Let's Watch Wednesdays Week 6 Mahou Sentai Magiranger 16-18 Discussion
 

Well, episodes 10-12 glitched, but I know the MF versions, and I wiki'd them, so I'm, for the first time, up to date. Small question though: when does MagiShine show up?

That was actually pretty awesome for Magiranger, I don't know what to say though. :lol

I told you guys it gets awesome at this point!

This week was awesome we see our 1st saint and hints about what happened in the past as well as a Hard clue to the identity of Wolzard, and seeing FireKaiser is always awesome

Yeah... but it still mangaed to be unexpected... somehow. :lol

The story was simple but engaging, the stakes were high, the battles pretty good, and since Kai is a really nice guy when it comes to outsiders, having the focus of the arc being Kai protecting Rin was actually pretty smart.

All in all it was pretty awesome.

I like the epic battle between Magired and Wolzard. After the battle, I think Wolzard let Magired use Barikion to escape. Because of this, Branken was
destroy and the Hades Gates closed! Wolzard would be label as a traitor because Wolzard helped out the Magi rangers. Still it was cool seeing FireKaiser!

Well Wolzard said once before that Barikion helped Magired the first time as a sign of respect. Repaying a favor too. So it could just be that Barikion still felt some degree of respect for Kai.

Watched episode 16. The plot's starting to get moving. I like what's happening.

But... Lunagel looks suuuuuuuuper lame. I was kind of hoping when she got her memories back, she'd turn out to be an amnesiac Infershia general. That would have been a hardcore twist -- especially with the crush they were setting up between her and Kai.

Instead, she's a Heavenly Saint. I guess that's cool too. Either way, she seems like a necessary serious counterpoint to the Magirangers' lightheartedness.

Episode 16 de gozarimasu superdesu
My extreme gratitude to whoever at TVN decided that they didn't have to transcribe Mandora Boy's verbal tic.

This was a good one. This episode felt much more serious and had relatively little bang-your-head-on-the-wall stupidity (at least when Houka wasn't speaking). It almost feels like a different show, but in a way that I like. I'm curious to see what comes next now that Lunagel and her ugly dress are here.

Random notes:

The music when Nai and the Human Mocking Bird visited Wolzard was awesome. Hope to hear it again.

The bit when the autistic girl was walking along the street in snapshots reminded me of the opening to one of my favorite Monty Python skits: the Cheese Shop.

"This is my magic crossbow!" "And this is my magic minigun!" :lol

I love how Kai learned an important life lesson from the autistic girl when she barely did anything in the entire episode. And then he still got shot in the tits.

Episodes 17 and 18 de gozarimasu desu-tachi

First time I've actually watched more than one of these at a time. The cliffhanger for 17 was just too good to stop on (even if Branken trying to squeeze out of the door looked goofy as all hell).

This was a good set of episodes. You know the show is doing something great when Makito can give a speech and we can get an extended Dead Mom bit and I'm still engaged with what's going on. I hope the show continues more in this vein, although I am not looking forward to the addition of another puppet character.

Who Smoky? You just wait. Smoky is far better than Jenji was in Mystic Force. Puppet though he may be he's a lot more fun to watch. 17-18 really gives us a solid arc and a conclusion of sorts, then 19 just opens up a whole new box of worms and fun.

Just so long as he's not like Mandora Boy.

I'd take fucking Shunpei over Mandora Boy.

I don't find Mandora Boy to be all that irritating surprisingly. Smoky however is awesome :D

Mandora is way more tolerable than one would honestly expect.

And he gets more tolerable as things progress. He's more or less a substitute for a book on Magitopia. Instead giving such knowledge a voice to speak with.

Honestly I like the guy, hasn't done anything to annoy me.

Episodes 17-18.

Alright. Things are moving along nicely. Still not in love with the show, but I'm more interested in what it has to offer than I have been in the past.

I had forgotten how good this little batch of episodes was. Well, not 18. That's one of my favorites, especially the showdown between MagiRed and Wolzard and then the final battle with Branken. Overall a good wrap up the first part of Magiranger.