I'm the same way. I have a hard time getting through the series before Liveman, which sucks because I really really want to love both Flashman and Changeman but I just have a hard time sitting through them to the point that I am not going to bother watching them until a group gets serious about subbing them.

Awesome, thanks for the recommendations. These are two series I've definitely been interested in checking out.

Can you tell me what they have in common with Kakuranger that might make me like them (without getting into spoilers!)?

The progression of the story and characters is on par. Liveman and Megaranger start slow and rely on more comedy as the story ramps up just like in Kakuranger. The villains improve throughout the season and the endings are all really good.

Check them out, I really think you will enjoy them.

Great answer! I'll probably check out Megaranger next, then. I've always loved the design of that show.

I got to the episode in Megaranger where they introduce the second robot (the one the first one combines with, not the 5-piece robot...sorry, forgot their names) and thought it was boring.

The Delta?

Delta Mega, yeah, that's it.

The series was alright, but I just didn't care anymore by that point. Then again, while watching through it, I had only recently finished Zyuranger and was going through a bit of a withdrawal, and just wanted more of that.

I finished Kakuranger weeks ago, but my journey through the past of Super Sentai is only just beginning. Instead of tackling Megaranger like I said I would (I'll get to it eventually), I decided to finish up some of the series I've started and haven't finished.

First on the list was MASKMAN, which I have now completed.

And I've gotta say -- I wish I hadn't bothered picking it back up. There are a few cool episodes (episodes of note are: the Galaxy Robo intro two-parter, the Momoko/Underground Flower episode, all of Haruka's ninja history episodes, the one with Barabas's incest-y mother, just about every Kiros-centric episode, the Unas-Akira two-parter, and the one where Haruka and Momoko become outlaws, the one where the kids are forced to dance to death) and a few characters I really dug (Igam, Haruka, Kiros), but overall Maskman was utterly, painfully generic. The male heroes were cookie-cutter, the female heroes were interesting but got short-changed on focus episodes, and all of the villains except one (Igam) had very superficial motivations (and several were downright idiotic).

My enjoyment would have improved if the action was good, but I got really sick of the stock footage for the mech fights, and the human-sized fights were pretty "meh" throughout the series. And -- in what is perhaps the most damning indictment of a Super Sentai series for me -- I never once went, "this is so ridiculous, I can't believe what I'm watching." I'm almost always bowled over by the absurdity of at least ONE element in a sentai show, and that never happened here (although no one realizing that Igam was a woman was absurd in an infuriating way).

My major criticism (what, the above wasn't enough?) is that while I got a feel for who all of the hero characters on their own, I never understood their relationships. I have little to no idea of what the heroes thought about each other, and I feel like at any moment one of them could have been replaced without any of the others noticing. The villain characters were slightly better in this respect -- at least I understood that Igam and Ial had a contentious sibling rivalry and that Barabas hated everyone -- but their often baffling stupidity (seriously, you had NO CLUE that Igam was a woman? She's wearing high heels, a bustier, and heavy make up in every scene she's in, for heaven's sake) mitigated my appreciation of even that.

I'm not one to poke holes in the story logic of a sentai show, but the second I start thinking critically about Maskman, my mind explodes with questions. Like... Why was Kenta part of the team? What was the point of Momoko? I'm told Takeru is a thrill-seeking badass, but aside from the two episodes where he demonstrates a modicum of badassery, isn't he mostly just a lovesick puppy dog? How can I be expected to care about a climax focused entirely on Ial and Igam's relationship, when I only ever saw them interact for like, 5 minutes before they used their here-to-fore unmentioned magic sibling powers to save the world? Was there any nuance to Zeba's plans, or was he just trying to take over the world using late-in-the-game introduction of "Evil Particles?" Why didn't Zeba just kill Igam and/or Ial so they could never be reunited? In 51 episodes, they couldn't give Kenta another character trait beyond "this guy likes girls, I guess?" They couldn't have spent one more episode on Momoko? They couldn't have wrapped up the car racing stuff at all? What in the world is going to happen with the Underground Empire now that everyone on the surface is aware of their existence? Ugh, it's maddening!

The above may make it seem like I hated Maskman, but I didn't. I just found it completely unexceptional. So many people laud this show as the best series 80s Sentai has to offer that it makes me wonder if I should just stick to the 90's and beyond for my Sentai fix.

Finally had the chance to sit down and catch up on some Ohranger. My god, it seems like for every good episode, there are 2-3 bad ones. I watched 23-32 and the only good ones were the King Ranger 3 parter and the nightmare monster episode.

I also watched the movie and the first time I watched it raw I thought it was bad, but it was even worse subbed. Easily one of the worst Sentai movies of all time. It was so bad, boring, and dragged on for way too long.

I just finished Kyoryuger last night. I was so sad to see it end. But I was happy for everyone in the end. It almost made me cry.

Now I'm starting Zyuranger! And damn is it trippy in comparison to MMPR! If you haven't seen any of it, let me leave you with this.

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