#kosoku sentai turboranger

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Kousoku Sentai Turboranger Ep 14

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My Top 15 Best Sentai Openings

I love sentai.  I know, shocking. I’ll give you a moment to pick up your jaw. Super Sentai is filled with action, a surprising amount of drama and men and women in colorful spandex! But for all of that, there are things we as fans tend to sometimes overlook. One of them being music. Toei, the owners of the Super Sentai franchise, make some great music. For this post, I’ll be looking at the opening themes to Super Sentai  The opening to a show isn’t there to just show the title card and credits. It’s to show what the series is about with its theme song and visuals hoping to get you hyped up for it. Sometimes, we tend to remember the opening to a show more than the actual show itself.  I will say, most if not all Sentai openings are very memorable and catchy, even the truly terrible ones...unfortunately, but that’s for another list.  Before I start, I just wanna let everyone know that if you hate or like any of these, more power to you. Just please don’t harass me over it is all. With that said let’s head on into...

MY TOP 15 BEST SENTAI OPENINGS! Why top 15? Because there were too many good sentai openings to leave out! --- #15: Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8x5ea9f3rs)  This opening is definitely not everyone’s cup and I can see why. The person who sings it sounds like he smokes 3 packs of cigarettes a day, but for an opening about a team of animal rangers, I think it fits well. However, I will admit it does get kind of old after binge watching for more than two hours.  #14: Kyukyu Sentai GogoV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87BBbm5Q-KI)  A sentai about a team of firefighters, a pilot, a policeman and an EMT ( all of whom are siblings) deserves an epic opening and that’s what this song brings. The song has a sense of urgency to it that I think fits well with the show, even in the lyrics  “Save the Earth! Save the Life(?)”  It just fits well with the theme of the show. #13: Tensou Sentai Goseiger  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nUT9Lr39pA)  Goseiger is the most disappointing sentai ever, but that rant is for a whole other thread. Here, I’m actually going to say something good about Goseigers. The theme song is great. I love the instrumental at the beginning, I love how after that it becomes quit somber and then cheerful, with children cheering “Tensou” during the chorus. It’s a good song.  #12: Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81ntnX6wEkg) The 70 sentai’s had very disco sounding openings. Even in Denjiman’s theme, you can hear the disco influence in the guitar riff, but starting with Sun Vulcan it seemed like there was a clear jump. I don’t know how to describe it since I’m not an expert on music, but you can clearly hear the difference. This opening to me signifies the change sentai would go through over the years.  #11: Kagaku Sentai Dynaman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKcEvrOWhBc) Ah, Dynaman. The Michael Bay of Sentai. I swear, there are more explosions in the opening then some sentai’s have in their whole show! Anyways, its theme is extremely catchy. I mean almost all sentai themes are catchy but this one, in particular, will have you singing “Dy-dy-dy-dy-dynaman” ALL DAY. I also love the epic violin part at the beginning. It’s a solid 80′s sentai theme #10: Doubutsu Sentai Zyouhger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQa4P7b2NCA) Zyouhger is...meh. I only got 20 episodes in before dropping it. It wasn’t terrible, but it could be better. Maybe one day I’ll rewatch it and finish it, but for now, I’m putting on the back burner to watch other sentai seasons. It’s theme song, on the other hand, is fantastic. It has a very jungle feel to it which matches the theme of the show. My favorite part is when they do the call out to the rangers animals “EAGLE, SHARK, LION, ELEPHANT, TIGER” it honestly gives me goosebumps almost every time.  #9: Chouriki Sentai Ohranger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iWRNAW6N1E)

