Uchu Sentai Kyuranger Discussion Thread

One thing that puzzled me from episode 47 was why the KyuRangers deliberately lost.

This is why I think it's ambiguous. If that was really Cuervo talking, then he was probably being influenced by Don Armage, even after he was no longer Don Armage's vessel. It's the same thing in this week's episode. It was either Don Armage talking, or Tsurugi being influenced by him.

Tsurugi should have realised, though, that Lucky wouldn't go through with that (which is probably why he didn't tell him about it beforehand).

There was an interesting comment that Lucky made once regarding the Tokei Kyuutama, that the kyuu energy isn't replenished. That implies that the other Kyuutama are replenished, rather than having a certain amount of kyuu energy to begin with, and that the Kyuulette was just to ensure that they didn't run out of energy before having a chance to recharge. However, it hasn't been mentioned that Tsurugi's Kyuutama seems to be different.

Could someone let me know when the Kyuranger Super-Sentai site is updated please???

Plus aren't both of koutarou's parents dead?

Kyuranger episode 47: This. This is what I want this show to be. This is what I wish this show was. This episode wasn't perfect, but I think it's one of the best episodes of Kyuranger.

The Good: This is yet another episode that shows to me that the problem with this show wasn't too many characters. Even with a show with this many characters, they still took the time to slow down, and give the characters a moment. Naga talking about how scared he is, I thought that was great. We also got some great lines in this episode: "Congrats! That means you've gained one heck of an emotion. Being scared means you're afraid of losing what you have." I also like: "There's more to crying than just shedding tears." There's a ton of other episodes that could use writing like that.

I did also like the battle with the foot soldiers. Not only was it good action in its own right, but that beginning scene did a lot for this episode, because I was able to feel the weight of the stakes, and I cared about the rangers' struggles. I thought this episode was effective.

The Bad: However, it's not flawless. One problem I have with this episode is not even this episode's fault. I believe episodes should be judged by their own merits as well as part of a whole. By this episode's own merits, I think it's great, but as part of a whole, one of the biggest problems with this episode is that the rest of the show didn't build this emotion as well as it thinks it does, and that's on account of the fact that this show just isn't very good. In a better show, this episode, played the exact same way, would have had way more impact, but on its own, I still think it works.

Another big problem I had with the episode, which kinda goes back to one of my problems with the last episode, was how they saved Tsurugi. Even if I didn't read the episode summary for the finale that said that all 12 rangers was gonna be there, I knew this show wasn't gonna have the balls to kill him, or even Xiao for that matter. However, Tsurugi didn't know that, and I though he made a noble sacrifice, and it feels like Lucky gets to be right for not honoring that, and I think that's wrong. I'm a firm believer in "Death does not equal drama", but if you're gonna have a character sacrifice themselves, at least go through with it. I don't care that I knew beforehand that they weren't gonna go through with it. That's not my point. My point is that it's still bad storytelling.

1) I'm all for ambiguity (Inception and Watchmen are 2 of my favorite movies) but bad storytelling is not making it clear what supposed to be clear and what's supposed to be ambiguous. I can guess that Tsurugi is being influenced by Don Armage, but if the show was trying to say that Kuervo was under Don Armage's influence, it did a poor job of showing that.

2) That's a good point. However, since, to me, killing Tsurugi was the obvious right choice at the time, I can see Tsurugi thinking he can convince Lucky to make the hard choice. The fact that he didn't was on Lucky. Lucky only got, well, lucky that there was a way to bring Tsurugi back, because if there wasn't, Lucky would have doomed the universe, and that's my problem with this whole thing.

3) Kyutamas suck. I stopped trying to keep track of the logic of these things. They do whatever the plot needs them to do at that time. They're just a lame, poorly thought out gimmick.


Next episode: It's the moment I've been waiting for for a long time: the finale. I think I've been as absolutely fair to Kyuranger as I could be. With only one episode left, I think I've seen enough to know where I'm gonna rank it. My next, and last, Kyuranger post is gonna be an overview of the show as a whole, my thoughts on how they handled everything, and my updated ranking list.

Well the finale of Kyuranger was a lot like most of the season, A disappointment.

Now while I am glad they didn't throw Hammy and Lucky together at the end like I feared they would, but now I am left wondering, "What was Hammy's purpose here?" Everyone else to a degree had one except her.

I have just watched the final episode of Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger, and I can only say this: If Power Rangers DO decide to use this series for next year's Power Rangers, then I sincerely hope they do the series justice. Loved the series fully.