Liveman 06.

Great, the first bad episode, and its a two parter. I mean it's a pretty cool story, but that dinosaur suit was just so shit man. And despite a of the week villain with an insane power, he was just shit and taken down pretty much as easily as any other of the week villain.

At least Gush has had the chance to do more stuff, he has a really cool design and deserves to be in the show more.

Adieu... Go-Busters

I'm finally done, it was a beautiful journey, what can I say that I haven't before, I love Go-Busters to the core since day one, the characters, the mechs, the excellent balance between humor and drama.

And that's it I said it in every post since I started this journey, I love this show, an excellent ending that manages to be both heartwarming and heartbreaking.

Goddamnit I love this show...


Ps: I need to get J's necklace.

:D
Now you have Go-Busters Returns and the Hyper Battle DVD to look forward to.

Go-Buster vs Gokai too, I forgot to watch it...

Thanks for telling me about the Hyper Battle DVD, gotta download it. :D


*Edit: Go-Busters vs Gokai has 3 endings!?

Come on Gavan! Stay on your own show/movie!

As funny as the usual Hyper Battle DVD, Beet Enter was great too.

Loved that they had to show the set since Go-Busters has no colectible gimmick. :p

The unmorphed role call is one of the most awesome moments in all of Sentai.

Oh yeah!! Not to mention the entire battle without having their suits on.

Doubutsu vs Tokumei vs Gokaiger

Doubutsu was completely and utterly crazy, over the top and ridiculous, I spent the entire movie with a crazy Hiromu like face, I expected some sort of continuation of the show but I got an AU movie, neato but I still want to see the cast after the events of the show.

Gokaiger was a nice team-up movie, a good story and a nice balance of both teams, great action and humor, and yet... something didn't quite click with me I guess it's mostly that the Busters and Kaigers don't play each other very well add to that the fact that there were 8 characters and well thing get a little heavy.
But overall it was fun.

Now gimme my Busters vs Kyoryu, and make net movies that consist of J trolling Daigo. :p

Net Movies... Let's see:
J trolling with everyone. Yay!
Ryuji and Nossan teaming up. Kicking ass, old school style!
Buddyroids meeting the new robot buddies: the Zyudenryu!
Spirit Rangers + Jin. Because we need that closure.

Buddyroids meeting Jyudenryu would be a very one-sided conversation....
And closure? From a Net movie?

Well... I imagine J will just screw them around with his futuristic knowledge. I still see no problem with J appearing, though!

Yay!
Nossans team-up!
Mintiyra chasing Nick around? Yay!
That would be lovely.

Dairanger 49. So close to the end, I can taste it.

Shadam's final form is remarkable in how uninteresting it is. I'm really not interested or invested in this final battle at all, I'm just grateful that episode fifty is the final episode.

Y'know, if the show had actually planned the Shadam twist, and not just decided to make it up during episode 48 and completely ignore how it makes absolutely no sense at all if you think about it for more than half a second, it could have been a great twist. Seeing the dolls realise what they are, as their bodies collapse around them is really fucked up and not your usual ending for a villain, but still just as satisfying.

Kujaku clearly isn't thinking about Daigo in heaven, she was clearly a lesbian all along and now she's in her scissor paradise.

Abaranger: Episode 10. Yeeep, the big one.

Very infamous for being the "Japanese Power Rangers parody" from Dino Thunder, which apparently pissed off a lot of Sentai fans. I'll give my own opinions when I reach Lost and Found in Translation.

Though, all I can really say about this episode is...were they high on acid?

This episode is probably the craziest thing I've ever seen in a Sentai, beyond the "Japanese shows are weird" stereotype, even. And I've seen a dinosaur battery that makes a dinosaur mech fart, cross dressing Dekabreak and Magishine, and Shinkenoh slapping Daigoyou on the ass to power him up.

I can tell they had a lot of (drug induced) fun with this one, though.

Liveman 07.

That dinosaur suit man. I know I'm supposed to just kick back and enjoy the ridiculousness of it all, but I want to laugh with the show, not at it. I also find it funny, for all the wrong reasons, that there is no thoughts of the ramifications of moving a dinosaur seventy million years into the future beyond 'he might eat some folk'...err...yeah.

Kemp was pretty damn hilarious as well, with his super powered wink that fired hearts out, before finally taking out the Livemen with a rainbow. Man the tone of this show shifted fast.

I will say that I do enjoy the mech stuff in this show, surprisingly. It feels like part of the show, more than a going through the motions we have to include this to sell toys, like it does in pretty much every other sentai show but Go-Busters, and maybe early Dairanger at a push. Even if the whole thing in this episode played out like a Godzilla movie that aired about thirty years before this show was made, but whatever.

Dairanger, the final episode, thank Christ.

Man what a great ending to the series. Sure it was ridiculous as all hell, but it was still really fucking good. I love how the whole 'justice cannot exist without evil' thing was personified by the cast wearing silly costumes and wigs.

And I loved watching Shadam just go totally nuts, with a kitchen knife to boot, despite his crazy powers. And then when he turned out to be clay as well! Plus, although dated now, imagery like the Gorma palace falling from the sky were awesome.

