[Locke]

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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

I thought Dairanger had some good characters, mostly Daigo and Kou. The pacing wasn't great but the ending was the worst.

It wasn't so much the characters were bad, as they were poorly used. Daigo was basically Dairanger's main character, yet he was Green. Red was barely in the show at all, and about his only characterisation was 'look how badass I am!'. And remember his whole plot with his Dad and how it's only mentioned once, in the episode it is included in? And then at the end they throw out like a thousand twists that confuse this for no purpose?

And don't get me started on yellow, who had maybe what, two episodes focused on him in the entire show? And remember how pink was like a direct descendent or something, so it suggested she was like super important? Yeah after that all she did was get her tits squeezed by a small child for the whole show.

And remember how Souji and his morphed form didn't match up at all, like they were two totally different characters? Brilliant.

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Originally Posted by Suzu

Ahhhh, don't scare me x,D I wanted to watch this one after I finished Den-O....

You'll probably love it, the rest of the fandom does for some reason.

[Suzu]

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Originally Posted by Locke

You'll probably love it, the rest of the fandom does for some reason.

You say that to the girl who loves Goseiger and was really disappointed by Kiva and Den-O...

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Suzu

You say that to the girl who loves Goseiger and was really disappointed by Kiva and Den-O...

Maybe you wont like Dairanger then? As I thought Kiva was rubbish, and although I enjoyed Den-O in parts, I'm not quite seeing the hype (but I'm like a quarter of the way through, so times can change, like it did with OOO).

[Suzu]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Maybe you wont like Dairanger then? As I thought Kiva was rubbish, and although I enjoyed Den-O in parts, I'm not quite seeing the hype (but I'm like a quarter of the way through, so times can change, like it did with OOO).

I'm someone who likes to see for herself and doesn't care what the rest of the fandom thinks. So it's a 50% chance I'll like it and a 50% chance I won't like it.

[ZeoRangerV]

Heh, I posted in this thread back 2011 and still stick by what I said then. Not a fan of Boukenger at all.

However, since then I have also watched Sun Vulcan. Yeesh.

[Locke]

An honourable mention to Kyoryuger, which is the first sentai I went from loving to outright dropping in less than fifteen episodes. I know I picked Dairanger, but now I think about it, at least I could stomach the entire series.

[Boshusan]

From what I saw :

Before 2000: JetMan, Sun Vulcan, Liveman, Bioman, Zyuranger, Dairanger, Maskman, and some Battle Fever J and Gorenger here and there (next will be Kakuranger, it's almost fully subbed).

I would say Sun Vulcan is the black sheep, because of its very *repetitive* nature even by SS tropes. It gots some charm through its vintage aspect, but if I were to dress a list of the episodes critical to the plot, I think I couldn't find more than 8 or 9 of them : the first one, the mid-season retooling one, and the 6 last ones, from the arrival of Inazuma Ginga.

In an older post I made :

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Well it's fun to watch, I can't deny. Crazy stuff there, like the camera monster whose attack is to zoom in and out, or the two-parter about Espers.
But I think it's a shame that you can compile all the main plot in 10 episodes, and the rest is stock plots (and by 10 I'm generous). I know the genra was still new at the time, and I guess what I call "stock" was perhaps used for the very first time (the parental episode, the wedding one, the vampire one(*), etc.) There's only 3 heroes (well 5, the funky boss and his daughter count as much) and they don't really get the attention they deserve. For example, here and there is a red-focused or yellow-focused episode, but the rest is generic in terms of plot or narration.

Sometimes I got the impression they were testing stuff that became staple in the following years. For example, a shot of the Sun Vulcan robot turning his back to a defeated exploding giant motw was used only once.

(*) fun to notice there was always a Dracula-esque vampire episode in older Sentai.

Special bonus: Zyuranger, fun to watch still incredibly dumb breaking suspension of disbelief every 2 minutes.

Post 2000: Gokaiger, Gaoranger, Gekiranger, Gobusters, Magiranger Shinkenger, Dekaranger and Boukenger (haven't start Kyoruger yet mostly because of Zyuranger dinobullsh*t overdose, afraid of starting Gosei because of the general bashing).

Gobusters, again from an older post:

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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...

[Locke]

At least this thread taught me I can watch the whole of Sun Vulcan in ten episodes.

[Boshusan]

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At least this thread taught me I can watch the whole of Sun Vulcan in ten episodes.

Let's say 8~11:

• 1: global exposition,

• 23: the retooling one,

• 29: optional , additional ranger - well, sort of,

• 36-37: optional, the two-parter about espers with references to the previous show Denzyman,

• 45-50: Inazuma Ginga entry and the begining of the end.

Once again, it has its good points, it's just lacking in some areas comparatively to other sentai series.

[Matrixbeast]

Gokaiger.
Sun Vulcan works well as a sleep aid and I am most definitely not a fan, but Gokaiger is just so...Disappointing. It had so much opportunity to do something great, but instead took the easy route and it suffered for it.