The suit and mecha combat are both excellent as well, both in style and action the abundant spikes and gashes communicate savagery in a way I enjoyed very much. The five rangers each have at least one good subplot, and the evil white ranger AbareKiller is one of the best antiheroes in tokusatsu history. My vote for the best of the three dinosaur Sentai, Abaranger balances a serious story with some truly absurd individual episodes (right up there with ToQger and Kakuranger), but pulls it off better than either. But story and characters aside, Go-Busters is a very cool Sentai concept that mostly works. Go-Busters has a somewhat tragic ending, but it's a puzzling tragedy instead of a beautiful one. So why isn't Go-Busters ranked higher on my list? Toei didn't cast the most likeable or charismatic actors for the main rangers (I thought the villains were more entertaining than the heroes, by a large margin), and the story conclusion was disappointing. The script is successful for the most part, doing a fair job of creating a story with a serious tone that builds to an exciting finale, but with room for Sentai fun the main villain is a sentient computer virus trapped in an alternate dimension. One of the most unique Sentai shows, Go-Busters has pleather suits instead of spandex (but they look great!) and even borrows a few terms from Power Rangers - the Go-Busters' transforming phrase is "It's Morphin Time!" Go-Busters also has great action scenes in both suits and mecha, with the mecha fights being framed as particularly epic.
My uncertain opinion on Kakuranger, without hating any of it outright, had it land near the middle of my list. Sometimes I really liked Kakuranger's story, and sometimes it was total nonsense. I dug the suits, mecha, and action in Kakuranger, but the script and character work and were all over the place and the ending was unsatisfying. It's unnerving sometimes, and made more confusing because the Kakurangers themselves are often portrayed as buffoons (especially Blue and Yellow). The level of levity in Kakuranger episode plots ranges from trash can monsters running monster nightclubs to families watching their children turn to stone. Some fights are punctuated by comic book onomatopoeia splashes (BAM!) and silly ninja gimmicks, while others are expertly-paced brutal affairs as good as any fight in Dairanger. But having among the worst action and designs I've seen in Super Sentai drove Gingaman down from being an OK Sentai to near the bottom of the list.Īll of Kakuranger's monsters come directly from Japanese folktales, and a storyteller character often pauses the action to explain the monster-of-the-week's background in myth (I loved these segments). I really like the space pirate villains, and almost made them an honorable mention in my Top Super Sentai villains article from a few months ago. The story has a nice build to it, and the late-joining hero character's arc is good melodrama. The main characters are a little Sentai-typical, but are well-acted and a few of them have fun subplots. The suit action is also below par, with weird crouching poses, no distinct weapons (all five rangers have the same arsenal), and bad fight choreography. Its ugly rubber-suited "star beasts" turn into mecha that look like worse versions of at 2 or 3 other Sentai mecha. Unlike Zyuranger, Gingaman has some of the worst mecha designs in Sentai history. Gingaman reminds me of Zyuranger, since its heroes are rooted in a fantasy culture (in this case a secret forest village that's been protecting Earth for thousands of years), then have their lives flip-turned-upside-down and end up in modern Tokyo. Each time Kyouryuuger had a good episode or character moment that made me reconsider its spot on this list, Kyouryuu Red would open his stupid mouth and it was back down to 20th. Most of Kyouryuuger's plot isn't bad, but I couldn't get behind the heroes at all. Kyouryuu Red has irritating mannerisms and no meaningful character flaws (he's literally good at everything and that's his defining trait), and stars in one of the most Red-centric Sentai shows I've ever seen. The cast is a little bloated at 10 rangers, but made worse by having 5 or 6 of them as one-note or forgettable alongside one of the worst Reds ever.
Good suit action and some cool combat out of suit (yes!), gaudy dinosaur mecha (which I can take or leave), a bunch of goofball Wizard of Oz villains (an extremely mixed bag), and unique gimmicks of gun morphers, collectible dinosaur batteries (?), and Brazilian samba dancing (!?). Kyouryuuger has good ideas, but truly awful writing and characters. Probably the most frustrating tokusatsu I've ever watched.
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