This took too long, but we're now entering the endgame with Zenkaiger.
"Wow that took you long enough."
Confession time I've been watching this over the last three months at a snail's pace while juggling a lot of other things.
"Why though?"
Not even going to hide it, this is the final time I'm doing a Sentai review. For those unaware I made Saber my final Kamen Rider series and Zenkaiger is going to be my last Super Sentai series. Toei endlessly pumps out very low quality spin offs that makes it impossible to keep up with. Kamen Rider is a far worse offender, but Super Sentai isn't guiltless. Everything has gotten too bloated.
"Is it all that bad?"
They won't leave Ex-Aid, one of my least favorite toku series, the hell alone and the recent OOO short movie that came out earlier this year successfully ruined one of my favorite Kamen Rider series for me. I need to see some of the spin offs with Saber, but barring those I'm pretty much done with these two franchises once some clean up is satisfactory.
"How will this be divided up?"
It won't be, I'm doing all the monsters of the week and thoughts at the same time.
"Is it really going to end like this after nine long years?"
Yup.
"Are you quitting toku altogether?"
No, just these two franchises. The Ultra series never over bloated its content outside of Ginga and while the franchise has had major problems overall since Ginga I can at least catch up at a leisurely pace. So yes, I will be seeing Ultraman Decker even if I'm expecting a cheap and more serialized remake of Dyna like Trigger was to Tiga.
"Is this really how it all ends?"
Next post will be Zenkaiger vs. Kirameiger, after that will be one final review to end this nine year long topic, something fitting and special. I'll reveal that next time.
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Bokkowaus: Powers include absorbing tojigears and harvesting their worlds at a whim, matter manipulation to alter his body, summoning weapons of various Super Sentai worlds, and telekinetic explosions from the right hand
Super Villain World: Appears in Red Battle. Powers include reviving villains, making fissures from the hands in a technique called the Izu Caliber, a yellow electric beam from the wrist faces called the Soranic Beam, a pocket dimension that summons giant monsters, blue energy bolts from the eyes, turning day to night, and emitting pollution from the body.
Normal Villain World: Appears in Zenkai Red Great Introduction. Powers include purple mouth energy bolts called the Great Flame Launcher, teleportation, turning kikainoids into humans, size changing, and purple hand energy bolts called the Watabetake Shot
Barashitara: Powers include a cannon on the head, a spear with a rocket on the tip, a machine gun in the left wrist, a tank cannon on the torso that can charge with energy
Kudaitest: Appears in episode 1. Powers include a long tail for bashing, purple lasers from the single eye, and combining withdamaged gears
Mushroom World: Appears in episode 2. Powers include spawning mushrooms on the heads of animals and machines that spawn toxic spores in a day, high jumping, emitting yellow spores to teleport long distances, strong punches called the Galactea Mushroom, telekinetically throwing mushrooms, and an orange energy beam from the head.
Ice World: Appears in episode 3. Powers include an icicle-like spear for the right arm that summons launchable icicles, a small shield on each side of the head, covering areas in ice, high jumping, and blue explosive energy beams from the right arm spear.
Boxing World: Appears in episode 4. Powers include bells that spawn boxing rings on the arms of animals, high jumping, summoning a anging microphone, launchable boxing gloves called the Bum Knuckle, spawning boxing rings
Dr. Ijirude: Powers include teleportation, a clawed staff, blue finger lasers, a claw staff that emits purple lightning, teleportation
Sushi World: Appears in episode 5. Powers include enlarging hands that can roll organisms and objects together, twin sushi missiles on each wrist, an explosive wasabi gun in the right side of the scalp called the Wasabi Beam, speed, a forked staff, and summoning giant sushi belts that include explosives
Trash World: Appears in episode 6. Powers include spawning trash from the head that causes laziness over time, stink gas from the left hand vent called Dust Storm, high jumping, summoning entrapping trash bags, a machine gun on each side of the head, and telekinetically throwing trash in a technique called Bulk Attack.
