the high school heroes (PRIDE MONTH SPECIAL SPECTACULAR)!!!
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they don't call them cis-forming heroes that's all im saying
y'know, i hadn't actually intended this, but it lines up really well huh
it's time for the currently final unofficial official sentai miniseries!!!
anyway, in a high school where an evil app is turning people into monsters, the boyband bishounen a goranger superfan and the friends he makes along the way must use a good app become a different type of sentai to stop them!!!
a flash forward into the near future!
them using smartphones is never not going to be goofy is it
anyway it was all a dream, there's no such thing as superheroes obviously
YOOO THE GORANGER STYLE OPENING WITH THE ASPECT RATIO AND THE PEDAL BIKES, very fun
anyway, that kid just turned into a monster!!!
welcome to goranger club i mean school defense club
their leader is taisei manaka, who likes the colour red
he's looking for a sentai team, specifically goranger, his and his father's favourite show!!!
,,,also if the club doesn't have at least 5 members it shuts down so
i was going to say goranger is always serious but no it isn't, that's the fun :D
look if it worked for kamen rider, it can work here!
"no, im a geek who loves superheroes!", i giggled
anyway, what's an old-school sentai without baseball!!!
led by yusuke takigawa, who coincidentally likes the color blue
next up, the basketball club, and it's president ryuhei domon, who happens to enjoy the color yellow
the dance club, who's president and green enjoyer naoya morimura isn't holding out for a hero quite like that
the clear upcoming rangers so far are all very popular, as you'd expect given this is a boyband vehicle but also it gives it kiramager vibes lmao
damn their school has a goranger badge kinda logo huh
anyway this is hyuma oura, who doesn't seem to be into any of the 5 colours im aware of, so he must be an enemy clearly
oh he's head of the student council? yeah definitely a villain i know the anime trope
and our main villain is the headmaster,,, damn his secretary has a cool weird mask
meanwhile there's still a majin about,,,
taisei's hero senses are tingling
but if yusuke didn't do this,,, who did?
anyway meet student artist ichika sakurai, lover of the color pink, who will definitely be very relevant in a later episode
FINALLY i recognise a background goranger episode, that's 2 for sure
AKARANGER IS IN YOUR CLOSET
this is taisei's imaginary friend,,, akaranger from famous tv series himitsu sentai goranger
wuh oh, there's still something going after the baseball club!!
it's baseball majin!!! based on baseball mask from goranger, but much more scary than my favourite boy
good news!! you're not delusional
bad news!! that means the monster's real
but this is a classic first henshin flag, to borrow a bit from a different unofficial sentai, soooo
and so... akahero!!! i dunno what i think of these suits, i understand it but also there's a lot going on there with the blazer and tie
bone crunch sfx, but don't worry, heroes don't get hurt in their first time out
first time out, it's a draw!!! pretty good considering the episode's only halfway through
thank you for the sage advice akaranger
so it's up to taisei and school reporter hana to figure out how this happened!
a lead, whoever's the majin is after student's who've cheated in tests! this is very kamen rider fourze, which is good for me i love fourze
hmmmmm anyone who hangs out at the abandoned school warehouses can't be good news, can they
another goranger episode spotted!!! episode 53, baseball mask's episode (i mean it had to show up somewhere)
common sense can be pretty boring sometimes lol
LMAO taisei looking up when ryuhei asked for curry, i get it
anyway, sudden mystery solved!!!
yusuke can't have been the majin, he was training!!!
he just wanted to make sure all his team could play in the big tournament awww
the real majin was... this other kid!!!
y'know sometimes when you're a teenager you're made to feel like your entire life revolves around what you do here and the stress makes you transform into a baseball monster
he has been consumed by baseball pressure, beware!!!
hey yusuke, wanna become a blue ranger?
and thus through an impassioned speech and Balls™, aohero is born!!!
why is baseball majin so goopy
LMAOOO HELL YEAH RANDOM BASEBALL GAME
defeated by the power of baseball
looks like there's a bigger evil organisation at work,,, as we already knew of course
and yusuke learned to be more fair in selecting teams
so the villains are out to keep the school's reputation clean and only appropriately cult-like
it appears the self defense club must shut down after all, unless,,,
could it be that yusuke is here to join after all?
hehe he's standing with the aoranger images behind him
and hana also joins!!! but she's not in the boyband bishounen so she's not on the team
hyuma is counted as number 6 in the end credits? whatever could it mean hmmmmm
this episode is the love letters episode!!!
goranger episode watch: 17, black hair mask's episode, they couldn't be hinting at a black hair majin, could they?
