It's always been a thing, sure, but I honestly feel like the toys stuff has reached a new level of utterly bloated in recent years. There is already a default of a dozen different items and characters at the start now, and throughout the show you've got not only the usual big flow of upgrades and ne...

I figured it went without saying that different people have different tastes, and every show regardless of the decade will have it's fans and non-fans. The only rider show I would outright say I dislike is Kiva, and my favourites (OOO and Build) are all in the latter decade. But even with that in mi...

In terms of pure tokusatsu action, I think this is maybe my favourite episode of Sentai in a really long time, maybe even ever. It's just intense action from beginning to end. I've been keeping up with Ultraman Z over on Tsuburaya's youtube channel, and Toei really made a good call on having a direc...

Eeeeh, I didn't really feel the emotional hook of this one. Not because I believe Kento will be fine (I mean he will be fine even if he has to be 'dead' for a little bit, and it'd be ridiculous to get rid of him at this point of the show), but there's just a lot of little things that kept be from be...

Don't forget that we're also a few weeks short due to the hiatus so it's entirely possible that this would've been set around Christmas-time. That doesn't make sense to me.Not only would this episode have to be filmed well over three or so months in advance for that to be the case, but even if that...

My favourite bits of the episode is by far the rest of the team going nuts as they gossip about Sayo's date. Tametomo and Sena being the most excited by far, Shiguru and Takamichi looking like they're in despair, it's all just so great.

I never like any villain whose motivation is wrapped up in cryptic mystery like this. I don't find Calibur's weird talk about the truth to be intriguing, it's just boring because I basically know nothing about why this guy is doing anything. Horobi might have been one-note too but there was little n...

You say that as if the entire franchise isn't already a toy commercial first and foremost! Also wow, started downloading this as soon as I happened finished watching the previous episode. This is an absurdly cute episode. My cheeks are stuffed with sugar from watching it. The kid playing with the me...

It's the obligatory side-character focus episode, and this one was pretty good. It's surprisingly not so much about Muryou himself and more in general about what he contributes to the team and how the others see him. I still stand by that Sentai casts rarely ever need to include mentor/civilian char...

I am still mostly neutral on Calibur even after this episode. Before now, he's just been a stoic swordsman who betrayed the heroes in the past for mysterious reasons, and now... he is still just that, but at least now he has a human face and name to him. I don't need him to start acting crazy like G...

Halloween episode of Ultraman Tiga and R/B were both pretty delightful in their unique ways. A lovable kind of spooky just like that dog!

We've had two Sayo-focused episodes. The one where she hit her head on a rock and lost her memories (the only episode of Kiramager I haven't liked), and the one where she formed a band to help that sick boy. Also she was heavily featured in Takamichi's debut episode, which was probably why we didn't...

I don't think this will surpass Kamen Rider Brain in pure entertainment value, but it's cute enough, and hitting the nostalgia points in an alright way. And wow does seeing TV-Nihon's old font and effects for Gaim instantly bring back memories.

This episode's got a pretty straightforward flow to it. Touma tries to do everything on his own, and in the end learns to work together with his allies. I mean, I don't think any aspect of it was conveyed as well as it could have been, but I thought it was still a decent little outing. I immediately...

My favourite part of the episode was in fact the big melee involving six different people, and then Rintarou coming in to show everyone else up with his Volume 3 form. Touma's trip to Avalon got him a new toy which I'm sure we'll see get a more proper showing next week. Even if the King Arthur book ...