With how quickly all of this seems to be happening, I'm gonna guess we'll be seeing the permanent death of a general within the next 6 episodes.

The powerup showing up seems to make this more plausible.

Anyone else feel like there's something of an any% speedrun of what Sentai usually does?

It does make me wonder what the second half of the series is going to do.

Super forms for the team? A second mecha? (unlikely given how integral King Ohger is to the story and lore) Like, from Bandai's perspective, what product is going to take up the remainder of the year? Can't just be the final castle mech.

If they go second mecha I can picture a "we now carve out our own legacy" situation happening where something bad happens such as the whole King-ohger and shugod set being unusable and they gotta come up with new shugods or something equivalent that is its own category. Maybe stuff like a standalone mecha like Galaxy Robo from Maskman or Flash Titan from Flashman or a totally new set of a combiner shugod in the vein of Ohblocker from Ohranger.

And it takes them almost 20 episodes to acknowledge themselves as super sentai. :lolol

Where can I watch it live?

Here's where I watch mine. Not sure if it'll work for you.

https://dramacool.hr/drama-detail/ro...ing-ohger-2023

I dunno, I can?t see Bandai allowing the titular mecha to just be sidelined. Unless it?s upgraded rather than replaced.

It just seems weird that we?re not even halfway through and we?ve only got a single mecha combo left? unless they make additional shugods that combine with the 21 bug combo. O_O

Yeah, it's wild for sure. As for my reasoning behind the whole standalone stuff is that I remembered the reason Galaxy Robo appeared more frequently was because of how clunky the Great Five suit was by 80s toku standards. Apparently the suit actor had a hard time with the suit so they favored the Galaxy Robo which was why it made more appearances in the show after it debuted. :lolol
Of course, I'd like to believe suit acting tech has improved since 1987 but seeing how complex King-Ohger the mecha is I wouldn't be surprised if they want to come up with something more less cluttered by the 3rd quarter.

Perhaps a carrier mech