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Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger
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Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger (literally, Unofficial Squadron Akibaranger, "Akiba" meaning the famous Akihabara computer district, a byword for nerdiness) is an "unofficial" installment in (and Affectionate Parody of) the Super Sentai franchise. It began airing in April 2012 and ran concurrent with the official 36th Super Sentai series, Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.Nobuo Akagi is a twenty-nine year old loser. He is a Super Sentai fanatic, lives out delusions of grandeur in his head, and crushes horribly on the female protagonist of an animated television show.One day he and two others- martial artist Mitsuki Aoyagi and Cosplay Otaku Girl Yumeria Moegi (Stage Name)- are scouted to become the Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, tasked with defending the Otaku mecca of Akihabara from the "Blatantly Evil Guerilla Marketing Firm B", who wish to re-purpose the land into a generic business district devoid of Otaku culture.Armed with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Super Sentai tropes and no shortage of misplaced enthusiasm, they fight to become officially recognized as a Super Sentai team, complete with merchandising line and Sunday morning television show.Except it's All Just a Dream. Or is it...?In April 2013, a second season called Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger Season Twonote A wordplay pun based on "Tsuu", meaning "painful". began airing. Taking place in an Alternate Universe from the original series (and shamelessly Retconning several important events in the process), the Akibaranger have disbanded following their climactic victory over the Blatantly Evil Guerilla Marketing Firm B nine months previously. But all that changes when Nobuo discovers official Akibaranger merchandise for sale in one of his usual Otaku boutiques: have the Akibaranger somehow become an official Super Sentai without them knowing?! Along with Luna Iwashimizu, an energetic wannabe Idol Singer who inherits the role of Akiba Blue, the Akibaranger must re-assemble to solve the mystery and battle a new arch-enemy, the "Neo Dimensional Intellectual Remodeling Underground True Empire of Baros lol". | |
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left | |
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Parodied in #6. Once in reality, Malshina raises her hand menacingly at our heroes... and hails a cab. Played Straight in #9, where Malshina and Dr. Z make their getaway after the Akibarangers' victory. | |
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Hotter and Sexier | |
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Hotter and Sexier: While not on the porno level that some suggested it would be, it still shows some definitely TV-14 content (ableit played for humor more than sexiness.) One aspect of note is how the female Rangers wear skimpy skirts and occasionally flash their panties during fights. | |
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Cherry Tapping | |
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Cherry Tapping: The soda can trick from the Self-Disposing Villain trope is also used in the season 2 opener's retcon - except, this time, it somehow hits Malshina over the head inside the cockpit, then lands on a self-destruct button. | |
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Daydream Surprise | |
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Daydream Surprise: Happens a lot with Nobuo- we see him acting cool or heroic in his head, then being a lot more awkward in reality. The Akibarangers themselves in the #2-13, they really died in the previous episode and only came to also provide narration for the recap. | |
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Strong as They Need to Be | |
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Strong as They Need to Be: "The very concept of consistent power levels doesn't exist in sentai!" | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: The name George Spielburton is obviously a combination of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Literally - all the villains carry business cards that they toss to the Akibarangers. | |
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Diabolus ex Nihilo | |
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Diabolus ex Nihilo: Boomerang Titan is a threat that comes out of nowhere, especially since the corner of the Delusion Empire in deep space that it came from didn't even exist before #12. | |
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The Artifact | |
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The Artifact: In season two, at first Marushina seems this. As the corporate dronery thing was literally So Last Season, one may wonder why the villainess whose name is basically a pun on a copyright symbol is still around. Turns out it's because she's still herself from season one, knows exactly what happened to the show's world and the "real" world, and is actually in Saburo Hatte's world trying to take the reins of sentai itself. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Nobuo goes through one in #2 after finding out that the team's battle from the previous episode was just a delusion. He snaps out of it thanks to "Deka Red" (actually someone in a Deka Red suit). | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Happens through #10 and #11, with a dark twist to the story and the appearance of Delu-Knight, a competent and menacing enemy with no amusing gimmick. Nobuo realises during #11 that this is the writers attempting to retool the show to appeal to a wider audience, in tandem with him being Put on a Bus. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Lampshaded in #10 with Doctor Z talking about a 'new direction' for the Blatantly Evil etc. Company, starting with laying off all the MotW-class monsters in favor of Dragon-level ones. | |
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Perverse Sexual Lust | |
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Perverse Sexual Lust: Nobuo's in love with Aoi-tan, an anime character. This especially comes into play in Season 2, when these feelings are strong enough to form his Super Mode. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Kazuo Niibori and Yoshimoto Okamato, who're the oldest people seen, and are veteran suit actors who played the heroes and big bads - and can still kick ass. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Some characters demonstrate an awareness of how things usually happen in Super Sentai and attempt to use that knowledge to their advantage. General Pain, though it's thanks to the fact that he's a fan of Sentai villains. He even invokes a meta trope in Super Sentai, in which sometime before Christmas, a new foe comes and becomes such a threat that only a new mecha is required to defeat it. Nobuo is as much an Ascended Fanboy as Gai Ikari, only, this being a parody, his attempts at heroism don't always work out. When it does though, well, see Event Flag. Wrong Genre Savvy: Thus, Nobuo is this at least half the time. More than once, he stares dumbfounded as the rules are being broken. Also, he thought the third Ranger (after learning he was red and Mitsuki was blue) might be a green or a pink, when we know all 3-member starting teams are red, blue, and yellow. However, that last part might have just been him thinking that they were going to have the full 5 member team, and he wasn't sure which of them was going to be next. He is surprised when the first monster doesn't grow after it is defeated even though in several series, most recently Goseiger and Gokaiger, the first monsters of the week didn't become giant either. The heroes stop the Monster of the Week's movements so they can use Moe Magnum on the monster. In the first episode they started the fight with their Finishing Move. The monster calls them out on it, saying that using their best move right at the beginning is unfair (and because he had to sacrifice his mooks to block it). | |
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In #9, Malshina manages to trick the Akibarangers and completely destroys the barrier between reality and the Grand Delusion, Hakase's dad reveals himself as Doctor Z, the head of Stema Otsu, and Hakase is revealed to be Aoi's voice actress. | |
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Crossover Alternate Universe | |
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Crossover Alternate Universe: The main characters can create a delusional universe where every Super Sentai team exists. | |
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Angels Pose | |
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Angels Pose: Done at the end of the opening. Also done as part of the Moe Magnum finisher. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: In #7, while Yumeria and Mitsuki reenact a scene from Z-Cune Aoi, a patron in the cafe mouths the words to the scene. This patron is none other than Keiichi Sato who did the designs for Z-Cune Aoi! The show's singers Halko Momoi and Yukio Yamagata cameo at #9 as the victims of the burning hot monja by the MOTW. A rather obscure one in #12 that borders on crossover territory: Mio Usagi, the rival Mitsuki mentions in the team's string of Sequel Hooks, actually originates from the martial arts film Salvage Mice (which was directed by Akibaranger's director Ryuta Tasaki.) Koichi Sakamoto as an American movie director who is into Powerful Rangers. | |
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Alternative Calendar | |
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Alternative Calendar: In season 2, one of General Pain's schemes turns the Goraigers evil and adds a third member, making them Jakanja's 8th, 9th, and 10th spears of darkness. Since the original seven spears were named after the seven days of the week, this causes history to change in such a way that a week consists of 10 days instead of 7, with new days Uranday, Posday, and Hadday appearing between Saturday and Sunday. As it turns out, this is much more damaging than it first seems. More days in a week means less weeks in a year, and with Sentai still airing only once a week, each Sentai series now only lasts 36 episodes instead of the usual 51. On top of that, the three new days each have strictly enforced anti-otaku laws: Uranday is otaku garbage day (otaku goods are forcibly seized and disposed of), Tokusatsu songs cannot be played on Posday, and cosplay is banned on Hadday. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Malshiina's Breaking the Fourth Wall rant in 2-11 lampshades common complaints that apply to Super Sentai and Akibaranger as a whole, along with her exhortation to blame it on Saburo Hatte. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: Retooling the work to make it bloodier and more violent happens to Z-Cune Aoi in #4 of season 2. | |
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Do Not Adjust Your Set | |
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Do Not Adjust Your Set: Malshina does this to Akibaranger's own audience! | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Thus, Nobuo is this at least half the time. More than once, he stares dumbfounded as the rules are being broken. Also, he thought the third Ranger (after learning he was red and Mitsuki was blue) might be a green or a pink, when we know all 3-member starting teams are red, blue, and yellow. However, that last part might have just been him thinking that they were going to have the full 5 member team, and he wasn't sure which of them was going to be next. He is surprised when the first monster doesn't grow after it is defeated even though in several series, most recently Goseiger and Gokaiger, the first monsters of the week didn't become giant either. | |
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In the Name of the Moon | |
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In the Name of the Moon: Their role call is part subversion, part played straight. It changes each episode, usually following the template: Yumeria's mother's role call as Akiba Yellow in #5 is more traditional (and in Nobuo's eyes, "better"). In #7, Yumeria was cosplaying as Satomi from Nijiyome Gakuen Z-Cune Aoi, instead of continuing her rant she remarked that they should be more worried about the "vampire" attack in the real world instead. In #8, Yumeria forgets her place in her rant so she starts a new one. #9 has the team finally doing a proper role call, including Yumeria actually finishing one of her anecdotes. They get the customary explosion, then run full pelt at the monster-of-the-week whilst still holding their poses. Played completely straight in Episode #11, when Takuma is head of the team. The new temporary role call is basically a massive Shout-Out to the Juken Sentai Gekiranger role call, but with lots of Meaningless Meaningful Words thrown in- also, the first characters in each phrase, when placed together, can be read as "Juumousou". In season 2, Luna usually tries to follow the pattern of Nobuo's roll calls, but often messes something up. | |
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune | |
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The Ending Theme, "Ashita wa Akiba no Kaze ga Fuku", is sung by Nobuo's actor Masato Wada. Also, in what's both a real-life and in-universe example (see Acting for Two above), the Z-Cune Aoi theme is performed by Maaya Uchida, who plays Hiroyo and Aoi. In season 2, each ending theme is a Sentai song sung by a member of the cast. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Z-Cune Aoi Also, the scrolling giveaway text, and its habit of showing up during lulls in the action. the pen name Saburo Hatte appearing at the beginning of the opening. | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real: In Season 1, Malshina manages to appear in the real world halfway through the season, soon followed by bringing monsters over as well, and the Akibarangers being able to transform in reality. In Season 2, changes made to Sentai characters in the Delusion World have the power to alter the history of Sentai in the real world as well. Subverted at the end of Episode #2-12. The Akibas sacrificed themselves to save Earth from an invasion, but are implied to be in the delusion world during. (Making it a delusion, despite it being treated as an actual, real event) However, their deaths in the Delusion World are confirmed to have killed them in reality. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: At the end of episode 11, after Nobuo gets the other Akibarangers to realize they're in a TV show, Takuma abruptly leaves the team even though Deluknight claims they're fated rivals, and Hiroyo is just as suddenly cured of the scorpion mark curse. The blatant obviousness of the Executive Meddling means that the heroes can't really celebrate though. | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: Luna is very blunt in stating that joining the team is just a means to an end for her. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Woman: Mitsuki is the only one who notices just how ridiculous the concept of, well, practically everything in the show, and is also the least Otaku of the bunch (she only likes Aoi for the fighting scenes). | |
