Look at me commenting so much when I haven't even watched a minute of it. :lol

I suspect this theme might actually work if it was developed throughout the show instead of being tacked on at the end. Perhaps even make a moral or lesson out of it, like if evil can never be vanquished, it is still our moral duty to challenge it whenever it appears or despite being ever-present, good can never defeat evil. Seems like the main problem people have is its poor execution.

I actually didn't mind that (outside of the crappy make-up). Besides, you left out the part about the look of horror on the original Dairangers' faces when they realize their grandkids just basically laid out the welcome mat for Daijinryuu to come back and destroy the Earth. I actually thought that was a clever twist.

As for the clay doll thing... meh, it was still better than the mess that is Faiz's ending.

Really? One of the insert songs is the freaking Imperial March.

Man, not even looking at spoilers...Eh, probably can't be worse than Digimon Adventure 02's ending.

I might consider this worse than that, but not by much.

I suddenly want a Sentai that steals the A-Team theme. What? It worked for Fullmetal Panic! :p

Considering 02 ended by beating the bad guy with happy thoughts and then the resolution...Damn.

Except Dairanger didn't beat anyone. The Dairangers did nothing, not even a Care Bear stare in their finale. What does happen is the villains just turned to clay all by themselves for no reason.

Eitherway, they are both awful endings.

Which is funny because Shouji is my least favorite of the rangers in that show. For me, the best blue ranger is the kid from Maskman and AbareBlue.

No, you watch DaiRanger to see one of the best Sentais ever, if not the best.

Don't listen to those who hate on Dai just because of its ending. Yes, I agree, the ending is a cop out, but I went through that two days ago about how Japanese writers cannot write an ending for ****. The problem with DaiRanger's ending is that it is open ended. I was really thrown off by it the first time I watched it, but the more I rewatched the show (twice subbed and 23 times raw) the more I saw how good the ending was. It isn't perfect, but it makes sense even if it does feel like a cop out. Mostly, it is Kaku's speech that makes the ending good. However, there are still so many great story arcs, interesting and new ideas and concepts, epic battles, incredible choreography, and amazing costume and set designs that make the show truly amazing to watch.

As I have said, it is my favorite Sentai series, my favorite Toku series of all time, and the only Sentai show that comes close to even touching it is KakuRanger. Not everyone likes it though, but the great thing about Sentai is that no matter who you are, or what your tastes are, Sentai is so diverse that you are going to find a series that truly fits what you love and it will become your favorite show. Sometimes you might find that show in a short time, sometimes you might find it after you watch half of the shows.

For me, DaiRanger was the third Sentai series I saw (Gao was the first followed by Hurricanger) and I watched 20 episodes in one sitting the first day I started watching it as I could not put it down. It became my favorite series from that moment on and I have not found anything to top it since. Now others have been ousted from my top 5 several times once I saw KakuRanger, CarRanger, and GekiRanger.

Anyway, I think the thing about DaiRanger in why some love it, some hate it, is Toei was trying to do something different. From what I have read over the years, Zyu-Kaku were experiments to do something different with Sentai once the head writer retired after Fiveman. That is also why those three stand out to me as some of the best three years of Sentai ever (Zyu is in my top 10). In fact, I actually think everything from Jetman through TimeRanger are great. It wasn't until GaoRanger when things started to get a little too goofy and they started piling mecha on top of mecha just to increase toy sales.

But at least he was memorable.

Yeah, you do. :cool:

Also, episode 37 of Zyuranger. In which we get a recap of mech combinations because the script was running a little short.

I think all of the DaiRangers are memorable actually. I think Kazu is the best yellow ranger ever. Honestly though, unless it is a three ranger team, usually I have not seen that much development for any yellow ranger.

Oh hell no. Kazu is one of the worst yellows ever. His entire characterr is that he knows "drunken fist," which he only used in one episode. He's not even that good at drunken fist. Best drunken fist is Remi/Five Yellow. Drunken fist aside, you have Raita, Luka, Jasmine, and Domon who are all better yellows.

That's why someone needs to sub Kakuranger!

This is one of those rare statements most everyone will agree on around here. Almost worries me.

I guess I'm just bad at picking series, since my top 5 consists of Gekiranger.
Honestly, the reason why I'm picking series like Bouken and Go-On as opposed to Jet or Dai is based on my weariness of these much earlier series. I understand that not all the series are going to be as horribly boring as Sun Vulcan, but it's just a fear, I guess, which is why I'm sticking to series from 05 onward, right now...

