I'm with you. I've always found Gaim to be good but overrated and Build didn't stick in my longterm memory for very long.

Personally I find Build to be a near-perfect series. Heck, I guess another unpopular opinion on my part is that it's the best series of the Neo-Heisei era.

Strong characters, a unique use of filming locations to give the world a more stand-out feel, an engaging story that challenged the characters involved, an extremely memorable villain whose arc spanned back to episode 1 without anyone realizing, amazingly emotional moments that still stick and stand out to this day, a high-stakes climax with an ending that you can't even call a total victory...I'll sing Build's praises all day.

Ex-Aid and OOO may be my favorite riders, but Build's my go-to recommendation any time someone's interested in getting into Kamen Rider.

Huh that weird I often hear Build one of the best series and also hear people often reccomending it for people. I don't see people criticising Build as much as other show to be honest.

I just don’t find Gaim very good. Structurally it’s well made, and while watching it it is the sort of series that draws you in and makes you want to see where it’s going; but ultimately it just lacks any depth or interesting characteristisation. It’s the sort of series I liked when I was watching it but as time went on I realised there was less and less I actually found interesting or enjoyable. Kind of the same deal with Ex-Aid but to a much lesser degree.

I totally agree with this opinion. Gaim is my least favorite season of Heisei that I've watched so far, which is 19/20. My major problem with it is that most of the characters are so depraved beyond my ability to care what happens to them. At least Ryuki had nice guy Riders like Shinji and Tezuka, and eventually Ren, but Gaim only has Zack. The first 9 episodes are a chore to get through, taking way too long to provide exposition on the setting and characters instead of actually progressing the plot. The content written by Haganeya is even worse and contains a lot of OOC behavior and random nonsensical things happening.

With EX-Aid, I genuinely thought the first 23 episodes concluding with the Genm X arc were very good and the show only started to get messy once the Kamen Rider Chronicle arc started, similar to the competition arc in Zero One, although the latter had a better recovery, rising from the ashes like a falcon! EX-Aid kind of just peaked at 23 and everything after that was just okay. My favorite episode personally though is always going to be 19 where Brave Level 50 debuts against Gatton!

I actually like the little graphics that TV-N adds to their subs. It adds a layer of fun that I kinda wish more subs had.

I see so many people give TV-N a hard time due to how they translate some stuff but not others. That's gotten much better over time for sure, but even then I still think their subs are the best to fall onto for toku since the flare they add to the graphics adds to the big moments and transformation scenes imo.

To quote one guy on Twitter, most of the thing people hold against TV-Nihon are a) things from 15 years ago and b) things that other subbing groups do.

I don't like flashy sub-titles and TVN not always translating things can be annoying. I like when people subtitle things professionally because it's less annoying to sit through. If you are someone who has never seen anything from Japan before and know nothing about their culture, some untranslated words can be off-putting for someone.

Well, it's really well-liked by most of the fandom. And I can certainly see why. It had a fun gimmick, amazing worldbuilding, some of the tightest characters in the franchise, and a neat way of tying everything together (even if some things would have been better if they had not been answered).

I didn't watch much of Build, and admit to skipping around here and there (at most watching around 23-ish episodes), using reviews and forum reactions to help fill in the blanks.

Personally, it wasn't to my liking during the last third of the show (29-49), due to (among character arcs, lore retcons, a final form with an underutilized power, and a drawn-out movie tie in) the main antagonist.

He just felt too cocky and aimless, and was, basically, a Dragon Ball Z villain. He's got his fans- I for one love his monster/true design- but as a character and villain, he falls flat for me. The V-Cinemas didn't help him, either.

Doesn't this also can be applied to Faiz?

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight was boring as sin

Power Rangers Samurai improved upon the source material

Gokaiger is mediocre at best

Car Ranger was crap

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight wasn't all that, to be fair. I did tolerate it at the time but I think you could say it was too grimdark in it's desperateness to be taken seriously. I don't like Power Rangers Samurai as much as Shinkenger but I suppose the only things it did that were particularly bad were bringing back Go Go Power Rangers (Maybe another unpopular opinion but I do pretty much hate that song, it's unoriginal and not good for tokusatsu's reputation!) and it did just put me off a bit that they didn't have an Asian red ranger considering, you know, they're samurai! Other than that it's not my least favourite to be fair. Gokaiger I do have high but it still actually struggles to top my list of favourite sentai, I've finished Liveman now and Boukenger still seems pretty hard to beat for me even in 2020! Carranger I did at least prefer to Go-Onger, that just seemed to be a watered down version but I can see why people don't find it that funny considering Japanese humour can be hard to understand sometimes and I am used to Britain!

