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Originally Posted by Random

I'm almost sure that's just a combination of bad scans and the lighting in the promotional shots. It might be a different shade of light blue than usual, but it definitely still looks lighter than those male rangers to me. I guess we'll see.

The point still stands that the male Blues have gotten lighter shades as well. Yakumo is more traditional, but Nossan and Tokacchi went with some very light, soft tones.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

Even when a show is chock-full of aspirational females, there's always gonna be the episode where one of the girls threatens to give up everything to marry a prince (at best) or some rando dude from childhood (at worst). There's always gonna be the episode where one of the girls is so frivolous she considers becoming a pop star at the expense of her duty. There's always gonna be a moment where the girls get disturbingly excited about shopping, dancing, and/or baking, despite none of those interests fitting their characters' established personalities. And that's just the start of the troubling tropes of the genre.

If there is "always" an episode including one of the tropes you mentioned, then give me some examples. Because honestly, I can't think of many (for some plots even any) shows that had such episodes. Heck, we even had the exact opposite of the idol one in Abaranger, where Ranru gave up on being an idol to be an engineer (which is, surprise surprise, a job considered to be masculine) and even had nightmares about having to be an idol again.
Also, character traits don't define interests. What's so bad about girls who like baking/shopping/dancing? As long as they don't say they hate it beforehand, it isn't OOC for them to like it. And like with the idol thing we also have at least one show that did the opposite. Remember when Moune had to calm herself down in Goseiger by doing Ikebana (which is considered extremely girly) and she just freaked out because she hated it. Also, the whole episode was joking on the fact that she isn't a typical girly girl.

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Originally Posted by Random

And I feel like things have really regressed in recent years. Kyoryuger was a complete embarrassment (despite being a series I overall liked) and ToQGer had some very offensive episodes, usually involving the yellow ranger.

I think we might have some very essential differences in views then, because I never found Kyoryuger to embarassing nor did I find any episode of Toqger offensive.