Radio Sentai Castranger

North Caster Cell is back! Crunchman joins us as well as we all cram in for this Double Episode Special due to last week's failed recording. In Drive, Mach finally mans up and does a thing, then Drive gets Tony Stark'd. Meanwhile, the Ninningers try desperately for Fuuka to be of any use, then get taught by the red Kakuranger and Hurricanger! Join us for a riveting discussion. :D 

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 24 & 25, 

Shuriken Sentai Ninninger 6 & 7

With Silver Caster gone, Pink Caster steps up to take command. Blue Caster sits on as per normal, and Green Caster gets real fucking drunk. We talk about the Dino Charge mid-season finale, the obligatory evil ranger clones episode, then talk about our favorite Megazord-component Zords. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Power Rangers Dino Charge 8

Savage Caster joins us for Silver Caster's final week of joining us in person, as he's moving back home to Ottawa. What perfect timing for us to talk about some very special episodes. Drive chases the Ninningers around in this year's Gattai Special, and then we watch 3 episodes of the recently infamous magicaly boy anime, Binan High School Earth Defense Club LOVE, a show that parodies Sailor Moon in all the right AND wrong ways. Can we retain our sanity this week? 

 

Requried Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive VS Shuriken Sentai Ninninger: Spring Break Gattai 1-Hour Special, 

Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE 1-3

Two members of the Cast, Navy Caster Crunchman, and Orange Caster Noble, join Silver, Blue, Green, and Pink for a nice, friendly look at the opening episodes of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. Lots of us say that is was superior to Kamen Rider Ryuki, but is it really? Its opening episodes don't bode well as we get into some in depth and heated arguments about both DK and its source material, Kamen Rider Ryuki. Then we talk about our favorite and least favorite Power Ranger teamups! 

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight 1-3 (warning: spoilers of episodes beyond!)

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

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

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, 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

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 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.