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The Akibarangers
Nobuo Akagi/Akiba Red I
Nobuo Akagi/Akiba Red | Live Actor: Masato Wada
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A 29-year old Super Sentai and Aoi fan, delivery man of Sasaki Ponpoko Delivery, and field leader of the Akibarangers.
- Accidental Misnaming: Known to Sayaka only as 'Ponpoko-san' thanks to his work uniform.
- Anime Hair: He has spiky hair on his HELMET, of all things. Can be used as a weapon.
- Ascended Fanboy: Even more so than Gai Ikari (Well, he's more of a fanboy, but arguably less ascended since his team is unofficial).
- Lampshaded in S2#13, when the Akibarangers say that they are bigger fans than a certain hearty silver guy.
- Basement-Dweller: 29 years old and living with his mother.
- Bifurcated Weapon: He can combine the Moe Moe Z-Cune and Munyu Munyu Z-Baan to create the Munyu Moe Zubakyuuun.
- Brains and Brawn: The brains to Mitsuki's brawn.
- Chivalrous Pervert: He has pervy interests, but is still a decent person, especially in season 2, where he doesn't have a specific love interest to focus on.
- Dead All Along: The final episode of the second season shows that he, Yumeria, and Luna actually did die stopping the alien invasion and that they're now ghosts.
- The Dulcinea Effect: Hopelessly devoted towards "his" Sayaka. To the point that when Marushina disguised herself as Sayaka to shoot him, he fell for it three times in a row. He was drunk that time though. During S1#9, it actually helps motivate him to transform IN THE REAL WORLD.
- In season 2, since Sayaka has moved away he seems to have transferred more of his affection toward Aoi-tan, to the point that it's the source of his Super Mode.
- Face Death with Dignity: After realizing that he's doomed at the end of 2-12, he tells everyone to keep watching Sentai as he is killed mid-sentence.
- Finishing Move: Akiba Underground Culture Attacknote
- Munya Slashnote
- MunyuMoe Prominencenote
- MunyuMoe Crushernote
- Genre Savvy: He's such a huge Sentai buff that he can relate event flags from various series to what's actually happening to the Akibarangers, and predict what happens next. Turns out this wasn't mere coincidence.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In 2-12.
- Homage: Himself and his suit has some to several Super Sentai Red Rangers: His "Super Sentai" Stance (spread open legs and outstretched arms) is similar to Aka Ranger's and Goggle Red's pose; His helmet's "hair" is similar to Battle Japan's asymmetric helmet; The gold sideways "V-streak" on his helmet's "hair" is similar to Aka Red's gold "V" on his helmet; His family name is pronounced the same as Ippei Akagi's (Denzi Red's) family name.
- Killed Off for Real: Along with Luna and Yumeria at the end of 2-12. And don't let 2-13 fool you; he really is dead.
- Large Ham: He tends to holler statements with much vigor.
- The Leader: He's the leader of the Akibarangers, or at least he tries to be.
- Nerds Are Virgins: He's an otaku and he's never been in a serious relationship with a woman.
- Nonstandard Character Design: The girls may fit right in with toku heroines past and present, but Nobuo's actor looks like he'd be more suited for a Hongkong sex farce. It's all deliberate, of course.
- Older Than They Look: Nobuo is 29, although he could easily pass as a man in his early-to-mid 20s. This also extends in real life, as his actor is actually 32.
- The One Guy: He's the only male member of the Akibarangers.
- Otaku: He likes anime and Super Sentai very much.
- Perverse Sexual Lust: He has a thing for the in-universe anime character, Aoi.
- Reality Warper: His delusion level eventually becomes so high that he can use his powers just as effectively in the real world, which essentially has this effect.
- Exaggerated when he becomes so deluded he becomes aware of the fact that he's living in a TV show. While this is certainly an example of Breaking the Fourth Wall, it wouldn't have been possible if he wasn't as deluded as he was.
- Robosexual: As revealed in S2#6, he loves smooth shiny cute robot girls.
- The Smart Guy: He is capable of analysing the villains' weaknesses and clichés.
- Superdickery: Had to treat his teammates as crap as part of a plan to defeat an enemy successfully.
- Super Mode: Super Akiba Red is his super mode.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: In #2 when he gets to meet DekaRed...his actor tells him it's just a costume for a Power Rangers S.P.D. event. But Sainei decides to be a nice guy anyways and thanks him for being a fan.
- Use Your Head: Either to headbutt or AS A SAW. In season 2, in his super mode he uses his head for fire lighting in his finishing move.
Mitsuki Aoyagi/Akiba Blue I
Mitsuki Aoyagi/Akiba Blue | Live Actress: Kyoko Hinami
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A teen martial-artist and Aoi fan. She is not much of a Sentai fan at first but gets into it late in the series.
- The Big Girl: She's the team's strongest fighter who excels in martial arts.
- Brains and Brawn: The brawn to Nobuo's brains.
- Improvised Weapon: Has a preference for rods of any sort.