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Ascended Fanboy | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_246c5b47 | comment |
Nobuo is as much an Ascended Fanboy as Gai Ikari, only, this being a parody, his attempts at heroism don't always work out. When it does though, well, see Event Flag. | |
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Companion Show | |
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Companion Show: The Akibaranger web radio series is a variation in that it started after the series itself ended. It's hosted by Masato Wada (Nobuo) and features interviews, music requests, fan mail, and other segments themed around Akibaranger (though it doesn't further the show's story). | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: Simultaneously Inverted and Played Straight. In the final battle with DeluKnight,the Akibarangers discover that no matter what they do, it is literally impossible for them to lose the battle. This is exactly what they don't want, since they're fully aware that they're in a TV show, and that it will end if they win the final battle. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_26ac510e | comment |
Mythology Gag: Has its own page. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Yumeria has a different word or phrase she peppers her dialogue with for each character she plays. Most commonly, she says "nyan" a lot when in her Cat Girl costume. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: Usually involving Kozukozu in the cafe, in the spirit of Naomi and Ryuutaros on the DenLiner. | |
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IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight | |
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"I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: Discussed in episode 4. Nobuo and Yumeria think Mitsuki has been brainwashed and try various methods to snap her out of it that have been used in various Sentai series. Actually, it's not Mitsuki at all. Malshina's impersonating her... just like she did with Sayaka the previous episode. Nobody guesses, even after not seeing through such things was just a running gag. Admit it, neither did you. | |
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Undercrank | |
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Undercrank: Footage shot at slower paces and sped up is frequently used in bursts for comedic effect. | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: In the ending of #2-4, Nobuo dresses up as a female character from an in-universe anime series. Though, said character is an altered version of one of the male characters from Ninja Captor. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_2a090d00 | comment |
Lampshade Hanging: To Better than a Bare Bulb levels. The series announcement on the official website began (Translated): Nearly half the common Sentai tropes are pointed out in the first episode alone. Most of the tropes get pointed out by Nobuo, also. Malshiina's Breaking the Fourth Wall rant in 2-11 lampshades common complaints that apply to Super Sentai and Akibaranger as a whole, along with her exhortation to blame it on Saburo Hatte. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Even though the show uses Bland Name Products, there is a genuine Gmail icon in Mutsuki's smartphone. | |
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Artifact Title | |
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Artifact Title: Mentioned in-universe: In the altered history in which Akibaranger was an official series, "Gosei Sentai Akibaranger" instead of Dairanger, Nobuo points out that it doesn't make sense for a "Five-Star" Sentai to have only three members, and figures that this means that there were scrapped plans to add two new members to the team. This turns out to be the reason why Kibaranger attacked them, as he was one of the planned characters. (They also guess that the other one was an "A-ranger", but we never see who this might be.) | |
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Empty Shell | |
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In 2-9, the Akibarangers defeat General Pain, but now he's an Empty Shell. Not only that, but one of the retcons that Season 2 made is revealed... The Scorpion Tattoo subplot is back! | |
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The Good Guys Always Win | |
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The Good Guys Always Win: The tendency for the heroes to always win over the bad guys is parodied and deconstructed to hell and back near the end of season Tsuu. See Event Flag above and Strictly Formula below. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Mitsuki is tomboyish and Yumeria is traditionally feminine. In Season 2, Yumeria became the tomboy to the new Akiba Blue, Luna's, girly girl. | |
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Girlish Pigtails | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_2e39af52 | comment |
Girlish Pigtails: Akiba Yellow S1 has pigtails. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: After failing to extend the storyline via Foreshadowing, being forced to engage & defeat the Big Bad, and even attempting to destroy the end title, the Akibarangers still can't stop Saburo Hatte, represented as an in-universe god, from ending the series early. He finally shows up "in-person" and covers the lens. There is eventually a second season, but this in itself turns out to be Malshina's plan. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Nobuo is 29, although he looks more like he's in his early-to-mid 20s. Made even funnier by that fact that his actor, Masato Wada, is actually 32 in real life. | |
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Theme Music Power-Up | |
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Theme Music Power-Up: Most notably used in episode #9. Parodied in #12 - a new song starts playing and the Akibarangers start winning a fight... but they were trying to lose. | |
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Chest Insignia | |
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Chest Insignia: The Akibarangers have emblems on their chests. Brought to You by the Letter "S": It's a mashup of the kanji for 'Hi' in Hikonin with the 'A' for Akibaranger. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: Nobuo expects explosions after defeating enemies, but the girls (at first) clearly don't. | |
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Abandoned Warehouse | |
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Abandoned Warehouse: The fights only occuring in abandoned locations where it's impossible for any severe casualties or destruction to occur is invoked and lampshaded in the first episode. Played straight in the finale. | |
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Never Recycle Your Schemes | |
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Never Recycle Your Schemes: Double-subverted in a meta-sense (and, as it's revealed next episode, in-universe as well in season 2: General Tsu attempts to use a similar plan to the one Malshina used in season 1 to break out of the Delusion World and into reality, but it turns out that Malshina's suggestion that he should do this was a lie, intended to both get Tsu out of the way and resurrect Delu-Knight. | |
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Dead Unicorn Trope | |
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Dead Unicorn Trope: The fact that all Sentai Yellows love curry, lampshaded in #2 when Yumeria orders four bowls of curry, Hiroyo tells her not to overdo it, reminding her that only two (Daita Oiwa and Asao Hyo) had it as their Trademark Favorite Food. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: At the end of Episode #2-12, the Akibas make a Heroic Sacrifice to prevent an alien invasion. (Which in itself is out of place; see Your Mind Makes It Real) This means that they were Dead All Along during the Recap Episode that follows. Nobuo's ghost lampshades the cheapness of the Rangers' death by outright acknowledging that Hatte Saburo can bring them back to life if they are ever needed again. | |
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Comic Trio | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_380df4da | comment |
Comic Trio: Right on cue, Nobuo is the leader, Yumeria is the follower and Mitsuki the only sane one. | |
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Cosplay Otaku Girl | |
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Cosplay Otaku Girl: Yumeria wears a Cat Girl costume on the first episode, complete with an appropriately bright blonde wig. In #4, Nobuo points out that she's surprisingly good at cosplaying female sentai villains after she dresses up as Mele and does a remarkable job at acting like her, remaining in character even after morphing to fight. And so is her mother. Or rather, was. Kozukozu even moreso. She enjoys dressing up as past Sentai heroines. | |
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Dancing Theme | |
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Dancing Theme: Kozukozu sometimes performes dances in the cafe set to Sentai themes (that didn't originally have them). She also does one for the Z-Cune Aoi theme and is seen in the OP dancing to Akibaranger's own theme. | |
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End-of-Series Awareness | |
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And a heroic (well, only partially, given the circumstances) example occurs in episode 12, when the Itassha Robo grows to the size of an official Sentai mecha to fight Doctor Z's giant robot. An actual heroic example occurs in S2 12 when Malshina uses the Wolzaphone to make Super Akiba Red grow to take on Prism Ace. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: In #4, an Imagine Spot shows Malshina going into past villainess outfits (Shelinda and Kegalesia) that also belonged to former porn stars. And in #7, Malshina's focus ep, we see Hakase handling a diorama that features Zonette, who also falls under this group. Yumeria's mother actually says to the Kabukicho MOTW "I'll buy 10 bottles - no, 151, getto daze!" Partial example in #10. Kozukozu is the first to notice that Takuma Tsuzuki is identical to Retsu/Geki Blue - but the Rangers shoot her down immediately. And they're not wrong - Takuma is played by Shinpei Takagi, while Retsu is played by his twin brother Manpei Takagi note Shinpei only appeared in Gekiranger for an Evil Twin story. That's right, our heroes have outdone Gai by being able to tell twins apart! To play further on Shinpei's Gekiranger association, Episode 11's fight is full of Gekiranger references, starting from the verbally and physically elaborate roll call, then going all out on unarmed combat, and then right down to spelling out the "heart-technique-body" triangle and using Animal Battle Aura Ki Manipulation. Interestingly, Takuma himself had something from each one of the core Gekirangers: the color of Jan/Geki Red; the element of Ran/Geki Yellow; and the animal spirit of Retsu/Geki Blue. In Season 2, Nobuo addresses a toy shop clerk that has a Bae doll riding his arm. Said clerk may have possibly been a mad scientist with an obsession for endings that had a creepier-looking doll riding his arm. Said creepier-looking doll is actually on top of the cash register Katsuyuki Konishi voices a smartphone-themed MotW - which he used the last time he was in a Sentai series. General Tsuu is singing Ginga Honey from Denshi Sentai Denziman when he's at the karaoke. He is played by Ryō Horikawa, and the one-off character who originally sung the song was played by Ryūsei Nakao. In other words, Vegeta is covering a song originally sung by Frieza. | |
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Tomboyish Ponytail | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_39e41f39 | comment |
Tomboyish Ponytail: Akiba Blue S1 has a ponytail and is a bit tomboyish. (S2 version is considerably less tomboyish) | |
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Vocal Dissonance | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_3a88a563 | comment |
Vocal Dissonance: Yumeria's "true" voice when she loses her cosplay ears in #2. She drifts in & out of it when in Yaoi Fangirl mode in #3. | |
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Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_3b4f620a | type |
No Fourth Wall | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_3b4f620a | comment |
No Fourth Wall In Episode 10 Nobuo, becomes aware of the fourth wall. He convinces the rest of the characters of this and this trope is in full effect for the rest of season 1 as the final episodes revolve around the Akibarangers trying to thwart attempts from the producers to end the show. Season 1 ends with The heroes fighting the end credits. #2-11 has a scene like this in which Malshina justifies her evil plan by directly addressing the audience. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_3d699462 | comment |
Ironically, just before this, the Akibarangers subverted a trope of their own when the monster initally gave them a hard beating before Malshina decided to let him take it from here, spelling certain doom for the monster. Whereas in pretty much all modern Super Sentai series, the team's debut is a Curb-Stomp Battle where they utterly obliterate the monster and its Mooks without difficulty. | |
