Akibaranger Season 2 Episode 1 "Delusion War" Discussion!
 

Your favorite delusional heroes (and villains) have returned. Hikounin Sentai Akibaranger Season 2, starts now!

BTW the raw is up on youtube :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=TybF7b7LVfc

Crud, just got home and was about to post :lol. Next time Gadget...NEXT TIME!!!

My buddy loves Akibaranger, he's gonna be so happy to watch season 2 :lol

This... This lived up to the hype and then some. It has me asking the same question I was asking myself towards the end of Season 1, "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"

That robot fight was possibly the best thing that could have happened, and that Doctor Maki at the end was completely unexpected but all around fantastic.

From what I gather Akibaranger is now an official Sentai, but its taken the place of other Sentai shows and only the Cafe crew are aware of previous events?

Buddy? Are you talking about me? Cause I'm losing my mind with joy right now.

I have another buddy besides you who's mind is lost when it comes to Akibaranger :lol.

I laughed my ass off during the entire episode, and at least we see what happened to Mitsuki, even if it was a Hatte Saburo re-write.

This is awesome!
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I can finally see you again Hakase-san~!

Screw you guys and your bandwith! Epic credit screencaps!!!!

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Is this subbed yet? I only found raw.

The raw's only been available for like 12 hours :lol

It probably won't be subbed til late tonight at the earliest.

:lol "Blarg, I am dead."

Great episode, even if it was mostly a recap. But a very funny recap, nonetheless. Now I'm tempted to buy all three Akibaranger Figuarts as well as the Itasha Robo.

i love guy 's boss walking in super sentai cafe in ep 1

I loved this episode! Great rewritten recap. I love all the squigly lines Saburo left around all the edited footage where they replaced Nobuo with Mitsuki :lol

And the mecha battle that used the toy Itasha Robo was brilliant! I missed this show more than I could express so I'm incredibly happy that it's back.

So . . . how long before we get a Tamashii Web Exclusive Add-on Parts set for Itassha Robo?

flying orange soda can missile and beam weapon effects included

Give them time. :lol

The soda can was awesome. I love the crazy ways that Saburo has rewritten season 1. That Itasha battle using toys blew my mind.

That is beautiful.

I can't wait till this is subbed, but I'll have to, since I'm still re-watching Season 1.

I finished rewatching the first season Friday just in time to catch this raw. Some of it's a bit hard to follow without subs but the episode overall was fantastic.

Missed my chance for preordering BD vol.4 limited edition at amiami. :(

watched a bit of the raw on youtube but I'm going to wait for the overtime sub. Got to understand what's being said to understand it properly after all.

I just watched the raw. Absolutely brilliant. I think I'm going to enjoy season 2. A lot.

Episode 1: 妄想大戦 (Delusion War)
Episode 2: 妄想中華 (Delusion Chinese)
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Episode 3: 妄想拳劇 (Delusion Fist Play)
Episode 4: 妄想女神 (Delusion Goddess）

http://www.bs-asahi.co.jp/akibaranger2_bsa/

Please tell me somebody has a link to the episode subbed? I must watch it!

No subs for it yet. No group has finished it yet :(

That sucks :(

Gosei Sentai Dairanger is now Kagaku Sentai Dairanger in episode 2.

Subs are now out courtesy of Overtime! :D

Link please :)

I watched and loved all of Season 1, but I thought this first episode of Season 2 was awful. It was boring and kind of confusing.

They started out re-telling the story, literally, which I don't think was necessary or the most interesting way to catch people up on Season 1. Then they started to change the history we know randomly and with no explanation. This wasn't interesting - just confusing. I kept trying to figure out what really happened and how the Season 2 retelling was different and where and how different events would fit in or replace the original events.

To add to the confusion, Dairanger has been replaced with Akibaranger? Is this a delusion? Parallel universe? I thought Akibaranger was set in the real world, but in the real world, Dairanger is the 17th Sentai team. What's the significance? It's more bizarre than it is a compelling mystery.

The beginning theme song isn't as fun or energetic as the original, and the end song is boring - though not much worse than the original. I also really miss Sayaka. All of Nobuo's moments with her in Season 1 were some of the funniest in the show.

Overall, this was a really lackluster way to start Season 2. There was no conflict, the pacing and editing was unpleasantly hectic, it wasn't funny, and it was really low energy. It just didn't feel right.

I hope things improve with Episode 2. Episode 1 just seemed really cheap and sloppy.

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I think that was the joke or point.

I think you may have missed the point of this season. Hate Saburo was manipulating them through out the first season into becoming an official sentai. They refused this and rebelled against their creator, and were then "cancelled". Now, Saburo has doctored the history of season one such that the characters don't realize anything is different. The change in story IS necessary because that's the point of Season 2.

Their world has been altered so that he never tried to make them official, at least not in the same way. They had a finale and beat the bad guys, but they don't know that in doing so Saburo manipulated them into being official and replacing Dairanger. All of the "poor" & "choppy" editing in those altered scenes is intentional so that we as viewers can see how badly Saburo has rewritten the show.

