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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

Dekagold KozKoz cosplay makes me so, SO, happy. "I am no mere pervert!" - Deluknight 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

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

And the ending theme is just damn brilliant.