That's an interesting point. It's true that a large number of depraved characters is present in both my favorite and least favorite Rider shows. So why is that? Well I think the difference is character development.

In Gaim, most of the characters at the start have an ambiguous morality. As the plot progresses, they commit some pretty terrible acts, especially Sid and Mitsuzane who is more depraved than Kusaka. The show gives no backstory (excluding V-Cinema) for why they behave this way and makes no attempt to redeem their actions. Kaito goes from a typical brooding antihero to a genocidal final villain. Good characters turn bad and bad characters turn worse. Zack is the exception but compared to the competition, he's too weak to actually make a difference. It's a very plot-driven show. There's no room to explore the characters as they only do whatever the plot needs them to, even if it's OOC. This is most apparent in episodes written by Haganeya who is incompetent.

In Faiz, most of the characters are clearly a**holes, except for Kiba and especially Keitarou. However, they have backstory to explain their behavior and a big part of Takumi's development is learning to open up to people and be more like Kiba. He's also aware he's an a**hole which is why he does his best not to screw up people's lives. Kaido has a similar development, going from a selfish man to someone who would sacrifice himself to save humanity. The character of the main 6 with the highest kill count is Yuka and yet she has arguably the most sympathetic backstory and is constantly trying very hard to stop murdering people. It's harder to defend Kusaka, but at least he's committed to being a protector of humanity, mostly Mari though. The plot here is secondary to the characters as the plot is progressed naturally by characters doing things they would realistically do. It helps that the show is written entirely by Inoue who cares about the characters.

In conclusion, Faiz uses depravity to enrich the characters by giving them flaws to overcome and become more heroic towards the end, while Gaim uses it to degrade them and is pretentious in its attempt to appear more complex than it actually is.

Agreed. I think Antonio is 1000000x better than Genta.

Gotta disagree here. The last third of Faiz is entirely plot dependant, especially in the case of Yuji. Yes, he was shown seeking vengeance in the early episodes, but he had long since grown out of that mentality. So him deciding that all of humanity should perish solely because Yuka is gone was way OOC, and frankly only contributes to the various reasons I dislike the last act of Faiz overall.

This however, I totally agree with. Helps that Antonio is currently my favorite Gold Ranger.

I'll concede on the point of Kiba. His arc was admittedly a little rushed at the end, but at least he redeemed himself just before the final battle I guess. The movie gave a better reason for his betrayal but not so much for the redemption.

Yay! In Power Rangers, Antonio is probably tied with Levi as my favorite Gold Ranger as well. Intriguingly, they're both musicians.

I have to disagree here. I don't think anybody in Gaim necessarily acted out of character, rather the circumstances around them changed, so they adapted, for better or worse.

Kaito doesn't really believe in the traditional concept of "right" and "wrong", or at the very least, it's completely irrelevant to him. The only thing that matters is who is in charge. But he also resents this because it's what led to the death of his parents.

At first, Kaito acts in accordance with this philosophy because he has no other choice, it's either be the one on top or be oppressed by those in power. He also believes going out of your way to protect the weak makes you weaker. For Kaito, the only thing that matters is staying on top, though he has considerable respect for the people he considers to be strong (such as Kouta and Mai, in her own way).

But his end goal changes when the power to literally shape the world is within his grasp. Now he can make the world become one where the weak are protected by the strong, but to him, that requires tearing down what came before because the systems of oppression, power structures and hierarchies are already set into place. He always craved power, but what he craved that power for changed when he realized what was realistically within his means.

Micchy is another character whose goals largely remain the same throughout the series, but what changes is who those goals are meant to serve and the information made available to him.

Micchy wants to protect those he cares about. The problem is who he cares about (or at the very least, who is indisposable to him) shifts drastically throughout the course of the series. He's also pragmatic and selfish, so he's willing to let others die if it means protecting what's important to him personally. At first, it's his friends and his brother. Then it's just his brother, Kouta and Mai. Then it's just Mai. Micchy aligns with whomever is currently in power strictly for pragmatic reasons. If he can keep whoever he cares about at the time close, he can keep them out of the harm of whatever oppressive power he happens to be serving at the time (at least in his twisted mindis.