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Strictly Formula | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_3f1aadeb | comment |
Strictly Formula: Parodied in that each episode is a parody of a different kind of Super Sentai episode. Hilarity Ensues as Nobuo tries to figure out what kind of episode is currently playing out (sometimes crucial to defeating the Monster of the Week). #1 is the parody of a Pilot Episode. #2 is the parody of a 10-Minute Retirement Episode. #3 is the parody of a Training Episode. #4 is the parody of both a Brainwashed Ranger Episode and a Doppelganger Ranger Episode. #5 is the parody of a Parental Reunion Episode. #6 combines elements of a Training from a Swordmaster Episode and a Movie-making Monster episode, along with generally spoofing the editing tricks and suit acting skill that go into the making of a Super Sentai series. #7 combines elements of a villain storming the heroes' base episode and a stolen Transformation Trinket episode. #8 combines elements of a Training episode and befriending the MOTW episode. #9 contains elements of a Disbanded Team episode. #10 parodies Cerebus Syndrome. #11 parodies Executive Meddling and Retooling, both happening In-Universe. #12 parodies the Final Battle with use of End-of-Series Awareness. #13 is a Clip Show, and even that is lampshaded. (Mainly due to being a "bonus" episode funded during the production of the series; for all intents and purposes, #12 is the end of the story.) #2-1 is a Recap Episode that also parodies poorly-handled Retconning. #2-2 and #2-3 are both parodies of a two-part Greater Power episode for Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. It could also be a parody of What Could Have Been. #2-4 parodies the Super Mode gaining episodes. #2-5 parodies how Super Sentai was imported to America as Power Rangers. #2-6 parodies cute monster episodes. #2-7 parodies Sailor Earth. #2-8 parodies the ever popular Duel to the Death Against the Setting Sun no less #2-9 parodies Beach Episode and Humongous Mecha #2-10 parodies The Starscream and also the plot of season 1! #2-11 parodies how the heroes always win when the villain triggers a defeat flag. #2-12 parodies the Intercontinuity Crossover, the Super Hero Taisen movies, and Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_3fca462c | comment |
Deus ex Machina: Parodied in the 2nd Season Finale. During their fight with Malshina, the Akibarangers receive a call from Hiroyo to pray to a Captain Ersatz of Ultraman named Prism Ace. They do so, and he appears and defeats Malshina almost effortlessly... Then after a couple of scenes it's revealed that Prism Ace just became the True Final Boss. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_415b3315 | comment |
Stylistic Suck: Used a lot in episode 11, most prominently the obvious Fake Shemp techniques in the first scene, as well as Takuma getting on his bike super-quickly. The first episode of Season Two has a bit of this thanks to the ham-fisted Retconning, such as bad overdubs of scenes from the first season, "flashbacks" where characters have slightly different costumes (and in Mitsuki's case, a completely different hair style) and the most blatant example, when they Retcon events that happened five seconds ago: before the mid-show eyecatch, Hakase reacts with happiness but after the eyecatch she reacts with dismay. | |
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What a Piece of Junk | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_437e70f5 | comment |
What a Piece of Junk: The Machine Itasshar is Exactly What It Says on the Tin; a normal two-door sedan (specifically a Prius) with a garish Z-Cune Aoi paintjob. This is the team's Transforming Mecha. | |
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Beach Episode | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_44f6517d | comment |
#2-9 parodies Beach Episode and Humongous Mecha | |
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Character Derailment | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_45a60d75 | comment |
Character Derailment: In-Universe, Dr. Z's character and backstory is entirely rewritten when he seems to be going against the author's plans. | |
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Minidress of Power | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_46ba2113 | comment |
Mini Dress Of Power: Part of the Akibaranger girls' suits. | |
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Stock Footage | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_4856ac40 | comment |
Stock Footage: Recycling pre-existing footage is averted, at least for Yumeria's transformation. Whenever she's in a different costume, the outfit in her transformation changes accordingly. Especially noticeable in episode 4, though it's blink-and-you'll-miss-it in 3. | |
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Official Parody | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_4b7bb4f3 | comment |
Official Parody: It's produced by the Toei Company, like the official Super Sentai. | |
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Honest Axe | |
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Honest Axe: 2-10 plays a variation with a plastic spatula or a golden spatula (a very obvious setup for General Tsu's variation of the Alpaca brothers). Luna chooses the golden one without batting an eyelid. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_4de1a4f7 | comment |
Improvised Weapon: The "Akiba Rod" and "Akiba Pylon", a perfectly ordinary traffic barrier and cone used by the girls. Yumeria does use her pylon for an Ass Shove. | |
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Cliffhanger Copout | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_4dec4b64 | comment |
Cliffhanger Copout: Played for laughs, one episode ends with Mitsuki telling the others she won't be transforming anymore, framed to make it look like she is quitting, 15 seconds into the next episode she reveals it's for 3 days while she's out of town. | |
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Dream Land | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_4fa65449 | comment |
Dream Land: The Delusion World they fight in is an alternate world of people's dreams and imagination. | |
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Dual Wielding | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_50d71a78 | comment |
The Itassha Robo's twin swords are based on this concept, with one being the "Tsun sword" and the other being the "Dere sword". In the first episode of season 2, they declare that they'll never use the Dere sword on an enemy they really dislike. | |
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Fake-Out Opening | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_50f17484 | comment |
Fake-Out Opening: The show kicks off with a Deka Red walking towards us, theme song and sirens blaring... but it's just Nobuo being a fanboy. #8 starts with the Z-Cune Aoi intro instead - it's just our heroes watching the show though. The real OP kicks in later. | |
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Background Music | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_513f3d12 | comment |
Background Music: In-universe example. At the Sentai Cafe, Super Sentai opening themes can be heard in the background, there seems to be a different theme each episode, and the theme is relevant to something going on in the cafe. #1. Seijuu Sentai Gingaman: Upon arriving at the Sentai Cafe, Nobuo spotted a man-sized model of Gingaman's Gingaioh. #2. Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger: Yumeria is eating multiple bowls of curry to emulate the curry-eating yellows. The Abarangers' base was the curry house between the worlds, Dino Curry. #3 has several: Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger when Hiroyo is pondering how Nobuo could have summoned Deka Red in the previous episode. Choujin Sentai Jetman when Nobuo compares himself (a ranger drinking booze) to the badass Gai Yuuki/Black Condor. Rescue Sentai GoGoFive when Nobuo and Yumeria are looking at that team's weapons in a magazine. #4. Choushinsei Flashman: When Hiroyo is bored and Kozukozu lays out red helmets on the cafe bar, starting with Flashman's and ending with Zyuranger's. #7. It's not a Sentai theme, but the Z-Cune Aoi anime theme is heard twice. And again in #8 #8. Mahou Sentai Magiranger, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger & Kagaku Sentai Dynaman (the latter just after Chief Clerk Alpaca explodes in the sky) | |
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Self-Disposing Villain | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_51ecf708 | comment |
Self-Disposing Villain: Boomerang Titan. One soda can thrown just right causes one of its own boomerangs to hit itself, tripping it into the path of all the other boomerangs, capped off with the biggest one taking its head clean off! Can be counted as an Enforced Trope, though. | |
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Motive Decay | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_52c0c7cf | comment |
In #11, Doctor Z changes his goal from "ruin moe anime culture" to "take over the world". Nobuo realises that the recent onset of Cerebus Syndrome means that their world is a TV show which he is being written out of, and informs both Malshina and the other Akibarangers. Malshina tries to convince Doctor Z to work with the Akibarangers to fix things, but his personality is suddenly rewritten by the editors and he tries to kill her. The "scorpion curse" and "new Akiba Red" plotlines vanish so abruptly that the characters fear for what the Toei executives are up to. | |
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Bookends | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: Nods to the Legend War in season 2. The first episode has an Akibaranger take on the ground war with just the three teams they've already encountered; the second to last episode references the Zangyak galactic armada and the Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_53a7089a | comment |
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Itasshar Boy, the size of a child's toy. So small it's invisible when compared to a giant monster. It still kicks its ass, helped in part by a victory flag. | |
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PilotEpisode | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_552b5288 | comment |
#1 is the parody of a Pilot Episode. | |
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Rule of Perception | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_5565c2dd | comment |
Rule of Perception: #9. Despite Akihabara being home to some excellent cosplay, the cafe customers can somehow tell it's a real monster before them even before it attacks (not fatally, thank goodness). Also, in the episode where Mitsuki trains with Kazuo Niibori, and the good guys initiate the Trapped in TV Land plot, she strikes a good distance from the monster and does damage, because "whatever the camera captures is reality". We then switch to another camera, over the monster's shoulder, and see that it really looks like she was hitting him from that angle. This Rule is taken up to eleven in Episode #11. See the "Noticing the Fourth Wall" entry. Lampshaded in the Clip Show, where Nobuo only spots the head clips on the impostor Deka Red helmet during the recap. Averted in the S2 OP, when the new Big Bad gets swamped by otaku. Then justified as that's real-world General Pain, who's really just a cosplayer. | |
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10-Minute Retirement | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_566f1565 | comment |
10-Minute Retirement: Nobuo in #2, after Hiroyo revealed to him that his adventures as an Akibaranger is merely a delusion, until he is snapped out of it by a drop kick from Deka Red (actually a man in a suit hired by Hiroyo). Nobuo notes that that was the same drop kick Ban used to snap Hoji out of it in Dekaranger. | |
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Theory of Narrative Causality | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_567beeb6 | comment |
Theory of Narrative Causality: Winning battles isn't a matter of strength or tactics - it's how many victory or defeat flags you trip by Tempting Fate. All the major characters have intentionally tripped flags to try and get an advantage at some point or another. | |
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Crack is Cheaper | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_573e6dbd | comment |
Crack is Cheaper: This side of being a fan is portrayed in-universe. Nobuo intensely stares at a mint-in-box Great Five toy, but Aoi-tan also tempts him. The Great Five eventually is bought in Episode 4. | |
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Creator Thumbprint | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_5a22609e | comment |
Creator Thumbprint: Discussed in 2-2 with Sentai directors: Luna mentions Noboru Takemotonote episode director since Megaranger and his use of sailor fuku, Katsuya Watanabenote who worked with Sentai from Zyuranger to Kyoryuger and his use of proper, innocent heroines, and Koichi Sakamoto and his love for Show Some Leg. Even Nobuo is impressed with this. | |
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Spandex, Latex, or Leather | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_5a60637c | comment |
Spandex, Latex, or Leather: Latex armor, unlike most Sentai (spandex) or the concurrent one (leather). | |
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Hand Signals | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_5a8f3057 | comment |
Hand Signals: Used in #2 by the fake Deka Red to give his message to Nobuo, as he was actually a man in a suit hired by Hiroyo and as such couldn't speak, he eventually resorts to giving Nobuo the same drop kick Ban used to snap Hoji out of it in Dekaranger. | |
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IntercontinuityCrossover | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_5b351f0d | comment |
#2-12 parodies the Intercontinuity Crossover, the Super Hero Taisen movies, and Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Gag Censor | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_5cb9b6b2 | comment |
