Ryou was seriously giving off crazy stalker kidnapper vibes in that episode. Jin was trapped in some sort of crazy torture, being babied by his worse enemy sweet talking him.

still a better love story than Twilight.

Waki Waki! :D

That was something I noticed too, except I compared them more to Nike. :p

Glorious~

Yeah... I still don't get the Jan-ism, ZowaZowa was noise (but always related to danger) according to the episode, but the other weren't translated or I missed them, it was very late. :lol

Martial Arts Sentai, powered by Nike. :lol

Yeah, I don't know how I'm going to handle 3 Sentais, 2 Ultra shows and 1 Rider, and that's just Toku wise. :P

I'll figure it out, but I definitely need more Geki.

They're not translated, you just have to pay attention to Ran and Retsu's explanation.
Waki Waki is basically happy excited blah blah stuff.

I'll keep that in mind.

I think NikiNiki has pretty much the same meaning... He also had one for anxious, but that was explained in the episode where he said it.

Just pay attention to the context and you'll get them in no time. If Retsu or Ran are close, they'll often help explain it.

That's gougou! or should I say meramera? :p

http://25.media.tumblr.com/3c708dce4...7dq2o6_250.gif

Yeah, this is gonna be a fun ride. :)

Do you know we have a gif thread?
You'll probably enjoy it.

I guess I'd enjoy it too much for my own good, haha xD

Meanwhile, I watched the Hikari Senshi subs, which just translates them into things like "baddy-bad" or "happy-happy."

But yeah, enjoy the Jan-speak now while it's cute and before it starts Shabadoobie-ing major dramatic scenes.

I had no idea another group had done Geki, I'll go with the one in youtube. :p

Dairanger 40.

Honestly I was actually kinda excited for another Three Stooges episode as their last one proved to be so fun, but in reality this was probably the most boring episode of Dairanger all together, feeling more like a parody of the characters than a real episode, as it went through the motions and ticked the boxes.

Although what is it with this show and fraternising with the enemy? Considering that the Stooges are both A) evil and B) have been killed like twice with the mecha, Shouji's melodramatic cries were really stupid. I mean they were stupid anyway but this was REALLY stupid.

lol :thumb:

Dairanger 41.

Another completely unsatisfying conclusive episode. Kujaku selflessly accepts death, as her life would mean death for humanity but right before she dies...she saves the girl she brutally blinded, giving her the opportunity to wreak havoc on the planet in her absence. And I love how this has become almost thematic in its repetition, as our heroes continue to save and side with irredeemable evil.

Only in sentai would you go searching for someone in a rock quarry.

Dairanger 42.

So this whole time Akomaru hid Kou's Mum in a temple right behind a public park? I don't know what is more stupid, hiding her there in the first place or the fact that no one has found her yet. Especially as it's implied Lin has cycled past it, quite a few times.

I will say I liked that so much shit was going down, but none of that shit looked very good, as the majority of that shit was mech stuff. A public park became a baron forest, with mountains, as did the abandoned leisure centre and Ryou thought it was fine to go all out in the Dragon Star Lord, right in the middle of this baron public park with mountains which surely would have countless innocent people in it, not to mention his whole team and Kou's Mum.

The Dragon God though transcends the awful scaled sets in just how much carnage and awesome he causes simply by existing. Just a shame he was barely in the episode.

So I decided to watch the first episode of Liveman, since I'm getting close to finishing Dairanger.

Man the quality of these rips are bad, but at least it's GUIS and not TVN.

I'm not surprised they had to set this on Tracy Island. Where else would they set something this multicultural, in xenophobic Japan? Hahaha. Still, the fact that the core heroes and villains are all Japanese ruined this a bit. All in all, it feels like a prototype Jetman and holds up pretty well.

The best action scene in the whole episode is when Megumi rides away from the attacking spaceships on a pushbike, somehow peddling faster than their lasers. Well either that, or any of the villains powers like Beautiful Beast or Elbow Gun. In seriousness the mecha was pretty cool, reminded me of Zoids.

Holy crap it's Jin and is that...Gara?! Jin and Gara look fucking stupid in this show, yes, even Gara looks worse than that weird BDSM costume she wears in Dairanger. Luckily Bias has a slightly better design, minus wearing women's boots. Not only that, but I swear they reused some of the footage from this for when the Dragon God goes on his rampage in Dairanger.

How are the Liveman rips bad? I'm pretty sure they are from the DVDs.

