Yup, it's no mistery that I was prompted to watch this series after getting to know miss Hirata through her appearance in a Kamen Rider W episode because I found her performance very good and because I saw online her lovely 2022 playboy photo shoots in green lingerie where she mimicked the role she had in this series of the Love Warrior Mele/Misa Amane of tokusatsus and I fell in love with them (she also looks great in Dark Purple lingerie, thrice the way she already did in this series). Problem is, no matter how miss Hirata is great and no matter the presence in this series of other gravure idols like Mina Fukui herself and Mariko Okubo as well of clear-as-day references to the incalulably influential works on the Heisei Sentais and tokus in general of the Maestro Toshiki Inoue (the main writer actually collaborated with him in Kiba), Michiko Yokote definitely is not as good in the writing department as him nor as Junko Komura (the lady who was the main writer of the underrated Zyuohger) and it shows because the show gets progressively more boring the more time it passes, boredom that is not avoided by an appearance of the veteran Kenji Ohba in the role of the Red Ranger's father. Also, the small fly commenting each mecha fight is irritating on the longer period (I'd rather see Yuka on the screen WITHOUT him inbetween) and the rangers' suits are not that impressing if you ask me (they're too much reminescent of the main rider one from the crappy Kamen Rider OOO for my tastes). All in all, fun until it lasts but I'd take Zyuohger in the field of animal sentais anyday over this with no regrets, Yuka Hirata (whose animes I'll give a try in the future too) or not. I hope Gaoranger turns out to be better than this one TBH.
P. S. All the episodes by hack Yuji Kobayashi were dropped and nothing was missed. Expect me to do the same thing with other series he has written as a guest writer or as the main one (Ultraman stuff with him in the credits I'm looking at you) in their entirety in the next future with no regrets of sorts.
