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DO NOT VOMIT WHILE WEARING A HELMET!
Lupin vs Pat is the higest rated Sentai show in years, I'd say that is definitely a win.
I actually liked the conflict between Keiichiro and Kairi here. For once, the conflict actually felt personal and it seemed like Keiichiro had some growth (even though it's getting ignored in the next weeks)...
It's just a typical Utsunomiya produced series where after the basic set up the plot doesn't move until the last 10 or so episodes. The issue is that they frontloaded most of the relevant conflicts they could bring up regarding the basic premise (like the Lupinranger having to steal from a human, struggling with protecting people, not just recovering the collection, and the Patranger almost discovering their identities, struggling to keep up with them and being forced to team up) and now are just left spinning wheels, since the way the show was set up the characters apparently can't even have relevant backstory coming up until the final arc begins.
Actually the shows ratings is making it one of the lowest which is currently averaging at 2.98% and on par with Kyurangers overall average.
That's not what the report like two week's ago said when it said it had the lowest toy sales of the franchise.
Even the police are less developed than the thieves, and it shouldn't be hard to make them interesting. I'm not asking for a repeat of DekaRanger with the police characters, but if that show can get it right, there shouldn't be any excuse.
It had a higher average if you just look at the first 10 or so episodes and people were hyping its ratings up due to that
I'd say general Japanese audiences reacted like most people in the Western internet in this case. They liked the premise and enjoyed the first few episodes, but later most people just lost interest due to the show having uninteresting episodic stories (which are constrained by the plot set up) and doing nothing with the main plot.
I just hope things get moving finally. Though, I thought Shinkenger was Kobayashi, not Utsnomiya.
ToQGer was a success though?