#rodeomaru

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Love that the ninja cousins adopted the stray cowboy that lives in their backyard.

(Also noticed I’ve never seen Kinji sit seiza, which i think is cute)

[shygaifu]

#31 - Shuriken Sentai Ninninger

...Really? This is what everyone thinks the "worst season ever" is?

Ninninger was a very mixed bag for me, doing some things really well and others very poorly. It wasn't anything groundbreaking, but it was consistently fun throughout, and still worth the watch IMHO.

Starting with the bad, the characters. You have a lot of fun characters individually, but the problem is their interactions, or rather, their lack of interactions. Much like Goseiger, each of the protagonists feels tied at the hip to another protagonist (Takaharu and Fuuka, Yakumo and Kasumi, Nagi and crippling character neglect), not allowed to interact with any other members of the main cast. Takaharu breaks free of this, obviously, but it's not like he gets any character growth as a result, nor does anyone besides Kinji, really.

Speaking of Kinji, though, his introduction was stellar. Such a fun dynamic with the rest of the team, and I'm glad it lasted more than just one episode. Easily the most I've been invested in a 6th Ranger's introduction since Gosei Knight.

I wish I could say the same about the villains, but this is sadly the weakest cast of them we've ever had by a long shot. Kyuuemon is the only vaguely interesting one, and even then he pales in comparison to any other main antagonist. No, I'm not calling Gengetsu the main antagonist, you can literally count the lines of dialogue he has before the endgame on one hand. Kyuuemon's redemption in the final episode also felt severely rushed and unearned, but the Returns movie actually expanded upon the ending quite a bit, for once.

Finally, to wrap up the character dissection, we have to talk about the power-ups. This season was...odd, in that regard. Based solely on its design, the Chozetsu Brace is clearly meant to be used by Takaharu and Takaharu alone, which leads to him hogging a lot of the later fight scenes despite the series generally not being too red-focused. But...the other members of the team get to use it anyways? Never more than once (besides Yakumo) though, and not everyone even gets to transform with it. Kasumi was ROBBED, easily my favorite of the cast by the way. For once, I really vibed with a Pink Ranger, probably because the two girls on the team didn't fall into the cookie-cutter "feminine and tomboy" archetypes. Oh yeah, Kinji got a power-up too, for some reason. I like the concept of the 6th getting their own power-up, since they never seem to get to use the main one, but...Kinji literally does. And his unique power-up is woefully underdesigned by comparison. Overall, a very bizarre blend between how Shinkenger (peak) and Kyoryuger (ass) handled their power-up.

Now onto the mechs. I honestly really liked the mech fights at first, probably the second best so far outside of Go-Busters (third if we're counting Kyoryuger Brave, but we're not, the mech fights are that show's only redeeming quality). Having an actual flexible costume make up the base of the mech allows for more interesting fight scenes, and I wish they let Shinobimaru see more use. Same goes for Rodeomaru. As per usual, the first few episodes shit out random auxilary mecha we see once or twice then never again, but I honestly don't mind. It gives the genuinely important mechs more screentime.

This series also had a bizarre obsession with cliffhangers. I think over half of all the episodes ended on one, even if it was something totally mundane that had no right to be a cliffhanger. Still, despite its fetish for cliffhangers, Ninninger was overall a fun show with surprisingly good comedy here and there.

Current Sentai Ranking:

[biomic]

mecha wise, artisan released chogokins for shinken-oh & toq-oh. they also released the kuliner, toq-oh's light up train tracks (which kicked off the line), and fully poseable shinobimaru & rodeomaru. after that, it was dairenoh & wong tiger with tenpou rai rai balls. aside from that, it was all rereleased changers with updated features. the last release was the megaranger gear getting shipped out in early 2019, so I'm worried a line that rad died because it wasn't cost efficient.

sentai fans can't have shit huh

[shauta]

is rodeomaru a little meow meow

[vrexrobo]

In order to get Rodeomaru back Kinji has to sign a contract to stop being annoying

[fighterxaos]

Review: Power Rangers Ninja Steel Deluxe Bull Rider Megazord Review

Review: Power Rangers Ninja Steel Deluxe Bull Rider Megazord Review

Hello Hero Club, this is Darkon633 and I am back with another toy review. The Bandai America version of Bison King may not be the best Zord that they have released, however it is decent in my opinion. The cart mode is sadly trash, however both the standard mode and the Ninja Fusion Zord combination at least look pretty close to…

[golden-x-mage]

IS rodeomaru a little meow meow? i haven’t seen ninnin i need a qualified opinion on this

[di-vider]

Rodeomaru fanart finished , yeeeaaart

[fooley]

Shuriken Sentai Ninninger 09. Rodeomaru’s debut.

[softboiled-detective]

kinji............... ordered rodeomaru over the internet..........................

[alvetica]

[vrexrobo]

RODEOMARU!!!

[di-vider]

A Rodeomaru lineart ready for coloring , and a kamen rider meets gundam sort of