[Dr Kain]

ZyuRanger does have its faults because Goushi (who is my favorite of the main 5 nonetheless), Boi, and Dan don't really have any backstory or anything, but the show is by far in the top 10 best Sentai series of all time. The kid of the week plots do get annoying at times, especially because episodes 10-16 can be hit or miss for you, but the show's main stories and stuff are extremely well done and everything with Burai is amazing. Even the episodes after Burai's death are amazing.

Locke, how could you not follow DaiRanger? Then again, if you have trouble following something that simplistic, you definitely don't want to get later into the show when things start to get complex.

Jetman-KakuRanger are easily the best four years Sentai ever had in a row. Of course, CarRanger-TimeRanger are amazing series to, but some of them are not as strong as the previous four.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Locke, how could you not follow DaiRanger? Then again, if you have trouble following something that simplistic, you definitely don't want to get later into the show when things start to get complex.

Because everything just kept...happening. No reasons, no explanations, no pace, it was like reading a comic before the days of continuity panelling.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Because everything just kept...happening. No reasons, no explanations, no pace, it was like reading a comic before the days of continuity panelling.

That is a legit complaint for early Dairanger. The pacing is all over the place, especially with the incredibly rushed and then forgotten bit with Ryo's dad.

[Starscream Gaga]

Early Dairanger was extremely rushed, but once they settled into their stories (about the time Kujaku was introduced, I think), it seriously improved.

[Klonoahedgehog]

There's nothing else for me to do today so i watched Super hero taisen.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga

Early Dairanger was extremely rushed, but once they settled into their stories (about the time Kujaku was introduced, I think), it seriously improved.

What episode was that? I could watch 'til that point and see if it changes my mind.

[ZeoRangerV]

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Originally Posted by Locke

What episode was that? I could watch 'til that point and see if it changes my mind.

Episode 9 I think?

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

Episode 9 I think?

As it is my day off, I'm gonna spend it watching the first nine episodes of Dairanger (or rather rewatching the first four or so episodes, then trying out the next five).

[Locke]

So DaiRanger 01. What was that really drawn out pushbike scene about? For an episode so rushed, it seemed happy to waste time on BMX stunts.

The villains in this show are ridiculous, but I can't quite workout who is more ridiculous. You have the Gorma who look somewhere between nazis, steampunk and fetishists, getting out of completely normal vehicles for ridiculous effect, but then you also have autotuned ugly Japanese children who can summon hentai tentacles to kill people.

The worst part of the episode, by far though, is how Ryou goes from one scene, where he has no idea what the fuck is going on and rightly so, to literally the next scene where he morphs and wields his powers in such nonchalant fashion you have to assume about five years have passed between the two scenes for him to have mastered something so completely. But nope, it looks like about ten minutes have passed.

And I just wanna like it so bad, because those suits man, they are so beautiful. And the fight scenes and mecha man, they are so fucking good. Even with hilariously dated special effects in places.

If only their unmorphed personalities (what five seconds of it we see) don't seem to match with their morphed ones, which makes no sense at all as these fights were made for these characters. But I had the same problem with Jetman at times, and I love that show.

[Locke]

Dairanger 02. That Gouma chick looks like Jennifer Lawrence.

RyuuSeiOh is so fucking awesome, it feels like the mecha really has gone backwards in the last ten or so years. Now the awesome is done, time to fight a purse! I love how Blue's début of his power was it failing to work, good God. Then Jason Vorhees appears.

Still, the fights are especially fun, and are helped to become even greater by the high level of camp that early 90s sentai seemed to embrace with such vigour. These guys are ridiculous, I like how all red can do is shoot flames, when other members of the team can control gravity, time and make trains appear out of thin air. If I can enjoy OO on a pure entertainment level, then I can love this.

Shouji's like the brute of the team, right? So why is he blue? His martial arts and power don't seem to fit to him at all, he seems to be all about balance and concentration, despite being really wild and savage. I think he'd work better as yellow who seems drunk as fuck, despite seeming the most grounded of the team out of suit.