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The Coming of Black by Sentai

Story:
The story follows the Samurai Rangers on a seemingly peaceful day during a training session when a black samurai ambushes them from out of the shadows armed only with a spin sword, symbol power and bat zord. In the confusion she manages to steal all of the Rangers' folding zords before making her escape and warning them not to pursue her. Now the Samurai Rangers must track her down and defeat her before she can do any major damage.

Characters:
As far as characters go all the official characters such as the Rangers and Master Ji are properly represented here. They do have a bit of awkward dialogue here and there but I can't really fault that because that's how they were in the show.

Not like that really matters though considering that the main star of the story is the oc Character Black. First off I would like to say that her as a concept is pretty good and leads to great potential for development. Unlike the other Rangers in Samurai who were noble and heroic, Black is well, a monster simple as that. She is easily able to kick the Samurai Rangers asses in the first part of the story and I would honestly say that if she was an actual character in the show, Samurai would have been a lot better.

Designs:
Okay as far as designs go I was able to find a sketch of Black here. Her design is simple, but works with just a simple black recolor of the samurai ranger uniform only with no symbol for the visor and no shiba clan emblem on the chest. The designer (botmarley) said he just forgot to add it, but I think it works for the character.

Pacing:
The story was fairly well paced with each moment, big or small, serving it's purpose just long enough that it didn't feel rushed or padded, and aside from just one little thing that I can't say for spoiler reasons, it was a well structured story. Black as OC Still falls into the fan fiction category of "Coming out of Completely Nowhere" but that just come with the territory.

Grammar/Spelling:
As far as grammar goes it was perfectly fine aside from a bit of odd wording and one or two typos. But that's how far I have to go to nitpick.

Personal Thoughts:
All in all it was a fun read and very interesting character piece for an OC that I really want to see more of. Aside one a twist in the story that drives me crazy I can easily recommend it to anyone that enjoys good fan fiction, but if you didn't care much for Power Rangers Samurai this won't do much for you.

Overall Score: 4/5

Link to story:
The Coming of Black

Related works:
A sequel story called "The Return of Samurai Black" is currently in progress.