AkibaRanger Episode 08

Previous episode: Episode 7

Next episode: Episode 9

The Bond of Painful Special Training is Crossed with Conspiracy on the Road to being Official
痛き特訓の絆は公認ロードの陰謀交差点

Air date: May 25, 2012

Important things that happened

It starts by playing the opening to the anime Z-Cune Aoi!
It's revealed the Hakase's father worked on Z-Cune Aoi. Before that, he created Majo Kamen Luna Sailor at a previous anime studio.
The battle ends up in reality again. After defeating the enemy, Yumeria hands out her cosplayer cards. One of the people she hands a card to has his face obscured by scraggly long hair. The camera stays on him as ominous music plays.

Tsukishima Alpaca 月島アルパカ (Voiced by Seki Tomokazu 関智一)

Staff in charge of the Aoi anime - Murata Mitsu 村田充 (The male villain from Hibiki)

The Toei producer is a real person. His full name is Tsukada Hideaki and has produced many well-known shows for Toei.
- The Hurricaneger diary that Akagi mentions is this one.
When they reach the Toei building, they mention the JyuKen Sentai GekiRanger and Engine Sentai Go-Onger movies.
When Kozukozu is alone in the cafe, the Mahou Sentai MagiRanger theme is playing in the background.
References Changeman episode one during the training scene.
Cooking scene from GekiRanger.
Kozukozu dances to the ZyuRanger theme song.
Go-Onger GP-31 for the third training scene.
Training 4: CarRanger vs OhRanger.

They intentionally ran a caption over a boring scene to parody the way those text appear in actual Sentai shows. When Akagi gets up, the caption disappears.
The chief clerk quotes the father not hitting him line from Gundam when Red hits him.
There's another Gabian movie poster when Akagi and the others are at the Toei building.