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Originally Posted by DreamSword

aint kobayashi the one who wrote power rangers samurai

yeah along with her co-writer google translate

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Originally Posted by Kurona

this is the point at which I've watched every Sentai onwards aside from Goseiger

Me too! I am also slightly weirded out that I'm this far into this thing.

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Shinkenger is a show that took me a while to come around on, but in typical Kobayashi fashion; of course I ended up falling in love. It's impossible to do so without spoilers because in a way that's so very Blade of it it's one that's all tied into the ending and how perfectly it wraps all of the character drama together, and it's a hell of an ending that's always on my mind. It actually made it a little hard for me to get into Timeranger as a whole because I feel Shinkenger is a greater execution of what Kobayashi was trying to do almost 10 years prior! It's just such a strong show, with sharp intent and effort crafted into everything it does. I'm not a fan of everything the show does and I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for not being able to like it, but it's one that was just so rewarding by the end

There's a scene I immediately think of whenever I think of Shinkenger, and it's *THAT* scene from episode 47. It's one of the most emotional things I've ever seen in a toku show, where the precision of Shinkenger becomes as clear as ever, from Nakazawa's direction, Kobayashi's script, the performances the actors give, the music (the music!), to just how properly it feels like the show was always building up to that moment with the team... like, they just earned the heck out of that emotion in every way possible, and it's a beautiful scene like that which I look back on and can never see Shinkenger as anything other than a masterpiece. There are plenty of Sentai I like more than Shinkenger for various reasons, but the sheer quality of this show's execution is hard to surpass. I really think it deserves whatever praise it gets.