- The Lancer: She's the second-in-command and having a more serious personality than Akagi.
- Only Sane Man: Amongst the other two Akibarangers, she's the only one who displays any rationality.
- Put on a Bus: The Retcon in Season Tsuu has her being sent to the Pentagon instead of Akagi. And unlike him, she doesn’t come back.
- Sole Survivor: As a result of the aforementioned Put on a Bus example.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Yumeria's Girly Girl.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Her helmet's hair is in a ponytail and she's tomboyish.
- Tsundere: Usually tsun-tsun in general, but hits dere-dere mode once Aoi-tan is involved.
- The Watson: When it comes to Sentai, she needs to be informed about everything due to not being as into the franchise as Nobuo and Yumeria are..
- Wrestler in All of Us: Has been seen to use several pro-wrestling grapples, including a hurricanrana-into-armdrag and a Boston crab.
Yumeria Moegi/Akiba Yellow
Yumeria Moegi | Live Actress: Karin Ogino
Real name: Yuko Yamada / Yuko Yokoyama (S2)
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Cosplayer and dojin/dojinshi artist.
- Animal-Eared Headband: She often wears a headband with cat ears.
- Cat Girl: Most of the time, she's costumed as a catgirl.
- Chekhov's Skill: Her drawing, usually saved for her yaoi doujinshi, comes in handy in S1#7 for drawing out the delusions and leads to Hakase recognizing Marushina as her father's work.
- In S2#4, she made a special dojinshi for Nobuo which helped him get his super mode.
- Confusion Fu: Her fighting style is comical but effective, like Gokai Green's.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: She often wears costumes as part of her geekiness.
- Her main costume is the yellow haired Cat Girl.
- In S1#3, she is a blue haired elementary school boy.
- At the end of three and in the intro, she is The Mad Hatter.
- S1#4 has multiple due to the cosplay shop scene:
- Her cosplay after the intro is a slightly different take on the school boy outfit from the previous episode. She now sports a dark blue wig, glasses, and a bowtie.
- When she tries different cosplays in the shop she starts with a Nun wielding a machine gun.
- Next is a Native American.
- Third is Little Red Riding Hood.
- And finally is Mele. When she transforms, she even retains the Mele character!
- S1#5 she spends the entire episode as a Silver-Haired Alien.
- Well mostly she trades in the silver wig for a pink one partway through.
- In S1#6, she's a Elegant Gothic Lolita that carries around a talking mannequin head.
- For the first 5 minutes of S1#7 she retains her Gothic Loli cosplay, then she dresses as Satomi from Z-Cune Aoi. At the end of S1#7, she's dressed as a Samurai (in particular with Date Masamune's crescent helm, but none of his eyepatch)
- S1#9 has her dressed up as a bee girl and later a bunny girl.
- Of special note, we see her as herself briefly in season 1's #7, #9 and #11 and in season 2's #2 and #4.
- Dead All Along: 2-13 ends with the revelation that she, Nobuo, and Luna are now ghosts and that they didn't survive their Heroic Sacrifice to stop the alien invasion after all.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: In S1#5, we meet her mother, who taught her everything about cosplay. She even gets to transform into Akiba Yellow herself! When the fight is over, however, she is no where to be found. Yumeria then reveals to the team that she had been dead for several years.
- Happily Married: Got married while she was away before she returned in S2#2. Nobuo didn't find out until S2#4.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her helmet's hair in season 1 is in pigtails. A bit of an Impractically Fancy Outfit when the enemy grabs them.
- Improbable Weapon User: The Akiba pylon is her chosen weapon
- Killed Off for Real: Is killed off in 2-12 along with Nobuo and Luna. Don't let 2-13 fool you; they're still dead.
- Meaningful Name:
Moegi is an obvious one. As for Yumeria, it is a combination of the Japanese word for dream (yume) and the western name Amelia. It's just an alias, however. - Office Lady: Her day job is working at an office.
- Older Than They Look: Reveals herself to be 23, but as of S1#5, she's 24 (in real life, her actress was 16 when the show was first produced).
- Only Known by Their Nickname: In the first season. She mostly goes by her real name Yuko in season 2.
- Shout-Out Theme Naming: She shares her assumed name with the anime Yumeria
- Special Person, Normal Name: Lampshaded: her real name is noted to be very common.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's one of each to the different Akiba Blues.
- Season 1: Girly Girl to Mitsuki's Tomboy.
- Season 2: Tomboy to Luna's Girly Girl.
- Took a Level in Badass: Season 2 saw a lot of Yumeria's cosplays being less cutesy and more action-oriented (but still cute), given that Luna was now the team's girly-girl. It worked well to her advantage, because hero cosplays tend to influence her fighting style.
- Verbal Tic: Depending on the costume - adding "nya"s to her dialogue as a catgirl, ending all her sentences with a combination of "pi", "pe", and "po" as an alien in S1#5, and so on.
