How J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai Fell Flat - Super Sentai Retrospective (Review)
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- In this entry of the Super Sentai Retrospective, I take a look at the second Sentai Series, J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai and share my thoughts on it!
I don't own any of the material discussed in this video. All credit goes to the Toei Company and Ishinomori Productions. This video is used for the purpose of transformative commentary and review and thus, falls under fair use. (Copyright Law, Section 107 - 108)
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I seriously wish more people did Super Sentai Retrospectives on UA-cam.
You watch Heki Devil?
Thomasjujube?
I review super sentai, Kamen rider, metal heroes and ultraman for my UA-cam channel
Right
u better give all ur money to Linkara than lol
27:22 Ishinomori just kinda loved taking the piss out the Fuhrer camp. And this isn't even the most overt, that one famous episode of Kamen Rider X takes that cake.
Oh, boy...
According to a youtuber called cammis circus, a publishing magazine mistakenly thought ninja captor was a sentai which is why it was sometimes seen with other sentais.
Apparently the reason a sudden romance between Sakurai and Karen happened was because their actors became a couple during the show's production and I guess this was included to give their characters something to do in the finale.
As for Michi Love herself I will never forget the episode of Toei's Spiderman she was in. She was a very memorable guest villain, one that makes you wish she became a recurring character. Someone who did appear in multiple episodes though, surprise, surprise, was Hiroshi Miyauchi.
Big One is easily the most well known of the early Sentai Heroes. Man basically became the crossover ranger before the concept was really a thing.😆
in Dairanger one of the main villains was a kid, said kid got killed twice in the show. JAKQ wasn't the only time a kid got explicitely killed but it was no doubt a first. I would also mention certain villains from Jetman and GoGo-V but they are aged up at a certain point of the show.
In Dairanger that's Akumaro right?
@@ronaldjbsantos1980 yeah Akomaru
I just watched both of the retrospectives back to back without skipping a single second which is rare for me. These videos were spectacular I greatly enjoyed watching them! I cannot wait to see your retrospective on Battle Fever J! Also I really enjoyed seeing the behind the scenes in the middle of the video where if you blink you miss it! 30:08 even if it’s not supposed to be there I enjoyed seeing it.
Oh, man, I didn't even realize I kept that in there 😅
The serious tone of JAKQ was the reason it got low ratings, Gorenger got a lot of children viewership with its goofy monsters and colorful main cast, plus the ridiculous and extravagant fights, JAKQ, on the other hand, tried to be more serious and down to earth, maybe as an attempt to get more teenagers and adults to watch it, but probably didn't work as intended since most of the children tuned off of the show. This had happened before to Toei when they aired Kamen Rider Amazon, that show also tried to be more adult to try and give a fresh air to the declining franchise but did actually worse than the previous KR show and got cancelled at only 24 episodes. Later on the writers would find a good balance between light hearted and serious tone for their shows ofc and JAKQ and Amazon remain as examples of how not to reinvent growing franchises.
JAKQ wished it had streaming of some kind it may have helped hehe
we also just need more stuff like this its neat since TV blocks are not the whole deal nowadays
What i like (and also dont) was a henshin capsule thingie. It was like "The bad guys are coming! Quick! Into the bulky capsule!"
When I watched the show, I definitely felt the disparity and the show clearly being cut into three pieces. The first is the dark spy detective kind of show that was honestly pretty dang good. The second was the lighter more kid-focused one. Which, wasn't bad, just heavy tonal whiplash. And then once Big One showed up, it was all over. The rest of the team got sidelined for the rest of the season.
One of the transformation capsule props shows up in an episode of Battle Fever J.
It's been re-dressed to be used by the bad guys.
Interesting. I'll have to look for that when I do the BFJ video
As a content fiend who subsists on long videos, the 51 min runtime excites me. Excellent video man, I noticed your pace of speaking was much more even this time around, keep it up!
Thank you so much! This video turned out way longer than I expected, so I was worried it would drag on too much. I'm glad you enjoyed.
@@KumaLink Wonder when it truly gets to 'History of Power Ranger's' 3 Part Seasons? And it Truly grows its wings?
Can't wait for the Battle Fever J retrospective!
It's cool to see the early showa era get some retrospectives.
Oh hey, I know you!
@@KumaLink 😯
Thank you so much for doing a retrospective on the sentai shows. I can't wait to see more
Yeah, I like JAKQ. I even just broke down and preordered their new Super Shodo figure. But, the show has major flaws due to the tonal changes.
I mean, the original vision for JAKQ makes sense. it is similar to how Ultraman did the same thing with UltraSeven being a more serious follow up to the original Ultraman's campiness. I really wish JAKQ's original tone was kept. Hell Daichi was hurt the most here. he went from being this scientist, who died, and had the tragic "my family is dead" back story. To being an idiot that's obsessed with his looks and girls.
It is pretty funny how history repeated itself with MMPR season 2. With the whole bringing back a popular actor from the first season to become a new white ranger. Who admittedly steals the lead role and demotes the Red Ranger.
