Fic Reviews: Gokai-Ponies · 1:00am Jan 23rd, 2019
No beating 'round the bush this time. Here it is, up front and center! (Might be taking a few cues from my dear Toku fan Layton13 here.)
Okay, let's get down to business. I spotted this fic a while back, and being who I am, I knew I had to review it at some point. After all, huge Super Sentai and Toku in general fan here. I mean, hello, this was my territory!
I'll assume you know the relationship between Power Rangers and Super Sentai. I won't go into details about why I love Gokaigers over Super Megashit as anyone who's watched either series could probably figure out why, but that's not the point. For those of you not familiar with Gokaigers, and if so I question why you're even reading this review aside from any possible snark that may come I'll give you the synopsis straight from Ranger Wiki.
The Gokaigers use the "lost" powers of the 34 previous Super Sentai teams to fight the evil Universal Empire Zangyack, whose first wave of invasion forces were completely defeated by the older teams until they arrive with reinforcements and invade the Earth once more, and they must visit the past 34 teams to obtain more power to fight against the ever-determined Zangyack.
As they continue collecting more Greater Powers, the Gokai Crew run into Marvelous' ex-crew mate, Basco, who is also looking for the Greatest Treasure in the Universe, but he wants it all for himself. To that end, he betrayed his old crew and joined up with the Zangyack. He opposes the Gokaigers with his own set of Rangers Keys and his partner Sally, a monkey-like alien who can summon Giant Battle Pseudo-Lifeforms.
Eventually, Gai Ikari, an Earthling, joins the crew as the newest Gokaiger, Gokai Silver, after obtaining his gear from three former Sentai heroes (Burai, Naoto Takizawa and Mikoto Nakadai) and proving himself worthy of being a Gokaiger. As a Sentai Fanboy, his knowledge of past Super Sentai teams aids the Gokaigers in their fight against the Zangyack Empire and Basco.
Excuse me while I reminisce for a moment. Okay, I'm done. Now on with the motley!
Now, can Twilight and company really hold a candle to the original Gokaigers and become worthy successors putting on a show of things? That's the question I aim to look for the answer to in this review. If I'm not pleased, I will show it.
The scene opens up with a book with a strange logo, including the letter V and some text in a language unknown to ponies of today. It was opened by a light blue hoof, opening up to pages detailing events years ago.
“Long ago, in a faraway land, the world was threatened by invaders who have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. However, a might stood before them, the Zyudenryu, and their partners, the People of the Strong Dragons, better known as the 37th Super Sentai team, the Zyuden Sentai Kyoryugers!” a female voice read with a lot of enthusiasm.
“With their mentor fallen, and the Red Senshi’s dad having stolen the powers of their mentor, it all looked bleak. It seemed as though the planet had turned on the mentor to the Kyoryugers. But hope was not lost, as the Kyoryugers were determined, and KyoryuRed was ready to fight. He had a face-off with his father, before recalling KyoryuPink giving him something before he left, finally showing that she indeed cares about him.” the voice continued.
When the source of the voice finished, she closed the book with her hoof, revealing herself as a pegasus mare with magenta eyes, a rainbow-colored mane and tail, as well as a mark on her flank that showed a cloud with a red, yellow, and blue colored lightning bolt coming out of it. She also happened to be reading this book to three young fillies, one being a normal earth pony with yellow fur, a red mane and tail, a large reddish-pink bow in her mane, and orange eyes, a very very light gray unicorn with a curled mane and tail colored light pink and violet and green eyes, and finally an orange pegasus filly with purple eyes, and a mane and tail colored a shade of purple.
Oooh, not starting off very well, are we? Script style reading, and lavender unicorn syndrome. When I enter a Toku fic and especially a Gokaigers themed one I'm supposed to be excited. This is anything but.
The scene continues onwards, with various members of the mane cast and the CMC expressing their favorite teams and favorite moments. I've gathered Daigo Sentai-.... Er, sorry, Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger is the favorite amongst the lot, and Rainbow Dash is obviously our Gai Ikari here. Bit of authorial bias towards Kyoryuger I think, but maybe that's just me.
Anyways...
The scene know is at a place seemingly made entirely of crystals, specifically, it was a castle of sorts. And inside, we see two ponies in particular. The first was an alicorn, similar to Twilight, except her coat was pink, she had violet eyes, a mane with violet, magenta, and pale yellow streaks, a crystal heart mark on her flank, or a Cutie Mark as the ponies called them, a small golden crown on her head with some purple gems in them, a golden necklace, and golden horseshoes. With her was a white unicorn stallion with a white coat, blue eyes, a blue mane and tail with darker and lighter blue streaks in them, a blue shield with a pink six-pointed star Cutie Mark, black hooves, and a red, white, and gold military coat with a blue sash across his chest. These were Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, better known as Princess Cadence, and her husband and Twilight’s older brother, Shining Armor. They at the moment were eating a plate of pasta, simply enjoying their time together, when a clanking sound could be heard.
They turned to see an orange pegasus stallion with blue eyes, wearing golden armor on his hooves, body, and head, the armor covering up his Cutie Mark.
“Forgive me for intruding, but there is a matter of urgent importance!” he said.
“What is it, Flash Sentry?” Princess Cadence asked.
“At the archeological dig, we found something under a large lare of rubies, we need you to investigate it at once,” Flash Sentry informed.
This brought out some shocked looks from Cadence and Shining Armor before they nodded.
“Lead the way, soldier,” Shining Armor ordered, seeing he was the captain of the guard. They galloped to the area where there was an archeological dig, but and unknown to them, it appeared as though there were some tracks leading to the ruby where the dig was.
“What’s this about?” Cadence wondered as they followed the tracks. But they seemingly cut off, as they saw a chest buried in a thick layer of rubies.
“A chest?” Shining Armor gawked, a bit confused why it would be there of all places.
As Cadence and Shining Armor began to remove the rubies with their magic when the rubies just set themselves back up.
“Wait, your majesty? I think you should look at this,” Shining Armor responded pointing his hoof at some writing on the cave wall. Cadence and Shining Armor stopped before looking at the wall and seeing one word written there; a name much too familiar with Shining Armor.
“...’Twilight’?” he gawked.
“Maybe… Twilight has the power to open the way to the chest?” Flash shrugged.
“What makes you say that?” Cadence asked.
“I’m just guessing.” Flash informed.
“Oh… I see… we’d better write a letter to your sister, dear,” Cadence sighed, saying the last part to her husband.
“Right,” Shining Armor nodded
And so, Shining Armor pulled out a quill pen and a piece of paper before writing about what they saw in a letter to his sister.
More beige prose, and more of the writing seemingly feeling like the characters are reading off a script. Are you excited yet? No? Am I excited yet? HELL NO!
“Armor? Let’s see… ‘Dear Twilly, we found something at the Crystal Empire that needs immediate attention. Cadence and I can’t get this thing out of it’s confines, and due to something else we found, we realized that we need your help.’ Okay… man, what time is it?” Twilight asked herself, looking at the clock, seeing it was 4:30 in the morning. “It sure is early… I’d better hurry.”
And so, Twilight began to pack some things in a small bag, write a small note for Spike so he wouldn’t worry, and then she set out for the Crystal Empire in her hot air balloon.
“I wonder what exactly they found…” she wondered to herself as she began to ponder all the various things this new discovery could possibly be. And wonder… why is it only she could get to it.
No, you better be slow about it!
It took sometime for her to get there, but she soon arrived at the Crystal Empire, and she saw her brother and sister-in-law waiting for her before she landed her balloon.
“Twilly! