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10-07-2019, 07:05 PM | #8231 |
Showa Girl
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And that's not true. World of Shinkenger is fantastic; but I really liked that one time the Zyurangers, Kibaranger and Black RX teamed up. They even had the Kakuranger mechs, that was wild! |
10-13-2019, 06:56 PM | #8232 |
Showa Girl
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Shinkenger... was really, really good! It had a rough start for me and there's certain things I still have misgivings about (too many lessons were way, way too needlessly harsh and naive), but as a whole I honestly enjoyed this season. The final stretch in particular has all the makings of a classic Kobayashi story; she just has to break every single main character she makes -- she can't help herself!
Talking of the final stretch, Kaoru Shiba to me is a great example of how well this writer does characters. It's barely a few episodes but you get a really good feel for what she's like and parallels are expertly drawn between her and Takeru. It's essentially a condensed version of a season-long arc and it just brings everything together so well and... gah, this last part! It's, so good! I even liked the little subtle distance between Kaoru and Genta going on; she doesn't even involve any of his mecha (aside from Ha-Oh) until they actually team up! That's great! It works! My thoughts are all over the place right now but it was just such a good final 6 or so episodes that tied everything I liked about this series together. Just a shame that Princess Shinken Red and Shinken Brown didn't get to join in the final battle; they earned that honestly. (also, Shitari surviving was literally just set-up for the Goseiger movie, wasn't it?) |
10-13-2019, 07:33 PM | #8233 |
TokuKnight89
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10-13-2019, 07:45 PM | #8234 |
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10-14-2019, 02:24 AM | #8235 |
TokuKnight89
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An ambiguous fate probably if one ignores the crossover! Shitari's counterpart could probably still comeback as Saban/Hasbro have yet to adapt that movie!
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10-30-2019, 12:31 PM | #8236 |
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Sorry, I don't know if bumping a thread is frowned upon but I've now got back to two shows where I just roughly tried to guess what the last episode I saw as. I actually originally watched Ninninger without subtitles because I went through a weird phase of doing that from 2014-2016(I'm now also not using torrents at the moment which I might regret one day!) so I've got back to that now and I also decided to get back to Gaoranger because I want to try and finish something before Dekaranger and I was strangely inspired to watch it after Jahoso happened to do a live stream of it back in 2013! When I finish Gao I might try something like Abaranger,Timeranger or Megaranger, I would love to finish a Japanese toku from the 90s.
Gaoranger 7-8 For me I like the Gaorangers so far a lot more than most of the Wild Force Rangers. It's strange, I wouldn't think I would be that big on either version of this show but somehow the overall package makes Gaoranger a surprisingly fun show to watch. The plot of Kakeru losing his memory is pretty cool and makes more sense here than with Cole a lot later in Wild Force IMO. I don't think Gaoranger is up there with the best but it's pleasant enough. Ninninger 27-28 The Ninja Assassin scene when the guy goes ''Ninja, ninja, ninja'' keeps coming into my head when I think of ninja sentai,haha. I don't know what to say about Kinji's hunting the Youkai episode other than it was cool, I suppose. As for Ninninger episode 28, I can't believe the plot wasn't used for Ninja Steel(sarcasm)! Yeah, this was probably too wacky to be honest. It also seems a bit weird how the shuriken fits perfectly in Takaharu's helmet, there's no hole when it's gone or anything! |
11-03-2019, 06:03 PM | #8237 |
天心の英雄たち
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Maryland
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Just started Carranger. Liking it so far.
Really glad Shout Factory has these Sentai dvd collections, going to try and pick up them all. |
11-04-2019, 03:49 AM | #8238 |
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I love what I've seen of Carranger, I think I would prefer it to Power Rangers Turbo! I am still watching Gaoranger and Ninninger but I kind of ran out of things to say so I stopped doing an update for each episode!
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01-02-2020, 10:21 PM | #8239 |
The Immortal King Tasty
Join Date: Jan 2012
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Lately I've been remembering all over again how much I love Ninninger, and because I can be super impulsive this way, I decided that's literally all the reason I need to finally dig into at least one of the other two ninja Sentai out there. I mean, while on I'm a ninja kick, anyway, right?
So then... Kakuranger 1-3: This was a perfectly entertaining set of episodes, but I'm off to a bad start when it comes to posting about my viewing experience, because it's hard to process what I even just watched when I have absolutely no clue what's going on. The basics are pretty simple. A bunch of Yokai sealed by a bunch of ninjas got released, so their modern-day descendants get together to go show em' who's boss. Like, that's the premise. The problem is this show's style is so extraordinarily unique, and I feel like the heavy pop-culture theming is mostly flying over my head without proper context. I can recognize what I'm literally seeing, it's just that I rarely know what Kakuranger is actually trying to convey. The narrator in this show is like if Aruto from Kamen Rider Zero-One got old, went senile, lost all his charisma, and then decided to occasionally hijack a Sentai show to make largely unneeded observations about completely self-explanatory things. I'm not gonna lie, he's already getting on my bad side. These episodes don't even run over twenty minutes, who's got time for this?! Pretending for a second this is just a regular Sentai, though, it's doing everything about right. It's always interesting when they decide to not have the whole team together right away, and while I can't tell you much about their personalities at the moment, I do like that everyone seems to hate each other a bit at the moment. That generally makes for good character development later down the line, so I'm looking forward to that. The action was fine, too, but I mean, I probably don't have to explain to anyone that the Kakurangers just are cool. Their suits are aggressively efficient in design and their robot is literally a fortress. What's not to love?
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01-02-2020, 11:07 PM | #8240 |
I have a problematic type
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Kakuranger is kind of weird at first. It settles down into something more stable relatively quickly. The narrator is eventually dropped about halfway through the series.
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