You realize that Super Sentai is a kids show…right? :eyebrow

Times have changed, not to mention the sensors are probably a lot more stirckt about that kind of stuff these days.

Not only that, but it sounds like all you want is grim dark and mindless brutality, and those don't always equal a better show.

While I'm all for some Kyoryuger villain bashing, I do not agree that Super Sentai's villains have been sucking lately. If anything the villains have been getting a hell of a lot better recently, though mostly thanks to Kobayashi's solid writing. Every series she's been the head writer on has had at least one or two stand out villains that could sell the show on their own.

Makes me sad to so much Kyoryuger bashing on Tokunation.

Don't worry bud, it's just the one guy.

Have to look at the bigger picture and the grand scheme of things on why Toei is doing what they're doing. As a few have said times have changed, today's society is very PC oriented. Also the villains NEED to FIT in with the rest of the factors in a show.

Don't worry, I'll still be here to defend Kyoryuger.

And like Kiryu said.. it's a kids show. So, as much as you apparently want it, you're never going to see Schwarz pull out his sword and slice off Right's arm. That's just not going to happen. That being said.. Sentai Villains in recent years have gotten a lot better. Enter and Escape being the two examples I can think of. Even people who don't like Go-Busters (Like me) love Enter and Escape (Again, Me).
Then you have Bureduran No Comet from Tensou Sentai Goseiger, Juuzo from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, Rio and Mele from Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger. Rio and Mele, going by Sentai I've actually seen here, I think are where the trend towards excellent villains started.

You don't like the Beboss Army, or Kyoryuger, that's entirely you're right. More power to you. But your premise is flawed. If anything villains have been getting much better with Ressha Sentai ToQger. The Shadowline have had some excellent, outright excellent, Monsters of the Week. (I'm bad with names so) Like the Reaper who sang about dead bodies, for example. And even a throwaway like the Magnifying Glass villain from the Fire Ressha episode helped make (what was for me) a meh episode into something worth watching.

My problem is, if this is indeed a factor, it makes no sense. I mean, the sensors in Japan have no problem with incest, but showing blood and death is not okay. DAFUQ? ?_?

Has the entire world just turned into a bunch of pansies that kids are no longer allowed to know the concept of death?

Wait wait wait wait wait! WHAT? What on earth are you referring to???

Besides... Japan is one of the countries that confronts children with death really often, compared to, say, the US. Just because people don't die that often on screen anymore, it doesn't mean no one dies at all. And villain deaths are also as equally deaths as those of those of civilians. Aigallon, for example had pretty stretched out death scene and no one ever denied that he died or something. Also, Torin and the Spirit Rangers didn't survive the finale.

Other examples of people dying on screen in Sentai the last few years are for example Magis in Goseiger or the 16th generation of the Shinkenger. Yeah, it's not so much civilians that die, but mostly, it is implied they are also killed (like in Shinkenger, with the little boy that lost his father in a Gedoushu attack). Just because they do not take those scenes on-screen, it doesn't mean they don't happen.

THANK GOD IT DOESN'T! >,<

Heh, even I defend that show more often than I bash it these days.

I'm referring to all of those series that have a sister in love with the brother, brother in love with their sister, a harem anime where a cousin is one of the lovers, etc. Or you have series where the father is in love with the daughter.

There were like 3-4 anime series last year that had incest in them, which is okay, but big time violence is not.

Now do I think villains need to kill people in order to be threatening? No. However, I do think it is a little annoying to have a giant monster attacking a city but we don't see a single person get hurt. And then we have these monsters that will come up with this elaborate plan, but everything is fixed by the end of the episode when the monster is defeated.

And I do wish Schwartz would slice off Right's arm. It might actually make the show interesting enough for me to actually want to start watching it again.