What makes a GREAT Sentai robo
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Robos come in all shapes and sizes, but what makes one stand out from all the rest? In this video, I talk about what I usually look for in a Sentai team's combining robot, while also sharing some of my personal favorites across the franchise! What do you look for in a robo?
Time stamps:
0:58 Introduction
1:29 Composition
5:55 Ingenuity
8:10 Translatability
11:14 Top 5
12:45 Conclusion
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They actually gave Zyuoh King proper justice with its minipla version, maintaining the animal forms and cube gimmick while allowing zords like Lion to just completely split down the middle for actual legs. The sword becomes short and only enough to go through Eagle, but it shows that engineering the toy to be screen accurate enough was possible while keeping the main gimmick.
Ah yes I remember the Minipla! Honestly the Minipla are such great upgrades for the DX versions, just wish it was at the DX scale 😭
@@KingZoru_VTHonest I think that’s why they created the SMP line which I hope they continue!
The super mini pla line are awesome. I've never built one, but I've seen a bunch of videos on them. They're often sticker heavy, but they do function and combine just like they do on screen. It's a shame they're soo expensive. I'd love to have a few myself. Maybe make a complete custom robot lol
Honestly, one robo that exemplifies your thesis isn't exactly one, but the entire team's: Dekaranger. Using PR terms because I haven't watched the Japanese footage.
I love how the base Megazord feels right for the Rangers, but also like a training Megazord-you get the sense that it gets the job done, but the Rangers are learning their craft through it.
Then, their command center becoming a Megazord definitely feels like they are getting backup from higher ups, and there's a sense of authority when The Shadow Ranger pilots set.
Then, when the Omega Ranger's introduced It feels like he feels like an advanced student training alongside the cadets with a zord that compliments theirs. I'm not including the SWAT Megazord, but I do appreciate how it feels like the scope of their mission has increased, like they're protecting the Galaxy and not just a planet.
Overall, this set of Megazords feels like a family and compliment each other super well. It doesn't feel out of place or random like some extra robos tend to be.
The kaisers from Lupinranger x Patranger are my personal favorites. I love how they share Good striker as a base body and how surprisingly different each mecha looks because of it.
I think the perfect robo/megazord in recent years is still Don Onitaijin for the perfect combination between articulation and combination (both in toys and in the show itself). It's not restrictive, but still have a balance gattai between each member. I don't really like the Kingohger Robo, it's too focused on movability but the gattai don't feel satisfying and the balance between member is soo off.
Speaking of Megazord, i hate Hasbro for not releasing the only 3 Zord left for Dino Fury.
I would have to agree on both of those points! I praise KingOhger for its style but I agree the balance is a bit off.
I also am upset with Hasbro and their releases/lack of releases 😭
honestly for me my number one would have to go to gaoking due to the aspect of being able to mix the joints around while still staying true to the animal theme such as gaoking spear and shield mode for example
Yes! GaoKing has one of my favorite examples of interchangeable parts!!
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Ah, Sentai Mecha. Since 1979, Super Sentai has perfected live-action super robots, and you can tell how much has change. Battle Fever Robo was more of a test with it having no gimmicks other than "it's a cool robot". The Sentai Robos of the 80s were blocky and it wasn't until Maskman that we had the number of zords matching the number of Sentai members. The mecha of the 90s was the beginning of smoothing out the mecha designs to make them slimmer, but I will consider the peak of Sentai Robo to... all Gaoranger Robos. Those are peak in both design and playability since the Power Animals are more natural-looking animal mecha, which resulted in unique-looking mecha combos. Plus Gaoranger has the auxiliary mecha gimmick where you can mix and match the Power Animals for some unique combinations, to which the show takes advantage of. Gaoranger should be the staple on how to do auxiliary mecha done right.
I do, find this video reslly interesting to watch, and fascinating too, especially when im tying to make an oc sentai mecha/zord, so this i found genuinely helpful.
Also i have heard (i think from an interview) , reasoning of why recent sentai mecha figures have possibility, was cause the person whos in charge of toy designs was an father, and something about how he saw his kid tried to replicate poses with zenkaiger mechas but couldnt, and he thought adding articulation would bring them closer to the show
I think favourite sentai mechas idk what it is but go buster beets and lion had been ones that always caught my interest with them
Aw I’m glad to hear that! Making an OC mecha is super challenging, so that’s awesome you’re doing it! I also recall that interview as well, and it’s just so funny that it’s taken so long for this to happen!
