#mmanalysis

admittedly having not watched any PR more recent than RPM it’s tough for me to get into the mindset of the franchise’s current state. if i was mr saban i wouldn’t do kyu at all, but. having 12 entire rangers to sell toys of probably sounds like music to their ears at the moment. here’s hoping they pull one of their old tricks and turn at least one of the guy rangers into a lady.

what a coincidence... i did hear about that. so their game is like. power rangers themed? i don’t know anything about dnd (that’s what it is, right?) and all these shows nowadays where people play tabletop games are kind of beyond me but that sounds pretty fun

it’s so bad. i love parts of kyu but this ratio got me truly suffering. to think gransazer did better 13 years ago... actually i’ve been thinking a lot lately about how recent toku is somehow worse to its women than stuff that aired a decade or more ago and it’s really troubling? i wish i knew how things managed to regress like this cause it fucking sucks big time

yeah i guess at the end of the day straightforward niceboys are probably easier for kids to relate to and imagine themselves as. (and then the writers pawn off the less admirable personality traits on the secondaries and tertiaries.) but even kids probably get tired of seeing the same type of hero over and over again, y’know? i think i would’ve if i’d watched KR as a child. so even marketing-wise i’d say it’s about time for a switch-up. shinnosuke was a bit different but it’s been 2 yrs since drive, so it’s like. aight. time to shake things up again in this here kamen rider

i suppose sentai was also a bit darker back in the day, like with the non-fake half of goranger and the beginning of JAKQ and everyone dying at the start of liveman. but all of those shows end up turning softer/goofier as they go on. sentai just wasn’t really meant to be like that i don’t think.

all in all pretty solid-though-convoluted reasoning for not having a mother presence, i’d say.

i wonder... perhaps it was just a general sense of misery that the coolest decade was drawing to a close. even toku turned grim as everyone had a vague & terrible premonition of the 90s fashions soon to come

(i am instantly escorted out of toei hq)