Micchy's biggest character flaw is that he genuinely believes he's the hero of the story that's keeping his friends out of harm's way, even if they don't necessarily need or want his protection. While Takatora believes that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, Micchy believes the needs of HIS few outweigh the needs of the many because of how warped his perception of heroism is.

You're welcome to disagree. It wouldn't be an unpopular opinion otherwise. :)

See, the stuff with Kaito's abusive father and the death of his mother is exactly the kind of backstory that should've been in the show, before he declared his intent to destroy humanity. Regardless of his noble intentions, the end doesn't justify the means. Making a better world isn't worth sacrificing all the innocent lives as well and I was hoping that all his experience up to that point would have led him to that conclusion.

Kouta's and Kaito's showdown seemed inevitable but it shouldn't have been the final battle. Kaito wasn't given a chance to redeem himself, like Kiba was. They could have teamed up to destroy Mitsuzane, as Takumi and Kiba did against the King. It's a shame for Kaito to have his philosophy challenged so many times only for him to become the final villain anyway. It's just not very consistent. Destroying humanity was Horobi's goal from the start and it was clear he was starting to doubt himself and lose faith in his philosophy. That's how I believe such an arc should be executed, with an antivillain reforming himself as hero.

That's not really the take I had at all. I think Mitsuzane is the most depraved character in KR and I cannot forgive him for all those terrible things he did to people who cared about him. You're right that his goals remain the same though. He's driven by greed and lust, pretending to be affable, manipulating his brother and "friends" to get whatever the hell he wants.

He has no redeeming qualities. The only reason the show redeemed him was cause the show needed him to and his sudden heroism in the finale, which was written by Haganeya, was OOC since he had nothing to gain, no incentive to start being a "good guy". When he joined in the speech in Movie War Full Throttle about the importance of free will, it was hollow. I believe he cares about free will, as long as he can manipulate it. I cannot wrap my head around the idea that until the Knuckle movie, this guy was supposed to be "the last hero of Zawame City". I just can't take that seriously.

That’s kind of against the whole point of his character though. He’s meant to be the type of character who actually holds onto his unhealthy beliefs, as opposed to the cliche of giving them up just because of a sappy speech. Which is a lot more realistic and fresh than, say, Ryusei basically deciding to embrace friendship just because Gentaro let himself get stabbed.

Based on what? This franchise is full of serial killers, sexual predators and wannabe omnicidal maniacs. The same series had a character nuking America.. Micchy’s worst vice is that he’s a control freak and that only really starts when he finds out the world is doomed, I’d probably go crazy if I found out the world was going to end.

No redeeming qualities? The due goes nuts so he can save the people he loves and his antagonism towards Kouta is very clearly a mid-season development, rather than something he’s been holding onto since forever. And also there’s this new concept. It’s called “forgiveness.” Everyone’s done something terrible, it’s a fact of life. But we don’t send everyone to the execution block over one bad deed. We give them a chance to make up for it, and if they are t willing to do it, THEN we condemn them.

Since I’m watching Zyuranger.

Burai’s story is dumb and makes no sense. He knows Geki was taken by the King and Queen of the Yamato tribe and when their father stages a coup and is killed in a duel by the King and demands Burai to avenge him and he takes it out on Geki, who he again knows had no say in being raised as royalty. Just....what? It would make more sense if Burai didn’t know Geki was his brother.

Also I’m amazed Burai was a break out character. He does almost nothing but show up and summon Dragon Caesar after he joins the team. Some episodes he doesn’t even bother to transform and some episodes he doesn’t appear in at all. The series treats him like a guest star at best (he’s not added to the opening titles but Dragon Caesar is lol) his death didn’t feel sad it just felt like “oh finally”’ Mighty Morphin is really dumb and preschool (in fact the show didn’t hit it’s stride until In Space tbh maybe Turbo’s second half if I’m being generous) but one thing I’ll give them is they handled the 6th member concept better (at first) Tommy hangs out with the other Rangers, he’s added to the main titles, Saban made the wise decision to move most of the Dragon Ranger-less episodes to before Tommy’s intro (there was one episode they didn’t but it featured Lamy who was introduced the same arc so there was no choice) and the Zyu2 stuff Toei film for Saban actually featuring
him participating in battles and not just a glorified mecha summoner! Of course Saban took the problem in the other direction when they made
him the glory hogging White Ranger..