yusuke, you signed up to the sentai show with the most episodes
also you need to do a pose, it's contractual
i dont know if mr amari believes you,,, but then again there may well be a final act twist about that, id believe it
and how's naoya most popular boy in school figure into it
sorry hana, we're bringing your embarrassing middle school days into this
see ichika knows what's up
is that ymca playing in the background
hmmm,,, could that girl there be the majin,,, she's close to naoya and got full speaking lines,,,
no time to worry about who, there's another incident!!!
meet black hair majin (called it, though the show did want me to), which means it's mid-episode fight time!!!
watch him rename that ao bluechery in a couple episodes just like aoranger did lmao
anyway, the villains' plans to manipulate students to excise all self-expression continues!!!
damn apps can do everything these days
well they're like,,, sort of up to the task, they're working on it!!!
oh dear, that's sibling rivalry
ayyy taisei's mother is actually in on it!!! that's good, they're usually not
it's not always about quantity of friendships, but quality!!!
sorry hana, this show's main writer is yuya takahashi you're not in the boyband bishounen
could the majin be ichika,,, i mean probably not we're not even halfway through the episode yet
that moment when intense eye contact
look the app lets you become a ranger only when it's narratively satisfying
taisei i think you might be barking up the wrong tree
ichika and hana are friends, gal pals you might be tempted to say
now look what you've done, you've become a public menace!!!
knowing your friends' secrets does in fact go both ways
it's got a minute girl again,,,
hey naoya wanna be a green ranger? family's pretty important to some sentai teams you know!
naturally, the villain was the apparently unassuming side character!!!!!
oop bye ichika, it's not your episode yet
hey naoya wanna be a green ranger?
denying, midohero! damn he's got a catchphrase and everything
mido boomerang huh? sure you don't want to make a portmanteau of that?
just like her goranger inspiration, black hair majin's comb is her weakeness!!!
anyway we're now fighting in a salon
yeah girl you're too good for naoya probably, go be with his sister!!!
meanwhile, naoya joins the club!!!
damn yusuke you binged that quick
naoya it's your turn to watch all of goranger!
you'd think with him on the club people would be lining up to join, but nope the drama must continue!
meanwhile something's up with hyuma...
this is the ryuhei episode
his family ain't doing great financially
genuinely surprised he's able to be the most athletic in school with such uncertain nutrition
being a hero sadly doesn't pay
anyway, there's a yo-yo majin about!!! based on another of the best goranger monsters of course :D
hey kid would you like to participate in gambling
see high school human casino makes me think of something else, but that's besides the point
anyway hyuma's got his couple of glasses-wearing sidekicks, wonder how they'll factor into this,,,
and thus ryuhei's gambling addiction begins!
so both the glasses kids play with yo-yos huh?
ryuhei's lucky,,, this time
bullshit she definitely wears make-up
oh dear, sorry ryuhei you're in a miniseries aimed vaguely at older kids and teenagers, gambling will not pay
meanwhile the yo-yo debt collector is here!
today's goranger episode seems to be some kind of kiranger clip compilation
wait the nearby café's called gon? yeah id also become obsessed with recreating goranger if iconography like that started showing up
anyways, the gambling has now become a pyramid scheme!!!
ichika receives some hero lessons
anyway, the gang have noticed something's up with ryuhei, so,,,
ryuhei joins the club with ulterior motives!!!
but isn't gambling bad? i mean yeah all of the houses are incentivised to be as predatory as possible from the nature of the game
anyway ryuhei got backstory, he surely has to become a hero!!!
anyway remember you gotta be nice to your classmates, you don't know their home situation and trust me it's only good half the time at most
akaranger says believe in your friends
aw man, not the immoral gambling leading our children into sin! aw mannnn
so yo-yo majin is BOTH the glasses twins!
ryuhei don't tell me you're rigging it
that moment when you sell your soul for school points
yea his pride was literally removed by magic
anyways, the house is here, and they're here to win!
the bros have been played like yo-yos on strings, so they plan to play the whole school
look there's no puppet mask ok?
hey ryuhei would you like to become a yellow ranger
taisei loves insulting people into doing that lmao
anyway, kihero is born!!! hitting the sports guy squat
as the yellow ranger, kihero's contractually obligated to be the strongest one
and there goes the yo-yo!
mr main villain may not approve of gambling, but he's easily swayed by money, naturally
damn hyuma you're doing a full entire villain speech
after some disentangling of the message, ryuhei resolves to make a living from being a hero as part of the club!
making a viral trend can be lucrative in the short term at least
anyway, there's another majin about!!!
