Zyuranger: A Journey

Oh My Nugget. I can't believe what just happened. I fricken finished Zyuranger. I've watched them all. Every single one of them. 50 episodes of them. This very day. December 15. What.

I know you might think, "Oh, whatever. It's just 50 episodes. I could watch them, too." No, guys. No. Absolutely not. Zyuranger is a journey to me. A very long journey. Here goes the story.

I forgot how I got my first VCD of Zyuranger. I think it was given to me by my cousin or something. I was about four years old at the time. Fricken four years old. I did not know anything back then. So I was just like, "Meh, I'll watch it." Then I watched it and guess what? I liked it. A lot. So, I went to my mom and asked her to buy me more of Zyu VCDs. She said yes.

The very next day, I think, my mom gave the VCDs to me after I went back from school. I was stoked. She only bought 3 of them, so I got 4 in total. I immediately watched all of them. All of them. In one sitting. It's quite unusual to see me inside the house when I was a kid. I usually go outside to play after school. That day, I just sat there in front of my TV. The episodes were in Japanese. There was subtitle, yes. But do you really think a four year old could read that fast? I don't.

After I finished watching them, I was overwhelmed. What a cool story (even though I didn't really understand what it meant. I just knew I like it.) I really, really loved love it. I started to watch them every single day after school. I watched it over and over again. It's just so awesome. I even dragged my sister, who was only one year old at the time, to watch it with me. Showing her how awesome it was.

Then, about twelve years later. I was in my parents' house for the holiday. I was just looking for something to watch in the VCD/DVD drawer.  And then there it was. My old Zyu VCDs. I was like, "OMG! It's still alive! After twelve years! Imma watch them again!" There was only three of them left. The third one is missing. I don't know where it went. So, that very day, I set up our VCD player, plugging off my brother's PlayStation from the TV and watch the heck out of it. I watched it in front of everyone. My mom was like, "Why are you still watching that? You're sixteen." I just rolled my eyes at her. So, I just watched it right there. People coming in and out, looking at me weirdly. Then came my sister from her room. She was like, "I've got nothing to do, so I'm just gonna join you here." My brother and my cousin joined in, too. Guess what? They liked it.

The evening of that day, I looked through the interwebs to find anyone who has a subtitled episodes because obviously, I don't understand Japanese. So I looked and looked and BAM! This person has it. I was beyond happy. It was not finished at the time. He was still working on it. So I downloaded the ones available and watched it on my sister's laptop. Because I didn't bring mine.

A few days later, I went back to the city where I go to school. I eagerly waited every single week for the subtitled episode to come out from that website. Until one day, all of the are out. All 50 of them. I was asdfghjkl. I can't even say anything. And this very day, it's even more asdfghjkl. I don't even know anymore.

I want need to say thank you for all the people that kind of introduced me to this series. Without these people, I would not have twelve years of awesome. The person who gave me my first Zyu VCD. I'm sorry I can't remember who you are. My mom, for buying me the rest of them and letting me watch it every single day. My sister, who didn't understand a thing but watched it with me anyway. And for letting me watch these on your laptop, CHEERS TO YOU! My brother, for accompanying me watching these through the night. MegaAnon for providing me us with subtitled episodes.

Last but absolutely not least, thank you to Zyuranger. It's been a wonderful journey watching it. I got an awesome childhood by watching it. I laughed, smiled, screamed, even cried watching it. And it was wonderful. It didn't make sense sometimes, but it was still a great time. Zyuranger will always has a special spot in my heart. Again, thank you so much for this journey. It was beautiful :)

Keep on fighting, Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuranger!

With love,

RIzka