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Originally Posted by Red5

My biggest beef with Jetman is how Kaori became a prize for the male members and Ako was kind of forgotten

I noticed that too, which is funny to me, since I find Ako both more enjoyable as a character AND more attractive.

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It has very little substance outside of Gai's brash attitude, which he drops after the first 5 episodes beyond a snarky remark here and there.

Well, let's look at Megaranger, a series I personally found to have very little substance. Red acts like an idiot, everybody else takes everything more seriously. Then they fight the enemy. If the enemy is Yugande, he whines and then has to come up with a way to redeem himself. Rinse and repeat. I only made it about halfway through because I got so bored I couldn't finish.

Jetman is interesting to me because of the character dynamics. Raita and Gai are both into Kaori, who is into Ryuu. Gai and Ryuu are constantly at odds with each other, both over Kaori and the Jetmen in general. Poor Ako is left out. The villains are all also trying to one-up each other the whole time. I like the dynamics, and haven't seen any other Sentai with as much character drama. (then again, I haven't really seen a lot. Zyuranger is the only one i've completed, while Jetman and Megaranger are the only other ones i've made it past episode 20. I've seen 9 episodes of Kakuranger, 6 of Gokaiger and Battle Fever J, 2 of Dairanger, and 1 of Goranger, JAKQ, Timeranger, Carranger, ToQGer, Ninninger, and Gekiranger.)