- In S1#7, as a part of her Satomi cosplay, she usually starts sentences with "[insert adverb here] speaking" (ex. Tactically, Philosophically, Unofficially etc. speaking). Then they are all dropped when we see her as herself in S1#9.
- Vocal Dissonance: She dropped her Animal-Eared Headband in S1#2. Her voice changed. Drastically. Though apparently, that isn't her "real" voice, as when we see her as herself she talks normally.
- Yaoi Fangirl: She has a thing for romance between men, as demonstrated in S1#3 when she sees Akiba Red and the Monster of the Week being a tad too close. This actually caused them trouble as her Yaoi Fangirl delusions conflicted with Akiba Red's heroic delusions.
Takuma Tsuzuki/Akiba Red II
Takuma Tsuzuki | Live Actor: Shinpei Takagi
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A half-Japanese Interpol agent who replaces Nobuo as the latter is called to serve in the Pentagon. He's also Hiroyo's half-brother.
- The Ace: He is presented as a cool guy who does well at everything.
- But Not Too Foreign: He's half-Japanese to keep his position as an Interpol agent from clashing with the rest of the cast.
- Celebrity Resemblance: Kozukozu tries to point out that he looks like Retsu/GekiBlue,[note]their actors being twins in real life[/note] but gets shot down.
- Convenient Replacement Character: He shows up to become the new Akiba Red when Nobuo is written out by being chosen to join the Pentagon.
- Fair Cop: He's a handsome Interpol agent.
- Gratuitous English: Of the correctly pronounced variety, to remind the audience he's American.
- Hot-Blooded: In battle only, where he plays the Showa Red Ranger very straight.
- Interpol Special Agent: He works for Interpol.
- Leitmotif: He has his own theme music.
- Locked Out of the Loop: He fails to see the fourth wall when the other Akibarangers discover it.
- Nice Guy: He's very amiable.
- Parody Stu: Seems to be going off a checklist of a parody Marty Stu.
- Always Someone Better: With his skills as an Interpol agent, he's a much better fighter than Nobuo.
- Chick Magnet: The girls all like him.
- Friend to All Living Things: He likes animals.
- Long-Lost Relative: He's Hiroyo's half-brother.
- Magnetic Hero: He makes friends on the way.
- Traitor Shot: While the Akibarangers read the giveaway text generated by the Fourth Wall, his face is zoomed in on with an expression that indicates that he may have known about the
Executive Meddling all along; if he wasn't a creation of it in the first place.
Luna Iwashimizu/Akiba Blue II
Luna Iwashimizu/Akiba Blue II | Live Actress: Shione Sawada
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A teen who wants to be an idol.
- Aloof Ally: Was this after #3, she wanted to focus on being an idol and the team being unofficial means she won't get discovered. She was this way until #5.
- Ascended Fanboy: Luna joins the team because she's a fan of the Akibarangers themselves- though it's a version of them from an altered history where they were the official 17th Super Sentai series instead of Gosei Sentai Dairanger. And she doesn't seem to know much about any other Sentai.
- Becoming the Mask: At first only joining the Akibaranger to boost her idol career, but after 2-11, when the only boost available was to be a villain due to Malshina's screwing, she finally grew to value the friendship she had with the Akibarangers and decided to embrace being a 'heroine' instead of furthering her career.
- Dead All Along: 2-13 ends with the revelation that she, Yumeria, and Nobuo have actually died defending the Earth from the alien invasion of the previous episode and that they're ghosts now.
- The Ditz: She can be a bit scatterbrained and often gives off odd responses.
- Genki Girl: Her cheerfulness works against her in battle at first, but Nobuo says she holds promise.
- Gratuitous English: She occasionally speaks English randomly. She speaks fluent English in #5
- Killed Off for Real: She dies in 2-12, along with Nobuo and Yumeria. Don't let 2-13 fool you; she's still dead.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Constantly attempts to ape Akagi’s roll calls, but doing so exposes just how little she actually knows about Super Sentai.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Luna consistently shows little concern for what the Rangers are fighting for, as well as the Akibas themselves until Episode 2-7. Episode 2-11 reveals that she had briefly considered joining Malshina, since she only saw the Akibas as "stepping stones" towards her idol career. Of course, she inevitably bonded with them over the season's course and made the transition to actual hero. (Or loose interpretation thereof.)
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: The only main character who doesn't have her memories of the original timeline remain intact. Whenever the villains alter history, she remembers the new version of events. As of episode 6, however, she has gained it and is now immune.
- Stocking Filler: Her Akiba Blue suit has garter belts.
- Teen Idol: She aspires to be a popular teenage singer.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Yumeria's Tomboy.
- Took a Level in Badass: Becomes more formidable and competent in S2-11. Doing this actually drove Nobuo to tears.
Allies
Hiroyo Hakase
Hiroyo Hakase | Live Actress: Maaya Uchida
Also known as: Shuri Toyozuki, Hiroyo Tsuzuki
Manager of "Secret Base Cafe", mission control of the Akibarangers, and in-universe voice actress of Aoi.
