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Introduction

As always Masato Wada opens the show with his own semi-roll-call-esque thing, this

time its about living all alone in the sea and deciding to go on a journey (?). This as itturns out is from Denjiman and was suggested as a roll-call by listener: Tento-ninniku-

tenno. I havent seen Denjiman so this reference went straight over my head. Wada states

that they want to get straight into the Guest Talk section, so the Intro will be a littleshorter this week.

A listener by the name of Worlds Unofficial asks whether Wada preferred (?) Sayaka or

Malshina, to which Wada answered Malshina. Kazaki Fusion asks what Masato Wada

does on his days off. It turns out he drinks lots the night before his day off and then sleeps

throughout the next day.

Guest Talk

As previously mentioned the guests are Tomokazu Seki (Fun Fact: Seki also dubbed the

Japanese voice of alleged racial sterotype Skids in the Transformers films) and Kanae

Oki, who are back for even more Sentai talk. Wada mentions that last episode had threeadults and had a much different feeling to Episodes 1 and 2, with the conversation being

deeper, and he hopes to replicate this feeling this week.

Wada starts off by asking the two experts what they thought of his dubbing in the role of

Akiba Red, as it was his first time doing ADR, he was quite nervous. Both guests saythat he was fine and retained the tension of speech pre and post transformation. Wada

admits that as he went on he learned the fun of doing ADR and how he could play with

his voice, which Oki suggests is partly responsible for the character of Nobuo and how in

real life such intensity would be unknown. Seki talks about how the difference betweendubbin Toku and Anime is that in Anime the image has already been decided and the

voice only needs to fit this, however in Toku it is a collaboration between the actor and

the suit actor, and how they both have to learn and adapt from each other. Wada recountshow suit actor, Sanshiro Wada, observed Wadas habits and incorporated them into his

performance.

Oki says that he once made a real unofficial Sentai, by which he means a fan-film

parody, in which he played the role of the Green Ranger. When doing this he studied thehabits of the suit actor to try and copy his habits and such, so it was the opposite of the

Akibaranger situation. Wada talks about how there are loads of Sentai parodies and fan-

films floating around, and how they all play on different concepts of Sentai, which couldbe used in a potential Season 2. He originally imagined Akibaranger as a drama which

played on the usual Sentai character types, such as a girly Pink, a protective Red and a

tomboyish Yellow, but as we know the truth was not so.

Wada asks Seki and Oki what type of roles they would like to play if they could chooseany role. Oki reaffirms that she would want to play a character like Bibidebi who would

be scary and could make monsters grow, or she would like to be the voice of one of the

helper robots. Wada asks if she wanted to transform at all, and Oki replies that shes not

fond of the idea of wearing the suits, but might want to play a commander/mentor typerole. Or she would like to be AkibaPurple, whos allegiances would be ambiguous, they

wont know if shes an ally or an enemy. Wada expresses his desire for there to be lots of

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Akibarangers, with them all (except for him) being female.

Sekis dream role is that of the neighbourhood policeman or Ramen shop owner who

always gets inexplicably wound up in the events of the episode. Wada suggests that hecould be the character who would always help/ listen to the heroes, and when they are in

super trouble he could come to the rescue as AkibaBlack!

This leads to a section where Seki asks whether there will be an Akibaranger 2, to which

Wada acts all vague and unsure. Oki claims that it would be a waste to not do a secondseason, and that since Akibaranger ended her Monday evenings have been lacking. Seki

says the only solution is to buy the toys and delusion up more Akibaranger. Wada says

that they could do a second season or a Hikonin Series with lots of different

incarnations, to which Seki says that he would become a Legend Hikonin on par withthe Gorengers. No concrete information as of yet, but Wada thanks the listeners for their

support.

The conversation moves on to Tomokazu Sekis memories of doing voice acting for many

Sentai shows. In particular he recalls a time when Ohranger was on where it was

immediately followed by a Gundam show, this meant that the same was the villain in oneshow and the was the hero straight afterwards. That was a great year for Seki. He also

recounts how back in the day, they didnt have the fancy studios for voice acting and itwas literally done in a shed which didnt even have a floor. Apparently they couldnt use

air conditioners so on hot days they brought in blocks of ice and random cats kept

wondering in to this shed. Despite being a recording studio, the walls werent soundproofso there were lots of takes needed as there was car/helicopter noise in the background of

many of them. The three actors then reminisce about their various experiences in

recording studios, apparently at one point there was a Convenience Store inside the studio

itself. Wada comments that they could make a film out of just Toeis history.

