Dekaranger is pretty average, and Gingaman is really, really bland. Those are the only two series I've seen from that time period.
However, I've heard Timeranger, Abaranger (The next series I plan on watching), and Hurricanger were all pretty good series~

I couldn't stand to watch more than 10 episodes of Magiranger, but that's just me.

I loved Magiranger, although it took me a bit to really warm up to it. I maintain the writing in it is notably above average for Sentai. The Plot especially is paced extremely well, with each quarter or so of the show being a distinct arc and pretty much every individual episode moving things along at least a bit. There's also a lot of twists that were clearly all thought out beforehand, leading to lots of nice foreshadowing.

And I've seen quite a bit of hate for the heroes around here (and to an extent I get it), but I felt they all had some solid growth and bounced off each other well. Not to mention the villains are pretty cool. Wolzard is one of my favorite Sentai villains, even.

Really my biggest (only?) complaint with Magiranger is that obnoxious ED. It hurts my ears. :lol

Personally I think Gingaman, Timeranger, Hurricanger, Dekaranger, and Magiranger.

Gingaman is basically what Goseiger tried to emulate, with the rangers being from a secret tribe/civilization that still exists to this day sheltered from the outside world, and the fillers(at least the ones I saw) were fun with them trying to blend with said outside world.

Timeranger is fun and especially after Time Fire enters the show it gets more interesting(at least that was what I felt when I saw it long time ago).

Hurricanger is fun in that it is pretty much a re-imagining of Liveman but with ninjas. Heck, even the motifs are almost in sync(Hurricane Red is a hawk as opposed to Red Falcon being a falcon but both are raptors/birds of prey so it all works out), and even the Gouraigers are a nice nod to Black Bison and Green Sai in that they are horned animals. They start off with their school being wiped out by the bad guys as well like Liveman.
Shurikenger is a SUPER FUN character with them having sentai alumni being his alter ego every episode. Oh yeah, fun fact; Shurikenger is the second tsuika senshi following Dragon Ranger to be Green. And Shurikenger came out exactly a decade after Dragon Ranger so it is in a sense an anniversary tsuika senshi celebrating 10 awesome years of tsuika senshisat the time. Too bad Green Buster is not a thing(and yet Green Hippopotamus is a thing). :lolol

Dekaranger is a great nod to police drama shows(at least the Japanese ones for sure). Some say it has no overarching plot(and they are right) aside from Agent Abrella being the link, but that is intentional as they are paying tribute to the omnibus-style police dramas where most of the time they solve the case within an episode.

Magiranger was Fiveman 2.0 and a great marketing move by Toei and Bandai capitalizing on the Harry Potter craze at the time.

Marvelous was a ignorant and arrogant leader ?

Gingaman, Abaranger, Dekaranger and Boukenger are all really great shows, even if Boukenger gets a bum rap from everyone these days. First two have excellent story details and progression with a very likable group of heroes and interesting villains(especially Gingaman) and the latter two keeps the episodic format interesting and unique, with great character stories and building.

Personally found Hurricanger to be an average show that aside from the Gouraigers, played it too safe and I hated Magiranger, I didn't like the heroes or villains and it has some of the worst special effects in Sentai. Haven't seen Time or Gao.

Actually...
Why does Boukenger have it's reputation? All I know is that it's a parody like Carranger and Operation Overdrive sucked?

I just found it to be overwhelmingly bland. I didn't last more than 10 episodes because I was so bored of it that I had no drive to continue watching it.

Boukenger's not a parody. The tones of the shows are completely different, both are generally light-hearted but Boukenger goes for a more somber tone different than Car's insanity.

I've heard stuff like it's boring all the way to that it disgraces Sentai ideals.

I take it that came from the opinion they are just a bunch of treasure hunters no different from the Negative Syndicate.

Boukenger is another series like Magiranger where I had seen nothing but love for it until I started posting around this site. I haven't seen more than a couple episodes myself, so I can't stick up for it the way I can Magiranger, though.

Ooh, I've finally got my own question for one of these threads, yay!

