AkibaRanger 2 Episode 05

Episode 05 Delusion Import 妄想輸入
Hikounin Sentai AkibaRanger 2 episode
Writer	Arakawa Naruhisa
Director	Suzumura Nobuhiro
Original air date	May 4, 2013 (2013-05-04)
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Hikounin Sentai AkibaRanger 2
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Guests

• Maihama Akina - Kuwae Sakina → 舞浜 亜希奈 - 桑江 咲菜

Luna's idol rival. Addresses Tsuu by his real name and as Sensei, since he's teaching her to be a bad guy.

• George Spielburton - Sakamoto Koichi → ジョージ・スピルバートン - 坂本浩一
• TyrannoRanger - Seki Tomokazu → ティラノレンジャー - 関 智一
• DragonRanger - Kusao Takeshi → ドラゴンレンジャー - 草尾 毅

Trivia

• OP Changes: Scenes of Tazuko attack Nobuo are replaced with Malshiina (Battle Mode) and Super AkibaRed.
• Munyumunyu Zukyuun added to the sponsor section.
• George Spielburton (ジョージ・スピルバートン). An amalgamation of famous American directors: George Lucas, Steven Spielburg, and Tim Burton.
  • ET Reference. Also, Spielburg was also famous for taking the novel Jurassic Park and making it a movie.
    • Jurassic Park (Jyuurashikku Paaku ジュラシック・パーク) and ZyuRanger (Jyuuranjaa ジュウレンジャー). Both are about dinosaurs. The novel came out in 1990 and the movie in 1993. ZyuRanger came out in 1992.
  • Apparently Spielburton is played by Sakamoto Koichi who was the director for Power Rangers.
• Akina refers to Tsuu as Ushirozawa-sensei.
• The AkibaRangers' embarrassing photos.
  • The pictures are from the cosplay scene in episode 4 of season 1, but here they're pictures of them getting into the costumes.
  • Apparently this is a scene like from episode 34 of CarRangers.

Sentai References

• Kuwae Sakina plays Maihama. She was previously a Sentai regular on GekiRangers as Natsume.
• Queen's dance of avarice. Queen Hedron from Sun Vulcan did this dance in episode 15. Her actress, Soga Machiko also played Witch Bandora in ZyuRangers.
• Spielburton is seen playing with S.H.Figuarts' TyrannoRanger and DragonRanger. The commercials for these also play during AkibaRangers.
• Powerful Rangers is an obvious spoof of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
  • The reality change made it so that Japan based Sentai on Powerful Rangers, starting with GaoRangers. Perhaps this is because Gokaiger's ending song, Super Sentai Hero Getter's, third part begins with GaoRanger.
• Trinoid #23 KunimaSmaphoGanii クニマスマホガニー is based on the villains for Abarangers.
  • Made of an animal, a plant, an inanimate object.「国鱒（サケ目サケ科の淡水魚）」「スマホ（スマートフォン）」「マホガニー（センダン科マホガニー属の木）」
  • The original Trinoid #23 was Arohaispikasukanku アロハイビスカスカンク.
  • Sakana-kun discovered that Kunimasu wasn't extinct. He's a big tokusatsu fan and even appeared on Goseiger.
  • Tsuu creates a Trinoid because Malshiina just says that she's fighting a dinosaur Sentai, so Tsuu assumes it's Abarangers, which was also based on dinosaurs.
  • The monster design is based on the previous episode's SmaPhomonger.
• The Trinoids were designed by AkibaRanger's character designer, Satou Keiichi さとうけいいち. So in a sense, this is self-promotion.
• Lines used to persuade TyrannoRanger and DragonRanger.
• "Eternal warriors", "warriors of passion", and "always by the kids' side" are reference to their theme song. It's also a reference to all the kids that show up in ZyuRanger episodes.
• The ZyuSouKen toy accurately playing the same sound as the show. Nowadays, it's only natural to expect a toy to replicate the same sound as in the show, but in the past, that was not necessarily the case. So the toy ZyuSouKen was regarded as a high class item for reproducing the sound accurately.
  • However, this copy has the DragonRanger emblem off by 90 degrees from the one in the show.
  • Normally the ZyuSouKen is used to control Dragon Caesar, but this time it's used to gain control over the ZyuRangers.

ZyuRan Buckler

ジュウレンバックラー

"You'll be surprised when you hear! ZyuRan Buckler!"

• The buckler is a direct reference to the ZyuRanger's transformation device.
• The first part of the line is lifted directly from this year's Sentai, Kyouryuuger, another dinosaur sentai.

AkibaRed's weekly recommendation

"Of the ZyuRanger insert songs, I recommend "Dragon Caeser"! Dora Dora Doora... AkibaRed!

「ジュウレンの挿入歌なら『ドラゴンシーザー』推し！ドラドラドーラ……アキバレッド！」

AkibaBlue's rollcall

「岩清水といえば仁和寺にある法師！先達あらまほしき戦士アキバブルー！」

• 「仁和寺」は京都府京都市右京区御室にある真言宗御室派総本山の寺院
• 「先達あらまほしき」は「その道の先生や指導者はいてほしいものだ」という意味

どちらも出展は「徒然草」の五十二段

Movie AkibaYellow watched this week

「私（わたくし）は少し前に遊星王子の映画を見たでありますが梅宮アンナがお父さんに……でありますぅぅぅ」

• 「遊星王子」は1958年に公開された映画。テレビ版が好評だった為、製作された。
  • 主演には当時は新人であった梅宮辰夫が起用された。
    • 恐らく「若い頃の梅宮辰夫を見て梅宮アンナが父親似だということがわかった」というようなことが言いたかったのだと思われる。
• いつも通りの前振りの長さのせいで爆発が起こったので今週も名乗ることが出来なかった。

Cosplay

• Kozukozu dresses as Jan from GekiRanger.
• Yumeria wears a green wig and uniform and talks and does poses like Keroro Gunsou, a famous otaku anime frog.

Songs

• AkibaRanger Season Tsuu!
• Girls in trouble! DEKARANGER - Ending five

External Links

http://www10.atwiki.jp/akiba_unofficial/pages/40.html