Let’s Watch Wednesdays Returns with Juken Sentai Gekiranger!

That right citizens of Tokunation.com, your favorite weekly segment is back! Let's Watch Wednesdays is kicking off again today with Juken Sentai Gekiranger! After polling the community this was the show demanded most! So let's get things started shall we?

This time around we're going to be watching 3 episodes at a time, and just one show this time. That way you can still enjoy your weekly Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger and Kamen Rider Wizard as well! This week we're watching episodes 1-3 of Gekiranger. So pull up your favorite fan sub groups and chime in with your thoughts on this series as we go along with our weekly discussion thread.

So let's get started with Let's Watch Gekiranger 1-3!

Matrixbeast is probably or-Gekiing right now.

Love GekiRanger...but Jan's weird language is a bit annoying.

Master Shafu for the win!

I'm going to be a bit slow since your Wednesday nights are my Thursday mornings. I did manage to watch the first two episodes.

I've rewatched the first few episodes of Gekiranger many times before this, and I'll continue to say that it's not the most impressive I've seen in Super Sentai. The characters don't feel that strong yet, on the Geki JyuKen side. Jan has to be the most annoying Red I've seen ever.

Of course, it's just the few. While I lacked patience to continue last time, I'll make it a point to actually finish Gekiranger this time. As many have hinted, I think Rio and Mele will be the highlights of this series and I can't wait to see more of them.

Now this is not a negative point, but a lot of the concepts are just downright bizarre. Jan being a tiger kid, Master Shafu being a giant cat, and the main base being a sports equipment manufacturer just feels a bit strange, for now.

Need to make a point to actually WATCH Gekiranger. Whatever the Saban version was called kind of annoyed me ( morphers that are sunglasses???!!??!?!?!). But from the bits and pieces I have seen I think I'll enjoy this one.

That's what it was called. I always get the Saban animal themed ones confused. But yes...erful! Enjoying the series so far, and the opening friggin ROCKS!!!!

I watched the first episode last night. It was alright. I wasn't as enthralled with it as I was the first episode of Shinkenger, but I also wasn't as turned off by it as I was the first episode of Dekarange.

Theme song is pretty enjoyable, that chameleon chick is pretty hot, the rangers seemed cool so far, the action was good. Jan is a spaz aproaching the annoyance level of Ban. It really confused me though, because he looks all serious in the opening credits, then turned out to be jungle-spaz-boy.

Also, wtf is up with the hideous puppet creatures? The ridiculous level of fakeness of Doggy from Dekaranger annoyed me, but this cat creature, what's his name, Shifu? It terrifies me. It's so ridiculous looking, the mouth is barely articulated, his paws are freakish small, and everytime it opened its eyes and stared into the camera I felt it trying to steal my soul. I'm honestly thankful I didn't have nightmares last night.

But other than that, it was not bad. The minions hopping around looks stupid, but the fight choreography was interesting enough they didn't bother me too much. I look forward to seeing where the show goes. I just hope that cat-demon isn't featured much.