Lynxara
Nice post!!
Nothing that we didn't know already. The show under-performed, and arguably misread its audience.
Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters - Full Series TALK UP!
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Nothing that we didn't know already. The show under-performed, and arguably misread its audience.
lazycoconut
I liked him when he wasn't a god
Misread them how, sorry? By thinking kids would go for the tech theme?
Lynxara
Nice post!!
I think the show made some faulty assumptions about what would go over well with its audience in the wake of Gokaiger and the Tohoku tsunami/earthquake. I think Go-Busters wanted to be an allegorical show that would help people work through their feelings, while also making Sentai more palatable to the older audience of collectors that has long been drawn to Kamen Rider. What happened is that the people most affected by the quakes, kids, wanted escapist TV, not allegorical TV. Likewise, the thought of making Sentai more palatable to an adult audience was actually offensive to Sentai's pre-existing adult audience. There was a logic behind what Go-Busters did, but I feel that logic was based on faulty assumptions about the audience.
I think Kyoryuger has hit the mark better in terms of the national mood. People want something to brighten their mood, something that offers escape. Likewise, people do want a different approach to Sentai, but they want the franchise to remain firmly grounded in childhood nostalgia. They don't want the tropes gone, they want a writer to sit down and explain why the tropes are what they are, and give them value. We don't have even ratings numbers for Kyoryuger yet, but given the Japanese fan reaction, I'm expecting the numbers to be strong when we do find out what they are.
MattComix
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Also since you say almost, out of curiosity you show to a kid based on mature content? I'll bump those up my to-watch list.
Offhand I'd have some reservations about showing them DaiRanger. Not to say I would never show it to them but I'd very much want to have a very solid gauge of what that kid could handle as far as intense moments and bizarre imagery. (The constant flashbacks to Kou getting branded alone would give me pause.)
I'm a little confused by that myself. If GoBusters is considered "too dark" then MegaRanger might as well be Watchmen.
I don't know. it'd be really weird for me as fan to be in the position where the thing I kinda went to as an alternative to the grimdark excess in American superhero comics begins to really go into exactly the opposite extreme.
I think it was Roger Stern who used to say superheroes did best when you aimed for "smart 12 year olds" and then older fans who liked using their imaginations can come along for the ride to. I started looking at them when I was 5 and I think my primary motivation for learning how to read was wanting to know what Spider-Man was saying. At the time the Comics Code had loosened up quite a bit but there was still some healthy standards. Not the sort of Saw with capes stuff we get from Didio era DC. What I find is that when you're kid it's just cool that Spider-Man exists (in so much as any imaginary character does). When it's not hard-targeted at adults only those stories kind of grow with you and you get something new out of them each time because you're picking up on more.
You're never gonna be as open to the idea of a superhero as you are when you're a kid but once that love is there it can last a lifetime. But that can't happen if the material is so extreme such that no parent in their right thinking mind would put that in front of their kids eyeballs. Yes you don't want to isolate a kid from every possibly challenging idea but it's irresponsible to just toss em into the deep end of the pool.
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Going by the charts & by your definitions, I presume that lower numbers on peak positions for each volume = good.
Do you know where I can look up those? I always wanted to know about the sales of the DVD's/Blu-Ray's of Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, & Metal Heroes of what Toei puts out.
Thanks for the lists, gotta love how people make up fake information on the internet lol.
And whoa poor Goseiger, the only series outsold by Go-busters. It did awful!
lazycoconut
I liked him when he wasn't a god
Goseiger has a much higher average than Go-Busters's, though (5.4%) and its toy sales started to pick up somewhat after its change of producer, otherwise it seems likely Go-Busters would have outsold Goseiger toy-wise too
Lynxara
Nice post!!
Technically, the Sentai line in Go-Busters's year did significantly outsell the Sentai line in Gosegier's year. The catch to this is that during Go-Busters, the Ranger Key line was still going. We don't have hard numbers, but the statements made by Bandai's President would make me think that Ranger Keys floated the line during Go-Busters's year.
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Abaranger seems to be a pretty unpopular show in Japan given those sales charts :disappoin
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I just finished re-watching the Sentai series and to be honest.....I really don't understand why so many people liked it. I actually thought it was boring. I mean, the characters of Hiromu and Youko were just bland and generic. I found Hiromu's "Weak Point" to be really cringeworthy and not funny. Youko's "Weak Point" was also stupid and sexist. However, the only characters that I did enjoyed watching are Ryuji, Gorisaki, Nick, Usada, Masato, J, and Escape (God, she's so F@#$'n hot!!!!) But Enter?!?!?! I'm sorry, but Enter was just a pointless, boring villain to me. He's even worse than Lothor from Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Agent Abrera from Dekaranger and Octoroo from Power Rangers Samurai/Super Samurai.
However, I did enjoy the Go-Busters' team-ups with Space Sheriff Gavan (Type G), the Gokaigers and with their various crossovers in Super Hero Taisen Z and Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters and of course the V-Cinema, "Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Animal Sentai Go-Busters". The music and the songs are awesome though.
Bottom line....Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters wasn't a very good Sentai in my opinion. But, it's not the worst. It's just....okay.
However, I did enjoy the Go-Busters' team-ups with Space Sheriff Gavan (Type G), the Gokaigers and with their various crossovers in Super Hero Taisen Z and Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters and of course the V-Cinema, "Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Animal Sentai Go-Busters". The music and the songs are awesome though.
Bottom line....Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters wasn't a very good Sentai in my opinion. But, it's not the worst. It's just....okay.
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