- Blood from the Mouth: Bleeds from her mouth in S1#10 as the scorpion tattoo gets closer to her throat.
- Drinking on Duty: She drinks on the job with some huge bottles in S1#3.
- Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: In Season 1, she is Dr. Z's daughter.
- Mentor Archetype: She is the one guiding the Akibarangers through their missions.
- Mission Control: She just stays behind and keeps contact with the Akibarangers so she can given them advice and instructions on their missions when needed. That being said, she can't actually see what's going on and has to rely on verbal feedback to understand the situation while it's implied she's purely looking at only their equipment status on her computer screen all this time. She didn't even know how the Akibarangers looked like until Yumeria sketched them out for her.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In S2#12, she accidentally triggers a suicide flag that leads the Akibarangers to their deaths.
- Retcon: She's still Aoi's voice (or at least involved) as she mentioned that she was frustrated after "they wrapped up production" and can't wait for the "surprises" in the new movie. However, due to the Alternate Universe and Doctor Z not being there, her status as Aoi's voice actress is not yet revealed to the Akibarangers.
- Significant Anagram: "Shuri Toyozuki" is one for her real name, Hiroyo Tsuzuki.
- Unwitting Pawn: She was unknowingly a pawn for her father's mad quest for revenge.
Kozukozu Mita
Kozukozu Mita | Live Actress: Kozue Aikawa
The energetic employee of "Secret Base Cafe."- Cosplay Otaku Girl: Like Yumeria, she's a fangirl who loves her costumes.
- The Pollyanna: When Marushina invades the cafe, Kozukozu takes up arms against her and gets beat down for all her troubles... yet some time later, she's right back to dancing for her customers with a smile on her face as if nothing happened.
Sayaka Honiden
Sayaka Honiden | Live Actress: Miiko Morita
Nobuo's love interest.- Converted Fanboy: In S1#12, she gains an interest in Super Sentai in order to close off Nobuo's Sequel Hook.
- Damsel in Distress: Being the girl in peril who needs to be rescued is played straight once or twice, then enforced in S1#12.
- Office Lady: According to her workplace.
- Put on a Bus: In Season 2, she's phased out of the show and rarely gets mentioned.
Aoi Ichikawa
Aoi Ichikawa | Voice Actress: Maaya Uchida
The main protagonist of the anime Z-Cune Aoi that Nobuo and Yumeria are fans of.
- Arm Cannon: In her Z-Cune Aoi (season 1) form, she has an arm that becomes a cannon.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: In her Zubaan Aoi form, she has blades attached to her arms.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is "Aoi" (the Japanese word for "blue") and she has blue hair.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: In her Zubaan Aoi (season 2) form, her outfit with a gap in the middle that exposes her cleavage and stomach.
- Scarf of Asskicking: She's a fighter with a red scarf.
- Show Within a Show: She is from the Nijiyome Academy Z-Cune Aoi series.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Gains a gigantic one whenever she's in one of her transformed states.
Blatantly Evil Guerrilla Marketing Firm B
In General
Also known as: Delusion Empire
The enemy organization from the Delusional World the Akibarangers fight whose goal is to change Akihabara.
Doctor Z
Doctor Z Real Name: Takehiro Tsuzuki | Live Actor: Kazuki Yao
- Abusive Parents: Part of his revenge plan involves causing his daughter to lose her voice and career simply because she voices a character he hates. He also does not treat Maruseena or the Chief Clerks, many of which are his own creations, well at all.
- Artificial Limbs: He has a robot hand.
- Big Bad: Being Malshina's superior, he's responsible for the series' conflict, but he doesn't show up until the first season nears its end.
- Child Prodigy: Was giftedly intelligent when he was younger.
- Freudian Excuse: His turn to villainy was because he disliked Moe and Yuri Genre that he made sure none of that is in his Aoi designs, attempting a Darker and Edgier feel. This got him fired and his insistence to keep that mindset despite the demographics that prefer Moe made him hard to keep a job as an animator and had to return to being a scientist and once he discovers the delusion world, he decided to use that as a vengeance for those are not of his mindset.
- Heel–Face Turn: Finally reconciles with Hiroyo in S1#12.
- I Have No Son!: Says that Hiroyo stopped being his daughter once she started to voice Aoi.
- It's All About Me: Dislikes Moe and Yuri Genre, and will not listen to either the demographics or co-workers.
- Homage: To Showa-Era villains, particularly Doctor Shinigami and a bit of Doctor Man.
- Knight of Cerebus: While Maruseena was no lightweight, this guy is a total monster who tries to ruin his own daughter's career and destroy a community solely for a petty grudge. At least Maruseena was designed to be a villain, this guy is human.
- Mad Artist: He was a character designer for an anime at one point and is shown to be mentally unstable.
- Mad Scientist : He's an insane scientist.
- The Man Behind the Monsters: Is the sole truly human member of the organization, Maruseena and the Chief Clerks merely being his creations come to life. Naturally he's the true villain.
