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Originally Posted by Den-O

I actually like that. I've seen this show as straight up parody from the very beginning. Down to it's explanations of everything. The way bad guys just randomly appeared in multiple incarnations, the way new powers just sort of materialized. It's the purest form of parody of the toku genre. Which is why I'm loving it so damn much. Akibaranger was a tribute so it made sense, this is a tribute as well but at the same time a very hardcore parody of every type of toku. Akibaranger called things out that were crazy and made logic out of them, this show just lives and breathes tropes and plot gaps

Even as a parody though, it isn't too much to want something that was actually well thought out. Samurai Flamenco's biggest flaw is that it built things up to have them amount to absolutely nothing.

You have to bear in mind Akibaranger was a show that was geared to Sentai nerds. On the other hand Samurai Flamenco at one point (not sure if it had it for the second half) had the "hottest" anime slot on Japanese television. When your show isn't primarily geared toward a certain audience you need to at least have things make coherent sense and not just rely on parody with no proper explanation. Do that and you get a show that's going to fail, and by the looks of it thats exactly what Samurai Flamenco is doing.

I've enjoyed it up until that point and am enjoying the episodes that followed, but I can see now the show pretty much dug its own grave in terms of success/ratings.