Photon
Shining~
Not to mention she's in high school. We've had an entire team of highschoolers, twice.
Though to be fair, she does looks very young. At first I thought she's a middle schooler, not a high schooler nearing graduation.
What's so bad about Go-Busters?
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Not to mention she's in high school. We've had an entire team of highschoolers, twice.
Though to be fair, she does looks very young. At first I thought she's a middle schooler, not a high schooler nearing graduation.
lazycoconut
I liked him when he wasn't a god
Well, both of those were a while ago, but in the last few years most female Rangers have been high school aged (or written as if they were - KyoryuPink is supposed to be in college but is written as if she's much younger.) IMO, that's too many, but I can't see how Yoko was "worse" than any of the others?
Arisa Komiya was 18-19 during filming and while I agree she does look young for her age, she was still older than the 15 and 16-year-olds we've been getting for several years
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Dr Kain
Guest
The problem with Yoko is that she is just an uninteresting bland character. Her Buddyroid does not help matters either.
PowerPhantom245
Lurker
IIRC, there was an interview with Hiroya Matsumoto (Jin/Beet Buster) back then, that Jin was originally going to be a "mad scientist" character but the idea was scrapped; probably because show was already doing poorly by then and didn't want to take risk by making it "darker" (even though show wasn't that dark IMO), by making him cool and light attitude character.
As much as I liked Jin (Matsumoto's best toku role IMO), I would have like to see his take as "mad" scientist.
The idea of Jin being a mad scientist who intentionally created Messiah could've worked very well in favor of the story, especially with using his death to eliminate Enter - that would've augmented the yin-yang symbolism.
Granted, I don't have the exact source to prove that statement, since I can't find that link anymore.
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Dr Kain
Guest
That would have been far more interesting than what we got.
HurricaneDragon
Member
I have to disagree with you on these. Development in Go-Busters just wasn't in your face. Yoko pretty clearly grew throughout the show, opening up and relaxing a lot more, losing the weight of the burdens as much as she had in the beginning, whereas Ryuuji's growth was similar - he loosened up from his seemingly forced role as "the oldest one" more (this was especially obvious when Jin was around) and was able to think more about his own interests and desires (and these aspects actually did have token focus episodes I believe).
That's really the problem I have in general with the criticism about Go-Busters' lack of development - it was all there, there just weren't really many blatant episodes devoted to it like in most Sentai. Hiromu's already developed quite a bit only a quarter in, and it just keeps going as the show goes on. Even characters like J show some growth, in weird ways anyway, towards the end, and we even have the bridge crew getting fleshed out to extents not even many critically acclaimed robot anime offer their own bridge crews.
Much as people say "oh, it's just like these shows," but comparing it to the shows immediately after and the ones before it, it almost looks as though it's from a different franchise - certainly experimental. They cared more about the action sequences, they put more emphasis on worldbuilding and logic than even some Kamen Rider shows, their implementation of the Megazords, while not necessarily unique, was above and beyond compared to what most other recent shows offer, and the writing pretty clearly had a lot of thought put into it that we haven't seen since then, and that I can't say I feel I've seen from a prior show either. It was more "Kamen Rider" than that year's Kamen Rider at times.
Considering when Go-Busters aired, and what it aired after, I think a lot of the decisions made for it make a lot of sense. It's a shame they've seemingly done nothing but backpedal when its "failure" may really have just been more due to not offering any toy comparable of ranger keys.
PowerPhantom245
Lurker
It's a shame indeed.
I wonder what collector's gimmick would have work for the series?
Before Saban's announcement of Dino Charge (skipping Go-busters), a friend of mine suggested that memory card/chip would have been ideal for Go-busters adaptation; which makes sense due to tech-heavy series.
Granted, I'm not too sure if collector's gimmick would have improve overall toy sales that much; it would give a nice boost, but Go-busters toys has been getting somewhat of mixed reception; lot of people didn't seems to like mecha designs (Go-buster Oh).
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