Ever since he saw my Boonboom Changer, my little brother (8 years old) has been watching Boonboomger with me. He loves it! He gave some nicknames to the cast. They’re mostly based on the puns in their name, but there are some funny ones in there.

Taiya Hando: Tire/Tai (the name of someone he knows)

Ishiro Meita: Meter/Meter-man (Chasshiro becomes Mr. Meaty)

Mira Shifuto: Mirror/Mira/Pink-Yellow-Girl (he asks why she wears yellow if she’s pink)

Genba Bureki: Brake/Blake (his favourite character)

Jou Akuse: Accel/Axel

Bundorio Bunderas: Boomer

Im my opinion it’s quite literally a fall from grace from the changer…

I figured it's been very long since the last original "evil sentai" team and that there aren't as many, such as the Nejiranger, Hanaranger or Zokuranger. So I got the idea of making up an evil counterpart for the BoonBoomger! I think on naming them "VroonVroomger" (Yes, the sound Mad Rex does, unlike Bundorio's "boonboom"), tho I still don't have a FULL name.

I've already got a few ideas so far, such as using monster-truck wheels for their helmets, and replacing the speedometers from the suits with exhaust pipes, since they seem to be more iconic for the Hashiliens! Although, I'm still divided on how should I implement them, and right now, I don't have anything else in mind for the arms and/or legs not to feel too empty.

So, if anyone has any suggestions I could use, it would be greatly appreciated! nvn/

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(Note: The head in the middle is my sona...just to avoid any confusions! xP)

So, I am making a Sentai based of off Knights and Mythical Creatures and i am having a hard time coming up with a gimmick so could you guys help me?

This is an old idea I had where Lupinranger vs. Patranger didn't happen and the season was just Lupinranger (though Patranger elements are featured):

The idea is that the Gangler have invaded, and the Global Police are getting involved but don't have the manpower to take them down. Enter the Lupinrangers, who possess their own Lupin Collection pieces and can take on Gangler more effectively.

The members are Lupin Red, Blue, and Yellow at first, but I'm also adding Lupin Pink (Tsukasa) and Lupin Green (Sakuya). The latter two are a buddy cop duo sent by the Global Police to apprehend the Lupinrangers but eventually realize they can work together, though they still retain their police-like sense of morality. Tsukasa's personality here might be rewritten a bit to be a bit more like Keichiiro, but not as extreme.

Noel Takao will be featured as Lupin X, but maybe as a more elitist Sixth Ranger who sees collecting the Lupin Collection as his duty alone, being Arsene Lupin's son.

I do also think a plotline of corruption within the Global Police will be featured.

If Hasbro were to announce right now a new season of Power Rangers and they said they were gonna use King-Ohger next.. but twist.. Hasbro breaks mold and doesn’t hire English-speaking actors and splice the fight footage. Instead they would straight up just dub King-Ohger into English. Make it a faithful and uncut dub retaining the names of all the characters and settings but instead change the King-Ohger name to Power Rangers kind of like what Korea does and also gloss over the Kyoryuger crossover episodes. If Hasbro were to make such an announcement, how would you react and how would it make you feel?

Some of you already know that Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger is one of my least favorite Sentai. I still remember the times I was excited for show and how much I was impress with first episode. But as the series goes on it became weaker and weaker in my eyes. It felt very safe and underwhelming. The story and characters leave no impression. The story have no direction and the show lack identity. Ultimately end up being less impresive Kyoryuger. For a show with Soul in its name felt very soulless. So I decided to write down how I am gonna fix Ryusoulger. This is just my opinion.

