[Locke]

Decided to watch the first episode of Gaoranger before bed. Minus the annoying as fuck theme I really enjoyed this, I might watch this along side the climaxing Gobus.

Although it looked REALLY dated at times, this is probably as perfect an introduction to a series as you're gong to get. It established things quickly, and precisely in a no nonsense fashion while being generally pretty damn stylish about it and coming packed with great designs. I really like how their weapons combine into a melee weapon and not another cannon.

Plus the core concept is really fun - five sentient, giant, robotic animals ride around on a floating island shaped like a turtle guarding the planet from monsters while each picking a champion to fight with them. Nothing original sure, but don't fix what ain't broke, right?

Only real bad thing was the changer, what is it with sentai and using phone changers in the most illfitting of shows? I still can't get over that time in Shinkenger when Edo Japan samurai were transforming with fucking flip phones.

That and the annoying sentai trait of having the Red being an outsider but not committing to it in the fight scenes. Just like in Dairanger, GaoRed goes from not knowing what is going on at all, and questioning whether he too can fight before Changing and immediately fighting as if he's been a part of the team always. It's both distracting and makes a huge part of the episode feel pointless. I think the only time this has ever been done well was Casey in Jungle Fury.

[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Paladin

Imagination Station (the group that first attempted ToQGer) has released subs for the first two episodes of Abaranger!

http://anotherimaginationstation.wor...aranger-01-02/

Definitely have to check this out; Aba subs are very rare.

Oh, wow! This is exciting! Abaranger is one of the series I've most wanted to try out. I hear it has a pretty complex plot with almost zero filler. I'm also a huge fan of Naruhisa Arakawa's sentai, so, yeah. Great news.

Probably gonna wait until it's finished, but it's nice to know Abaranger might actually be something I can watch and understand one day!

[MidoGreen]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Decided to watch the first episode of Gaoranger before bed. Minus the annoying as fuck theme I really enjoyed this, I might watch this along side the climaxing Gobus.

Although it looked REALLY dated at times, this is probably as perfect an introduction to a series as you're gong to get. It established things quickly, and precisely in a no nonsense fashion while being generally pretty damn stylish about it and coming packed with great designs. I really like how their weapons combine into a melee weapon and not another cannon.

Plus the core concept is really fun - five sentient, giant, robotic animals ride around on a floating island shaped like a turtle guarding the planet from monsters while each picking a champion to fight with them. Nothing original sure, but don't fix what ain't broke, right?

Only real bad thing was the changer, what is it with sentai and using phone changers in the most illfitting of shows? I still can't get over that time in Shinkenger when Edo Japan samurai were transforming with fucking flip phones.

That and the annoying sentai trait of having the Red being an outsider but not committing to it in the fight scenes. Just like in Dairanger, GaoRed goes from not knowing what is going on at all, and questioning whether he too can fight before Changing and immediately fighting as if he's been a part of the team always. It's both distracting and makes a huge part of the episode feel pointless. I think the only time this has ever been done well was Casey in Jungle Fury.

Jan in Gekiranger also worked fairly well. Mainly because he didn't spend all those years in the wilderness alone just doing nothing.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Decided to watch the first episode of Gaoranger before bed. Minus the annoying as fuck theme I really enjoyed this, I might watch this along side the climaxing Gobus.

Although it looked REALLY dated at times, this is probably as perfect an introduction to a series as you're gong to get. It established things quickly, and precisely in a no nonsense fashion while being generally pretty damn stylish about it and coming packed with great designs. I really like how their weapons combine into a melee weapon and not another cannon.

Plus the core concept is really fun - five sentient, giant, robotic animals ride around on a floating island shaped like a turtle guarding the planet from monsters while each picking a champion to fight with them. Nothing original sure, but don't fix what ain't broke, right?

Only real bad thing was the changer, what is it with sentai and using phone changers in the most illfitting of shows? I still can't get over that time in Shinkenger when Edo Japan samurai were transforming with fucking flip phones.

That and the annoying sentai trait of having the Red being an outsider but not committing to it in the fight scenes. Just like in Dairanger, GaoRed goes from not knowing what is going on at all, and questioning whether he too can fight before Changing and immediately fighting as if he's been a part of the team always. It's both distracting and makes a huge part of the episode feel pointless. I think the only time this has ever been done well was Casey in Jungle Fury.

I am like 11 episodes into GaoRanger and I enjoy it but I got sidetracked by everything else. It is a good series so far I just don't know why I haven't watched more.

The changer is weird though, but Sentai does love the phone changers from then.

[Matrixbeast]

Blame Mega Silver for making phone changers so bloody popular...

Anyway, it's been a few days since finishing Megaranger, so I was thinking about starting up another series (I didn't want to start immediately so I don't experience burnout).
Jetman and Zyuranger were the two I was considering the most, but the talk of Gobusters and, now, Gao, has gotten me interested in those two as well.
Any suggestions?

[Locke]

Gobusters isn't perfect, but when it does something well, it does it better than any other sentai, so I recommend that.

[ZeoRangerV]

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Originally Posted by Paladin

Imagination Station (the group that first attempted ToQGer) has released subs for the first two episodes of Abaranger!

http://anotherimaginationstation.wor...aranger-01-02/

Definitely have to check this out; Aba subs are very rare.

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Originally Posted by MidoGreen

Abaranger subs!? I've been waiting for this for so many years !

If they can at least pass episode 10 then this will be really big

The fact they say they're currently working on ep34 gives me lots of hope.

[MidoGreen]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

If they can at least pass episode 10 then this will be really big

The fact they say they're currently working on ep34 gives me lots of hope.

I was a tad skeptical at first, and then I saw they had built a backlog of releases. It gives me hope that 2014 will be the year Abaranger will be competely subbed.

[Locke]

I guess I'll also add that to my list before watching Gokaiger if it actually gets finished.

[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I guess I'll also add that to my list before watching Gokaiger if it actually gets finished.

I think they're committing to a once-a-week release schedule, so you may be waiting a while.

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Originally Posted by Locke

Gobusters isn't perfect, but when it does something well, it does it better than any other sentai, so I recommend that.

Agreed. Check that out next.