And yes, that is Jin and Gara and they are awesome in this show!

Also, the main leader is the guy who voices Arucard in Hellsing, Monte Cristo in Gankutsuou, and many many many other anime voices.

They just don't seem to have been very well encoded, they look kinda washed out (and I don't just mean in how they are filmed) and there is a lot of tearing and pixelation in places, maybe there are some DVD ver2's that aren't on KRDL.

Dairanger 43.

I love how they got all the set up out of the way last episode, so this episode could just go straight into the action. Being punctuated by Kou's Mum's overacting was fucking annoying though. But who cares, it's almost Christmas!

It must have been pretty weird for Kou's Mum to find he lives alone with a young woman who spends the majority of her time in really small shorts. Then again, the dirty hoe, she must have shagged Shadam quite a number of times and for quite some time to produce two children.

Why is everyone asking what the Dragon God is? Did they somehow forget when that thing was destroying the world?

I hate Kou's mom with a passion!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't think I'd live to see the day, when Dr Kain hated something from Dairanger.

The hround does seem a bit cold today...

I guess even he can't convince himself that an old bat screaming Kou in a pitch that can break glass is somehow a good thing.

Liveman 02.

This show is so Japanese. Our friends have been murdered, let's build some giant animal robots to take our revenge! We built them, but we had no idea they combined! How'd we install that feature without knowing? I don't know.

Although obviously it's a lot older, so it's a lot more dated, I do appreciate how ambitious Liveman is. It feels in many senses, much more ambitious than Dairanger and actually shows it up quite often, despite the shows age.

Live Robo looks pretty decent as well, it isn't quite as boxy as say...Jet Icarus, but then it isn't like the modern mecha either which are bloated out to breaking point, and made of cheap material that flaps around and looks totally shit.

A fembot called Colon? Come on, man.

Ah, Japanese media always has the stupidest logic that makes no sense and somehow is awesome for it.

I love Live Robo. It is the 1st Sentai Robo to be made of multicolored, singled pilot vehicles and that's awesome.

Japan loves those odd names for charcters: Enter, Birth, Datas...

I wish the world functioned on toku logic.

But come on man, the fembot called ass.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that was Great Five from Maskman.
Though, I'm not sure if one can call Great Five "multicolored"...

Um, the colon is not the ass.
It's either an organ located in the abdomen and often known as the Large Intestine that at one point is underneath the Stomach (AKA: vehemently NOT the ass) or it's this symbol ":", and if you make the second "o" an "ó," it becomes either a Panamanian port or a currency note in El Salvador and Costa Rica.

Though it's probably the ":".

Huh. I stand corrected.

And I would call Great Five "multicolored," since each vehicle that makes up the Sentai Robo is a different color: red jet, black drill, blue truck, yellow jet, pink/white/black/red helicopter.

Just caught up on my Kyoryuger. im up to ep 30 now and waiting for 31. very happy with the twists in recent episodes. Im also up to 1 for go-busters.

DaiRanger is my absolute favorite Toku series but that does not mean it is fully immune from poor moments. No series is 100% perfect no matter how much I love it. Kou's mother is one of those things. Her acting was bad and all she really did when she was on screen was scream his name as whiny as possible.

....o.o...I was just....making a joke...I...

I'm sorry.

Dairanger 44.

This was certainly one of the better wrap up episodes, but let's not kid ourselves, it still wasn't very good. Pretty much every great scene had Kou's mother in it, so she basically ruined every great scene with her annoying fucking voice, and terrible acting.

Still my favourite part of the episode was the Batman ending. Merry Christmas, your Mum is dead! Either that, or that or when the perverts who made this show don't care about continuity, and send Lin out into the freezing cold in a big winter jacket....and hot pants?!

Probably the biggest disappointment was the Dragon God, I mean I know why he is here, to have the plot point of Kaku disbanding the Dairanger's. But in terms of the here and now, the Dragon God basically did fuck all for two whole episodes, then left.

Kaku is a Gorma?! What a surprise!

Go-Busters 39: Kid let me tell you this: You are not Meteor. :lol
Another Ryuuji episode solid as always but maybe overdone at this point.

40: So many feels, Jin's data is incomplete. J won't give you enetron if you compliment him. :lol And the guys get one last hope to recover their parents it's sadly proved to be impractical.
Oh there was also Enter's new form. Feels like a wannabe Utopia...

Enter really wasn't a great main villain for the show, but then again, it sometimes seemed he was never planned to be the main villain at all.