1. The show will be about dragons instead dinosaurs
2. Eras the creator is mention and build up from the start.
3. Pricious act as a Druidon commander from first episode and he order to attack the villiage similar to the first episode.
4. Gaisoul/Nada kills master Red in order to prove he got stronger and surpass his formal master.
5. Tankjoe and Wizuel kills master Blue and Pink.
6. Deaths of the masters serve as motivation for Kou,Melto and Asuna to get stronger. I will add more backstories in order to explore past between masters and there students beacuse the show lacks that aspect. I want Ryusoulger to be like Liveman of modern era.
7. Kou main rival would be Nada and there rivarly will be similar to Jan vs Rio from Gekiranger.
8. Towa and Bamba are like the Gouraiger of Ryusoulger. Act as there own team and rivals to the Trio and gradually befriends them.
9. The brothers would have there own mecha that combines with Kishiryuoh to form Five Knights.
10. For Canalo I would remove the find the wife plotline and replace with a mission to unify the Land and Sea tribes but MosaRex is against that. I would make Canalo similar to Jeramie from Kingohger where he is used to explore the inner conflict of RyusoulTribe and their dark history.
11. Canalo and Mosarex will develop a rivarly with Gachireus.
12. Spino Thunder will be his own Kishiryu that combines with Kishiryu Neptune.
13. The show takes place in its own fantasy/medival world similar to Kingohger.
14. I would remove Ui and her father and replace them with other Ryusoul Tribe members.
15. I would combine Seto and Elder of the Ryusoul Tribe in to one character.
16. KanaeSoul that was introduced in the clipshow episode will serve as central macguffin that both Ryusoul Tribe and Druidons will be fight to obtain.

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Goggle V is a series that I see panned by the fandom as boring or uninteresting. I was in the middle of a slow watch of Dynaman and intended to just hit the first two Super Sentai before moving on to something newer in my watch through. After J.A.K.Q. I realized that it would not be impossible to catch up to Dynaman and just have the first seven shows polished off. This is how I found myself in a race to watch what many people to consider to be the worst of Showa with very little time to do so. Spoilers to follow and as always, I look forward to your thoughts about the show.

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Overview:

• In an endless sea of Showa, Goggle V came at the perfect time in the race against myself. Not only did I like it, but from the first episode I found it to be a fresh and new experience that kept me going during the worst of the slog. Goggle V allowed itself to be fun and silly in new ways while still maintaining the façade of seriousness that I expect from every show.
• The rangers have gymnastic equipment instead of weapons. As long as we suspend our disbelief, it’s awesome! The moment I saw that hula hoop, I knew that I was in for a great time. Some shows have individualized weapons and some have team weapons. Goggle V has the distinction of both where each ranger has their own personal weapon, but the entire team can switch to all of one type with appropriate color coding. Speaking of, we once again have rangers whose surnames begin with their color.
• I can’t help but wonder if they started out intending to only have three rangers again. The mecha is operated only by Red, Blue, and Yellow, which will eventually become the default three-member team. It is interesting to note though that Black is the second in command and pilots the Goggle Caesar with Pink. It is almost as if Toei was listening to my ideas for Misa and the Chief in Sun Vulcan and put their spin on it. Obviously they didn’t since this happened over 40 years ago, but still. It is nice to see someone back then thinking how I do today.

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Heroes:

