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02-27-2021, 07:19 AM | #1 |
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The Kiramagers mount a final all-out attack to stop Emperor Yodon in his rampage.
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02-28-2021, 12:42 AM | #2 |
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The ending feels very by the book generic happy draginball wish kind of finale ending. It's weird they need redo yodonna origin and connection with the emperor so many time at first you think she the secretary to possession to brainwash to being part of him or not. Now we know. Heck like many final boss we gets more lore about him minutes before he gets kill off.
Looking forward to 2 more kiramager movie. The vs is coming out as a spring movie. Yodon emperor was defeated differently. I really thought the orange stone would shatter. The magazone scan shows a dif battle. |
02-28-2021, 01:40 AM | #3 |
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So who expects the AI speaker to be on sale soon at Premium Bandai.
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02-28-2021, 04:19 PM | #4 |
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Well that's a wrap! In many ways Kiramager was very by-the-books, and in some ways it felt like an invigorating experience from start to finish.
I think with every season we want so much for our minds to be blown by some earth-shattering writing and storytelling, but Sentai means different things to different people and if it can be all those things without being a total disaster then that can only be considered a success. Kiramager has been one of my favorite and most enjoyable Sentai in recent memory and though I'm looking forward to Zenkaiser, especially as it's an anniversary season, I'll be a little sad that Kiramager is finally ending.
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02-28-2021, 05:39 PM | #5 |
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Well ! My prediction about Yodon and his masks ended up being mostly wrong !
NO MATTER ! This has honestly been one of the best season in years I feel, after multiple years of meh to completely ruined premises due to sales, this has been a refreshing season all around. 10/10 would recommend and all the twinkles ! Best points of the season was the characters overall, even the monsters of the week had interesting sides to them, and while emperor Yodon did not have the biggest depth to him, it really was not needed, the voice acting and overall design worked quite well for me at least, I wish the fact he split himself without even intending to do so like the Orochi he seems to have come from was explored a little more after the Yodonna reveal, but we cannot have everything, and overall I did not have an issue with him as a villain unlike the villains over the last years. He overall stayed calm and overall all the way, even when he finally went down, sure he was shocked by the trickery but he did not have a child like tantrum from it which has been some time since we have had, literally cost himself a win in the long run because he threw away what he felt was his weaknesses, while the Kiramagers were strong because they stuck together, pretty standard good and evil premise, but that is not a negative. |
02-28-2021, 05:49 PM | #6 |
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Definitely. Sales are likely to tank but that certainly does not keep this show from being good. Definitely my new favorite sentai show and probably my new recommendation for people who want to start watching super sentai. The cookie-cutter aspect works well in its favor in that aspect and I think the success behind it is keeping it simple. This deserves my rating of 10/10.
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02-28-2021, 11:24 PM | #7 |
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My biggest complaint with Kiramager was that the Megazords didn’t combine. That to me is almost heresy as far as Super Sentai goes
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03-01-2021, 06:10 AM | #8 |
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I was also thinking since the last episode that these last two episodes have been pretty surprisingly cliched for this show, and while I'm still disappointed about how Garza's story got resolved, I really enjoyed this wrap-up!
I realised like halfway through that this was no longer the production team delivering just a good finale for a yearly sentai, but they were moreso doing everything they could to celebrate Kiramager specifically, and see it off happily. In that sense, I understand why in favour of any particularly dramatic plots, we have a big, exceptionally shiny battle that's meant to also feel like the heroes doing what they've always done in their usual outings. There's nothing to really dig into here, but there's not really meant to be. Just one final bout and then a rapid-fire series of heartwarming moments where I couldn't stop smiling... The show is just patting us on the back for sticking around all year, and I'm happy to have done so! Last edited by FreshToku; 03-01-2021 at 06:13 AM.. |
03-01-2021, 08:26 AM | #9 |
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Well, that’s the end of the show. I’m not quite sure how to put my thoughts on the episode individually, so I think I’ll just put my thoughts on the whole series in.
The good: Shiguru. I like that that for once the show was ironically using the “Blue thinks he’s cool because he never smiles and knows a few poorly pronounced words of English” archetype, which just makes him all the more enjoyable. The comedy. While I didn’t think any of the comedy in the last two shows was bad per se, this show basically thrives on it. Carantula. Just goes to show that the guy who’s most likely to get a redemption is the guy you don’t think will get one until it comes up. The ending theme. I will be sorely disappointed if Takashi Deguchi doesn’t come back for a later series. The not as good. The show’s theme of creativity. As much as the show likes to pride itself on this concept, other than one episode with Shiguru working on a new sword technique, no-one actually creates anything. Even Juru, the one guy who does this on a regular basis, is basically just altering things that already exists (namely, the Kiramai Stones). Yet Garza having done this to Jouki is treated like a bad thing, which kind of undermines the message the show was going for. Which leads to my next point. Garza. The guy started out as a strong character and his final arc had an equally strong start… but then they squashed it by giving him an anti-climactic redemption that basically required them to rewrite everything we knew about him in order to work. Yodonna. While the twist of having a humanoid big bad is novel, they did nothing with it afterwards. Most humanoid villains tend to disguise themselves to pull off plans, yet other than her debut, Yodonna never does that. Garza’s relationships with the main cast. He starts off with a fairly strong rivalry with Juru, but then when Takamichi shows up, he diverts all his attention to him. And then that rivalry gets dropped all of a sudden to go back to Juru for his last two episodes. The comedy. Yes, I cited this as a strength, but there are times where it can be a bit too much. The Mecha fights. The lack of any real variety in the combinations used after a while makes the fights feel incredibly stale. The lack at a major combination doesn’t help in this regard. The sentient Mecha angle. Yeah, people think it’s done better than Abaranger’s, but people don’t really consider that a good example of one, heck in a poll, Juru/Fire wasn’t first place in the Red/Mecha partnerships (that was Sosuke/Speedor), nor was he the second (that was Koh/Tyramigo). The lack of any real elaboration on Juru’s link with Oradin (and later Galza). The finale tries to answer it but it falls flat and contradicts the start of the series by claiming hat it borough the Kiramagers together, (No, it got one of you onboard. The rest were already together) Sayo. Don’t get me wrong, she’s great. She just suffers from not getting much screen time. The bad. GoKiramager. ‘Nuff said. Emperor Yodon. The guy was just an unnecessary addition that dragged down the series. He has no personality or clear motives and his final plan is less the culmination of everything in the series so far and more him just making it up on the spot. With that said, I’d rate Kiramager 5/10. Not bad, but nothing to write home about either. Go-Onger still did basically everything this show did, but better. Even the handoff. Last edited by Androzani84; 03-01-2021 at 08:29 AM.. |
03-01-2021, 10:54 AM | #10 |
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Anyone remember when the last time a Sentai played its intro in the final episode.
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