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Originally Posted by Barricade64

So I'm almost caught up with Garo being on episode 14 of Makai Senki and am trying to decide what to watch next. It will either be Kuuga, GaoGaiGar or a Sentai. The Sentai I'm considering are Shinkenger, Gekiranger (I like Jan from what I've seen of him), Magiranger, Dekaranger and Boukenger which I all want to get to at some point. Which ywould you guys recommend I go with if I choose to watch a Sentai?

I'm more partial to Kamen Rider, so I'd say Kuuga. While watching it, there were stretches of boredom at times, but looking back on it now, I don't really remember those all that much, I remember being really fascinated by the Grongi, and being really caught up in it as more info was revealed about them. Also, Godai is a pretty likable person, and I really dig the various Kuuga forms and the way that progressed in the show.

I'm watching Dekaranger right now, and it's taken about 11 episodes for me to even begin to care about the characters. The villains are all pretty lame, so far, except for this last one I saw. Well, when he's in his human mode. All the suite designs for the villains have be really lame/dumb imo, and they all behave stupidly too, in alienizer form. And I don't really like Dekarobo's design all that much either. I do like the individual vehicle modes though.

But I will stick it out farther, because as I said, I'm starting to be interested in the characters. Except I don't like Hoji all that much. Or Ban. And Sen's fairly boring so far. And I don't like the silly stock footage they use to get the suits on. And Doggie Kruger's design is kinda dumb (but I like the character). And what is up with Swan's headpiece? And Sen's gimmick of standing on his head to think is stupid.

Why am I watching this show again?

I want to watch Boukenger, because I like the mech design, and Shinkenger, because everybody says it's good, and also I like the mech design, but I want to get thru Dekaranger and Gokaiger first.

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Originally Posted by Ghost Wave

I want to be able to download toku (preferably subbed) i find many sites but what's a good one to use I like sentai mainly but am open to kamen rider and other tokusatsu as well. who can make a good recomendation? Also a good site to find toku merch as well. I want to get more active on the toku I have been passive too long!

TV Nihon has several Sentai series, that's where I've gotten them all so far. OverTime has Gokaiger, and I think I'll be switching to their version for Gokaiger once I start watching it again (I'm on a big Fourze kick right now, but I think I'm due for Dekaranger or Gokaiger tonight), I have grown tired of the untranslated words in TVN's stuff, though I do like the coloring on subtitles when spoken by different characters.

For merch, forums are probably your best bet for convenience, and often price as well. But I've become a big fan of Mandarake since figuring out how to search using Japanese characters (copy/paste from wikipedia), lots more results that way, and they're usually pretty cheap. And I've just started a transaction with one of the middlemen here, trying to get some stuff off Yahoo Japan, which is also only searchable via Japanese.
HLJ is pretty good in my experience, and on occasion eBay also works. Lots of people also recommend AmiAmi, I've never used them myself, and BBTS carries some KR stuff, though some of their prices are high, but not all.