Spring 2024 Impressions: Sentai Daishikkaku, A Story About a Grandpa and Grandma Who Returned Back to Their Youth, Vampire Dormitory

Sentai Daishikkaku

Short Synopsis: Super Sentai rangers defeat the big bad only to enslave the remaining minions, forcing them to launch attacks every Sunday to forever propagate their franchise, allowing them to make money forever. That is until one lone grunt gets fed up and decides to try and destroy the rangers from the inside!

Lenlo: I enjoyed Reject Ranger a lot. I mean a lot, a lot. From the very beginning you can tell that it not only understands the Super Sentai genre, but that it knows exactly what parts it wants to take the piss out of. Ads plastered everywhere, each Ranger with their own specific mouth shape to sell their personality while still making it clear they are the bad guys, how clearly manufactured the whole situation/fight/show is. And when we get a look at the other side, with the monsters? How they have to come up with these fights every week like showrunners run ragged, how tiring and creatively bankrupt that must be? All while still being a fun deconstruction? It was a great time. I bought it, not only with the lead and the world, but the entire premise. So long as Reject Ranger can avoid becoming stale, can stay a “Monster of the Week” while still slowly evolving the background story with the Dusters and Rangers, I think it should be a lot of fun. At the very least I’m going to be blogging it this season, so that should be nice. Sidenote, I want this blond girl to step on me I mean what
Potential: 80%

A Story About a Grandpa and Grandma Who Returned Back to Their Youth

Short Synopsis: Grandma and Grandpa find a magic golden fruit that returns their youth to them. Proceed to seduce everyone in town, including their own grandkids.

Lenlo: Somehow a show meant to be about the wholesome relationship between an older couple reliving their glory days with regained youth has instead turned into a weird age-play family incest thing. Why is the granddaughter immediately hitting on the grandfather, despite KNOWING he’s her grandfather? Why is the daughter-in-law doing the same thing? Why is this show so obsessed with everyone wanting to fuck the old people? I don’t know. What I do know though is that it isn’t worth watching, which is a damn shame considering what I went into it hoping for.
Potential: 0%

Vampire Dormitory

Short Synopsis: After being rescued by a sexy male vampire, a suicidal “boy” vows to become his thrall so “he” can be of some use to him.

Wooper: Yes, I revealed the main character’s actual gender in the synopsis above. That our boyish hero Mito is secretly a girl serves as the episode’s closing twist, but believe me, Vampire Dormitory isn’t worth getting worked up over, even if you’re a major spoilerphobe. Mito is the sort of protagonist who sparkles like Edward from Twilight, even before she comes into contact with any of the series’ vampires, leading an entire ramen shop full of female patrons to squeal at her boyish good looks. People stare at her and whisper in awe as she walks down the street, but alas, not all is well in poor Mito’s world; her parents died in a fire, none of her relatives wanted to take her in, and she just was fired from the only job she could find. This combination of incredible attractiveness and tragic circumstances is pitifully written, but things don’t get any better after the vampires enter the picture, with Mito’s previously hopeless outlook transforming into a fervent desire to “be of some use” to the first one to suck her blood. What’s worse, her blood apparently disgusts him because she has never experienced love, so the plan going forward is for the vampire to love her so that she’ll taste less nasty. I don’t want to think any harder than I have to about what the author is implying with that setup, so I think I’ll bail out of this paragraph without another word.
Potential: 0%

Lenlo: I know that Vampires are supposed to be a polite metaphor for rape, abuse and pedophilia, but it stops being a polite metaphor when you take an already emotionally stunted and abused victim and turn them into a vampires thrall while trying to play it off as a “Good” thing for them. What I’m saying is, Wooper hit the nail on the head up above and I don’t see any reason for anyone to want to watch this.
Potential: 0%