Gag Censor: In #3, a Mook's face appears over Maruseena's mouth when she starts to swear. | |
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Hard-Drinking Tropes | |
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Hard-Drinking Tropes: Episode #3 provides a few of these: Drunken Master: ...Sort of. Hiroyo tells them that alcohol can help them become more delusional and, hopefully more powerful. This leads into a... Drunken Montage: Most of the episode is spent on Akagi and Moeginote (Mitsuki cannot drink as she is underage.) getting sloshed in hopes of increasing their delusional power. It fails within the system as Akagi's Heroic Fantasies keep colliding with Moegi's Yaoi Fangirl fantasies creating a Running Gag loop of Akagi saving Malshina disguised as Sayaka from the Monster of the Week and then said Monster of the Week getting a little too comfortable with Akagi which causes Moegi to pass out. Thankfully, Mitsuki is there and she leads us to- Suddenly Sober: Mitsuki attacking Malshina directly and quoting lines from Boukenger is able to snap Akagi and Moegi from their drunken stupor and stops the loop allowing them to finish off the Monster. This is lampshaded by Nobuo. | |
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Nerds Are Virgins | |
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Nerds Are Virgins: Nobuo is described this way. He tries to hide his being a Sentai fanboy for fear of instantly losing any chance with his would-be Love Interest. | |
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Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere | |
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Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: In #4 Nobuo and Yumeria struggle to not have delusions while Mitsuki is away at "training camp at Izu" but they keep getting into situations that relates to either sentai or their other interests. | |
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Carrying a Cake | |
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Carrying a Cake: Happens as the closing gag of episode 5 with Yumeria's birthday cake. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: Nobuo and friends try to invoke as many Sequel Hook as possible in episode 12, down to those that are outright Ass Pull. Unfortunately, The Executives conspire to resolve all of them in the very same scene the hooks are introduced. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: a PowerGlove is spotted on General Pain's desk near the end of 2-7. All the merchandise in the Sentai Cafe is practically daring fans to name it all. Even though the show uses Bland Name Products, there is a genuine Gmail icon in Mutsuki's smartphone. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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In 2-12, the Akibarangers are killed following a Heroic Sacrifice to stop an invading alien fleet. 2-13 twists the knife even further by revealing that the Akibarangers were Killed Off for Real, and are only shown as spirits whilst reminiscing about the events of the season. | |
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The One Guy | |
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The One Guy: For the first time in Super Sentai history, girls outnumber boys when it comes to being a ranger. Nobuo/Akiba Red is The One Guy in a team of four, counting the scientist mentor Professor Hiroyo. | |
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Dream People | |
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Dream People: Malshina and the Chief Clerks are inhabitants of the Delusion World. | |
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EliteMook | |
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Elite Mook: Averted in #7. Turns out the Mook is actually a symbiotic host to the Monster of the Week, who's really a spider about ten inches long. In #11, as part of his takeover, Dr. Z debuts his own set dressed in imperial garb. | |
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Navel-Deep Neckline | |
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Season 2 introduces the Moya Moya Z-Cune (MMZ-00), a repaint used by General Pain to transport his creations into the Delusion World and by Malshina to transform, and the Munyu Munyu Z-Baan (MMZ-02), a new figure with a Navel-Deep Neckline that doubles as a knife and enables Akiba Red's Super Mode. | |
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The Power of Hate | |
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The Power of Hate: What allowed Malshiina to retain her memories of the real season 1 ending was her seething hatred for Hatte Saburo and the way he wrote her. | |
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Trapped in TV Land | |
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Also, in the episode where Mitsuki trains with Kazuo Niibori, and the good guys initiate the Trapped in TV Land plot, she strikes a good distance from the monster and does damage, because "whatever the camera captures is reality". We then switch to another camera, over the monster's shoulder, and see that it really looks like she was hitting him from that angle. | |
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A Wizard Did It | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_6bfc52a3 | comment |
A Wizard Did It: Any inconsistencies between season 1 and 2 (or even any inconsistencies in the series at all) can be easily explained as being the result of rewrites by Saburo Hatte | |
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Animal Battle Aura | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_6d450d3c | comment |
To play further on Shinpei's Gekiranger association, Episode 11's fight is full of Gekiranger references, starting from the verbally and physically elaborate roll call, then going all out on unarmed combat, and then right down to spelling out the "heart-technique-body" triangle and using Animal Battle Aura Ki Manipulation. Interestingly, Takuma himself had something from each one of the core Gekirangers: the color of Jan/Geki Red; the element of Ran/Geki Yellow; and the animal spirit of Retsu/Geki Blue. | |
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Wearing a Flag on Your Head | |
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Wearing a Flag on Your Head: You can tell the "Powerful Rangers" (altered Zyurangers) are American because they have stars and stripes on their collars and belts. | |
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Casting Gag | |
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Casting Gag. Koichi Sakamoto as George Spielburton in 2-5. Sakamoto was the stunt director on Power Rangers from 1993-2009. No wonder George likes Powerful Rangers so much. | |
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"Silly Me" Gesture | |
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"Silly Me" Gesture: In #4, Hiroyo does this when Nobuo reminded her that she was the one who made both him and Yumeria drunk in the previous episode. | |
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Like Reality, Unless Noted | |
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Like Reality, Unless Noted: The world of Akibaranger is our world with the exception that Super Sentai and Power Rangers exist but other Toei and toku series don't or exist as something else. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: The attempt to prolong the show backfires by playing the trope of more threats needing to be dealt with instead. | |
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ColorCodedForYourConvenience | |
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Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The trope of team members being distinguished by colors is pointed out by Nobuo in ep. 1. | |
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Two Girls to a Team | |
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Two Girls to a Team: Yellow and Blue are the only two female members of the team and are in fact the only members other than the male Red. Naturally, Nobuo points this out. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Because of the Alternate Universe-induced Retcon, Mitsuki leaves at the beginning of season 2 to aid the Pentagon (and as far as we can tell, it's not a trap like it was for Nobuo this time.) It's also mentioned briefly that Sayaka moved to Bhutan for work as well. This ended up saving Mitsuki's life. Luna does say she wished she could've met her. | |
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Doujinshi | |
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Doujinshi: Yumeria draws unofficial manga in her spare time. This becomes Chekhov's Skill in #7 when she draws the Akibarangers and Malshina for Hiroyo so she can see them. Happens again in season 2 episode 4 when she draws a manga that restores Akagi's delusional powers, giving him access his Super Mode. In #5, the team members come across "Z-Cune Aoi's Doujin Corner" in a store. Mitsuki confuses one such work for an official product: | |
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Coconut Superpowers | |
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Coconut Superpowers: Noticeable with the very limited appearances of the Itasshar Robo, which, being all-CGI, is one of the more expensive effects in the show and therefore appears very infrequently for a sentai mecha. | |
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God Is Dead | |
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In 2-10... Super Sentai's God Is Dead! Also, Malshina becomes the Big Bad. | |
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Duel to the Death | |
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#2-8 parodies the ever popular Duel to the Death Against the Setting Sun no less | |
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Eagleland | |
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Eagleland: The Powerful Rangers are Type 2 American stereotypes, being portrayed as rude and dismissive towards the Japanese (much contrasting to the original source, who are definitely Type 1) | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Season 2 kicks off when Nobuo discovers some Akibaranger merchandise for sale. | |
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Fandom-Enraging Misconception | |
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Fandom-Enraging Misconception: In-Universe, Nobuo berates Mitsuki for saying BoukenRanger instead of Boukenger, and for being unaware that "ger" is an abbreviation of "ranger". | |
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Cosmic Retcon | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_7cdfe326 | comment |
Cosmic Retcon: Other than Saburo Hatte's Author Powers in season 1, the villains of season 2 have the power to alter history. For example: Gosei Sentai Dairanger has been replaced by the 13-episode flop Gosei Sentai Akibaranger; and Nijiyome Gakuen Z-cune Aoi is now Bloodier and Gorier, driving Aoi's voice actress Hakase into financial trouble. The changes are caused by the Delusion World affecting the real world, so the Akibarangers have to return history to normal by transforming and defeating the Monster of the Week. | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere: The Itassha Robo's twin swords are based on this concept, with one being the "Tsun sword" and the other being the "Dere sword". In the first episode of season 2, they declare that they'll never use the Dere sword on an enemy they really dislike. Also, Aoi Ichikawa of Nijiyome Gakuen Z-Cune Aoi is prone to altering between being loving and intimidating. | |
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Make My Monster Grow | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_7fa7b32e | comment |
Make My Monster Grow: Averted, the monsters stay dead rather than becoming gigantic after their defeat, much to Nobuo's surprise. Finally played straight in #7 when the Chief Clerk turns into a giant spider monster. Though not nearly as big as the normal instance of this trope, being closer to the One-Winged Angel transformations seen in Kamen Rider. And a heroic (well, only partially, given the circumstances) example occurs in episode 12, when the Itassha Robo grows to the size of an official Sentai mecha to fight Doctor Z's giant robot. An actual heroic example occurs in S2 12 when Malshina uses the Wolzaphone to make Super Akiba Red grow to take on Prism Ace. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In #9 the Akibarangers inadvertently helped the enemy break the wall between reality and delusion. In #2-4, Nobuo inspires Malshina to use her dark Aoi-tan and henshin. Yumeria and Luna unhappily lampshade this. | |
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Sudden Downer Ending | |
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Sudden Downer Ending: The end of season 2. Nobuo, Yumeria, and Luna really did give their lives to end the alien threat in the penultimate episode and have shown up at their old hideout as ghosts. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: The first season ends with our heroes fighting off against a giant "The End" only to fail to stop Saburo Hatte from covering up the camera and ending their series. | |
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Final Battle | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_830b0ac9 | comment |
#12 parodies the Final Battle with use of End-of-Series Awareness. | |
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Moe | |
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invoked In #11, Nobuo is aware that Cerebus is encroaching the world, and actively tries to steer the show back to its Moe root. | |
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Convenient Replacement Character | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_83975f3b | comment |
Convenient Replacement Character: Takuma Tsuzuki, Hiroyo's brother who debuted in Episode #10 as an agent working for Interpol. Supposedly, he's to replace Nobuo as Akiba Red after the former is summoned to the Pentagon to work at the Department of Defense. This character's mindset and mannerisms established, conscience makes him go back. He comes back at the end of the next episode. Though just before Takuma leaves, his face shows what can be deciphered as a Traitor Shot that appears way too late to be a surprise. He must have known about the Executive Meddling from the beginning and was doing their bidding, if he wasn't a creation of it directly. | |
