 This article is about an episode in Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger Season Tsuu.
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Delusional Beauty War (妄想美闘 Mōsō Bitō) is the eighth episode of Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger Season 2.
Synopsis[]
The Akibarangers try to find General Tsu while fighting a re-designed Tentoraiger who has the abilities of past sentai villains.
Plot[]
To stop General Tsu's meddling with reality, The Akibarangers look for him, until they finally manage to find his van, but Mutoumushite, another of Baros lol's monsters appear, forcing them to confront it in the delusional world. Malseena watches the fight from afar, later joined by General Tsu. Despite being a Kenma monster from Juken Sentai Gekiranger, Akiba Red recognizes that Mutoumushite's swordsmanship as similar to the one used by Adjutant Booba from Dengeki Sentai Changeman. The enemy also uses techniques from other Super Sentai villains as well, but when Malseena joins the fight, he refuses to help her and upon being convinced that she is not needed anymore, General Tsu encases Malseena in a block of ice, in a fashion similar to Princess Ial's punishment in Hikari Sentai Maskman.
Overpowered by the enemy, the Akibarangers are bailed out to reality, and make use of a coupon that fell from General Tsu's clothes to keep trailing him. The trio follows a man covered in scars that they believe to be General Tsu, just to find later that he is in fact stunt actor Yoshinori Okamoto, who worked in several Super Sentai installments. Questioning Okamoto about General Tsu, they learn that he was hired by him to perform as the Super Sentai villains he portrayed using motion capture technology, which explains why Mutoumushite can use their techniques. The Akibarangers then return for the rematch against Mutoumushite, and when it uses Adjutant Booba's style once more, Super Akiba Red manages to overpower him by reenacting the scene of Buba's showdown with Change Dragon in Changeman.
By combining the Inordinate powers of the Dairangers, Zyurangers and Hurricanegers into the Inordinate Bazooka, the Akibarangers finish the enemy, and General Tsu flees with the still frozen Malseena while swearing to get back at them on a later occasion. Back to reality, Nobuo and the girls thank Okamoto for his help, and get from him General Tsu's business card, finally learning his address. Meanwhile, the man at the hospital appears briefly once more, turning on the TV just in time to watch a Super Sentai show.
Cast[]
- Nobuo Akagi: Masato Wada (和田 正人 Wada Masato)
- Luna Iwashimizu: Shione Sawada (澤田 汐音 Sawada Shione)
- Yumeria Moegi: Karin Ogino (荻野 可鈴 Ogino Karin)
- Hiroyo Hakase: Maaya Uchida (内田 真礼 Uchida Maaya)
- Kozukozu Mita: Kozue Aikawa (愛川 こずえ Aikawa Kozue, of Danceroid)
- ©Na: Honoka (穂花)
- General Tsu: Ryo Horikawa (堀川 りょう Horikawa Ryō)
Guest Cast[]
- Mutoumushite (Voice): Nobuyuki Hiyama (檜山 修之 Hiyama Nobuyuki)
- Gymnastics Guy: Orakio Matsuyuki (松雪 オラキオ Matsuyuki Orakio)
- Himself: Seiji Takaiwa (高岩 成二 Takaiwa Seiji)
- Himself: Yoshinori Okamoto (岡本 美登 Okamoto Yoshinori)
- Customer at Karaoke Box: Taito Hashimoto (橋本 汰斗 Hashimoto Taito)
- Shop Employee: Junichi Gamou
- Shopkeeper: Oolong-Ta Yoshida
- Maid: Madoka Takahashi
Gallery[]
Tropes and References[]
- The monster of this episode is a kenma monster from Gekiranger.
- At the beginning of the episode, when Nobuo is complaining to not have been able to recognize General Tsu, in the bottom right-corner of the screen a count up clock similar to the countdown clocks used in Go-Busters to show Megazord transportation is seen.
- During Mutoumushite's battle with Akibarangers, he uses a "Deadly Past" technique, a technique that copies the attacks used from the previous Sentai villains in the past.
- When Malshina was attacked by Mutoumushite, she recites the line, "If only Deluknight was here", a reference to the line from Bioman's Bio Hunter Silva, whose catchphrase was "If only Balzion was here".
- When Malshina was imprisoned by General Tsu with his acrylic case, Nobuo recalls the scene of Princess Ial's imprisonment in the ice coffin by Earth Emperor Zeba in Maskman. General Tsu however denies it and said she is only trapped in the acrylic case, just like a giant living figure.
- Suidobashi is a place where Tokyo Dome City's Sky Theater is located. This is the place where Okamoto works as a stuntman and the stage show's actor during his youth years.
- When Nobuo mentions Okamoto, Yuuko mistakenly refers him as Jiro Okamoto, another Sentai suit actor since both Yoshinori and Jiro possessed similar last name.
- During their chat with Okamoto, Nobuo mentions Kazuo Niibori, another veteran suit actor who made his appearance as a guest star in the last season.
- During the roll call, Nobuo recommends GekiChopper as his favorite Gekiranger insert songs. The insert song he refers to is Osu! GekiChopper!.
- Luna recommends GekiOrange as her favorite in her roll call. She refers to Beast-Fist Trainer Robo-tuff, Gekiranger's trainer robot.
- AkibaRed throwing his gun to AkibaYellow is similar to the Gokaigers swapping their weapons during fights.
- The final battle between Nobuo and Mutoumushite is similar to that of Tsurugi and Booba in Changeman episode Ep. 52: Booba Dies on Earth.
- Suit actor, Seiji Takaiwa guest stars in this episode. He can be seen wearing jacket written "STAFF, KAKURANGER" on the back and "SEIJI T." on the left sleeve, since Takaiwa was a suit actor for NinjaRed in Kakuranger.
- When the mysterious person in the hospital turns on the TV, the Boukenger's theme starts, but it is cut off by the episode's end.
Errors[]
- When Boukenger plays on the TV at the end, the regular Super Sentai logo appears, but it should have been the 30th anniversary version.
Notes[]
- Okamoto's nickname was known as O-BITOH. The episode title Beauty War (Bitou) has a same pronunciation as his nickname, Bitoh.
- When Okamoto mentions Cap-tan, they refer Cap-tan from Episode 4 as Mousou Cap-tan, which was a mispronunciation of the English word for Motion Capture.
DVD/Blu-ray releases[]
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger Season 2 Volume 3 features episodes 7-9: Ep. 7: Delusional Spy, Ep. 8: Delusional Beauty War, and Ep. 9: Delusion Number Two.
