I'm watching Zyuranger. This is the first Sentai series I saw and it is pretty good from what I've seen so far. I'm up to the last 12 episodes. Even though I'm more of a Power Rangers fan, I want to give a decent amount of the Super Sentai shows a fair chance since I've heard that most of them are pretty good and I'm planning to check them out in the near future. :)

Up to 36 of Zyu now. Really enjoyed the Satan arc but now its gone back to going through the motions a bit. I know what's coming next though so I'm looking forward to that.

The only heroes I seem to care about are Geki and Burai. The rest are really bland. Goushi might be better if he didn't spend half the time in the background.

Yeah, one of Zyuranger's biggest failings is that it has a really dull cast of one-dimensional characters. Most of the kids of the week get more development in one episode than the Zyurangers do over the course of fifty. :(

Edit: So I'm up to episode seven of Kakuranger and I legitimately can't decide which is more awesome: that the villain is clearly modeled after Terry Bogard or that Tsuruhime has to disguise herself as a hamburger. This show is very much the fun kind of insane.

Well I just watched 43-45 of Gobusters. I have to admit, 43 and 44 were pretty good episodes, especially 44 which had a great final battle with Messiah. This is what the battle back in episode 30 should have been like. It was obvious Enter was not killed though, but I am glad Escape is gone as she was really getting on my nerves. Her whole stupid "I don't know why I want to protect him" was annoying and pointless. IN fact, she was just a pointless character all in all. Good riddance.

However, episode 45 was back to awfulness. The whole marriage interview thing was utter crap (Who the hell actually interviews to see if they should get married? You might as well just go to Vegas and marry a hooker after a one night ****) and the monster was pathetic. I hope to the gods the last 4 episodes of the show are actually good. I want this show to at least go out with some dignity left.

Yeah. I mean, I have watched the series raw many many times over the last 10 years, but I never actually realized how little Dan, Boi, and Goushi were developed before. It sucks because Goushi is my favorite of the rangers, but the episodes revolving around this trio provided nothing to us about their back stories. I mean, Mei had the poisonous apple episode and the flower monster episode, these guys got nothing. We know nothing about their kingdoms or anything.

How is Junya modeled after Terry?

45 May have gone back to the old sentai formula but seeing J dressed up like a human woman and Jin with an afro was hilarious :lol

Marriage interviews are a Japanese thing. I won't pretend to know much about it, but it's usually part of an arranged marriage situation.

I don't know who that is yet. I meant the MotW from episode 7; the giant mouth monster that's dressed like Terry.

Yes, that was funny. And I will admit, I did laugh when Ryuuji tried to explain his job and the girl asked him if it was a system engineer. The episode had some good moments, but they were diminished by that god awful MOTW, fights, and concept.

Do people still even believe in arranged marriages these days? I mean, it is 2013.

Dude its Japan. that's still a huge part of their culture. Just like how men inherit the family business even if the daughter is older. Men who marry into families can even be adopted by their in laws that way the family name continues and it allows them to inherit the business. Japan still has quite backward values.

Kakuranger episode 9. This week, Jiraiya talks TV. Do you talk some TV?

Kaori's and Burai's actors return in this episode as a news reporter and camera man. Jiraiya gets the spotlight this time along with a Yokai that has else to do but watch TV because there's no farms around to haunt. There's a good scene where Jiraiya and Saizou start beating up on the Yokai before he reveals he's not human...on TV. Good to know the Kakurangers don't ask questions first. Jiraiya also has a Bruce Lee moment in this scene. The main fight is Jiraiya (unmorphed) fighting the Yokai in a 3 round cage match. Every round has Jiraiya taking off more clothes. Why couldn't this be a Tsuruhime scene? :lol




PS There's also an Ako-Chan Ramen billboard that's rather hard to spot.

Because she's 14.