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Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Sôzetsu! Shakunetsu no chô senshi Yugande (1998)
Coming to an end
Shiborena retrieves the data from the school computers the Megarangers had to leave behind and finds out their base is in the moon.
Yugande gets another upgrade and goes all in red to the moon base to destroy both the base and the rangers.
He can't find the Megarangers and tries to go back to Earth, but is stopped by mega Silver and the other INET members piloting the mechs. Delta Mega was easily destroyed and Yugande manages to return to Earth, still as a giant.
His power up fails when he was about to destroy another mech -Galaxy Mega - and gets weaker.
Shiborena attempt to give her life to save him but they were no match to Mega Red combos. And soon both died.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Zetsubô! Oretachi wa kiraware mono (1998)
Last episode
The school refuse to postpone the graduation and the city's population is being aggressive with the Megarangers.
Dr. Hineler transforms himself in an ultimate monster and his base Death Nerizos
into a mech, Grand Neziros.
Without no allie left, he's became the pilot.
Them he proceeds to tell his story. While using his own daughter in an experiment, it fails and she dies. He's been rejected and disapproved by the media, scientist and population, so Kubota's theory about the Mega suits was a replacement.
He's lured by Jabius into the Nezire Dimension to complete his research. He then wants to prove the superiority of his science, being selfish and ignoring humanity.
The graduation ceremony was finally canceled since the school was the battlefield and their schoolmates became supportive, even Shintaro, who never talks.
Mega Voyager is very weak and without a arm, but was able to retrieve Grand Neziros's sword to attack it and bring it to space before its auto destruction.
They finally managed to attend their graduation after mistakenly announced as dead by the principal.
The episode ends with them get their diplomas and having a warm reception of the school body.
Definitely a good ending for a sentai. I kinda feel sorry for the bad guys, they don'teven get any special treatment from the writers until 1/3 of the series. They were so unarticulated and get horrible deaths, totally unable to reconcile and get together into a single plan untill they ultimately fail, even been more powerful in many occasions.
If you are into Japanese Tokusatsu shows or somehow like this kind of weird series or school doramas, I recommend it. Megaranger is really funny (a lot better than it's antecedent) and pulls up great fight scenes.
Kôsoku sentai Tâborenjâ: Tanomu zo! Tâborenjâ (1989)
A different first episode of a super sentai.
This episode feels like an V-Cinema special. There's a sentai reunion and a brief presentation of their powers/origins and abilities. No mention about their whereabouts, any focus on specific characters neither participation of the original actors. They show up so you now they existed.
The low point of this must-be-exciting episode is that there's no fight at all. When all the super sentais team up to fight the bad guys from Turboranger, the 5 teenagers from the group stop them: "Hey, this is our fight, leave us now. Also, that's how this episode is gonna end".
Interesting enough, this is from a time when both Goranger & J.A.K.Q. were not exactly part of the sentai franchise. They were not SUPER enough, so they're out of this episode.
I'd recommend this episode, it's interesting enough as to know about the series and probably (haven't watch the others yet) the most interesting thing I'd recommend about Turboranger.
Early Edition: Blackout (1998)
Suspension of belief
Suspension of belief: you sure heard about it before, but it's been hard for me. It's been about 15years (at least) since the last time I've watched the show on cable TV and I decided to try it out again. maybe not the best choice, since only the third and forth season were available on streaming, but I decided to try it out.
The problem with this episode is quite common. On the first episode the writers aways try to impress you, but it went to far. Characters make stupid things just in order to the protagonist to solve everything on his own. A fat guy try to to save a kid in a rooftop of a church and gets stuck, the kids is saved in the last minute by the protagonist who just happened to do the same thing in the sequence before with his blind friend.
This episode melted every chance I had to try to watch this series again, it's too long and repetitive.
Danger 5: Merry Christmas Colonel (2015)
Exactly what I wanted
It's been a really long time since last time I watched Danger 5. It's such a simple plot but with intricate scenes and trash-level smart dialogs. I like how they portrait each decade, but I must admit I'm a bit confused about what happened with Pierre.