Those Go-Buster machines are a great choice, very cool robos! ☺️
I myself favor the all together combinations, seeing every single team member and mecha get a dedicated spot just is so satisfying, my personal favorites being tenrai senpujin, samurai ha oh, god kingogher, kiwami toradora onitaijin, and engine oh g12, they are just so visually appealing even though they are just a bunch of pieces being attached in somewhat crazy ways
Nice video. I think there's only a few video on CZcams that talked about Sentai Robo. There's a lot of good Sentai Robo but the one thing that i don't like about them is the clusterfuck combination, you know, like Engine-Oh G12 and Samurai Haoh. But with how Sentai dynamic works with team bonds and teamwork, a clusterfuck combination is inevitable. I think the last time we don't have that kind of thing is Kiramager *i count Zenryoku Zenkaioh as somewhat forced combination". And speaking about Zenryoku Zenkaioh, CGI being used for them is a unique thing. I think the first fully CGI mech is Good Cool Kaiser VSX. As long as the usage of CGI is good, there's no problem for having CGI mech. Well, for now, some of the CGI mech is good while other is kinda meh. Some of my favorite CGI mech is Good Cool Kaiser VSX, Don Zenkaioh and Tarantula Knight because you can see how smooth their CGI. CGI mech can also be a way for having a clusterfuck combination that have a lot of mobility, rather than using a practical suit and have the clusterfuck mech that can only move awkwardly
Thank you! Yeah I was debating on bringing up clusterzords but I think that probably deserves its own focus 😅 And agree on the CGI, it expands the possibilities but may not translate well in some cases!
Im with you, MagiKing is actually my first robo I owned when I was a kid. I love how cool it looks and how you combine it-
My favorite is Gokai-Oh because of how well it represents each team member and the season's pirate theme in general.
My favorite MAIN Megazord has always been the Thundersaurus Megazord/Abaren-Oh because drill arm is just sick as shit, but if we're talking aesthetically, then I gotta agree with Wild Force/GaoKing.
In terms of my favorite zords overall, Top 5 are
1. Shadow Force Red (Time Robo Shadow Alpha)
2. Thunderstorm Megazord (Gourai Senpuujin)
3. Thundersaurus Megazord (Abaren-Oh)
4. Deltamax Megazord (Super Dekaranger Robo)
5. Drivemax Ultrazord (Ultimate Daibouken)
dude you make such high quality tokusatsu videos. i love it
Thank you!! ☺️
Can you make a video in the future about most popular sentai vehicle motif just like you did with animal sentai motif?
Good idea! I’ll take a look 🤔
My favourite is the entire go onger line. Very close second is the entire king ohger line
My fav (the tv version only since I don't buy sentai toys):
- Magi King - Magi dragon / Magi Legend: the way magi legend make a gimmick of magi king into its main combination mechanic is just chef kiss (the way magi dragon foreshadow 4 rangers combine into Magi Lion). Also, much prefer the final mech being it own thing rather than slapping every mechs into one giant, clunky robo.
- Kyshiryu oh three knights / Don Oni Taijin: sleek af. only rank lower than magi king since the mech got worse later down the line.
- Gao Icarus: wasn't a big fan of a robo having no hands, but my god gao falcon and the finisher is dope. I mean, it's weird to include finisher when evaluating a robo, but we literally see it every week so... why not?
- Muteki Shogun: really fancy the way they turn a castle into a mech, the origami crane helmet is awesome, and they actually lit a sword on fire to shoot the finisher.
king ohger might be my fav mecha actually. one day id like to put all the shugods in a display case as if theyre a bug collection.
To be honest, the robots are the main reason why power rangers/senti are so well known and like.
It makes sense though the first mecha/megazord will mostly have a sword and shield as its main weapons
YESSS the mystic force/magiranger megazord!! It was one of the many megazords my spoiled ass had lol, the red rangers zord was always my favorite to play with on its own and it was so cool how he could compress into just the biceps of the megazord, the whole thing was just so sick and fun to play with
I admire the Ninja Storm megazord though simply cause the lion is basically the whole body
Throughout the video I kept nodding my head because your criteria for what makes a good robot matched my own opinion perfectly. I was still pleasantly surprised that we chose the same all time favorite megazord lol
Great minds think alike! ☺️
4:38 I wish the Mashin Jetter could extend its wings and wrap around Fire’s right ladder arm like Kiba Dairenoh’s right arm (Wield the sword like an arm blade)
Randomly found your channel falling down a CZcams rabbit hole and I absolutely love your stuff.
