[ryan]

I watched the first episode last night. It was alright. I wasn't as enthralled with it as I was the first episode of Shinkenger, but I also wasn't as turned off by it as I was the first episode of Dekarange.

Theme song is pretty enjoyable, that chameleon chick is pretty hot, the rangers seemed cool so far, the action was good. Jan is a spaz aproaching the annoyance level of Ban. It really confused me though, because he looks all serious in the opening credits, then turned out to be jungle-spaz-boy.

Also, wtf is up with the hideous puppet creatures? The ridiculous level of fakeness of Doggy from Dekaranger annoyed me, but this cat creature, what's his name, Shifu? It terrifies me. It's so ridiculous looking, the mouth is barely articulated, his paws are freakish small, and everytime it opened its eyes and stared into the camera I felt it trying to steal my soul. I'm honestly thankful I didn't have nightmares last night.

But other than that, it was not bad. The minions hopping around looks stupid, but the fight choreography was interesting enough they didn't bother me too much. I look forward to seeing where the show goes. I just hope that cat-demon isn't featured much.