If it seems poorly put together it's intentional. They want us to see how he's screwed with them.

I get what they're trying to do, I just don't like how they went about it in the first episode. Maybe it's that it feels like a cop-out clip episode when I feel it should have started with a bang, or maybe it's the lack of self-awareness that I don't like.

Usually when weird things happen, it was Nobuo who would explain what's happening and why. He would see all of the twists and turns, but now, it seems like he's no longer acknowledging these things. It just doesn't feel as fun.

Plus, why pick on Dairanger? And how can Saburo totally rewrite Sentai history? Why would we, the viewers, buy that plot? Why not just have Saburo make the Akibarangers the current, official Sentai team?

I lost it when I saw Dr Maki with his little bug-man doll.

Saburo didn't rewrite Sentai history. The world is a TV show, it's just that no one knows it. He rewrote Sentai history of the world the show takes place in. I'll admit, it's hard to wrap you head around.

Anyway, this was a competent start. The rewrites were fine. The scene with the toy Machine Itasha fighting Drill Cyclops was amazing. I love how they made it important to not hit him with the "dere" sword.

I'm curious and confused how Akiba is 17th. Did it replace Dairanger alone and just continue on with Kakuranger? Did the series in its entirety get pushed forward 20-something years so that the 17th series is the current one? I think it could go either way. It would be strange to have so much merchandise in that store for a 20 year old show. But it would be even stranger if they had Tora Origami, who may very well not exist, in the store. Guess we'll find out.

That was hilarious. It was hilarious thinking it was going to be just another clip show and then get thrown a curveball like that :lol When Deluknight showed up I was just like "wait a minute...."

The stuff featuring Jetman, Dekaranger and Boukenger was gold. Especially the figuarts at the start. God I've missed this show.

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Not going to lie, I walked away pretty disappointed with this one. The first half especially just wasn't nearly as clever as Season 1. Typically, I'd be laughing constantly throughout an episode. Here, they only had like 3 moments that I found at all funny. The battles with toys and giant crossover battle were great, but something felt missing. I don't know, maybe they've run out of clever ways to lampoon sentai or maybe the writers just don't have as clever a material anymore. I hope that's not the case, but first episode has me really worried.

Best part of the episode for me? There's a moment and character at the end that seem to be a Kamen Rider reference. That's the moment that had me laughing the most.

I just watched it and I totally had no idea what exactly was going on. But now that I read through some comments and Den-O's explanation, it makes a little more sense now. Haha. I kind want to get Akiba-Red now but not the new one cause like others I don't exactly like the new "armor". Can't wait to see more!

I must be a special case here because I watched this raw and still got most of what was happening....

Just caught the sub too and here's my thoughts with the episode in full context. The Figuarts "battle" at the start was awesome and a great way to showoff upcoming figures. It's fun to see Hakase try and cover her tracks since in this new timeline they don't know she's Aoi-tan's seiyu. And since this clip establishes that they aren't aware of themselves being TV characters, that means that the episode 13 clip show never happened and Nobuo never found out the 'real life' Dekared was a paid dude in a suit :lol

Dekagold KozKoz cosplay makes me so, SO, happy. "I am no mere pervert!" - Deluknight :lol The dubbed over speech of the english actor and the intentionally "poorly" spliced footage was brilliant. A great way to work in and then later out, Mitsuki's actress and use some of the plot from season 1. A prime example of how Saburo has altered their reality by re-writing the events of their show.

Mistuki being recruited by the Pentagon is another "poorly" edited scene. Saburo spliced footage of an older Mitsuki into the scene and rewrote the dialogue so that she was the one chosen, not Nobuo. This completely ensured that the Akibarangers would not discover they were a show. That kind of rewrite didn't register with Nobuo as a Sentai Flag. It registered with him in season 1 because he was the Red being replaced, but a blue being scouted out of the team didn't alarm him. Saburo made it easy to overlook.

LOVED the official sentai appearances. But I was disappointed that they didn't use the actual actors voices for at least some of the Dekarangers and Boukengers. I know some of them are still friendly with Toei after their appearances in Gokaiger and so on. I can't confirm this but would some of those voices happen to be the suit actors playing the parts? I know that Blue Swallow and Bouken Pink are supposed to appear in the show. The actual actresses. So using different voices in episode 1 seems very odd :eyebrow

DAT. TOY. ITASHA. ROBO. BATTLE. Loved every damn second of it. Again, Saburo making use of a "limited budget" to re-write and re-film scenes for Season 2. Just amazing, and hilarious to see how cheap he can really be. And the soda can, dear god they brought soda can back even. And Maki's actor with Bae on his arm. Freaking awesome. Gosei Sentai Akibaranger had a pretty damn good first episode in my opinion :lol

And the ending theme is just damn brilliant.

Awesome awesome episode. It was funny, but why did they have to take over DaiRanger's spot? That is not cool Toei!!! :D Of course, it is getting me DaiRanger Figuarts, so maybe it is worth it.

Oh yeah, and light years far better than the first episode to Garo.