Samurai. Shinkenger. Stress Test.

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger



Yes, yes. It looks "Power Ranger" esq but you know what, that's how Disney bastardized one of the best Tokusatsu series. I knew of Sentai long before "Power Rangers" kicked in the 90s during one of my channel surfing days as a kid, bored out of my mind after Godzilla Hour and Kung Fu Theater were over on a typical Saturday afternoon. Anyway, I watch the fan sub japanese originals every year, thanks to a good friend of mine who's into the same thing and told me of a group who fansubbes Tokusatsu shows like Sentai and Kamen Rider.
This year, finally with a Samurai Theme after all these 30+ years of sentai, this is Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (above)!!

As a kid I've always been fascinated with the ways of the Samurai of Japan. I've studed whatever I could find to understand more of Samurai and so on; the traditions, famous Samurai Warriors, etc. So when this came out last week, I was more than happy to see both something I've admired and watch a tv series on a yearly basis at the same time.

Ironically, I don't think i'll ever level samurai to 75 like I intended. I know, its strange and its got nothing to do with Foulei "stealing" the job I wanted to level first; yes, we kinda had a competition thing going to see who would surpass whom in levels for a while :-P. Honestly though I think its because there's so much competition and demand with the job in terms of gear, use and events that I dont want to stress myself out with it. Besides I got one melee job at 75 anyway.
The good side at least is that I have been leveling Samurai and will continue to do so this week to finish getting it to 37, with it now being around 33 so I'm close. I also managed to try it out as a subjob with Warrior and I gotta say, I'm impressed with the results. I can do weaponskills much quicker now and do more damage. So while my desire to level Samurai to 75 waned over time, I will put it to some good use with my current main job, Warrior.

Part of the reason of it progressing from 24-32 this week is because I took off from work for two days. I was having a lot of chest pains on Monday night for about 3 hours, barely having any sleep. On top of that I've been having these pains for almost a year now in some occurances. So I stopped ignoring this issue and went to the doctors on Tuesday. Given my family medical history of prone to heart problems, the doctor inisted upon me taking some tests; blood work, chest/heart x-rays, stress test. So I have my work cut out or me there on these tests in the next week or two. I just hope its nothing serious.