I hope someone subs Kakuranger soon. It has to make more sense than season 03 of MMPR, it just has to.

The current rumor is that it'll be released in a complete batch at the end of the year.
Which kinda sucks, considering it's only, you know, January :I

As for making more sense, considering it's not being condensed into 10 episodes, I think we're good :lol

Season 3 was only ten episodes? I remember more horror than that. Then alot of the episodes were them as kids for some reason.

Eh. Season 3 is a lot longer (33 episodes), but it's so forgettable I tend to consider Alien Rangers Season 3 and lump the actual Season 3 with Season 2 :lol

I think Alien is part of season 03. Just lump all the suck together so it doesn't touch Zeo.

Eh. The changed Theme Song is enough reason to make me think it's separate.

Urgh, fuck 02 with a rubber hose. I literally stopped my rewatch of it because it is such a chore.

Don't remind me, I need more Ninjaman after Gokaiger. :(

Anyways, I finished Gokaiger yesterday. Fucking awesome show. Cannot wait for Gokaiger vs Gobusters, if only for more Jeaulishitto. :lol

The only bad thing? Realizing after watching Gokaiger vs Gavan that no one has and probably will ever sub a full Gavan TV show. :(

Probably gonna hit up either Go-Onger or Jetman next, after I've watched Garo and Kamen Rider Ryuki.

Got to agree with Dr. Kain about 2 things.

1. Akira (Blue Mask) was a pretty good blue and Yukito (Abare Blue) was an iteresting character though he's the serious one of the Abare Trio.

2. Dairanger is a good series. Well I guess its a matter of preference, but for me I love Dairanger from beginning to the much maligned ending. I just enjoyed the show immensely and wasn't bored at all. To me the ending made sense and even the 50 years after made sense.

I gotta disagree there. From a story point of view, I thought Season 3 was well done. It had continuous plots going through the season and it was pretty much the season where the villains managed to win by having a back up plan to go with a back up plan with another back up plan.

I mean, Rito comes down, destroys the Thunderzords, the rangers come back at him with new powers. So what does Zedd do? Steal the pink power coin and Falconzord and use his grasp over it to get the rangers to pilot his new zords (and come on, I drool at the scene when Zedd enters the Command Center, as it is so awesome not to mention his battle against Tommy). The rangers outwit him, get the coin back and in comes Mastervile, who helps them nearly destroy the rangers again by turning them into children. The Alien Rangers come in and save the day, so Zedd responds by destroying the power coins and then the Command Center.

I'd try some of the older shows. Stuff from the 90s (Jetman, Dairanger) is not going to be the same as a show from the early 80s.

Don't let Sun Vulcan color your opinion of the other early shows Matrixbeast. Its like universally recognized that Sun Vulcan is less interesting than watching grass grow.

I know significant events occur in S3, I just felt that it was slogging through events (Granted, part of this comes from not having seen all of Season 3 in well over a decade).

Yeah...

It's season 3. First it was bad, then it was bad with fish people.

Gekiranger episode 1. Very first thought: **** you TV-Nihon! Learn how to ****ing translate! I tried letting you have the benfit of the doubt, but regretted it within 5 mins. Hikari Senshi's subs aren't much better as they over translate (and calling Rio "Leo" is just wrong), but at least it's translated. I can hear Japanese, but I will never understand a sentence that's left half untranslated.


Translation (or lack there of) aside, I enjoyed it. It was a solid first episode. There's not much to say about it. Just wish I had better options on the subs.

Sorry, but I just can't stand it when a show doesn't have a god damn resolution. I don't care how good a show is until the end, because an ending can make or break a show for me. And the sad thing is, I don't ask much at all in an ending. All I ask for is that something changes so that the last 40-something episodes meant something in the long run, and weren't a relative waste of time.

If the ride is fun enough I don't mind a lackluster destination. See also: Ryuki.

I liked Ryuki's ending, because beating the bad guy, as vaguely as it may have been, makes the ending worthwhile for me.

To be entirely fair, Jan's "nikiniki" and "zowazowa" are just onomatopoeia and not real words.
But the lack of translation for things like the Ringi transformation and the energy moves is kind of noticeable.

Yeah. In all honesty, I have a hard time sitting through the Sentai series before Bioman, and even Bioman is not that great.

I made it through 11 episodes of JakQ before I stopped, 1 episode of Sun Vulcan, 1 episode of Goggle 5, and 4 episodes of Dynaman (and I own all of Dynaman). It isn't because of all them are terrible really, but because they take forever to end. I feel like it takes 45 minutes to complete an episode (and I highly enjoy the original Kamen Rider series).

