Hurricaneblue/Nanami; overrated female sentai warrior

I know it might annoy some fans, but I can't help but think that Hurricaneblue is one of the most overrated female sentai warriors. Having rewatched some Hurricanger, I realize that she has not a lot of focus in the series (the focus being mostly on the Gouraigers and Shurikenger, and in a lesser way Yousuke); and in her focus episodes, she mostly behaves like an idiot (like being fooled by Furabijou, obsessed by the fact Gozensama hasn't eaten her food, even during battle). Despite that she seems to be pretty beloved by the fandom, more than for example female warriors which has shown in my opinion a more interesting personality (like Haruna/Pink Turbo, Saya/Gingapink, Matsuri/Gopink, Ranru/Abareyellow); and I won't even star with other female warriors who are already much liked by the fandom and whom Nanami can't even hold a candle (Megumi/ Blue Dolphin, the female Changeman and Flashman, Remi/Fiveyellow, Tsuruhime/Ninjawhite, Yuuri/Timepink).
Heck, Nao Nagasawa was more memorable in her two episodes of Fourze than in Hurricanger (and I think Nanami's flaws are caused by the way she was written, and that Nao Nagasawa did her best with the material she was given).
Your thoughts?

I think she is definitely overrated. She is not a well-developed character - her most notable trait is that she's the token girl. Even her idol singing storyline doesn't make her stand out, since it's such a common ambition among Sentai heroines and in Japanese media generally. She was no better written or acted than Yousuke or Kouta, yet they are at best ignored, at worst disliked, by most of the fandom. And, yes, she does come across as stupid (as do the boys, the whole point of the Hurricanegers is that they're the last three people you would want to be defending the earth.) She's not as bad as the "adult child" Houka and Natsuki types, but there's nothing really special or unique about her. Nagasawa's acting was pretty poor in the first half of the show, but she got better as it went on.

I attribute Nanami's popularity both to the fanboys' love of Nao Nagasawa, and also Nanami's romance with Isshu - yes, it was horribly cliché and went nowhere, but fans love to ship. I find it unfortunate that she perpetuated the line of every female Blue after Megumi being an over-the-top, excessively girly type, as if kids might worry that wearing a blue suit will turn her into a man.

Isn't she just popular because she has been in many crossovers?
People also started to say Banba/Big One was "Teh bezt Ranger EVAR!" after Gao vs SS, but rarely talked about him before that.

Heck, after the Gokaiger/Goseiger movie, I have noticed a lot of Denjiblue love. Another character that no one really cared about before they watched the movie.

I always thought it had to be a case of people liking who played the character more than the character itself. And now that Nagasawa has popped up in so much tokusatsu, she's kind of the modern day version of (enter the name of someone who frequently popped up in old tokusatsus here).

I'm no fan of Nagasawa or Nanami, but I do think it's cool that, for her popularity, she still seems enthusiastic about toku and ready to dive back into it. She could have pulled a Tamao Satou and tried to distance herself out of fear of being pigeonholed. So, I'll say that about her.

I think the reasons for Nanami's popularity have already been mentioned. There's also the fact that some fans love her due to how hot she is (not as much as the Jasmine lovers). There's also the fact that some fans have a soft spot for having a female warrior in blue.

Woman in blue isn't synonymous of popularity; Ako (Blue Swallow) and Urara (Magiblue) aren't especially popular, despite being blue.

I don't know about Urara, but fans used to love Sayuri Uchida and Ako.

Shougo B'Stard said:

I don't know about Urara, but fans used to love Sayuri Uchida and Ako.

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Yes; but that was part of the fact that fans LOVE Jetman ; Ako is popular, but in Jetman, it's pretty much Gai who steals the spotlight among the heroes

Blue Dolphin seems popular, but I'd put that down to Liveman being a popular show, and the fact that Megumi Mori was a big-name idol at the time than of her being a female Blue (although she was the first)

Another one of these threads eh? I wonder, are people unable to find shows and characters they like?