Ohranger has the best theme song out of all the 90′s sentai in my opinion. Other than GogoV, the other 90′s Sentai theme songs range from ok to god awful.  This was the season Toei and Super Sentai was going to go all out and you can hear that in the theme. Every time I listen to it, it gets me pumped! The chorus is honestly me my favorite part of the song (starts at the 1:00 mark in the video) Not much else to say other than it’s a great song and the best 90′s sentai theme.  #8: Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kqFVvyKr6Q) Dekaranger was the first sentai I ever watched so there’s bit more bias in this one than just the theme is good. Like with the others before the music matches the theme of Dekaranger well. It has a sense of urgency to it like GogoV’s. The rangers are raring to go without a moment's hesitation. My fav parts have to be the beginning and the countdown. It might be a bit Engirshy, but its fun.  #7: Choushinsei Flashman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzKTRJsoyvo) When I first heard the beginning of this theme, I knew I’d love it. The trumpets combined with the guitar just work so well. It’s also the first sentai theme on the list that actually makes me want to dance! It’s a shame this season isn’t fully subbed yet. Maybe one day.  #6: Tokumei Sentai Gobuster (1st theme)  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V-u08pynXs&t=104s)  BUSTERS READY GO!  Why did they have to change this theme? Seriously it was fine! The 2nd theme is...ok I guess. I know it was an attempt to rebrand the show due to declining ratings and toy sales, but to me, the first theme has way more impact and emotion.  #5: Ressha Sentai Toqger:  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW9q06Z9O1M) Want to make Trains seem cool? Put it to an awesome pop/punk song about imagination, and that’s exactly what they did here. No other sentai theme makes me want to headbang to it like this one.  Everything about this theme is just fun! I hope in the near future, Toei brings in more rock themes to Super Sentai #4: Kosoku Sentai Turboranger: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTj4Ho4dQJY) I feel like I love this theme more than I should, but I really don’t care. This theme to me is the best 80′s-90′s sentai theme. Everything just works. From the trumpets to the double pedal, every instrument and sound just adds to the song, nothing feels like filler and nothing feels like it shouldn’t be there. Also, I think I like songs with the word “dash” in them because this is the second theme with it. 

#3: Juuken Sentai Gekiranger: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIuvq0-XrJg) Now we’re getting into the hard part of this list. Honestly, I wish I could give this and the next two theme’s the number one spot, but unfortunately, it wouldn’t be a top 10, or 15 in this case, list if I just put multiple songs in one spot.  Right off the bat, Gekirangers theme hits you with the classic Japanese instruments and then hits with a sort of modernization of those instruments and it’s like a beautiful explosion of martial arts. Makes me want to punch and kick my TV screen! (I suggest you don’t that)   #2: Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vToLwIEuI8) This is probably cheating, but I’ve never watched Shinkenger. I know! I know! Blasphemy! It was never that high on my “must watch” list...but that might have changed since after hearing the opening theme, because oh my god. To say that I was floored would be an understatement. This theme captures everything I want in a children's theme song. Catchy, high energy, fits well with the themes of the show and actually makes me want to watch it. The ONLY complaint I have is that the part before the chorus is a little too slow for my liking. Other than that this is almost a perfect theme.    Before I continue to my #1. Here are a few HONORABLE MENTIONS: Chojin Sentai Jetman:  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvwKKYUCwQk) It’s a good theme and will get stuck in your head all day long as you sing “Jeto, Jeto-Jetoman!” over and over again!  Also, the dance exercise video of the song is a thing of beauty and must be seen!  Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger:  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6aDs8cvReI) It’s such a fun and happy theme. It makes me feel all bubbly inside. The only problem? This theme is for a sentai about thieving PIRATES! While it’s a great song on its own, it just doesn’t fit with Gokaiger in my opinion. Chikyu Sentai Fiveman:  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmF6wqCtRug) Even though this was the series that almost killed super sentai, doesn’t mean it didn’t have a pretty good theme song. The first part is really good. The chorus, on the other hand, is a little weak, but it hangs in just enough to get on the honorable mentions list.  Dengeki Sentai Changeman:  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7MzNRs4CY) I don’t think any theme song makes me want to shake my finger around like the swing dancers do like Changeman theme does. This and Jetman’s theme would be tied for the 16th spot. And now. My number 1 sentai theme song is!... #1: Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67dQUTP3Has) Is this a cop-out? Maybe, but I don’t care I love this song SO MUCH! Everything is nearly perfect about it. The vocals, instruments, the way it builds up,  and the sense of hope it brings, that just because the universe is ruled by an evil tyrant doesn’t mean there isn’t someone out there fighting it. A tiny flickering light in the void of darkness. That’s what this song fills me with and it’s the reason it’s my favorite sentai theme! Thank you guys! I hope you enjoyed this list! Let me know what you think and what are your favorite sentai theme songs!

