Kaiju no Kami Reviews - Mirai Sentai Timeranger (2000) Series and DVD 

Timeranger has my favorite toku opening ever hands down GO OVER TIME AND SPACE

In my opinion this sentai is topped only Dairanger. With the exception of the mecha fights everything about it is done so excellently. The focus is on the characters and their development, the dark nature feels natural, and the way the villains were written was very intelligent. It's also interesting how the villains can technically win in an episode even if the monster is beaten. However I should point out that accel time is used after it's debut at least a few times

30:45 Actually, Accel Stop gets used multiple times after it's introduction, it was just reworked into that attack where they spin through the air like helicopter blades. Still has the same name and implied effects of increasing speed at the cost of a drop in power afterwords though.

Timeranger is just amazing. My favorite series, top 1. The highlight of this sit for me are the characters, the story of each one. And all very well worked. Although some episodes have a focus on humor, the series generally has many sad moments, with a very large emotional load. The ending is very sad, but very beautiful. Tatsuya's farewell to his friends, especially Yuuri' makes us cry a lot. And the final scene with him running and seeing his friends (actually, your ancestors) is too beautiful. What a wonderful series.

29:50 Love Struck Rangers LOL I find those facial expressions really funny. Of course these are moments of comedy within a serious episode, glad to know that the Pink Ranger knows how to get the guys attention.

My favorite Sentai season. You just can’t beat what’s amazing, and it’s like nothing Sentai has ever seen.

Thanks for the great review! Congratulations on your 90s Sentai landmark. I've never been interested in the English version of this one, but as usual the Japanese shows are awesome. I'll definitely check this one out!

13:58 Time Fire is very much the first Sixth Ranger where he looks almost similar to the main Red Sentai, and also the first anti-heroic Sixth Ranger.

Nice video. Just finish the final episode yesterday. It really is good! It lead up give me chill with the death of those who tried to change times, yet the hopeful message that doesn’t mean time is set in stone and u must follow it like a script is great.

@16:15-16:29 😂🤣 I had a feeling that you would make a joke about Lila's personality and her shopping spree in the show.

I just went and rewatched the last two episodes...damn, I love that music as Tatsuya is staring at the horde of robots bearing down on him all by his lonesome...facing certain doom, he powers up the Chrono changer one last time to make his final stand. Honestly, is there a more dramatically awesome moment than that in all of Sentai history?

I loved this show when I moved to Japan in 2000. I can’t wait to see your work on Hurricanger!

The Hubbardians? Remember, a certain Mr. Hubbard was a science fiction author and founder of scientology.

Man, 1991-2000 Sentai was really a golden age.

32:25 Doneero looks like he is brushing his teeth with a toilet brush.

Without spoiling anything, i'll just say that the endgame really wants to make you punch Captian Ryuya right in his face.

What episode of Sailor Moon was this from 31:09-31:12 in this review?

13:18 The idea of a military organisation working together with the tokusatsu heroes like Super Sentai, for most of the time due to conflicting ideals between the two, would have been awesome. This idea is then used in Toho's own Sentai show called Gransazer where the JSDF decided to get involved in the war against the alien warlords in episode 28. I wish that at least a few Super Sentai show in the future will have military forces like the JSDF or something similar getting involved in the heroes' fight at the start of the second half.

Great review

Now that I think of it, Domon is literally the Japanese poggers dude.

Oh hai usagi didn't expect to see you here in a sentai review but I did see you in the corner near your moon stick in the display so hai again I really need to watch timeranger

I managed to finish rewatching Timeranger as of two days ago and I am seriously glad I was able to do so since Timeranger is one of the very few Sentai seasons that was in a serious need of a rewatch due to me not remembering too much of the show outside of some major story elements and a few character moments here and there as well as being able to like the show just enough to be able to be among my Top 5 favorite Sentai series. Then again, it has been several years since I have first watched Timeranger and I was powering through all of the US released Sentai seasons via Shout Factory's own website at the time. Thankfully, the show itself holds up really well, perhaps even better than the first time especially in terms of writing and character development and that my initial feelings towards it are not misplaced in some capacity and as such, Timeranger is able to really solidified itself in my rankings as my fourth, maybe going up as my third depending on my eventual rewatch of Dairanger, favorite Sentai series. And no, I am not planning to rewatch Dairanger as of yet because the Sentai series I am planning to rewatch next through my Shout Factory DVD sets is Carranger and like Timeranger and a few other US released seasons that I own are also in a serious need of revisiting before I can jump into Dairanger again as well as Zyuranger and Kakuranger albeit to a much lesser degree.

