Radio Sentai Castranger

Radio Sentai Castranger [51] Gou for Broke

The full six-man team comes together. Lots of news this week. We argue quite divisively about Kamen Rider Chaser's fully revealed suit. Drive Type High Speed becomes a gentleman, the identity of ToQ-7gou is ACTUALLY revealed, quite to our surprise, as well as the identity of Starninger, and three veterans cameo on Ninninger soon. 

 

We then talk about this week's episodes: Kiriko violently nurses Chase, Type Formula goes for a Pit Stop, and Gou pumps iron and gets super jelly. Meanwhile in Ninninger, Kasumi and Yakumo struggle to hold the spotlight as this week's kind-seeming monster hands kids balloons, and we get a visitor from space. 

 

Finally, our topic of the week is the ToQger-Kyoryuger movie, which takes two shows about really abstract concepts that force-feed themselves into tangibility and literally cross the streams, as they fight the villain that was hinted at, at the end of the Kyoryuger series. When two derpy teams collide, the result is a rainbow-colored hilarious disaster.

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 23, 

Shuriken Sentai Ninninger 5, 

Ressha Sentai ToQger VS Jyuden Sentai Kyoryuger THE MOVIE

Silver Medal [07] Modestone got Shit Done

Bit of a short episode as it's only Silver, Blue, and Pink. We talk about the debut of Ankyd- I mean, the Ankylozord, as well as the debut of Shelby's competence and her new bestie status with Kendall. This week's discussion topic - favorite non-base Megazord. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Power Rangers Dino Charge 7

Radio Sentai Castranger [50] Strangling Someone Into Bubbles

It's Castranger Episode 50! Completing our trifecta of anniversary episodes (the end of ToQger, our one-year, and now episode 50), we are joined by That Kamen Rider Guy to talk about the final showdown between Drive, Type Formula VS Machine Chaser, featuring the advent of the Trailer-Hou. Yup. Meanwhile in Ninninger, Takaharu learns a lesson about teamwork with the power of oden. Then, because this is an anniversary episode, we go back to our roots and talk about Kamen Rider (Ichigo) Episode 1, and Himitsu Sentai Goranger Episode 1, and wow, 70s, you guys. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 22, 

Shuriken Sentai Ninninger 4, 

Kamen Rider (Ichigo) 1, 

Himitsu Sentai Goranger 1

Silver Medal [06] North Caster Heads East

Silver, Blue, and Pink Casters say goodbye to North Caster as he heads to China for a few weeks, and what better sendoff than an episode of Dino Charge featuring Chase, Riley, and a toothache monster? I'll tell you what: a few good Power Ranger parodies, some of which we mentioned on a recent Castranger episode! Check out Reboot, Animaniacs, and CollegeHumor's goofy takes on the tropes of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, and even a YouTube skit where Cookie Monster goes berserk!

 

Required Viewing: 

Power Rangers Dino Charge 6, 

Reboot: Season 2 Episode 7: Nullzilla, 

Animaniacs: Super Strong Warner Siblings, 

CollegeHumor: Zordon is a Racist, 

Power Rangers on Sesame Street

Radio Sentai Castranger [49] Bakies

Green Caster doesn't quite make it today, so the rest of us talk about some news about ToQ-7gou in the ToQger Returns special, some details on the Kamen Rider Yongo special. In this week's Drive, we talk about Gen finally seeing both Kamen Riders (and still not connecting them to Tomari) Chaser's powerup, and the cockteasing "debut" of Type Formula. Ninwhile, Nagi of the Ninningers takes his turn to tell us his personality, Gabi Raizou teamkills his way into (some of) our hearts, and Dumpmaru uses Rock Throw. Our feature topic this week is favorite and least favorite henshin device voices. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 21, 

Shuriken Sentai Ninninger 3

Silver Medal [05] Cut to the Chase

Silver Medal lives! Silver, Blue, Pink, and North Casters reconvene to talk about Breaking Black. No, we don't mean Breaking Bad, that's the name of the Dino Charge episode that we discuss that focuses (ha!) on Chase and tells us his origin story in time to get turned evil, then be saved by the power of skateboarding. Then we talk about our favorite and least favorite morphing sequences and why we like and hate them.

Radio Sentai Castranger [48] SAA, HNNNNGHH

It's our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of staring Castranger!! Woo! To celebrate, all seven main casters return to talk about the touching bromance of Saijou Kyu and Roidmude 072, Yakumo being an actual Harry Potter, and our favorite pop culture tokusatsu references! 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 20, 

Shuriken Sentai Ninninger 2

Silver Medal [04] Omega Caster

Omega Caster Biffalo, from our fans, the Cast, joins Silver, Blue, and Pink Casters to talk about Koda's backstory and his character arc with all the excitement of riding a children's bike. Then we talk about which Power Ranger characters we hated or were annoyed by the most. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Power Rangers Dino Charge 4

Radio Sentai Castranger [47] Dump Taisen

The full core team, Silver Caster, North Caster, and our good friend Derek the Bard, aka Bard Caster, all crams into this week's Castranger to talk about the merits of Drive as a Rider in general and some news about Type Formula, Starninger, Kamen Rider Yongo, Shocker's Rider Robo, and the Legacy Blade Blaster, before we talk about the episode. 

 

This week includes Drive being more of a cop drama than ever, forming a bromance between the comedy relief character and a decorative truck that speaks via enka music, and the continuing decline of Shijima Gou's credibility. 

 

The feature of this week in tokusatsu is unarguably the debut of Shuriken Sentai Ninninger. We talk about the family of ninjas with their dad and grandpa as their Zordon/Alpha combo, their mostly uninteresting and thus-far under-developed characters, and the incredibly polarizing discussion on the designs of the zords and megazord, Shurikenjin. 

 

Finally, we discuss the most hard-hitting opinion piece of our entire career - favorite sixth/extra rangers! 

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 19, 

Shuriken Sentai Ninninger 1