I managed to finish Kakuranger last night and started up on watching Ohranger.

I'm still in the process of watching Ohranger. 34 episodes down, 14 to go.

Finished with Ohranger a few days ago and finished Carranger just last night. I'm now watching Megaranger.

I am now up to episode 37 of Megaranger and with it, I am now officially caught up from where I left the last time I watched this series several years ago via YouTube. I almost forgot on how much I really ended up loving this Sentai series and a lot of what I've seen thus far still holds up. Now, it's onward to new territory, at least with me, with its final 15 episodes.

Managed to finish Megaranger today and man, what a journey. As of now, it's easily one of my favorite Sentai series of all time and I highly recommended it to anyone wanting to get into the Super Sentai franchise for the first time.

On another note, I'm up to episode 15 of my (two-thirds) re-watch of Gingaman.

I am now done with my two-thirds re-watch of Gingaman. :D

And like with Kakuranger and Megaranger before it, I will be watching its remaining episodes for the first time. After this, it's onward to watching GoGoFive.

Started watching Timeranger today as well as finished watching GoGoFive last night. I have been making a lot on my Sentai viewings as of late. It's almost hard to believe that I started getting back to watching Super Sentai since last month starting with revisiting Jetman.

Been going through Flashman for the past few days. It's such an enjoyable show so far, even though some of the special effects have aged pretty badly.

Finished Timeranger last night and it's now one of my favorite Sentai series along with Megaranger, Jetman, and Dairanger with Kakuranger, Carranger, and GoGoFive following closely behind, at least among the Sentai shows I've watched in their entirety so far. I also started watching Gaoranger today.

Currently watching the first episode of Akibaranger.

Enjoy it, you’re in for a ride.

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Wonder how Noubo would react to the Lupinrangers :lol

First season was, okay, I guess. I've seen some other shows using similar plotlines of saving Akihabara using pop culture references and fiction blending to reality and I think they did it better than this. As a fan not familiar with majority of the old Super Sentai, a lot of the references or trivia are lost on me beyond the regular tropes of Super Sentai that I've been familiar with from the ones I saw.

I just finished watching Gaoranger today and it was.....................okay. I'm honestly more partial towards its Power Rangers counterpart for some reason and it's not just due to the crossover episodes.

Anyway, I think I might take a bit of break from Super Sentai watching for a bit mainly due to going on vacation with my family on a cruise starting next Saturday and won't be back until September 7th. After this, I will start watching Hurricanger which is the last of the US-released Sentai series, at least for now.

The "Powerful Rangers" episode was insultingly awful.

I remember watching Akibaranger and quitting after... I think episode 3? Just was not my thing.

After I've finished Ryuki I think I'll give Heisei Rider a break because that'll have been me watched all of them except Faiz and Blade. And I'll get around to them eventually, but for now... I'm curious if you guys would recommend Timeranger and Shinkenger? Those are two of the sentai I'm most interested in (the ones I've already watched are Gokaiger and everything afterward).

I have to imagine every Sentai has both fans and also people who aren't too fond of it.

Me personally, Shinkenger (I recall a typical fan-favourite too) is a particularly good series when it comes to interpersonal relationships and dramas between the cast, and Timeranger I remember is very dramatic compared to other series. I mean they're both Sentais so these qualities won't be present all the time, but those are what I think are their unique traits.

I still haven't gotten around to Timeranger, but from one Kobayashi fan to another, Shinkenger is amazing. The big thing going against it is a relatively dull set of villains (for the most part), but when you combine a writer who does human drama extremely well with one of the most talented casts of actors in Sentai history, you probably won't find yourself caring too much. It's also seriously stylish when it comes to the action.

Can confirm, Shinkenger is a fan favourite for a reason. I can only back up everyone else when I say it's a stylish series with a great cast, with some top tier writing behind it.

Damn, I was gonna do Timeranger first and then Shinkenger at some point but you guys are making me consider changing my order :p

While I can't fairly judge on Shinkenger since I've only seen the first 4-6 episodes, I do highly recommend Timeranger since I watched the series in its entirety not too long ago.

Perhaps some nice thinking music would help you to mull over such an important decision?


