天下制覇

In a way, it’s amazing that they managed to screw this up.

Impressions:

See, here’s the thing about parody. You can’t just interject your characters into a new setting and call it a day. You need to overplay the cliches. Poke fun at the standard tropes. Have the characters react in accordance to their normal situations instead of the standards for whatever genre you’ve thrust them into. Playing it straight the entire time is not funny or even interesting. This is proper parody.

This episode, however, did absolutely none of that. It was just twenty horrible minutes of terrible mecha using the Stray Cats characters… only they weren’t the Stray Cats characters. Everybody was renamed, had different personalities, etc. You can derive about as much pleasure from this episode as you can from just looking at some fanservice shot of the girls dressed in their adorable little sentai outfits, because that’s about the only interesting thing that this episode had going for it. No actual jokes or anything for the entire bloody episode. It really truly feels like they took some forgotten awful 1970s mecha and redrew the characters. Even Galaxy Angel did a far better sentai episode than this and it covered 52 ‘episodes’ in 10 minutes.