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Alternate Universe | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8430699a | comment |
Alternate Universe: Season 2 is confirmed to take place in one spinning off of the events of episode 7 in S1. | |
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Super Mode | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_844b6779 | comment |
One of the most significant moments of this comes with the lead-in to Akiba Red's Super Mode, which is shown first in the form of manga panels and then becomes animated. The eventual Stock Footage of the Super Mode activating includes animation as well. | |
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Drunken Montage | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_865e902f | comment |
Drunken Montage: Most of the episode is spent on Akagi and Moeginote (Mitsuki cannot drink as she is underage.) getting sloshed in hopes of increasing their delusional power. It fails within the system as Akagi's Heroic Fantasies keep colliding with Moegi's Yaoi Fangirl fantasies creating a Running Gag loop of Akagi saving Malshina disguised as Sayaka from the Monster of the Week and then said Monster of the Week getting a little too comfortable with Akagi which causes Moegi to pass out. Thankfully, Mitsuki is there and she leads us to- | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: This gets pulled off in-between #3 and #4. At the end of #3, Mitsuki says that she is leaving, only to add that she's just leaving for three days and isn't leaving the team. | |
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Medium Awareness | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_884e513b | comment |
Medium Awareness: This is actually a plot point, and happens when the main characters realize that they are indeed in a TV show. Believe it or not, it's Played for Drama. And then they forget it all in the second season thanks to Word of God. | |
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Eye Catch | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_887e47ef | comment |
Eye Catch: The eyecatch varies per episode. Generally they involve the live actors or morphed Rangers (and maybe Hakase) messing around in the same black smoke-filled stage, and some involve running off to the left. As befitting the Wham Arc, the eyecatch is taken over by Malshina and the Mooks in #7. Gets taken further in #10 when a Whip Pan is used to combine two such clips into one. In #13, the recap episode, the eyecatches become more traditional. | |
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Watching the Sunset | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_89937faf | comment |
Watching the Sunset: Our heroes do this in #1 while waiting in vain for the MOTW to grow. | |
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Spell My Name with an S | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_89a17726 | comment |
Spell My Name With An S: An alternate spelling for Malshina's name is "©na."note Read the exact same way. "Maru-shi" literally means "circle-C". | |
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Shovel Strike | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8a16409a | comment |
In #3: Nobuo was drunkenly delusional enough to call forth Bouken Red in his one episode silly outfit for the first battle; in the second battle, Nobuo and Yumeria were too drunk and their delusions interfered with one another; Later they received the penultimate power of the Boukengers, the Bouken Scooper, wielded by Akiba Blue. | |
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8a5dc833 | comment |
It Runs on Nonsensoleum: The Akibarangers are powered by delusions and have a henshin call of grand delusion, thus it literaly runs on nonsense. | |
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Cosplay | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8a6423b6 | comment |
Cosplay: It is Akihabara; there are several cosplay cafes and shops. Mitsuki cosplayed as Aoi in #7. | |
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Suddenly Sober | |
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Suddenly Sober: Mitsuki attacking Malshina directly and quoting lines from Boukenger is able to snap Akagi and Moegi from their drunken stupor and stops the loop allowing them to finish off the Monster. This is lampshaded by Nobuo. | |
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Designated Girl Fight | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8bb79fdf | comment |
Designated Girl Fight: #3. Mitsuki only managed to beat Malshina with Yumeria's help. | |
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Salaryman | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8c5b8f0b | comment |
Salaryman: The Mooks. Their name, Shachiku, basically means corporate drone, though apparently it's written a bit differently from the real-life term. | |
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Out-of-Character Moment | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8ca20b69 | comment |
Out-of-Character Moment: Yumeria deciding to wear generic clothing along with an Akibaranger jacket in #11, rather than one of her outlandish costumes. Justified in that it's a symptom of the attempted retooling of the show that Nobuo discovers. | |
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SpecialEffectsFailure | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8d411e7c | comment |
Special Effects Failure: Deliberately invoked in season 2 episode 1, as toys are used for a flashback robot battle. | |
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Wham Episode | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: Episode 6 ends with Malshina leaving the delusion and entering reality, meaning the Akibarangers' fights now have real consequences. In #9, Malshina manages to trick the Akibarangers and completely destroys the barrier between reality and the Grand Delusion, Hakase's dad reveals himself as Doctor Z, the head of Stema Otsu, and Hakase is revealed to be Aoi's voice actress. In #11, Doctor Z changes his goal from "ruin moe anime culture" to "take over the world". Nobuo realises that the recent onset of Cerebus Syndrome means that their world is a TV show which he is being written out of, and informs both Malshina and the other Akibarangers. Malshina tries to convince Doctor Z to work with the Akibarangers to fix things, but his personality is suddenly rewritten by the editors and he tries to kill her. The "scorpion curse" and "new Akiba Red" plotlines vanish so abruptly that the characters fear for what the Toei executives are up to. In 2-6, General Pain learns that he can rewrite reality and starts putting more effort into being the villain. In 2-7, the Akibarangers and General Pain learn who each other are. AND General Pain can now enter the delusion world. In 2-9, the Akibarangers defeat General Pain, but now he's an Empty Shell. Not only that, but one of the retcons that Season 2 made is revealed... The Scorpion Tattoo subplot is back! In 2-10... Super Sentai's God Is Dead! Also, Malshina becomes the Big Bad. In 2-12, the Akibarangers are killed following a Heroic Sacrifice to stop an invading alien fleet. 2-13 twists the knife even further by revealing that the Akibarangers were Killed Off for Real, and are only shown as spirits whilst reminiscing about the events of the season. | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_8e92e125 | comment |
Particularly noticeable in Season 2 Episode 4, which features a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of Ninja Captor. What makes this especially odd is that the show *was* considered by some to be an official Super Sentai. | |
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Credits Jukebox | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_92a642f1 | comment |
Credits Jukebox: Season 2 features covers of old Sentai songs sung by the main cast. Including a cover of "girls in trouble! DEKARANGER" by Nobuo and General Pain. | |
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Retraux | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_92dfffae | comment |
Retraux: A lot of the marketing and merchandise for the show are throwbacks to the early days of Super Sentai. The opening theme single CD, for example, has an old-style colorful cover, while the CD itself is made to look like a vinyl record. | |
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Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_93c74ab3 | type |
Cult Classic | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_93c74ab3 | comment |
Cult Classic: In-Universe example in Season 2: Despite the Akibarangers being a crap show in Super Sentai history (especially from a production standpoint) after history being altered, there are some people that actually consider it the best... Which might hit close to home for some real life fans. | |
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_93ed8515 | comment |
Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The premise of Season 2. Somehow, Akibranger became official... and became the 17th Super Sentai, somehow ousting the Gosei Sentai Dairanger! | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_967edd3a | comment |
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Akagi refers to them as "telop chances". Sure enough, an announcement comes scrolling across the screen the second he says it. | |
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Big Bad | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_970c790a | comment |
Averted in the S2 OP, when the new Big Bad gets swamped by otaku. Then justified as that's real-world General Pain, who's really just a cosplayer. | |
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Medium Blending | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_985795ab | comment |
Medium Blending: The live action is blended with a bit of anime when Aoi "talks" to Akagi in the first episode. One of the most significant moments of this comes with the lead-in to Akiba Red's Super Mode, which is shown first in the form of manga panels and then becomes animated. The eventual Stock Footage of the Super Mode activating includes animation as well. | |
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Event Flag | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_99fe88e1 | comment |
Event Flag: Referenced many times, such as in the theme song. Mostly, it involves the villains doing something (like telling the heroes their master plan before killing them) which in a Sentai series usually results in the heroes turning things around. #3: Nobuo finds out that Sayaka doesn't have a boyfriend. He thinks this is a love flag. #12: Taken to absurd levels now that the characters are trying to fight the producers by avoiding ending flags so that their show will remain on the air. At one point the villain shows up and declares that he wants to settle things once and for all, he's using a Deadly Upgrade, all other villains are dead and his troops will die if he's defeated, and that he plans to visit his fiancée after the fight. And then challenges Akiba Red to a one-on-one battle, destroying his own chest armor and telling him to shoot for the hole to make things fair. Being savvy of these is part of what makes General Pain into a much more challenging adversary. Malshina later takes Pain's knowledge, though, and combines it with her experience and Saburo Hatte's powers to become an even bigger threat, which includes turning flags of defeat into victory conditions and vice-versa. At this point, it's been played with so many times. For example, #2-12 exploits the visual trope of showing who's gonna win depending on what side the fighters are on. | |
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Mark of the Beast | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_9ad6a037 | comment |
Mark of the Beast: Hiroyo turns out to have one ever since receiving the Moe Moe Z-Cune from her father, in form of a scorpion tattoo that moves upwards everytime the Z-Cunes are used in the real world. If it reaches her neck, she will lose her voice and thereby her seiyuu career. What's worse, an Aoi-tan movie is coming soon... As of Episode #11, it's gone completely as if it had never happened. It reappears with a vengeance in Season 2 Episode 9 | |
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Giant Spider | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_9be7c205 | comment |
Finally played straight in #7 when the Chief Clerk turns into a giant spider monster. Though not nearly as big as the normal instance of this trope, being closer to the One-Winged Angel transformations seen in Kamen Rider. | |
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Conflict Killer | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_9bff7822 | comment |
Conflict Killer: In Season 1, the heroes vs. villains fight morphs into both vs. the show's creators. Seems set to happen again once everyone realizes what's going on in season two. | |
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SpotTheImpostor | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_9c6da551 | comment |
Spot the Impostor: Discussed in episode 4. When the supposedly brainwashed Mitsuki turns out to be a fake, Nobuo thinks this situation is going to happen. Subverted when Malshina just reveals herself on her own, figuring there's no point in keeping up the disguise when the real Mitsuki has shown up. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In ep 12, Nobuo tries to avert the end of the show by destroying Itashar Robo with its own missiles. Guess what happens to Boomerang Titan barely a minute later. | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S" | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S": It's a mashup of the kanji for 'Hi' in Hikonin with the 'A' for Akibaranger. | |
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Production Foreshadowing | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_9eca61c8 | comment |
Production Foreshadowing: The show's Writing Around Trademarks version of Space Sheriff Gavan, "Galactic Sheriff Gavian", is shown to have a movie version, stated to begin filming in the summer of 2012. After the end of Akibaranger, an actual Gavan movie was announced, which indeed began filming in the summer of 2012. | |