What's so interesting about Gingaman's villains?

I'm genuinely curious here because while I didn't particularly not care for any of them, the only one that I really liked a lot was Sambash, and even he wasn't that great. Overall I just found them kind of bland and extremely handicapped by the nonstop, repetitive formula of each general's plans. Need I remind everyone about the tomatoes? :p

Do Toei reboot the franchise with Go-Busters ?

I dunno if you can really "reboot" something that restarts with a new story and tone each year.

Toei definitely wanted Go-Busters to be a new beginning. They talked about it being the first spy Sentai since Goranger and, because of that, they wanted it to be a "new beginning" for the Sentai franchise. I tihnk the visuals and tone of the series probably would have continued on to other Sentai shows if it had actually succeeded instead of kinda just being a dud.

My biggest regret with Go-Busters not really performing is that we'll never really see some of the more intense Sentai designs using the really sleek material Go-Busters used in their suits.

Ya know, Sentai's treatment of its mecha kind of baffles me. Mecha are probably the most important part of a Sentai toyline, save for maybe the DX Line. Despite this, they usually don't put all that much effort into making them unique or special compared to the mecha that came before, especially when it comes to battles. Its always the same battles almost every week. Say what you will about Go Busters as a show, you can't argue with the fact that it at least made an effort to do something different with its mecha battles. I understand that doing interesting and unique stuff often costs more money but if you can't even bother to put a little extra money toward such an important part of your toyline, what can you put that money towards?

What's the general opinion of Go-onger?

From my experience it's a mix of people who hate it for being wacky and stupid, and people who like it for the exact same reasons. Naturally I'm in the latter group.

It's basically a less genuinely clever Carranger with the absurdity cranked up to infinity in an attempt to compensate. Which might sound like an insult, but A. few things are as clever as Carranger, and B. Go-Onger is loads of fun if you're in the right mood.

I may have only seen Geki, Abare, Zyuoh and currently Kyuranger...
But this is a turn off for the Sentai fans? Sentai's ALWAYS been wacky! Shit, Go-Onger's going on the backlog now!

Comedy isn't a blanket term though. There are different forms of comedy out there and some Sentai handle them a lot better than others. On top of this, yes, it's Sentai, cool, so what? A lot of Sentai shows balance their tones pretty well.

Personally, I didn't enjoy Go-Onger because I wasn't fond of the cast, other than Tokuyama as the 6th Ranger, and even then I felt him to be hugely wasted in the series. On top of that, I didn't care for the characters, I could never connect with them and it made enjoying the series and caring about them difficult. As far as what I look for in comedy, Go-Onger most definitely was not it. There are a lot of comedy heavy tokusatsu shows that did comedy much better (the aforementioned Carranger, Ryukendo, heck, even Keitai Sosakan 7 had some clever comedy).

Abaranger's main villain raped Abare Black's lover. This isn't even out of context
In the same show, an anime character's son is kidnapped and asks the Rangers to help him out. Sentai's ALWAYS had stupid shit regardless if the tone from my experience. Gekiranger had Jan using a cleaning rag to win a fight for example

And those are shows that balanced their tone much better than Go-Onger, I thought. There's a rise and fall to the action in the story. I'm not saying every show needs to be one thing or the other all the time but when Go-Onger's comedy wasn't clever or entertaining (to me), I had very little to fall back on. With Abaranger, the show's comedy was fun, I enjoyed the cast, and that made the darker aspects of the show that much more enjoyable, it was easier to feel empathy for the characters. This is one of the reasons I enjoy Kamen Rider Den-O a lot.

Also, there are martial arts out there that advocate for the use of ingenuity when one is suddenly put into danger. Jan using the rags to fight isn't as weird as you might think. Like, there are instructors out there who will teach you how to defend yourself using something like a towel or a scarf.

Does anybody know why Toei decided to exclude Goranger and JAKQ from the Super Sentai series prior to Ohranger and why they decided to re-include them retroactively?

