Sunday Henshin Time

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. The incredible artwork for Sunday Henshin Time was provided by Cas! Our intro music is Scene47 蒼空 ～aoi～ by Kaneko Kazuki, with gratitude. The Scanline Media Discord can be found here!

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 get there I think. Meanwhile, Dekaranger gestures at an INCREDIBLE episode and then falls short, merely delivering a fantastic one. And I don't know WHAT Kamen Rider Blade is doing, but that's becoming a

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 or not be innocent, but it's hard to shake the 2025 connotations of such things. Futari wa Pretty Cure? Poisony shows off a power so staggering that it's hard to imagine how she didn't wrap this thing up

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 this one. The incredible artwork for Sunday Henshin Time was provided by Cas! Our intro music is Scene47 蒼空 ～aoi～ by Kaneko Kazuki, with gratitude. Additional Reading: What Are Japan's True

EPISODES COVERED: Futari wa PreCure 9-10, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger 9-10, Kamen Rider Blade 9-10I wonder if referring to "World of Warcraft sexual dimorphism" even hits anymore. It's the thing in fantasy where like... a male orc is this massive guy with tusks and a craggy face and such, and then female orcs are human-sized hourglass-figured folks that basically look like "what if a sexy lady had green skin." It's that kinda thing. Anyway, this week on Sunday Henshin Time, Mepple gets held