During the long time between seasons, all the characters changed a lot. The war is over, but everything is a lot colder. Especially in Russia. In this episode the blonde Danger 5 is getting married but the 80's Nazi show up. Just think that are too many plot points in this episode, but it makes sense as you see the preview for the next episodes. By the way, try to track the official Facebook page: you'll probably get anxious, but there's a lot of videos and interviews to keep you interested in the show.
This is a series you should watch with your friends, being alone in a room is definitely not recommended. The laugh must spread around the room.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Angle of Attack (2014)
Good and old CSI
This was one of those episodes that makes me remember why I like CSI. Clues that appear from nothing, wrong conclusions, a big corporation conspiring or maybe just a small and as simple as a couple fight. But, like in many other cases, the writers get so worried about enjoy the viewers all the time (and they succeeded as you can see by my rating) that at some point, on the final minutes, everything gets too fast. The hidden criminal suddenly decides to reveal all the points, all the clues, even those the CSI had zero idea about. Maybe that's the price, I don't know. But sometimes that makes me feel that the CSI aren't that good or that this is a lazy maneuver from the writers to end the episode quickly.
Falling Skies: Mind Wars (2014)
TWD... Anyone?
This was a different episode. Apart from the break and non-concluded continuation of the previous episode that's getting more common, we get some little side stories that remembers me The Walking Dead. While wandering around the heroes find some mysteriously friendly brothers who really really want to help them. There's some sort of social commentary that I believe is more for please the audience than criticize anything at a high level. It's a nice episode but again, like in TWD, you'll probably get angry at the son of our hero. A boy that's is growing up and can't deal with everything around him, while trying to write his own path. I just don't get what's the deal with the suspense. The final scene is extremely obvious and there's no mystery at all. There were many clues from the previous episodes, entire scenes dedicated how the magical girl was born etc... Maybe they just want the viewers to think something like "Hey, wait, I know what's going on, what's about to happen! Wait..." and feel glad when the final revelation comes at the last 30 seconds of the episode.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Kechirase! Shi o Yobu Ma no Sango (1997)
be brave
While in a summer trip to a "resort" of their teacher's friend, the Megarangers find themselves in a ghost city. There is no one in the houses or in the whole island. Only a boy who witnessed his big sister kidnapping knows its related to a foam of a coral monster. They eventually get attacked by Coral Nezire who wants to transform humans into corals and fill the ocean with them in order to ruin the environment. Mega Blue was the only one who were not capture and is rescued by the boy. He said he saw all the monsters attack but didn't say a word because he wasn't prepared to hear the locals being judgmental about him not being brave to save his sister. Mega Blue incentives him to stand up and his help was crucial. Blue find the others and stop the mutation. The boy finds out his secret identity but the Megarangers found the weak point of the monster, so everything is OK again.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Oteage! Bakuretsu Obaachan Senpû (1997)
Respect grandma
Kouichiro pretends to be Chisato's boyfriend so her grandmother stops trying to find her a husband. But she applies a lot of tests on the couple and disturbs their Megarangers chores. Despite Silver Mega showing up to defeat Termite Nezire, the monster had already planted a lot of eggs that destroy the city and forms a clone of the monster. The bugs destroy their weapons and Chisato runs away with her grandma and both get into a fight. Grandma watches Chisato as she transforms into Mega Yellow - the reason why she had run away to hide her secret - and decides to interfere in the fight with the monster. After getting in giant mode, the monster became challenging since all of it parts can split. Mega Yellow commands the Mecha and figures out it couldn't split if frozen. After the fight, Chisato get along with her grandma.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Yasetai! Miku no Ayashii Daietto (1997)
Nonsense at its best
