Is Gaoranger any good?

[Forever Knight]

From what I watched so far it's mnot so bad. I especially find Gao Yellow's English funny!!

GaoYellow is the badass of the team. :buttrock:

 

[Jacky392000]

nah, GaoSilver was awesome but he was more badass as Rouki.

 

[Ragna "D" BloodEdge]

Absolutely, it's worth watching.

 

[Aoiblue]

Definitely worth a watch! Especially considering it's my 2nd favorite series =D

 

[Black Fang]

I thought Gaoranger was one of the lesser liked shows.

Regardless, I don't have too much interest in it. This was the start of the "mecha zoo" concept (one I've grown tired of in recent years) and the "anime-fying" of Sentai. Does the show have any major attraction besides the Loki arc?

 

[kibapower]

Something you'll have to see for yourself. Personally I thought it was real bland with the characters and the story itself, despite having a set-up, leads to a meh conclusion for a final villain.

 

[MattComix]

It's a good Bandai commercial.

As for "anime-fying" tokusatsu there's been greater and lesser degrees, for both positive and negative of influence back and forth long before GaoRanger came along.

To say anime influence is only a recent thing and that it's completely negative just shows a ignorant, narrow, and dismissive view of anime in general. Anime has changed for good and bad and back again over the course of many years and often if there is such influence on a toku production it is reflective what anime is at that point.

Flashman is reflective of shows like Voltes V for example. That doesn't mean the anime influence dictates every little thing the show does but Sentai doesn't exist in a vacuum because the people who make it don't exist in a vacuum.

 

[DeluxeRobots]

its alright if anything worth watching for seeing those awesome power animals in action

 

[Lynxara]

Super Sentai has always been anime-like. It's just that what type of anime Super Sentai is emulating changes over the decades as anime evolves.

Super Sentai of the 80's was heavily patterned after the types of anime shows, particularly Super Robot mecha shows, Toei Animation made in the 70's. Competing studio Sunrise pretty much killed this approach to anime with the release of Gundam in 1979, so in many ways 80s Super Sentai is where Toei's Super Robots lived on. Toei's Super Robot work in the 70s had a lot of creative vitality and enthusiasm that I feel is directly continued by the Super Sentai of the 80's. 70s mecha shows had a tendency to be surprisingly grim, too, a quality 80s Super Sentai also retained. Basically Flashman is I feel a show Tadao Nagahama inevitably would've made if we hadn't lost him to a car crash.

In the 90s you see Super Sentai leaping over a decade of anime evolution to be written more in the style of then-contemporary anime. The trend toward surreal comedy you see in the early 90s shows like Dairanger was also ongoing in the most broadly popular comedy anime. Megaranger was consciously patterned off of Toei Animation's then-ongoing major hit Sailor Moon, which was itself an attempt to fuse magical girls with the tone and feel of Super Sentai in the 80s. While the stories are lighter, you see more elaborate plots crop up in the best Super Sentai of the 90s because anime was trending toward tighter, more elaborate plotting.

What Black Fang calls "anime-fying" in the 00s just reflects the way anime transformed at the turn of the century (generally for the worse, IMO, but I'm old and bitter). The most broadly popular shows became much more abjectly comedic-- in fact most of the really breakout new properties of the last decade are comedies or romantic comedies. The rush of tons of power animals reflected a trend toward dramatically increasing the number of toys that toy-selling anime like Digimon-- another Toei property-- had to be able to support for a franchise to be successful.

 

[XenonVincent777]

its alright if anything worth watching for seeing those awesome power animals in action

The power animals do look pretty awesome.

There's a 100 power animals right? Do all 100 show up in the show?