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04-17-2021, 09:30 AM | #1 |
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The new warrior Stacey confronts the Zenkaigers and reveals his startling powers.
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04-18-2021, 08:54 AM | #2 |
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I think Flashman fans will love what they see in this episode. Who would have thought that they would be ROLLING VULCANING THE ENEMIES AND EVEN WAS DETAIL ORIENTED TO THE POINT WHERE THEY GOT THE YELLOW RANGER TO TARGET THE ENEMIES BEFORE FIRING.
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04-18-2021, 09:04 AM | #3 |
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Wow, four Gears used in this episode, including my favorite 80s and second favorite 90s Sentai! Kakuranger Gear does as the Sentai's name implies and hides the Rangers, a simple yet effective escape power. Flashman Gear gets to represent all the team cannons in Sentai history, complete with the Yellow Ranger being critical to making it work! I love that!
This is partially a Yellow focus as well, so it's fitting and unexpected that the regular version of the Gaoranger Gear shows up here to give Gaon and the other Kikainoid Rangers a wild boost. I haven't watched Goranger but I know their iconic finisher inspired the Vulcan Ball from Sun Vulcan. Considering the gears in Stacey's DNA when he morphs in to Stacaesar (that scene is like Emu from Kamen Rider EX-Aid mutating whenever he gets a new power-up) and how he identifies as half-human, my current theory is that he's actually Kaito's half-brother. Stacaesar's powers are so bad*ss and OP! While Basco could only summon copies of Rangers as long as he possessed their keys, Stacaesar can summon copies of whole teams of Rangers and the mecha from the splintered universes that power his Dark Gears! Even though he's about to get Ursa Sky Blued next episode, I don't think my excitement over him is going to wear out so quickly! Stacey's status as an ambiguously human villain is a smart way to challenge Gaon's ideals. Gaon joined the Zenkaigers to fight those evil Kikainoids under Tojitendo and protect the humans. But now there's a human on Tojitendo's side, which complicates things. It's the concept that good and evil can exist equally in both Kikainoids and also humans. Gaon's prejudice stops him from seeing that, although it was probably cowardly of Juran to attack Stacey out of suit, since that's what caused the civilians to become afraid of him in the first episode, when he showed aggression. Gaon's decision to let the human Rangers fight each other is a good way to get around this internal conflict for now, but I think this is going to be brought up again, since Gaon's philosophy of humans good Kikainoids bad isn't a sustainable one for a heroic character to maintain.
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04-18-2021, 11:02 AM | #4 |
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What also blew my mind was when the robots were being summoned their respective DX toy box was featured like it was a portal. THAT is some fan service right there.
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04-18-2021, 11:29 AM | #5 |
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that! It's crazy how meta this show is getting with all the references.
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04-18-2021, 02:51 PM | #6 |
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Seeing the mech being summoned literally straight from their original boxes had me dying. I love it!
I found it kind of cool that Flashman represented the team cannon, though it makes me curious to see if they could use other gears for different effects. This episode had so much going on, wow. We also got to see a ton of different gears in action. I figured if Hurricanger triggered the shadow dance, that Kakuranger would give them a vanishing technique. Goranger giving the Goranger Hurricane was also obvious. Kinda hoping the Gaoranger gear would've given them something a little more flashy, though. Stacey is kinda interesting. I can see glimpses of a sympathetic story in play, so maybe he might end up turning good. Who knows. Gaon is also easily digging that hole deeper as the worst character. Wonder if they'll manage to make him even somewhat likable by the end
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04-18-2021, 05:39 PM | #7 |
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And this being a Gaon-centric episode worked well with that choice cause the scope targeting was Yellow Flash/Sara's thing whenever they fired the rolling vulcan in Flashman. And yeah, as an example had this been a Secchan episode they probably would have used the Fiveman Gear and made Secchan a bazooka of sorts like how Arthur G6 was one in Fiveman.
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04-18-2021, 06:14 PM | #8 |
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Staceaser kind of reminds me of that parody sentai Akibaranger a bit with the top of the helmet.
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04-19-2021, 08:12 AM | #9 |
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Gonna be honest, Gaon is my least favorite of the Zenkaigers, this episode only furthering it for me.
It's no secret Gaon is biased with his preference with humans over kikainoids, but this episode was pretty intolerable to me, especially the beginning part. And I'm not thoroughly satisfied with how they resolve it, too, prolly cuz it has to share focus with Stacy and would probably sidelined later for not-Gokai Gold. Zyuran brings up a lot of points I agree with and I'm not sure it was satisfactory to me that it was 'resolved' with the old lady (forgot her name lol) saying "He trusts you, cuz he's Kikainoid too." and Kaito's "Oh, you really think them as your comrades then!" Gaon's whole bias thing gets sidelined to make it so it's about him protecting Stacy and failing to fight the Gorangers, when I think it should've been more about why he's such pain towards other Kikainoids. Well, I liked the episode anyway still. Just didn't like Gaon here. Maybe there's something I'm not getting, or maybe they'll touch up on this later, cuz EP 7 is still an early number, but it's just what I felt. |
04-19-2021, 12:40 PM | #10 |
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This is the second coming of Gokaiger in terms on how much anniversary stuff is in there.
I got to admit, I got a good chuckle of the mechas being summoned with their DX toy boxes in the background. Makes me think Rider's 50th Anniversary show will downplay the anniversary aspects to not overshadow this shows. |
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