and it turns out ichika is momohero!!! unfortunately it's the end of the episode so momohero's first fight ain't going to well
anyways saber and zenkaiser are here in the ending theme lmao
AND NOW... the reason you're all here,,, or certainly the reason i am :D
looks like hana's out for the count, and ichika has some feelings to process
that's right, FIRST CANONICALLY TRANS RANGER EPISODE FUCK YEAH
damn the "feeling like you're taking something away from a cis woman" arc wasn't what i was expecting but im interested now
also as taisei has correctly identified, sun halo majin is indeed based on sun halo mask! though i feel compelled to point out he was in episodes 15-20, not just 15
episode 15 does have rainbow mask, appropriately enough though 🏳️🌈
looks like this teacher has some problems,,
hang on they said goranger hurricane in the clip, they got that AFTER fighting sun halo mask! way after!!
ANYWAYS what's actually important is the majin's back and they're the most brutal so far!!!
funny akahero has a sword instead of a whip, but that's the intervening years of evolution for you
also funny that kihero doesn't have a weapon, guess neither of kiranger's weapons were that iconic i dunno
anyway the heroes have lost and hyuma's evil plans continue apace!
looks like they'll need 5 rangers if they want to beat this guy
maybe the girl who can take hana's place is right behind you,,,
a teacher majin? given the previous patterns it's probably not the guy they suspect now,,, in fact it's probably the other teacher we've seen this episode, but let's see
let's just say that ichika knows women
taisei, however, really really doesn't
but sun halo majin didn't recognise hana's name, so could it really be kazami?
taisei wishes ichika was a woman,,, so does ichika-
yeah i guess expecting teenagers who idolise a show from the 70s with one main woman and four men to have enlightened gender politics is a bit of a tall order
it's awkward coming out to the parents, yippeeeeee!!!
,,,or perhaps not,,,,,, yeahhh sometimes it's really best to not with the parents
even taisei's mother is warning him of the dangers of traditional roles
diversity is important!!! change and transformation is natural
and don't assume you know everything about everyone
lmao yusuke have you figured it out?
yeah i knew the majin couldn't be mr kazami,,
what if the majin is powered by projection...?
"well there are people who put up with things while never expressing their true selves" "like who?" "um..."
dw girl you'll get to come out eventually lol
we have to fight repression man
wuh-oh, hyuma's summoned grunts!
hey ichika would you like to become the pink ranger... again?!
and thus she realised she doesn't need to ask permission, and she isn't really taking it from anyone, she simply already was
and so... whole (?) team roll-call!!!
hold on it's still ichika's episode hold on the finisher a second
i mean look, we can talk this one out!
so remember, be yourself, piss people off, be happy, say fuck you to anyone who disagrees, change the world, that's the true meaning of pride
very funny explosion LMAO
hyuma say he doesn't believe in friendship fyi
headmaster's getting scarier
anyway ichika now gets to come out properly
look sometimes when you come out to your parents you do need a bodyguard
so yeah, that's the trans sentai episode, and like,,, you could call it cliché and so much else, but,,,
personally, as someone who can hardly call herself cis, id call it sweet, and im very very glad it exists :')
anyway, into the second half, and a sixth ranger arc already!!! yup it's another sentai speedrun attempt, though im afraid they're not going to beat the sentai any% world record, that's dino force brave by a landslide
hyuma has complicated feelings about medals, it's his backso6
on one hand, it makes complete sense that gold mask is chosen to have his majin have plot importance, he's the first goranger masked monster, he's pretty important in the manga, but on the other hand he's hilariously weak in the original lol
hehe i love the shaky zoom-out from hana
she's right, that snappy camerawork is difficult to get right
these guys might be more secret than the actual himitsu sentai
hmmmmm the headmaster is becoming everyone's father and it's honestly concerning
and thus, sporting a suit forshadowed in the episode 1 dream, it's hyuma as gold majin!
awww they have plushies! and the club is more than saved, there's six of them now
dinnertime with the defense club
anyway there's grunts about!!!
every team will fight a group of grunts and be suspicious that there's no monster sooner or later, it's generally a sign that we've hit a capital p Plot arc
"why are they dressed like that?" "because it's summer break i guess?"
goranger episode watch: episode 56, faucet mask's right there!!!
anyway this was all a set-up to frame taisei for assault! complete with terrible sentence mixing LMAO
sentai has now said the words "ai deepfake"
damn the police got here quick
took a while for a reporter to notice all the weird stuff happening, but now one has!
meanwhile it looks like hyuma has his own issues after all
a former theatre kid reporter who also acts like a detective,,,
we have potential leads, so let's go!!!
