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I want to love Go-Busters more than I do. Its got great suit designs, a fantastic villain in Enter and individual mecha fights that put pretty much every other Super Sentai to shame.

But that being said, there's so much dullness about it too. Ryuji is the only interesting character out of the main three, and even he only really grabs my attention when he's in overheated badass mode (such as last week's episode). Even though I was critical about them in their debut, I've grown to really like J and Masato and now their appearances are the only things really holding the team together for me. Then there's the combined mecha, who couldn't be less exciting if they tried. And this is coming from someone who doesn't mind clusterf**k mecha on the whole.

But if there's anything I say this show lacked, I'd say its heart. Its not something I can describe as easily as "the characters are dull" or "the mecha are rubbish" but even though there's so many radical differences in the series it just feels so by-the-books and samey. Nothing seems to stand out any more, and while after the first few episodes I thought this would turn out to be another one of my favourites now I find it more on par with average series like Gaoranger.

I still love Enter though. Just like Goseiger, its strange how I find all my favourite villains in the weaker shows.

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Originally Posted by FieryRed

An overall serious tone? Check.

Every time I think that it just gets nulled out by a chicken phobia.