[RiderSkyward]

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Originally Posted by DrillBIT

That's the whole point, and the joke. Things in toku nowadays are so formulaic, and director Kaneda is making it obvious to the viewers.

But it's done so seriously and dead pan that it doesn't work, also...

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

That doesn't make it entertaining to watch week after week though.

Out of battle it pokes fun at the 'genre' but the Duels it seems to take seriously. Akibaranger did the whole self reflexivity/meta humor thing well pretty much throughout (sure explosion gags got a bit old but eh..) Here it's far too obvious and hammed up during the 'story' sections, and just makes the battles boring.

Long story short, there are better ways of doing it.