See I didn’t know this wasn’t a liked series, I love this show and it’s so dark
And awesome and makes me feel so happy to just sit back and watch
This is the first video on the channel I’ve run across and I think I’m addicted to the content already haha
Great retrospective!! Can't wait for Battle Fever J and the others!!
Although Red often uses a sword, the Blue ranger being THE swordsman is something of a tradition. Gokaiger, Ryusoulger, and Kiramager, among others have the blue as the ace swordsman.
Shinkenger and King-Ohger also have the Blue Rangers as the most skilled swordsmen
@@PowerPackers90 idk about those. yanma is definitely not the most skilled swordsman of king-ohger, he mainly uses his kings weapon in gun mode. and i'd put takeru as the best swordsman in shinkenger.
Amazing video! I always wanted a HOPR-like series for super sentai and your videos are just what I always wanted!
Just a small comment, you kept saying how you don't know how they got away with the nazi crocodile episode, but remember that this was the 70's, and Japan was always more chill with these things. The first kamen rider had a lot of nazi symbolism for the villains, and Kamen Rider X had the infamous Starfish Hitler. Even in the west at the time it was common for Captain America to fight literal nazis in the comics and stuff like that, it was only later that this sorta of thing became more taboo.
There's symbolism, and then there's actually showing the thing. I haven't seen much Kamen Rider, so I didn't know about that starfish and this whole episode was just shocking to me lol
@@KumaLink When I said symbolism I meant the literal symbols like the swastika and the nazi eagle, but yeah, I can imagine how the episode could have been shocking lol. Btw, here is the starfish in question: static.wikia.nocookie.net/kamenrider/images/8/8d/KRX-Starfish_Hitler.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/336?cb=20220604010449
Appreciate you making these type of videos and definitely showing love for the Super Sentai community please continue doing this
100% agree with this assessment. jakq starts off so intersting and goes places you really dont expect, but come the obvious attempts to claw back the child audience it heads off track. its still enjoyable but definately not for the same reasons which puts me and many others off of it. what really made the show fumble i feel was the clear lack of communication between what ishinomori pro and toei people wanted the show to be; when it started the ball was clearly in ishinomrois court, but toei seemed to just kinda assume they were getting a goranger style super marketable project hence all the really cool toys with even cooler stop motion animated commercial. ishinomroi wanted a police procedural show with a superhero twist, toei wanted gorannger 2. when the viewing figures came back toei simply went into panic mode and stacked on the changes that ultimately hurt the show more than it helped. this is a sad prelude the how a lot of tokusatsu media ends up in the same way for having the audacity to appeal to an older target audience leading to it undergoing major changes before being unceremoniously cut short.
end of the say tho, who knows where sentai would (or perhaps wouldnt) be without jakq, if nothing else its a strangely classy show that exemplifies some of my favorite things about this ever so experimental era of toku media. there are certainly better sentai shows, but most certainly worse ones too.
oh right, about ninja captor, toei considering it a sentai was simply due to people creating various late 70s publications making the incredibly silly mistake that a show about a team of people who transform into multi colored heroes with unique vehicles battling an evil organization was totally not a sentai show. this didnt really last long, but it was still a prevailing misconception that ninja captor was actually a sentai show all along in the english speaking fanbase throughout the 2000s, despite it never being officially considered so.
At the end of the day, JAKQ's failure was probably for the best, since it led Toei to rethink the Sentai series and eventually get it to where it is now, but the show itself still suffered.
I remember Marz Girl reviewing this season. The first few episodes she said she was really into it then the last few she said she was glad to be done with it. I was like wow did it really sink like that.
I was always wanting to watch that Series before it disappeared after Marzgurl deleted it
Subscribed. good to see more tokutubers doing longform reviews.
Another great video. Keep it up!
30:57 What do you MEAN They couldn't Splurge on a Robotic Looking 'Final Boss Monster Suit' that that Flying Spikey Ball could descend into as a 'Brain' that activated its human suit and then have him Fight Red and Pink at the SAME TIME! Pushing them both to their limits and needing the whole team to come in and FINISH HIM! As the Base collapses around them due to their Epic Confrontation?!!?!?
Budget?
They didn't need to do all that. They could have just made it so he shot some lasers at them or something at the very least. Maybe he could've been the one to give Iron Claw his power boost that turned him into his final form? I'm not picky, really, literally anything would've been better than what we got.
P.S: They DID splurge on a big robot monster suit for the Gorenger Team-up anyway
We saw this in the Philippines too. Mitchi Love is a childhood crush, lol.
That Hitler episode is a classic in the books of tokusatsu.
Those villains in the movie remind me of the ones in the Message from Space series. Probably a common aesthetic anyway.
As the series progressed we saw more of Big 1 and his assistants and less of the core team. Not a bad choice since they were pretty low down on my list of teams.
