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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Cho Ninja Tai Inazuma2006 year. It's amazing how this little direct-to-video show that serves as entertainment for Sentai's cast caught my eye after the end of Geats. Judge for yourself.
According to the story, in the year 2075, on the 100th anniversary of the tokusatsu franchise, it was decided to travel back in time and film the show in the Edo era. A producer and an assistant find three stupid, but kind and charismatic guys and, with the help of future technologies, convince those that God has given them strength. But it turns out that the legend the show is based on is real. At least the monsters from it...
And if this is not enough for similarity with Geats, then the fox temple is also present in the plot. At the same time, Inazima immediately took a course in a different direction.
The show has a lot of parodies of tokusatsu and jigaigeki (Japanese historical dramas), but they are written with love and respect. The trinity of the main characters is twice deceived, but still does not lose optimism and desire to stop evil. Given the year of release, I would venture to suggest that this was a response to the gloomy tokusatsu 2000s. With references to series from Metal Heroes to Kagestar, they unobtrusively, but without ambiguity, stated that simple, optimistic stories have the right to life.
Of the minuses, I note that after real gaining strength, almost all comedy is lost. Yes, some attacks are frankly parodic, but in general, there is still more attention given to references, rather than humor. It seems to me that it was worth leaving the heroes at least the inability to pose in sync.
All in all, a nice little show, unpretentious but with a big heart. I recommend it to those who have not seen it yet and I sit down for the second season.

I remember watching this, probably in the early 10s. It has a lot of actors from Dekaranger and Magiranger. I recall the sequel adds Bouken Red as well. While I mostly watched for the ninjas, I think it's a good entry point to get Tokusatsu fans interested in Jidaigeki and maybe vice versa. The two genres mix together in an awesome and enjoyable way and when we inevitably get a fourth ninja Sentai, I'd like Toei to try something like this, with some additional inspiration from Kakuranger and Sekai Ninja Sen.