[Kurona]

I've been giving Zyuohger more of a thought recently and I'm realising it's easily one of my favourite Sentai, possibly above Gokaiger. Fun cast, wonderful Red, fantastic villains, a downright incredible 6th debut arc, and just all around a great tribute to Sentai by celebrating what it's about rather than getting bogged down in references. Just genuinely great.

Kyuranger has many fantastic points, but for me the Red was so bad he brought the whole show down for me; especially in how he "develops". I actually dislike him more than Takaharu. Still, the space opera and the villains being in charge make for a great change of pace from Sentai's usual fare, and you get some great standout characters in Champ, Stinger, Tsurugi and Shou Ronpo. I'd say it's worth a watch.

Lupinranger vs Patranger is a show consistently underlined by its lost potential in how its premise boasted of being different but ultimately just fell into the same old Sentai formula, and there's some particularly annoying toy-related stuff near the end; but look past that and it's pretty nice. It's very much about its characters more than anything and if you come into it from that angle you'll find a lot to enjoy.

Ryusoulger I admittedly have not yet seen the final two episodes of, but having watched the rest of the series I'm gonna be this forum's sole defender of the show and say it's pretty great. Perhaps not one of my favourites but it's a bit of a reverse of Lupat: for a show that from its premise looked to be a big repeat for more than one reason, it actually ends up doing a lot of different things. Sure, you've got an Energetic Red once again, but he's not only a lot more reserved than others but he has a fair few layers to him. Yeah it's dinosaurs again, but that's window dressing really to a story that has very little to do with dinosaurs overall. The make-my-monster-grow formula is shaken up, your cast of villains is by and large quite likeable as are your rangers, and there's a lot of surprising twists along the way. There's a lot of points it frustrated me, but at the end of the day I have more positives to say about Ryusoulger than negatives.