Only in 70s japan u can get away with anything like nazis crocodiles or hitler starfish
(Note my version has goranger,Jakq,and j fever as a trilogy because 70’s)
Ok here the challenge of this we can’t make it too dark but we can’t make it too light hearted the title is star rangers jakq lucky aces we start at eaf or the eagle defense force fighting against crime (that’s the name) and crime is winning so what is crime? An organization that does crime but to the insanity the plans are over the top and brutality is high led by supposedly iron claw (which his claw like Freddy from nightmare of elm street) along with the other three but they have a boss that isn’t called shine he is American made villian like zedd he is called jakos the prankster he is backstory he was investing the iron regime just get away with crimes but after they fall apart jakos went desperate and experiment on himself to be stronger but turns out he went mentally insane and unpredictable like hijacking cable,explodes an plane engine,laughing gas to everyone,and has a lot of tricks their goals is spread crime has money and power and their secret goal is to revive the iron dictator so our heroes use the star grid(prototype of the morphin grid) to transform into starrnagers jakq capsules but the big bow(the big one American counterpart) is joker assistant (btw joker is way different he wears this jester outfit as with jakos his design is based on the joker design) so jakq is cyborgs that looked human they have to figure out who they are(four Boys and one girl) also they wish they are real humans also the insane episode the crocodile supports the imperial fortesss and in the end the five of them see jakos for the first time so in the final battle or episode have them fight superpower jakos with green electricity and steel claws they pull all the stops but they are too strong until they built the cannon but they both defeat steel claws and the jakos and jakos barely lives because of the green electricity but in the end jakos got arrested the end (sorry it was over the place but it was basic idea if they do an American adaptation in a messy all over the place summary)
just a note Soda did write for goranger I don't remember witch episodes but he was there
17:37 - well, I think you'll be surprised when you get to Zyuranger, Dairanger, and Ohranger
JAKQ wasn’t the first onscreen appearance of Kenji Ohba,he was actually a EAGLE soldier in episode 75 Of Goranger
Oh, nice. Thanks for the correction.
@@KumaLink if I’m not wrong as well the Conductor from ToQger appears in a episode of goranger as a truck driver(or something like that) which makes it the longest gap in appearances between a sentai
Jakq is far better than Goranger. The characters are flashed out more, the villains are more threatening, and the plots are far more relevant. Also, the fact that this is 35 episodes makes it easier to watch. Also, Jetman's 2nd episode has two kids getting killed.
Yeah, haven't watched Jetman yet. Definitely looking forward to that.
@@KumaLink Yep its a good season and hope it's gets dubbed at some point.
@@kennethwilson9970Nobody expect the First serie to be perfect either so
@GGX120 Yep, nobody did heck the 1st Kamen Rider show had its stuff together more than Goranger did, and I would like to see a Goranger reboot to fix the flaws that show had.
IDK but the fake claw in the crossover could be from the tv show where Banba impersonated Iron Claw.
Banba already had copies since well, he's Banba, and it just wasn't explained well why he has those LMAO.
Just got a subscriber out of me. I love Super Sentai and its really interesting hearing about the earlier seasons.
27:21 *Nani intensifies*
JAKQ for me was intresting since this was my seconed sentai at the time i thought it was amazing and i Didn't really notice the tone change plus the vs movie was freaking awosome to me although looking back at it now it definitely is not as good at i once thought really waiting to see how you tackle BFJ
21:35 Big one
Big One looking like he's coming out of a play? Looks like an average 1970s pimp from New York. 😂. Second of all, you forget one more character on this show, , a talking hamster.
Yeaaah, I kinda didn't bother to mention the talking animals since they add absolutely nothing to the show. I do plan to mention that in the Battle Fever video, though
@@KumaLink Battle Fever J is the show that finally had something. Denjiman made it better.
20:58 WHAT BOMB
Oh yeah, that
Can’t find any info about Hirohisa Soda, so I wonder what makes him so I’m infamous in the sentai fandom.
Hint: it's about his shows
Hirohisa Soda was the main writer for sentai from goggle v to fiveman stepping away from the franchise in jetman and returning to write some episodes in kakuranger etc he made a lot of changes to the sentai formula while he didn't perfect it he still contributed a lot to how a modern sentai looks like
16:56 pause 🗿
Zubat cameo'd in a 2011 rider movie, and there's a book for his show during super hero senki in a brief shot. so yes. there apparently Are 3 Hiroshi Miyauchi's running around the toei-verse
Actually i was wrong: there’s a Fourth. Miyauchi is the team commander in Ohranger.
...okay, is it just me or does Joker look like Peter Cullen?
Huh.
4:53 uh the screen is frozen I can hear the show’s sound but I can’t see the footage moving
I had to put the still picture up to avoid UA-cam's copyright sensor. Sorry.
I get it copyright’s a bitch at times
Showing the symbol wasnt really a big deal I think especially since it doesnt really just belong to the Nazis.
i dont know how old you are but life used to not be so censored especially in Japan
日本打ち切りでしたが、ジャッカー電撃隊サイボーグは外国人には人気あります❤
Gosei Sentai Dairanger The white Rangers Brother
17:26
Kumalink are you going to make anymore sentai retrospectives?
You bet! Already started on Sun Vulcan, but I need to wait until I get my PC back before I can keep working on it.
One thing I remember about this series was the playing cards used by Big 1 to summon the JAKQ
They were supplied by Nintendo - yes, the house that Mario (and Zelda) built
Though by that point they already was in the Japanese video game market with the Color TV Game console.