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~ Kōsoku Sentai Turboranger: Review ~

Year 1989! Kōsoku Sentai Turboranger (高速戦隊ターボレンジャー)! The final Super Sentai series in 80s and the first in Heisei period! Also, since at this point Super Sentai Series' timeline was officially considered to start since Battle Fever J (due to copyright problems, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger / 秘密戦隊ゴレンジャー and J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai / ジャッカー電撃隊 that were created by Ishinomori Shōtarō-sensei, weren’t considered as Super Sentai series until 1995), Turboranger also became the first official anniversary series! Unfortunately, you can’t fool your destiny. We’re all know that Super Sentai Series started with Gorenger and it means that Turboranger is 13th series. And 13 is well known to be an unlucky number…

Kōsoku Sentai Turboranger started with special episode called The Great Gathering of 10 Sentai (10大戦隊集合), in which all previous teams since Battle Fever J appeared to support a new one. It turned out to be a regular recap in the end, but the part, in which all teams will gather in the same place is absolutely epic. Unfortunately, when the series itself starts, you begin to understand that it’s not that good. Unlike Chōjū Sentai Liveman (超獣戦隊ライブマン), that introduced animal-based transformable mecha, Turboranger made a huge step backward and repeated most of mistakes that were made in Dai Sentai Goggle V (大戦隊ゴーグルファイブ).

First of all - Toei didn’t even try to introduce characters to us properly. Turboranger team is five 18 years old high school students and that’s basically it. In Turboranger we have Honō Riki (炎力), aka RedTurbo; Yamagata Daichi (山形大地) aka BlackTurbo; Hama Yōhei (浜洋平) aka BlueTurbo; Hino Shunsuke (日野俊介) aka YellowTurbo and Morikawa Haruna (森川はるな) aka PinkTurbo. And that’s it. There’s exactly nothing about them. They’re 18 years old. They’re high school students. They’re Turboranger team. They’re going to save the world. The end. Some characters will have some hobbies, like Riki-kun is a good baseball player and Yōhei-kun is a swimmer, but Toei was unable to do even that properly, so, the rest of characters is just that - 18 years old high school students. Which feels absolutely horrible after Liveman, in which characters with rich personalities was a strong point, even though they used to study together too.

Second - most of the series are made from extremely generic stories. Like “Monster X turning people into Y and heroes should stop it”. It’s exactly the same thing with Goggle V. And it’s not like Toei tried to make it old school. Because it doesn’t feel like an old school stuff for anniversary purposes. It’s just that - extremely generic stand alone episodes (so-called “feelers”) that repeats an episodes from various old series and even each other from time to time. Which means that Toei simply abandoned everything they made since Kagaku Sentai Dynaman (科学戦隊ダイナマン) that introduced a proper storytelling and jumped back to an old concept, which already proved itself outdated on Goggle V stage.

And the more you watch the series, the more you understand how much this one has in common with Goggle V. Because, aside from everything I’ve already said, Turboranger is also a tale about abandoned ideas. Remember how Goggle V tried to separate regular monsters from giants by introducing the idea about giant robots called Kongs, but ended up putting regular monsters into a weird pants and calling it “giant robot”? Turboranger is all about such things. First of all, as you can guess from the title, the series supposed to be all about cars. Heroes will have different cars, their helmets designed after cars, their main giant robo combined from cars and, of course, there was supposed some action with cars. You can say that because some villains will also have vehicles and one of the villains can even transform into a vehicle, which means that originally Toei wanted to use all that, but guess what? They didn’t. Simple like that, even though design is screaming about car action, cars will be used only to create giant robo most of the time.

