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Everyone! It's...it's not what it looks like! I'm not watching Power Rangers here! Really! No, honest!

Okay, okay! I already did a gag where I put on a mock insecurity act about watching Power Rangers and I do reference that I watch Power Rangers, sometimes referencing it as that "campy kids show". So it's not like I'm really hiding that fact.

Even with that, I really wasn't watching Power Rangers in that shot.

I was watching the Super Sentai show that would be used to become Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. I'm sixteen episodes in and about to get into the episodes with the sixth ranger. I have to say it's not too bad.

Also, I got myself watching Akibaranger, an unofficial Sentai show linked to the official Super Sentai series that's also an adult parody. You got one guy and two girls fighting bad guys in their delusions and they believe pain is power. It's really targeted at the otaku crowd (the red ranger's a 29 year old guy who's obsessed with Super Sentai, the blue ranger is a closet otaku, and the yellow ranger is a cosplayer girl who really likes her guy on guy action, if you get what I mean). I won't say anymore due to spoilers but I will say it's hilarious, crazy and great! So hilarious I would so love to see Akibaranger get an unofficial Power Rangers adaptation!

There is a second season of Akibaranger and I am watching it and it's just as crazy. I did see some sort of shot where the Akibaranger sees the Tyrannoranger and Dragonranger from Zyuranger but they have some stars and stripes on their belt and neck that looks to scream, "America." I really hoping that it's hinting that they're going to make some Power Rangers jokes. It's not like they didn't reference Power Rangers before. They had the actor of Dekared/Ban from Dekaranger in the second episode of the first season as himself, saying he was in the SPD uniform because of a Power Rangers SPD event (in reference to the fact that Japan actually got a Japanese dub of Power Rangers SPD featuring the cast of Dekaranger, Power Rangers SPD's Sentai counterpart. It's not like it's the first time Power Rangers got a Japanese dub, despite how ironic that sounds).

So yeah, I think I really got myself into campy kid shows.