- Motive Decay: Forgetting his original goal for the sake of descending into generic supervillainy is forced upon him by Hatte Saburo. He goes from wanting to destroy moe anime to wanting to Take Over the World.
- Retcon: Has a different job in Season 2 and was not involved in the whole Akibaranger battle and not antagonizing his daughter.
Malshina/©Na
Malshina/©Na | Live Actress: Honoka
A Marketing Firm B executive in the Delusional World.
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- Amnesia Missed a Spot: She was so traumatized by the events of Season 1 that she couldn't forget it.
- Ass Kicks You: Aptly named "Malshina's Butt Attack", she attacks by slamming her lovely butt
into Akiba Blue and Yellow's faces. She even says "purin", the Japanese onomatopoeia for "jiggly" or "bouncy", while doing it. - Big Bad:
- She is the main villain at FIRST. After Doctor Z and Delu-Knight show up, she's just an underling.
- Retconed in season 2 where she and Delu-Knight are the big bads.
- And in Season 2, she appears to be The Dragon to General Pain before turns out she was never The Dragon to General Pain. She was the real mastermind in her plot to get rid of General Pain and Saburo Hatte.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Thinks that laying-off the rest of the 40+ Chief Clerks is not right.
- Evil Plan: After breaking into the real world, she realized that her forces could follow her with help of the Akibarangers' delusion power, so she began to help them grow stronger and even set up fights with the sole purpose of weakening the barrier between the real world and the delusion world, going as far as retrieving their transformation devices for the heroes. When they realized they had been Unwitting Pawns, the damage was already done.
- Giggling Villain: She giggles a lot.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Other characters will point out that they find her attractive.
- Godhood Seeker: Her plan in Season 2 was to get rid of Saburo Hatte and replace him as the 'god' of the Super Sentai universe.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: She flip-flops between redeeming herself and remaining an enemy. During S1#11, Once Nobuo Breaks the Fourth Wall, he is attacked by what are assumed to be American Soldiers. She sets herself up for a Heroic Sacrifice by taking the bullets meant for him. She's an enemy commander, so they don't hurt her nearly as much as it would a normal being. Episode 12 has her return, albeit in a bandaged state, showing she wasn't as immune as thought. She goes right back to villainy, however, in Season 2. ...and then she goes back to assisting the Akibarangers in the final episodes.
- Long Runner: Her Super Malshina series has run consistently from 1975 to the present with only one break, with Malshina as the star every season! She's even set a record!
- The Man Behind the Man: In Season 2, she turns out to be the real reason General Pain is capable of being a threat.
- Master of Disguise: She can change both her clothes and appearance instantly, along with her voice. In contrast with Enter, the primary villain of the official Sentai series Akibaranger airs alongside, who merely changes his clothes, retaining his appearance and even his signature sunglasses.
- Ms. Fanservice: Being a female Commander, the aspect of providing much of the show's fanservice is in the job description. And being played by a former adult movie actress doesn't help either. Nose bleeds happen.
- Physical God: Her goal in Season 2 is to replace Saburo Hatte. As of Episode 11, she's succeeded and created the Super Malshina series.
- Pragmatic Villainy:
- Her Heroic Sacrifice in the first season (however temporary) wasn't out of mere altruism; Malshina was aware of the fact that her reality was ready to be cancelled and that by helping Nobuo she was helping extend how much time they had left to gather an audience to keep the series going.
- The entirety of Season 2 was set up on this! By replacing Saburo Hatte as the effective god over Super Sentai, Malshina could ensure that her season and thus universe never truly ended, no matter the viewers' ratings.
- Putting on the Reich: Her design is straight up Nazi-sexploitation-based.
- Rule of Three: Invoked by having Delu-Knight trigger three flags of defeat, but that's to show how they no longer work that way.
- Spell My Name With An S: There seems to be some confusion about how to spell her name. Malsina, Malshiina, Maruseena, ©Na? Not even this page is sure.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In Season 2, she's usually less pleased and more annoyed with General 2's 'Sentai Villain Fanboying' antics, and occasionally her attempts to destroy Otaku culture would clash with General 2's modus operandi of 'having his villainous delusions'
- Took a Level in Badass: Starting season 2, she is now able to transform and fight the Akibarangers and later becomes more powerful than Saburo Hatte. Oh, boy.
- Villainous Friendship: General Pain has a one-sided Type II with her. He goes out of his way to get her into the spirit of things, and is relatively upbeat around her. However, Malshina is completely indifferent to (If not outright uncomfortable around) him, more comfortable to abuse the luxurious freedoms he grants her instead of caring about whether or not he succeeds.
- Episodes 2-10 and 2-11 reverse the Trope. There never was a Friendship at all. Malshina was simply waiting for the chance to lower Pain's guard so she could steal his secrets for herself. After taking the secrets, she conquered every Sentai, warping the Akibas' world so that the Sentai series focused on her killing off the teams; effectively taking their place.
