looking for sentai recs

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Oh, I get that, and like I said, I really WANT to like the series - I even know that the group dynamic gets evened out before too long, because the Shinkenger crossover with KR DEcade was only a dozen or so eps along and they were fine by then, but when I deeply desire to see the leader of the team get beaten into the hospital and the rest of them break up to deal with their issues, and just call the freakin' JSDF or Gojiira-sama to handle the monsters, I know that it's not worth the aggravation of pushing through to where it gets better. If it was a period piece those aspects wouldn't make me bat an eyelash, but trying to enforce them in the modern world is a different question - espescially when Green "isn't there for words like 'lord' or 'retainer' " (as he says in ep1) but (as far as I can tell without reaching the inevitable Dramatic Backstories arc) he just wants to protect people from the monsters. Well, that, and the general squicky feeling created by the cult-like behavior patterns, even if their origin is rooted in real historical practices - a cult of personality centered on a lord among his soldiers so they'll do whatever he asks is as obviously useful to him as it is a recipe for disaster by modern standards, and fictionalized or not the series is still set in the modern world. But in any case, Gekiga-- (facepalm) Right. Gekiganger. Not. Gokanger is far less focused on actual piracy than I'd feared, as you said. They say it during the credits and as part of their henshin sequence, and otherwise it's basically just that they fly around in a Age of Sail themed starship, and that's close enough to Spelljammer to hop right over to the positive side of the board.

- CD
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