Door World: Appears in episode 8. Powers include a pink gun for the left hand that forms dimensional doors, causing doors and windows to transport others to random locations, and summoning melee weapons and kuddacks from doors
Kashiwa Mochi World: Appears in episode 9. Powers include making organisms and machines addicted to kashiwa mochi, forming green shockwaves by clapping his hands called the Leaf Clap Cannon, an oak leaf fan from the head that emits gusts, and releasing red beans from the hands in a technique called the Sweet Red Bean Machine Gun, and summoning giant mochi to entrap an enemy
Noon World: Appears in episode 10. Powers include a magnifying glass staff that fires blue heat lasers, teleportation, summoning miniature suns around a planet, and bright head flashes called the Sun Sun Flash
Tag World: Appears in episode 11. Powers include tagging people to spawn oni faces on their foreheads and transmit them to others, a shield on each arm, high jumping, launchable arms, a bomb mask from the forehead, and flight
Snail World: Appears in episode 12. Powers include spiral shockwaves called the Escargo Go Flash that slows down a surrounding area, an Escargo Go Missile from each side of the thick head shell, spawning snail shells to throw at enemies, launching a missile from each eye that causes a rainstorm, a sword called the Escargo Go Cutter
Recycling World: Appears in episode 13. Powers include turning humans into kuddacks via the head bin, a vacuum for the left arm that can also blow trash, reviving destroyed kudaitests, and firing recycling cans from the bin head
Retro World: Appears in episode 15. Powers incude turning objects into older versions via Retro Waves from the antenna, a sword for the right arm that reverses time, a record player-like shield on the left wrist called the Nostal-Shield that forces retro communication, discoloring the surrounding area, and an energy beam from the right arm sword
Magnet World: Appears in episode 16. Powers include magnetizing organisms and metal objects via a pair of wands, summoning steel girders, high jumping, and decombining combinations
Invisible World: Appears in episode 17. Powers include turning objects invisible via Transparency Beam from a purple sword, purple energy cutters from the purple sword, and invisibility
Romance World: Appears in episode 18. Powers include the Amor Arrows from the head and left hand that causes people to fall in love, a wand-like sword that causes others to fall in love, and spawning heart balloons
Rhinoceros Beetle World: Appears in episode 19. Powers include a yellow beam from the nasal horn called Beetle Truce that turns humans and machines into bug hunters, teleportation, an enhanced sense of smell, a shield on each wrist, turning the surrounding area into a forest that can release hot sap, a blue electric beam from the nasal horn, and emitting bright flashes to thicken his exoskeleton
Hikoboshi World: Appears in episode 20. Powers include a glaive that teleports people at will, flight, and seals tat cause wishes to come true
Copy World: Appears in episode 21. Powers include spawning violent duplicates of others via scanning them with a copy machine for the left hand and creating evil buildings that fire missiles
Bull Fight World: Appears in episode 22. Powers include a Bull Fighting Beam from the horns that causes others to grow horns and become aggressive, a secondary horn on each wrist, gusts from the nostrils of the bull head on the torso, summoning grills that absorb projectiles and beams, and a launchable beef tongue that can wrap around an enemy
Vacation World: Appears in episode 24. Powers include Vacation Power which can cause celebratory mindsets in the surrounding area, volleyball skills, sonic beams on the head called the Pineapple Beam, throwing hats called the Strawberry Slash, and a surfboard that summons blue energy fish called the Surfing Attack
Sun Dial World: Appears in episode 25. Powers include a time rewinding word for the right arm called the Time Reversal Z, pausing an organism in time using a beam called Time Reversal V, flames from the head via absorbing solar radiation
Manga World: Appears in episode 28. Powers include head ink that turns others into manga-like pages, using a staff wit a speech cloud to combine pages into books, throwing rejected manuscripts as paper balls, and a pen on the right wrist that can create weapons.
