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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I actually fairly like the overall design of the Try Jackets, although I wonder how they're supposed to see out of those opaque-looking visors. Sync Redder was a big improvement in that sense. I also winced at that early suit-up scene where Ken slaps his face with the metal gloves. Surely that hurts.

They're really bizarre in the sense that they completely remove the illusion that the suit actor sees out of the visor or "eyes". Even knowing it was probably no worse than any other suits of the era, it still kind of freaked me out to explicitly notice that everything was being viewed through miniscule slits in the helmets!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I think the main characters were decent on their own, but yeah, I didn't really feel their dynamic as a team. Looked like there was a hint of rivalry between Hayato and Kosaku, but it didn't go anywhere. Katsuragi got nothing and Ai got screwed by the final arc. They've got nothing on Ryouma, Daiki and Masaki!

Yeah, at first I thought the show was really going to lean into internal team conflict as a source of drama for the narrative, which could have made for an interesting alternate sort of appeal compared to Winspector and Solbrain. Totally petered out though. Also you weren't kidding about Katsuragi not being great. I'd barely be registering his presence most of the time.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

You forgot to mention the part where God and Devil use Santa Clauses to fight their proxy war.

I don't say this lightly, but I now consider those episodes the new winner of the "most unhinged tokusatsu Christmas story" prize. That is a HIGHLY competitive category!

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Crazy how Miyashita Junichi followed this with Janperson, which we both loved. Blue SWAT could be either high quality or a car crash, I have no idea what to expect from this wildcard writer. I can't even attribute it to being his first time, as the sudden biblical warfare in a rescue police show isn't a sign of poor experience, only poor and deranged narrative.

Even the episodes he did for Winspector and Solbrain were a lot better than what he did for Exceedraft in my opinion. Blue SWAT is one of those shows that almost no one seems to have seen, so yeah, no idea what I'll be getting into when I tackle that one. Ah, the joy and terror of never knowing when a tokusatsu is going to jump you with the greatest or worst thing you've ever seen.