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Meta Sequel | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_9f7ad927 | comment |
Meta Sequel: The Super Sentai franchise exists as an in-universe show (including Power Rangers), which is another reason the children aren't supposed to watch Akibaranger, as it will break the illusion. | |
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Merchandise-Driven | |
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General Pain, though it's thanks to the fact that he's a fan of Sentai villains. He even invokes a meta trope in Super Sentai, in which sometime before Christmas, a new foe comes and becomes such a threat that only a new mecha is required to defeat it. | |
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Finishing Move | |
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In the first episode they started the fight with their Finishing Move. The monster calls them out on it, saying that using their best move right at the beginning is unfair (and because he had to sacrifice his mooks to block it). | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The first six episodes were quite upbeat in tone and delivery; however, after the Wham Episode, (#6) the story has gotten considerably darker.("Darker" being a loose statement given the overall premise.) #2-11 delivers multiple ones, to the point of being the episode's very focus. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: The Monster of the Week in #2 takes the clothes of people away (and Malshina's too, after a misfire). Malshina gets a recurring dose of this trope as it is part of her Transformation Sequence in the second season. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Ryuuji Sainei cameos as himself in #2. (Though he does voice his Deka Red self in the delusion world.) Suit Actor Kazuo Niiborinote suit actor for Akaranger and all the other early reds from Battle Japan through Red Hawk. appears as himself in #6. Lampshaded and averted in episode 9. When a character sees Takuma Tsuzuki for the first time, they instantly assume that it's Manpei Takagi, the actor who played GekiBlue, playing himself. The rest of the cast points out that the idea is ludicrous because they're clearly not the same guy. (Takuma is actually played by Manpei's real-life twin brother Shinpei Takagi) Yukio Yamagata and MoJo, who (along with Halko Momoi) sing Season 2's OP, are summoned by Malshina in 2-2. Legendary Super Sentai narrator Nobuo Tanaka lends his talents in 2-6 In Season 2 Episode 8, Yoshinori Okamoto appears, as does Seiji Takaiwanote The suit actor for NinjaRed and twelve out of the fourteen Heisei Kamen Rider. In #10 of season 2, after having made a brief cameo in season 1 and voicing the Monster of the Week in 2-6, Halko Momoi (who also sings the show's theme song) appears, this time explicitly as herself. | |
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Alternate History | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_a86069f | comment |
Alternate History/Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: This Japanese news post states that Akibaranger exists in a world with a rather different cultural backdrop; while Super Sentai exists pretty much as we know it today (as does Power Rangers- though season 2 altered this somewhat), other series, even ones owned by Toei, are altered from their original forms, while others seem to not exist at all. Kamen Rider and Metal Heroes seem to be affected by this, the latter apparently having been replaced with "recent" anime such as Gavian and B-Trooper. Pretty Cure, Sailor Moon, and the Ultra Series (which is Tsuburaya property anyway) don't exist either. Takuma says a Scarf of Asskicking reminds him of some hero show he used to watch as a kid. Naturally, the words "Kamen Rider" do not come up. Particularly noticeable in Season 2 Episode 4, which features a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of Ninja Captor. What makes this especially odd is that the show *was* considered by some to be an official Super Sentai. In the episode with Yoshinori Okamoto, we also get a cameo by suit actor Seiji Takaiwa, and Nobuo can even name all the past Red senshi he's been suited as... while ignoring the fact that he's had twice as many roles in Heisei Kamen Rider alone. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_a939d96a | comment |
Adults Are Useless: Mitsuki thinks this when everyone is too drunk to fight properly in #3. | |
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Classic Villain | |
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Classic Villain: Dr. Z with his cape, robotic eye, claw hand and plans to take over the world. Pointed out by Akagi when he first appears:"A Showa-era villain has appeared!" General Pain designed his costume to look like General Kar. | |
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Noticing the Fourth Wall | |
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Noticing the Fourth Wall: Used as a PLOT POINT of all things in #11, in which Nobuo finds out that the world he and the Akibarangers are living in is in fact a TV Show called Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger and that someone on the Toei production staff in the real world is modifying the show's tone for their own satisfaction. What? | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All the episode titles have the word 'ita'note usually meaning 'pain' in some form; episode 2 and 7's titles reference Itasha, which uses the kanji for pain in them, in a case similar to Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger and their usage of 'abare'. Season 2's episodes are all titled "Delusion [something]". | |
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Save the Villain | |
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Save the Villain: Akiba Red saves Doctor Z from being killed in the destruction of the Boomerang Titan in the final episode... though it's more out of a desire to still have a villain left to fight, and thus continue the show, rather than being worried about his life. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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This becomes Chekhov's Skill in #7 when she draws the Akibarangers and Malshina for Hiroyo so she can see them. Happens again in season 2 episode 4 when she draws a manga that restores Akagi's delusional powers, giving him access his Super Mode. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In Season 2, General Pain gives Malshina a book detailing all of Sentai History to help better herself against the Akibarangers. She read the part where an early Sentai villainess backstabs her higher up to take charge and promptly does that. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: At the end of #6, Malshina has crossed over to reality. None of the heroes take this discovery well. | |
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Mickey Mousing | |
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Mickey Mousing: Yumeria's actions, both in and out of suit, are frequently punctuated by sound effects for added Kawaisa. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Takehiro Tsuzuki/Doctor Z. Starting from his attempt from the beginning to curse his own daughter (Hiroyo) to ruin her seiyuu career, and also completely dismissing Malshina, whom has treated him like her own father and called him respectfully... | |
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Content Warnings | |
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Content Warnings: The series announcement on the official website ended on the following: There's also the fact that Akibaranger acknowledges that Super Sentai is a fictional series produced by a television company, so they don't want to "ruin the magic" for young kids. | |
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RetCon | |
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In Season 2, changes made to Sentai characters in the Delusion World have the power to alter the history of Sentai in the real world as well. | |
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Retcon | |
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The first episode of Season Two has a bit of this thanks to the ham-fisted Retconning, such as bad overdubs of scenes from the first season, "flashbacks" where characters have slightly different costumes (and in Mitsuki's case, a completely different hair style) and the most blatant example, when they Retcon events that happened five seconds ago: before the mid-show eyecatch, Hakase reacts with happiness but after the eyecatch she reacts with dismay. | |
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Just Between You and Me | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_b26cc887 | comment |
Just Between You and Me: An Event Flag for villain failure, according to the rules. | |
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Real-World Episode | |
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The Akibaranger Stage Show, titled "Episode 14," follows the premise of #12; though since the stage show takes place in the real world, and the Akibarangers are aware of this.... | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In the technical finale of the first season, Delu-Knight says his response time is a hundred times faster than the Japanese government's response in a crisis, referencing the slow response to the Tohoku Earthquake. Prism Ace and the company behind him's entire plot is a gigantic one to Chaiyo Productions' attempt to steal the Ultraman franchise. | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: Takuma Tsuzuki is portrayed as the cool guy who's perfect at everything, who even gets a Leitmotif to boot. | |
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The End | |
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The End: One can argue that The End is the final boss of the first season! The combined force of Akibarangers and Malshiina fails to defeat it. | |
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Transforming Mecha | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_b6ae5569 | comment |
Transforming Mecha: The Itasshar Robo, an Itasha with a ridiculous paint job. Mini-Mecha: Rather than the usual Humongous Mecha, Itasshar Robo is extremely small by Sentai standards, transforming from a normal car and remaining the size of a normal car. It's bigger than the Rangers, at least. The Itasshar Boy in season 2 is toy-sized, but still manages to be just as powerful as a full-size mecha. Then in the final episode, the Itasshar Robo actually becomes a Humongous Mecha as an Ass Pull by the producer to force a final confrontation. | |
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Executive Meddling | |
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Executive Meddling: In-Universe, it becomes a major plot point as of episode as of #11, when it turns out that the characters realise they'e in a TV show and that it's actively being rewritten by a Toei executive. Nobuo is able to sense and even predict this to a degree. | |
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Lost in Translation | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_b7920c43 | comment |
Lost in Translation: Akibaranger is chock-full of wordplay, Internet memes, cultural in-jokes and 2chan slang, not to mention all the Super Sentai and fandom references. All of this has made Akibaranger an incredibly tough show to translate into other languages. | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Nobuo's reaction to the fact that Yumeria throwing a soda can at the kaiju-sized final boss caused it to defeat itself is one of astonished and irked disbelief. | |
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Swiss-Army Tears | |
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Swiss-Army Tears: Yumeria tries to invoke crying returning the corrupted to normal to turn the supposedly evil Akiba Blue back to normal. It doesn't work when one is wearing a helmet. | |
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Eternal Hero | |
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Eternal Hero: At the end of season 2, the spirits of the recently deceased Akibarangers reassure the audience that they are eternal, and that they'll return if Hatte Saburo wishes it. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Sayaka being harassed by the MOTW in #9 triggers Nobuo's burst of manly spirit, enabling him to transform into Akiba Red in reality. | |
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UnCancelled | |
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Un-Cancelled: Initially it seemed there would only be one twelve-episode season, but it proved popular enough to get a Recap Episode for #13, and then a second season. | |
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Replaced the Theme Tune | |
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Replaced the Theme Tune: A minor instance of this. Episode 11's opening switches to the second verse of the main theme, which contains more electric guitar and synthesized elements. If the differing 'feel' of the previous episode recap didn't already clue you in, this is a another warning sign that something's wrong. At the end of the episode, Nobuo snaps his allies out of their executive-meddling-induced personality changes, and come next episode the theme has changed back to the bubbly, moe-esque tune of the main theme's first verse. | |
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Home Base | |
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Home Base: Our heroes hang out at the Sentai Cafe (complete with "Secret Base" on its logo in large red kanji) | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Episode #11 has everyone find out that they're actually characters in a show. | |
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Recap Episode | |
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Recap Episode: Episode 13 has the Akibarangers watching a DVD sent by Saburo Hatte, containing a recap of their previous adventures. The first episode of Season 2 summarizes what happened in Season 1, but it becomes blatantly clear that the summary is wrong. The series finale is also an episode devoted to recapping the events of previous episodes, covering both seasons. | |
