Radio Sentai Castranger

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

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

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

Silver, Blue, Green, and North Casters are joined by Noble, one of our more active Cast, to talk about the debut of the Dino Charge Megazord, finally talking about Koda being a caveman, and the smell of teenagers. Then we talk about the newly-released POWER/RANGERS fan film, which has some surprising star power behind it. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Power Rangers Dino Charge 3, 

POWER/RANGERS

Black Caster and Crunchman join us via Skype this week as we talk about Gen's episode of Kamen Rider Drive, and the satisfying finale of ToQger, as well as our final thoughts on ToQger as a whole. Then we talk about our viewing of the first three episodes of Kamen Rider Amazon, the bloodiest kids show of all time. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 18, Ressha Sentai ToQger 47, 

Kamen Rider Amazon 1-3

Paul isn't here this week, but the remaining four Casters get together for an explosive followup to the Dino Charge premiere. Fencing farm boys, exploding automobiles, ice-cold enemies, and more are talked about in detail, then we share our favorite badass moments in Power Rangers history.

 

Required Viewing: 

Power Rangers Dino Charge 2

Black Caster steps out and Silver Caster takes his space this week. We talk about the reveals of ToQ-Zet aka ToQ-Nanago, Kamen Rider Yongo, Drive Type Formula gets spy-shotted, Dead Heat Mach's debut and Fourze reference, Rinna gets creepier, and Professor Harley Hendrickson shows up to delight everyone but not do much. Meanwhile ToQ-Ichigo railguns a sword, the Castle Terminal comes to life, a train tries to run Zet over, and Akira knows about yubikiri. THEN we talk about the first episode of a Korean CGI animated tokusatsuesque series called Mini Force that takes Hello Kitty rejects and has them transform into Faiz-era Power Rangers. Also, Kiriko becomes Mach, and Helheim infects Africa. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 17, 

Ressha Sentai ToQger 46, 

MiniForce 1 (Korean animated series)

This week on Castranger, we all shit our pants over the reveal of Ninninger's Starninger and the Chaser Axe from Kamen Rider Drive. We then talk about the kooky happenings at the Amagi Lovers' Castle in Drive, Rinna being past her prime, Kiriko wanting to be a Rider and apparently wanting Chase, Gou and Shinnosuke's blossoming partnership, the evil that is smiling Chase, and Drive Type Dead Heat's debut. Meanwhile, ToQger didn't air this week, so instead we watched and reviewed the first episode of Garo, a tokusatsu from 2006. Our feature topic this week is favorite Rider villains. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 16, 

Garo (2006) 1 

Tired of hearing about Super Sentai and Kamen Rider? More of a Power Rangers fan? So are we. Kinda. So Overkill gathered whoever was around and started another show about Power Rangers, right in time for the premiere of Dino Charge! 

 

We mentioned the episode of Castranger where we talked about the Super MegaForce finale - check that out here. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Power Rangers Dino Charge 1

This week on Castranger we FINALLY talk about the Gaim Summer Soccer movie, arguably what we've been hyping up to our entire career up to this point. Was it everything we waited for? Was it worth the wait? How does it answer our questions? How does it question our answers? Find out as the full six-man crew comes On Stage! Oh, also Machine Chaser gets brainwashed, Nanao Lira fights her own Shadow Persona, and the ToQgers board the Feels Train as the plot barrels down towards the final battle. 

 

Required Viewing: 

Kamen Rider Drive 15, Ressha Sentai ToQger 45, 

Kamen Rider Gaim The Movie: Great Soccer Battle! Golden Fruits Cup!