NAME THE WORST SUPER SENTAI SERIES YOU'VE EVER WATCHED

I know I am going to get alot of angry people here, but I find Kakuranger, Dekaranger, Carranger, and Gekiranger (most overrated sentai IMO) 100 times worse than Go-Onger. I also do not understand the hate for Zyuranger, I loved the characters and villins, the designs were awsome, loved the story, and the music was wonderfull. (And no I am not saying this because of power rangers season one, after I watched Zyuranger I could not watch Power rangers season one for several years.)


The worst one for me has to be Carranger. I do not understand why it revived Sentai, I hate the humor, I hate Radietta Fanbelt, the only things I liked were the Mecha, to express my distaste watch this clip [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzYs7BCmsY[/ame] and replace Edwin (the guy on the far left side of the show) with me and replace Moonraker with Carranger and that's how I feel. I know I need to take a chill pill but thought I should express.

I've always liked Zyuranger. I didn't think it was an unpopular series :sweat:

I dislike Maskman intensely but it's not because of X1-Mask. It gives off the same "vibe" that makes me hate Shinkenger and I can't put my finger on what that is ...

Jedibmoney said:

the only reason people hate maskman is because X1 mask wasn't a normal run of the mill 6th senshi like we have now.

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....Uhh...no. I don't like Maskman, and its got nothing to do with X1 Mask and it was a good episode anyway.

Do you even care to try and understand why fans give Maskman a pass? Cause if you don't really want to take the time to think about it, then that's why you can't figure it out.

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I'd like to hear someone explain their like of it, with more than "The Takeru/Mio plot was excellent".

Zyuranger's "problem" is that it was made by the core production team that handled (iirc) Zyuranger, Dairanger, Kakuranger, and Ohranger. Carranger marks a major staff change-over point. The producer behind the Zyu line of shows leaves Super Sentai at that point and goes to work for Capcom, producing a lot of the company's more surreal 90s output.

Most of the ideas and style tics that Zyuranger introduces are also present in Diaranger and Kakuranger, but the later shows inevitably execute them in a more skillful fashion. In a lot of ways Zyuranger is the rough draft for what Dairanger would go on to accomplish, so these days there's not much to remember it for beyond the Dragon Ranger plot and Machiko Soga's performance as Bandora.

Lynxara said:

Carranger marks a major staff change-over point. The producer behind the Zyu line of shows leaves Super Sentai at that point and goes to work for Capcom, producing a lot of the company's more surreal 90s output.

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That was just the main writer of the Zyu through Oh run, Noboru Sugimura. Producers and directors mostly stayed the same. Longtime Sentai producer Takeyuki Suzuki, who had been on since Goggle V, did leave after Ohranger (and a sub-producer of Ohranger, Shigenori Takatera, took over for the Car through Ginga run), but Suzuki stayed with Toei, setting his sights on a higher position.

Not to speak ill of the dead, but...Sugimura's not one of my favorite tokusatsu writers. I think Dairanger and Kakuranger turned out good, but Sugimura relied far too much on just trippy, weird-ass, WTFness. I think Zyuranger and Ohranger go most nuts with the weirdness, but it definitely crept its way into Dai and Kaku. I remember when I first saw Dairanger, some of that Gorma stuff, and thought, "Geez, how many drugs is this writer on?" My theory is...Twin Peaks was popular at the time, and I know the Japanese loved Twin Peaks, so I'm thinking Sugimura must have been a fan, and was trying his hand at Lynchian weirdness, which resulted in some circus-freak Sentai shows.

Sugimura was also on some kick about incorporating more kids into the shows, which is something I think makes his shows suffer. Kid guest stars hogged the spotlight in Zyuranger and Ohranger, often making the heroes feel like a non-presence -- like guest stars in their own shows! (And it's why Toei graciously bestowed Kiba and King Ranger upon us.) But I think that's why Dairanger and Kakuranger turned out the best of his shows -- they still focused on the heroes, whereas they were barely there in Zyu and Oh. I actually think Kakuranger is the best of Sugimura's shows because the kookiness just fit that world so much better than it did in something like Dairanger, it was more consistent.

Sugimura also wrote Kamen Rider ZO, the movie about Kamen Rider chasing after a kid for the entire movie's length, and where the main villain is a kid.

Sage Shinigami said:

....Uhh...no. I don't like Maskman, and its got nothing to do with X1 Mask and it was a good episode anyway.

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Explain what is so awful about it then. I personally liked Maskman because of the whole "martial-arts training" aspect and the robo battles were cool.

Currently my worst would have to be Go-Onger. Go-On Red was pretty annoying and the show just didn't do it for me.

Am I the only one who thinks Kamen Rider is a much better show?

Anyways, the worst Sentai I have seen is Shinkeger, they were basically introducing new Origami every 2 or 3 episodes and ignoring their actual characters

MMPR said:

Am I the only one who thinks Kamen Rider is a much better show?

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Unfortunately, no. But I prefer Sentai, so screw Kamen Rider and the bike he rode in on.

Shougo B'Stard said:

Unfortunately, no. But I prefer Sentai, so screw Kamen Rider and the bike he rode in on.

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I'd just say specific seasons are better than others. For example BLACK is better than Hibiki and Jetman is better than Go-Onger.

In the end it's just an opinion.