When there is a series involving 2 different opposing team, the audience will most likely pick a side, even the running tagline asks "which side are you on?"
The thing is, this series is so bad at trying to keep both side of the audience to enjoy the series. If you're a fan of lupinranger you might like it very much, but when you're on patranger side, trust me you'll be frustrated as you keep going through each episode. All of the good stuff (mechas, power-ups) keeps going to lupinranger while left patranger with minimum power-ups. The basic idea is that dial fighters would go to lupin while trigger machine for the pats. Yet some triggers were primarily used by the lupin or the grandaddy of the problem, lupin/patren x.
The same goes with the story line. While patranger might had significant character development, it is relatively less than lupinranger. I could tell few episode where the patranger almost did not appear at all and just showed themselves for few minutes as formality to keep the "VS" concept that "supposedly" involve the 2 sentais equally still there. They tried hard in keeping the lights to patranger especially by giving them the honor of using the power up forms at the end of the episode, yet not enough to call it equal.
What i really don't like the most is the "sixth" ranger, takao noel that keeps picking one side over the other. The concept of the character is as the embodiment of the two opposing sentai that shares the same objectives from both sentais. Yet, the execution failed in doing so. It would be better if he was a double agent for both teams and would give information equally, yet all we've seen were him utilizing and making use of the gpso facility for helping the lupin. We might as well not call him a part of patranger. It really urges me when the pats knew they were being shafted or left behind and did nothing about it.
In conclusion, this show is really terrible at keeping both sides equal. I've seen worse storytelling, worse suits, worse mech/robots but this series frustrates me the most with it's development for a sentai team. It's such a shame that the actual concept is brilliant, yet the execution was very bad.
Despite the terrible execution, the OST, mecha and suit design are actually good. But no matter how good they are, you can tell that a show is bad when the terrible execution covers all of the good things.
The thing is, this series is so bad at trying to keep both side of the audience to enjoy the series. If you're a fan of lupinranger you might like it very much, but when you're on patranger side, trust me you'll be frustrated as you keep going through each episode. All of the good stuff (mechas, power-ups) keeps going to lupinranger while left patranger with minimum power-ups. The basic idea is that dial fighters would go to lupin while trigger machine for the pats. Yet some triggers were primarily used by the lupin or the grandaddy of the problem, lupin/patren x.
The same goes with the story line. While patranger might had significant character development, it is relatively less than lupinranger. I could tell few episode where the patranger almost did not appear at all and just showed themselves for few minutes as formality to keep the "VS" concept that "supposedly" involve the 2 sentais equally still there. They tried hard in keeping the lights to patranger especially by giving them the honor of using the power up forms at the end of the episode, yet not enough to call it equal.
What i really don't like the most is the "sixth" ranger, takao noel that keeps picking one side over the other. The concept of the character is as the embodiment of the two opposing sentai that shares the same objectives from both sentais. Yet, the execution failed in doing so. It would be better if he was a double agent for both teams and would give information equally, yet all we've seen were him utilizing and making use of the gpso facility for helping the lupin. We might as well not call him a part of patranger. It really urges me when the pats knew they were being shafted or left behind and did nothing about it.
In conclusion, this show is really terrible at keeping both sides equal. I've seen worse storytelling, worse suits, worse mech/robots but this series frustrates me the most with it's development for a sentai team. It's such a shame that the actual concept is brilliant, yet the execution was very bad.
Despite the terrible execution, the OST, mecha and suit design are actually good. But no matter how good they are, you can tell that a show is bad when the terrible execution covers all of the good things.