Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger Discussion Thread

Canalo was pretty awful, and yet he is not the worst sixth. Misao is still the ruling champion. Hell, Riki from OhRanger was less insulting to my intelligence. And boob-grabber, kid pervert Kou did more for the plot, so Misao is the worst, and Canalo is...there. The finale was good. Probably the best of the entire Ryusoulger.
I had your same feelings with you about "Sentai fatigue". I felt the same around the time of Ninja Steel. But sadly, nothing in American TV seems interesting to me: Star Trek Picard became the worst thing for Star Trek since....Well, Discovery (ruining in the process Picard, who looks like an idiot every.single.episode. And Seven of Nine. What were the writers thinking? ) And Star Wars....Well, Rise of Skywalker soured everything Star Wars for me. I don't even watch Clone Wars! The Mandalorian was pretty good, though. And was planning to catch-up Dr Who.....until they told me the twist in the Timeless Child. And now I say "Nope, never". The only good thing in American TV was the Mandalorian (and in normal standard, it just OK. But my standards were so low right now) and of course, the Witcher. And Beast Morphers is pretty good. It Could be better, but after Ninja Steel, it feels like a nice change of pace, not being High schooler figting aliens.
And nothing else in TV.
I mostly watch anime right now.

I have been hearing good things about "The Mandalorian", but I can't afford a yearly subscription of Disney+ just to watch it. I hope that the show gets a blu-ray and a release someday. But yeah, I do watch a lot of anime on either Netflix or Crunchyroll nowadays.

Anyways, I agree that Canalo isn't a worst sixth ranger. But, just not that well-written as a character in my opinion.

Ryusoulger, ultimately to me, felt like a safe sentai. Nothing was super original in this season.

Aesthetic: Didn't like that the team was the exact color scheme as Kyo.

Rangers: Koh's angry past was the most interesting aspect. Melt was a bit boring, kinda liked the relationship with Oto. Asuna just had no character, aside from strong and hungry. Towa didn't really have anything except being Banda's brother and the more friendly of the 2, a good look at Master Green could've helped w/ development. Banba was the most interesting when it came to background with Naga and master Black. Canalo was a bit too one note with the wife aspect. I kind of hope Oto gets to be sky blue in. a V-cinema

Mechs: Boring. Maybe it's just me, but I like when all mechs get used equally. Armament ones aren't really my faves. So blue, black, green, and pink made no real difference.

Story: Too safe. Hell, the finale essentially copies the Absolute Tsukuyomi from Naruto.

Adaptation: I still think it's too early and that others should've been considered. What can even be done? The Dino seasons have been some of the most opposite of their source material (though, not as much with Dino Charge) Part of me fears getting the power will be a rehash of Lost Galaxy. Team dynamic will be weird too, since there is a lot of footage w/o Black and Green (Maybe keep them brothers?)

^ It's possible to be simultaneously useful and annoying. Lucky for example, although I find him to be barely tolerable.

I think we can agree partially on Misao though. It sounds like you hate the way the show used his character, rather than the character himself, which to a lesser degree is how I feel. If they used his depression more for drama instead of an attempt at comedy then it would've given the show another layer of complexity. I enjoyed his friendship with Tusk, they were really the bros of the team. The fact that he's strong enough to lift a building from its foundation and throw it to the sky with a fishing rod is bad*ss! In the Returns movie, he's the only Zyuohger to get a girlfriend and the first human to date a zyuman. In Lupinranger VS Patranger VS Kyuranger, he's the only representative of his team to appear, rounding the number of rangers up to 20. When he's not depressed, he's a very strong and capable guy. He was even declared the Strongest Dark Ranger in the Q2 magazine.

^ Probably the former considering how he breaks the 4th wall and also so they could have 20 rangers in the climactic roll call instead of just 19. It's a shame he didn't stay for the fight.

I watched Dinosaur Panic yesterday which means I'm going to talk about my overall experience of this surprisingly enjoyable show.

I need to talk about that movie though! Something I love about summer movies is when they use distinctly unique or rarely seen locations to make the climactic fights really memorable. The fight between Ryusoul Red and Gaisoulg, on the snowy mountain 65000000 years in the past with the orchestral version of the OP in the background as Kou gives an inspiring speech about how he wants to use his power to create a future where he and his friends can be happy together, is one of those memorable scenes. It also affects his friends in space who are inspired by what Kou is always saying to them.

There's an interesting synergy between this movie and Over Quartzer which it was double billed with. Both movies have time travel plots but beneath the surface, they're 2 halves of a single moral. The timeline of the world is imperfect, littered with human error which cannot be undone, and the best way to create a better future is to learn from these mistakes instead of erasing them. Melt even points out that they created a causal loop by shattering the meteor in to smaller fragments, one of which being the meteor recorded by history. Over Quartzer also plays with the idea that history in reality can differ from what we understand about in the present, except the Nobunaga portrayed in that movie is totally different to the purple Parka Ghost. The only thing I was confused about in Dinosaur Panic is how meteorites can apparently cause dimensional warps that conveniently transport the Ryusoulgers to their present.

Having looked back at my thoughts starting Ryusoulger, my opinion has improved significantly. While I maintain that the first 2 episodes were a mediocre way to start the show, it definitely got better as it progressed. I was so sure that it would suck like Kyoryuger, but the similarities were only on the surface, they were superficial. It's a show disguised as Kyoryuger, but the show beneath the aesthetics is 1000000x better. The knight motif is so prominent, not only on the suits but in the story as well. I was actually impressed how the show seemed to deliberately invert some of Kyoryuger's annoying tropes.

Using the finale as an example and also a continuation of the reason why I liked the movie, Kou is the only one not to deliver the final blow to Eras. That's literally the opposite of what happened in Kyoryuger's finale! Again, in the movie, Kou trusted his teammates to save the world from destruction. He's such a great leader. He even gives another great speech to Eras while in limbo about how humans, Ryusoul Tribe and Druidon can learn from their mistakes and that every conflict resolved brings them closer to true peace, effectively making Eras declare herself obsolete and entrusting the world to them.

I was surprised that Master Red, Blue and Pink actually did stay dead, contrary to my expectation, but I'm not sure if that was necessarily in the best interest of their development. We still know very little about Red and Blue and now we never will. Pink is the only one who got development in the Cosmoraptor arc, and I'm definitely sad that she stayed dead, but the others kind of never really had any importance other than their connection to their apprentices. Green was there to expand the backstory and I'm glad Black got to live. He's the only one. Master Pink and Nada will be missed though.

Melt actually became a very likable and competent character after those first 2 episodes of being useless. Asuna was a bad*ss, proving to her teammates that she's not only super strong but also capable of carrying a fight on her own through raw determination. Banba was another bad*ss, the cool and reliable type, and he had some nice interactions and backstory with Nada and Master Black. Kou was definitely a bad*ss. Towa's probably the most static of the core 5 but he was okay, I guess. Canalo still sucks and his hesitant actions in the final arc just make it worse. Asuna seriously needs to keep him away from those Ryusoul Tribe kids or else they'll end up like him.

I hope that Hasbro can do this show justice and show us once more the chivalry of knights.

Will watch when I can.