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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I have mixed feelings on that. I feel that a 50 episode series has no excuse not to go into backstories and develop their cast, or at least half of the cast.

Changeman has had by far the weakest characterization of any Sentai show out there. I wanted to like them, but there wasn't much to grasp. The pink ranger ended up with Disney Princess-itis by falling in love with a man seconds after she met him and then he never showed up again throughout the show.

Fair point. A lot of Sentai don't really get into character backstories though. At the top of my head, Kakuranger automatically comes to mind as Tsurihime and Jiraiya were the only ones on the team that got any real backstory and, even then, Tsurihime's was the only one that mattered in the long run as far as the plot was concerned.

In her defense, that's a pretty common Toku trope for both genders, especially before the 2000s. Love interests in Tokusatsu almost never mean anything in the long run, no matter how important they are in the episode itself.