• Ken’ichi Akama (GoggleRed)
  • Akama is powered by a ruby and represents the lost city of Atlantis. His weapon is a rope which is somehow functionally different from Miki’s ribbon. It is also the least useful or interesting of the weapons. It is reminiscent of the Red Bute from Gorenger, one of many references contained within.
• Kanpei Kuroda (GoggleBlack)
  • Junichi Haruta has the distinction of playing the first Black Ranger in Super Sentai. Much like Kenji Ohba, he comes to a face role having previously been the suit actor for Spade Ace and Vul Eagle II, which makes him the second most frequently appearing Red suit actor in the first 15 series. This experience as a suit actor also makes him one of the few to actually be his own suit actor and do his own stunts out of suit. As always, this broadens the capabilities of the action team and leads to some fun out of suit sequences.
  • Because he is doing his own stunts and winding up in more complicated positions out of suit he winds up looking like such a badass. Even the slideshow during the finale focuses on him twice as long as the rest of them. Of note is an episode where Kuroda loses his memory and has to rely on his skills to avoid enemy fire, not knowing that he can even transform. I believe that this is the point where he picks up mahjong tiles to use as shurikens, something that will continue throughout the rest of the series.
  • Perhaps as a nod to the fact that he is a black ranger taking the spot that would normally go to green, he his gemstone is an emerald. He is also supposedly supposed to represent the Asian civilization of Angkor Wat. He carries juggling clubs which are the only ones that actually look like weapons, furthering his badass status.
• Saburou Aoyama (GoggleBlue)
  • As he is Blue, he has a sapphire on his forehead and represents Ancient Egypt. His hula hoop is probably my favorite of the weapons. They just do so many fun and stupid things with it.
  • In a later episode he has a semi-failed attempt at inventing jetpacks. The episode itself is inconsistent on that front. His prototype explodes at the beginning and the plot is resolved by him figuring out what he needs and making the jetpack work. But then it is exploding again at the end. Very few shows have rangers who can fly, but I like to think of this as a Gorenger reference. It was hard not to shout “Birdie!” every time they ignited the machine.
• Futoshi Kijima (GoggleYellow)
  • Kijima has an Opal in his helmet and represents the ancient civilization of Mu. Outside of that he is an extended homage and reference to the original Kiranger. As that was one of my favorite rangers, I am pleased with the honor that this pays to Baku Hatakeyama. I covered his financial troubles and suicide in my Gorenger review, and I feel that it is worth updating my thoughts here. It only took 5 years after the end of the show (4 after Hatakeyama’s death) to go from Kiranger damaging one man’s career and life to another man paying homage in another 50 episode series. I’m not sure if this is heartwarming or sad.
  • Kijima has an episode where he tries to reconnect with his long lost father. That episode is both heartwarming and sad, as both men wind up lying to themselves and each other to avoid the heartbreak looming over them. It is an intensely emotional story that we don’t normally see this early in the franchise.
  • His weapon is a dodgeball, which given that this is the 1980s actually makes this the most weapon like weapon, over Black’s beat sticks.
• Miki Momozono (GogglePink)
  • Miki is the youngest of the team with a diamond on her forward and supposedly themed after the Inca civilization. Her weapon is a gymnastics ribbon, which is one of the most fun among the group—especially when everyone on the team gets one. She spends an episode changing costumes throughout, which is always one of my favorite tropes. She makes a good prince.
  • Her suit actor is Michihiro Takeda who also played DenziPink and Pink5. Of spectacular note is that he was the Action Director for most of the shows from Flashman to Goseiger (missing only Zyuranger, Magiranger, and Go-Onger). I have spoken at length in my reviews of the 90s stuff about my love for the individualized choreography of each show. Now I know who to thank.
  • She gets trapped and chained up inside of a picture book. The detailed set as well as the imagery of her tied up reads like it is somebody’s hyper-specific fetish.
• Computer Boys and Girls
  • Unlike most Sentai, Goggle V doesn’t have a single mentor (sorry Dr. Hongo, you don’t count). Instead, the show has an individual mentor for each ranger, something that is repeated again in King Ohger. Here though, the mentors come in the form of spandex clad children who are really good at computers. Each one hand picked one of the rangers with use of their computer skills. All of the kids have smaller previous or future rolls in Sentai but two stand out: Hidenori Iura would later appear in several episodes of Bioman while Hanae Sugimoto played one of the regular kids who hung around the Denzimen.
  • The youngest of the kids gives an amazing performance in the final episodes of the series. After the base is destroyed he has to wander about, crying and devastated at the thought that everyone else is dead. It is very effective, one of the darkest moments of in Sentai, and I don’t understand how people don’t like this show.