Which looks great, by the way, and even though I can’t say I like that feets looks like a rolling skates, design is really, really nice. The problem is… yeah, you should’ve already guess. Battles of giants suck. Hard. They aren’t even on Goggle V level. They’re on Toei’s Spider-Man level. Which means that, well, there won’t be battles at all. Just one, or two punches, shot and then finishing move. There’s exactly nothing is going on, so, it’s incredibly boring to watch.  Spider-Man made revolution back then with Leopardon, but there was so many improvements since it, so it feels absolutely horrible when Toei abandoned all that. You can actually skip such battles to save time and you won’t miss a single thing. Which is a shame, since, as I already said, giant robo’s design this time is nice and after it’ll combine with second robo (hello, Liveman) it’ll also be able to combine with giant base to give it more firepower. So, a lot of nice stuff… that wasn’t used… at all…

Same thing with the story. At the beginning it started as something Liveman-like. In their series, Liveman team fought to protect all kinds of life, which was a main idea of the series - to show us how priceless life is. Turboranger started as something to make us fight with the pollution. It’ll tell us a story about how long ago people fought with evil Bōma Hyakuzoku (暴魔百族 / The Bōma Hundred Tribes), together with fairies, and fairies were able to seal Bōma Hyakuzoku, but now, due to pollution, fairies went extinct and Bōma Hyakuzoku were able to break their seals and set themselves free. So, the final fairy named Seelon (シーロン) and her good friend Dazai-hakase (太宰博士), who worked on problem for some time now, found some young people to become heroes called Turboranger. Pretty neat concept, right?

Unfortunately, its destiny is the same - no one even bothered to utilize it properly. The fact that it was incredibly weird thing to use “anti-pollution” concept in a series, in which heroes use cars (because cars = pollution in each and every place possible) aside, none just cared to do something with the idea. Remember Liveman, in which they tried to teach us about how to treasure all kinds of life again and again? In Turboranger, aside of introduction episodes, they returned to the idea only in one single episode. That’s right, the one… freakin’... episode… Nice work, Toei, nice work.

Well, it looks like this review feels a little angry, even though it wasn’t supposed to. But, as you can see, this time Toei failed to do the most basic things right, even though everybody thought that they learned how to after some previous series. Which doesn’t mean that there’s nothing good about Turboranger, though. There’s actually a lot. And first of all - it’s quality. Kōsoku Sentai Turboranger is a high quality tokusatsu that provides a lot of action, explosions and the other stuff we’re all like. Great effects, great suits, everything is just great. And same goes to the music. Even though this time it’s a mixed bag like never before, it feels really solid and addictive. Especially opening theme. And guess what? Satō Kenta-san (佐藤健太), who played Riki-kun, the leader of Turboranger team, performed most of the songs all by himself. Which is absolutely great thing and he was even able to beat Shima Daisuke-san in how many songs he performed for the series. And he was only 23 (yeah, he was older than his character). Also, in this series we’ll hear some songs by Yazawa Eikichi-san / 矢沢永吉 (his old hit Whiskey Cork and new one called Kanashimi no Kanata e, which is absolutely beautiful) and Saitō Yuki-san’s (斉藤由貴) latest single - Yume no Naka e. So, even though Shōwa way of doing soundtracks started to die in Heisei period and I miss it a lot, this one is sure great.

Suit actors are doing their job just great too. Not much to say this time, though, since main team will be played by the same exact people, who played main team in Liveman (Hachisuka twins included), but fight choreography became really interesting. For example, I really like it how Ishigaki Hirofumi-san (石垣広文), who played Black Turbo in suit, using his hammer called T Hammer. Looks really cool. And regular actors doing really good too. Much better, than shallow characters deserves. Even narrator this time is great, thanks to the fact that it’ll be seiyū actor Tanaka Nobuo-san (田中信夫).

But the best thing about this series is that there are two interesting characters. Two villains - Yamimaru and Kirika, half-humans, half-demons. The way they’ll find their way in life, the way without hating the others, is simply the best thing in this series. Up to the point when Yamimaru and Kirika will steal the whole ending from Turboranger. Actually, it feels really strange, because Yamimaru and Kirika are the only characters in the series with proper development. So, shallow heroes in front of them looks… even more shallow. When there’s Yamimaru and Kirika, you’re thinking about their inner conflicts, about how hard it is to be hated by everybody and still not to hate the others. And at the same time there’s shallow heroes, trying to fight stuff. It feels that bad.