The american version of this was one of the shows I watched and re-watched when I was little... I didn't even realize I had this much nostalgia for it until you showed it here... jeez... some differences make it look quite the different show too. About that, down the line is there the chance for you to make reviews/comparisons between the original and american series?

I liked how they captured the villain and monsters instead of kill was very interesting wish it was done more. also made things more intense as the villains and monsters faught to kill but the heroes held back. But I keep wondering why they kept the villains to 3 I mean they could have easily unfroze some criminals and had them join as new villains

My favourite sentai series by far kakuranger comes pretty close. I cried at the ending so much when I watched it because the characters meant so much to me by the end. I would really love to see a V cinema of them like 20 years later but doubt to would happen. timeranger VS gogofive pretty great as well.

i like how time force reflected so much on the sentai while adding its own twists like for example Wes and Jen I can go on but it speaks for itself wouldn't you agree?

The Japanese and American DVD release is most definitely transferred from VHS source; every single frame of video has interlacing artifact. Every series before this was transferred from film source so each DVD frame came from a complete film frame for the progressive scan DVD transfer. Toei may have lost the original film of Timeranger and just transferred the VHS release from 18 years ago. Or the video editing software they used to apply CG effects to the original film saved the results in an interlaced video format to use less storage space, so for consistency, the whole show was archived in an interlaced format so the video format of the non-CG scenes match the CG scenes.

What episode # Is the Super Sentai Clip Show one

again with the yellow rangers who are male in Sentai changed to female in the PR adaptation.

I have no idea what Kamen Rider is so where do I start should I watch the original show at the newest one that's come out and what exactly is it show up about I know it's a superhero show but I'm not really sure what kind of superhero he supposed to be???????????

What’s with that blur effect during some of the fights? It looks awesome don’t get me wrong but what’s it called?

this series much have inspiration from jetman (the mech, story about 6th ranger who he like yuki gai and the mysteries of the enemy faction)

I can kind of see the broken visor scene in both Timeranger and Time Force to be iconic moment as it help gives off the red ranger's confrontations with their father in each version and the scene that came afterward when they rally the other rangers against the monster of the week. In the case of Time Force, I can imagine if I hadn't washed out from watching Power Rangers after first several episodes of Lost Galaxy as a kid, I probably would have gotten into TF. I'm going to check out Timeranger one day once I recover a bit of a burn out from Zyuranger and after watching Kakuranger.

1:54 Welcome to the future kids were you have to abandon your last name.

think its interesting they included the special about the other sentai teams considering they announced that jetman is getting a release and possibly more prezyu teams

29:21 Reminds me of that certain :Oranger episode when Multiwa took her human disguise and the male rangers starts simping for her.

Another great review. I just got Timeranger and watched the whole series. It was quite the viewing. I just have one question. Is Timeranger really a 90's Sentai? I thought it started in 2000 and ran until 2001.

Yes finally can't wait for abaranger

I wish Timeranger had a second movie where they teamed up with Gaoranger.

how do you feel about them not killing the villains and monsters me i like it makes it unique

The writing in this season really reaches its peak as it approaches the finale. Episode 33 also resonated with me, but Don Dolnero being unable to kill Gien due to their history made me tear up. Tatsuya sending the rest of his team back to the future gave me a strong ToQger vibe (I know TimeRanger came first but I've been watching the seasons out of order to begin with). TimeRanger certainly a must-watch for any Sentai fan who hasn't seen it yet. As for the special episode where they time travel to see the 23 previous Sentai, I feel like this could fit in with the Gokaiger continuity (if you leave out all the fourth-wall breaks). Had he had access to interdimensional travel, Domon would be pleased to know the adaptation to Power Rangers Time Force gave the team a second female member - though in doing so his role got gender swapped as so often happened with the Yellow Ranger. I'm still not a fan of the intro - I don't dislike it as much as I did before I started watching this season but it's still not something I'd listen to in isolation. Just a personal preference. My only major gripe with this season was the annoying robot Shion built. It reminds me of the talking hamster from JAKQ.

Pier's monster form was used in the team up of time force and lightspeed. (Wished they used the megazord footage.)

I just finished time ranger really good but there's one question it's bugging me about it whatever happened to Lila?

I agree timeranger is one of my favorite sentai shows i've seen the character growth the villains everything about this show is amazing and i love it Also you earn a new subscriber

Oh, that's right; he's got a Gunblade . . . Hmm, that's sexy. . . . Suddenly, I don't feel so troubled about their Mecha, anymore.

