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Originally Posted by Den-O

Shinkenger.

I think it's possibly the absolute worst sentai I've ever seen.

-Plain 1-dimensional characters with no growth or status quo change
-Villains of the garden varitey "lets hang around and plot" but don't do much else type
-Mecha designs that outside of Shinken Oh are so so at best
-An absolutely intolerable 6th ranger
-And frankly a pacing that makes the story as boring as it is long

Never again will I sit through that boring mess.

I actually liked Shinkenger a LOT. Like a lot of people my age it was one of my first sentai shows but I also agree with pretty much all your criticisms. I mean I liked the core team, and I thought the show gave a reason - even if it was bullshitty - to have the villains not do a whole lot, certainly more than say the Zangyack who apparently invade planets by sending one monster down at a time despite having like at thousand ships in orbit.

But I must agree that outside ShinkenOh the mecha isn't just soso for me, but some of the worst the franchise has to offer. The stacking in that show is truly disgusting. Genta may well be one of the worst Rangers of all time, not only was he an utterly terrible character but he was completely wrong for that show. And that middle slog of like pure filler for twenty episodes is why I've never gone back and rewatched it.