[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!
I have literally pitched this idea to friends as a Henshin! campaign. Really, I'm not surprised... Sentai/Rider stuff has been in anime since AT LEAST Saint Seiya, Ronin Warriors, and Sailor Moon. Go! Go! Loser Ranger! was a lot of fun too. I know Hasbro has been talking about doing an animated Power Rangers show for awhile too.
GasBandit
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The hilarious part is, in this series of videos, she always accuses every slightly masculine or androgynous woman of being "that's a guy, no, gross" but never catches the actual guys. Felix from re:Zero flew entirely under her radar.
Also there's a different version of these videos that is "what anime men would my mother date" and every time someone comes up from JJBA, she is 100% convinced the character is gay.
GasBandit
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Ok, 3 years later and I'm revising this. Part 6 opening 1 is a decent opening that grew on me over the years. I think some of my opinion might have been because the "preview" video of it actually had pretty low audio fidelity. A decent recording of the song actually sounds much better. But opening 2, Heaven's Falling Down, is waaaaay better. It's right up there with Bloody Stream, only outshined (naturally) by Stand Proud.
Also the 8 bit version is fun.
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Been watching Invincible (which, yeah, I guess isn't really anime), but a recent facebook reel reminded me that I've been meaning to look up what that weird yellow octopus assassin guy was all about, so I did and started Assassination Classroom last night.
GasBandit
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First episode of this, I'm still withholding judgement. This is not the ACTUAL "Red Power Ranger," but a shameless expy. He's from a sentai squad that literally harnesses the power of friendship to power their weaponry and mecha, and it's super duper cheesy-cringey. But it wears that on its sleeve. When he gets Isekai'd after sacrificing himself to defeat his world's Big Bad, he gets put in a sword and sorcery world that constantly lampshades how ridiculous Sentai tropes are. "Why is your bracelet talking? Why does it sound so enthusiastic? WHY DOES EVERY MONSTER YOU DEFEAT EXPLODE FOR NO REASON?" The Red Ranger is at once both protagonist and comedy relief, with an egregiously busty cleavage-mage serving as the straight man to lampshade his nonsense. If they lean hard into the bit where everything the Red Ranger does is so ridiculous that nobody can believe what the hell is going on, it might could carry it a season, but I doubt more. But if they start playing it straight, I give it 3 episodes before I lose interest entirely. It's a series that only works so long as its self-aware gimmick holds out, and the track record for shows with this sort of premise isn't great.
GO! GO! Loser Ranger! kind of does the Sentai parody thing too: the main character is one of the random mooks that the Sentai team fights every week because they won years ago and basically enslaved them to keep repeating the show because the Sentai guys are all actually villains. He wants to defeat them and become king of the world, but in like a "I want to be pampered, famous, and in charge and I want my friends to be free" way, not a "I want kill all humans way.
The reason why the show is actually pretty good is because MOST of the cast is actively scheming against each other, so there's a ton of back and forth going on between the Sentai shtick. It's incredibly dark and I hope it actually gets enough seasons to finish it's story.