[Kamen Rider Lucha]

I'm STILL grinding my way through Megaranger. Have about 5 episodes left.

While there's a lot to like about the show, I find myself with so little enthusiasm to watch it.

I guess my issue is it all feels very boilerplate? Like, there's very little that sets it apart from baseline, average sentai. I feel like the heroes being high school students should make things feel less generic than they do, but here I am, in snoozeville. The villains are also pretty one-note, but at least Yugande looks cool as hell (I remember back when I was a kid, the Ecliptor action figure was the only villain toy I ever bought). Megaranger kind of feels like a 90s version of Maskman-- which was, until now, the most generic Sentai series I've seen. I think Megaranger would have benefited from being the 3rd or 4th Sentai show I watched, as opposed to the 16th. At this point, I just need more variation from the norm, I guess.

I was really looking forward to the Neziranger arc, but aside from the NeziBlue spotlight episode, I was pretty disappointed. In a way, it reminded me of the disappointment I felt when Ninninger introduced Great Western Youkai as big threats but ultimately featured them as disposable grunts. The Nezirangers were kind of nothing more than glorified MOTWs.

Still, great episodes pop up every so often, and that makes the show worthwhile. I guess I just like my sentai with a little more weirdness.

Gingaman is next on my list. Hopefully, that satisfies my craving for weird shit.