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Fish Sandwich
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Episode 5 – Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan
You have no idea how hard I had to resist the urge to call the show "Sausage Fest Sentai Sun Vulcan" up there. Like, if you want my prior knowledge and opinions of this show, it's all in that dumb nickname I came up with years ago and have never had a chance to use until now. The thought of a Sentai that's basically the All-Dudes Squad has always been
so weird
to me, especially as someone raised on Power Rangers, which has a history of going out of its way to add even more women than Sentai sometimes has. (This is something I was very happy to see them remember for Dino Fury, by the way.) It's like all I can think about whenever I see Sun Vulcan. I look at these guys and picture them hanging out in their secret tree house base, which no doubt has a sign hanging on it that reads "1+2 = NO GIRLS ALLOWED".
And you know, in retrospect, that may have been ironically narrow-minded of me, because taking this chance to actually engage with Sun Vulcan a bit more, I very quickly started realizing how much cool stuff is here that I wasn't paying any attention to. Honestly, this is probably my favorite premiere since Goranger?
This show has got
style
for days, first of all. The raw production values
felt
way higher than anything else so far for reasons I can't quite put my finger on easily, and in terms of the motifs, it's got one of my favorite general setups ever. Shockingly enough, it took this long for us to get an animal-themed Sentai show, and I
adore
animal-themed toku heroes. That's a concept that I find lends itself perfectly to the very exaggerated, theatrical nature of tokusatsu, and watching Vul Eagle, Shark, and Panther all jump around posing their arms and whatnot to recall the beasts they're named after is plain cool and exciting. Each of them has a clear and distinct feel to their movements that springs so naturally out of that simple choice. I can't stress this enough – the animal kingdom is *the* ideal place to turn for strong character iconography, and Sun Vulcan gets major props from me for being the first Sentai to realize that.
I don't think I ever knew
why
the show went with the whole sun theme prior to this (even despite the insanely catchy opening song spelling it out for me), but now it's obvious that it was chosen as the symbol of life on Earth, and that of course means the designated bad guys for this season are the
machine
empire Black Magma, a dichotomy that literally can not be more perfect and easy to understand. I'm very impressed by all the theming here, if you can't tell. It's super considered and punchy in a way I feel surpasses the previous shows. And then even simply on a design level, we've got a
combining
giant robot now, and suits that ditch the somewhat unflattering horizontal stripes for sharp and stylish V-shapes, which are infinitely cooler. I might even go so far as to say you could pass them off as a modern team with barely any updates needed, even? The main villain's design is none too shabby, as well.
And on top of all of this, the premiere episode itself is another really strong one, taking Denziman's frantic pace, but applying it to the original Goranger special operative formula, because it turns out spies are still pretty cool after all! It's more of a straightforward military bent this time, and I think they once again really capture that romanticized ideal of a cool organization. We're back to highly trained protagonists using trinkets to activate covert secret base entrances, the crux of the plot revolves around the villains performing espionage, and, hey, we've even got a yellow who likes curry again. It's almost like a greatest hits album of Sentai to this point in some ways, with stuff like a fun montage of the protagonists introduced fending off assassins sent after them, like a more macho power fantasy version of the Gorangers' intro, but combined with things from Denziman like another talking dog, and, crucially for me, another giant robot fight right in the premiere. You can never go wrong with giant robot fights!
So yeah, Sun Vulcan is a show I went into here with no particular expectations, and unlike with Denziman, I honestly am pretty pumped up about it now. With that one glaring exception mentioned upfront, everything here
really
gelled with me, and I can easily see myself enjoying the rest of this show whenever I get around to it.
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