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Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 382
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Never seemed to have an idea of what it wanted to be, or couldn't be what it wanted (a dark "serious" sentai show--with lovable wacky robots!), kept ending prematurely (no one really ever seemed that sad about losing their parents, too. Seems a major miss), kept the focus on Messiah too long when Enter was the most entertaining villain, kept picking up and dropping plot threads and doing really wacky comedy that wasn't all that funny.
It got its act together at the end but . . .ehhh. I know following Gokaiger was no picnic, but that doesn't excuse them not trying, at least. On the plus side, "Busters Ready GO!" was a catchy tune, the crossover with Gavan was pretty rad,J was the only Buddyroid whose antics didn't grate, and when Enter stepped up, the show got a lot of energy back. 4/10 for me--Even when sentai is bad, it's pretty good, but Toei can do much, much, better than this. |
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#12 |
KinGold
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 888
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It made me cry at the end so it passes in my book
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#13 |
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 395
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I missed most of the series, to be honest. I watched the first 3 episodes and only came back for the last 4, but that was because of Enter. As a villain, he was fantastic and his first "Let's....... Morphin'." was packed full of creepiness and awesomesauce. I think I didn't watch it for the same reasons I didn't watch RPM. The serious plot doesn't mesh well with the goofy looking mecha. Costumes were fantastic, the weapon/morpher announcer was a treat but I just didn't get invested in it.
Also, the first theme was far superior to the later one in my eyes. Kind of made me think of the team as Japanese Thunderbirds for some reason and that's pretty cool. |
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#14 |
It's Toku time!!!!
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Nottingham,UK
Posts: 1,049
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For me personally it's the worst series I have watched. Saying that, I've only watched Goseiger and Gokaiger fully and I consider them equal with Go-Buster behind, but not by far.
It's not a truly terrible series, but its not great either. There's some awesome characters, mech and suit designs and some pretty neat ideas. It just gets bogged down with filler, bad pacing and plot holes. |
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#15 |
Sentai of the Ages
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Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 16,715
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Go-Busters had things going against it. It came off what was a huge series, that set the bar way up there somewhere in Japan. They were trying something new in many different ways. And sometimes that doesn't work in the best of times. The show was slow to get going, more so than any Sentai series I can remember. But once it got going it was alright. The Mechs were a mess, but I've learned to love the mess. And it ended fairly strong.
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#16 |
New Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 43
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Overall, I've really enjoyed Gobusters, especially the latter half. I thought it had a pretty good start; though it dragged on middle, but once it picked up its pace again, oh man was it amazing. Sure, it had several things working against (just coming off how huge Gokaiger was, some awful episodes, goofy ideas that didn't work etc.), but I really appreciate how it tried something new and different, and love it for it. Enter was a glorious villain, the latter half of the series was great and it finished off with a brillant finale. It's not perfect, but we already know what Gobusters said about perfection. A solid 8.5/10.
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#17 |
Gathering Rangers for D&D
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Orgrimmar
Posts: 7,949
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I can't really add much of anything that hasn't already been said but I will say this. I'm sad to see Gobusters go but I shall look forward to Kyoryuger.
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#18 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: France
Posts: 294
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5.5/10 for me.
They tried new things at first, and they had to, because it was quite a job to take over after the cool cross-over fiesta that was Gokaiger. Storywise, the plot was solid until Jin and J appeared, with a "realistic" side, and in the last part with the cards. Between this two parts, it was meh, Enter/Escape appeared for no reason than fight the Gobusters. I like how they answered "why don't the baddies send all their mechs at once ?": because Messiah is a dumbass. Enter was a great vilain, he managed to be competent and, step by step, put his plan in motion. And I mean a REAL plan, not like a stupid device to hypnotize all children in Tokyo and force them to die eating too much ramen. The vilain DID something, for once that was refreshing. Messiah was transparent. I think the show lacked another couple of evil generals (yes I waited for Control and Alt). Cross-over with Gavan type-G was fun (I'm a fan of Gavan and the space sheriffs trilogy). Mech fights were good, as the Gobusters fights. I didn't really like the cast, except J and he's a guy in a robot suit... |
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#19 |
The true color of a Hero
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Columbia, SC
Posts: 2,190
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I'd give it an 8/10. Even as someone who enjoyed every episode, even I admit the show had some slow parts. But it also gave up some of the best giant battles in the history of the franchise and one of the best villians ever. Those factors alone outweigh the negatives for me.
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#20 |
ranger review db25
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 190
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eh i'd give it a 4/10.the story was tryinig too hard and certain episodes were pretty dumb and boring.The mechas were interesting but majority it was red doing the mecha fighting the most.the characters were bleh kinda weak especially that they all had a weakness to them even their powered up version was pretty bland it just felt like they added armor on to them nothing else out of it.villians we just like a big they just come down here to fight nothing else.When beet & stag buster came it was abit interesting but still the series lacked a good follow up to an anniversary series
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