Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger

"The 12 animal rangers" is one of the best show for kids with a very unique story within an exotic world of fairy tales.

Summary:
The world Nobel is made of countless mini-worlds of fairy tales created by humankind. The evil who plans to destroy this world from within sends minions into each fairy world under disguise of the world's characters. Each episode, the Mouse and a select few among the rest are chosen to be sent into a different fairy tale on the Unicorn (Kirin) Ship to blow the disguise of these minions.

Story: 9/10
As summarized, the story is very creative and attractive to kids since ... it explores a lot of fairy tales with "improvisation" due to distortions by the evil minions.
In this story, that the Cat is made the evil general utilize the fact that Cat is excluded from the 12 Lunar animals in Japan and most Eastern countries. In the Chinese legend, the Cat finished too late to win the race for any place in the calendar and vowed to be the enemy of the rat forever.

Each animal has a special attack and special weapon, the Mouse a laser saber.
They are also gender balanced and have little romance happening among them or with characters in the fairy tales, which makes this story more enjoyable.

Even as show mainly geared toward kids, the last episodes are particular dramatic when most animal rangers sacrificed their lives in pursuit of the evil force, making way for Mouse to confront the evil mastermind behind the Cat. The ending relies on a miracle when all deceased animals were revived but it was enjoyable, and acceptable to kids shows of this kind.

Art: 8/10
The art is decent regarding the time this was made. The animation is repeating especially during special attacks but they are not too often.

Sound: 8/10
OP and ED are particularly memorable.

Character: 7/10
The 12 animals get relatively equal coverage but, as a show for kids, there's no deep personalities. However, they did a very good job in showing friendship and cooperating spirit.

Enjoyment: 10/10
As a twenty-something now after 15 years I still find this very enjoyable, absolutely.

Eto Rangers, forward!
Let's save a Novel World!

What's Eto Rangers? Before, I never heard that shonen anime series before. But I heard that from a collaboration with the game Crusaders Quest. So I started to watch it on YouTube.

It was a underrated 90's anime series.

Story (10)
When some Eto Rangers (3-5 members) go away to save a Novel World, some of them are so different that original one like Aladdin, which transformed to Edo Japan era. Even sad stories like the Little Mermaid, it wanted to be a happy ending even Souffle wanted to save the Mermaid, but then, she accepted. But it still memorable.

... Art (10)
Some characters had different styles like Hols, Drago, Urii had big eyes and little pupils, but Bakumaru, Cream, Gaoh, Tart had like normal eyes, and the characters general represented perfectly the animals from the Chinese zodiac.

Sound (10)
The OP and EDs are very memorable, but it also had character song included in a Hit Song Collection CD which, from today, it's out of print.

Characters (10)
The main characters had different personalities.
Bakumaru is the leader, but sometimes it can be arrogant and reckless, but he's cheerful, has a good leadership sense.
Hols has a habit of raging and transforming in a bull each time he sees something red or a red hue.
Gaoh is strong and very loyal for his friends, but he also sometimes can be romantic and shy.
Cream is also cheerful also had a love feelings on Bakumaru.
Drago always stays in calm and cool.
Nyorori is the brain of the team.
Pakarachi is energetic and hot-blooded, always talked about youth (just like Rock Lee form Naruto).
Tart sometimes she angried so much, but always cares about her friend, and also had a crush on Gaoh.
Souffle is so sentimental.
Monk is mischevious, fun, so-silly, he makes pranks.
Pochiro is so active, he's sore loser and also he's hot-headed, he majorly fights with Monk, but he respects him sometimes.
Urii is adorable, but he's a crybaby.

Enjoyment (10)
No comments, just say if you like antropomorphic animals and world saving, this shonen anime is for you.

Overall (10)
At simple look, maybe you think it's a "kids" anime, but deeply, definitely it's a shonen demograpy anime, 'cause it also can touch themes like the betrayal, the lost of someone you love, horror, etc. But also the team-working and trust themes.

To conclude, what's Eto Rangers? It's a shonen anime that's about adventure, trust, teamwork, and antropomorphic animals. Also it's about how also someone betrays you. But also it's cautivates your heart.