There were some unintentionally hilarious moments as well, like how the show seems self aware how little characterisation our heroes have, so they have someone shout their motivations out to the audience. I'm pretty sure Master Kaku did this mid way through the show as well.

So what is the clay thing about? Does that mean that as long as the Dairanger's exist, they are going to force the Gorma to come back as clay zombies so their battle can continue for eternity? Because considering how close and often the Dairanger's came to losing, and how many people got killed, you can see why the Dragon God wanted the fighting to stop because literally all the Dairanger's need to do is stop and they'd never have to battle the Gorma again.

Overall I thought this show was terrible, it's up there with Kuuga for my 'worst toku series ever'. The action was well done enough to make the show entertaining, and to keep me watching and I really enjoyed the music but that is where my praise ends.

The Dairangers basically had no characterisation at all, apart from shouting and angry faces which basically makes the show pointless. Why should I watch a fifty episode series if there are no character arcs or character growth? Isn't the point of shows this long to be that we can focus on things with a sense of detail we just couldn't with a movie? Well this show managed to tell me less than your average 90 minute action flick, yeah.

Further that, when the Dairangers transformed their entire personality and characterisation (what tiny amounts there were) changed, which is inexcusable when these fights were made specifically for these characters. I was convinced to a point that Daigo and Ryou were the ones in their suits, but entirely unconvinced by the others.

What little plot we had was unfocused and made barely any sense. The show never once seemed to work out what it was, as we got wild shifts of focus, huge story developments that were forgotten or completely dropped and times when the show was all out ridiculous, yet played completely straight.

Even the action, which I appreciated, wasn't that great. The effects are insanely dated, with most powers being done with the same four or five effects, sometimes not even changed slightly. There were thousands of visible wires and other safety equipment. Although the Dragon Star Lord had a wicked design, the mech stuff in this show was terrible.

And yeah, I'm just glad it's over and done with.

Ever since my recent purchase of Figuarts Ryuranger its Dairanger all the way.

YOu might as well stop watching Sentai forever then as it only goes down hill from there ;)

YOu complain about Sentai series that are 90% filler and you get one that is 90% story and you complain. Please never watch KakuRanger as you will hate it.

So far I'm enjoying Liveman a lot, minus that dinosaur two parter. And I have loved shows like Jetman and what I have seen from Go-Busters but yeah generally sentai isn't my thing, I prefer story and character over action and that is usually what I get from my Kamen Riders.

My thoughts on Kakuranger's opening episode are here.

Don't worry. Gekiranger is the greatest thing since existence~ :p

I should probably give Geki a proper chance at some point, but I love Jungle Fury so much it's gonna be hard for me. Plus I need to watch more of Goaranger as well. Maybe I'll just do that, rather than trying to wade through the snoozefest that Faiz is turning out to be. Although I really miss Kamen Rider...

So much toku, so little time. :lol

Genuinely, in my case. I went from being able to finish like five shows in a month, to about one a month. And if you're only watching like two or three episodes a day, and watching multiple shows at once, it becomes even slower going.

I could never watch multiple shows at once. It burns me out super quickly, sometimes before I can even finish one of the series.

I'm the opposite, I very rarely watch one show at a time, too much of one show tires me. Blade being one of the notable exceptions.

It kinda depends for me. Like OOO for example, that is one of my all time favourite toku shows, and when I got to the middle portion of that, I was all in. But with toku's tendency to tell stories slowly, and with so much filler, it's rare I have the investment in the show in the same way I did with OOO so I watch like two or three shows at once to keep it fresh.

I prefer one show at a time, helps me keep focused on the plot (What little there is, on some occasions :p) and it helps me finish a show in good time.

Liveman 08.

Man this episode was stupid.

I actually really do like the characters in this show, but it just seems really odd to me that the show felt it really needed a whole episode dedicated to our heroes learning there is more to fighting than rage and hatred....well duh, aren't you our heroes?

Given that I'm now a working man, I was impressed with the concept of building a monster from the frustrations of humans towards the monotony of day to day life. Just a shame he turned out to totally suck.

The moment you watch Geki you will never want to see JF again.

No way in heck thatll happen. :lol I agree with Locke, I love JF way to much to try Geki. :lol

Gekiranger and Jungle Fury are both equally awesome.

You're missing out on awesomeness man.

Goseiger episode 3.

Moune and Agri have issues don't they?

Whenever I see a episode or PR/SS with snow in it I think "Man it must suck to be the guys in the suits." :lol

All in all, a great episode for Moune. (I can see why you like her so much Sentai) Now if only my Eri could get a focus episode. :D

4 is all hers, and it's great. :D

Because she is made of Perfect. And yes, yes they do. But deep down they love each other. And not to worry! Eri gets her own episode very soon!

Oh goodie. :D

On the subject of Goseiger, someone mind telling me what this is about?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lLsdaCVk3K...8195989492.jpg

http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/S...Series_Theater

A tv special about previous team-ups apparently.

Oh... okay. :D

P.S. I love Eri. :D

The first I cant say yet, the second, yes. Yes it is. The theme, the characters, the villians... :)

Ill watch it when I get back into Sentai. (Super Sentai, not the user :p)