Grunge desu.

Whatever you wanna call it.
It's still just a stupid fashion trend from the 80's/90's that we should all praise sunbutt has died out :p

Zyuohger episode 1.

Not a bad to the show at all. Although i really don't like the look of the zords or the mecha. The mecha just kind of looks like the one from Go onger/RPM. But other than that small complaint good stuff.

I don't know, I wear today what I wore then, a t-shirt and either pants or shorts.

Agreed.

I finally finished Magiranger.

This is the first Sentai I've had glaring issues with.

Gosh, that was just not good. It had it's moments that made me have hope, but the ending arc was just not done well, and it was kinda cliche I guess. Plus I felt the first half was repetitive, and the second half wasn't done to it's potential. Plus I didn't like most of the characters and felt they rehashed some Dekaranger personalities and kinda failed, ranger or villain, Kai Ozu is the WORST Red Ranger I've seen, it got too silly and wrapped up in nonsense for it's own sake, and it just didn't do anything to challenge the norm or take risks that benefited it. Also, worst ending song ever.

Positives were Urara and Hikaru were great characters and on my favorite color lists and it had good moments and family things. The world building wasn't too bad either and the opening's pretty damn good.

On another note: Seeing the Boukenger previews at the end were my favorite part lmao, that was the first Sentai exposure to episodes back in 2006 when it was out and it gets me so nostalgic man, it's still one of my favorite Sentai to this day. Man, I miss those days.

Be honest, is any of it objectively worse than what Takeru and Alain are wearing on Ghost right now?

I didn't even make it to the second half, dropping the series after 10 episodes :lol

Ultimately, it is the HP Lovecraft stuff that saves the show for me. The Infershia Gods were an awesome idea too, but yeah, the ranger aspect kind of sucked. I also didn't like how they spent more time on CGI rather than fight choreography.

Don't know, I dropped Ghost after 2 episodes like a turd. I just can't bring myself to even bother with it or with finishing Drive (which at this point, I might as well just start over if I do decide to finish it).

I'm almost done with Jetman (2 episodes left) and I'm in the episode 35-45 range with Carranger, Zyuranger, and Gingaman. Not sure which of those I'll finish first. I've been really derailed in my Super Sentai watching in recent weeks thanks to video games. Mostly Bravely Second, Fire Emblem: Fates (Conquest & Revelations), and Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel.

I watched teh second disc to Kakuranger today. Except for the food episode, this was all great stuff.

The food episode?
Which one is that one? Is that the one where Seikai eats nonstop and grows giant because of it?

Yeah. That one has always been my least favorite episode of the series.

Yeah, it's a bit of a stupid episode.
But Kakuranger has a lot of stupid episodes :p

Yeah, but that one, I don't know why, I just hate that one entirely. Maybe it's the Youkai or the plot, but I just don't like it.

On the other hand, for every episode like this, you have awesome ones like the one where Sasuke is being hunted by the Flower Ninjas.

So I found out the reason why my Ohranger torrent wasn't moving was because they removed it a few days back in respect to Shout!
Noble, but now I can only watch the first 8 episodes (And whatever I can find floating online) until November.

So...Anyone got any Sentai recommendations? I'm not really wanting to go check out Zyuranger right now.

*ahem* I have a suggestion. :)

We watched episodes 12-15 of Zyuohger today and they were not that great. The best episode was the one with the hunter while the other three were pretty mediocre. It seems like things have just come to a stall as nothing really happened. I'm also tired of the villains doing having no development by this point. I know it's only 15 episodes in, but come on. Usually by now at least one of the villains should have had some sort of backstory or something. So far there is nothing. None of them even have a rival ranger either. Thankfully the ranger cast is still strong.

Mega, Ginga, GoGoV.

GoGoV.

Madoka is not a Sentai.

I've seen Megaranger.
It's mediocre.

2 votes for GoGoV. Any particular reason?

Aside from heavy bias of it being a favorite and having been used to make my favorite PR season, why not? It just got finished being subbed so might as well give it a shot. Though I do also suggest Gingaman and Abaranger (my obligatory Aba recommend returns) as well.

And that's 2 votes Ginga.
What's up with Gingaman? How is it like?
...What's wrong with episode 4?

I'm not looking for a reason to go against GoGoV. I'm just curious about what it's like. What are some of it's positives? How are the characters, etc

I was talking about Goseiger. :lol

But Ginga is good too. :)

Gingaman is a great show. Fun characters both in terms of the team, the villains, and even some of the side characters. The story is done well and is a great fantasy mythological one and one of the best of that type that Sentai has done. I could sit here forever and sing Ginga's praises. It is, 100%, my favorite Sentai, EVER and de-throned (upon completion) Hurricanger, which held the title for quite a long time.

