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01-30-2014, 01:33 PM | #11 |
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Yeah I actually find Houka's meddling to be her best quality. And I love her goofy transformations
If nothing else it was good to have spotlight on Wolzard this week.
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01-30-2014, 02:28 PM | #12 |
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Episode 4
That was an odd start to an episode. I mean I get that it's a precious memory of Ka-san, but still, little dramatic over an accident. I love how they keep learning about the monsters of the week by gossiping housewives at the market. That just tickles me pink So the mirror only reports cases related to Infershia? Okay that makes sense. But how would it know when a case is directly linked to Infershia? People could just do that magic spell/prayer for protecting or to mess about with magic. So how does it know when it's not just a regular crime? And how does wearing a robe increase their magical powers? It is weird though that out of nowhere we're told that Urara is the fortune teller. No build up or previous mention of it. Just "Oh yeah your special power is fortune telling." I hope not everything like this is so fast paced/rushed. Hey look it's the inhabitants of Miranoi! Don't worry about Urara Kai. I'm sure Andros, Karone, or Pikachu would be happy to cry on her for you. Am I the only one who finds it weird the way Urara was frozen? Arms outstretched and all. Little martyrish don't you think? Ahhhhhhhh yeah! Magi King is in the hizz house! Though I still don't get the chess themed cockpit. All in all another good episode. We got to Magi King who is one of my favorite mecha designs...and that was honestly about it for me as far as cool parts go. The rest was kinda meh.
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01-30-2014, 04:33 PM | #13 |
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01-30-2014, 04:49 PM | #14 |
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MAJIN FUSION
Ah yes the advent of MagiKing and Wolkaiser, two of the best mecha designs in Sentai. Episode 4 is one of the few times I can join in on the comparing Magiranger to Mystic Force since it's one of the few episodes I remember. From what I vaguely remember from MF, Magi did the episode better. One thing I like about Magiranger is the variety of villians. With Wolzard you get the noble evil badass and with Branken you get the villian that can only come out for really serious moments or the show would end. But yeah, MagiKing and Wolkaiser are great. |
01-30-2014, 11:01 PM | #15 |
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Episode 5
Ah, the "o-baka-chan-tachi" episode. One of the most infamous TV-Nihon moments. I've been wondering when this would show up. Houka was pretty annoying this time and that bee costume was ridiculous. The mail box thing was legitimately hilarious, though. Houka, there are a gajillion first-person pronouns in Japanese. You don't have to talk in third person. I know why you're doing it and it isn't working. You're a grown-ass woman now act like it. Freud would have a field day with the scene where Houka turns into a cannon and shoots Kai. Kai is a lot taller than I thought when you see the five standing together at the end. I thought he was shorter than all of the others. Way to be a hearltess bitch, Yamazaki. Overall, I doubt this show will ever go down as a personal favorite, but I'm kind of starting to enjoy it. |
01-30-2014, 11:10 PM | #16 |
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Episode 5
Ah, the "o-baka-chan-tachi" episode. One of the most infamous TV-Nihon moments. I've been wondering when this would show up. Houka was pretty annoying this time and that bee costume was ridiculous. The mail box thing was legitimately hilarious, though. Houka, there are a gajillion first-person pronouns in Japanese. You don't have to talk in third person. I know why you're doing it and it isn't working. You're a grown-ass woman now act like it. Freud would have a field day with the scene where Houka turns into a cannon and shoots Kai. Kai is a lot taller than I thought when you see the five standing together at the end. I thought he was shorter than all of the others. Way to be a hearltess bitch, Yamazaki. Overall, I doubt this show will ever go down as a personal favorite, but I'm kind of starting to enjoy it. |
01-30-2014, 11:15 PM | #17 |
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02-01-2014, 01:11 AM | #18 |
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I generally have a pretty high tolerance for goofy Sentai shenanigans, but stage 5 was awful. Because of one thing: Houka. Now, I've found certain Sentai members excruciating before, but I've never actively hated one. I hate Houka. I think she is a terrible character. Like, totally well drawn, but awful. She is literally delusional. She has actual fantasy delusions, and she inflicts them upon her family, to devastating effect. She is a hurricane of delusional idiocy, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake. No amount of increasingly ridiculous (and hilarious) transformations can make up for how horrible she is. And what was with that fight where the monster turns into a car? Was that Stage 5 too? Regardless: Don't do that anymore! It shatters the giant-scale illusion when the monster is clearly a normal car driving on a dirt road surrounded by shrubs. Terrible. If it weren't for LWW, I would have given up the series at Stage 5. Which would have been a shame because the next episode is pretty great. It's all about Wolzard, and whenever this show is about Wolzard, it's immediately compelling. It's pretty obvious where they're leading with him and the kids, but it's fun to watch it play out. And not to mention... watching his gattai form battle Magiking is magnificent. Magiranger, you're all over the place. Get it together. You've proven you can be good, now just be good more often. |
02-01-2014, 01:46 AM | #19 |
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I'm glad that the team is addressing that their mom is dead and is still important to them after the fact.That was my main issue with a show like Go-Busters,where similarly the team is driven by their "dead" parents,but has to forcibly remind itself every 10 episodes.
The show doesn't need to have a "remember our mom died?" line every episode,but it's nice when they show how important the people or person who brought them together as a team was. |
02-01-2014, 10:01 AM | #20 |
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