Anyone else think there are parts in the Timeranger theme song that makes you think "This should be in a scary movie"

Kaiju got a question if you could go back in time to stop any evil or bad event of history what would it be

Finally got to catch up on this review, and I really did enjoy it! I'm super happy they included the episode that covered every prior Sentai, and it makes me wonder if they got the rights to all of them as a result. (hence why Jetman's a thing next month) Hearing about the DVD quality is a bit unfortunate, but I actually kinda like the old grainy style they went for. I can't get into any modern Sentai/toku due to how flashy and super advanced they try making it with the excessive CGI, so seeing a mix of it sounds like something I'd prefer more, since everything after Dekaranger goes downhill for me. (Heck, even SPD used uglier CGI than Deka since Doggie Kruger no longer looks cool and now looks creepy.) I do wonder if any other sentai DVD releases have this issue though. Was this the first DVD Sentai, or did anything else have similar issues? I know the oldest Sentai Shows came out in 2007 or so on R2 DVD. This is on my big to buy list of Sentai DVDs, but saving for Jetman from Shout directly is a bigger priority.

Was that ending theme sung by Rica Matsumoto?

Is this the series you said you take back the 4/5 for a 5/5?

@20:47 what anime is that?

That intro was awesome lol. Only thing that rivals it is the time travel movie scene in Avengers: Endgame

mad blast: what did I do to get punished by death!? Yuri:... mad blast: like what specifically?!

Currently watching this show on pluto tv and it's amazing the heroes are well done,the villains are great at being evil and the music is great.

Timeranger is, funnily and surprisingly enough, the very first Super Sentai I ever watch in 2001. But only watch it briefly, and once at first. I was so confused why these guys wear the Time Force Ranger suits. When I re-watch it again in 2007 (but only the second-half), and now I knew what Timeranger was, I always wondered why these special effects look like it came from the 1980s or early 1990s, even when Timeranger was first aired in 2000.

It wuold be cool having an sentai series that was actually about time traveling

I find amazing that the sentai's main villain counterpart had absolutely nothing to do would have made a good versus villain though

This is one if my top favorite Sentai series :)

I do have to say that I'm surprised that you didn't once have a reference about this to Futurama. Also what was up with DC Marvel thing? I also have to say I'm not sure why you didn't say how the footage for Timeranger looked better when it was used for Power Rangers Time Force since you talked how the movies DVD/Blu-ray looked better then the set for the show.

I also like the theme song to Timeranger and various other minor key sentai themes. There are a lot more sentai theme songs that are major key and the minor key theme songs are rare to find.

Just finished mirai sentai, and i gotta say it wass really good, the time fire theme song and everything about time fire was fucken tight

I like how time yellow wears a Philadelphia flyers Jersey

Is it lee-la or li-la (as in lie) for Lila

Let's not alter history *Hears last sentence* *Starts to laugh* That's a good joke Does that ever work with any time travel plot ever

Been watching this show and it’s incredible. On it’s on I was never a fan of the theme song but within the context of the show it’s incredible. Actually, don’t normally say it about these shows but this one in particular the music is incredible. Also Yuuri is a total badass and the best Pink Ranger so far. I also love the relationship between Tastuya and Natoi. Reminds me a lot of the relationship between Geki and Burai from Zyuranger. Oh and I’ve said it before but TimeFire’s Henshin and theme song do be 👌. Currently on Episode 34. Can’t wait to see how it ends

(6:25-6:35) BIG missed opportunity to do a Black Panther reference.

When you said Sion is like Superman but without the adopted parents and was raised in a lab with experiments done on Him I was think “oh so he’s flashpoint Superman”

i found out what Gein's origin is, and you were right, my face was like his at times, and no, im not gonna say what it is, but you will be surprised two, its allot darker then the PR version

37:45 By the rest, do you mean the Yellow and Green Rangers are in feudal Japan ?

I am ashamed to say this but I'm gonna go ahead and say it, this is the only Sentai to have ever made me break down and cry....multiple times. Of course, I've teared up here and there starting with everyone crying about Ayase's Osiris Syndrome, but when it all ended, I really don't what came over me and I just started balling my eyes out lmao.To think that Tatsuya will never see his friends (especially Yuuri) again pained me so much that I just couldn't stop myself from crying so hard lol. I don't think any Sentai will ever do that to me again and I will forever love this show for making me feel such intense emotions. (by the way, it all happened last night at 2:00 am lol)

I just got gogo five and Jetman on dvds yesterday. All I want left is Time Ranger on dvd and I will be all caught up on super sentai dvds

did you watch time force if so how you think it measures up to time ranger me I feel they both as good and worth checking.