luckily data can always be copied
meanwhile 3/5 high school heroes are really fighting the good fight out here holy shit
also turns out she's crescent moon majin, who's currently here to hypnotise the media
meanwhile ichika investigations!
meanwhile meanwhile in jail
oh hey there gold majin i mean hyuma
oh yeah it's time to reveal the first part of the big evil plan
hyuma's reallllll far gone to the image other people have forced upon him huh
but it looks like the pieces are moving against the bad guys after all!
everyone's gotta be attacked by gold majin today
gold majin has had it up to here with the power of friendship
damn that's quite some incriminating raw footage
meanwhile, they've let taisei out of prison, so yay for that
plus it looks like the headmaster's been at this for a little while,,, what kind of weird device has he created now,,?
oh no! gold majin is pulling out cgi above our heroes' paygrade!
taisei has made up his mind... he's going to kamen rider fourze this
it seems like hyuma's in this situation essentially by blackmail, and so,,, there can be a redemption arc in the cards!
is it finally time, for the high school heroes hurricane? i think it is!
welp,,, it didn't work, that's what you get for taking a week to finish using it
when a finisher doesn't work, go straight to the personal call-out! it's super effective!!!
caused enough psychological torment the majin app doesn't work
if all else fails, crescent moon majin hypnotism!
our other villains are already looking to replace hyuma, very goranger
DAMN hyuma was in some shit a year ago what the fuck, awful teacher
and then after even more shit he was essentially blackmailed into the principal's plan to eliminate nonconformity
also mr not a detective was school council president 10 years ago so he knows his shit
he's even figuring out the secret bits, but unfortunately he's had his mind scrambled by the principal's psychic blast which frequently proves a problem
meanwhile hyuma's in big shit again
but,,, could he secretly be trying to tell the gang something
how's hyuma's mother doing
even before crescent moon majin started her attack!!
perhaps sentai team can in fact have more than five members, crazy right?
gold paper around a silver medal, huh?
hmmmmmm i sense shenanigans
we've all got to fail sometimes, knowing failure makes us human
akaranger says "hurt people hurt people"
meanwhile it's all a conspiracy!!!
also the wonderful Ball is complete!
we've reached the impassioned speeches part of trying to reach hyuma
but we've got some important info!!!
that teacher-student relationship,, staged by the headmaster's own daughter! hyuma's been,,, well, groomed there's not really a better word for it
and now mr ayumu's dead for finding that out
it's time for the big battle to conclude this two episode arc methinks!
the high school heroes can jumpcut people between locations it's all but confirmed
whats a sixth ranger arc without some internal struggles
that's the kids show magic catharsis powers we love to see
now and forever he is,,, #2! i mean #6
i mean why not add a sixth ranger, just for fun :D
who decides there can be only one winner, after all
and so, a proper high school heroes hurricane!!!
but the principal still has a wholeass majin smartphone, and the black cross majin, and whatever else he was doing, so the endgame awaits!
for now though, hyuma isn't joining the club, but he is joining the team! it's the sixth ranger way they're usually semi-loners
it's the autumn term already!
hey look the school delinquent gang is here! looks like the mazins have already got to them,,,
the principal's big plan is go
meanwhile do not ask how kazumi got those photos of a corpse
your question should be... what is the itsuboshi project?
and big exams are coming up! of course they are
meanwhile hyuma finds out he's been replaced
a brawl is surely brewing!
oh hey mr yes over here is the next gold majin! isn't that wonderful
and they're talking about the last episode of goranger already! although they're actually watching episode 43, the revelation of the black cross fuhrer's true form
hana youre allowed to be in the club
something is hammering down stuck out nails out there (like the motif on the majin's torsos now i think about it, it also reminds me of one of those curse dolls you hammer a nail into)
and now suddenly they're watching episode 84!!!
anyway, our final boss approaches!!!
wasn't hyuma fighting a guy?
oh yeah we should probably get back to that
well that could have gone better
anyway, time to go after the principal! with a dangerous app in hand
it's definitely weird that the hero and majin apps work so similarly yeah,,,
the threads of conspiracy draw closer,,,
the truth, it's coming out!!!
the headmaster is definitely the final boss, but the black cross majin seems to be someone else...
anyway, fight for the sake of others, not revenge, akaranger's an ishinomori hero he knows the struggles
also taisei's mother could see akaranger this entire time, it's fine he's a chill metaphysical entity
too bad, the principal has too good of a poker face to confront directly!!!
meanwhile in the hana has crush on yusuke plot that i have had no thoughts on this whole time
ah dammit they forgot the plot of episode 2
anyway hey hyuma you've gotta tell us how this all connects to goranger right now, cause honestly going in i knew there'd be goranger references but i didn't know they'd be making the shared iconography so explicit as to call it out lmao
ichika remembers she's not out to hyuma yet
hey mr amari what do you know about taisei's dad
who's the other person in those photos, huh?
we gotta go back to the class of '75!!!
so amari and taisei's dad did know each other,,,
AND amari created the majin app!!!
