[HIDE]Yeah, so I'm going to play... not Devil's Advocate, here, but I'm going to point something out. Akibaranger 2 is written by Naruhisa Arakawa, and he is apparently going to write every episode. In tokusatsu, that usually indicates a work is particularly personal to the creator, and the best seasons written by a single writer tend to be viewed as masterworks that express a given writer's point of view. If you consider what Arakawa's point of view on Power Rangers is likely to be... well, it suddenly makes perfect sense that the PR episode turned out this way.
IMDB is by no means a perfect site, but you can find pretty exhaustive-looking lists of credits for the various Power Rangers seasons there. Naruhisa Arakawa also has a fairly long English IMDB page. And you know what's not on his IMDB page? A single Power Rangers credit. The man has written for Sentai for over twenty years. There is no way that Power Ranger has never used any of his scripts (in translation) or ideas, yet PR has never seen fit to credit him even once. Not even for Abaranger, the season where he was head writer, the season that famously dubbed a Japanese script. The original writer of that dubbed script, Yoshio Urasawa, does not appear to be credited in any way in the equivalent Power Rangers episode. The episode is instead credited only to "Steve Slavkin," even though it's, in theory, about how Japanese writing is strange. How does that make any sense?
If I imagine that I am Arakawa, and I am told to do an episode to promote the Zyuranger figures that mentions Power Rangers... well, I'm already probably not very happy about Power Rangers. To me, it probably seems like Power Rangers has spent my entire career ripping off my work, laughing at it, and not paying me a red cent for the pleasure. I am probably in a pretty fucking bad mood, and I'm going to use my little obscure satellite show to vent a bit about those arrogant dumb Americans who won't even let me have a screen credit. And honestly, in this case, can you really blame him?
By the way: if you think all of the PR references in Go-Busters were surprising, think again. They came after Yasuko Kobyashi probably knew she was receiving a writing credit for almost every single episode of Power Rangers Samurai, which means she maybe even got paid something for use of her scripts!! If Arakawa had ever received the same courtesy, this episode of Akiba would probably would've turned out much more affectionately. And given that Michiko Yokote is getting no credit for the first half of Megaforce, I very much doubt they'll give Arakawa any credit for the second half... even though the second half of the season is, quite pointedly, using more ideas from Gokaiger.[/HIDE]