If sappy speeches and the magic of friendship are cliches, then so be it. That's the kind of show I want to watch. Maybe we just have different tastes and writing styles. Fourze happens to be my third favorite Heisei Rider show after Faiz and Build. There definitely seems to be a thematic pattern with those 3.

Theft, blackmail, manipulation, extortion, abduction, murder, accomplice to murder, sexual harassment, attempted fratricide, betrayal.

His list of crimes is similar to Gai's, but without the abusive father backstory to explain his behavior and the adorable robot dog to explain his redemption.

Yeah, that's exactly my point. There are way too many depraved characters in Gaim and no real heroes for me to root for. I'll contrast with some other Rider shows to explain my point.

Ryuki has its own depraved characters but there are also real heroes like Shinji and Tezuka, and their philosophies are what gives Ren the development to become a hero. Antiheroes need heroes to keep them in check.

Faiz is generally considered a pretty dark show but the dark themes are useful to highlight the more powerful themes of hope and kindness. Even when faced with many tragedies, Takumi is still determined to protect dreams.

Build's major themes are love and peace as it stays a very lighthearted and comedic show despite all the very terrible things happening around it. Real heroes don't let their hearts get eroded by cynicism.

Fourze has a moral about friendship at the center, teaching that even people who are very different and have nothing in common on the surface can create a hardy bond founded on mutual respect.

Then there's Gaim....

Gaim is just dark for the sake of being dark without using it to teach any important morals and that's depressing as hell.

Forgiveness isn't really a new concept though. That's older than entertainment. Mitsuzane is guilty of way more than one bad deed and his redemption wasn't earned so his chance for my forgiveness has passed. He's crossed the line too many times for that.

Absolutely! And don't take this as me trying to say you are wrong or as an attempt to change your opinion. I just find Gaim to be a very interesting show to discuss because there's so many different plot elements and moving pieces going on that everybody really has their own feelings about it.



I agree, I would have liked to see it fleshed out more in the show proper. I think they touched upon it a little bit at the beginning of the series, but it definitely should have been the focus of at least one full episode.

But see, that's the very reason I like Gaim so much! In your typical Rider series, the secondary Rider joins the hero's side and whatever conflict previously existed between them shifts over to the Tertiary Riders of the series until they too join the "good" side.

But here, Kaito stands by his beliefs and there remains tension between him and Kouta up until the very end. He doesn't necessarily get a redemption arc, but I really don't think he needed one. His heart was ultimately in the right place, but he was so bitter and jaded from what happened to him that he truly felt the only way to create a world free of the oppression that tore his family apart was to destroy what came before. Kouta, on the other hand, learned how to use his powers to save the world that already existed and that came from his growth throughout the series, on top of having strong moral guidance from his sister.


And that's a valid take. That's why I like Mitsuzane as a villain so much. Some people see him as totally irredeemable. Others see him as a kid who got way in over his head and didn't have the emotional maturity or the moral guidance to deal with it in a healthy manner. He's a character that's extremely possessive of what's important to him, believes that he's the only one truly aware of what's going on (even though he ironically gets manipulated by just about every villain in the series) and that's what caused him to take the direction he took throughout the series.


I have to disagree here as well. A character without redeeming qualities to me is someone like Kamen Rider Ouja or Gold Drive, characters who thrive off of their ability to cause pain and suffering and have no shame about it. Mitsuzane, on the other hand, genuinely wants to be a hero, but much like Kamen Rider Tiger, has a completely backwards take on what heroism is.

Mitsuzane has always wanted to be a hero. Nearly every dirty deed he committed throughout the series was what he saw to be a heroic action. Killing Kouta was a move he decided to make because he believed Kouta would get everybody killed by giving them false hope. Siding with the Overlords was a move he made because he saw humanity's fight against them as futile, and believed serving them was the best way to protect lives (but he mostly only cared about Mai at this point). It's even apparent in his fight against Takatora, where he draws the completely wrong conclusion from Takatora's speech about nobless oblige, but nonetheless still believes he's acting heroically.

