[Aoi Kurenai]

Jiro Okamoto was an interesting choice for ShinkenGold in suit. He started out just fine, but the guy has always had a bit of a belly. Athletic as heck, but I think that's the natural shape of his body. As the series moves on you start to see it appear more and more. He's much better suited for Rider or armored roles than anything that shows off the shape of his body as clearly as a Sentai suit does.

Anywho. I think the biggest problem with Genta is that nasty clash his character brings not just with the tone of the others but with the tone of the show in general. It's like someone at Toei decided that they can't have a Sentai show these days without an extremely over the top character. We already had Ryunosuke filling some of that role but the guy could at least play it serious when the situation called for it. Genta's actor, bless him, just isn't very good. And in a show like Shinkenger where the casting is better than most Sentai, he sticks out like a sore thumb.