Hikari Senshi

[H-S] GoGoV 16 DVD & [HON & H-S] Dairanger 5 DVD released! March 4, 2013

We were missing from the scene last week because of the evils of the educational system, but we’re back and ready with two awesome releases for you guys! 16 was especially Satan-tastic, with all of the puns and some old-timey speak thrown in there. We made notes of a few things and they’re underneath the links, as always, so read on if you’re interested! Regarding the plot of the episode, I absolutely loved it. The little references they have to previous episodes is great, and I love some of the tropes that are used in this episode. They really made me laugh during this episode, because while I’ve seen comedic elements in this show, I can’t say that there’s actually been an episode that has fully focused on it. It’s funny, because when I asked fantasy (the translator) to look into it, he told me that the head writer for the series is Junki Takegami. He was also the head writer for Megaranger, Gaoranger, and Go-onger. The writer for this episode? Kobayashi. Oh, you don’t know who that is? She was the head writer on Gingaman, Timeranger, Ryuki, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Den-O, Shinkenger, OOO, AND Go-busters. I’m a big fan of her work, so I understand why I liked the episode.

Regarding Dairanger, we actually lucked out in terms of translation. There was only one little thing to note  (which will be at the bottom.) In regards to the episode itself, I like the little seeds of plot they left scattered about. Did Daigo and Rin make the first ever online slash fanfiction? Is the monster of the week tsundere for Rin? And is Dragon Star-Lord a really depressed dragon? Find out next, on “Mighty Morphin’ Chineserangers!”

Also, sadly, no Kakuranger this week.

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[H-S] GoGoV 14 DVD, [HoN & H-S] Dairanger 2-3 DVD version released! February 18, 2013

Looks like things are getting back on track. School is letting up a bit, so we’ve been able to work on a bit more GoGoV behind the scenes, as well as some other stuff. The weeklies have been unaffected, but other else has ended up suffering, sadly. But, hey, we got three awesome releases for ya’, and I hope you like ’em!

GoGoV was really great this week. I love that the show is trying to get involved with computers and all this junk and it’s only 1999. Looking back at it now, doesn’t it look all dated? Not bad, but dated, definitely.

I really liked Dai 2. You get your first look at the Gorma and their wacky human sacrificing hijinks. Oh Gorma, y u so Niidoro Budoro? Oh, speaking on Niidoro Budoro! Well, actually, I’ll mention more of this under the links. Just so you don’t read these notes before watching the actual episode.

Dai 3 is a Daigo focus AND a 2 parter. It’s actually the first 2 parter in the show. Dai relies on these a lot, but I think they’re really worth it because of the episode length. Even if there’s a 4 parter, it only ends up being an hour and 20 minutes, but an ENTIRE arc  just went on. I really like this set up, and it’s a bit sad we aren’t able to see it nowadays because a 4 or even a 6 parter would be about 4-6 hours. Torrent is coming whenever we can we can get it up.

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