[Kiwami]

First half of the episode was really lame, mostly because they already had their best fight of the show against Azald shortly before so fighting Genis was kinda meh. Didn't feel like the last boss. Have that combined with the forced mecha fight and you have a boring formula I hate about Sentai.

The revelation about what Genis really is was wasted too. I mean why should I care now? It’s not changing anything. If they used this "weakness" of Genis for character interactions earlier maybe it could’ve worked, like they could’ve had Bunglay found out and used it to try and blackmail Genis or something. I mean giving Misao another bit of development was neat, but he had so much already. And I don’t feel like this is needed or better than explaining it with randomness.

Second half was much better though, mostly because the merging of the worlds was really cool and surprised me. It's the ending I needed without even knowing that I wanted it. I love it when shows end with something big instead of playing it safe.

So Zyuohger as a show was the first modern Sentai that I generally liked and thus I watched it from start to finish, and enjoyed it a lot. It's easily the best out of the last 4 shows for me. It broke with some tropes while keeping others alive, and really it only worked so well because they kept doing the mediocre stuff right. The show had some great moments and characters without really falling behind do to filler or boring plots. On the flipside I never really looked forward to anything or was hyped for some event, I watched, it enjoyed it but I was never feeling like I couldn’t wait another week to see what happens next.

I'm still sad that the show is gone though because I did have fun watching it every week. And I'm rather afraid that Kyuranger won't spark the same feelings for me. Mostly because the Red is already looking like the stupid perfect asshole Sentai loves to put in charge for whatever reason and while the suits are cool I don't feel the cast. I like Green and strangely enough Black with the weird mechanical bull costume but that's about it. Blue looks awful and Pink is an absolute joke. Which hurts double because she's one of two female characters, so we only have one really.

I will give Kyuranger the benefit of a doubt, but I think Zyuohger might’ve just hit a weird spot for me that can’t be reproduced. But hey, Sentai is slowly but surely falling behind while Rider keeps selling, so maybe they realized they need to change certain things and Kyuranger does look like a departure from certain tropes. I guess I will find out if I like it or not very soon.

Anyways, goodbye Zyuohger, I really liked you.