As showed in every opening sequence, Yellow eats a lot. A lot, all the time. She loves food and put up some weight. According to the school scale, 10kg! It's shocking from seeing her skinny figure that she'd need to lose that much, but turns out he scale was broken. While starving from food deprivation pressing her nose in a restaurant so much she looked like a pig, a chef shows up and stars to sing. What would be just a short jingle like the lamen episode from Jetman, became a 1 minute long song about a diet crepe and it's making. A diet crap (sorry I meant crepe, the way the chef sung in English distracted me) one can eat as much as want and won't gain weight. Actually, anything you eat after the diet crap won't make you fat. You probably won't believe me out it was all part of a Nezire scheme to create a shortage in food supplies on Earth. Yellow, Kenta's mother and everyone else who tried the crepe became not able to stop eating. The urge to eat scenes are always funny and makes me remember an episode of CSI about a real disease where a person don't have that fulfilling sensation after eating and may eat nonstop until death. But CSI doesn't feature monsters and Pig Nezire transforms from its human form just like a Kamen Rider would. Megarangers 1 X CSI 0. Silver Mega, once again acting on his own, keeps with Pink to constrain her while other pursue the monster. Turns out Pink discovers that the eager to eat ends if those afflicted don't eat for 20 minutes. Even though she was recovered, the monster still is too strong so Silver attempts to create an ultimate lunch to lure him and fight while he's distracted. Interesting how this episode represents how was established a single rangers episode routine. If an episode is about certain character, he/she is the one who gets framed in the eyecatch sequence, fights all the battle and drive the mecha and even call it (if Red allows it). As expected, the final fight gets super crazy and they beat the giant pig by pretending the robot arms are a delicious rice ball. Completely nonsense episode but really funny and features nice looking locations.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Tanomu ze!! Shin Robo Deruta Mega (1997)
From now on, Megaranger is getting exciting
Fearing his son might get hurt in a battle, Kawasaki, a prominent scientist in charge of programing a new robot for INET demands him to come back to Earth.
His son had dropped high school to became a maintenance engineer for INET and can't stand his controlling father who wants him to go back to school and later to attend at the university he teaches at.
Kawasaki's son eventually come to Earth after INET was forced to fire him but only in order to confront him. After being attacked by Nezirezia he was finally convinced to give the program of the new mecha. While that, the Megarangers are being attacked by a Crocodile monster who can clone himself so having two mechas to attack makes everything easier. Definitely the best episode so far. They finally put up a good mecha fight and has a real conflict in the story.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Ima Koso! Inochi o Kaketa Chô Gattai (1997)
Why not combine the mechas?
Since the newly created Delta Mega is only operated from a distance, Nezirezia found out that they could took its control by transmitting stronger radio waves trough a blind spot. Delta Mega is destroying the city and the only way to detain it is by joining the two robots. It's a risky operation that could put both under Nezirezia control but it's also the only way. After the combination succeeded the Megarangers need to defeat all the reincarnation of the previous monsters that are zombie-like controlled by the Centipede monster. It's a really nice episode besides being a cliché that began on Flashman and further developed in Jetman. Really nice directed and engaging. Also features a new ending theme, annoying as hell.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Nukedese! Akuma no Rabirinsu (1997)
A fun episode
An Antition Nezire monster creates loopholes that makes doors to other places like a wormhole and might join Earth and Nezire together if an specific crystal is found.
Mega Yellow and Blue got trapped in the doors and need to find the right pattern so they can escape. They got the crystal but the monster is getting closer and closer and they must work together.
Yellow is overly enthusiastic about a horoscope saying that their signs would be a match with Blue's that day.
It's a fun episode shot in a dozen locations and sets and Yellow's crush creates good scenes. Makes me remember of some really old slapstick classic scenes.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Mamoru zo!! Fushigi na Mori no Shônen (1997)
It could be nice if it had a night shooting only.
Still in the field trip, Mega black goes to the forest around the hotel and meets the spirit of the forest, personified as a boy. An INET site is about to be constructed in the same area the spirit of the forest protects so he doesn't like their presence. They must fight against a Mushroom monster without destroying the forest but it was only possible with the help of the kid.
After the fight, INET skip their plans to build their new site in the forest and the boy, tired from the battle, disappears.
