Donbrothers doesn't seem like a parody, but more a J-Drama fitting into the shape of a Sentai show? It's too divorced from the usual idea of a Sentai show to explicitly be parodying one, I think.

Man, sounds like I need to do some serious Sentai catch-up. I typically don't watch Sentai as it airs and usually fall off pretty quickly when I do, so I haven't seen the most recent ones. But I really appreciated how LuPat changed up the formula, so if Zenkaiger and Donbrothers are anything like that, chances are I'll love them.

I guess LuPat is sort of a controversial series? I see a lot of mixed reactions to it, but I thought it was fantastic.

In my opinion, LuPat was much better than Zenkaiger, which I fell off of at around the mid 20s. But Donbrothers, that ranks supreme. I don’t want to hype it up too much though. Donbrothers is also a bit of controversial show too, it looks like, haha.

I think Lupinranger was pretty well received overall. People just had issues with how Toei kind of forgot the "vs. Patranger" part.

Did they though? I thought the arc of the two teams was well-handled and made sense.

I am really curious, why Toei didn't make an ultimate upgrade for Kiramaizin?

I think Kiramaizin is the first Sentai giant robo since MagiKing who didn't have ultimate upgrade.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/po...Kiramaizin.png

People don't like that thieves had more toys. But that's the way it should be.

Lupinrangers were cool guys. They always got to look cool

Patrangers were butt of the joke or lame guys. If something goofy was gonna happen, it was gonna happen to them, like 99% of the time. Also Patrens, just kind of did not really know what was going on most of the time. If someone was gonna look silly or stupid, it was most likely gonna be the patrens with very few exceptions.

I think you are correct about the toys. I think some of the complaints I saw were that patrens did not get power ups or focus like the Lupins did.

So, yeah, if you were watching the show wanting to root for the Patrens for some reason, there would be a lot to frustrate you. I guess the same goes for people wanting to see equal focus on both teams.

I have seen people say Donbrothers is like Lupat done right, so that’s something for ya. I can understand what they meant by that too.

Edit: I THOUGHT THE SHOW WAS PERFECT THOUGH! i was just trying to summarize the complaints I saw.

LuPat seems really hit or miss. It won an award in Japan for storytelling, and seems to do reasonably well popularity-wise, but people who don't like it 'really' don't like it. I'm one of the latter unfortunately, for reasons beyond just "Pats don't get enough screentime", but yeah, that does factor into it.

Okay, I guess yeah I can see the uneven balance. But that doesn't stop me from enjoying it. As it is, it was a breath of fresh air full of characters that I enjoyed watching and a story that I found myself invested in. And I promise I don't mean this as a dig but I can't think of another way to word it...Sentai isn't exactly high art, so I try to keep my expectations in check.