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Loud of War | |
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Loud of War: in s2, Kibaranger delivers a sound attack that basically summons Yukio Yamagata and Ichiro Tomita aka MoJo to sing you into submission. Imagine summoning Ozzy Osbourne and Steven Tyler to fend off asteroids about to obliterate the Earth... | |
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Subverted Trope | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c145f69b | comment |
Subverted Trope: Several Super Sentai tropes are subverted, much to Nobuo's dismay. For example in #1, where the Monster of the Week fails to grow after being defeated, Nobuo notes that "these bad guys are subverting all the tropes!" Ironically, just before this, the Akibarangers subverted a trope of their own when the monster initally gave them a hard beating before Malshina decided to let him take it from here, spelling certain doom for the monster. Whereas in pretty much all modern Super Sentai series, the team's debut is a Curb-Stomp Battle where they utterly obliterate the monster and its Mooks without difficulty. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c2393191 | comment |
Also, Aoi Ichikawa of Nijiyome Gakuen Z-Cune Aoi is prone to altering between being loving and intimidating. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: Nobuo works for Sasaki Ponpoko Delivery. Being a Sentai fanboy, he exploits it to mean the other S.P.D.. | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c26e2b1 | comment |
New Powers as the Plot Demands: Depending on how delusional they are, the Akibarangers can suddenly gain new abilities. The Inordinate Powers are an example. In #2: They were deluded enough to cause the Machine Itassher to transform (but not enough for a cool battle with it yet); Nobuo was deluded enough for Deka Red to appear to help fight and give them the penultimate power of the Dekarangers, the Deka Cuffs, wielded by Akiba Red. In #3: Nobuo was drunkenly delusional enough to call forth Bouken Red in his one episode silly outfit for the first battle; in the second battle, Nobuo and Yumeria were too drunk and their delusions interfered with one another; Later they received the penultimate power of the Boukengers, the Bouken Scooper, wielded by Akiba Blue. In #5: The team was deluded enough for Yumeria's deceased mother to appear. In #6: They were deluded enough to give the MOTW the movie episode runaroundnote normally done by the MOTW to the other sentai warriors and call forth Red Hawk and receive the penultimate power of Jetman, the Jet Winger, wielded by Akiba Red. It was also allowed Malshina to go into the real world. In #7: They were deluded enough to change the delusional world and finally have a cool robot battle. They even go into the real world and turned a real world sign into a gun for their mecha. In #8: They were deluded enough to combine their Inordinate Powers (Deka Cuffs, Bouken Scooper, and Jet Winger) into the Inordinate Cannon, all while in the real world. In #9: Nobuo transformed in the real world and single-handedly defeated the MOTW by consecutively using the Inordinate Powers. In #10: Akibas Yellow and Blue ALSO gained the ability to transform in real life in order to assist against Delu-Knight, despite the plot clearly establishing that Nobuo is the most deluded out of the three of them. (And thus the only one that was capable of pulling the feat off.) In #11: While not a power per se, Nobuo suddenly gains enough perception to realize that he is in fact in a TV Show, despite being completely unaware of it, or being able to perceive it, prior. | |
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Mooks | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c36cba70 | comment |
Mooks: The Shatieeks ("Sacrificial Corporate Drones") are the standard enemy foot soldiers of this series. | |
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Otaku | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c38afac1 | comment |
Otaku: With all the repercussions to boot. Nobuo hides his fanboyism to both Aoi and Sentai from public in fears that his would-be girlfriend would reject him for being an Otaku. | |
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Hope Spot | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: There are a few moments in episode 12 where it seems like the heroes have succeeded in forcing the story to continue. Most obviously with Dr. Z and Malshina arriving to stop the battle between Delu-Knight and the Akibarangers, with Dr. Z saying he won't be manipulated anymore, only to... be manipulated again. | |
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Real Trailer, Fake Movie | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c60b080b | comment |
Real Trailer, Fake Movie: A variation in the form of Real Movie Posters, Fake Movie; a cardboard stand-up and tickets were made for an Akibaranger movie called "Treasure of the Maid Kingdom" (the same one that is shown in parts of the ending credits) which presumably won't really be made. | |
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Mini-Mecha | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c72af5a8 | comment |
Mini-Mecha: Rather than the usual Humongous Mecha, Itasshar Robo is extremely small by Sentai standards, transforming from a normal car and remaining the size of a normal car. It's bigger than the Rangers, at least. The Itasshar Boy in season 2 is toy-sized, but still manages to be just as powerful as a full-size mecha. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The A in the Akibaranger seal looks suspiciously like that of The Avengers' logo. Z-Cune Aoi has a lot in common with the Busou Shinki girls, substituting "always 8 inches tall" with "always in 2D". The stances that the Akibarangers pull is VERY similar to that of the Ginyu Force's. Adding some Kamen Rider to an existing Sentai gimmick, our heroes can gain "Sentai Ultimate Powers" that actually function more like the Final Form Ride. And instead of Decade grabbing the past Riders from behind, the past Sentai Reds grab our heroes by the chest... including the ladies. When Yumeria says she's cosplaying as a schoolboy in #3, she does a finger point similar to another school student. Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Uta No Prince Sama merchandise can be seen in the cosplay shop in #4. Yumeria's costume from the end of #7 is pretty much Rin Kagamine with a samurai helmet just because. #8 has the monster quoting Amuro Ray's "Not even my father hit me!" after getting a "Get A Hold Of Yourself Man" Slap from Nobuo. Doubly so as we remember that Warz Gill showed the same reaction in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger when Marvelous shot him. When the Monster of the Week in #9 breaks into reality, his pose and cry of "It's reality time!" mimic the hero of Kamen Rider Fourze, who shouts "It's space time!" when he transforms. #2-2: When Kibaranger appears, Yumeria does Kamen Rider Nadeshiko's pose. #2-4 mentions an old anime called "Ninja Cap-tan", which is a reference to a real-life Toku show produced by Toei in 1976 called Ninja Captor (Which, depending on who you ask, may or may not have been considered an installment of the Sentai series at one time, possibly making this a Discontinuity Nod). #2-5, aside of Powerful Rangers, has an American successful director named George Spielburton. Who made a successful alien movie called E.T.E. #2-6. Yumeria is channeling Ichirou Mizuki for some reason. | |
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Troperiffic | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c89f0472 | comment |
Troperiffic: This is intentional, as it references and plays around with all the Sentai tropes. | |
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Retirony | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_c8a8c595 | comment |
Retirony: The trope of someone getting killed when they had some time left before retirement is Played for Laughs in episode 12 as one of the many ways in which Deluknight signals that he's going to die. Hilariously, the Akibas react with panic, because they're trying to lose. | |
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Power Trio | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_ca85e684 | comment |
Power Trio: Two Girls and a Guy, in an inversion of the usual Sentai trio (the guy's still Red, though). | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: One that is deliberately put in place. Season 1 most definitely didn't end the way first episode of Season 2 depicts it to end. Blame Saburo Hatte, again. Or rather, blame his injury. | |
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Begin with a Finisher | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_cc05f657 | comment |
Begin with a Finisher: The Akibarangers use this tactic in their first Monster of the Week battle. The monster's Mooks end up Taking the Bullet for him and he criticizes the Akibarangers for resorting to a cheap move early on. | |
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Goofy Print Underwear | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_cc3c365f | comment |
Goofy Print Underwear: Akiba Blue's panties have a teddy bear face at the rear. Not Mitsuki's or Luna's. Akiba Blue's. As in, the suit comes with Goofy Print Underwear. | |
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Word of God | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_cc4b45f6 | comment |
And then they forget it all in the second season thanks to Word of God. | |
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Beyond the Impossible | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_cc6f4612 | comment |
Beyond the Impossible: In episode #9, Nobuo transforms into Akiba Red for real through sheer Heroic Resolve. | |
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Spoiler Opening | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_cd83fa5b | comment |
Spoiler Opening: Averted in season 2's first episode. Sketches hide the new Akiba Blue (with Kyoko Hinami still credited as Mitsuki), mecha and main villain, and all lyrics in the new OP related to the three are replaced with na-na-na's. Season 2 episode 2 brings out the full version of the opening, after there's no longer anything to spoil. The end credits and next episode preview, however, do spoil the new characters. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_cda501da | comment |
This ended up saving Mitsuki's life. Luna does say she wished she could've met her. | |
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Deadly Upgrade | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_cf41a26 | comment |
#12: Taken to absurd levels now that the characters are trying to fight the producers by avoiding ending flags so that their show will remain on the air. At one point the villain shows up and declares that he wants to settle things once and for all, he's using a Deadly Upgrade, all other villains are dead and his troops will die if he's defeated, and that he plans to visit his fiancée after the fight. And then challenges Akiba Red to a one-on-one battle, destroying his own chest armor and telling him to shoot for the hole to make things fair. | |
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Hostile Show Takeover | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_cf64a80d | comment |
Hostile Show Takeover: Near the end of season 2, Malshina uses the knowledge of Super Sentai villains' defeats that she's learned throughout the show to defeat all the official Sentai heroes and take over their shows, turning the Super Sentai series into the Super Malshina series, where the villains win every time. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_cfdb9e17 | comment |
Cerebus Syndrome: As a result of the Mid-Season Twist, there's a lot more drama in the show's second half. Lampshaded in #10 with Doctor Z talking about a 'new direction' for the Blatantly Evil etc. Company, starting with laying off all the MotW-class monsters in favor of Dragon-level ones. invoked In #11, Nobuo is aware that Cerebus is encroaching the world, and actively tries to steer the show back to its Moe root. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: The Akibarangers paid so much active attention to victory and defeat flags during the last few episodes of season 2 that when Hakase tells them all to come back in the end it trips a suicide attack flag, causing them all to die stopping the alien invasion. The invasion is also their fault, having been the Excuse Plot for the VS movie against Prism Ace. | |
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Writing Around Trademarks | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_d4c98786 | comment |
Writing Around Trademarks: As mentioned above, a lot of actual Toei material gets renamed and redesigned specifically for the Akibaranger universe. More to the point of the trope, Yumeria's cosplays, unless from Super Sentai or Z-Cune Aoi, do not reflect any specific anime. Also, the Machine Itashar has the Akibaranger logo replacing the Toyota logo on the front and back. | |
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Fake Shemp | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_d51263b9 | comment |
Used a lot in episode 11, most prominently the obvious Fake Shemp techniques in the first scene, as well as Takuma getting on his bike super-quickly. | |
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Scarf of Asskicking | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_d88faed2 | comment |
Scarf of Asskicking: The Rangers have white ones. Nobuo has a scarf as his civilian self to evoke the image, but he doesn't exactly kick much ass while wearing it. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Malsheena's go-to tactic in season two, like a lot of Sentai villains. Unlike most Sentai villains, it's not really because she's being beaten, but more like, "okay, this is getting stupid, MOTW, you handle the rest". | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_d9ffec82 | comment |
Weaponized when General 2 orchastrates things so it's 'winter', and thus the time for the new toys...meaning the Akibarangers are weak because the Christmas toys will be coming out and thus the new stuff needs to look cool. This resulted in him demolishing them in the resulting fight. They turn the tables with Itasshar Boy, who demolishes his monster for the same reason. | |
