SUPER SENTAI !

[Aether]

Yes a thread for Super Sentai of course!...

 

Let us rant on about sentai stuff

 

 also I’d be interested in which series people like the best and why… as you may or may not have gathered mine is DAIRANGER!

 

So the last Sentai I watched was the end of  KYORYUGER which overall I enjoyed

 

Before that I watched SHINKENGER which I thought was pretty cool…

 

at the moment I am watching ZYURANGER…

 

I must say that I tried to watch some of this before I really got into Sentai and I couldn’t do it… But now I find that I am really enjoying it –but it still doesn’t beat DAIRANGER though.

 

 

Of course without this series  we wouldn’t have had Power Rangers… but actually watching it I’ve been questioning whether PR was always destined to  be so cheesy as it was aimed at US kids or whether they HAD to change it so much because the original series is just so bizarre??

 

I mean Bandora  ( / Rita in PR I think?? I Don’t know its 20 years since I watched it) is very evil, admittedly very camply evil, but evil nevertheless… I mean she just keeps saying she hates kids, wants to ruin anything they do, routinely chants to the devil and asks the evil spirits of earth to make the monsters stronger / grow..she rides around in the air on a penny farthing style bike and cackles with the worst of them…she even (mildly) tortures kids !!

 

 

 

 

They wouldn’t have got away with this in PR surely??

 

 

Zyuranger is a bit whacky, with wizards and forest elves and islands in cupboards and a very creepy kid in a white sheet...

 

 

but I love this quirky stuff, and also the end theme is the cheesiest sentai theme ive heard yet - but its still cool!

 

I think its downfall (admittedly from a 33 year olds perspective) is that there are too many kids involved in the stories, which isn’t a bad thing, but there is none of that in  Dairangers and that was the series after it so they learned that lesson…

 

Ive onlywatched half of it @ ep 25,  but I recommend it so far…

 

 

 

[LordSpleach]

So far I've completed Goseiger through Kyoryuger. I'm currently watching ToQger and enjoying it so far.

 

My current fav is Go-Busters. Slow at first, but a great series. Enter is definitely the best villain I've seen hands down.

[*Jess♥]

gobusters was amazing.

 

my most loved series though was hurricanger and abaranger.

I'm not sure if perhaps it was at a point where I hadn't gotten mired down by the repetitive tropes, or maybe i was just lucky and they were that good.

 

anyway, I do want to watch Timeranger. I want them to bring out a high quality version first though. what I saw of it was pretty awesome, the quality was just the pits.

[LordSpleach]

As an additional note, this is the best battlizer ever!

 

[*PrimalNemesis]

My current favorites are Shinkenger and Gokaiger.

[Aether]

As an additional note, this is the best battlizer ever!

 

KyoryuRed_Carnival.jpg

 

Yes yes yes! Carnival time!!!!!!!! So funny!   I just wish that the other Kyoryugers had the chance to go to that particular party…

 

and I don't know how you watched Goseiger . imho it is pap.

 

My current favorites are Shinkenger and Gokaiger.

 

I haven't watched Gokaiger yet, its the pirates one where they use old powers isn't it?

 

i'm saving that until ive watched a few more Sentai's to lessen the chances of getting anything spoiled...

 

gobusters was amazing.

 

my most loved series though was hurricanger and abaranger.

I'm not sure if perhaps it was at a point where I hadn't gotten mired down by the repetitive tropes, or maybe i was just lucky and they were that good.

 

anyway, I do want to watch Timeranger. I want them to bring out a high quality version first though. what I saw of it was pretty awesome, the quality was just the pits.

 

 

I think we all agree that Go-Busters was certainly cool.  the designs, graphics, mechs, bringing back magi yellow!, buddiroids, the characters good and bad, even down to the wing chun style fighting, it was awesome.

 

and also it probably did break away a bit from the repetitive tropes you speak of!...well you cant get away from them completely but it did keep things fresher than some sentai series I think.

 

 

I haven’t seen any Timeranger…  im waiting for a few to be finished being subbed before I watch them including Megaranger and Abaranger , at the rate they are going I think Abaranger will be finished  this year but who knows when Megaranger will be finished…

[Dampiel]

My favorite is Jetman closely followed by Gokaiger. I also found Zyuranger and Kyoryuger to be fun rides.

[LordSpleach]

Putting out a question here: What is your favorite megazord/giant robo?

 

Mine is Dairen'oh aka Thunder Megazord

 

 

I just love how RyuseiOh transforms from a dragon into a warrior, then gets battle armor.

[*Jess♥]

I have to agree with you, that is supremely cool.

 

but I need to ask the question, are we looking at which is the coolest in the series itself, or in the concept designs? because some of the concept designs are amazing but their counterpart is not always.

 

it's no secret that I would pick hurricanger, aside from the fact is my favourite series, the way their mecha moves and transforms is so cool. I think gobusters was almost as good, but hurricangers mecha was just so mechanical and it made sense.

but in terms of design, I will struggle. I'd have to look at them all. the book I have on loan from my bro is in my mates house.

[durendal]

Personally I like Bioman, though not sure if it counts as part of the Sentai line up since it's not part of the "Ranger" groups.  How often do you see a main member die in the middle of the series?  Maskman also comes as a second favorite.

[Aether]

Putting out a question here: What is your favorite megazord/giant robo?

 

Mine is Dairen'oh aka Thunder Megazord

 

I just love how RyuseiOh transforms from a dragon into a warrior, then gets battle armor.

 

good question LordSpleach ...

 

im not sure but I do like the look of some of the older ones just because they look more like oldskool transformers, rather than some newer ones that have animal bits and drills and stuff hanging off them...

 

I think I need to see more Sentai to make an informed decision! however Go-Busters were pretty damn cool...

 

 

 

I have to agree with you, that is supremely cool.

 

but I need to ask the question, are we looking at which is the coolest in the series itself, or in the concept designs? because some of the concept designs are amazing but their counterpart is not always.

 

it's no secret that I would pick hurricanger, aside from the fact is my favourite series, the way their mecha moves and transforms is so cool. I think gobusters was almost as good, but hurricangers mecha was just so mechanical and it made sense.

but in terms of design, I will struggle. I'd have to look at them all. the book I have on loan from my bro is in my mates house.

 

well, Dairen oh is from DAIRANGER so it is automatically supremely cool!!

 

I would be interested in seeing your favourite design concepts vs show favourites...

 

I found this picture  to try to compare all mechs but it looks as if its missing some of the more recent ones ...

 

 

Personally I like Bioman, though not sure if it counts as part of the Sentai line up since it's not part of the "Ranger" groups.  How often do you see a main member die in the middle of the series?  Maskman also comes as a second favorite.

 

hey this is SUPER SENTAI time!! 

 

I have not seen Bioman, but I have seen MASKMAN... Ki Ki Aura Power!! while it does suffer from the repetitive tropes of old it was still a good fun show with cool characters and i think the first sentai with a martial arts concept... I also loved it because it gave us a mediating Mecha !

 

[Aether]

finished Zyuranger... it remained enjoyable enough, but again like some other sentai it fell a bit short of what it could have been...

 

haha, ive got to say it - Dairanger is much better!