Sunday Henshin Time

Episodes Covered: Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart! Episodes 13-18 Timestamps 0:03:03 - Toku News 0:08:25 - General Discussion 0:34:57 - Actor Highlights 1:02:18 - Scoring 2:51:42 - Outro Look, this show wasn't trying to do this. The writers of this show could not have known we would do this podcast. But I think the writers of Max Heart saw that Pretty Cure nearly lost first to Kamen Rider Blade la...

EPISODES COVERED: Kamen Rider Hibiki Episodes 7-12 Timestamps 0:01:51 - Toku News 0:10:57 - General Discussion 0:58:14 - Actor Highlights 1:23:20 - Scoring 2:39:10 - Outro It's impossible to watch this show and not feel for the production team and the studio politics sabotaging them in real time, but also, it's hard to know what this show would do with much of its runtime otherwise? Yes, the worst...

EPISODES COVERED: Mahou Sentai Magiranger Episodes 7-12 Timestamps 0:01:59 - Toku News 0:06:22 - General Discussion 0:34:07 - Actor Highlights 1:12:41 - Scoring 2:22:17 - Outro The stocks are soaring for some of our characters on this batch of episodes, despite some real rough goings with the writing. There is an eventual rise but the show doesn't do itself any favors with many of the narrative an...

EPISODES COVERED: Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart! Episodes 7-12 Timestamps 0:07:40 - Toku News 0:24:06 - General Discussion 0:52:29 - Actor Highlights 1:14:54 - Scoring 2:32:02 - Outro Perhaps Pretty Cure is gonna run away with it again. This set of episodes is maybe the best we've ever had on this show, with some genuinely all time stuff, and we're left floored. Porun is a great character, Hikar...

EPISODES COVERED: Kamen Rider Hibiki Episodes 1-6 Time Stamps 0:02:54 - General Discussion 0:52:43 - Actor Highlights 1:13:55 - Scoring 2:03:56 - Outro The reputation of Kamen Rider Hibiki precedes it, and it is not entirely positive. Aesthetically, narratively, and production wise, this show is considered the weird one. So much of this show stands out like a sore thumb, and these first couple of...

EPISODES COVERED: Mahou Sentai Magiranger Episodes 1-6 Time Stamps 0:02:45 - Toku News 0:11:57 - General Discussion 1:08:17 - Actor Highlights 1:37:27 - Scoring 2:23:53 - Outro It's a good thing that the Dekarangers never claimed to be family, because when a company says you're family, it's a red flag they're trying to engender loyalty in employees so it can mercilessly f- mm, sorry, kid's show, m...

EPISODES COVERED: Futari Wa Pretty Cure MAX HEART Episodes 1-6 Time Stamps 0:03:26 - Toku News 0:21:05 - General Discussion 0:50:15 - Actor Highlights 1:18:53 - Stray Notes 1:31:36 - Scoring 1:56:30 - Outro The adventures continue, and not that much has changed! But in the premiere of this new season of Sunday Henshin Time , we are making some format changes in which we are only covering one show...