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Ryuki's ending is worse since it just wipes out everything that happened over the course of the series as if it never happened. They didn't beat the bad guy, Shiro just gave up because Yui killed herself so he made it where they never lived through the fire. Ren did not beat Odin at all and Shiro never actually fought anyone to be beaten.

As for the ending to DaiRanger, it might all be about timing of when I saw it. I did not hate open endings as much then as I do not because I had not seen 15 anime series that did it and many Toku series either at that time. I think I had only seen one that pulled a cop out ending, if that. It was not until after DaiRanger that I saw the endings to Big O, Evangelion, RahXephon, Gilgamesh, DekaRanger, and Wolf's Rain that I started to detest those type endings.

And it isn't like DaiRanger's ending did not fit. You are talking about a war that has gone on for centuries. It wouldn't just stop there because Shadam was defeated.

Episode 38 of Zyuranger; the epic dress-up battle between Lami and Mei. Man, this show is weird. I especially liked how they still tried to have a kid of the week arc with some character that was only in three short scenes. The second time she showed up (about 10-12 minutes after first appearing) you could practically hear her shouting "Wait, this episode was supposed to be about me!" :lol

Speaking of ZyuRanger, I just watched the first 10 episodes from GUIS. I forget how much I love this show until I always rewatch it. I also forget how bad the child acting is until I watch rewatch it. :D Yes, it's a double standard, but I'll still take Zyu over 90% of what has come out since GaoRanger.

As for watching it subbed, most of it has been pretty much the same as I got by watching it raw. It was nice to actually know what DoraSphinx's riddles are though, as I never understood what he was asking (although, a few of them still do not make sense, such as the Tug of War one) and some of them are actually very intelligent questions. I might have to ask some of them to my students if the occasion ever rises. :) However, I never caught that the monkey people were part of Daizyujin's garden. I understood they were cursed, but that portion was new to me and now it makes sense.

Gekiranger 2 and 3. I don't dislike Jan, but he gets annoying fast. He acts like a 2 year old most of the time. I;ll give them credit for giving him the back story to explain these actions, but that doesn't make it any less annoying.

The weakest part of the show is the the same problem Jungle Fury had: that ****ing fly that won't shut the hell up during the awesome mecha battle. He's like the anti-Doggie. Instead of being one of the most awesome characters in both properties, he's one of the worst characters in both.

Speaking of mecha battles, I'm aware I'm in the minority here, but I love Geki/JF's Megazord designs and battles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Megazord designs are overly simple, I don't care because the guy in the suit can MOVE. I am so sick of Megazords that move like bricks on rollerskates. GekiTouja needs more love.

Nothing else to really comment on yet. I'm sutre I'll have more to say once I complete the vemom dudes' arc. I remember enjoying that in JF, so I'm sure it will be good here too.

I grew to love Bae. Primarily because during the middle of the series the mech battles were tacked on to an episode that didn't really facilitate them.
As for GekiTouja, I have a new found love for him, too, for the same reasons. Just watching a mech do more than lumber forward and swing it's titan sword/fire it's plasma cannon is a breath of fresh air. It's like the Lightning Mode from Ninja Storm, but permanent. It's great (And the design has grown on me too. While I won't be buying the DX toy for it's painfully simple combination, I am looking for the Retrofire and intend on getting the SRC because it's design is lovely.

Oh, and I think you'll enjoy the Deadly Venoms arc, I did. Granted, I loved the concept of the 5 Deadly Venoms before I even saw Geki :p

Don't forget two of the biggest open ending suspects,Cowboy Bebop and Fullmetal Alchemist.

See I find Gekitouja to be pretty plain. I don't outright hate it but it definitely is not a perfect design. And the simplicity of it doesn't translate all that well to toy form either. However I'd buy the shit out of it at the right price. :lol

GekiTouja being plain fits perfectly with the theme the rangers set.
I fully admit it's design isn't perfect, but I did grow to love it for what it is. However, I will argue about it's design being transferred to a toy. I think it looks lovely as a toy, and there was more than one occasion where I was tempted to buy the Jungle Pride figure. For me, the terribly simple combination is where I drew the line, but with the advent of the SRC and Retrofire figures, I have an alternative to better match the show.

See, I really like the gekiranger mech. To me it's simple yet effective. What I don't like is the price the set fetches on eBay (or more what people think its worth) and how many spare animals I'll lying around thanks to the way BOA distributed it. Still, I'd love to own GekiRinTojah... So my search will continue.