[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Thessair

I just finished Go-Busters. I enjoyed the series immensely. Bit of a downer there at the ending, though. I'm going to make another attempt to get past episode 1 of Sun Vulcan now.

Edit: Just out of curiosity, does anyone offer DDL for their subs other than TV Nihon? Torrents are kind of tricky for me at the moment.

Try http://krdl.info/

[Locke]

Dairanger 23.

Back to Kujaku we go! I'm not complaining, Kujaku is like one of my favourite characters, and she always causes a lot of focus on Daigo the best of the Dairanger's but it does make the whole Akomaru arc feel like some elaborate piece of filler, just one giant meaningless detour. Hell with the way Kou wasn't even in this episode it feels like I'm watching the show out of order.

I dunno how to feel about the whole pollution thing. I mean on the one hand, it is a cool idea to think about how different our world would have been 6,000 years ago and the effect it would have on our bodies but on the other, do we really need more super sentai green peace messages?

Plus, what is with Daigo and Kujaku's melodramatic, Twilight like romance? They haven't established a single thing between these guys really, so Daigo suddenly making dramatic love declarations was almost as ridiculous as the monster of the week, Heatwave Hood.

Their escape from Heatwave Hood though? So epic.

[Sentai]

ChouJuu Sentai Livemane subbed by GUIS, episode one.

So... Uh... Yea, that was weird? Yea, let's go with weird. Yuu, Megumi, and Joe are what you expect from early eighties/late 70's Sentai. Stiff movements and add syntax. YThey were good though. And they weren't the weirdness.

Looking at you Miss ElbowCannon Dominatrix, Jawface, and Beast Cosplay.

I enjoyed it though. Even if the story is a little Jetman before Jetman was a thing.

[Locke]

Dairanger 24.

I love this shows internal continuity, the way characters and plots will resurface to make it feel like a complete world. The mythology is pretty confusing, to be fair, but at least there is a sense of world building in play.

I may not like Baseball, but with all the crazy powers and utter disregard for sportsmanship or rules, this match was as entertaining as it was utterly hilarious. Especially all the unexplained Engrish, although I still don't get why everyone dribbles over Lin.

Shouji really annoyed me in this episode though. Why would he trust the Stooges over his own friends? Honestly, that kinda highlights one of my main issues with this show. I'm really REALLY enjoying Dairanger, but the Dairanger's themselves suck.

Minus Daigo, basically none of them have had any real focus, and the show really only ever has them unmorphed and together when they are getting shouted at by Master Zordon or in the ten second end of episode sequence, after they've gone through the motions with their tacked on mech fight. I mean hell, just look at Kibaranger, who was completely absent from the last episode and just randomly turned up in the last few minutes of this one.

I mean I'm happy this show is so focused on the stuff at hand, but seeing our heroes as people, seeing their friendships form and blossom is really important, and an odd thing to completely cut out, when there is so many other sentai clichés which could and should be removed that they chose to leave in, in the friendships absence.

I'm half way through and the Dairanger's still don't feel like a team, just a bunch of strangers in palette swapped costumes.

[KRX]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

ChouJuu Sentai Livemane subbed by GUIS, episode one.

So... Uh... Yea, that was weird? Yea, let's go with weird. Yuu, Megumi, and Joe are what you expect from early eighties/late 70's Sentai. Stiff movements and add syntax. YThey were good though. And they weren't the weirdness.

Looking at you Miss ElbowCannon Dominatrix, Jawface, and Beast Cosplay.

I enjoyed it though. Even if the story is a little Jetman before Jetman was a thing.

Choujyu Sentai Liveman has some of the scariest visuals I have ever seen. Someone on that show was having a bad acid trip.

[Thessair]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Try http://krdl.info/

Thanks a bunch!

[algo448]

Go-Busters 32-33: The Gavan arc.
That was completely unnecessary, Gavan teaming up with the Gokaigers made sense, but Geki and the Go-Busters clashed, badly. Shelly was fun, but other than that having Gavan here was simply badly done advertisement for the movie.
On the Go-Busters side Morishita gets more character development, and Enter reappears.
Seems like the next set of episodes gets things back on track.

[Locke]

Dairanger 25.

A Kazu focused episode?! It will his second one in twenty five episodes! Where's Kazu the Dairanger's ask? The audience have been asking that question for the whole series... Evil Kazu kinda reminded me of Gremlin.

How was the actual episode? Dumb. Evil Kazu wasted so many opportunities to complete his task, the Master continued to be unconvincing, the Copy Empress was ridiculous and not in a fun way, and it was so pathetic how the Dairanger's reacted when she pretended to be a Hollywood scout, you're meant to be heroes man!

The evil Dairanger's were fun though, I wish more Sentai had teams of evil Rangers, something about the concept has always been really cool to me. Even though basically the only time we got that was with the Psycho Rangers who I basically remember nothing about. The evil Dairanger's functioned as more of a team than the real ones.

Plus, although INSANELY dated, watching this alongside GARO really makes me appreciate the action. GARO is all CGI basically, so seeing the Dairanger's actually doing crazy stunts, and seeing so much of the fighting actually play out, with only the occasional bit of wirework or whatever just makes the fighting so damn enjoyable.

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by KRX

Choujyu Sentai Liveman has some of the scariest visuals I have ever seen. Someone on that show was having a bad acid trip.

A wonderful bad acid trip. It's weird, but I'm enjoying it. And thanks

[Locke]

Dairanger 26.

The episode where a super powered martial arts assassin (darkness Karate lol) at one point goes after Kamen Rider Kuuga. Oh Japan, letting a guy murder people very violently and bloodily on screen in a kids show. And then the Dairanger's went on to fight a pot. And not the good kind.

I love how Ryou seemed surprised at the idea of losing, considering every opponent Ryou faces, kicks his ass. He's spent more of the series laying on the floor covered in jam and mud than he has destroying monsters. Worst Red ever? He's certainly the worst sentai red I've come across so far, the Dairanger's are a bad bad bad team.

Also, didn't Ryou have a fighting style up until this point? The pipe dude named it in the first episode but I can't remember what he called it. Well apparently the show forgot... But then, I guess so did I. That is what happens when the show puts nearly entirely zero focus on any of the characters, minus localised and fleeting sequences that are largely meaningless.

Shouji is the bad boy, so he has no sleeves. Even though him, Daigo and Ryou have all basically become the same character across the show, just with varying degrees of usefulness.

The action is still good, though. This episode sure was gory though.