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Originally Posted by Sarcasticjalapeno

I just finished maskman. The show starts off really good but to me personally really starts to drag on, there are a few memorable scenes later on but not much...

Don't get me wrong though, it's still enjoyable, but it has so much potential

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that was par for the course when it comes to older Sentai like this. I haven't seen a lot of pre-90s Tokusatsu, I've only seen Liveman at this point, but of the ones I have seen, they tend to have really good story concepts but just kind of begin to fall flat when it comes to actually *telling* that story. I don't usually watch Sentai for its storyline though, especially one as old as Maskman, so I don't mind. When it comes to these older Tokusatsu, I usually watch them because either the concept sounded interesting, I felt like watching a time capsule of a show that does a bunch of things that would never be done these days for whatever reason, or because I though the main characters were cute... That last one is, like, 60% of the reason I chose to watch Maskaman honestly.

That being said, I just finished episode 12 of Maskman and, as bad as this may sound, I was kind of laughing the entire time in the beginning. It was hilarious how little those ninjas cared about the lives of the ordinary civilians. They were just throwing around explosive Shurikens, crashing into buildings and wrecking everything inside, and just didn't give a damn that they were causing complete and utter chaos everywhere they went. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little disappointed when Haruka said she'd show them how a real ninja fights and just kind of drove the enemy away in a big truck. Oh well, still a pretty fun episode for reasons I don't think the writers intended.