Tennis World: Appears in episode 29. Powers include tennis balls that turn others into tennis balls, a tennis racket, reinforced armor, teleportation, summoning a tennis court where tennis balls become explosive, duplicate spawning, and creating giant tennis rackets, and summoning a giant net
Dried Persimmon World: Appears in episode 30. Powers inckude a purple bell for the left arm that emits sonic waves that accelerate thirst, giant kaki oysters, and fire, speed, growing persimmon trees, and firing flower pots from the left arm bell that entangle enemies
Hakaiser: Powers include high jumping, the Full Power Hakai Gun that summons various rangers, a large red boomerang on the back called the V-Merang, a pair of machine guns on the wrist, teleportation
Dairy World: Appears in episode 31. Powers include an udder on each wrist that emits random milk that white out colors, twin head horns, summoning giant milk containers with random milk
Nu Kudaitest: Appear in episode 31. Powers include a blade for the right arm that fires blue energy balls and beams, agility, and growth
Inverted World: Appears in episode 32. Powers include a double sided scythe, eye beams that switch bodies, and making a second horizon to flip gravity
Academy World: Appears in episode 33. Powers include throwing explosive chalk, emitting energy resembling kanji called Academy Power that turns others into school students and changing environments into schools, creating ties that emit an energy barrier, summoning a backpack called Test Shield that can only be deactivated by solving the math problem on it, a throwing ruler, and a wooden sword
Halloween World: Appears in episode 34. Powers include a Trick Beam from the skull-like left hand that causes people to act furocious for candy, teleportation, a tonfa that emits purple energy cutters called Trickortreatonfa, sky darkening, and spawning giant Halloween props.
Diamond World: Appears in episode 35. Powers include the Hardening Flash from the diamond-like staff that hardens what it hits and forcing others to only say the word diamond, spawning floating diamonds, and redirecting beam attacks in a technique called the Refraction Cutter.
Jack In The Box World: Appears in episode 36. Powers include a red Surprise Laser from the top of the head that causes random events to come out of containers, summoning booby traps that involve rockets, saws, spears, axes, springs, fire, and wrecking balls, a retractable head, summoning clowns and boxers, and turning buildings into missile pods
Daikon World: Appears in episode 37. Powers include summoning rice that causes trash to attack whoever it lands on called Ground Vengeance, a radish-like club, spawning giant radishes, and a grater on the head that redirects projectiles
New Year's World: Appears in episodes 38 and 39. Powers include eye lasers, high jumping, a wooden sword, a bell or the left hand that launches fire balls called the New Year's Eve Cannon, a New Year's Flash from the eyes that causes refreshment to those it hits every hour, spawning giant kites and teleporting caricatures, and releasing mochi from the torso for entrapment
Bon World: Appears in episode 38. Powers include eye lasers, steam from the head called Bon Flash that revives and controls ancestors, summoning a pair of vegetable-like spirit horses, and creating paper lamps that emit lightning
Hakaiju-Oh: Appears in episodes 39 ad 40. Powers include firing purple energy beam from each shoulder and a bladed nasal horn
Noodle World: Appears in episode 41. Powers include chopsticks that make others to be partisan over noodles, a noodle-like mace that can split to miniature maces, creating giant bowels of ramen that latch onto enemies that cause addictions, and green eye lasers
