the epitaph of twilight

At this point I have now seen 20 Super Sentai from beginning to end and so I've decided to rank them up, going from least favorite to most favorite, and I would like to stress that every series on this list has something going for it and even if some were disappointing, they still had aspects to them that made watching them worthwhile. Also, there are going to be spoilers, though I did try not to give too much away.

The post itself is too long to be brought over to livejournal, so here's the dreamwidth link.

http://cypsiman2.dreamwidth.org/11523.html

"Pressing forward on the road of Justice!"

The Earth is under invasion by the barbaric Gaiark Machine Clan, a group of robots from another dimension led by the Earth Pollution Minister Yogostein (Yogos meaning pollute), Air Pollution Minister Kitaneidas (Kitanai meaning foul), and Water Pollution Minister Kegareshia (Kegare meaning impure). They thrive on pollution and have decided to wreck our world to make it better suited for them, but fortunately for us, Engines from the Machine world followed them to our world in hot pursuit, a bird-car named Speedor, a lion-bus named Bus-on, and a Bear RV named...BearRV. Upon arrival they teamed up with an idiot race-car driver named Sosuke, a fussy mother-hen bus driver named Renn, and a cheery concession girl named Saki to defend our world. Oh, and the Engines can only stay in their giant forms for up to ten minutes in our world; the rest of the time they are divided into Engine Casts, which are conveniently the size of toys, and Engine Souls, which can be plugged into a variety of items for different effects. Also, the Gaiark ministers forget to formally declare their invasion until the third episode.

As you might have gathered from the above, Engine Sentai Go-onger is a very silly, very merchandise driven series. But is it good?

( Thoughts inside. )

In summation, there is a moment where one of the villains exclaims "You mean the Red One's three times faster than me!?" If that does not strike you as hilarious or at least amusing, this is not the series for you.