Uchu Sentai Kyuranger Discussion Thread

I am probably gonna get a long of heat from people who are fans of this show, but I don't understand why they are even trying to defend this hot mess of a show. The red ranger is a just a selfish, inept, spoiled brat who hasn't really done anything to actually earn his new power-up form, other than  the fact that he is born of royal family blood or because his ancestor was "The Orion". The pacing of story arcs are just terrible and there is barely any focus on all the other main characters. It's like the show doesn't even know what to do with these characters. So, the producers and writers are just wasting their time trying to force these characters to exist just for the sole purpose of existing.

I mean, at least the characters of Kyoryuger had a purpose to exist, since most of their arcs had satisfying conclusion, except for one. While I am not a fan of it's final episodes, or the fact that Riku Sanjou has reduced everyone into being Daigo's "cheerleaders", but at least I can see some form of effort in character growth for Nobuharu, Souji, Ian, Uchii, Dogold and Candelira. But for the Kyuurangers?! Well aside from Hami and pretty much Spada, Shou Lonpou, Balance and Naaga. There is like literally nothing else for me to remember about Raptor 238, other than two character-focused episodes and the fact that she's voiced by Gokai Yellow's actress, or Garou who barely had any character-focused episodes dedicated to him. Koutarou was just lucky to even have an episode dedicated to his character, and Champ and Stinger....not sure why they even bothered trying to set up some kind of bromance relationship between them, but it felt like a corporate cash-grab idea to have an entire story-arc and a movie spin-off dedicated to them. I mean, it's a good backstory for the two of them to be connected to Scorpio's character, but I don't think we really need to keep focusing too much on them establishing some kind of bad fan fiction where it's just the two of them on a solo mission. Oh and the summer movie, yeah. That was stupid and I don't mean like "enjoyably stupid". But rather "Uwe Boll"-level of stupid.

Overall, I didn't like Kyuuranger. I just think it's a hot mess that I really do not feel comfortable in rewatching again. I am sorry. I know this is unfair for people who actually do like this show despite it's flaws, but this is not a show that I can highly recommend for newcomers to watch.

4/10. Interesting idea, but really bad pacing, lack of balance in character growth and focus in telling a coherent story and really unnecessary movie spin-offs.

If we were being honest, character growth has never been Sentai's strong point. I know some will argue otherwise but the majority of characters in Sentai never really develop as characters as they are static characters: characters who remain unchanging throughout the story. For Sentai character development amounts to, "Wow you all sure have grown as warriors since the start of the year" or having certain aspects of their personalities look into, challenged, or tone done. And with Kyuranger having such a large cast, it was inevitable some would get the short end of the stick (And even then it's not always the size, even in teams with only 5 members you're gonna have a character or two who falls into the background), but I feel the show has manage to give almost every a role, even if it isn't a role you would have preferred. Garu is Lucky boy best friend, Balance and Naga provide some humor with Balance firmly in the tech guy position and Naga's lack of emotions allowing him to think more logically and call out fallacies, Kotaro had a arc where after getting his powers he just wanted to beat Jark Matter members up but now fights with a purpose, both Stinger and Champ have the closest ties to Jark Matter, Raptor's the pilot, Tsurugi needed to have his ego deflated. Really I say Spada and Hammie have the short end of the stick. Spada's the eccentric cook and Hammie literally just the other girl.

And I don't see how the story is incoherent, there's been a clear sense of progression happening throughout it. You had the first 5 episodes devoted to the formation of the team and freeing planets controlled by Jark Matter until they reached Earth. From there they we learn Earth was holding a secret that Don Armage wants to hide and it leads to a search for the Argos. We meet Tsurugi who adds another wrinkle to the story about having defeating Don Armage in the past and we get to learn what happened back then, while at the same time exploring Naga's lack of emotions. Now we learned how Don Armage keeps coming back and now we're in the endgame. Plus Kyuranger has been very serialized with very few episodes barely counting as true filler. It's okay if you haven't been enjoying the story being told, but to say the story doesn't make sense shows you probably haven't been paying too much attention to what's been happening.

So what's his true goal?

Let me know when it's available to download as a ZIP file.

Seriously?! No love for the wolfman and the robotic bull?!

What the Hell, Sony Records?!

^ Koutarou had a character song called "Blue Sky Boy", it was on one of the earlier music releases for the show

I'm seeing some speculation around that Kyuranger and Zyuohger might get a Vs Movie direct to video which would be released in March/April (like Toei used to do.) That seems unlikely though unless we get an announcement very soon - it would usually still be announced at least two months prior to release