Yup, forget the peculiar identity of the previous entry in the Takara Tomy tokus by the name of Madai Senki Ryukendo, series that by being its own thing while following more or less the superhero tokusatsu standards it provided new and welcomed ideas, ideas better than those of nonsensically overrated big name IPs entries like Kamen Rider Kuuga and Kamen Rider OOO. Nope, this series is a 100% carbon-copy of the Toei Super Sentais (with whom I have NO problems of sorts, I love those series) just made worst in every possible way, meaning that the action on the screen is boring, the mecha stuff is uberboring unless you're really hard into cars and whatnot (I'm not), the costumes and props with one sole exception (the portable chainsword that can also transform into a gatling gun of sorts) are not particularly interesting to begin with (which is absolutely ridicolous if compared to the ludicrous efforts Takara Tomy themselves put into making a gazillion of robots and animals with distinct charas and different themes for their Transformers and Pokemon IPs) and some of the flaws of the Super Sentai - namely, the overpowered nature of the Red Ranger, nature that I personally still have not seen but I trust the opinion of the Maestro Toshiki Inoue as enucleated in Avataro Sentai Donbrothers in that sense - is full on display here, with R1 being extremely overpowered even with him being a new recruit of sorts while the other members of the team (as usual, particularly the women) stay there doing nothing except spouting attacks 100% uselessy ripped off from the Kamen Rider Kick (told again from the perspective of a Kamen Rider fan, as my bandai Kamen Rider Agito, Faiz and Kiva action figures will prove you). A serious disappointment considering that at the start there were some genuine ideas concerning this series being more in line with something like an interesting twist on the Metal Heroes Rescue Squad antics than a mediocre Super Sentais ripoff, but whatever. Rather watch one of the gazillion of Super Sentai shows proper from the 70's on than wasting your time on this offer by a supposed Toei competitor, it's not worth it.