Wada then confronts Oki about herpenchantfor singing Toku songs (a fact that the

others say he must of got from Wikipedia), she sings a lot in her spare time and she likesthe Dekaranger and Timeranger themes, as well as the songs sung by the female team

members. Oki doesnt want to sing the Akibaranger themes because the lyrics are tooquick and difficult to learn, but after some cajoling from the others she promises to try.

Wada is also a fan of the Toku karaoke, but only the song sung by men (otherwise it

would feel weird apparently), citing the theme to Maskman and Boukenger as two of hisfavourites. He also listened to a Tokusatsu Best of Album which he listened to lots on

set. They comment on how Sentai songs are all upbeat and catchy and Seki posits the

theory that its so that they can be used to motivate the heroes when theyre in trouble.

Request Song

Hamanako-no-kushi requests Courage is a Phoenix from Mahou Sentai Magiranger,and it is therefore played. Listen to it, its fun.

Akibare Information Corner

Everyones favourite segment packed with Product Placement! The Akibarangers are all

available in their deformed forms. Not only are there the untransformed forms, butHakase, Malshina and Shajeeks too. There are 10 figures in total. The Moe Moe Z-Cune

Transformation Item is also available, usable for transforming, attacking, and displaying.

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Theres also very Akiba-esque Akibaranger T-Shirts plastered with a number of slogans

from the show, available from the Bandai Fashion store. Akibaranger episodes 4-6 are

featured on the Akibaranger Volume 2 DVD/Blu-Ray with lots of Special features andstickers included with the Blu-Ray release.

Malshinas Advice Corner

Laiyamachokan is a 19 year old male whos never been held by/held a girl in his life. (I

think this may be a euphemism, it probably is but Im not entirely sure). Malshina saysthat theres not much she can do for people his age, but she does have one piece of

advice, to not be too overt about his intentions. Instead throw himself into Sports, Studies

and Work, make lots of friends and eventually your time will come. Remember you can

send all of your problems via the Akibaranger Radio Page.

Letters Section

As always this is the section where a selection of the letters and e-mails that are sent to

the show get read out, like in proper radio!

Try your best, AkibaRed! says that he really enjoyed the show, and that even if youwerent a massive Sentai otaku there was lots that could be taken from the show. Herecorded it and watched it during the day and for some reason his 2 year old daughter

also really enjoyed it, and they watched it together. He wants a Moe Moe Z-Cune but is

concerned about the price.

Seki has preordered the Moe Moe Z-Cune, commenting that its so expensively cheap.Wad managed to get his hands on one during an event, and that its possibly the best

quality Toku toy ever made. Wada informs them of the price of the fully transformable

Machine Itasshar and they both act appropriately shocked. As always Wada thanks them,but expresses concern about the 2 year olds safety.

I love Currys favourite monster was Kabukicho (the one Yellow was all hot andbothered over), and wonders if there was any actions scenes that Wada wanted to do.

He answers in the negative but does say that it wouldve been great if there had been a

Power Rangers version of Akibaranger (OMG a Power Rangers reference!), so that hecould dub over the voice of foreigners playing the role of Nobuo. Seki suggests that he

has yet to do a battle damaged helmet scene, but then adds that it would be funny if

another part of the suit got damaged rather than the helmet, angering Nobuo in theprocess.

Somebody (these nicknames are all really long) then asks a question about cosplaying

and specifically men cosplaying as young girls, which leaves all members of the cast

befuddled as to why this happens. Seki suggests that its a form of regression, doingsomething that they could not do in the past, like with weird mens fascination with high

school girl uniforms, he uses remaking old Toku with modern special effects as a way to

explain this. Wada says its like Lucas remaking the old Star Wars films, which everyone

agrees is a terrible decision. They ask Oki if she ever wanted to cosplay, and althoughshe says its not really her thing she might want to do some Kakuranger cosplay. Seki

then states that as there are female members of Sentai teams, although this doesnt

happen because its a kids show, if they were to be captured the villains would probablyinterfere with them in some way as the villains are all really evil and the girls are quite

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attractive. Can I just take this moment to say that these are Sekis views and not those of

mine or RRR. Oki complains that shes never thought of this, and Wada says how the

tone of the show suddenly dropped and that it has suddenly gone all grimdark.

Endings

They then proceed to play the ending theme to Akibaranger, sung by Masato Wadahimself. The perfect song to sing when drunk, crying and remembering Akibaranger.

Thats it for this episode of Akibaranger Web Radio (Temp), the hosts part ways and Seki

and Oki say that they are proud to have been able to meet a proper Red and asks Wadato contact them if they ever need anything. With that they all say goodbye, until next

week. See you then!