Kotatsu World: Appears in episode 42. Powers include a yellow energy beam from the eyes that entraps legs under a kotatsu called the Kotatsu Capture Beam, turning others into lazy cats via kotatsus, armor that survives high falls, summoning fire pits to form an Ultrahot Ultraviolet Beam from the head, and orange bombs from the scalp
Headwind World: Appears in episode 43. Powers a turbine for the left arm called the Against Striker that emits strong gusts that target individuals, spawning giant flags, and a wind dial on the head that directs wind
SD World: Appears in episode 44. Powers include a chained mace, a yellow beam from the head called the SD Spark that turns others into super deformed robots, a green shrinking laser from the S on the head called the Small Beam, and a growth red laser from the D on the head called the Daunting Beam
Omukuji World: Appears in episode 45. Powers include omikuji slips that cause bad luck from the left arm called Infinite Mikuji, teleportation, summoning black birds, and a machine gun in the left arm
Carrot World: Appears in episode 46. Powers include a triple barreled laser cannon called the Beam Carrotene and creating giant carrots from buildings to use them as projectiles
Sapphire World: Appears in episode 46. Powers include a diamond-like staff that fires lasers called Sapphire Eyes that cause gem collection addiction and creating giant jewelry and gems
Bat World: Appears in episode 46. Powers include turning others into vampires via red sonic waves from the forehead called Vampire Waves, a golden bat armed with nails in it, hanging while levitating, and summoning bat-like familiars
Ijiru Destroyer: Appears in episode 47. Its only known power is purple lightning from the claw staff
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I'll keep it brief because this series doesn't have much going for it. The comedy is lackluster, the characters all have shockingly little focus much like Ryusoulger, the villains are pretty generic to an almost insulting degree, the twist that a multiversal god is behind the worlds and the real final boss was not built up properly and felt like something that was needed just to extend the run time, the pacing was slow for the first half, and the music was on the lower end of decent even though it was trying to be high energy although I did like Twokaiser's theme. This series could have been a lot better if they put more effort into the world building and more emphasis on serious moments. Even ignoring how it continues the sentai curse of every fifth series being worse than the previous one (with Zyuohger the sole exception to this) they don't do anything with their anniversary celebration beyond random summoning even after the various upgrades. The action is normally fine, but the CGI quality is some of the worst I've seen in my many years of experiencing tokusatsu, this was Kamen Rider W levels of "what are they even trying to do?". I'd say more, but this had very little to say beyond the comedic bits and action scenes. In terms of continuity I am going to operate under the assumption that these worlds are spinoffs from the main Sentai timeline, the unnamed god said he made them all, so it stands to reason he just made alternate worlds. The two specials confirm there are timelines with just villains that exclude heroes. When thinking of where to rank this it was tricky. It was certainly above the bottom five of the franchise and it is okay overall. The villains had a motive to attack Zenkaitopia so it was better than Sun Vulcan, upgrades and rangers were not forgotten so it was better than Gekiranger, none of the villains ended up in an insane asylum like Tranza so it was better than Jetman (despite this that joke with Yellow Owl being all about tomatoes in episode 41 was so insulting it ended up being one of the worst episodes in the franchise and easily the worst in this series), and the last episode was not made of ineptitude so it was better than Kakuranger. However, I had to draw the line at JAKQ, sure it had inconsistency in its tone, but the pacing was better and honestly the ending being disappointing could just be chalked up to limitations and the budget it had in the 1970s. This series does not get that pass even with covid.
