Let’s Watch Wednesdays Week 7 Mahou Sentai Magiranger 19-21

Episode 19: More songs... Smoky, you crazy cat-person thing. So yeah. I liked this episode, even if Meemy seems way too overpowered. If I know PRMF, and I did, I'm gonna enjoy seing him have his ass handed to him.

Also, does anyone else think that that third line seems like an evangelion movie?

Smoky is one of my absolute favorite supporting/extra hero type characters. Way better than the oaf they turned him into for Mystic Force. His way of sort of avoiding trouble is fun and entertaining here. And as a puppet character he's way more fun than Mandora.

Of course Hikaru is the star here. An absolutely gorgeous design. Heroes with capes are badass and Magi SHine is no different. The carpet, the lamp buster, everything about him is really solid. And of all the sinats we get to see later on his is by far the best design. As Sungel he really looks like some kind of warrior god, appropriately.

19: Magiranger the musical! Sadly not, but there were two song close by.
Interesting start for the arc, Smoky was entertaining, the frog thing is way too obvious, but they didn't try to hide it much either, and Meemy is an interesting opponent, he can turn into a fan too!

Episode 19 de gozarimasu desu

That was okay. I'm still not a fan of the songs in this show, but at least these were better than the Mandora Boy one from episode 2 or 3. Mare's actress has a pretty decent singing voice.

Some of the greenscreen effects here were pretty awful, but I did like the fight against giant Meemy. Regular sized Meemy, though... come on, guys, don't use movie ninja tactics. You're a team, attack in tandem so he can't easily counter you one at a time (except for you, Houka. You can just, I don't know, stand in the background and try not to get in the way too much).

I'm liking Smoky more than his US counterpart so far, which is, in fairness, not a high bar to set. Looking forward to Magi Shine, although my first torrent is done so I need to wait for the second batch to download.

Is there any reason why the first set of subs (1-19) went pretty quickly,, but the 20-39 set is taking forever?

Depends on the connection speeds of who ever's seeding it.

I get that, but what confuses me is that, presumably, it would be the same set of people seeding it but it's taking at least 3X a long.

This is what I'm talking about, Meemy and Hikaru join the action. After invoking the Heavenly Saints so often, we get one as the big bad for the second arc and the new team member. Meemy starts off rather overpowered, but that makes sense considering he was a Heavenly Saint now turned member of Infershia. The Ozu siblings obviously can't compete with that right now. I never really noticed during my original watching, but you can see Raijel's mouth on the head of the Meemy suit, a neat little touch. The transition from Hades Beasts and to Hades Beastmen was a nice transition as well because the Magirangers have to work harder to deal with them because they are intelligent. On the other side of things we get Hikaru aka Sungel. He's the perfect new team member for the Magirangers because he can actually teach them to use their powers better. MagiShine is a really awesome suit design and I really like his calm and composed fighting style. And then we have his mech Travelion, a giant train. That's rather topical for Super Sentai wouldn't you say ?

20: A perfectly average episode til MagiShine introduction, and what an introduction it was! A great fight and an awesome theme brought an epic conclusion to this ep.
Hikaru is interesting, as much as he teases and makes fun of others it still feels like he's holding himself back, whether this is intentional or simply the actor's performance I found it worth mentioning.

The introduction of the Hades Beast Men raised the stakes for future fights too.