I've seen Goseiger O_O
Jetman, Dairanger, Kakuranger, Megaranger, Dekaranger, Gekiranger, Goseiger, Gokaiger, and Kyoryuger are all under my belt :)

Wow, sounds like Gingaman is quite well praised~

GoGoV has one of the best red rangers of the entire franchise. There is also a great family dynamic with the show as not only are the rangers siblings, but even the villains are siblings. As such, there are some things that occur throughout the show that really give the feelings between the villains a new dynamic, especially towards the end of it with Zylpheeza. The monsters designs are great and I love how realistic they try to be with the initial mecha. Not to mention the train mech rocks. It also has a great balance of comedy and drama, although sometimes there can be a few really dry episodes. Oh, and I believe this was the last series to not have a sixth ranger (archetype).

Gingaman is good to, but it doesn't make my top 10. The cast is strong and I like the aspect the show does with its villains.

Well, Geki doesn't really have a sixth ranger character (Unless you count GekiBlack and GekiGreen, who join the rangers so late into the game I think there's less than 5 episodes left :lol), but I get what you mean~

The family angle is an interesting one, but not one I'm too terribly interested in. I'm glad to hear it balances comedy and drama nicely, though.
Hm...
I'll see if I can get to downloading both, since I'm sure I'll want to watch them both eventually.

Oh yes, I remember that review now. Yeah, I can totally understand why it'd be so annoying to watch.

Truth be told, I've never actually seen very many straight up sword and sorcery tales. Strange, I know, but I've only ever read/watched works that delved into it briefly, but never played it completely straight. Gingaman might actually be my first :lol

Also, wow, that is a surprising amount of restraint.

Well watch it again! :lol

Or do Ginga, it's equally as good. :)

Honestly, if I were to rewatch a series, it'd probably be Dekaranger. It's so bland that I barely remember anything :lol

Well, it seems only one person doesn't have a glowing review for Gingaman, so I guess I'll try Ginga then GoGoV!

Was that mine? Because I still love Gingaman, there are just other series I like more. Gingaman would probably be my 11th or 12th favorite Sentai show.

It's definitely worth watching. In fact, my plan after I review Kaku and finish up the Gundam series that will be out next month is to watch Mega, then PRiS, then Ginga, followed by PRLG, and finally, GoGoV with LSR afterwards.

What is going to be great is that this will be my first time watching those three Sentai series subbed since I've only seen them raw (Mega once, Ginga 5 times, and GoGoV 6 times).

I'm around 30 episodes into Gingaman and I really like it. I think the action is sorta generic (don't love their upgraded suits or the kiba blades) but the cast is likeable and the story is rock solid. The Barban are diverse and have an interesting dynamic, too. If Gingaman finishes strong it'll probably be in my overall top ten.

Ah, nothing like spending a full day on Kakuranger. I watched episodes 12-33 today and they were glorious. This may be my 8th time watching this show, but it still manages to impress me. So much greatness going on. I'm now past the episodes I had already seen subbed before, so this is going to be an interesting experience to watch the final 20 episodes subbed for the first time. A shame Junior is gone though as he is my favorite Sentai villain ever. I should probably say "thus far" given that Sentai is still going on, but I doubt Toei will ever make a villain like him ever again.

I finished Kakuranger today and man, what a great series. Tomorrow I will start getting my script together for my review of it. On the other hand, I did want to point out that Shout's discs were far from perfect with their subs this time around as half of the episodes had their subs not timed properly. There were even moments where the subs would pop up after a character has already said their piece, which was kind of annoying. It was terriblly noticeable outside of a couple instances, but still a nuisance.

Kakuranger, easily my second favorite Sentai.

I gotta get a start on Gingaman, but I owe Sideswipe and I should get to watching GL...

Yeah, Kaku is also my second favorite Sentai series.

Anyway, I decided to just start Megaranger tonight and got through the first 7 episodes. This is actually my first time watching the show subbed so it was kind of nice. The opening episodes are still majorly slow though, but there are things I like about, especially the villains. Hineler and Yugande are pretty awesome. The concept behind a video game designed to pick soldiers is kind of dumb though. Like why didn't they pick that Arcade Bully guy since the kids talk about how great he is at the game? Obviously I'm just coming off the high of Kakuranger though, so I might be being a little overly critical because I did enjoy them, just not as much as I was hoping I would now that I'm seeing them subbed. It's still an interesting dynamic despite how dumb it is and the cast is likable even though I don't really think the world should be leaving saving the world in the hands of high schoolers. In the real world, we would all be ****ed.

Watched episodes 8-11 of Megaranger tonight and man, it is so weird that the series just suddenly jumps into having 22 minute episodes out of the blue. I feel like it kind of hurt the show's pacing a little bit as you really do feel the extended running time. Nevertheless, these were some damn good episode, especially the one with Yugande's battle and the Rose monster one. The two bat monsters were kind of cool, although I don't know why the writers had this obsession with using a bat monster twice in a row. They didn't even have a throwaway joke about it. Oh, and getting to learn about Dr Hineler's past already was a nice detail as we don't usually see a Sentai series do something like that until closer to the end of the show.

Finally started watching Zyuohger again because I made it to the crossover episode in Ghost and wanted to watch them in order. Man, what a disappointment Zyuohger 7 was.

Yeah, the seventh episode is utter garbage and the worst episode of the show so far. I wasn't all that thrilled with 12-15, but they weren't anywhere near as bad as that one.