[SengalBoy]

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Originally Posted by Annuga

Lupinranger VS Patranger, hands down. Two opposing teams is such an interesting idea, but due to the plot favoring the Lupins, the Pats can't win, which can be worked around but eh. Then came Noel's smarmy ass and finally, the toy sales gave the staff the wrong lessons, the Pats were more interesting too, Pat1 had character development (The fact I'm praising a character for this is a red flag) and was honest to god the best character in the show, Pat3 was pretty cool and likeable, with her episodes standing out the most to me in a good way and Hilltop was a cool mentor character with all of the 8 minutes of screentime he was allowed to have but the Lupins just took literally all of their screentime and did nothing with it, you know, what people say about Daigo but for 4 bland ass characters and not exaggerated. There's more I could go on about such as the borderline braindead plottwist involving Noel and possibly the worst Sentai episode I've ever seen. I was really looking forward to it too

Honestly LuPat might be my second most disappointed series. I wasn't hyped for it as much as Kyuranger because I've learned the mistake, and was also skeptical because my thought was "What's the point of having two teams if the Red's gonna get focus?" but the show failed on its premise so hard that whenever I see Lupinrangers I feel hatred lol.

Toei wondered why Kyuranger and LuPat didn't live up to expectations, they tried to take a risk and do something new and different, but didn't follow that and stick to the same stuff. I know that drastically changing the franchise is risky, considering that Ryuki technically changed the whole 'karate bugmen' aspect of Kamen Rider, but in the long run, Kamen Rider is the leading toku franchise, even if we missed the karate bugmen aspect.