher. At the end, everything is back to normal and that we saw Gaku and his student bond a little more before closing the episode in a really fun note. To sum up my thoughts, we learned that teachers can be badasses if it has something to do with their student. What's interesting is that Gaku barely transformed in this episode, to put it simply, we saw Gaku more as the teacher and not as the superhero. I like this kind of thing and hopefully, they will do it in episodes focusing on kids in the near future.