Category Archives: Super Sentai

A look at October’s Uchu Sentai Kyuranger & Kamen Rider Build Toys

With Toku series like Kyuranger and Build currently airing another new month means new toys for these two shows. Of course Bandai delivers again with some exciting things in the month of October. Uchu Sentai Kyuranger October features one big new toy in the form of the DX Orion Battler! This big mecha release for […]

Uchu Sentai Kyuranger: Episode 31 Review

As the battle to save the universe gets tougher and tougher, we get ever closer to finding out if our team of saviours can bring peace to every corner of space. The latest episode opens like many others with a recap of the last few episodes featuring the debut of Shishi Red Orion. After the opening, […]

Toei trademarks two new Sentai series.

Earlier today, it was confirmed through the “trademark bot” Twitter account that Toei had trademarked names for two new Sentai series: Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger and Keisatsu Sentai Patoranger. Lupinranger will likely be based on thieves and criminals (Kaitou roughly translates to Gentleman thief), Patoranger will almost definitely be another police themed series. This is unusual […]

The Super Sentai Review with Joe: Uchu Sentai Kyuranger Episode 30

Joe takes over The Super Sentai Review this week, as Uchu Sentai Kyuranger close out the Time Travel Arc and look ahead to the future! Episode 30 of Uchu Sentai Kyuranger marks the end of the Time Travel Arc we’ve been following since episode 24 and it does so spectacularly, if a little unexpectedly. Previously, […]

The Super Sentai Review with Connor: Uchu Sentai Kyuranger Episode 29

This week in Kyuranger, we find out what happened to the team on the Orion and we run into a new ally, so follow me and let’s talk about episode 29. The episode opens much like any other, with a run down of the past few weeks. To recap what is happening to our team […]

Uchu Sentai Kyuranger: The Story So Far

Continuing our ‘Story So Far’ series, Joe takes a look at everything that’s happened so far in Uchu Sentai Kyuranger. Uchu Sentai Kyuranger is, at the time of writing, the 41st instalment of the long running Super Sentai series and is in some ways quite a departure from what we’ve come to expect from Sentai, […]

Uchu Sentai Kyuranger YUDO Figures Revealed

New candy toy style figures are coming for select heroes from Uchu Sentai Kyuranger! A number of weeks ago, we reported that a new range of articulated action figures were coming, based on Shishi Red from Uchu Sentai Kyuranger. Initially thought to be the return of Super Sentai S.H. Figuarts, it quickly emerged that these […]

Sentai Teammates Say Goodbye to Tatsuya Nomi

This past Saturday, September 2nd, the cast of Gosei Sentai Dairanger, as well as alumni of various other Super Sentai series attended the memorial ceremony of their former teammate, Tatsuya Nomi. In attendance were the other four Dairangers, Keiichi Wada, Ei Hamura, Keisuke Tsuchiya and Natsuki Takanashi, as well as Ryousuke Kaizu & Kei Shindachya (Red & […]

The Truth About Tokusatsu

Tokusatsu or “Special Effects Filming” is probably one of the most misunderstood genres in the west – assuming enough people are even aware of it to misunderstand it. We’re all familiar with the “Is that Power Rangers?” enquiry and, while it doesn’t bother me as much as it does others, it highlights an interesting disparity […]