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Originally Posted by Suzu

Well, to be fair here, the Kyoryugers DID have some more backstory than for example GekiYellow and GekiBlue. Oh and GekiChopper. That guy sure got the short end of the stick when it comes to character depth :/

Geri Chopper did get shafted. He was there just so they could bring in the rhino and nothing more.

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While not all of them were so big that they were memorable, Souji, Ian and Nossan felt pretty fleshed out and Ucchi was pretty memorable as far as his story goes (Of course Ian and Souji did have a streak of episodes when their story wasn't as present, especially Ian. But his final confrontation with Aigallon was pretty neat). As for the Guardians/Spirit Rangers, I felt Yayoi and Torin had the most interesting backstory. Admitted, Tessai and Ramirez were rather gimmicky. Especially Ramirez' background would've been interesting to see, but yeah, there's various factors that kept them from doing more with him.

They did have development, but all of it was caused or aided by Daigo, which I didn't like. Nossan realized how strong his family was , because Daigo told him. The love triangle was dumb and even Utchy falling in love with him when he first met him (he did look like his previous lord though). I just didn't like how everything revolved around Daigo. Even the final fight was just him. The entire team was needed to do everything leading up to it, but the final fight came down to just him defeating Deboss, then coming back to go on an ice cream date with Amy. It was a bit much.

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Speaking of Gekiranger, Jan is also pretty much like Daigo as in most characters develop because he is there. It's a tad bit different in execution, but there were quite a handful of episodes where he triggered the other members (and the villains).

Gekiranger did focus on Jan a ton, but Jan had faults. He could henshin at first, couldn't figure out the team blaster at first, was a terrible leader at the beginning, was brash, impatient, had an episode where the biggest problem he had to figure out was for how the Gekirangers to stand in their line up, and had a complete breakdown when he found out about his parents.

Dig was abandoned by his dad when he was a kid, but he was fine. He traveled the world and solved everyone's problems. When his dad did come back, it was like another day at work for him. Daigo never developed; he started off as the epitome of man and ended that way. It became taxing to watch the more the season went on.