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If there was a "Serious to Silly" scale for Sentai, with 1 Jetman or the early 80s shows and 10 being Carranger or Akibaranger, Go-Busters is like a 5. As someone who has a really hard time getting into Sentai because it can be too silly, I found this show pretty enjoyable. It can be very silly, but it's a kind of silly that I enjoy, as opposed to Kyoryuger, which I dropped around ten episodes in because I found it insufferable. If this resembles any of Kobayashi's Rider work, I'd say the closest analogue is probably Den-O, and not just because of a similar use of mascot characters.

I've watched a lot of tokusatsu since I got into the genre back in '09 and there are certain things that I've taken from them and incorporated into other parts of my life. There's probably none that I've embraced as consistently and wholeheartedly, though, as Go-Buster's "Let's Verb-ing."