[Kiwami]

Subs from Over-Time are up!

[ZeoRangerV]

Well that was a pretty spectacular intro. The mecha stuff absolutely blew my mind - if this series keeps that up then Go-Busters has a serious contender on its hands in that regard. As if all the Shinobimaru suit work wasn't fantastic enough, then it went and started moving those levers/pedals in the Shurikenjin sequence. Incredible stuff.

Really liking the team so far too. My first impressions say this looks like this is going to be another series with a more prominent red focus (I say "more" because all Sentai shows have it one way or another I guess), but hopefully it'll still be able to strike a relatively decent balance.

That said, there were a couple of things I wasn't a fan of. The villains have pretty good designs (though not a patch on ToQger's) but so far it's all the samey Samurai-youkai stuff you see everywhere so not a lot to really yet. The other problem was that the Shiro Ninger humour feels REALLY forced. I guess that's mostly a non-target audience viewer speaking, but those jokes just fell completely flat on me. The mecha one would have been better if it had actually gone on to do something useful afterward.

[GoseiWonder]

I'm having issues with patching or something.

[Paladin]

Episode 1 pulled in a 4.8% share of the ratings.

http://www.girlpop.jp/news/detail/?p=6624

That's the highest viewing for Super Sentai in four years!

[Switchblade]

Well, that was... not bad, I guess. I mean, it wasn't good, but it wasn't really bad either. It just kinda... was.

The pacing was a mess; there was easily two episodes worth of plot and character introduction here but it all got shoved into about 10-12 minutes and the show really suffered for it. The story's also painfully generic and lacks any strong hooks to pull me back in, like ToQGer's amnesia mystery. I do like Fuuka, since she's one of the only characters with a personality so far. I'm not sure about the forced clumsiness, but I do like that she seems to be the straight man to Takaharu's more goofball nature. The other three were totally there and stuff.

The action scenes are okay, but unremarkable. The weapons also look incredibly plastic, even by Sentai standards. The mecha is a complete mess of unrelated designs and, honestly, the little dude moving around on the chest actually kinda creeps me out. I do like the idea, though, that someone in Japan bought up a bunch of valuable downtown real estate solely to build a hollow skyscraper for a giant robot to hide in. I find that oddly amusing.

I forgot about dancing end credit scenes. It is very, very rare to find one that doesn't look completely stupid. Maybe we'll get one of those next year.

I honestly don't know if I'll watch the second episode. This one wasn't awful, but it made almost no real impression on me and nothing about it made me feel particularly interested to see any more. I may still check out a few more episodes, but it's really going to depend on not having anything that I'd rather devote 25 minutes to.

[spikebuster]

I can't watch the subs . Overtime's site won't load properly and the download link keeps failing.

[GoseiWonder]

Quote:

Originally Posted by spikebuster

I can't watch the subs . Overtime's site won't load properly and the download link keeps failing.

Ay, I know that pain. I'm trying to get it to work too.

[TheXrosLoaderGen]

I'm just waiting for the subs to appear on Facebook so I can just watch it there.

[Kamen Rider Vega]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheXrosLoaderGen

I'm just waiting for the subs to appear on Facebook so I can just watch it there.

I am doing the same xros

[Denshin48]

gotta say that episode was very meh.

love the suit designs and the monster designs seem okay so far (cant help but feel like they ripped that first deign of the blue/white guy from TF Prime though) but the design for Shurikenjin is horrible looking and it is annoying as hell that we have yet another bumbling fool for a female character