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02-29-2020, 07:11 AM | #1 |
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The final battle- Eras versus the RyuSoulgers! Who will be triumphant?!
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03-01-2020, 07:08 AM | #2 |
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I was expecting an all out longer mecha fights, but eras is just too stiff of a stick. It doesn't event jave a tail to whip. The ten individual knights shot and triple mecha fight was cool, but seems more of a wasted potential and miss opportunity to be extra flashy. The land battle was more sentimental than what i expected as an all out human vs kaijin fight. The elder, master black, and ui made cameo appearances. Precious survives and might be a joke for future vs and return special along with the other two to form a comedy trio. Looks like the ui's actress is really sick with the weight gain shes hiding. The series have a lot of high expectation, and underwhelming execution . We didnt see much mobile mecha battle at all. We didnt even get to explore the knights and the lore of their sacred village. Everything is just jumble up one episode a time and fillers. The final twist was interesting with master black and eras, but it's just lame shock value without amounting to much more. The masters were really sidelined. What's next master green is alive and evil, secret space druidon, or eras twins?
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03-01-2020, 07:46 AM | #3 |
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The hand off was pretty weak and tame compare to the wilder and more unique one like last year and before. Kiramager 0pre 01 villains looks more threatening, but the gang and allies feel more like toqger imagination squad.
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03-01-2020, 05:33 PM | #4 |
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I was expecting an all out longer mecha fights, but eras is just too stiff of a stick. It doesn't event jave a tail to whip. The ten individual knights shot and triple mecha fight was cool, but seems more of a wasted potential and miss opportunity to be extra flashy. The land battle was more sentimental than what i expected as an all out human vs kaijin fight. The elder, master black, and ui made cameo appearances. Precious survives and might be a joke for future vs and return special along with the other two to form a comedy trio. Looks like the ui's actress is really sick with the weight gain shes hiding. The series have a lot of high expectation, and underwhelming execution . We didnt see much mobile mecha battle at all. We didnt even get to explore the knights and the lore of their sacred village. Everything is just jumble up one episode a time and fillers. The final twist was interesting with master black and eras, but it's just lame shock value without amounting to much more. The masters were really sidelined. What's next master green is alive and evil, secret space druidon, or eras twins?
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03-01-2020, 10:04 PM | #5 |
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That rocked. Just a really wonderful finale with appropriately big fight, big sweeping moments, then a heartwarming epilogue. I have to imagine the final scene with all the photos takes place before all the preceding scenes since we had things like Towa leaving (and also I feel like Koh climbing that mountain should have been the final scene it was fine as is).
When I look back on this show, these last stretch of episodes are definitely going to be the brightest and fondest parts in my mind. |
03-02-2020, 02:42 AM | #6 |
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Really interesting approach for the finale. It wasn't big and bombastic like Sentai finales tend to be. It was more nuanced and contemplative. Big props to the production team for giving us something quite original. Having the final battle exclude red was ballsy and refreshing to see and some of the visuals on display were breathtaking. Once again proving that Kamihoriuchi is growing to be one of toku's most visionary directors.
The epilogue stuff was cute. Honestly, this wasn't very impactful as an ending but it was at least satisfying. And again, respect the originality. Ryusoulger wasn't perfect but stuff like this really made it stand out in my opinion, despite being yet another Dino Sentai. Had a fun year! |
03-02-2020, 04:15 PM | #7 |
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It wasn’t the worst finale I've ever seen, yet far from the best. Which pretty much sums up the entire show for me: It was brutally decent. At rare times very good, at equally rare times very bad, usually though it was just “okay”.
Not offensively terrible, yet never really good enough to stand out. Probably the most "meh" Toku show I have ever seen. And with that I'm glad it's over really, I had to force myself to finish this. I think I'll pass on Sentai for a while, the next show looks pretty bad from what I’ve seen and I don’t care enough to find out if that's the case or not. |
03-02-2020, 06:58 PM | #8 |
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This episode and the last one were astonishingly good. My overall opinion of a series in the long-term tends to end up being heavily colored by how much I liked the finale, and for a while now, I've had a feeling that despite all the crap I've given it over the past year, Ryusoulger would pull things together for a very strong conclusion.