So, in conclusion I can’t say that Turboranger is a high point of Super Sentai Series. Instead, it’s a huge step backward with oh so many things made in a wrong way. Shallow characters and lack of proper storytelling almost killed this series. But thanks to the fact that a lot of talented people worked really hard to put things together and make them shine, I can’t say that this is a bad series. Let’s say that it’s a charming and high quality tokusatsu that looks absolutely great, but, unfortunately, can’t deliver anything aside from that. If you’re looking for generic tokusatsu experience to relax after a day of work, or studies, pick up this one. Nice action, great effects and amazing music will give you a lot of good mood. But if you’re looking for something with deep story and interesting characters, look elsewhere. Because, as I already said, there's almost no such things here.

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Another one gone. Next?

As I pick up the pieces of the incomplete, but so close to completion Megaranger and Kakuranger, I decided to take some liberties and watch Turboranger. 

It was AWESOME. It's sort of an ignored series, and those who don't ignore it seem to not think much of it. I think it just suffers a fate similar to that of Goseiger, where it comes after such a great series (Liveman). I loved the concept of the colorless suits, and how they were used more than just as a blink-and-you-miss-it visual effect.

Regardless. RANKINGS!

1.) Dairanger

2.) Liveman

3.) Jetman

4.) Dekaranger

5.) Gokaiger

6.) Gekiranger

7.) Turboranger

8.) Magiranger

9.) Battle Fever J

10.) Shinkenger

11.) Gaoranger

12.) Fiveman

13.) Maskman

14.) Zyuranger

15.) Hurricaneger

16.) Goseiger

17.) Go-Onger

18.) Sun Vulcan

19.) Boukenger

  As always, I have to think about which one I want to see next. I am downloading the RAWs of Changeman as we speak. I might hit those up. 

Incompletes:

1.) Megaranger

2.) Kakuranger

3.) Gogo-V

4.) Goggle-V

5.) Changeman

6.) Bioman

7.) Carranger

8.) Gorenger

9.) Kyoryuger

10.) Go-Busters

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Masako Morishita as Wandering Boma Kirika in Kousoku Sentai Turboranger by Henshin Justice Unlimited

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Kenta Satou as Riki Honoo in Kōsoku Sentai Turboranger 

Actor Kenta Sato, Red Turbo from Kousoku Sentai Turboranger, caught an episode of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. Noticing the preview at the end for the Zyuranger/Abaranger/Kyoryuger team-up movie he took to twitter to ask Toei to make a car themed sentai special as well! 

Something like that happening isn’t entirely likely but it’s fun to see how pumped previous sentai actors can be when watching new series. Could something like that happen again? Here’s hoping for a Turboranger/Carranger/Go-Onger special!

We can take a moment to appreciate how he doesn’t seem to age?!

Sources : Listal | Toku Nation

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Kinohara Noriko-san (木之原賀子) as Morikawa Haruna (森川はるな) / PinkTurbo (ピンクターボ) from Kōsoku Sentai Turboranger (高速戦隊ターボレンジャー)!

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Kōsoku Sentai Turboranger!!! © 高速戦隊ターボレンジャーTHE MOVIE

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Turboranger!!! © 高速戦隊ターボレンジャーTHE MOVIE

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Turbo GT; Turbo Truck; Turbo Jeep; Turbo Buggy and Turbo Wagon!!! © 高速戦隊ターボレンジャーTHE MOVIE

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Kōsoku Ken! Turbo Crash!!! © 高速戦隊ターボレンジャーTHE MOVIE

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Gattai Shift! Turbo Robo!!! © 高速戦隊ターボレンジャーTHE MOVIE

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Bōma Hyakuzoku!!! © 高速戦隊ターボレンジャーTHE MOVIE

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Mach Turbos!!! © 高速戦隊ターボレンジャーTHE MOVIE