Hyuma to his therapist: I...might have...some sadness...but it's, you know, not bad! I'm just lazy and whiny...I don't know, I just never sleep....but it's fine!
Hyuma to Taisei: Move fucker I'm depressed and I need the pasta it's an emergency
So, a new show by Toei has started airing on TV Asahi and it is phenomenal. It is The High School Heroes, a sentai-esque show about a Goranger otaku trying to protect his school against the Majin.
Here are some of my thoughts and a summary of the first episode
[SPOILERS BELOW THIS POINT]
In Episode 1, "The Birth of the Crimson Hero! The Blue Spring of Youth Strikes a Reversal Home Run", we get to meet Manaka Taisei. Taisei is a major Goranger otaku, he has watched it hundreds of times and it was his father's favorite show as well. Taisei is the president of the School Defense Club, part Goranger fan club part defenders of the school.
Taisei tries to recruit members for his club under the threat of it being shut down due to a lack of members. He tries to recruit some of the most important students around the school.
Takigawa Yusuke, the "smartest student" and member of the baseball team.
Domon Ryuhei, the "most athletic student" and member of the basketball club.
Morimura Naoya, the "most popular student" and member of the dance club.
All of which reject him (For now). We are also introduced to the "most artistic student" Sakurai Ichika.
Another worth mentioning is Hana, Naoya's sister and member of the News Club. During the first episode, she is following Taisei around and documents what's going on. She later joins the club.
The big villains are the Headmaster and the Student Representative working for him, Hyuma.
Taisei goes home dejected and has a vision of Goranger which tells him that he will never become a hero if he gives up now. During this time we also see some flashbacks which reveal that his father created an app that is supposed to transform someone into a hero, that Taisei was attacked by a Majin as a young kid and was rescued.
Things start picking up here. Members of the baseball team start getting attacked by a Majin. A Majin is a monster created by someone whose negative emotion has overwhelmed them. The Majin transform using an app distributed by the evil student Representative and headmaster.
The Majin is a baseball monster who I have to say looks absolutely stunning. Perfectly ferocious and drooly.
Taisei hears a scream and rushes to the aid of the student being attacked and while selflessly defending him he transforms for the very first time into Akahero using his father's app.
Akahero and the Baseball Majin fight before the Majin disappears. Taisei then tries to find out who the Majin is in order to help him. He first believes that it is Yusuke who is angry at some other classmates who cheated off of him but that turns out to be wrong.
It is revealed that it is actually Nishinomiya, an underclassman, who is angry at Yusuke for letting the players cheat off of him so they could compete while the more talented underclassman can't.
Taisei shows up and turns into Akahero and trys to stop Nishinomiya who transforms into the Baseball Majin. Taisei sent the app to Yusuke so he can transform and help save Nishinomiya. Yusuke becomes the blue hero Aohero.
Together the two heroes defeat the Majin and rescue Nishinomiya. However, Hyuma deletes the transformation app from Nishinomiya's phone which causes him to lose his memories of the event.
In the end, Yusuke quits the baseball team and joins the School Defense Club.
Over the next few episodes, I'm sure some more of the students introduced will become rangers and help defend the school against the Majin and the Headmaster.
That's all for now! But before this post ends, you have to admire the School Defense Club's room. BUH BYE!
