While I'm not going to say any of you are necessarily wrong, I also don't really agree either. I'm not sure what my opinion of Haruto is right now. Maybe him having a hobby would make him a better character, but then again you listed Decade as one of your examples so obviously that's not all there is to it.

But in any case I'm still enjoying Wizard, & probably will continue to enjoy it unless he ends having a team-up with Decade or something.

Cho iine. SAIKOU~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!

I just realised both Gobusters and Wizard have a thread discussing that something is wrong with them. Is modern Toku really that bad?

No. I think, honestly, it's Toei. They made such great seasons with Gokaiger and Fourze that anything following them was going to do poorly. Or they decided after those seasons just to take a vacation.

Actually, it's quite the opposite. It's very clear that Gobusters and Wizard are both attempts to do something different. With Gobus they were afraid to take the extra steps outside the comfort zone and it became tedious, and with Wizard every new idea they come up with is countered by the same old KR plot lines that they've used over and over before.

I kinda want this Chinese Sentai to be a hit in Japan? Why? Because competition yields innovation.

For once we agree. Competition is a good thing.

Kind of. While it's almost always been about trying to sell toys, it's starting to become too much to where the toy gimmicks are hindering the shows. With Sentai, every zord has to clusterfuck now and that makes for awful mecha battles (and designs). With Riders, every belt has to have a interactive gimmick that has to grid fights to a halt just to use. Plus, they don't get to go as dark as they use to.

There's a reason I love 90's Sentai and there it is. The toys didn't get in the way of the shows and they could be dark when needed.

I think it's more that there's just only so many writers working on this stuff and some are clearly better than others. Good writer = good season.

Maybe it's just all been relatively low key, but I don't think there's been an independent Toku show for awhile. Maybe TakaraTomy will polish off that idea for Tomica Hero Rescue Aqua... Nah, they're making too much money off of Microns to make Toku.

Quite the contrary, Wizard is a pretty good show. It just has the misfortune of having a really bland - and bland probably isn't the right word, I'd actually probably say "shallow" - cast of characters. This might be less noticeable if we weren't coming off of OOO and Fourze, both of which had incredible casts of likable and engaging characters. So far Shunpei is the only character on Wizard with a lot of depth, but he's also the annoying hyperactive manchild archetype that I want to bludgeon to death with a shovel.

This may be true, but you're talking about the Chinese. :D