Sentai Daishikkaku

In the bold attempt to create an entertaining and unique perspective of the Power Rangers world, the battle between good and evil only lasts a short while; all evil leaders are dead, and all that remains are the weak fodder (Putty Patrollers in Power Rangers). They are more or less enslaved and trapped in a weekly battle for entertainment to lose repeatedly.

The perk of being a putty may be immortality, but in this world, it seems only to grant them constant death and loss.

Well, this story is about one Putty who has had enough. He managed to learn how to shapeshift as ... a human and is determined to find a way to end this charade.

Taking an anime series in the mind of a weak, fodder monster and find a way to guide them on the path of success is always tricky to navigate, in the first three episodes it has been a fun and exciting journey. I am unsure how well it will continue, but this is an entertaining watch.

The art is subpar, and the characters seem one-dimensional, but the story and writing are what keep me watching.

If you want to watch something different, this is a good option for this season, but I also can see this anime turning out to be a terrible one down the road.

Sentai Daishikkaku has a nice and an intriguing idea – without monsters, heroes cannot exist. And not all actions of heroes are good ones, shining a light exposing the industry that was created benefiting from the whole ordeal between the two parties, selling that to the normal people in their world that are unaware of it.

Such a show needs a good cast of characters that can make or break the story now that they have introduced the premise. While there are few characters (Suzukiri) that was later focused on that I would consider to be kind of thoughtfully constructed, I still feel that the majority ... are weak.

As someone who didn’t grow up watching Power Rangers, but was fine watching Fuuto Tantei, I couldn’t know why the rangers and fighters in this anime seemed off-putting at first. I know they are supposed to be somewhat the bad guys here, and taking their side is not necessary, still, the show didn’t hand any reason to care about them. Maybe it’s the intended result, to just focus on Fighter D, but Fighter D is more of an idea of revenge than a fully-fledged character, and the same can be said about Suzukiri, she is just smarter than D sometimes.

In terms of plot and direction, the first episode while it made me come back to watch episode two and three, but it was lacking. The second episode contained information that I wished the first one had, maybe it would have changed how it shaped my opinion on it regarding how some monsters are immortals but what about their bosses.

When it comes to animation, again, this show seems very consistent to be right in the middle – heavy use of CGI for the monsters and fighters, which is understandable in some cases, however most of the time they are unpleasant to the eye to look at. If they can make it as smooth and good as the 3D in the ED it would be a different story, but overall, the animation is good-enough, seems like Yostar is treating this show worse than what they did in Arknights even though they used CGI there, too.

Is it worth watching? It is watchable, it has an interesting core idea, but weak presentation. I’ll keep watching until I feel I had enough.