Well damn it, I tried deleting all of my downloads of the file and that still took my back to the Adobe Reader, so I guess I'll just have to figure something out in the morning. This sucks.

I'm sorry to hear that's you're having issues with your reader. I will agree that a good night's rest does wonders for your state of mind, so I sincerely hope you'll be able to enjoy Tokkyuger very soon!

Huzah!

Maybe this show will have hidden depth, and do a full on Urobutcher on us. It certainly has all the set up with the IMAGINATION and all the bright colours and general goofiness to suddenly pull the rug right from under us.

I mean the dark overtones are already there from get go honestly, from the nightmarish designs of the villains and the kidnapping of kids with some weird demon train only children can see.

I kinda assumed the whole dead thing would be an asspull as it seems way too early to land something like that in our laps, but who knows right now. It's probably the only time actually watching this subbed added to the experience.

Just watched episode 1. I'm late to the party!

Well that was a lot of fun. Cool cast, good looking design work, interesting train-fight scenes, very atmospheric bad guys. I dig it.

Not sure I really see the point of the color change gimmick. Maybe the chaos if causes gives them some sort of advantage? Although, it's fun to see a male pink for a change.

I wasn't blown away by the action choreography. Seemed like there could have been a grander statement made with the first action scenes.

Love that this year's theme is imagination. I think that will lead to some creative episodes down the line.

And that was a cool implication in the cliffhanger.

I'm struggling to see why none of the subbers are into this series. It's totally fun! And when was the last time the first episode of a sentai was indicative of the series to come?

I'm liking where the show is headed. I'm excited for the ride.

It's a fun show.

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What if they are already actually dead to begin with. We saw Right fall from a very tall tree already and that could have killed him. They each died as a child but the power of their imagination kept them 'alive'. It would explain why they can see the trains.

Oh man, if even remotely true, that's really freaking dark. *drink*

A creepy old man on magic trains screaming 'IMAGINATION' and talking to a sock puppet, while turning dead children into superheroes? The fuck even is this show? The villains are like the most normal things so far, and they're some weird period piece nightmare.

So I've kinda been down on this show since day one. I thought the suits were awful, the mech was lame, and that Toq5 looked like the most insufferable character since BoukenYellow. And honestly, given most of the mixed response I've seen so far I pretty much went into this expecting it to suck and that I could keep ignoring Super Sentai for another year.

Now I'm not going to rush to judgement and I am going to give the show a few weeks to really settle into its groove, but so far?

I think I may have been wrong.

I'm liking a what I'm seeing so far. I'm liking it a lot.

The suits actually look really good in action and the villain designs are gorgeous. Even Toq-Oh looks much better in motion than I ever thought it would (I'm kinda loving the stretching limbs). The color swapping gimmick is weird and kind of confusing, but the show is looking to have fun with it - I actually liked how Right just kept grabbing the others' trains until Owner... er, Conductor pretty much told him to knock it the fuck off. :lol

Actually, I'm liking the humor on this show in general... for the most part. Toq5 I'm still a little iffy on, but so far she's reminding me a lot of Doc from Gokaiger as much, if not more, than of Natsuki. Yeah, she's got that "look at me, I'm acting like a toddler so you'll think I'm cute!" thing going on, but it's less insufferable so far. The self-awareness gags, though - like the monster's multiple "what the hell is going on here?" reactions - did amuse me a lot.

And then there's Owner... er, Conductor. It's pretty obvious now why they got Kobayashi to write this show: there are a lot of obvious Den-O influences here. Trains flying in mid-air, weird old dude in charge of the train, very Denliner-y interior to the Rainbow Liner, the Naomi-esque robot chick we've seen pictures of... this cannot be coincidental. I actually got a lot of Den-O nostalgia while watching this.

The plot for this episode itself was pretty rushed and I don't feel like I have a good handle on all of the characters beyond the standard Sentai archetypes they fit into (aside from Toq4, who is pretty much a total cipher at this point). The pacing was really fast, too - the show is not introducing things slowly. It kinda works, but it's very different from the more determined pacing of its Superhero Time partner. I expect it will slow down after this, but the first episode really didn't give you any time to catch your breath.

But yeah, I really liked it. I have a lot of high hopes for this season now, although I do have to acknowledge that I thought the same about Kyoryuger at this point and we all know how that turned out. Fingers crossed, though, because this episode was a lot of fun.

tl;dr version: :thumb:

Wow, that is so true