[Aoi Kurenai]

Yeah, a lot of the mecha action in shows before Zyuranger feels like an after thought. It takes, what? Like 8 episodes or so for Liveman's mecha battle after they form LiveRobo to actually change up the choreography.

And that's not to mention that a lot of the mecha filming itself just sucked back then before Zyuranger. Most of the time there isn't much of an attempt made to sell the illusion of these things being giants. I feel this is a huge shame in Turboranger since those last few enemies, including the main enemy himself, have some fantastic designs and deserved better battles.

At best, 80s Sentai was very inconsistent. You had stuff like this, which just looks like two guys in suits on a beach, and then stuff like this, where they go out of their way to build a kickass prop.

Though I will say, poor quality CGI is just as bad because of how visible good CGI is in movies, so this stuff instantly looks bad rather than just ages bad. One of the best instances of CGI I've seen in toku was the first two seconds or so of Decade doing the Ryuki Final Form Rider for the first time. As he transforms into the dragon, it's animated nicely and well textured and then the very next scene...it's like they got lazy and realized how close the deadline was. The Rescue Fire stuff was really good as well, for a TV budget, the machines are consistently animated to a pretty good level, have a nice amount of texture on them and don't feel all...janky.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Meteor

I can't really say that i forgot. But in my head Sentai is Goranger , J.A.K.Q. -------------------HUGE GAP---------------- then Jetman to now.

I have a weird disinterest in any Sentai between J.A.K.Q and Jetman. I am not really sure why.

You're missing out on some really great shows like Bioman, Changeman, and Flashman. And some decent shows in Maskman, Liveman, and Fiveman.