But all of those actions left him with nothing. His friends, Kouta, Mai and Takatora were all gone. The control he tried to maintain throughout the series gradually slipped away from him as he drove more people out of his life. He had to face the consequences of his actions harder than every other single character in the show. And even after everyone forgave him, he couldn't forgive himself for all the damage he caused.

Then Kouta, who he's always looked up to, gave him the words of encouragement he needed to finally strive towards becoming the hero he always wanted to be, but now having learned from his mistakes and growing from them.

I don't see this as being true at all.

Kouta is firmly a hero. Zack is definitely one after becoming Knuckle as well.

Takatora starts off as a anti-villain who only does the things he does when he sees no other viable option. The minute Kouta presents an alternative, Takatora is more than happy to go along with it because he ultimately doesn't want people to die.

Oren Pierre Alfonso starts off beating up on the Beat Riders, but only because he sees them as reckless delinquents using literal weapons to settle petty rivalries and to be fair, they kinda are. But he's a soldier and he's highly disciplined so it makes sense. He takes Jonouchi under his wing, and he actually ends up becoming a genuine (if slightly ineffective) hero himself.

The theme of the series is about power and what people choose to do with that power. So yeah, it's going to be a pretty dark series, because realistically speaking, most of the people that crave power don't have the best of intentions. But it also underlines just how heroic Kouta truly is because he never lets that power corrupt or twist his morals and yeah, he's the one that gets the ultimate power and saves the world at the end of the day. Gaim starts off as a deconstruction, but comes back right around to becoming a reconstruction. You have the idealistic hero archetype who ultimately successfully remains the idealistic hero, you have the typical Tsundere Shonen-rival character who actually follows through on his beliefs but ultimately still has a good heart behind him, you have the loyal best friend who actually isn't all that loyal but does learn from his mistakes and grows, and you have the Well-Intentioned Extremist villain who you'd initially think would stick to that extremist ideology, but actually wants to be proven wrong. The villains are so depraved, but that only makes characters look even better when they act genuinely heroic.

Of course, likewise you are entitled to your opinion and I'm glad you were able to enjoy Gaim. It tried a lot of controversial things which aren't going to work for everybody and I personally wasn't a fan. I think there was a lot of potential for a decent story here if the execution was a little different.

Yeah, I'm very interested in the idea of two people clashing with each other for the entire show. Most recently, there was Aruto and Horobi, and before that, Sougo and Geiz although their rivalry ended at the halfway point. Maybe I would have been okay with this if Kaito's morality was more consistent with his actions.

I liked the portrayal of Mitsuzane as a villain as well, he's a truly despicable person. But I feel like that character stops working when you try redeeming him. Instead, it's Kaito who gets killed without a redemption and I feel like their arcs were mixed up at the end.

So I do actually acknowledge Zack as the token hero and I was really rooting for him as an underdog to try and stop the pointless fighting between Riders, but he kind of just stays an underdog and gets left behind by all the stronger Riders and even gets his Driver destroyed. He's stronger than Kurokage but that's the extent of his power, at least until he got his own movie and Jimber Arms. It's like all the stuff that should've been in the show was in V-Cinemas written by Mouri.

Kouta on the other hand, he definitely has some heroic qualities at least compared to the really depraved characters, but he sometimes goes in to antihero territory when he does something impulsive and unprovoked like in his interactions with Yoko. It's probably due to some of these hypocrisies that made him unable to redeem Kaito. He's portrayed as a hero simply by being better than some of the worst guys ever and a benevolent space god but compared to most of the Primary Riders in the franchise, he's quite morally challenged and he doesn't always move past that.

The theme of power and its application is there for sure and it's something that was very prominent in Ryuki as well. I just think Ryuki did it better and gave me more a feeling of hope, that despite all these people murdering each other for their selfish wishes, there is still someone trying to learn what's the right way and what does it mean to protect a life? I feel like those things were lacking in Gaim, unfortunately.

Okay, so let's talk Wizard for a sec. Aside from Wizard being handed new power-ups when there's a toy to promote and the Phantom generals getting killed off one by one, it's basically all episodic, there's not really an overarching plot up until the final act of the show with the Mages. The characters have some amusing quirks but not really any depth or development, I think Haruto might be even more bland a protagonist than Takeru, and that's saying a lot! (I do hear he's better in crossover movies, but I haven't seen those.)

