[Fish Sandwich]

F*** me, this was amazing. I haven't been this blown away by a Sentai premiere since... ever? To be fair though, I've only been watching as it airs since ToQger, but still. They didn't even force a giant robot fight in. Think about that for a second. That's absolutely shocking. Although I guess Bandai can't be mad because the Good Striker isn't even out yet.

The point is, between that, and the lack of both an opening and an ending theme, this episode had a TON of time to breathe, and as a result they set everything up really nicely, and give you a decent handle on the characters, while still making time for some very slick action.

It also strangely felt a lot like watching an episode of Sentai from the 2000's? I can't pinpoint it, but something about this felt very different from the last almost-decade of Sentai, which, as much as I love all those shows, is definitely not a bad thing.

Oh, and for the record, I'm still firmly biased towards liking Patranger over Lupinranger. I had no idea Keiichiro was going to be so high-strung (I was expecting someone a bit more straightforwardly serious), but that's a really, really hilarious personality to give the guy leading a squad of super-powered cops, so I'm hardly disappointed. Not that the other guys aren't cool though. Speaking of things it's shocking they didn't do, we have two different Reds, and neither of them are screaming idiots! What are the odds?

So yeah, absolutely going to be looking forward to more of this every week. This episode clicked with just as much as Kamen Rider Build's premiere, and look how great that's going 20 weeks later.