And it did. Because, honestly, this was always a series that clearly had a ton of potential. Not like, nebulous "wow, what a great concept!" potential either. I'm talking about the obvious sparks of creativity and even brilliance that were always flaring up throughout what could be a pretty uneven series. For its issues, Ryusoulger had a lot of moments that showed it could've been one of the better Sentai out there, if it could only keep at that level all the time. Genuinely hilarious gags. Some surprisingly heavy-hitting drama. Great action. Insanely good direction. Endearing heroes and villains. When it was working at full capacity, Ryusoulger really delivered, and I think that's what these last episodes proved. The nature of the central conflict made a valiant effort to tie together the story into something more cohesive. We got a final showdown that broke away from a lot of the norms to do something daring and rather artistic. It felt hugely original even compared to similarly outside-the-box finales like LuPat's. The "where are they now" epilogue is a bit more straightforward, but that's hardly a bad thing in its own right. Plus, the direction from Kamihoriuchi is... I mean, holy s***, are you guys seeing this stuff? Do you know happy I am the very last thing in this entire show was that photo frame trick? Very happy. So at the end of the day, Ryusoulger and I are parting on pretty good terms, I think. It's been a year with a lots of ups, a lot of downs, and a lot of randomly hearing "GIRATTO HIKARU SO~DO!" in my head at any given time of day, and I don't regret a single second of it. For all the exceedingly shoddy long-term planning, inability to find a central theme (this one is a major sticking point for me personally), or failure to do particularly thorough world-building that kept it back, there was always something balancing it out, and even when there wasn't, an episode was sure to come along that would remind me all over again not to write the series off just yet. Is Ryusoulger one of my favorite Super Sentai series ever? Definitely not, but after a while, I started getting the hang of its unique rhythm, and I feel enough of an attachment to it now to be a little sad it's over. Flawed or not, it was a show that had a charm all its own.
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03-03-2020, 07:37 AM | #9 |
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I really quite liked the ending arc of Ryusoulger. And I'm going to echo what some have said that excluding Koh in the final battle was a nice touch. It gave the rest of the team (especially Towa, where the heck did that come from) some nicely deserved spotlight. I really hated the finale of Kyoryuger where it was all about Daigo so seeing this kind of final battle was awesome.
Again with the Towa stuff, I know that Master Black mentioned Towa to have a special light but never elaborated on it so seeing Towa do what he did kinda came from out of nowhere. Overall I enjoyed Ryusoulger. Won't be one of my favorites but I liked it none the less. I usually judge a Sentai series on how I liked the Red since the story usually revolves around him and I'm ok with Koh. He wasn't annoying and his character feels genuine enough to be likable. He wasn't my favorite, Bamba was, but I enjoyed watching Koh. Bamba and Towa were my favorites. I liked their dynamic together. Bamba was the cool character while I enjoyed the focus episodes of Towa the best. Canalo and his running gag of trying to find a wife was funny to watch and as a sixth he did enough for me to enjoy his character. My weak link though were Melto and Asuna. The fact that they're 2/3 of the main trio was unfortunate. Melto just did nothing for me. He was the smart guy but that was it. And Asuna being the only girl didn't help her to stand out either. This last couple of episodes they tried to show her more as integral to the team but it was bit too late for me. Now the best memory of Ryusoulger I'm taking with me is Kreon and Wyzul. I have not enjoyed sentai villains since Enter and Escape from Go-Busters. And its the first since Rio and Mele were my favorite characters from the show were the villains. I will miss those two the most. Here's to hoping the villains in Kirameiger will be entertaining too.
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03-03-2020, 02:32 PM | #10 |
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Also, apparently Kreon is not a Druidon? You'd think they would pursue that idea a bit earlier... especially considering the abuse he's gotten from the others. |
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