Definitely subscribing!
Thank you so much! That means a lot, I’m so glad you enjoy! 🥹
In no particular order for main mechs
- Great Five (Maskman)
- Dairenoh (Dairanger)
- Victory Robo (Gogo5)
- Gaoking (Gaoranger)
- Magiking (Magiranger)
One of my favorite sentai mechs is GoGoV's Victory Robo
Victory Robo has a lot of "weight" to put it, that first episode gattai sequence had a lot of drama and tension, since every individual 99 Emergency Machine has its own role that it must perform to reduce the Catastrofiend's onslaught; Red Ladder gets the rangers to high places much like a fire engine's ladder, Pink Aider gets everyone away from the fight zone, Blue Thrower puts out the fires, Yellow Armor punches through debris, etc. Then it combines, and its slower gattai sequence gives it strong "disaster movie" vibes to ramp up the tension while the episode's catastofiend keeps wrecking havock, I still hold up that out of all mechs so far in the franchise, Victory Robo really conveys the feel of "man-made giant robot" better than most.
Magiking is also my favorite.
my only pet peeve is when they made a final combination with all the mechas in the series and it ended up being clustered mess that is unplayable in toy form and heavy and barely can move in the show.
also while i agree kingohger is a better design then kirameiger, there's still the fact papillonohger's cockpit is located in the sword. so they still gonna get separated and cant contribute to the team when the sword is dropped.
The original mmpr got me into the franchise. As i got older, i grew out of it for a while. Then once i got older and started having money of own, i went back and got some of the megazords i wanted when i was a kid. Now they have those mini pla sets that are awesome but expensive lol
I like gaoranger and kingohger robots the thing is robot now day don't really care about Individual part.
but both of gaoranger and kingohger proportion of individual part are really good and making it fun on their own. That's also why i really love Cang toy predaking.
Hurricanger's Robo/Mecha has the Red Part being close to invisible solely because its only function in a robo is a head.
Fantastic video, enjoyed your very clear thoughts on the subject. Cliche as it may be to say, you put into words what I've felt but could never string together all that well myself and gave some interesting points I hadn't considered before.
Thank you!! I really appreciate it ☺️
4:53 I've been wanting to talk about this for a long time, why can't God Papillon's wings be used as robot shields? The body parts of the two mechanical insects are combined into one weapon, but the other hand holds nothing. I feel it is very uneven, and God Papillon only becomes the head and the sword's guard, which feels like it has become a decoration.
That would have been cool honestly, a sword and shield combo! You’re absolutely right, the other hand really could be doing way more 🤔
I'm sure you already know this, but my adhd brain is making me put this here. The Mystic force megazord is actually called the Titan Megazord
Ah yes!!! I remembered that when I was too far down the process and I wasn’t able to re-record 😅
@@KingZoru_VT It's all good. I forget a lot too
My favorite would be kyouryuzin because of how it uses the other team Zoe’s a are used as limbs considering those Zords aren’t used as much so being left or right arm seems right
My personal fav is gaohunter. SMP gao hunter is my very first model kit and I just love the design. And I think gao hunter finishing move with the alligator mouth wide open is one of the coolest things in sentai
MagiKing, Onitaijin, and ShinkenOh are my top 3, but KishiryuOh is right there. The color distribution does bother me, but what I really can't stand is the ineffective use of the Lego mechanic. It's spectacular for playability, but the show almost never does anything interesting with it. Maybe it'd be too expensive, or maybe they left the responsibility of "make this guy look cool" to the consumer.
Out of those 3, MagiKing is a W for looks, ShinkenOh is. W for gimmicks and generally sticking to the theme of Samurai/Kanji, and Onitaijin is great both in screen and in the toy variant. My fav is probably MagiKing tbh
6:33
Oh, I get it. _Balance._
Naga-na lie, that one was pretty good.
Many robos nowadays are too overdesigned for my taste. I like, when they have personality in their themes and shapes, but the silhouette is more straightforward and practical. Not so much protruding clutter, except in the Ultrazord combination. The 90s had the perfect balance in this regard.
