Oddly, RPM was a season I didn't focus too hard on at the time of its release because of my love for Sentai! I had just gotten out of high school and saw the first and maybe second episode after surgery and didn't see any need to give it a harder shake. I have since learned that I was wrong for assuming that Disney's swan song was going to be terrible because of the changes it made to Go-Onger!

Ever since Saban started again with Samurai, I have been looking at the episodes as close as possible, though I was just getting back to it with Samurai, and I didn't always catch every episode.

By Megaforce, virtually every episode on its original airdate (though some exceptions exist and I tend to record them just in case). That hasn't always been easy, and at times it has been painful - my grandmother passed the same day as an episode of Super Ninja Steel!

Even if the season is largely garbage, I keep at it. Remember, Star Trek: TNG wasn't all that good until a couple of seasons in!

Although I have feared I may be turning into a Sentai snob I do try and give credit where credit is due, for example I do prefer some like RPM to their original Sentai but I think the UK should be able to make and show it's own Sentai dubs if there's a particularly better Japanese version. Maybe the UK would have never shown Sentai or maybe if Power Rangers hadn't come along it would have eventually, who knows.

A micronauts-like PR season would be awesome.

Yeah I prefer Sentai as it seems to be aimed at an older audience. I mean there's blood and murder and (limited) sexuality, whereas from what I've seen of MMPR it's seemingly aimed at younger children. (my introduction to Sentai was Akibaranger so I sort of came to it from an odd direction. But I've seen a few more Sentai series since Akibaranger and I definitely enjoy it.)

But RPM was cheap and I was curious about the whole 'army of robots' thing, so I watched the first episode which quickly turned into about 5 episodes. And I'm looking forward to seeing how the story goes.

It's definitely a darker PRangers than I was expecting, but that's why I'm liking it too.

Also the fights have been really good. I really like acrobatic fights with lots of somersaults and kicks and flying through the air types of stunts. And this has all that.

PR gets a bad rep due to MMPR being very kid-driven, nothing wrong with that because it's tje 90s, but as a result it made the franchise into a joke.

Also Koichi Sakamoto directed the action scenes for the majority of the franchise, although be warned that the explosions are extremely exaggreated.

I'm not the biggest PR fan because most of the PR shows that I have seen are pretty bad for the most part and I prefer Sentai because that's how the show was originally made. Same goes with Macross and Robotech. I still respect PR for getting a new generation into Toku and being a part of many people's childhoods (including mine).

I do think RPM is a pretty good show, but some fans do over wank it at times.

If Saban left as a consultant, Hasbro will have enough creative freedom in the franchise.

that's kind of a trope of the genre though really.

Lots of things exploding.

Where do combustible bad guys come from? Seems like a design flaw. hahaha

Japan's standers for kids are different from the US. For example, Shonen anime like My Hero Academia, One Piece, Dragon Ball Super, Black Clover, etc. are for kids in Japan, but they are rated 13+ in the US. Same with Toku seeing that Gridman (1994) is rated TV-14 when the show is pretty much for kids.

I think they allow more violence and mature themes in their kids shows probably because Japan gives their kids much more of the benefit of the doubt compare to the US.

yeah I think the US coddles its kids way too much.

It leaves many of them unprepared for adulthood.

..but... ..yeah anyway.

Toku!!

..back to colorful superheros...