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Let's try to gain my creator's morale back, with a whole decade in Sentai (1991-2000), because this is my favorite 10 years of Super Sentai. Hard choices WILL be made, so soldiers of 5 color masks, burn Super Sentai Tamashii!!!! Time to rate 10 Sentais from Jetman to Timeranger.
#10: Zyuranger:
*points guns at me*
Hear me out...
Zyuranger maybe a the main factor to Power Rangers being a factor to making it a thing, and having better storylines, but name something other than these storylines that happened other than the episodes that power rangers had that monster in it. They didn't do a good job of the baby dinosaurs that hatched at the finale, maybe a movie finale where the baby dinosaurs grow and a stronger evil (a la lord Zedd), and the movie could be called: Zyuranger FINAL, and done, you could have true Zyuranger Finale. Even then, The Zyu2 footage is STILL a mystery, but as the years go on, we know more about it (Yet both options serve as a band-aid for both Power Rangers and Zyuranger). Heck Dino Charge could use a Dino Charge Brave 2 part movie to fix the loose ends set up the finale. Back to thoughts on Zyuranger, when it comes to the fillers Power rangers wins, while when it comes to strong story arcs, Zyuranger wins. Zyuranger Isn't bad, just underwhelming.
#9: Ohranger:
Again, not bad, just not great. For this slot it was also a tough choice between who did their machismo better, Ohranger was adapted to Zeo, but it's a case of who did what better (again). Both had toyetic items, but only one can win. While Zeo was very Tommy focused, Each ranger get a good amount of focus, yet they seem too machismo like. Life was really harsh on this Sentai, but (and we mean Cammy's butt), Storylines after the whole incident gave the whole thing a more fantasy feel. Even the feeling of family and legacy (especially in the second half) is present heavily in the.villains, brownie points for that. Even the 7 piece mech returns after Kakuranger, and Saban ruined it in MMPR Season 3 (look, I liked Season 3, but even then, mixture of footage that was only 49% compatible, if that, was a major mistake, I'm glad you didn't insert blue swat footage into Beetleborgs, it's better off as a throwaway line along with Karato (with what comics they came from)). Anyway, I'd put Ohranger equal to Zeo on a pedestal.
#8: GoGoFive:
It's Like Ohranger, but better. It was increasingly dark, F*cked up to hell, and Each side was better in their own way, The GoGoFive learn dark secrets as the series goes on, and the Psyma Family get more and more evil. After GoGoFive ended there was a series that pwned it in every aspect, but we'll get to that. The Machismo was amazing, Rescue Heroes that had robots in and out of mech fights, You didn't see that in Lightspeed Rescue. The story arcs were amazing, but some series had better ones in the making. The biggest problem, no sixth ranger surrogate.
#7: Gingaman:
Live beasts as mechs, Frak Yeah! Zyuranger did it along with other sentai before it, but this was the only sentai I recall where the mechs are actual beasts, not robotic version of said animals that just so happen to be living creatures. This tops Zyuranger and Gaoranger (a combination of those 2 sentai), trust me, while I was harsh on it in my original review, it's got Arthurian lore, magic beasts, and a pirate that Divatox can learn from (i.e. Not making pizza monsters (yes I did like the episode (and most of you didn't), but would you rather have a ranger pizza or a cell phone buying weapons from a catalog with heavy Japanese text?). While lost galaxy had a heavy sci-fi feel to it,, along with many characters on both sides, the chemistry between the 6 heroes, just seems to work a bit better, and wasn't bogged down by its genre, or its production problems. Yet it wasn't the first Sentai/power rangers season to be ruined by production problems, and it wouldn't the last.
#6: Kakuranger:
Ninjas were the sh!t in the 90s, even vanilla ice made a song about it. I think I was way too harsh on Kakuranger in the past, but then again I was way too kind to Ninninger (seriously, Takaharu, you can be worse than Troy from Megaforce, at least Troy was at least tolerable, and the sixth ranger was decent out of novelty and not much else). Kakuranger had creative, timeless yokai. Ninninger's was trendy, goofy, and dated. MMPR used them in creative ways. Kakuranger had characters go through actual development and the "sixth rather" could grow mech size and go Super Saiyan. The second half was decent, but feels like a kid of the day plot until closer to the finale and the intro arc of the second half was amazing. It's called character development, take notes Toei, that way we don't get annoying sugared up, hyper of red rangers.
#5: Carranger:
I liked turbo, but they didn't use the footage properly at times, just insert a Divatox's custom credit card, and congrats, she's now even worse than Lothor (who actually was better because his schemes actually had character, you could have his team be like sitcom style ranger villain group and still would be a better villain). Anyway, it's both a parody and tribute to the sentai of the past, Akibaranger had a similar idea, but it doesn't have the balance that Carranger had. While it may seem goofy, it has a feeling of heart that turbo had. Exhaus while getting more screentime and plot to him, I'd say that goldgoyle crippled the rangers more, he should've been foreshadowed more. Carranger had loads of creative monsters. I wish that TV-kun, TV Magazine, and TV Land held a monster submission contest for this series. If they did, feel free to correct me.
#4: Megaranger:
Once upon a time high school comedy-drama wasn't slice of life-romances bull dookie. This was a coming of age story (what Turbo should've been). Sure it had the technology trappings, but used it in creative ways. Imagine if this was made today, they'd f*ck it up big time. The five's chemistry, just works, and great mechs and other toys to choose from, along with a villain similar to Ransik, the series became its own thing, and its power rangers adaptation, saved their franchise too (with a bang of a finale).
The next 3 sentai have had their quirks and a special place in my heart. The 3 are landmarks of their time, so here we go.
#3: Timeranger:
If time force was pushing the Y7 rating, Timeranger was a hard R in comparison (and that series had body horror you didn't see in most PG-13 movies of it's time, back when they weren't giving the rating out like Marlbaro's in some universe where the TPP became law). Timeranger had plenty of toys/weapons to choose from, the story was dark as Falkner, and if they had a villain better than Ransik, it could've been better than at least one of the next two. The sixth ranger was great and essentially dies and in the finale, Sentai today just never does that anymore, and power rangers, it doesn't do that period (though they could've a few times, but it just wouldn't have the same effect that Sentai did).
#2: Jetman:
While it's a great supper Sentai series, it missed the mark. It had a mech sized bazooka and the greatest double mech combination, too bad they didn't do a Great Icarus + Tetraboy combo in the actual series. The biggest reason is that it both saved Sentai and partially helped power rangers a thing, and too many people power rangers and tokusatsu became interchangeable. Jetman's love story was mixed between people, but kept the adults interested while the action kept the kiddies interested.
#1: Dairanger:
My epic review trend started here, but it had a little bit of everything, comedy, action, drama, and loads of marketable items and characters. The Rangers mech looked a samurai version of Daizyujin. This is one of the greatest fantasy sentai if not the greatest Sentai series of all time I mean a kid ranger didn't work, but credit them for trying. Especially with that sequel design to Burai's DragonRanger, with KibaRanger. The emblem of the white tiger was super epic. Martial arts fantasy along with playing baseball with old enemies, plus the many deaths in the series = super amazing. Watch Zyuranger and compare it to Dairanger.
In closing, I respect a ranger we lost earlier this year from this series, he goes by the name ShishiRanger. #RIPShishiRanger
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