[Fish Sandwich]

Watched through episode 21 of Megaranger and it is sweet. Much like Gekiranger, this is a show I kinda knew I'd like, but I'm still surprised anyway just how much I'm liking it.

Where to even start? Well I guess first I can talk about how awesome the heroes are still. The whole friendship between the Megarangers continues to come off really strong, Kubota is still the best, and the INET staff in general is a great element to the show. Usually Sentai is just five random dudes saving the Earth from an army of monsters but this show regularly makes it a point that those five random dudes would get absolutely nowhere without the help they're getting from the mundane people working behind the scenes. The debut of Super Galaxy Mega really cemented that for me. Such great stuff.

Also, the Nezirezia have topped themselves in terms of craziness. These guys are terrifying. Let me put it this way. The first episode I watched today had them trying to raise an army of toad monsters to take over the planet with, and that's tame compared to some of the other crap I saw.

Like, okay, episode 19, right? It has the debut of a new commander guy. So how does he make his entrance? He blows up a crap-ton of buildings in his big flying saucer, airdrops in a ton of mooks to ransack the place for survivors, kidnaps a ton of children to later be brainwashed into use as human shields, and as a cherry on top, when the Megarangers show up to do their thing, he uses his super speed abilities to swap out a mook Mega Red is about to punch in the face with another kid, resulting in said kid being hospitalized and Mega Red having an existential crisis. THIS IS LITERALLY THE FIRST 4 MINUTES OF THE EPISODE!

That is really something else. I'm sure it was really fun for all the small children watching the show to see one of their heroes nearly kill a kid. It's kind of awesome, actually. Not the punching a kid so hard his face is bleeding part, but that they went that far. I mean, as soon as the episode started with everything getting blown to crap I assumed it was going to be some dream sequence or something but because everything that happened there, you know, did, I absolutely bought Kenta's angst over the whole thing, and it was awesome seeing him get over it (with Kubota's help, because duh), and come back swinging.

It was a great episode. A lot of these episodes are great episodes. I'm really into this show right now. My biggest complaint so far is that I have to sit through a way less awesome ending theme now, but even that's only going to be for ten episodes, so like, who cares? This show is awesome.