[Blade Raider]

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Originally Posted by PkmnMstr

I totally did not even catch a lot of those things. You just made me like Wizard a lot more.

I'm not all gaga like everyone else about the belt. It's nice and sleek, but I'm not sure it's as great as everyone thinks it is, but to each their own. I wish Hurricane form's face design was less triangular.

I actually consider the belt sounds (well, the singing) to be the worst thing in the show so far, but it's just a minor annoyance more than anything.

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I do like the whole flashy jewel bit. Fire = Ruby, Water = Sapphire, Land = Topaz(or w/e the yellow one is called) and Hurricane = Emerald. I wonder if that goes any deeper.

Nothing all that deep that I can see. The jewels are the same as his rings and magic rings are a common tool of wizards. That's about it. I do think Toei is taking note of pop culture again though. It can't be a coincidence that a pirate themed Sentai started the same year as the 4th POTC film (a very successful franchises regadless of what people think of the movies) and I doubt it's a coincidence that Wizard uses magic rings the same year that the first Hobbit movie comes out (Plus the Mandarin is in Iron Man 3).

On a side note, even though there's a lot of greek myth themes here, magical rings are uncommon in greek myth. Wizard may end up being a mesh up of European magic themes, but it's to early to tell.