[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Stage Five.
This is probably the worst episode of sentai I've ever watched, I'm serious.

Wow. In complete agreement.

I generally have a pretty high tolerance for goofy Sentai shenanigans, but stage 5 was awful. Because of one thing: Houka. Now, I've found certain Sentai members excruciating before, but I've never actively hated one. I hate Houka. I think she is a terrible character. Like, totally well drawn, but awful. She is literally delusional. She has actual fantasy delusions, and she inflicts them upon her family, to devastating effect. She is a hurricane of delusional idiocy, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake. No amount of increasingly ridiculous (and hilarious) transformations can make up for how horrible she is.

And what was with that fight where the monster turns into a car? Was that Stage 5 too? Regardless: Don't do that anymore! It shatters the giant-scale illusion when the monster is clearly a normal car driving on a dirt road surrounded by shrubs. Terrible.

If it weren't for LWW, I would have given up the series at Stage 5.

Which would have been a shame because the next episode is pretty great. It's all about Wolzard, and whenever this show is about Wolzard, it's immediately compelling. It's pretty obvious where they're leading with him and the kids, but it's fun to watch it play out.

And not to mention... watching his gattai form battle Magiking is magnificent.


Magiranger, you're all over the place. Get it together. You've proven you can be good, now just be good more often.