It's another annoying sponsored double episode in the Rinko Lake just like happened in Carranger - the previous sentai - and Jetman. It's far less stupid and quite an interesting script but they repeat so many times the name of the facilities and how much they like it gets irritating.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Bikkuri! Otonari wa Nejirejia (1997)
I'd probably be scared if I watched it as a kid
Mega Pink and Mega Red meet a boy in the arcades who is known for lying a lot. Just like in the fable of the "Boy Who Cried Wolf", the city is under attack and he is the only one who knows what's happening. All his neighbors were replaced by Nezirezia solders who camouflage their presence while trying to strike a big attack. They all melt together to form a giant monster and are commanded by a black masked soldier who is acting as the friendly neighborhood cop. By shooting this very particular place were the fake cop is located in the body of the giant monster, the Megarangers defeat it. Mega Pink later provides some comfort to the little boy by showing up in front of his "you're a liar" friends as a Megaranger and saying they are great friends.
It's a nice episode and I finally figured out that this sentai isn't about all the fight but about the high school life of this teenagers. The lying kid just had a horrible life. No mom, an absent father and everybody from his soon-to-be-demolished building has already moved out. Including his best friend, a cute girl who lives next door. All the other kids mock him for lying and don't even like the same things he does.
They think MeganPink isn't the best character from the MegaRanger's game, can you believe it?! I really felt bad for the little boy, no wonder way he lacks so much attention. Later on, when figures out Nezirezia plants conquer the Earth from his neighborhood, a soldier pretending to be his father tried to strangle him! The director didn't even tried to show it from a distance, it's all there so we can see his misery. Also, there's a huge continuity error in this scene. Probably, a few years later this boy came back in another Tokusatsu show as a villain. I wish him the best.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Dokidoki! Sensei wa Kaze no You ni (1997)
OMG We are going to die. No, we wont.
Coincidently, the new Megarangers high school substitutive teacher was part of a lab who created the "ultimate life form". It'd be responsible to help humans in space, but it was so overpowered that could destroy humanity itself. Her fiancée, the main doctor responsible for the creature, decided that the only way to avoid it would be destroy the chip with its instructions and even kill himself to bury the secrets. The teacher kept the plans inside a chip held in her pedant and was target by Nezirezia. They eventually managed to create such "ultimate life form" but it had a critical vulnerable point. After shooting it, the Megarangers were able to easily defeat the creature, who looked nothing like its drawings and simulations. The teacher returns to college promising to keep a secret about Red's identity.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Abunai! Akai Bara no Yûwaku (1997)
like in the old times
A nice nun is distributing roses to kid that lures them to a church. No, sorry, she was one of the bad guys. There, petals of roses turn into a holy rose water. After drink this Tokusatsu blasphemy, the kids turn into flowers in a painful process. One of the kids had to drink it so she wouldn't become a monster's servant. Since she was friends with Mega Yellow, in order to be saved, Yellow lost her secret identity. At least for a moment. The secret to destroy the monster was to attack it's DNA donor.
Quite a boring episode, it could be a lot funnier if its the campy side could actually flourish.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Sayonara! Kanashimi no Andoroido (1997)
Last episode, one more time
It's the anniversary of death of Shun's mom, a great flutist. He latter funds a android flutist who endangers people with her avvoc inducing music. Just the same plot from the previous episode but now is a Neo-Bat monster who spread these androids all over the world. The android Shun found had lost her memory and decided to help Shun instead of spread the "let's go berserk" sound waves. Although she was able to cancel the Neo-Bat's sound waves the Megarangers couldn't beat, she's got deeply hurt and throws herself to the monster so both could explode. Things didn't worked as planned and the monster didn't get a single scratch, but Mega Blue was so furious he managed to destroy him with a single slash.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Sugosugi! Iketeru Sûpâ Miku (1997)
Oh, not this plot again
The Megarangers go to a school field trip. In a lake, a Nezirezia frog monster eggs colony was put and needs a specific beam to grow up and become smart. Mega Yellow was accidentally shot, became smarter and l lost her clumsiness. She gets confident and feels like her friends like her the way she became and then avoids at all costs a treatment that could stop the collateral effects. Fortunately Only one of the eggs grew big and the Megarangers need to fight a Frog monster.
