Mirai Sentai Timerager: Thoughts&Opinions

[areaseven]

I've only seen the first three episodes (thank goodness Over-Time and Super Hero Time! are continuing it) and I must say that it is definitely among my top 10 Super Sentai titles. The costumes are well-designed, the storyline gives a more sci-fi feel than other titles, and the music is excellent. Plus, even though it was done in 2000, I like the old-style filming quality.

Oh yeah, Yuuri is a major hottie. :hitit

 

[MattComix]

TimeRanger like many Sentai of the 90's was filmed on video and my understanding is because of that they can't do a true high-quality restoration of it. So it kind of ends up looking older than it actually is.

 

[NateRiver]

TimeRanger was like my second Sentai.I was actually watching it while the show was airing.I remember seeing the team-up with GoGo 5.It's been like 11 years and I still want to punch Ayase in the face.Besides from him, I really enjoyed the series.I watched it off VCDs that my relatives sent me.

I've always really liked the helmets.I just love that design and those lights in it.The TimeFire suit was an interesting design.It was basically red's suit except with spikes on the arrows, a darker red, and a black/red color scheme.

 

[Lynxara]

The costumes are well-designed, the storyline gives a more sci-fi feel than other titles, and the music is excellent.

Check out GoGoV if you haven't, Hikari Senshi is subbing it. Those two shows shared a producer who seemed very interested in bringing the sci-fi flavor of the 80s show back. While Timeranger deals in soft time-travel sci-fi, GoGoV goes a more "speculative fiction" route by extrapolating typical Super Sentai gadgets and gear into advanced rescue equipment. What the show does with the concept of the Sentai helmet always struck me as pretty fascinating.

 

[areaseven]

Check out GoGoV if you haven't, Hikari Senshi is subbing it. Those two shows shared a producer who seemed very interested in bringing the sci-fi flavor of the 80s show back. While Timeranger deals in soft time-travel sci-fi, GoGoV goes a more "speculative fiction" route by extrapolating typical Super Sentai gadgets and gear into advanced rescue equipment. What the show does with the concept of the Sentai helmet always struck me as pretty fascinating.

Hmmm... I'll check out GoGoFive when I have a chance. Right now, I'm pretty busy with at least five Super Sentai shows and Kamen Rider W.

 

[Smilodon]

Check out GoGoV if you haven't, Hikari Senshi is subbing it. Those two shows shared a producer who seemed very interested in bringing the sci-fi flavor of the 80s show back. While Timeranger deals in soft time-travel sci-fi, GoGoV goes a more "speculative fiction" route by extrapolating typical Super Sentai gadgets and gear into advanced rescue equipment. What the show does with the concept of the Sentai helmet always struck me as pretty fascinating.

Oh fasho.

Especially when GoGo V went into space. The miniature work in the scene where Bay Area 55 is preparing to launch Go-Liner into space...pure awesome. The masks inside the helmets were also an awesome and unique part about GoGo V, no other Sentai does that..

Ah, so that's why TimeRanger looks much older than Kuuga in that regard. Kuuga must be filmed on something else other than video and that's why it looks so much better.

 

[Shougo B'Stard]

TimeRanger like many Sentai of the 90's was filmed on video

As far as I know, most Sentai shows until Shinkenger filmed on 16mm, I think some shows would often use different conversion processes, though. I don't think Timeranger was done on video -- Changerion was filmed on video, and you should compare the two if you have a chance. (I love Changerion, but it looks like crap. :laugh

 

[Lynxara]

There's something weird about Timeranger's video, either how it was filmed or how it was converted/mastered. What I hear a lot is that it was mastered on tape, like Star Trek TNG, so it has a lot of TNG's supposed problems when it comes to being viewed in high definition.

(I don't speak AV geek, though, so this is just what I've heard.)

 

[Smilodon]

So I've officially reached the debut of Naoto and about to enter TimeFire's debut so I think I'll put more thoughts down on the show up until episode 27.

.As a child, I never really focused on the fact that Ryuuya was sending stuff back into the past and that no one knew who was sending the TimeRangers their mecha. I need to watch Gingaman again, but Kobayashi sorta did the same thing with OOO and giving us something to think about in the pilot episode. In OOO, it was the grasshopper yummy telling Eiji he would regret being OOO (which I think about now, hasn't been elaborated on except for the fact that he goes on a rampage) and for Time it was the question of who is sending stuff back into the past.

. Dorunero and Lila are definitely not as interesting as Gien in the first few episodes, using them just as comic relief from time to time. I know Dorunero redeems himself later on the series, so that's good. He's just a mafia boss. He wants money, and that's what he does, he doesn't necessarily have a greater scheme. They have Gien for that.

. Gien kinda reminds of a Maki if he wasn't in a show like OOO. I love how his face opens up though. I remember seeing Sargain in Hurricanger doing something similar. Definitely creepy.

. I love how Kobayashi has episodes where each cast member interacts with another, and it's not just the same pair doing stuff over and over again. Sure we have to have the Red interact with everyone, but Domon, Ayase and Yuuri get a fair amount of time to interact with one another.

. Domon falling in love is incredibly cliche, but man, I loved it then and I still love it now.

. Watching Goukaiger right now, I noticed how incredibly early 6th debuts are. I mean, Naoto debuts almost 3/5 of the way through TimeRanger, and we get GokaiSilver at episode 16? Times have changed for sure.

 

[TokuJoe]

I love Timeranger it was the first sentai I watched and made me come back for more. All the character are interesting and have good backstories which made me care about them and almost made me cry a couple of times and I don't show much emotion. Nothing I've seen has topped it yet