Based on what I picked up on Wikipedia Japan, the easiest explanation is that TOEI never really gave it much of a thought at first but as it started to grow they realized they have to organize it(the term Super Sentai was nonexistent until Sun Vulcan). Another thing to point out is that Gorenger and JAKQ are TOEI's work in collaboration with Ishinomori. Battle Fever J was in collaboration with Marvel, and the popular consensus during the 1980s in Japan was that Battle Fever is Super Sentai no.1. But I guess(and this is clearly speculation from me) Toei decided they should retcon and acknowledge Gorenger and JAKQ as they were the originators of the concept pretty much even if they do not have Giant Robots which is why they ignored Liveman being the 10th super sentai and gave Ohranger a 20th anniversary stamp circa 1995.

This might help with the assessment a little further:

http://ukiyaseed.weebly.com/ukiyasee...t-super-sentai

My guess is that JAKQ did poorly and Toei wanted nothing to do with the first two Sentai shows for years. After Spider-Man was a big hit for them, they took the idea of Goranger and mix it with Spider-Man. Battle Fever J was a big hit and Toei stick with the same format for Super Sentai ever since (A squadron of rangers using Giant Robots to fight Giant Monsters).

edit: Whoops, posted this in the wrong topic :lol

So, I'm working on an Ex-Aid cosplay, but I need to know what the back piece underneath the helmet thing looks like. Does anybody have any images of Mighty Brothers X, Ride Players, or Cronus from behind? (Spoiler is only names of suits. Tagged it just in case)

Is it just me, or is KyurenOh actually the smallest Megazord because of the cockpits?

You mean out of all seasons? Huh, don't know. That would be something interesting to look into.

I can't imagine how would look like a sentai co-produced by Marvel in these days.

Like this?
http://i.imgur.com/oFSDwww.gif

Oh, this is quite interesting! Ninja Captor doesn't happen to be subbed yet, does it?

Something less campy and modern.

There are a couple of earlier Sentai you can take and update as basically "Agents of Shield: Sentai Version". Battle Fever J's episodes are as goofy as certain clips make them seem.

Except for Cossack's death. That was stupid.

How was it stupid?

I'll put it in spoilers just in case anyone doesn't want the details, but:

Cossack comes from an orphanage and witnessed the death of the man who ran the orphanage. In his final episode, he meets a young girl whose father is killed in front of her. Cossack spends the bulk of the episode trying to befriend her and help her heal but she doesn't really trust him, sees him as just another violent person. He decides to meet with her and leaves his suit behind, only to be gunned down in front of the girl.

Like, I can see what he was trying to do but the girl's father was killed by the same enemies and the show doesn't really do anything to address the fact that, yet again, the girl sees someone gunned down in front of her.

Ah, thanks for telling me.

Yeah. Most of the Megazord are portrayed to be as large as all members could fit in the head, but in KyurenOh's case, considering that the cockpit is slightly bigger than a water walking ball, you may think KyurenOh might be the smallest Megazord. Of course the show labels them being 46 meters high, maybe they were magically enlarged.

The 80's and 90's mechas was that bad ?

What do you mean with bad?

Many people complain them to be too blocky.

They certainly were a lot more blocky back then, but that's just how the show progressed. The mechs started off very plain, and became more detailed as time went on. Just look at the difference between the mechs in Changeman/Flashman and the mechs in GoGoV/Timeranger.

That's why i like them, they have no CGI.

Which actor did a good job playing multiple rangers within Super Sentai?
Your choices are:

Hiroshi Miyauchi as Aoranger and Big 1

Kenji Ohba as Battle Kenya and Denji Blue

Junichi Haruta as Goggle Black and Dyna Black

Shiro Izumi as Change Pegasus and Dragonranger

Teruaki Ogawa as Ninja Red and Black Knight Hyuga

Ayumi Kinoshita as Deka Yellow and Kyoryu Cyan II

Hiroya Matsumoto as Magi Yellow and Beet Buster

Masayuki Deai as Bouken Silver and Kyoryu Grey I and II

Mao Ichimichi as Gokai Yellow and Washi Pink