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Villains:

• Dark Science Empire Deathdark is the most stacked enemy team so far at it’s beginning with a Leader, two Generals, and two Scientists. The scientists, Dr. Zazoriya and Dr. Iguana, have a rivalry between the two over who can build the better robots/monsters and are the silliest of the group. I can’t help but wonder if they were unpopular, because they were just dusted by a new Commander character that is introduced a third of the way through the series. It’s weirdly brutal for a Sentai, especially one this old.
• Similar to Battle Fever J, the MotW and the giant version for the robo fight are not the same thing. Instead of growing, the generals send out a robot that revives the MotW, who then pilots the robot. Early on, it’s actually a completely different design from the small monster. I wasn’t surprised when they abandoned that idea early on. After the first few giant robots, the show transitions to a robot based on the smaller monster. This robot takes the original suit and adds two things: a forehead dome from where the MotW will pilot, and cool robot pants that are shared across all of the robot costumes.
• Towards the end of the series Mazurka is tricked into infiltrating Goggle V’s base and destroying it. What she doesn’t know is that the destruction is to come at the hands of a bomb she doesn’t know is inside of her. Ultimately, Deathgiller has to check up on her and the whole thing is one of the harshest fates to befall a Sentai general. It is a pretty dark way to go.
• Grand Marshal Desmark
  • Oh hai, Commander-in-Chief Golden Mask.

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Gripes:

• The ancient civilizations that each one is associated with doesn’t really come into play outside of the initial declaration in the first episode. Some of the gemstones are mentioned nearly every episode, but others rarely are.

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Favorite Bits:

• There is a type of episode that comes up every so often in Sentai. It involves the rangers and/or enemies rotating through several different genres of costume and filming style over the course of a single action scene. In Episode 9, Goggle V has one of the weirdest and best examples of this that I have seen.
• Opening: “Goggle Red!” clap-clap “Goggle Black!” clap-clap “Blue, Yellow, Pink!”Ending: “One!” snap “Two!” snap “Three!” snap “Four!” snap “Goggle Goggle Go!”Claps in the opening; snaps in the ending—I am a simple man.
• Episode 41 gives us a security guard (and father) who steals a super suit from Deathdark and becomes a superhero to impress his son. It’s a cute episode that is otherwise unremarkable save for the fact that the suit is cut and colored like a low-budget Ultraman cosplay. It’s wonderful.
• Episode 28 introduces us to a crybaby shark monster. The monster cannot help but breaking down in tears every time he thinks of all the sad things the rangers have done to all his monster friends. The regular generals think that makes the monster terrible and wimpy, but it was actually Deathmark’s plan the entire time. And it actually does work.
• Kin Oomae has played many large angry men in Sentai, most notably as Demon King Banriki in Denziman. Here he has a more tender role as an evil masked wrestler who is actually not evil and instead dresses as Santa Clause to help needy children. “Hell Mask” is wanted by Deathdark because he accidently stole the gemstones they need for their super weapon. He cannot let his identity be exposed though so as not to dispel the illusion of either character he plays.

So it's a common complaint with some modern Super Sentai seasons that the Red Ranger gets too much focus- but is that necessarily a bad thing? When can it be done right?

With rangers like Yamato (Zyuoh Eagle) and Kaito (Zenkaiser), the narrative was clearly set up with them being the main focus and the audience surrogate, so I would argue that focusing on them alone wasn't necessarily wrong. On the other hand, rangers like Daigo (Kyoryu Red), Takaharu (Akaninger), and Lucky (Shishi Red), had little to not setup connecting them more to the main plot than the other rangers. In that case, setting them as the focus came across as annoying, as there wasn't any REASON we should care about these guys more than the others.

And even when some added focus on the Red Ranger can be justified, it shouldn't be taken to extremes- part of the appeal of Super Sentai is that it's a TEAM of heroes with different personalities but all important to the main plot. Having it be "Red Ranger and friends" kind of misses the point of that.

what super sentai & kamen rider season do you think should aired in same year? I wish kamen rider saber was the first reiwa kamen rider instead zero-one so saber can aired alongside ryusoulger in 2019. Both saber & ryusoulger have knight motif & i want to see crossover episode between saber & ryusoulger.