[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Yeah, I actually read up on Hirohisa Soda a bit after making that last post, since Goggle-V to Fiveman is his whole epic length era as main writer, and I gotta say, I feel even worse about dissing his Kakuranger episodes than I already did, because I'm only now starting to grasp just how much thought went into his work on Sentai, and how much of an impact it had on the franchise's direction. He was apparently vehemently against writing start to finish action with zero dramatic substance, and that attitude probably paved the way for writers like Inoue, Sugimura and Kobayashi to tell the kind of stories they did with their Sentai.

...I'm sure none of that is news to most Sentai fans, but humor me, okay? I'm having fun learning!

Okay so first of all, you quoting that made me realise I missed out a very important word I meant to type -- "a very heartfelt story for a Showa Sentai". Pretty big difference! Sounds like I'm dissing Toqger or Lupat otherwise!

I love hearing just how pushy this guy was about his standards. Like, I'd heard before that he was very indignant on there being a second girl for once; and now you're telling me he pushed so hard to actually tell a story. Gotta respect it!