Originally Posted by Blade Raider (Post 90203)

Gekiranger episode 1. Very first thought: **** you TV-Nihon! Learn how to ****ing translate! I tried letting you have the benfit of the doubt, but regretted it within 5 mins. Hikari Senshi's subs aren't much better as they over translate (and calling Rio "Leo" is just wrong), but at least it's translated. I can hear Japanese, but I will never understand a sentence that's left half untranslated.


Translation (or lack there of) aside, I enjoyed it. It was a solid first episode. There's not much to say about it. Just wish I had better options on the subs.

Originally Posted by Switchblade (Post 90078)

I'd try some of the older shows. Stuff from the 90s (Jetman, Dairanger) is not going to be the same as a show from the early 80s.

Originally Posted by ShockerCon (Post 90210)

Sorry, but I just can't stand it when a show doesn't have a god damn resolution. I don't care how good a show is until the end, because an ending can make or break a show for me. And the sad thing is, I don't ask much at all in an ending. All I ask for is that something changes so that the last 40-something episodes meant something in the long run, and weren't a relative waste of time.

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 90295)

Yeah. In all honesty, I have a hard time sitting through the Sentai series before Bioman, and even Bioman is not that great.

I made it through 11 episodes of JakQ before I stopped, 1 episode of Sun Vulcan, 1 episode of Goggle 5, and 4 episodes of Dynaman (and I own all of Dynaman). It isn't because of all them are terrible really, but because they take forever to end. I feel like it takes 45 minutes to complete an episode (and I highly enjoy the original Kamen Rider series).

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Ryuki's ending is worse since it just wipes out everything that happened over the course of the series as if it never happened. They didn't beat the bad guy, Shiro just gave up because Yui killed herself so he made it where they never lived through the fire. Ren did not beat Odin at all and Shiro never actually fought anyone to be beaten.

As for the ending to DaiRanger, it might all be about timing of when I saw it. I did not hate open endings as much then as I do not because I had not seen 15 anime series that did it and many Toku series either at that time. I think I had only seen one that pulled a cop out ending, if that. It was not until after DaiRanger that I saw the endings to Big O, Evangelion, RahXephon, Gilgamesh, DekaRanger, and Wolf's Rain that I started to detest those type endings.

And it isn't like DaiRanger's ending did not fit. You are talking about a war that has gone on for centuries. It wouldn't just stop there because Shadam was defeated.

Originally Posted by Matrixbeast (Post 91300)

I grew to love Bae. Primarily because during the middle of the series the mech battles were tacked on to an episode that didn't really facilitate them.
As for GekiTouja, I have a new found love for him, too, for the same reasons. Just watching a mech do more than lumber forward and swing it's titan sword/fire it's plasma cannon is a breath of fresh air. It's like the Lightning Mode from Ninja Storm, but permanent. It's great (And the design has grown on me too. While I won't be buying the DX toy for it's painfully simple combination, I am looking for the Retrofire and intend on getting the SRC because it's design is lovely.

Oh, and I think you'll enjoy the Deadly Venoms arc, I did. Granted, I loved the concept of the 5 Deadly Venoms before I even saw Geki :p

Originally Posted by Den-O (Post 91315)

See I find Gekitouja to be pretty plain. I don't outright hate it but it definitely is not a perfect design. And the simplicity of it doesn't translate all that well to toy form either. However I'd buy the shit out of it at the right price. :lol