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Originally Posted by Locke

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It's funny as well, how this hype is apparently "accepted" by the community, where in other places it isn't..? Like people are hating on Trainranger already and maybe it's a little early to make up your mind, but no one tried to stop people claiming Gaim was "the greatest Kamen Rider ever made" after seeing one blurry mobile phone capture.

I suspect some of that is down to the previous show's reputation. Wizard was deeply unpopular (which is a pity as, while far from being a great show, there were some very good elements in it), so the chance to have something new and, most importantly, different in every way is considered fantastic. To be fair, some of these are very welcome and needed changes, but there's a definite feeling of "not Wizard = awesome," especially looking back at early responses.

I think that can also extend, in part, to why Tokkyuger already seems unpopular. Yeah, most of the negativity is based on the designs, which are, in fairness... let's be charitable and say "odd." At the same time, though, a lot of what we've seen about the show looks really, really unoriginal. The characters seem to be old archetypes we've had before and the production staff is entirely made up of people who've done past Sentai series (hell, it has the same writer as Go-Busters, and that was just a year ago). It's hard to imagine that there will be anything new or creative this year and when you combine that with unpopular designs, it's hard to get excited by anything, especially coming off of a season that was pretty popular for a lot of viewers (who aren't me).