BTW if you get to the next season, the movie may not be the best, but i love it

This was my first Sentai and I absolutely loved it, i was entertained from beginning to end AND YOU HATED THE SOBA NOODLES EPISODE????? I LOVED THAT EPISODE

I really like how strong the anime vibe is with this show. Some of the stories and most of the music give me Sonic Adventure vibes while the ending sounds like something out of the Sonic OVA. I just call this show a live action anime with my friends

One of my Favourite Seasons besides Dairanger, Shinkenger and Kakuranger. This show, Just like Homelander says, Is perfect, down to the last minute details.

This was the first season of super sentai I watched and really liked it my favorite episode is the one where they get drunk and time green had to take care of things

even kraken can do dual subs, how shout still can't is mind boggling

You ever think about how the world building in this show makes no sense. It’s not explained how freeze compressing the villains is somehow supposed to reform them once they get out especially since some of them have built in weapons in their bodies

I’m surprised the robo owl isn’t voiced by Machiko Soga since it looks like something she would voice.

Just to mention kami no kaiju U have not reviewed turboranger yet

20:44 what show is that?

At least there is a reason why Power Rangers of that adaptation look more like a Police Force. Pink Ranger as fan service material, nothing wrong with that in my book. :) Oppai Daisuki Lets hope that Seban does not hit this with any copyright infringements as every sentai series should at least show their original ranger suits.

Jetman and King-Ohger are phenomenal shows but Timeranger will always be my favorite Sentai. The characters are deep, a lot of the episodes have interesting plots to them along with the overarching plot just being solid and Don Dolnero was a surprisingly interesting villain with a bit of depth as well. Phenomenal show! My only gripe is the lack of TimeFire in it. I think he should have had a little more screen time given how late he was introduced.

in the ranger version, that assassin was just arrested by pink and her fiancé, and after that guys death he kept trolling her, in here, he killed her family, that is way better

Between Timeranger and Kamen rider kuuga which is better?

14:01 is so funny because imo he has the best theme song and time ranger was my favorite sentai & power ranger series.

It wuold be cool if in an sentai with an timetravel motif where the villains are an expy of the 40thieves and the rangers must stop this gang from causing struggles trought time and space

THis is another Super Sentai I want to watch. Especially since I enjoy the PR counterpart and the Time Force story line runs closer to this. Hey Vernon Wells had some acting under his belt before joining the gallery of PR villains. Most important role which was played before his time on PR...Road Warrior. Took on Mad Max...before the multicolored clowns. The finishers and cockpits are the best of this series. I can say that because of me seeing the Time Force counterpart. I prefer the Timeforce morphing over hensen here. I don't understand they need for a special suit prior to transformation...Time Force had the cracked helmet moment too. The opening theme rocks...sounds a bit Gospelish and Choral. Closing theme good too. The PR team up was not that great but used the storyline from the Super Sentai counterpart as a cliffhanger two parter...this is were Wells gets the channel the villian that he once played against Mel Gibson.

Isn't Domon's full name is Domon Taro?

12:48 one of the monsters here reminds me of TF2 Medic

24:46 what was that laugh for?

11:30 Now I wonder how can they see through these the colored and opaque visors.

33:50 Blaster Mad gives the Grongi a run for their money

Who is better ien or frax

Another great Sentai season.

This inexplicably held high ratings while having the lowest toy sales, which carried over into Time Force (PR's adaptation of this series) And it held that record for 15 years of lowest toy line sales until they must not be named and their US equivalent. Basically you wanted to be the 2000s version of Jetman but with police and The Matrix.

The crazy shit that happens in this show will NEVER happen in today's Power Rangers. That's how great both TimeRanger and Time Force is. Neo Saban just sucks. Though with all great stuff from Timeranger,it just doesn't feel the same without the Time force music. ^_^ Another case of I grew up with this version. Sorry. Also,34:26. Lolz. XD You said 'shit'! Also,Lira is hot.

Sometimes I question if TimeRanger/Time Force predicted 9/11 because at the end of the show around like probably episode 20-25 around that time it's been a while since I've seen the TV show like the gold monster I forgot the name of the character not my point but he destroys the city and the q-Rex and all the buildings get destroyed and whatnot with the Megazords that seems like 9/11 to me in the Power Rangers universe I mean it was 2001 but the Sentai was the year before in 2000 so I don't know

Other my favourite sentai show ever love it