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Drunken Master | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_da484c4a | comment |
Drunken Master: ...Sort of. Hiroyo tells them that alcohol can help them become more delusional and, hopefully more powerful. This leads into a... | |
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Hijacked by Ganon | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_da76b18 | comment |
Hijacked by Ganon: In season 1, Malshina initially seemed to be the Big Bad, but she was replaced by Dr. Z and then in the final episode by Saburo Hatte- and it even seemed like she was going to join the heroes in their efforts to extend the show. Near the end of season 2, with Hatte apparently dying in the hospital, she took back her spot as the top villain from General Tsuu, but had her spot as the Big Bad hijacked again; this time by Prism Ace, a hero from another company slated to take Super Sentai's timeslot. | |
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Anime Hair | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_daf4da31 | comment |
Anime Hair: Exaggerated and ludicrous hairstyles are not on the characters themselves, but rather molded into their helmets. Shonen Hair: Akiba Red has spiky hair. Tomboyish Ponytail: Akiba Blue S1 has a ponytail and is a bit tomboyish. (S2 version is considerably less tomboyish) Girlish Pigtails: Akiba Yellow S1 has pigtails. | |
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Transformation Trinket | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_dbde0b49 | comment |
Transformation Trinket: The Moe Moe Z-Cune (MMZ-01), an "officially licensed" figure of Aoi that also transforms into the team sidearm and also acts as the communication device. It only works in the delusional world until #9. Season 2 introduces the Moya Moya Z-Cune (MMZ-00), a repaint used by General Pain to transport his creations into the Delusion World and by Malshina to transform, and the Munyu Munyu Z-Baan (MMZ-02), a new figure with a Navel-Deep Neckline that doubles as a knife and enables Akiba Red's Super Mode. | |
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Color Character | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_dc9e682b | comment |
Color Character: Another "[team prefix] [English color]" Sentai. | |
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Acting for Two | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_dd0c5d58 | comment |
Also, in what's both a real-life and in-universe example (see Acting for Two above), the Z-Cune Aoi theme is performed by Maaya Uchida, who plays Hiroyo and Aoi. | |
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Shonen Hair | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_dd6f0fc4 | comment |
Shonen Hair: Akiba Red has spiky hair. | |
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Mid-Season Twist | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_ddb233c1 | comment |
Mid-Season Twist: Continuing from the previous episode, Malshina is in the real world and it seems to know Hakase, evident from a drawing the latter had in a safe in the back of the cafe drawn up by her father. Later the Akibarangers, Machine Itashar, and the Monster of the Week appear and fought in the real world. | |
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Male Gaze | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_dfb71617 | comment |
Male Gaze: Mitsuki gets into a comical fight with Nobuo about this in the OP after he points out her skirt is ruffled after a fight, showing the large teddy bear face emblazoned on her suits backside. | |
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"Super Sentai" Stance | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_e15ba0e6 | comment |
"Super Sentai" Stance: Blue especially has trouble with striking a pose during team formations. Red usually pulls off his role in them well enough. | |
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Camp | |
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CAMP: Being a Super Sentai parody, the suit battles take every campy element and takes it up to eleven. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_e6f18344 | comment |
Then in the final episode, the Itasshar Robo actually becomes a Humongous Mecha as an Ass Pull by the producer to force a final confrontation. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_e8cae797 | comment |
Freudian Trio: Ego: Nobuo Superego: Mitsuki Id: Yumeria | |
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Monster of the Week | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_e9604359 | comment |
Meanwhile, the Chief Clerks are all given very long names that are combinations of areas in Tokyo and animals (usually insects). For example, Alpaca Tsukishima's main weapons are a set of monjayaki spatulas, Tsukishima being the district of Tokyo where monjayaki is thought to have originated. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: The Akibaranger powers and their entire conflict with the (fictional) Blatantly Evil Guerilla Marketing Firm B are simply a shared hallucination brought on by the Moe Moe Z-Cune and the Akibarangers' own imaginations. This Handwaves things like why the location suddenly changes after their transformation, why two non-combatants suddenly know how to fight and why Villain Ball is in full effect. As of #6, not any more. As of #11, Nobuo has figured out that their world exists as the TV show Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger The Akibaranger Stage Show, titled "Episode 14," follows the premise of #12; though since the stage show takes place in the real world, and the Akibarangers are aware of this.... | |
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Traitor Shot | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_ea8de006 | comment |
He comes back at the end of the next episode. Though just before Takuma leaves, his face shows what can be deciphered as a Traitor Shot that appears way too late to be a surprise. He must have known about the Executive Meddling from the beginning and was doing their bidding, if he wasn't a creation of it directly. | |
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Shrinking Violet | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_eb002293 | comment |
Shrinking Violet: Subverted. Despite being described a virgin, Nobuo isn't exactly a shy guy, he's actually very passionate and occasionally boisterous about being a Sentai fanboy. | |
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Jet Pack | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_ebad3aad | comment |
In #6: They were deluded enough to give the MOTW the movie episode runaroundnote normally done by the MOTW to the other sentai warriors and call forth Red Hawk and receive the penultimate power of Jetman, the Jet Winger, wielded by Akiba Red. It was also allowed Malshina to go into the real world. | |
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Fusion Dissonance | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_ebd7409c | comment |
Fusion Dissonance: In the first episode, the Akibarangers encounter two Meido cosplaying as the Elegant Gothic Lolita Nai and Mea who, instead of combining into the more thematically relevant vampire Vancuria like the originals, combines into the male aphid-themed Shibuyaseitakaawadachisohidenagaaburamushi. | |
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Defied Trope | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_ec02c97e | comment |
Defied Trope: Episode 11 is full of the usual Sentai tropes being defied. Even Executive Meddling gets defied! | |
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The Starscream | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_eedee4d | comment |
#2-10 parodies The Starscream and also the plot of season 1! | |
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Sequel Reset | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f06cdd2d | comment |
Sequel Reset: The sequel undoing the resolution of the previous installment is parodied in Season 2 by taking it to extremes. The second season premiere outright contradicts how the first season ended in order to justify replacing Mitsuki with Luna as Akiba Blue, among other changes. | |
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Sailor Earth | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f0bb6c11 | comment |
Sailor Earth: In season 2, General Tsu's monsters are designed in the style of previous official Sentai series monsters, even following their Theme Naming. Also, the Deluded Rangers that appear follow the motif of What Could Have Been (what if Dairanger was Chinaman, and what if the Gouraiger were still evil and had themselves a third member), save for the Powerful Rangers. This manages to become inverted with season 2's episode 7: Three new members were added into the Seven Spears of Darkness. But since each of those were named after days of the week, the end result in the real world is that the week now has ten days. | |
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Seasonal Rot | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f1a1a9a4 | comment |
Seasonal Rot: Invoked in episode 3, as it's shown that "Gosei Sentai Akibaranger" was a total flop with both kids and adults, and it was cancelled and replaced with Ninja Sentai Kakuranger after 13 episodes. | |
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Rage Against the Author | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f2a6d76d | comment |
Rage Against the Author: The first season ends with the characters realizing they're in a television show and doing everything they can to prevent the creator from ending the series. | |
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Breast Expansion | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f41b26d | comment |
Breast Expansion: When Yumeria transforms into Akiba Yellow, her breasts expand in a none too subtle manner. | |
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Recycled Script | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f4231181 | comment |
Recycled Script: Invoked in the show. Akagi got replaced in a very similar way to how the first Vul Eagle was replaced, and he points out the similarity. This is how he finds out he's in a TV show. | |
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f4fd424c | comment |
#7 combines elements of a villain storming the heroes' base episode and a stolen Transformation Trinket episode. | |
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Product Placement | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: Official Rangers that appear tend to be ones with an S.H.Figuarts figure coming soon. In turn, the figure usually comes with accessories related to their Akibaranger appearance. | |
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"On the Next Episode of..." Catch-Phrase | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f85604c2 | comment |
"On the Next Episode of..." Catch-Phrase: Every episode of the first season has the Akibarangers say "Good little kids, don't watch." | |
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Opposite Day | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f9cd9430 | comment |
Opposite Day: In 2#11, victory flags become defeat flags and vise versa. | |
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Running Gag | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Not only is Akiba Yellow's little story during her roll call getting constantly interrupted, so far she's been managing to pick it up where she had left it the previous episode. | |
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Robosexual | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_fcf6bca9 | comment |
Robosexual: Nobuo has a fetish for gynoids stemming from a childhood crush on Colon. Hence why he is so infatuated with Aoi (who would be a cyborg by definition) and another reason why he cannot properly fight the Monster of the Week of 2-6, a Robot Girl with a very Moe look. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_fd4f8299 | comment |
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Most of the monsters of the week actually have good intentions, or generally, intentions that aren't all that evil at all, such as remaking Akihabara into a second Shibuya, a hostess entertainment district, or just cleansing Akihabara of all impure desires. As with most of these tropes, this is played for laughs and most of these plans are played up to Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Master of Disguise | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_fd7267dd | comment |
Master of Disguise: Malshina, who can change her clothes, voice, and appearance instantly. In contrast with Enter, the primary villain of the official Sentai series Akibaranger airs alongside, who merely changes his clothes, retaining his appearance and even his signature sunglasses. | |
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Theme Naming | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_fd94c4ac | comment |
Theme Naming: The three heroes all have their color in their surname.note Nobuo Akagi, Mitsuki Aoyagi, and Yumeria Moegi This is also lampshaded by Nobuo in the first episode. Invoked with Luna's recruitment: one of the first things Nobuo checks is that her name contains the kanji for blue (it does, inside another kanji at least). Meanwhile, the Chief Clerks are all given very long names that are combinations of areas in Tokyo and animals (usually insects). For example, Alpaca Tsukishima's main weapons are a set of monjayaki spatulas, Tsukishima being the district of Tokyo where monjayaki is thought to have originated. | |
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Brick Joke | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: Mitsuki practices a kicking maneuver that originated from Tenma Ranger during her offtime in #9, which is added to her rollcall pose in #10 to drag it out even longer. | |
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Cut Short | |
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_ffa0483f | comment |
Cut Short: Parodied. Malshiina is very surprised when Dr. Z suddenly and uncharacteristically decides to lay off the 40 remaining chief clerks. | |
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