Carranger is not funny

[Black Fang]

Now what do I meant by that? I don't mean in the vein of most newer shows where they try too hard to be crazily funny that it ends up being annoying. I mean that it's not really the laughfest it's made out to be. Now it could just be that I've just started watching, or that Harroranger's subs can be unsatisfactory, or that it's just me. I certainly get the stuff that's meant to be funny or parodical. But most of it hasn't really been hilarious more than it is just "Heh that's kinda cute". As I said once, it reminds me more of Kakuranger. (On a side note, I really like the late introduction of the mecha like Ohranger previous. My only complaint is the anime-esque special effects thrown about.)

I'm not disliking the show, or else I would have dropped it. Do the real laughs come later, or is this all there is and misconceptions are flying about?

 

[Forever Knight]

Some of the funnier stuff will come later. But in all honesty the only good thing I can remember about this show was Zonnette/Red Racer love triangle.

I'm sure Shougo will give you a better answer tho.

 

[MattComix]

If you have yet to see the entire series is it really warranted to have a thread title declaring the show isn't funny?

Also I don't know where you're getting that the shows humor is somehow over-hyped. Usually what so often happens is that when the subject CarRanger comes up on a toku forum somebody starts going off about how it's so dumb and blahblahblah and 99.99% of the time it's because they didn't know it was a show meant to be funny and basically like a Sentai version of The Tick. They just think the creators were being careless or stupid.

 

[Black Fang]

If you have yet to see the entire series is it really warranted to have a thread title declaring the show isn't funny?

Shock value

Also I don't know where you're getting that the shows humor is somehow over-hyped. Usually what so often happens is that when the subject CarRanger comes up on a toku forum somebody starts going off about how it's so dumb and blahblahblah and 99.99% of the time it's because they didn't know it was a show meant to be funny and basically like a Sentai version of The Tick. They just think the creators were being careless or stupid.

I've never really seen that. Most Carranger remarks I've seen are about how brilliantly awesome the show is with its humor. And I get the humor that I've seen, I'm not going on about how it fails. I just had the conception that it the "wow" factor would be a little more, is all.

 

[Sage Shinigami]

Shock value

I seem to recall there being a HUGE Carranger fan on this site, so I think eventually this thread will get plenty of attention.

 

[Lynxara]

But most of it hasn't really been hilarious more than it is just "Heh that's kinda cute".

You have an opinion! Clearly this opinion invalidates everyone else's opinion!

In all seriousness, individual viewer mileage for different types of comedy varies. What is uproariously funny to me is not necessarily going to be uproariously funny to you. That doesn't mean something fundamentally isn't a comedy, just that criticizing comedic writing is very difficult due to its subjective nature.

I do think Carranger's writing structure is undeniably comedic rather than forthright, so it must be approached as more of a comedy than Kakuranger. Kakuranger had zany elements and certainly some social satire, but the villains and plot beats (as I remember them) struck me as basically straight-faced islands.

Generally speaking, the point of parody writing isn't necessarily laugh-a-minute lulz, too. It's to point out how something commonplace or widely accepted is actually pretty ridiculous, then draw humor from that. I laughed at Carranger's opening episodes and laughed much more at what came later, but maybe its comedy style that you don't like as much.

That doesn't mean it's not a comedy, or a poor comedy, just because you don't laugh. It may just mean the series doesn't suit your sense of humor, or that you just aren't going to watch even a parody Super Sentai show with any real inclination to laugh at it.

 

[sgtkira]

Yes, you are right. It is hilarious :loltongue:

But seriously, it depends on your taste in comedy. I may enjoy the comedy in Go-onger and Den-O, but many do not I also enjoy the comedy in Carranger, however, I do agree that it makes you chuckle. It doesn't really make you lol outright (well, some jokes do I think). Overall, yes, it probably HAS been hyped a lot, because peole tend to do that with older shows :redface2:

 

[KingRanger]

I didn't see that CarRanger had that much more humor than say Dairanger or Kakuranger. It was a great show, but when people tell me it was some kind of Comedy sentai, I just don't see it. I also think some people over hype older shows because most fans now won't give anything unsubbed, and that usually is new stuff, a chance.

 

[KouAidou]

I think a lot of it is the HaroRanger subs, to be frank. I've seen a few of theirs and they came off as really flat to me (compared to the old Ctenosaur subs, which had me in stitches at the time).

As I recall, HaroRanger don't even sub the "Chiikyu" joke, so I can't imagine how much else is being lost in translation. ISTR a lot of Carranger's humor is from little verbal stuff like that, so if the subs aren't reflecting that then you're probably not getting the real experience.

(And of course it is possible that you just wouldn't find it funny anyway.)

 

[Lynxara]

Carranger is definitely like Kakuranger in that a lot of the most pointed satire shows up in the snappy dialog. Since Carranger is working as a parody, though, it's more vital than usual for Super Sentai to understand the dialog to have an idea of what's supposed to be entertaining you. The HaroRangers translations generally don't do the dialog justice, though I wouldn't call it a bad translation overall.

In most straight-forward Super Sentai, dialog is largely expository and a good synopsis really can take the place of understanding every line. I'm glad anyone is doing anything with Carranger, but it's really easy to kill comedy in translation. A 1-to-1 translation attempt of a joke that starts funny in Japanese probably won't end funny in English.

What people perceive as funny tends to be heavily influenced by their own culture. Japanese humor actively needs to be tweaked a bit to preserve the essence of a verbal or situational joke for Western viewers. In pro translations of anime comedy shows, for instance, dub actors frequently deliver translated jokes in a completely different fashion than their Japanese counterparts.

Sometimes I wonder if the modern fandom's distaste for comedy in Super Sentai stems from lumpy, rushed-out fan-translations that don't serve the jokes well. I certainly get the feeling that W's verbal humor suffers a little in most of its translations, since fast translations just can't spend a ton of time localizing every nuance of every gag.