Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger/Funny

• Hell, the opening alone is chock full of funny moments.
  • Nobuo swinging around a pair of sai in one of his imagine spots, which turn out to be ice cream cones that are promptly dropped onto the ground.
  • Mitsuki practicing her martial arts, which ends with her punching a glass window and hurting her hand. (Thankfully, the glass didn't shatter.)
  • Akiba Red jumps heroically off a cliff and promptly gets run over by a truck.
  • The Akibarangers running heroically into the heat of battle... only to have Akiba Yellow trip on a rock.
• #1: Nobuo's first attempt at heroism, when he tries to stop a snatch theft, and succeeds... except it's just an Imagine Spot, he's blacked out temporarily as he fell off his bike before even getting there. What really tears it is the supposed robbery victim taking his bike and hurling it at the robber herself!
  • When asked to head inside the car, Nobuo looks at the darkening clouds and suspects an Alien Invasion... Turns out it's rain.
  • "Smash! Smash! Smash! Smash! Smash! Smash!"
  • When they all do their pose, Nobuo is serious, Mitsuki is startled, and Yumeria is jumping around excited. Then a multicoloured explosion bursts out from behind them; Mitsuki almost falls over in shock, Yumeria is awestruck, and Nobuo, not breaking his pose, nods in approval.
  • They are on high alert for the monster to grow after they defeated it... and stay waiting as the sun sets.
• #2: The Naked People Are Funny trope is in full effect when male otakus lose their clothes.
  • The fake Deka Red's "Speech" to Nobuo.
  • The team leaving the Cafe in grand style driving Machine Itasshar... only to promptly get stuck in awful Akihabara traffic.
  • Itasshar Robo chickening out from doing a "cool finishing move" and running away from the Rangers, because they don't have enough Delusion Power.
• #3: The Running Gag where Nobuo falls every time for the same trick of the villains, and resident Yaoi Fangirl Yumeria fainting at the sight of the Ho Yay between the Monster of the Week and Nobuo.
  • Bouken Red giving the Inordinate Power to Akiba Blue involves groping her chest before transforming.
  • Nobuo berating Mitsuki for saying "Bouken Ranger" instead of Boukenger. When she states her confusion of the matter, he calls her a noob and says that everyone else got over it after Hurricaneger.
• #4: Every time when Nobuo and Yumeria try to snap out of delusions, but especially when Nobuo is in a queue for a kebab shop and suddenly screams about food being impossible to turn into sand, thereby confusing the other customers greatly.
  • Yumeria tries out different cosplays, she gathers more and more guys around her.
    • Made even better when she ask Nobuo for the next cosplay, the guys all tell him to hurry up.
    • Nobuo trying to match the proper girl with the right cosplay outfit and then ending with 3 Maruseenas
  • Nobuo and Yumeria's attempts to de-brainwash Mitsuki, which is really Maruseena in disguise. These include:
    • Nobuo telling her to hit him... which she does in the form of a sharp kick in the stomach.
    • Nobuo reminding her that they share an interest in Aoi-tan.
    • Yumeria tries to cry for Mitsuki, only to realize that she can't see her tears through her helmet.
    • Nobuo hugs Mitsuki, only for her to cry out "PERVERT!" and punch and kick him away.
  • Nobuo attempts to do a "running-alongside" fight with Maruseena's crony of the week, only to immediately run right into a tree.
  • After the real Mitsuki shows up, they go to do the roll call and pose. Instead of a big explosion, this time the Akibaranger logo appears behind them and it's still enough to freak the girls out.
  • Nobuo begins to think of Sayaka dressing up in a Changeman uniform. This rolls in with Hilarious in Hindsight, since the chorus for the theme song just happened to start off with "OH! YES!", exactly summing up Nobuo's reaction.
• #5: While Mitsuki remarks upon seeing Yumeria's room "It's the room of an Otaku," Nobuo says "It's the room of a girl!"
  • Nobuo reacts with horror to Yumeria's BL stash.
  • Nobuo's Imagine Spot on him faking being Yumeria's boyfriend, and Sayaka found out. Nobuo had a Freak-Out.
  • People take pictures of Yumeria and her mother cosplaying, then turn and take pictures of Mitsuki just because she's leaning back.
    • "I'm not cosplaying!!!"
  • Mitsuki picks up an Aoi-tan doujinshi, thinking it's an official manga, which Nobuo promptly swats from her hand, telling her she shouldn't open it.
  • Nobuo gets slapped because he saw Yumeria's underwear.^[1] It's off-screen, but we see the resulting hand print on his face.
  • As each Akibaranger does their individual roll call they each get startled when a colored smoke explosion goes off behind them. It even interrupts Moegi's very long introduction.
    • When the Akibarangers do their team pose, the explosion never comes. And when they realize it, THEN the explosion goes off, making them beg for do-overs, but the Monster of the Week denies it.

"No do-overs!"

• • In the ending, Yumeria gets her own birthday cake thrown into the face.
• #6: Usually in Super Sentai, there is one standard plot where the villains torment the heroes by sending them from one movie world to the next, but in this episode the heroes do it to the villains to hilarious effect.
  • At the end of the episode, Marushina appears in the real world and holds her hand out toward the heroes. They brace themselves, preparing for whatever attack she's going to throw at them... and then the cab that she was hailing pulls up and she gets inside.
• #7: Yumeria pretending to Force Choke Akagi, complete with lightning shooting from her fingertips.
  • During Yumeria and Mitsuki's reenactment of a scene from Z-Cune Aoi" there are two funny background events:
    • Kozkoz and another employee practicing a dance
    • At the scene's climax it becomes a funny foreground event as a patron mouths the words to the scene while holding an Aoi-tan figure.
  • During the group pose, Mitsuki interrupts to point out Malsheena isn't there. Akagi is devastated as the roll call was ruined.
  • Just before that, Malshina's "vampire" attack...
• #8: The Monster of the Week is so pathetic, the Akibarangers train it, including Training Montage, to have a more spectacular fight... That and to get noticed by Toei.
  • In fact, this turns out to be said monster's plan all along, and he intends to use his newfound strength to kill the Akibarangers when they're too emotionally attached to him to fight back. Unfortunately for him, he plays his part too well, and they treat him like a Worthy Opponent instead, figuring it would be an insult to hold back.
  • Same episode, Malshina got tired of waiting for the Training Montage that we see her smoking tons of smokes... and ends with her getting arrested by the police for smoking in public.
  • After 8 episodes, the Akibarangers get their roll call perfect and they immediately celebrate this accomplishment.
• #9: "I can suddenly relate to Abare Pink! Oink."

1. ↑ To be precise, he saw a pair of her panties she had in her hands, not a pair she was wearing