EPISODES COVERED: Episode 49 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, and Kamen Rider Blade and episodes 49-50 of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger Timestamps: 0:02:42 - Futari wa Pretty Cure 0:21:00 - Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 1:04:30 - Kamen Rider Blade And so it comes to this. The finale of our first season, of our first three shows. Will Doggie Kruger come in clutch? Does Porun have the stuff? Where is Chief Karasum...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 47-48 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade Timestamps: 0:04:45 - Futari wa Pretty Cure 0:33:00 - Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 1:31:04 - Kamen Rider Blade The time is now. One last pod before the big finisher, where we start to see the shape the finales will take. But for our show? The rankings have been decided. Season 1 of this podcast...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 45-46 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade Timestamps: 0:07:09 - Futari wa Pretty Cure 0:43:34 - Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 1:34:05 - Kamen Rider Blade It's Dekaranger 's turn to take the Suck-Ass Crown! Not that Kamen Rider Blade is exactly on fire, it's just that by comparison it looks good. ...Well, not in comparison to Futari wa P...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 43-44 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade Timestamps: 0:02:50 - Toku News 0:32:42 - Futari wa Pretty Cure 1:04:48 - Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 1:44:15 - Kamen Rider Blade Christmas comes early for our show and our heroes! Nagisa ends up in a loop of her own desires, the Dekarangers need to stop a rogue swordsman from besmirching SPD'...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 41-42 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade Timestamps: 0:02:34 - Toku News 0:12:36 - Futari wa Pretty Cure 1:02:18 - Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 2:01:41 - Kamen Rider Blade Well, it couldn't last forever. Kamen Rider Blade has finally dropped the ball, and Dekaranger continues to tumble downhill. In Pretty Cure we trust as they're the...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 39-40 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade Timestamps: 0:02:17 - Toku News 0:08:45 - Futari wa Pretty Cure 0:55:41 - Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 1:41:41 - Kamen Rider Blade Who says endings can't also beginnings? As all three of our shows are starting to pull into the final stops, we have moments of genuine affection and reflection in...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 37-38 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade Timestamps: Toku News 00:01:39 Futari wa Pretty Cure 00:13:12 Tokuso Sentai Dekaranger 00:52:32 Kamen Rider Blade 01:28:06 Mutsuki. Buddy. These show notes, the heck with these show notes. Almost no one reads them anyway. I'm here to talk to you . Because the thing is, man, you're not doing...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 35-36 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade Look if you wanna get out of stuff, you gotta say it with your whole chest. Or the very least just say it. Lots of unsaid things on these sets of episodes, as Nagisa gets absconded to a chestnut date, Jasmine does what she thinks is right which is morally wrong, and the Tiger Undead proves s...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 33-34 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade I know vastly more about lacrosse now, thanks to these episodes of Pretty Cure. No, not because of what's IN the episodes, but because I paused mid-episode to read a bunch, and then that knowledge proved to be irrelevant to the episode. This was a predictable outcome. The Dekarangers debut S...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 31-32 of Futari wa PreCure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade The frequency of all three of our shows turning in good work is going up, as PreCure starts working in the new paradigm of the littlest Prince of Light and their new foes, while the Dekas have double trouble with princesses and mob bosses as they work for their next upgrades. And Blade? Not to b...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 27-28 of Futari wa PreCure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade Oh boy. Well, Futari wa Pretty Cure is back in full voice. Tokuso Sentai Dekaranger squanders a good villain then does an episode about how terrified Japanese office workers are of girls reclaiming their sexuality. And Kamen Rider Blade ... look, it has to be seen, or heard, to be believed. And...

EPISODES COVERED: Episodes 27-28 of Futari wa PreCure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade We are past the halfway mark of this season of shows, and we cast a wide net. Pretty Cure starts taking shape into the show we know of in culture, Dekaranger introduces some cool new temporary guys, and Blade ... we gotta talk about Blade . It's. A. Lot. The incredible artwork for Sunday Henshin...

EPISODES COVERED: 25-26 of  Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger,  and  Kamen Rider Blade This week: the first half of Futari wa Pretty Cure comes to an end, Tokuso Sentai Dekaranger has an Among Us mystery and a tribute to Fight Club , and Kamen Rider Blade finds the one thing that strains the soul worse than taking a life- breaking a motorcycle. The incredible artwork for Sunday Hens...

EPISODES COVERED: 23-24 of  Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger,  and  Kamen Rider Blade What a mixed bag of episodes. Pretty Cure is stumbling and stumbling hard towards it's strange mid-series ending, the shifting of roles in DekaRanger , and... ok we gotta talk about the motorcycle thing. Kamen Rider Blade is a roller coaster of contrasts. We really got taken for a ride this week....

EPISODES COVERED: 21-22 of  Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger,  and  Kamen Rider Blade Ah, the dog days of Pretty Cure are upon us. Or maybe just "day" singular, unless we get ANOTHER episode at some point where there are dogs voiced in Japanese, which feels unlikely. Wait, wait, wasn't last year's PreCure about like your pet becoming a Cure alongside you? Dang. Well, someday we'll...

EPISODES COVERED: 19-20 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger, and Kamen Rider Blade You ever go running? It's good for your body but I understand why most people don't find it great. Most people just sorta wanna zone out on a treadmill and watch a show or whatever, and that's valid! I just like my little runs outside. Ban isn't hot on the prospect though because he has to disarm PLA...

EPISODES COVERED: 17-18 of  Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger,  and  Kamen Rider Blade ACAB includes... retail managers? That's the theory in this week's Kamen Rider Blade episodes, where it supposes that a job at a supermarket entails chasing and tackling perps. Tokuso Sentai Dekaranger takes an uncomfortable angle on Chinese culture, then pivots into Japanese patriotism that may o...

EPISODES COVERED: 15-16 of  Futari wa Pretty Cure, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger,  and  Kamen Rider Blade Boy, this episode really surprised us. Pretty Cure managed to stumble and DekaRanger has some stuff, but Blade really took us somewhere we didn't expect. These episodes gave us plenty to talk about, so long as our heroes can keep it together. Are we heroic podcasters? Doubtful. But we had fun with...