[KaijuUltraFan]

Finished Season One of Akibaranger and am a couple episodes into Season Two.

I really like it and the reverence it has for the source material ('real' Sentai shows) comes through in every episode. It's a fun show and it has me excited to watch more original/official Sentai. So far the only real Sentai I've seen is Zyuranger, which I actually liked quite a bit more than I was expecting to. So I DL'd a few more seasons based on a friends/fans recommendation but I hadn't gotten around to seeing them, (in favor of watching more and more Kamen Rider.)

But some of the series I have are referred to in Akibaranger and I'm more interested in watching them sooner now.

Akibaranger has been a lot of fun though and I'm glad I watched it on a whim. Mostly I was thinking 13 episodes for a season would be pretty easy to get through, and it was. I just wasn't prepared to like it as much as I have. The fighting is good, the acting is funny, the stories and characters are good. It's definitely a Sentai show, just one that's rather tongue in cheek.

I like the weird 'Stranger Than Fiction' aspect to it. Is it a show? Is it real life? Is it real life that thinks it's a show? Is it a show that thinks it's real life?

The fact the characters are Otaku and big fans who watch the actual Sentai shows and refer to them is an interesting world within a world thing. It reminds me a lot of Ultraman Geed and how much he loved Tokusatsu as well.

I mean a show about a big Toku fan who gets to be a Red Sentai. How could I not want to watch that? I just wasn't expecting it to be as good and funny as it is.