- Voice Changeling: She also has the ability to disguise her voice, which she usually uses to pretend to be a producer from Toei calling the Akibarangers.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: We never get to see her reaction to the Akibarangers' deaths.
- Xanatos Gambit: All of season 2 is a gambit on her part, starting when she entered Saburo Hatte's world in order to manipulate him into allowing a second season. After that, every time the Akibarangers used their Penultimate Powers, it gave her an opening to enter the world of past official sentai, allowing her to defeat the official teams until "reality" was re-written into one where every sentai series is about her killing off the heroes.
- Yaoi Fangirl: She enjoys the fight between the Chief Clerk in S1#3 and Akiba Red perhaps a bit too much.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: As of S1#6, she has broken through into the real world.
Delu-Knight
Executive Board Director Delu-Knight | Voice Actor: Hiroaki Hirata
- Big Bad: According the recap in the first episode of season 2, he and Malsheena are the final villains for the Akibarangers
- The Dragon: He is the second-in-command in both Season 1 and 2!
- Genre Blind:
- In his final on-foot battle with the Akibarangers in season 1, he triggers just about every single death flag that you can think of, including using the "Before I kill you, let me tell you this" line, claiming that he's more powerful than anyone, and stating that after he wins he'll be going home to marry his fiance. Justified, as he's very clearly under the influence of Saburo Hatte, who's trying to kill him off and wrap up the show as quickly as possible.
- Subverted in season 2, when Malshina instructs him to do the same thing, only this time, she's taken over the show and switched all the flags around, so that doing these things makes him stronger.
- Hidden Depths:
- Apparently he's engaged.
- In Season 2, he says he has a wife and kid, but this may be a lie.
- Monster of the Week: In Season 2, he's basically episode 11's one-shot antagonist with some plot importance.
- Noisy Robots: His limbs make audible clanking noises whenever he moves.
- Retcon: According to S2#1, he was the pervert who approached Yumeria when she dressed as a young boy.
- The Rival: Claims to be the rival for Akiba Red as of S1#11.
- The Starscream: In S1#12, he tries to turn against Dr. Z and Malshina.
Chief Clerks
Chief Clerks
- Location Theme Naming: Just as the Akibarangers are named after Akihabara, the Chief Clerks are named after other districts of Tokyo, such as Shibuya and Kabukicho.
- Monster of the Week: Their essential role is to fill out the Super Sentai tradition of having a new antagonist appear to be permanently defeated in every episode.
- Overly Long Name: Many of them have very long names. Nobuo did get the first monster's name right once.
Shachieeks
Shachieeks
The laborers of the organization.- Gag Censor: In S1#3, the face of the grunt appears over Maruseena's mouth when she starts to swear.
- Meaningful Name: They are also known as the Sacrificial Corporate Drones and happen to be minions resembling office workers who will give their lives to further their organization's agenda.
- Mooks: They are the standard enemy foot soldiers.
- Putting on the Reich: Temporarily on S1#11, on their transition into the Delusion Empire. Though it's more Katanas of the Rising Sun, given how their uniforms are closer to Imperial Japan rather than Nazi Germany.
- Salaryman: They're modeled after stereotypical low-income Japanese office workers.
- Taking the Bullet: Pulled this off in S1#1 for the Monster of the Week, sacrificing themselves by bearing the brunt of the Akibarangers' finishing move.
Empire of Baros, LOL
In General
New Dimensional Intellect Remodeling Underground True Empire of Baros (lol)
General Tsuu
General 2 (Tsu/Pain) | Live Actor: Ryō Horikawa
Real name: Tsuguo Ushirozawa
- Alas, Poor Villain: His fall in Episode 10 is... not pleasant to watch.
- Ambiguously Evil: At first. He genuinely believes his creating monsters and sending them out was just playing make-believe villains with Malshina through the Moya Moya Z-Cune he somehow obtained, to vent his petty frustrations, while assuming the Akibarangers were an enemy force Malshina made up. His few moments outside of it shows he's seemingly a nice guy, if not harmless. He only decides to play a bigger villain after he learns that everything does exist and he actually does have the power to warp reality.
- Author Avatar: Of Saburo Hatte, who is himself an Author Avatar. Becoming normal starts killing Saburo Hatte.
- Becomes a more literal example of this in s2ep12, where Saburo Hatte uses him as a proxy to directly speak to the other characters.
- Ascended Fanboy: He's a fan of Sentai Villains who has become a Sentai Villain himself.
- Big Bad: He's the main villain of Season 2. Not.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He may be a big nerdy goofball, but it seems unwise to underestimate the guy when he has access to technology capable of rewriting reality.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Both he and Nobuo are surprised when they learn they are enemies, since they already had a run-in at a karaoke bar.
- Depraved Dentist: Subverted. His day job is a dentist, but none of his depravity is shown to have anything to do with his profession.
