Go-onSilver NSFW Fanart Links Collection

I want to point out that I actually don’t go looking for this stuff – just for the record, you know – but seeing as おぷりんす has been posting a lot of Miu-centric fanart, I thought I’d pimp his art blog and point people in the direction of well illustrated yet slightly indecent pictures.

奥さん、今夜から祭りですよ！

奥さん、おまんら許さんぜよ！

And for good measure, here’s Mizuki Karen from JAKQ:

奥さん、冷たく硬い…。

Go-on #38 Review (SPOILERS etc.)

Some might say that watching an episode of Go-onger twice is tantamount to torture. Others might even remark that watching the episode once let alone twice was an act of self-abuse, and whilst I might normally be tempted to agree I thought I should watch episode #38 again to clarify my thoughts on the show.

I originally watched this episode at an ungodly hour of the morning, propped up by hotel pillows. I soon discovered that viewed as just another show in the Sunday morning kids’ TV block makes for a really different experience from actively going out and downloading it with the express intention of watching it.

I’m not really a huge fan of this show, mostly because I think I was expecting Liveman something more but as cheap, throwaway entertainment, I genuinely do believe it can be quite fun. The problems only arise when certain elements of English language fandom attempt to elevate this to a level of comparative depth with earlier installments in the franchise that it simply does not possess.

"Smashing! You're an animal. You're a tiger. Be a tiger, baby! You're great! You're Grrrrrr-eat! You're Tony, be corn flakes, baby, be frosted. Now be a lemur, baby! You're a ring-tailed lemur."

Episode #38 of Go-onger deals with a shower themed villain dispatching the male members of the cast by the art of female ejaculation spraying them with water containing some magic freezing propensity. Finding out that it’s hard to be a woman in a man’s man’s man’s world, Saki, Miu and Bearrv set about readdressing the balance with comical ’sisters are doing it for themselves’ results.

The episode trundles along nicely, never threatening to engage the mind too much whilst at the same time rolling out all the old anime tropes that have long since crossed over into modern day sentai; hence the male cast find themselves disguised as female models in a shop display and for some of them, this is actually an improvement. Hant in particular could have a promising career ahead of him dressing up in sailor fuku for regular youtube clips, I’m sure.

In the end, ‘girl power’, with the aid of giant robots, saves the day and everyone goes home to talk about how awesome Saki and Miu are.

I could have explained that in a fic without having to introduce a villain, you know.

Just sayin’.

Another of my famous collection of artistic sentai screengrabs...

All in all, #38 is an entirely inoffensive episode…which is disappointing if you are genuinely looking for something with character development and a story. If not then you’re good to go but if it is something with a little more depth you’re looking for then I really do recommend turning on your TV half-an-hour earlier and trying to catch an episode of Battle Spirits – it won’t wow you and it is pretty much Digimon-lite but it’s surprising how very different the dynamic of the show is despite being aimed at the same audience.

G3プリンセス

I had every intention of picking up the G3 Princess special CD packge from HMV, I really did. Despite the fact that it was over 4000 yen, I really was going to buy it…

But there was a little voice at the back of my mind that kept reminding me how awful the character songs have been in recent sentai shows…

And then I saw the G3 Princess photo-mook in a shop in Nakano Broadway for 1300 yen or so…and I completely caved. I think this was the right choice. (^_^)

上野

Ueno Toy Shop Display

Sod off! Go-on Wings!

Ryuu, you are one of my best friends but I ever hear the Engine Second Lap -Turbo Custom - single again I will rip off my own ears.

Never before have I heard such utter, plodding dirge. It used to be the rule that even if the series was awful, at least the music for sentai could be depended on…it appears that Toei are now intent on changing this. The three songs presented here (Engine Second Lap – Turbo Custom, Engine Fast Lap -Type Normal- and Take off! Go-on Wings!) are absolutely dreadful.

Engine Fast Lap -Type Normal- has outstayed its welcome by 18 episodes or so. There’s still the faint glimmer of charm when it bursts into the KOTOKO-style Sister Mayuu anime-lite chorus but, for the most part, the notion of a different Enjin singing each variant became tried really quickly…this is no more apparent in Engine Second Lap – Turbo Custom which is utterly diabolical, it’s like karaoke by drunken out-of-work voice actors.

Take off! Go-on Wings! is the worst of the bunch though, lacking any kind of charm at all. At least Psychic Lover managed to inspire some kind of emotion with their JAM Project-lite tunes…this can not be said of the Go-on Wings theme- I don’t even want to admit to the fact that Tanimoto Takayoshi and Gojou Mayumi were involved with this.

Hands down, this is a new low for the franchise.

Go-on #8 – 9 Mini Review (SPOILERS – for those who still care)

(Episode #8)

Oh look, it’s Tachibana Tobei…or maybe not…

What a thoroughly boring episode.

Moving on.

(Episode #9)

For the record, even the merest suggestion of Hant/Saki makes me cringe inwardly. I can tell, after the beginning of episode #9 that there will be those of you who wish to ship these two but I ask of you now, please refrain. It will do no one any good.

Aside from that, this episode is Gaoranger #3, at least in terms of it’s resident Aurg.

The suggestion of schoolgirls being turned into Geiark ‘putties’ is an interesting one but it’s simply not followed up on well enough.

Both these episodes have been so lacking in atmosphere that I’ve found myself reading the newspaper rather than looking at the events on screen.

Ugh.

This will teach me to be optimistic, I guess.

Go-on #6 – 7 Mini-Review (SPOILERS etc.)

Much to my surprise, Hant was quite likeable during the opening act of episode #6. In addition to this, I’m convinced I know the actresses in the middle:

…but I can’t remember her name or where I saw her at all. In this kind of situations, I often find it’s best to leave it to to do the detective work. She really looks like Ootsuka Rei who plays Ayaka in Mahou Sensei Negima!! (sidenote: why did no one tell me Kuwae Sakina was in Gekiranger?). The rest of the episode seemed to fly by with little or no substance. As mentioned to the man himself, I’m surprised seiji982 didn’t make more of a comment on who Saki-chan was actually on the phone too but I can’t blame him for not finding the enthusiasm to post about this. It really did feel like a lacklustre episode, despite the focus on Yellow. Yet if #6 was lacklustre, episode #7 was positively yawn-inducing. I just don’t like the design of Carrigator and GunBir-o, which is a real shame consider the fact the mech designs of the initial three machines are part of what sold me on this series. Ho hum. Hopefully, episode #8 will be better… …yet I fear I’m beginning to loose faith.