[Blade Raider]

I started to talk about a few others that I don't like, but the more I thought about it, the more I remember why I hated this one the most: Dekaranger. There's a full list of issues I have with this show.

1) Unnecessary narrator stock audio. This is a nitpick, so I'm getting it out of the way first. I just really hate this being in every damn episode and serving no purpose. It doesn't explain anything of importance that just watching doesn't.

2) Aliens aren't people, so it's perfectly okay for the police officers to kill them instead of arrest them (or even attempt to arrest). Yes I know, Sentai and monsters etc. etc., but they set up the show as a police show, not a invasion or war, or whatever. I think they arrest maybe one or 2 aliens in the show, but only as plot convenience. The fact that they (and their morpher) are judge, jury, and executioner does not sit with me well at all. It's so obviously wrong that even Power Rangers had to address it with card prisons.

3) It's a show about detectives, so at most only 1 and a 1/2 of them are even remotely competent at their job. Ban and Umeko are at the top of this list of incompetence. They are bad at their job and one of them is the leader and other thinks they are the leader. They aren't like newbies either. Episode 1 isn't the first day on the job for either of them. Ban could get away with a bit of this early on because he's a transfer, but by episode 10 that shouldn't still be happening every episode.

4) Incompetent villain making heroes look more incompetent. The main villain was in the shadows until episode 30, where he reveals himself. If the villain hadn't done this, the Dekarangers wouldn't have been any the wiser. So not only does the villain screw him over, but he makes the heroes look dumb for not realizing there was a shadowy villain pulling the stings.

4) Lack of plot. Last one ties into this. There's not really a story arc or anything and there so easily could've been. I'm not asking for a serial or anything, just that there needed to be an ongoing investigation. Like Dekarangers should've known that the crimes were linked, but not how they were linked. That would've made for a decent cat and mouse kind of plot that would end up with the big reveal of who the villain is. Instead we get nothing.

5) One hell of a catchy theme song that I haven't gotten out of my head since I began numbering these points. That's not a negative so much as being annoyed that one of the few good things popped into my head while writing this