I love the recent trend of having articulated mecha but i also love the cluster fuck final combinations and im glad they are making a come back. After shinkenger/ samurai, the final combo/ ultrazords have felt lackluster and i really feel like if its a copout when they say it has all the powers without the mechas themselves
Even tho g12 is massive and hulking. I have a find respect for the Unity and Teamwork Due to the motif of the shoe with how hard it was to get everyone together to be aligned to destroy the threat to earth. I can never not mention Engine Oh only because its flaws are what makes it great IMO; Because together they really only have one flaw (that’s articulation) hahahaha
king kyoruzin because it combines gabutyra and the shugods
This I gotta see because I made an original Sentai Mecha for my fanfic
My favorite sentai Mecha/Megazord is VRV Robo/ Turbo Rescue Megazord. That because i like vehicle types zord especially land type and each individual zords have their own robot mode before combine. This type of concept rarely use in any sentai, if it does not interesting as VRV robo until Zenkaioh.
Yes! That concept for those modes is definitely very cool, great choice ☺️
How about doing video about adapting kamen rider Like you did in the adapting super sentai And you don't have to do it all at once like part 1 is fir heisei part 2 is for neo heise and part 3 is for reiwa And I just loved the way you go to the tourist costume and the most part that I most interested in is the way you're giving their names I think their names are some pretty cool so if you can do it so please do it I think it would be a pretty good concept
Awesome video and interesting take.
Personally, I prefer the Giant Robots/Megazords that maximize the play value as much as possible. I like mid-form combinations; be it something silly like Daizyujin's Dino Tanker Mode (Dino Megazord Tank Mode), or something way more consistent like Magi Dragon (Mystic Dragon). Even something as simple as Heavenly Qi Palace (Thunderzord Assault Team) is still a pretty cool gimmick. I liked how the KishiRyuOh (Dino Fury Megazord) had a Lego-inspired gimmick that allowed for multiple, unofficial combinations. And I absolutely love it when individual Robots/Zords have their own independent transformations; such as RyuseiOh's Warrior Mode (Red Dragon Thunderzord Warrior Mode), or Pteraiden-Oh (Ptera Charge Megazord). They can combine with some or all of the main/core robots, but they can stand on their own as a super robot, which is better than having one Robot/Zord that relies only on the combining aspect. And while things like the Zyuoh Cubes or the Shinken Origami Emblems (Samurai Folding Zord's Emblem Form) might not have as many play patterns on their own, they can still act as a cute charm or something to carry around (if you are bold enough).
As a kid, any Megazord that maximized it's potential play patterns or any toy that encouraged a kid to get creative was always a top-tier toy IMO.
This is a great video! Could you make your top favourite cluster/ final Sentai robo?
Also here is one my favourite mechs in Sentai:
1. Gao King
2. Shinken-Oh
3. MagiKing
4. Don Onitaijin
5. Daibouken
6. Galaxy Mega
7. Daizyujin
8. Gokai-Oh
9. Abaren-Oh
10. GekiTouja
It’s definitely something I’m thinking about! And great choices, glad to see DaiBouken on there ☺️
Question: why are two of Ohranger's mechs just turrets or something like that that must be dragged by other two?
It looks like Yellow and Pink were based on Dogi and Moai statues, fitting with the ancient civilizations theme but taking the form of something immobile 😅 It is an interesting take!
@@KingZoru_VT Oh, makes sense. Unusual choice, for sure.
As for the "hook" question: my favourite robo (or rather, Megazord variant, since I'm purely PR at the moment) is the Mega Wildzord Striker, because I find it hilarious that a giant mech has a finisher that is literally an overhead kick.
I personally like Dairanger(only the main megazord tho), Kakuranger, Go-Onger, Magiranger, Dekaranger, Boukenger's megazords. Also some that has arnaments or different versions such as Hurricaneger, Ohranger, Gaoranger, Abaranger and Shinkenger.
I always liked the complexity of Go-busters megazords.
I personally do not like the easily combined ones, ToQger and Zyuohger. They look ridiculous.
I've only watched till Zyuohger, so I don't know those after Zyuohger
talking about sentai robo, we shouldn't forget the inspiration behind it : spider-man. yes. let that sink in
That's still so baffling
Most robos are parts forming..that more of a transformer "problem" personally I like parts for me it's like finding hidden stuff through the zords before combining
And I feel u on the zyuoh I thought the same thing..pull the legs apart lol
Good thing the model kit zyuoh king has good potability. The face the smaller model kits could actually pose and still combine says something.
It's worse in season's where they only start with three rangers and red is almost the whole thing and the other two are just legs