[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Locke

It's funny that sentai has more characters but less character focus than Rider. You think that since Rider has less people on screen it could put more more into fights, but then nope, it's the other way round. A big reason why I love Rider so much more than Sentai is because it feels like an actual show, where plot and character are actually important, rather than just after thoughts like they often are in sentai.

That is probably a huge reason why I loved Goseiger, it was nowhere near perfect but every member of the cast was fleshed out, they each had a purpose and the show dedicated a huge amount of time to character focus. Similar to Go-Busters, in many ways Goseiger felt a lot closer to Rider than it does to its super sentai brethren, I think they got around that by having a ridiculous overkill mecha gimmick. It is a far cry from the likes of Dairanger, a show with so little character focus even the Red vanished in the background.

I find the best sentai shows do have a strong character emphasis. Gokaiger, Jetman, Dekaranger, Goseiger. And even Magiranger, now that it's starting to get good, is heavy on the character development -- even if those characters are still pretty annoying.