AH CRAP HE'S THE BLACK CROSS MAJIN
the principal's plan is ready to truly kick off!!!
ah crap he's been stealing their sensitive data! this is why you don't put your sensitive id on majin app
and now taisei's acting weird,,, hmmmmmmmmmmm
clearly he's going to make one big hail mary run at amari
so obviously the gang can't let him do that alone
mr. amari, my name is taisei manaka, you killed my father, prepare to die
taisei you symbolically cut the heads off some flowers, you better look at yourself
ah fuck he can manipulate memories that's not good
so!!! what may or may not have happened 10 years ago
taisei's dad creates the hero app, amari creates the majin app because he claims to have loved the black cross army the whole time, a confrontation by personally important cliff happened, taisei's dad got blasted off the cliff and died
well fuck it turns out mr amari was a fascist the whole time, fuck
welp, better kill him for real
meanwhile it's gold vs silver round 2!!!
but this time, he's got friends!!!
the H on ginhero's mask looks like a face lol
oh hey it's another silly challenge showdown, haven't really seen one of these in a while!
a school quiz on the beach!!!
let that be a lesson to you, don't forget hana!
,,,,,,,,,hyuma that's seven members, did you also forget hana? shame on you
anyway, it looks like the principal plans to brainwash all japan!!!
taisei you didn't forget about unity did you? that's one of the bionicle's three virtues!
principal no!!! iron claw is the next show!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyways, taisei's not dead, he hit his head on a rock and the black cross majin erased his memory of the entire show
and the principal is about to erase youth culture forever!
hey taisei wanna join the school defense club?
aw man amnesia made him a square,,,
it's one of them final arcs that inverts the premise!!!
even his mother's trying to convince him,,,
ah yes evil smartphones,,,
in other news "yes father" has become the new "for the man"
unfortunately hyuma only knows how to cause amnesia
hana, however, knows that if you defeat a monster, its effects are usually also reversed!!!
y'all ready for a boss fight??
meanwhile taisei's mother is here to complain
ah man not the symbolism :'(
"it's not youngsters who ruin this country. it's the people in positions of power! people like you."
memories can be erased,,,,,, but not the hero sense!!!
and neither can akaranger, apparently, hell yeah :D
hey taisei you ever want to be a red ranger?
also akaranger is real and he's here, i love it
don't underestimate the power of nerdy sentai delusions, ok?
it also turns out amari's own memory was altered, and he didn't actually kill taisei's father after all! that one was the headmaster
he did still make the app though that was still him
anyway it's the second half of the episode now, so did someone say final boss?
principal becomes black cross majin and attacks young taisei, blasts taisei's dad off a cliff and alters amari's memory (though the confrontation beforehand did still happen), kills ayumi
just like his goranger counterpart, the principal is the only monster in this show to grow giant!!!
amari will sacrifice himself to destroy the amnesia ball
so, let's go fight the final boss!!!
DAMN, principal got (claw) hands
he's got all the classic evil teacher lines
welcome to the surreal woods dimension!!!
meanwhile, everyone who can't transform is here to do some good journalism!
naturally, we're doing a helmetless final rollcall
black cross majin...2!!! this time he has a claw hand to signify he's the final boss
what would a big sentai fight quarry battle be without a flood of grunts
and now the main event!!!
did someone call for a high school heroes FINAL hurricane???
principal claims if he goes own, his brainwashing will keep on
but, if amari puts the hero app code into the majin app, it will in fact restore the person's mind
leaving them open to hear the new scoop coming in from the journalist club!
anyway, you can't erase everything you find uncomfortable, you simply have to be yourself, and see it through, changing things the hard way
principal couldn't handle it and exploded, LMAO RIP
and so, the school defense club can get back to being nerds as they were always meant to be :D
hana remains most important member, despite really being on the journalism club
hyuma is reinstated as school president, and takes his job seriously
taisei's mother is free to explore her relationship with akaranger any way she wants
and finally, one last pose on the beach
that was a lot better than i was expecting it to be!!!
for a vehicle for one of the ephemeral boybands in japan's meat grinder of an idol industry it had no right to be that good, i really enjoyed it :DDD
and of course, it always feels good to be represented