I know that was a cheap shot, but I forgot to mention in my last post how above average Shinkenger's soundtrack is too.

I just finished watching all the Neo-Saban era Power Rangers. What a chore. (Super) Samurai had decent writing for the most part but Bulk and Spike were out of place and the acting was horrendous. I give it a C-.

Megaforce had decent acting from the core rangers but the writing suffered from a rushed story to squeeze in two different seasons of Super Sentai into just 40 episodes. I give it a D-.

Super Megaforce was a complete waste of a great opportunity, not to mention the complete ignoring of the pirate ascetic and inclusion of non-PR Sentai suits without explanation. The Legendary War can be explained as simply anti-climatic. I give it an F.

Dino (Super) Charge has decent acting and better story, but little character development (as expected from PR at this point) and had a lackluster ending. But I will give it a B- for originality and divorced of the MMPR formula for the most part.

(Super) Ninja Steel had some decent tie-ins to past seasons, and the core team and allies are likable. The story isn't even terrible. But Monty and Victor. What was that? What was will all the fart jokes? And why go back to the MMPR formula? If it wasn't for those flaws this season would get a B but I have no choice but to give it a D because now I can only associate that season with farts.

I have been watching Giant Savers on YouTube. I've only seen one episode but I like what I see so far. But the suits are a little too glossy imo. I'll probably re-watch Jetman too and then watch Dairanger after that.

Akibaranger season 2 had stronger writing than the 1st season and I liked how the meta world of Super Sentai was more affected here, but in doing that it made me wish the whole series was like this to make the franchise have real relevance instead of throwing random trivia references in unrelated situations. I still stand by my opinion on Powerful Rangers episode because that was the worst episode in the entire season. Dino Thunder's take on the Sentai had more respect than that episode.

I ended up watching Hurricaneger before my upcoming vacation after all and I'm already up to the end of episode 37. If I'm lucky, I might finish this series beforehand and start watching Abaranger once I come back from it.

Power Rangers Time Force and Time Ranger aren't too different, so basically, if you have watched Time Force, I would consider watching Time Ranger by curiosity.

I'm not too much into sentais though.
Shinkenger is pretty good also.

( Just finished watching Jetman)

I'm currently up to episode 35 of Abaranger. I should be able to finish it sometime early next week at the latest.

I'm halfway into Shinkenger, and I've been pleasantly surprised at just how good parts of it are. The characters aren't as strong as I might like, but they're all still very likeable; and the production quality is -extremely- high.

On a somewhat separate note, Decade: World of Shinkenger holds up even better than I remember it

Wait, did we actually talk you out of watching Timeranger? Shinkenger's great, but I'd feel kinda bad if you were watching it out of peer pressure. :lol

I'd also feel bad saying that's still the best Sentai/Rider crossover, if it weren't, you know, true.

Another friend of mine was interested in watching it, so I'm gonna stream it with her at some time! ... just, y'know, when we've both finished binging the series we're going through now.


And that's not true. World of Shinkenger is fantastic; but I really liked that one time the Zyurangers, Kibaranger and Black RX teamed up. They even had the Kakuranger mechs, that was wild!

Shinkenger... was really, really good! It had a rough start for me and there's certain things I still have misgivings about (too many lessons were way, way too needlessly harsh and naive), but as a whole I honestly enjoyed this season. The final stretch in particular has all the makings of a classic Kobayashi story; she just has to break every single main character she makes -- she can't help herself!

Talking of the final stretch, Kaoru Shiba to me is a great example of how well this writer does characters. It's barely a few episodes but you get a really good feel for what she's like and parallels are expertly drawn between her and Takeru. It's essentially a condensed version of a season-long arc and it just brings everything together so well and... gah, this last part! It's, so good! I even liked the little subtle distance between Kaoru and Genta going on; she doesn't even involve any of his mecha (aside from Ha-Oh) until they actually team up! That's great! It works!

My thoughts are all over the place right now but it was just such a good final 6 or so episodes that tied everything I liked about this series together. Just a shame that Princess Shinken Red and Shinken Brown didn't get to join in the final battle; they earned that honestly.