I admire the writers for at least trying to create an OK plot in an episode that is meant to pleasure only the sponsor hotel. This is the part 1 of 2, so make sure to check the next plot outlines.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Gekiyaba! Oretachi Shinu no ka? (1997)
Get bolder
A Moth Nezirezia monster is spreading poison of the sky. If those poisoned get a red moth shaped tattoo and should die in less than a day. The Megarangers must find an antidote but their despair makes them quit trying. Later, their master finds out they need to get a piece of the monster bodies so they can extract an antidote. They managed to do so, but the monsters says that, since he became giant, an attack from the Megarangers would only spread the poison even more. The solution was quite simple and brilliant: instead of stop fighting so they don't risk the civilians to what could be only some black mail, they take the monster to the deep space and then destroy him.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Mi yabure! Tensai Kôkô no karakuri (1997)
I'm now a bad guy. No, sorry, I was kidding.
The Megaranger may have their school club dissolved for not being able to do their tasks properly. Not only they had a hard time fighting bad guys, but they also were great procrastinators. They had to periodically update the site and justify their funds among other tasks. A nice presentation must me done in a day to convince the principal to maintain it. Shun, the one capable to do so, is occupied at a school for genius to help an old friend. Weird things are happening in that school and Nezirezia is flashing subliminal messages through a virus in the computers in order to make the students create a weapon for them. Shun pretends to be in control of the monster so he can sabotage the weapon. He eventually succeeds and fools both Nezirezia and his friends.
Inspetor Faustão e o Mallandro: A Missão (Primeira e Única) (1991)
A predictable mess but let me explain it to you
Chosen by God - who is Brazilian according to the popular local myth and reinforced during the film - Faustão becomes his new inspector. His mission is to work along with the police in order to protect the animals. There, he is forced into a partnership with the wicked Mallandro, his boss's son.
OK, I need to pause for a moment. If you are not Brazilian, never came by and watched Sunday TV you don't know this duo that were portraying themselves. Let me explain some things. Faustão is the funny guy. OK, Mallandro as well. But Faustão maintained his same show since 1986 in the same TV schedule, same time, same things. To be fair enough, despite a stomach surgery some years ago, he hasn't changed at all. He looks into the camera, makes some word puns and improvises a lot. Every show, instead of pretending nothing happened like in local news, he jumps into the camera and rants when something don't go according to the plan. That's what he was doing in this movie: being himself so people could relate to his funny character and, you know, watch the movie. You probably didn't understand why a Rambo look-a-like just happened to be in the Police Station. He was actually part of his show, in a segment that adapts game shows. In this case, he was the Brazilian bad guy from the Takeshi's Castle adaptation. His 2014 game-show is Dancing With The Stars. Every couple years GLOBO TV changes it a little bit or bring something new. The "Faustão's truck" jokes were also a catch. Let me guide you. Back then, he had this segment where he would give a huge truck filled with refrigerators, TVs and all the basic paraphernalia people need in their houses. People would watch the show, buy something announced and send letters (remember those?) to be picked up. Nowadays this segment is called "Faustão's plane" and they have a clearly advice that the jumbo plane will only bring the prizes, not being part of the prizes itself. I'm not kidding. It's a long running TV show and is clearly formulaic. They tried the same with this movie.
Produced by Xuxa, a blonde skinny ex-model with a childish voice (you might want to watch "Lua de Cristal" as well), this movie is an empty movie filled with an old formula: bring famous people, whoever is "hot" right now, the musical segments no related to the plot, the jokes and the politically correct story.
Mallandro was always the insane guy. He became famous in an also long running Sunday TV show, from SBT. Along with Silvio Santos, he would judge some amateur singers and performers while doing some jokes and crazy interactions with the audience. Mallandro also was the son of a high-ranking office in real life. He would frequently get in trouble until the cops noticed who his stepfather was. He also would often tell about his stepfather in TV shows. Now you're probably getting why they did the things in the movie the way they did. "Character development" I call it.
Faustão's girlfriend works at a zoo where some rare quails where stolen by animal traffickers that used to stay at the same fair he was previously working selling fruits. Thats an obscure joke. Accordingly to a Brazilian popular saying, quails eggs and peanuts are good for man's fertility. Or should I say impotence? No wonder why in the movie's theme song (the one and only reason why I watched it 'till the end) features words such as "pinto" (dick), "eggs" and "I can solve that problem of yours". The dogs names were also a symbol of its time. Inflation and Minimum Wage were the hot topic of the early 80s until 1993.
