The stupid wind knocked out my electricity for the past four days, so since I couldn’t surf the internet, I’ve been watching “The Pink Princess” series I taped. (When you buy a battery adapter for your TV and VCR on meDock, you never think you’re actually going to need it one day.) By the time Season Five rolled around, I couldn’t help asking myself why I was still watching. Yeah, Princess Akiko was hot, but she still looked the exact same as she has since episode one! We’ve seen her massive wardrobe seven times, and she hasn’t changed outfits ONCE! She’s the main character, and she’s only one who hasn’t! All that fan art doesn’t make up for it; she seriously should have appeared in SOMETHING else, shouldn’t she? I counted 41 opportunities she could have disguised herself, and wrote 6 fan fictions about each of them! Not only that, but by the time Season Three came around, everyone’s voice was completely different than they used to be. Haven’t any of these people heard of dedication?

The character development was lousy too. Kenichi and Yasunori both had conflicts with their cousins—conflicts which looked exactly the same, mind you—and in all the 95 episodes and 20 movies, they said 43 words to each other. Total. COME ON! Stories that cross over with each other can make a series! Not that the individual stories were done any better! When Ishizaka went to duel Tsujiyoko, son of Sakuraba, we got to see bits and pieces of their fight over the course of four episodes. During that time, we saw one of Ishizaka’s most powerful techniques, his Mighty Super Potent Absorbing Destructive Translucent Charged Holy Ball of Light, fail to do anything against Tsujiyoko, son of Sakuraba. After that, he used his signature maneuver, where he gathered chi from all good creatures on the planet, and his power multiplied a hundred-fold and he still couldn’t win! Then it cut away to another scene. The next time we saw Ishizaka, he regrouped with the others unharmed and said Tsujiyoko, son of Sakuraba, was dead. No one asked how or anything! The whole reason Yasunori joined was because Tsujiyoko, son of Sakuraba, was such a big enemy of his, and now he was just gone!

Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the worst story ever. During the climactic episodes of Season Four (and of course I mean episodes 47 to 52), the Great Invincible Minako set out to retrieve the Final Lance Of All Desires to help in the fight against the evil Lord Hiroyuki. Remember what happened? He was never seen again! He was never _mentioned_ again! The only time you heard about this guy was in flashbacks that he was in (where he had his original voice), but he was still in the title screen! Even the manga didn’t explain what happened to him!

I really did like the first movie. Everyone’s voice was right, and it’s really the only one that can be considered canon. I was really upset that Season Eight got so short changed. It’s only four episodes long! I’ve got all of them on one tape! And the bosses were lame! The stories need to last longer to be any good. I mean, the Spirit World saga spanned three seasons! Why can’t they write more like that? And why couldn’t they have done more things right with that one? You’d think they’re ignoring every e-mail I’ve ever sent them.

I’m glad my internet connection is back up. I got to order the combo-box set of the whole series on VHS and DVD before it was all sold out. It comes with five limited edition trading cards! I can’t wait for them to release the game. Finally, I’ll get to show them how the story _should_ have turned out! It’s going to have 150 different endings, and I plan to see each and every one of them! Until then, I’ll be making up a list of everything that’s wrong with it. I hear everyone’s going to have ANOTHER new voice. Not a good start.

The sun is bright outside so I’m going to stay in and watch “The Blubbening.” Season One has better writing and voice acting than the later seasons. I mean COME ON. Everything went totally downhill after the big dream sequence. Still, the animation in the scenes where Tubba Blubba battles robots is schweet. Season Three was obviously just a vehicle for selling action figures and vehicles. I never understood why they changed the sound effect when the princess appears. It was “Deet-dinga-deet-ling!” then suddenly it was “Dinga-deet-dinga-ling!” As if no one would notice! Pffft! True fans care about important stuff like that. They should totally run the show without commercials and let fans suggest story lines! That’s what the fans want and we’re the only ones that matter. I guess I’ll still buy “The Blubbening” box set. The preorder bonus is a costume! While I wait for it to come, I’ll go online and tell everyone it’s stupid.