(also, Shitari surviving was literally just set-up for the Goseiger movie, wasn't it?)

No need to spoil, and I don't know if you have seen Gokaiger yet!

Will leave it at this: Enjoy!

Gokaiger was my first toku! Don't worry, I know Shitari's fate well enough. Juuuuust wondering if he would have died if it wasn't for the eventual crossover movie :p

An ambiguous fate probably if one ignores the crossover! Shitari's counterpart could probably still comeback as Saban/Hasbro have yet to adapt that movie!

Sorry, I don't know if bumping a thread is frowned upon but I've now got back to two shows where I just roughly tried to guess what the last episode I saw as. I actually originally watched Ninninger without subtitles because I went through a weird phase of doing that from 2014-2016(I'm now also not using torrents at the moment which I might regret one day!) so I've got back to that now and I also decided to get back to Gaoranger because I want to try and finish something before Dekaranger and I was strangely inspired to watch it after Jahoso happened to do a live stream of it back in 2013! When I finish Gao I might try something like Abaranger,Timeranger or Megaranger, I would love to finish a Japanese toku from the 90s.

Gaoranger 7-8

For me I like the Gaorangers so far a lot more than most of the Wild Force Rangers. It's strange, I wouldn't think I would be that big on either version of this show but somehow the overall package makes Gaoranger a surprisingly fun show to watch. The plot of Kakeru losing his memory is pretty cool and makes more sense here than with Cole a lot later in Wild Force IMO. I don't think Gaoranger is up there with the best but it's pleasant enough.

Ninninger 27-28

The Ninja Assassin scene when the guy goes ''Ninja, ninja, ninja'' keeps coming into my head when I think of ninja sentai,haha. I don't know what to say about Kinji's hunting the Youkai episode other than it was cool, I suppose. As for Ninninger episode 28, I can't believe the plot wasn't used for Ninja Steel(sarcasm)! Yeah, this was probably too wacky to be honest. It also seems a bit weird how the shuriken fits perfectly in Takaharu's helmet, there's no hole when it's gone or anything!

Just started Carranger. Liking it so far.

Really glad Shout Factory has these Sentai dvd collections, going to try and pick up them all.

I love what I've seen of Carranger, I think I would prefer it to Power Rangers Turbo! I am still watching Gaoranger and Ninninger but I kind of ran out of things to say so I stopped doing an update for each episode!

Lately I've been remembering all over again how much I love Ninninger, and because I can be super impulsive this way, I decided that's literally all the reason I need to finally dig into at least one of the other two ninja Sentai out there. I mean, while on I'm a ninja kick, anyway, right?

So then...

Kakuranger 1-3:

This was a perfectly entertaining set of episodes, but I'm off to a bad start when it comes to posting about my viewing experience, because it's hard to process what I even just watched when I have absolutely no clue what's going on.

The basics are pretty simple. A bunch of Yokai sealed by a bunch of ninjas got released, so their modern-day descendants get together to go show em' who's boss. Like, that's the premise. The problem is this show's style is so extraordinarily unique, and I feel like the heavy pop-culture theming is mostly flying over my head without proper context. I can recognize what I'm literally seeing, it's just that I rarely know what Kakuranger is actually trying to convey. The narrator in this show is like if Aruto from Kamen Rider Zero-One got old, went senile, lost all his charisma, and then decided to occasionally hijack a Sentai show to make largely unneeded observations about completely self-explanatory things. I'm not gonna lie, he's already getting on my bad side. These episodes don't even run over twenty minutes, who's got time for this?!

Pretending for a second this is just a regular Sentai, though, it's doing everything about right. It's always interesting when they decide to not have the whole team together right away, and while I can't tell you much about their personalities at the moment, I do like that everyone seems to hate each other a bit at the moment. That generally makes for good character development later down the line, so I'm looking forward to that.

The action was fine, too, but I mean, I probably don't have to explain to anyone that the Kakurangers just are cool. Their suits are aggressively efficient in design and their robot is literally a fortress. What's not to love?

Kakuranger is kind of weird at first. It settles down into something more stable relatively quickly. The narrator is eventually dropped about halfway through the series.