天下制覇

Mmmm catsuit and electricity.

Impressions:

Well, let’s get the bad out of the way first. The noseless faces still frighten me terribly, the voice acting may have been appropriate for a doe-eyed "learn to cope with your powers" show but they’re horrible as hell for super hero sentai, and I never got past episode one of Code-E so just watching this feels like I’m doing something wrong.

All that said, this was a pretty awesome first episode. In sheer action, I’d put it a notch or two below Birdy, but with far far fewer technical mistakes. It’s been a long long time since we had a real supergirl cop sentai show (man, was Burn Up Scramble really the most recent one?) and I have to admit that I’ve got a weak spot for them. Hell, Mission-E even has the obligatory big-band/jazz OP and soundtrack down. Except for the bright colors and style, it’s a minor timewarp back to the mid 90s. Maori’s (I think… don’t quote me on that name) Rally-esque hair certainly helps matters along. In my book though, it’s damn hard to go wrong with electrical girls in power suits fighting with MiB. It’s a perfect formula for fun and I’m glad that Deen didn’t really screw it up. Hell, just backhanding the door with an electric tonfa to electrocute the guy inside with a gun was worth points for me. Her nervous idle fiddling with etherlite is extra points on top of that.

There wasn’t a ton of plot in this episode aside from introducing the new Type-E girl, Katsura, and the much older versions of the others plus, of course, the new Maori who is apparently some kind of ninja. Then they drag her off to their lesbian lovenest a hotel to tell them about themselves and their power suits and the organization trying to collect and control the Type-Es before the Foundation tracks them down and they escape by making an etherlite ramp and LEAPING over a bridge. Next episode shows yet more action from Maori, so I think I have to tune in, even if I barely get the whole Type-E thing in general.

Note that this actually airs on Mondays, the raw was just really slow, as raws tend to be on occasion.

Mission-E OP

Random Asskickery

Preview:

Back to school and back to the streets.