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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

Eager to see how you respond to the middle stretch in your rewatch.

Well it was kind of a gradual thing, I still liked the stuff immediately after Chouzetsu debuted but my interest level started dropping fast, hitting its lowest after Gekiatsu Dai-Oh showed up. I'm pretty eager to get there myself.

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There are certainly some great characters. Kasumi is particularly excellent -- she's easily my all-time favorite Pink and one of my top-10 favorite Sentai heroes generally. I also think it's interesting to make their leader a dummy fueled purely by optimistic bravado (yes, I'm a Bakaharu fan).

Kasumi is actually my least favorite member of the team.

She was a great character and all, but she never really did anything for me personally. Strangely enough, Takaharu has been the standout to me rewatching the show so far, which is kind of surprising. I always liked him, but for whatever reason I've been enjoying him a lot more this time around. Though Kinji is still the real Star in my book.

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Fukuzawa is fantastic at choreographing stunts, but his cinematic chops are not up to snuff. If you compare his camera setups to those of any primary action director who has preceded him, they're lacking in movement, creativity, compelling shot composition, drama, and tension. His action scenes have a distinct, repetitive lack of personality -- they're like visual oatmeal. This is a huge bummer, as interesting action is one of the main things that draws me to tokusatsu.

Well I don't really attach names to this stuff myself so all I can say here is that the Ninningers flip around and do cool sword stuff and it all looks great to me. I think the simple camera work is fine for showing what's happening clearly, even if it isn't exciting in of itself. Like, the great choreography more than makes up for the straightforward way it's filmed in my mind.