[SengalBoy]

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Originally Posted by macblo

Now onto the mecha. Despite being probably the biggest draw of the series merchandise wise, It always baffled me as to why the mecha is so... inconsequentially to the show as a whole. In most shows, the mecha is nothing more then a giant weapon, used against a monster that's already been destroyed, in a battle that can usually be skipped without losing anything of value as far as either the story or the characters are concerned.

Some shows try and get around this through a few different methods, such as making them actual characters or having them grant the rangers a special ability that's usable outside of mecha battles, but those are either so rare that they feel like nothing more then one off gimmicks to make the show stand out in some way from other shows in the series or they're apply so selectively that if feels less like they're making that specific mecha better and more like they making other mecha worse by not having it.

Hell, most of the time they can't even be bother to make the additional mecha do something other then change one of the main mecha's arms or give them a different weapon. The few times the mecha has a gimmick other then 'changing arms' its almost completely ignored after the first quarter of the show.

To make a long story short, my biggest problem with Super Sentai as a franchise is that I feel like the show isn't very good at selling its concept. For all of the different experiments they've tried over the last ten or so years with the show, I feel like they've done very little to fix the core issues with how they sell the show.

I could go even further about my problems with the toys themselves, whoever decided that a tokusatsu in 2020 shouldn't have a collectible device deserves to sent to bed without dinner for the entirety of this show's run, but I think I'll save that for another day.

This. Like I said, the mecha fights always felt like afterthought, like an obligatory need to do it just because it's a staple. It's also because the focus of the climax was on the ground fight, and when we get to mecha fights it's only brief.

I get that it's budget reasons because technically, Sentai had to juggle both the responsibilities that Kamen Rider and Ultraman had at the same time. I feel like Sentai needs to balance their mecha fights so that it seems important.

Yes, so far Kiramager seems to be doing that, and hopefully it makes them successful, but until then we'll see.