- Dramatic Irony: We know he's the villain, but the Akibarangers do not, and vice-versa. And until the end of episode 6, he had no clue he was rewriting reality.
- He's also the one who made Nobuo's real-life commission of a Munyu Munyu Zubaaan figure/prop based on the one he obtained in his delusions an episode prior, unaware that the latter was using it as Akiba Red.
- Evil Counterpart: He's an evil equivalent to Nobuo, mirroring Nobuo's status as a Super Sentai fan becoming the leader of an actual Sentai team by being a fan of Super Sentai villains who is now taking his shot at being a Super Sentai villain.
- Genre Savvy: He's a Sentai Villain Otaku, and thus knows the conventions and cliches as well as Nobuo does. He weaponizes this in his final battle with the Akibarangers by intentionally making it winter and thus the time of year where the heroes lose to promote the new Christmas season toys.
- Homage: Designed his costume to resemble General Kar.
- He is even defeated the same way as General Kar, which he points out after being betrayed by Malshina.
- Mad Artist: His monsters all started as custom figures that he crafted based on existing Sentai monster races plus his frustrations at any given moment, pretending to send them out into the Delusion World like how a villain would send out monsters into the real world. It turns out he was unaware for a majority of the season that his creations did affect the real world.
- He was actually nice enough to be open to custom commissions, as it was revealed he was the one who made Nobuo's real-life Munyu Munyu Zubaaan at his request. Though he later uses the experience he gained in crafting an anime girl to create Yuru-Chara Jigen, whom he made with an intention to get revenge against anime mascot characters, one of which whom beat him up due to him mocking them for shoddy craftsmanship in the first place.
- The Man Behind the Monsters: Like Doctor Z before him, he's the one sending out the monsters the heroes fight.
- Otaku: Until Malshina takes that quality away from him. Unfortunately, the backlash greatly harms Saburo Hatte.
- Retcon: Most of his monsters cause these, altering how certain things (Like animes and Sentai) are seen from the real world. The only ones immune to these effects are the characters from Season 1.
- It Makes Sense in Context: Episode #2-10 reveals that Pain Isn't an actual character, but an avatar created from Hatte Saburo's subconcious. Being a "portion" of Hatte, (for lack of a better term) it can be presumed he had some of his Author power, thus the Retcons.
- Sailor Earth: Creates his monsters deliberately in the style of past Sentai villain teams.
- Took a Level in Badass: As of Episode 7, while he is still as much of a loser as Nobuo, he now knows he can rewrite reality, knows the Akibarangers' identities, and can enter the delusion world.
- Unwitting Pawn: It turns out Malshina was manipulating him all along.
- Villainous Friendship: One-sided Type II. Early in the season, he kept going out of his way to get Malshina into the spirit of things, expressing sadness when she inevitably ignored him.
- As of episode 2-9, however, this seems to have devolved into a Type IV, as he has no qualms about trading up Dragons once he saw how capable the MoTW was against the Akibas; going so far as to trap Malshina in an acryllic box, so he could "admire her aesthetic qualities." Of course, the new Dragon was defeated, so one can only wonder how she and Pain will interact from here on out.
- Episodes 2-10 and 2-11 reverse the Trope. There never was a Friendship at all. Malshina was simply waiting for the chance to lower Pain's guard so she could steal his secrets for herself. Stealing the secrets also removed Pain's memory of his past deeds, effectively brainwashing him into becoming a minor character.
Monsters
Chief Clerk Blu-Ray Voice Actor: Kappei Yamaguchi
- Homage: Tsuu designed him to resemble the Gorma monsters from Gosei Sentai Dairanger, having a name consisting of title and object with the ability to assume human form.
Chief Editor HVD Voice Actor: Kappei Yamaguchi
A retooled Chief Clerk Blu-Ray- Homage: Tsuu designed him to resemble the Gorma monsters from Gosei Sentai Dairanger, notably how the last Gorma monster in the series is a recolor of Baron String.
Smapho Monger Voice Actor: Katsuyuki Konishi
- Homage: Tsuu designed him to resemble the Monster monsters from Taiyou Sentai Sunvulcan.
Kunimasmaphogany Voice Actor: Katsuyuki Konishi
A retooled Smapho Monger- Homage: Tsuu designed him to resemble the Trinoid monsters from Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger.
Yuru-Chara Jigen Voice Actor: Haruko Momoi
- Cute Is Evil: Justified. Tsuu used his Genre Savy to devise a monster the Akibarangers cannot kill without compromising themselves as heroes.
- Homage: Tsuu designed her to resemble the Jigen Beast monsters from Choujin Sentai Jetman.
- Invincible Villain: Downplayed. Tsuu designed her in a way with her cuteness as a factor with another One-Winged Angel power ups. Akagi could not bare to hurt her due to his obsession with smooth-skinned robots, until he learned to land a death blow with his visor obscured.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Everyone expects Yuru-Chara Jigen transform from her cute appearance into a more monstrous form, but Tsuu was Genre Savvy enough to not give her one to make her an Invicible Villain.
