Im not saying that megaranger is a bad series. In fact this is my 12th sentai that Im watching (watching it with a friend and going to watch gobusters after this), but i can say its alright. it ranks under Jetman (#1), Liveman (#2), Gokaiger (#3), Maskman (#4, yeah #4, sue me), Shinkenger (#5), and Dekaranger (#6), so it ranks in the middle. It is, however, better than the other sentais that I've seen: Magiranger, ToQger, Zyuranger, Kyoryuger, and especially Ninninger which is definitely my least favorite of them. However, I have about 10 episodes to go so that might change and might be better than Dekaranger

I'm just saying generally, I don't see much praise or love for it here besides my constant nagging.

I dont blame you. Most people do the same thing with ToQger, which is a sentai that is not as bad as most people make it out to be, so i feel your pain a bit. I do admit that I love mega silver because he's funny and I love miku since she reminds me of Kagura which, is something that Ill admit, but I love kagura.

Toqger's a weird series to gauge. I haven't seen it but I know people who really love it and then people who really don't like it, but I think it's from the perspective you see it from.

Yeah, Miku and Yuusaku tend to be the characters that people like the most when they see the series. My personal favorite is Chisato, but personally I love all five characters and felt that this was one of the stronger casts in terms of characters in Sentai. Kenta also reminds me of myself.

Chisato is the greatest when it comes to being a fighter. I just outright love her fighting skills. Kouichiro, well....honestly, he's such a stick in the mud that I find him bland. Shun is hit and miss for me. At best, he's a clever SOB, but at worst, he's completely cold. I mean, he completely ignores Miku's feelings for him. Kenta is fine for me. I can relate to him somewhat, especially when I watch the series with my friend and says im wrong for it. I will agree with you and say that megaranger has one of the better cast of characters and casts of actors. Because looking at newer sentai and their actors (looking at takaharu's actor) the older sentai definitely put more effort into it. (not saying that all new sentai sucks in terms of acting)

I've just started Bioman, it's typical 80s Sentai formula, such a fast paced opening couple of eps, fun start though, I like the villains, I'll judge on the heroes as I go on, I just finished Gingaman before I started, loved that show, can't really fault anything with it.

Gingaman's amazing, I agree.

I think the key with enjoying Kouichiro is looking at him as assuming a leader-like role and looking at the point that he looks at the safety of other people before his, and how ego-less he is. It adds for a different version of the serious blacks that Sentai has had and it's awesome like that, and from the school standpoint he really takes his studies seriously and is working towards a successful future.

Was I the only one who liked Kouichirou in Megaranger? :lol
I felt he balanced the dynamic with Kenta.

Concerning Yuusaka, I felt he was at his weakest in terms of interest when morphed. Outside of costume, he was definitely my favorite, though.

yuusaka has his ups and downs in terms of when hes transformed. I mean he was cool when he had the 2.5 minute limit, now with that gone, he's just as powerful as a battlizer red. As for kouichiro, his school problems remind me of why I dont like Olga from Hey arnold. Get depressed from one TINY LITTLE MISTAKE.

I have mixed feelings on Mega, but I've only seen the show raw. It's next on my list to watch subtitled (at least until the Kaku DVD set comes out), but I've been so busy watching Gundam right now I don't have time for it. I'm also holding out on Power Rangers in Space until I watch Megaranger.

wont spoil anything about In Space, but it is truly a great Power Rangers series and its reasonably praised. For me, it's second best only behind Time Force (in which it may has a lot of small plot holes, but that doesnt take away from the excitement I had with it).

I actually have nothing but love for Megaranger myself when I was watching the subbed episodes at the time. I really need to finish it at some point.

Oh, I've already seen In Space. I watched it and recorded it when it first aired. However, last year I bought the 20 Seasons DVD set so I have been watching the show in order. However, since I watched Ohranger and Zeo and Carranger and Turbo back to back with each other, I want to do the same with Mega/Space, Ginga/LG, and GoGoV/LSR. I would include Timeranger and Time Force in that list, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut...

Timeranger isnt completely subbed yet i suppose. And its a shame about Time Force. I wish I could see the entire thing without the 9/11 edits, because I watched Time Force when it was first airing, then watching the show years later and not noticing the edits to it til much later. Its a shame, because I loved the Time Shadow fights.

also, how is Ohranger? Im curious to see it in the near future

I've always felt that Megaranger's flaw was that it was so overwhelmingly average. It never did anything wrong, and while it had it's highlights (Nejirangers are unforgettable, Kubota is one of my favorite mentors, and the mech design is on point), it never really breaks atmosphere (Space pun) as just kind of sits. It never stagnates, but it never pushes limits, either.

I will admit that it does play it safe. I do like how the plot keeps moving which makes the pacing great. It does better with the pacing than the 3 recent sentai we had. Kyoryuger's pacing came off as way too slow then just going at lightspeed to catch up with itself, ToQger being better, but having a crawling middle, and Ninninger just going outright fast, resulting in plot points being resolved so fast that it leaves no overall impact on anything.

There's nothing wrong with keeping things safe, but there just wasn't enough urgency in the plot. Like, it moved at a steady rate, but not enough was actually happening to really keep the viewer completely invested.

