Are you enjoying Boom's Power Rangers universe relaunch so far?
>>155207485I wished they continued Prime (which felt new despite its flaws and had the VR Troopers which was cool) or made a sequel to The Return because the reboot seems like a retread of The Return and Once & Always so far. Of the three Im enjoying Unlimited the most because we get to see other Ranger teams and not just MMPR for the hundredth time
>>155207485Nice
>>155207533Prime was too fucking slow to be enjoyable.
>>155207485isn't it pathetic, that something I watched as a child is still being milked, unchanged almost 40 years later?
>>155208278That was one of its big issues for sure, and publishing/distribution delays didn't help.
>>155208285Yes.
ass tradition
>>155207485>Baby MinhI never understood what was going on with Trini's relationships. In one book she was dating Zach and in another she was doing this will they won't they with Jason. Now she's got a baby by some rando. All three times it came out of nowhere.
>>155208285>unchangedNow hold on there, this isn't exactly right. It is changed. Violently even. Grossly.
>>155208491The baby is to tie in to that Netflix thing.
>>155208285Yes, especially when later renditions of said show had better material.
>>155207533>or made a sequel to The ReturnNot sure why they didn't just do this tbqh since it ends on a cliffhanger too. This new MMPR is just a watered down version of it too.
>>155207485>Super Sentai cancelled>Disney+ show scrapped>Saban auctioning off the props and costumes>all that's left are third rate MMPR spinoff comicsfucking end it man
>>155207485It wasn't even that good the first time Boom tried.
>>155209352And don't forget the webseries that Hasbro funded that uses AI effects and is basically an ad for the toys
>>155209352Anon that's a good thing.They're going to make a transforming hero team show not called sentai and it won't be in Saban's greedy claws.
>>155209268Again, it's probably because they didn't want to do it without AJJ writingMaybe she's busy, broke up with Hotson, or bothRegardless, they needed a replacement for Prime
>>155209527>it won't be in Saban's greedy claws.Saban sold the rights in 2018. He hasn't had any involvement since. Hasbro is the current owners.
>>155208278>>155208314>16 issues>No MegazordInterestingly the new Dan Mora art book revealed the other Rangers were supposed to get Zordlings
>>155209560Same difference, anon.The power rangers-sentai contract is over and we can get actual fucking toku now
>>155209736Not from Sentai, though. Its in hibernation.
>>155209736>and we can get actual fucking toku nowSentai wasn't actual toku?
>>155208472I honestly wasn't expecting that ass on her
>>155208285No shit, it's no different from Star Wars, MOTU, Transformers, or countless other franchises, especially superhero ones. If it had even a few successful years it's gonna get milked.
>>155208472>>155208472>>155208472The end of the 1900s really was the best time in america.
>>155209736Toei never lost the Kamen Rider license and guess what? They barely do shit with it in America. Outside of Shout Factory subs (which we were already getting for a while) you're unlikely to see it get marketed in the US anyway. Toei only licenses, you need another company to localize it. Sub, dub, or PR style edit, you're not getting anything from Toei.
>>155209385Higgins described his goal with his run that started Boom's line of Power Rangers comics that he wanted to write Power Rangers the way it felt as a kid rather than what it actually was and that he always felt it was an IP with wasted potential in the comics space.The editor for the series' majority of runs and issues said at Morphicon that one of the things they strove for was to write something that "Wasn't making fun of what you liked as a kid"Say what you want about the comics, they're not perfect and all but that mentality was the best thing you could give for an IP like Power Rangers which was honestly really late to the party in having an ongoing that took itself seriously as an ongoingPrior publishers handled the comics in a way that didn't consider the existence of fans who wanted "more" out of Power Rangers comics and that was kind of the surprise factor when Boom's line debuted 10 years agoNow though?That surprise factor no longer applies and the series is following the path of the Buffy comics by Boom The only comic now that feels like it carries that mentality the comics began at is Unlimited
>>155209477How old are these people?
>>155209477>yellow still has a male costume despite being a girlThis pisses me off so much.
>>155209836>Toei never lost the Kamen Rider license and guess what? They barely do shit with it in America.For good reason. One word: Ferbus.
>>155210142One cannot compromise on nostalgia.
>>155208472Beautiful. A shame this will never happen again.
>>155209970I feel it's also like, at least with the MMPR stuff, it eventually ran into the problem all these things do, which is it progressed the story and the characters enough, without ending, that it started to lose the luster of it all.Jason, Trini, and Zack being like, secret super rangers in space and then all the angst about that really felt like "not to sure why we're still doing this at this point" for me. It was very fun to see the original series, like you said, reinterpreted in this fun but not intentionally goofy tone that let the characters be real people. But at some point it just kind of kept going and got too soap opera-y, the failing of most long running stories.
>>155209836Kamen Rider's quality is all over the fucking place, Zeztz is the only series since OOO to have a suit that doesn't blow.
>>155210283>Jason, Trini, and Zack being like, secret super rangers in space and then all the angst about thatHiggins and Parrott were talking in a car and the latter brought up why their characters left with something as stupid as the peace conference When Higgins gave him the real answer Parrott immediately called bs and said that's not how those character's stories should endAs for the drama, the Omega's run was supposed to be an analogy for college into adulthood
>>155210305Doesn't seem that great to me, honestly. Very much like the Zero-One costume, but even nakeder. More to the point, it doesn't really seem noticeably better than the truly abysmal examples like Ex-Aid.
>>155210338No, I understand all that. I just didn't like it. That's more what I was getting at. You can always justify why these things happen or reinterpret stupid little things that were written to explain the cast changing. Them being secretly the super space rangers is fine as an idea, but it was the tedious drama of needing to keep it secret, with the usual dramatic fall out of it, that killed the idea for me as well as the increasing focus on "these guys are straight up not having a good time" that made the idea just kind of fail for me.
>>155210374>More to the point, it doesn't really seem noticeably better than the truly abysmal examples like Ex-Aid.Sorry, that is, it doesn't noticeably seem better than the average, excluding the really stupid looking one's like Ex-Aid. Like, if you asked me if I thought these were better than Revice, I wouldn't really know. I think I'd even say Geats was better.
>>155210420Agree to disagree Kamen Rider suits are mostly gaudy overcomplicated trash and get worse and worse through the years. There's a handful of good designs, usually when they ape the original design (like Zeztz) which is basically perfect.I genuinely can't think of a rider design in recent memory as good as Zeztz. Maybe W. OOO and Build are...fine.Don't bring that geats or gavv crap around me
>>155210163Ferbus was bad but its not like it stopped them from attempting Kamen Rider localization altogether.
>>155210305I liked Zeztz suit but lost interest in the show. I miss when KR was weird body horror and monsters. Shin KR wasn't bad I guess.
I wish Prime continued so we got to see their take on Beetleborgs, Masked Rider, and Mystic Knights
>>155210510ZO is pure kino. Same director as Zeiram movies, Hakaider, etc... all amazing stuff
>>155209268I read somewhere that a sequel is in the works, but nothing else about it.
>>155210536It would have been just Beetleborgs at mostMasked Rider is off limits and Mystic Knights is in legal limbo It's why Saban didn't re-release those two for DVD or streaming when they got their catalog's rights back from Disney
I can't say I'm enjoying it, but I'm seeing where it goes.
>>155210893>Saban's one completely original toku project is in legal limboThat's some grade A irony there.
>>155209352Just watch Kamen Rider you fucking pleb.
>>155210305>OOO>Good suitsGr8B8M8
>>155211149Why the hostility over facts about the current state of Power Rangers?
>>155207485The artist was defs horny while drawing this issue