Tento Raiger Voice Actor: Nao Nagasawa
- Actor Allusion: She is voiced by Nao Nagasawa, who plays Nanami Nono from Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger.
- Homage: Tsuu designed her to resemble the Goiragers.
Mutoumushite Voice Actor: Nobuyuki Hiyama
A retooled Tento Raiger.- Death Seeker: Due to Tsuu incoporating Yoshinori Okamoto's Super Sentai roles in him, Mutoumushite channels the stuntman's desire to die a beautiful death.
- Homage: Tsuu designed him to resemble the antagonists of Juken Sentai Gekiranger. He has possesses the fighting styles of various Super Sentai villains portrayed by veteran stunt actor Yoshinori Okamoto. The Akibarangers exploit this to get him to react the final duel between Change Dragon and Adjutant Booba.
Coelacanth Canth
Oneedas
Oneedas
The foot soldiers of the empire.- Ambiguous Gender: They're half male features, half female features, and all freaky.
- Meaningful Name: comes from "onee", a Japanese term for effeminate men, hence their appearance and behavior.
- Mooks: They serve the position of enemy foot soldiers in season two.
- No Sense of Personal Space: They have no problem rubbing all over both their enemies and allies.
Others
Saburo Hatte
Saburo Hatte
A manifestation of the creators of the show and true villain behind all the series's past events. For some reason, he's hospitalized inbetween seasons and was manipulated by Malshina into creating Season 2 so she could get revenge on what he did.- Author Avatar: He represents the creator.
- Author Powers: Naturally, since they run the show, they can alter details at will, including characters' personalities. Becoming aware of the fourth wall seems to allow the characters to reverse changes made to their personalities, though.
- Creator In-Joke: "Saburo Hatte" is actually the collective pen name for the Toei anime and tokusatsu writers.
- The Faceless: All that's seen of him is his hand. This is a big hint to his identity as the man in the hospital in Season 2.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He serves as this in Season 1, as the characters realize they're in a television show and the finale has them change their focus toward preventing him from ending the series rather than fighting the villains he's created for the series. Zig-zagged in Season 2, where Malshina is the villain but Hatte's subsconcious is responsible for General Pain. Ironically it's by trying to curtail him that Malshina ends up causing most of the conflict in the series.
- The Man Behind the Man: In Season 1, he turns out to be the true source of all the conflict.
- Physical God: He is an actual god in the Sentai multiverse, the Akibaranger universe, and the Delusion World, until Malshina takes over.
- Rage Against the Author: The first season ends with the characters trying to halt his efforts to end the show.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Gives the Akibarangers a second season.
- Subverted. Malshina was responsible for it as part of her plan to get rid of him.
- Unwitting Pawn: He turns out to be manipulated by Malshina without his knowledge in Season 2.
- Walking Spoiler: It's hard to discuss him without spoiling the major events of the series.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Episodes #2-10 and #2-11 reveal that General Pain was never really a meant-to-be-established character, but instead a byproduct of Saburo's subconcious created as a defense mechanism against Malshina. (Thereby connecting him somewhat to the Akiba-verse, making Pain an extension of Hatte. Yes, it's a Mind Screw.) Now that Malshina has all but lobotimized Pain, Hatte is feeling the effects in the "Real" world, and is implied at the end of #2-10 to be on the verge of death. Malshina does not take it well.
Prism Ace
Unofficial Giant God Prism Ace | Voice Actor: Tōru Furuya
A new hero created by China's Chigauyo Productions in an attempt to usurp Super Sentai's timeslot.- Anti-Hero: While a heroic character in his own right, he's a proxy for the company trying to kill and replace Super Sentai.
- Captain Ersatz: Of Ultraman...from Chaiyo Productions and the company itself as a massive Take That!.
- Hero Antagonist: Not a bad guy, but since he's about to take Super Sentai's timeslot, the Akibarangers still stand against him.
- Hero of Another Story: Or another franchise, literally.
- Ripped from the Headlines: His plot is derived from Tsuburaya Productions's infamous legal battles with Thai production company Chaiyo, which tried to steal the copyrights to the Ultra Series (and almost succeeded) using a forged contract, twenty years after co-producing Hanuman vs. 7 Ultraman with Tsuburaya.
- Take That!: Not at Ultraman himself, but at Chaiyo Productions; which went so far as to create its own Ultraman characters without Tsuburaya's permission. His company, Chigauyo Productions, is even only a couple letters off and named after an expression of denial (違うよ！Chigau yo!), as if deriding Chaiyo's Ultramen as illegitimate.
- Ultraman Copy: A friendly homage and a Corrupted Character Copy of Ultraman's archetype, based on Chaiyo Productions's unauthorized Ultramen.
- Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about him without spoiling the ending of Season 2.
- Writing Around Trademarks: Prism Ace is clearly intended as a stand-in for Chaiyo's unauthorized Ultramen, but the show avoids mentioning that franchise in any capacity.