My unpopular opinion is that all of that is actually fine. I love Rider shows with overarching plots and complex, developing characters, those always seem to stumble at some point but I definitely hope Toei keeps doing them. But sometimes, you just want to see a flashy hero beat up monsters in a needlessly stylish way (and god damn, if there was one part Wizard nailed, it was the needless stylishness) and be left feeling like everything will be okay. Maybe I'm biased because I saw Wizard during a time in my life when I was juggling a lot of other stressful stuff, but it was exactly what I needed at that time, a fun diversion without too much to keep track of.

So yeah, that's my defense of Kamen Rider Wizard.

Wizard wasn’t really a show I enjoyed much myself, but with how much I love Hibiki’s first half it hopefully shows that I’m all behind “Rider doesn’t have to be serialised and heavy on plot”! It’s good to judge each show as its own thing rather than by one’s expectations and it’s nice to see some praise for a show that often doesn’t get any :)

I admit I did like Wizard a bit more towards the end when they finally started to bring in more riders again after a good couple of years of basically just the 2 for the whole show but all in all I wasn't a big fan of most sentai/rider in 2012 and 13(although still watchable), I actually preferred whatever random smaller toku those years funnily enough!

RPM has the worst theme song in all of Power Rangers history. Yes, that includes being less than Operation Overdrive & Ninja Steel. How they ended up choosing that generic, bland forgettable "song" over some legitimately good demos will never make sense to me.

Hilariously, we almost had Danny from Game Grumps ending up singing the RPM theme :lol

Oh I heard that one too. Not my favorite but still such a wonder to behold. XD

But seriously, I'm sure it's just my taste, but WHY wasn't the "We're here to save humanity" demo used!? It's such a better song. It fits with the series while still feeling like Power Rangers. What we ended up getting was some try-hardy mush of guitar & techno rhythms. We get it, ya wanna be a dark & serious show. But you're still freaking POWER RANGERS; don't pretend you aren't RPM.

Rant: Over. ^^;

Helmet lips in sentai are awful.

Is that opinion unpopular?

You aren't entirely wrong here. For being the first multi-episode Sixth Ranger, Burai was so terribly underused that it should be illegal! Remember, this was a Veteran Actor who previously did Change Pegasus in Changeman, and he got a weird deal with Zyuranger. In Ep. 26, they don't even mention him despite the fact that another hand would've been helpful! In Ep. 27, he shows up in suit before the commercial break, but he's gone and not even mentioned after the break! Regarding those two episodes, I've often wondered if maybe they were aired out of order, especially 26. I feel as though the whole "We Need You Just To Summon Dragon Ceaser!" bit was to help the audience acclimate to the idea of a Sixth Ranger. That or the main Zyuranger people didn't think that the Sixth Ranger concept was going to be a permanent thing and thought that Zyuranger was just going to be a "one-and-done" special gig.

this although they didn't really become problematic until I'd say the early 2010s (just because a show isn't dark doesn't mean it's bad)

Ex-Aid's tone shifts aren't good in fact they hurt the show because it can't make up it's mind on if if it wants to be as dark as Gaim or just a silly Kamen Rider show (doesn't help that it has especially once Shin Dan Kuroto is introduced a nasty habit of ruining dramatic scenes by a character screaming stupid crap or showing something silly just being like DAE RANDOM HUMOR XDDD) I don't think it's bad for wanting to have comedic elements but it uses them when it shouldn't be and it feels jarring

at least Operation Overdrive's op is so bad it's funny

I feel like the first 16 or so episodes of Ghost weren't great but there was at least Potential instead of it being Toku Fandom's biggest whipping boys things only start to get REALLY BAD fast once Adel is introduced (I feel like there's a lot of good ideas poorly executed too and then there is some stuff that just makes you ask "how in the living hell did Fukuda/TOEI think that was a good idea")

I protest! Why, bring them back for Rider too, I say, Kamen Rider 4 was a great design.

Metal Hero series are better than Super Sentai series.

Super Sentai is not more mature than Power Rangers.

It occasionally dips into darker material, sure, but for the majority of its run time, Sentai is less mature than the average PR show. Even shows like Shinkenger, which generally knows as a serious Sentai have parts of themselves that you rarely see in PR because of how goofy, silly and childish they are.

In general, PR has a far more consistent tone, which really helps make it a cohesive whole, something Sentai struggles a lot with.