I only like some of the episodes because of the characters and their interactions. Like i said in my earlier posts, Miku is my favorite character, and that's because of how she interacts with the other characters. She has this whole happy-go-lucky style and it someone who really cares deeply about her friends, especially shun, who seems to outright disrepect her feelings towards him, but thats probably because he's "edgy"

Yeah, Mega definitely played it safe. I mean, one of my favorite episodes is the one where they get poisoned by the moth monster and are told they have 24 hours to live. Clearly they aren't going to die, so there is no suspense, but it was interesting to see how the rangers themselves dealt with the issue.

One of my favorite episodes was them getting the Mega Voyager while the Galaxy Mega had to hold out in a struggle against a superior monster. It was tense to see Kubota and the crew fighting for as long as they could.

Prino take in mind that Kouichiro is still a teen and really he tries to do his best in everything, and from personally experience low grades are very discouraging, and it just goes in flow with the theme of growing up.

I think the real fun of Mega comes in the cast and their actions and the scenarios they have to go through in the episodes, some silly but some pretty serious, Mega's charm comes from it's simplicity, the cast and their chemistry, growing into warriors and themes of maturity and growing up as well.

But the last 10 episodes breaks the formula and goes crazy. And it's also like a calming down factor after the insanity of Carranger haha.

Also I personallyI thought In Space was overrated, it's basically that one unstoppable season in the fan base besides RPM. It was pretty good, but I felt that the following Lost Galaxy was more enjoyable and did some of the space idea even better tbh. And I've seen people who don't enjoy Mega much mainly because they go in with the IS bias, which I think shouldn't happen for any PR/Sentai season you see honestly.

In Space is the end of the original story, which is why it is highly praised. Hell, that is one of the reasons it is my favorite season of PR. It gave me Zedd, the machine empire, AND introduced Astronema.

Lost Galaxy was lost on me. There was nothing Lost Galaxy about it until the last 6 of 8 episodes, if even that.

I think the first few episodes of lost galaxy did have something to do with the name, since they went on the terra venture (Forgive me if I get the name wrong. Havent seen the series in years) and mike ended up dying (allegedly), but yeah, after that, it had nothing to do with being a "lost galaxy" until the end game. Because of how its played out, it ended up being an In Space 2.0, but it didnt do as well as In Space to me.

Really, you have to look at In Space for what all it did and how large of a leap it was in comparison to the other seasons. The scope and scale were larger and the stakes were higher. It's easy to see why so many people loved it.

The season I saw as overrated was Zeo. What a piece of trash that series was...

Lost Galaxy fell flat for me because it had almost nothing to do with space. Almost every battle was fought on the ground in Terra Venture, you never got a space vibe since most normal scenes were, once again, just standing on normal land, and the dome projected a permanent sky.

Well that was because In Space was going to be the final power rangers, so of course they're gonna go all out. They did the same to RPM and people love RPM (even though I still think RPM is alright at best). Zeo has its moments, but I do agree, it is overrated. Its especially overrated because Jason came back.

I know why they went all out with In Space. I'm just saying that it worked. It made the tension real, it piqued my interest. I was enjoying about 80% of what I saw (Them trying to get Andros into high school just to reuse the same sets kind of sucked shit, but otherwise, it was nice~).

But for Lost Galaxy, I felt they just kept tripping over and over because they kept forgetting whether they were a space series or a mystical one (Terra Venture, an artificial space colony, has the ancient Galactabeasts resting in it? Did they just excavate 3000 square acres of land and chuck it into space?)

Lost Galaxy was just trying to milk its success off of In Space. That's why Lost Galaxy kinda failed for me. It also didn't help that the Gingaman footage that they used didn't make much sense at all.

I wish the mechas could be less pokemon/digimon.

wut

Perhaps he means the "mini buddy" nature (like in Shinken, Go-On, GoBust and now ZyuOhger) or the constant power upgraded we have now compared to, say, Changeman who basically just had Change Robo and Change Robo's carrier base.

I still don't get it. The only mecha that really felt like partners were the Engine Souls and whatever they were called in Go-Busters. The rest are just little trinkets that grow larger. Yeah, we got, like, 2 scenes of the trinkets playing around in Shinken and Zyuohger, but otherwise, they've just been shapes they throw into the sky for a mech battle.

Buddy Roids.

Which episode was 22?

Oh, is that the one where Yuri decides to dress all fancy to win them back?

I finished ToQger and I'm almost done with Jetman. Got to see good old Yutaka Hirose again! That guy's a hell of a good villain (which I suppose Sentai fans have known for like 30 years now).

If anyone wants to read my Deka review, it's out now.
https://rockthedragonsubs.files.word...riesreview.pdf

Also, over 20 in Mask and Magi. Mask has just failed to impress me besides one or two episodes, but Magi has gotten slightly better, not great or pretty good, but I like the mythos it builds and I like Hikaru/MagiShine as a character and what he brings.

Tbh, while I liked maskman, I can understand why people dont like. Its that sentai that doesnt grab everyone. Im also glad that you like Magiranger. To me, I thought magiranger (at the point youre on) started to have a super duper problem that I had with the sentai and push it even more. The sentai is WAY MORE formulaic than usual. But without the extra formulaic part in it, the sentai just kinda failed to get me because the only characters I liked from Magiranger were green and yellow. Otherwise, every character is either unlikeable or just forgettable