Samurai Sentai Shinkenger - Talk Up!

Jetman's cast was ludicrously good... in part because it had some very well-worn archetypes to play with, since it was an extended Gatchaman homage. Black Condor is great because he's drawing on 30 years of Joe the Condor-type characters and is, in some ways, the best of all of them.

lazycoconut said:

The Magiranger wedding happened at the end of the series. DekaPink and DekaGreen hooked up in the following year's team-up, so maybe there's still a chance for shippiness in Shinkenger? I still say I can't see why Mako would have the "housewife" thing going on unless she were going to be married off at the end.

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Dekaranger: Sen and Umeko were partnered together ALOT, far more than Mako and Takeru have been. Though I'll admit Dekaranger was an odd beast in a issue like this, as the real episode that brought this up and such was kinda out of nowhere late in the series.

Magiranger: . . . You know the subtext was there ever since Hikaru's debut right? You know, the whole "Princess and the Frog" thing? I wasn't even watching sentai at that point (Just Power Rangers at that point. I was just following rumors for what would the source for the next PR season.) and yet even I called it back when I heard about that aspect. Mako doesn't have anything like that for Takeru. The few moments you could say she does, she has also had for just about EVERYONE ELSE ON THE TEAM. Replace Mako with Kohota though, and oh boy do you actually have a case there though.

The_Emperor said:

So... SamuraiHaOh can spin around and fly... :sly:


...I wouldn't mind seeing SamuraiHaOh crush it's enemies by landing on them like in Dairanger. :buttrock:

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Enemies crushed by mech in DaiRanger = Win


I love Dairanger <3

Lynxara said:

Yeah, he's not a personal favorite, but I wouldn't throw him out a window if given the chance.

That makes him a major step up from the passel of comedy-oriented reds we've had this Decade! A few recent Reds were almost completely the reason I stopped watching their shows.

I think the last Red I really, seriously liked as a character was freaking TimeRed.
(BoukenRed, much like Takeru, was tolerable and okay and all, but not especially great.)

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Indeed. I stopped religiously watching after Deka. Since then I've done the first few eps, ranger debuts and the last few. Shinken is the first in awhile I've watched all the way through. BoukenRed was cool, but I disliked the rest of his crew.

MrMonk said:

Shinken is the first in awhile I've watched all the way through.

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Yeah, same here. So, I dunno, maybe I'm inclined to be forgiving? But while the show isn't perfect, there are some things about its writing style I find really interesting and admirable. It's a character-driven Super Sentai about characters I don't detest and it hits some other personal buttons, too.

BoukenRed was cool, but I disliked the rest of his crew.

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You know, I can't remember anything about BoukenRed's crew. That's a pretty damning criticism by itself, when you think about it....

Forever Knight said:

lDon't put poor Jan in with those other 2 annoying fucks.

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Sorry dude, he fits right in there IMO. Though Geki had enough going on for it I was willing to finish the series despite Jan.

mattcomics said:

Sorry dude, he fits right in there IMO. Though Geki had enough going on for it I was willing to finish the series despite Jan.

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I sure wasn't. And it's pretty rare that I don't want to watch things together...

lazycoconut said:

Red Hawk (melodramatic, maybe, but not as bad as Takeru).

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Ryuu tended to very mushy-mushy and kept pining about Rie. I don't recall Takeru ever being that way.

lazycoconut said:

TyrannoRanger

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:laugh: You cite a show with characters that were essentially non-entities?

lazycoconut said:

GingaRed.

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Maybe.

I didn't mind Jan so much. But then, Geki was also the first Sentai I watched while it was on, so maybe it was just because I didn't know any better. :loltongue: