[Locke]

Boukenger 04.

I love the use of mecha in this show, although it's just another arm swapping gimmick, it's just all so well designed and implemented. The mecha actually feels like a core aspect of the series, and not just something tacked onto the end of the episodes for toy sales.

It's just full of really great ideas really, love how their mecha power their suits and they're like power suits rather than just colourful costumes. It makes the powers feel like a *thing* which sentai seems to do so rarely.

Sadly I like the objects in this show more than the people, if Daigo had too much focus the Chief has way too little. I mean it was an episode focused on him, but everything about his personality, motivations and backstory are just generic hero bullet points, they gave absolutely no greater insight into him as a person.

That is kinda the problem with all of the characters so far, we know Souta used to be a spy who grew sickened with what his spying did to people but that still doesn't really give us any insight into him as a person.

We know Natsuki lost her memory, and is on a quest to find her memories but that isn't an excuse for her to be defined solely by how annoying she is.

Then we have Masumi and the pink one, who are both basically bits of the scenery, and Masumi only stands out at all because he's such a raging dick - and has bad teeth.