With all that done time for rankings one final time.
Favorite Carriers and Mechanical Bases: DaiVoyager > Hyper Ressha > DekaBase > Magma Base > Turbo Builder > Orion Battler > Brachiosaurs > King Brachion > King Pyramider > Denzi Tiger > Battle Shark > Giga Bitus > Goggle Caesar > BragiOh > Sky Ace > Dyjupiter > Machine Buffalo > Jaguar Vulcan > Bio Dragon > Varidreen > Varibloom > Star Condor > Shuttle Base > Turbo Ranger > Dai Mugen > Nekomaru > Varikikyun > Gran Tortoise > CrocoDaiOh > Round Base > Gao Rock > Big Baser > Victrailer > Orion > Argo
Favorite Mecha: Go-Buster Oh > Buster Hercules > DaiBouken > V-Rex > GaoHunter > X Emperor > Kyutamajin > Tategami Lioh > Great Five > GouZyuJin > Grand Liner > GigantDriller > Bio Robo > Kiba Daioh > Jet Garuda > Kyurenoh > Ohranger Robo > ZenKaijuOh > Gosei Ground > GaoGod > Kiraimaizin > Sirend Builder > Victory Robo > Turbo Robo > Star Five > Gouraijin > Go-Buster KeroOh > Gosei Great > Ryuteioh > DaiZyuZin > Jet Icarus > Dairenoh > Travelion > Grateful Phoenix > Gingaioh > PteraidenOh > Galaxy Mega > Oh Blocker > GaoKing > Five Robo > RV Robo > Delta Mega > Flash King > SpinoDaiOh > Tenkujin > Goggle Robo > SaiDaiOh > Live Boxer > GaoIcarus > Gigant Hooh > Gosei Wonder > Change Robo > DaiTanken > MagiKing > Engine Daishogun > Dyna Robo > GekiFire > MaxOhJa > Gosei Ultimate > PlezuOh > Battle Fever Robo > Ginga Rhinos > Ginga Phoenix > GaoMuscle > VRV Robo > Sun Vulcan Robo > Kerberios > MougyudaiOh > DekaWing > Lion Ha-Oh > Red Puncher > KyoRyuZin > DaiDenziJin > BakuRenOh > Kishiryu Neptune > Liner Boy > PatKaiser > Build DaiOh > Muteki Shogun > Time Robo Alpha > Sirender > LupinKaiser > Yokuryuoh > Senpujin > Battle Caesar Robos > Live Robo > Turbo Rugger > GouRyuJin > Lupin Magnum > Kakure Daishogun > DieselOh > Dekaranger Robo > Victory Mars > WolKaiser > Kishiryuoh > EngineOh > AbaRenOh > ToquOh > Mega Voyager > Shurikenjin > Time Robo Beta > Daigoyou > Titan Boy > Land Galaxy > GanbirOh > MagiLegend > DekaBike > GaoKnight > Mega Winger > Bison King > Time Shadow > SeikuOh > DaikaiOh > DodekaiOh > KillerOh > Bull Taurus > DaiTenku > JuranGaon > GekiTohJa > SaintKaiser > Go-Roader GT > Gekiatsu Dai-Oh > King Express > ShinkenOh > Tsubasamaru > Sigma Project > TwokaiOh > Spino Thunder > Tousai Zyoh > Datas Hyper > Tackle Boy > VrooMagine > GokaiOh > CosmoRaptor > SafariGaOh > Zyuoh Wild > Condor Wild > Zyuoh King > Kishiryuzin > Revolver Mammoth > Providus > Mashin Zabyun > Pachygaroo
Favorite Series: Kyuranger > Magiranger > Changeman > Go-Busters > Timeranger > Fiveman > Goseiger > GoGo-V > Zyuranger > Go-Onger > Kyoryuger > Gingaman > Dekaranger > Denziman > Ohranger > Toquger > Shinkenger > Gaoranger > Bioman > Carranger > Zyuohger > Dynaman > Kiramager > Abaranger > Maskman > Lupinranger vs. Patranger > Goggle-V > Boukenger > Turboranger > Battle Fever J > Ninninger > Flashman > Gorenger > Dairanger > JAKQ > Zenkaiger > Kakuranger > Jetman > Gekiranger > Strongest Battle > Sun Vulcan > Liveman > Ryusoulger > Hurricanger > Megaranger > Gokaiger
Favorite Openings: Turboranger > Bioman > Zyuranger > Ohranger > GoGo-V > Go-Onger > Gaoranger > Dairanger > Shinkenger > Flashman > Denziman > Gokaiger > Boukenger > Dynaman > Gingaman > Kyuranger > Hurricanger > Kiramager > JAKQ > Magiranger > Goggle-V > Megaranger > Kakuranger > Jetman > Dekaranger > Timeranger > Kyoryuger > Carranger > Sun Vulcan > Battle Fever J > Liveman > Changeman > Gorenger > Go-Busters > Kyuranger > Lupinranger vs. Patranger > Zenkaiger > Ninninger > Ryusoulger > Fiveman > Abaranger > Gekiranger > Maskman > Goseiger >Toquger > Zyuohger > Strongest Battle
Tune in next time when I take on my last Versus movie and announce what the last review will be.