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Originally Posted by MarsHottentot

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS
EP01

The 36th entry into the Super Sentai series, Tokumei Senti Go-Busters goes old school while tossing a lot of other Sentai conventions out the window. The show is weird in that it seems so different from regular Sentai, compounded by using such American Power-isms as "It's Morphin' Time", "Morphers" and "Megazords", but is more of a throwback to Showa style - faux serious, team starts as a trio and a family dynamic.

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The slightly more grounded feel sacrifices much of Sentai's lunacy, which I'm not sure works.

Overall, a good, but not great, debut.

I echo these sentiments exactly. Go-Busters is a Showa-era throwback that ditches a lot of Sentai's trademark zaniness in favor of Kamen Rider-style pseudo-scientific "realism."

Some of it works, and some of it doesn't. There are a few excellent moments and episodes, but overall the show never rises above "good, but not great." Which is not to say I don't like it. I do. It's just super inconsistent.

Ultimately, the show's biggest failing is that liked Hiromu, Yoko, and Ryuji are duds. There are other characters that make up for their lack of charisma -- Jin, Beet J Stag, Enter, and Kuroki -- but it always sucks when the heroes are a show's weak link.