The movie is completely chaotic and don't make sense at all. I'm not even sure if I can say its funny. There are a lot of song intermissions in a lame night club subplot. The characters don't make sense and strangely enough, don't interact with each other. Only recently, in a 2013 stand up presentation of Mallandro in the Faustão TV show stage, I figured out why. When Mallandro joked about Faustão not giving him any attention since the movie debut, he replied: "We made that thing but we never recorded together! We were never in the same room!" Yeah, the title is about both of them, but they don't get a single frame together. That's how Xuxa Produções works. Make it quickly, just make it and put some big bold names in the movie poster.
I'm just intrigued about how the last segment, the movie theme song, was recorded. Maybe a split screen? Oh, I think I don't really care enough.
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Abaku zo! Mamono ga Hisomu Shî Dî (1997)
Yugande's got one more chance
Yugande was rebuilt. And elementary school kids became violent but can't remember what they did. One of this kids had just bought CD stolen by a long time friend of Kenta. Hmmm thats suspicious.
She was found later shoplifting in a CD store but only those discs with a bat sticker on them. A sonic wave was added to them and mess peoples head. She was latter attacked by the bat monster who tries to make her cut her throat. Yeah, suicide on a kids show, no idea why it didn't aired in the US. But the Megarangers showed up in time with a device that cancels the evil sound waves, so everything is OK. Kenta's friend is not a really mean girl but she definitely has fog it some weird methods. Such as mass shoplifting and steal a car while menacing it's driver's life. Fortunately the car was used to amplify the sound wave that cancels those produced by the bat monster. Red recklessly attempted to transform in front of her in order to show he's the coolest, but, hey, it's a secret and the others didn't let that happen.
Yugande's resurrection wasn't a big surprise for me since that's the one and only character of the show I've seem everywhere. Also the only I remember from its counterpart, the Power Rangers in Space. I just don't know why Megaranger's got such a low score in IMDb (5 out of 10 as I'm writing). May it's something related to the Americans view of the US adaptation that wasn't as bright and colorful as the the original. Even not having watched both series, thats definitely not a problem for me.
On a trivia note, they show a lot of CDs tagged as evil. I just don't happen to recognize all of them but I can imply they are from the same label that released the show's songs. Onore count:4
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Yatta ne?! Bakusô Dejitanku (1997)
Don't mess with the pink kid
A bully from school says to possess photos that Pink wouldn't want to be public. Yeah, the early years of Internet... She believes that is somewhat related to her being a ranger so she goes along his blackmail. in order to retrieve the mysterious photos she needs to go on a date with this fat, doughnut lover bully. His best friend follow them on the date since the bully is too shy and can't really talk to girls. While visiting a ultra high-tech building they get trapped and Pink can't decide if she transforms in front of him or not. That's a routine we will see in a lot of episodes. To transform or not to transform? Sometimes it even gets confusing.
Fortunately that's the part where the others come with a new vehicle to rescue both of them. After all, the blackmail photos only showed Punk sleeping both in the infirmary and in classes. That's not a good student behavior, right? "Skeeping classes? I'm gonna tell the teacher!"
The bully even tried to get things straight and give her flowers, invite her to a proper date, but ultimately fails.
I believe the bully's friend is Manabu from Jiraiya (and the white ranger in Dairanger).
Denji sentai Megarenjâ: Nan na no? Okkake Meiwaku Musume (1997)
This is getting repetitive too quickly
It's almost an alternate version of the previous episode.
Koukou is being stalked by a girl who was believed to think she was her girlfriend. Almost like in the previous episode, but with some minor changes.Instead of being too cute, she simply mistaken his empathy, attention and friendly attitudes as love. While that the evil empire creates a bee monster who integrates a net of satellites around the globe so an attack on Earth could be really efficient. Hi stalker eventually finds her real love. Who just happens to be older and own a car. Isn't that sweet? She then leaves and Koukou gets a little upset for not having her exclusive attention. Not a really fun episode, the enemies are boring once again. That may ruin a series sometimes...