Who else thinks the majority of Super Sentai is crap?!

[Raida|23]

I'd say you're the one being stubborn, chief. And I'm not wagging a finger at you in saying this, but more pointing out that I actually provided a lot of examples to the contrary of what you said regarding all SS and KR having the same formula versus Ultraman.

You didn't reply, but mainly just posted.. we're wrong and that was it.

Could you give some examples of what you're speaking of?

Please, we all know you're head of a secret organization to defeat this strange Ultraman cult you dont understand because you're stubborn. It's the real reason you created HJU. You havent fooled REAL Ultraman fans for a second there, dude.

 

[Keith Justice]

To say all Showa Riders lookalike would mean that you're fucking BLIND. Super-1 looks like V3? G.T.F.O.

Anyway. This thread is worthless "my Toku is better than yours" bullshit, and the OP doesn't even WANT discussion. So, I'm Ghost Like Swayze.

Meanwhile, Ultraman is punted down my priority list since yet another fan's whining has made me look at it with disdain.

Countdown to thread being closed...?

Seeing as we never close thread around here, you'll be counting a loooonnnng time.

Beside dude..... relax.

 

[Keith Justice]

Please, we all know you're head of a secret organization to defeat this strange Ultraman cult you dont understand because you're stubborn. It's the real reason you created HJU. You havent fooled REAL Ultraman fans for a second there, dude.

Muwahahahahahaaa!!! :169:

 

[ryuuseipro]

Super Sentai is crap? Not so. Not all of it.

I'm more of a nostalgic fan than most. All the best Super Sentai, IMHO, ended with Dairanger. Before Power Rangers helped it to jump the shark (starting with Kakuranger).

The best years of Super Sentai were all up to the early-to-mid 80s, when the focus was on martial-arts action, and they didn't rely completely on powers or weapons. After Dynaman (my favorite series), the parental groups in Japan really complained about the violent martial arts action, so there was a limit to how much could be featured. So starting with Bioman, it declined. This isn't to say the subsequent shows were worthless, though. Some were actually still very good! Flashman, Liveman, Jetman, etc. Rise in special effects techniques and storytelling were a factor.

Even the later Super Sentai up to Dairanger were more conservative with how many giant robots it had, but starting with Kakuranger, it gradually became overkill with each successive series. It started to hurt my soul. Furthermore, starting with Megaranger (despite an awesome concept), we start having the uniform-wearing (and later pajama-wearing) teen bishi that set today's standard, where everyone has to be a fugitive from the set of Degrassi and wear multicolored pajamas. Past heroes, in their own pretty-boy standards, were far more intimidating by comparison!

With the older shows, less was more, but with the newer shows, more is less.

 

[Black Fang]

Toei just churns these series with a cookie cutter! They do nothing original with SS anymore, and honestly I feel that those series have become a parody of itself. They're mindless, and have little to no original plot anymore! Some people don't even know why they like the series anymore, they just blindly do.

This part I can agree with. This decade of Sentai (and to an extent toku as a whole) has become oversaturated with merchandise, anime rips, the abhorrent "kids' show" mentality that even some of the production staff seems to have gotten from the so-called fans, and a devolution of action scenes. The more I watch the older shows, the less I can stand a lot of the newer stuff. Stuff like the first three (or even five) '00 Riders, KS7, and Ultraman still retain some level of real quality. In 10 years Sentai has come out with a grand total of three or four good to decent shows. (And even there I'm starting to feel Bouken and Geki are a little too overrated.)

Too much is being left in Bandai's hands ("Here is a whole well of toys and gimmicks, make a show out of it!"), and CGI has, I hate to say it, really ruined a lot of the great action sequences toku is known for. One reason I like toku is because of the action. Part of the problem with these newer shows is that they just don't look cool. I don't get all the excitement you often see over new episodes. I get no pleasure out of seeing fake sparks and explosions.

Compare this:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJKqtARYDNY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJKqtARYDNY[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzQseS_VBFs&feature=related]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzQseS_VBFs...feature=related[/ame]

To this:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1KEyW2s_g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1KEyW2s_g[/ame]

And tell me which looks better.

 

[lazycoconut]

the abhorrent "kids' show" mentality that even some of the production staff seems to have gotten from the so-called fans

What do you mean by that?

I like Go-onger but it was by far one of the worst offenders for bad CGI sparks/explosions. Even Power Rangers made a joke about it because it just looked so daft :sweat:

 

[Black Fang]

What do you mean by that?

The whole idea that "Oh it's just a silly kids' show, so we don't have to put in any real effort". I see it in many fans and sometimes it feels like the writers themselves possess that attitude. Just shoehorn in the merchandise quota, go through the motions, call it a day. Can you say, for example, that Sentais like Hurri, Bouken, Go-On or Shinken really made the most of their potential? Rider like Kabuto, Den-O and Decade (maybe even Kiva)? I can't say they did. Instead they were content to do the minimum and let the toys do the rest.

 

[CaptainB_Money]

this was a good read so far. I'm not going to comment on my part because I let my blogs do the talking but keep it up. this has gotten good.

 

[Sage Shinigami]

Seeing as we never close thread around here, you'll be counting a loooonnnng time.

...Don't you think, perhaps, that invites people to do something as inane as opening a thread in a discussion forum and asking everyone to agree with him?

Beside dude..... relax.

...Hey. You didn't see my first response. What you got WAS relaxed.

This whole thing is insulting. I left HJU the first time because there was always someone wanting to tell you what you thought was wrong and they had better tastes than you. Now I come back and there's some tool doing the exact same thing I saw years ago. Its like that Scrubs episode, My Deja Vu? Except I don't have cute girls like Judy Reyes and Sarah Chalke as co-stars. :laugh:

What's REALLY ridiculous is trying to say Super Sentai looks exactly the same. You're an Ultraman fan, son. That's the last topic you should want to broach.

Besides that--Zyuranger and Abaranger. Dairanger and Gekiranger. Kakuranger and Hurricanger. They have different mecha, different costumes, different plots, different character types, different mythologies....

And yet they share the EXACT SAME THEME. Is this really the franchise you want to peg as cookie cutter?

I get no pleasure out of seeing fake sparks and explosions.

...Man, nostalgia shades must be REAL blinding.

 

[Keith Justice]

...Don't you think, perhaps, that invites people to do something as inane as opening a thread in a discussion forum and asking everyone to agree with him?



...Hey. You didn't see my first response. What you got WAS relaxed.

This whole thing is insulting. I left HJU the first time because there was always someone wanting to tell you what you thought was wrong and they had better tastes than you. Now I come back and there's some tool doing the exact same thing I saw years ago. Its like that Scrubs episode, My Deja Vu? Except I don't have cute girls like Judy Reyes and Sarah Chalke as co-stars. :laugh:

What's REALLY ridiculous is trying to say Super Sentai looks exactly the same. You're an Ultraman fan, son. That's the last topic you should want to broach.

You.... just called someone a tool because they're opinion is different than you and complained about that problem in the same paragraph.....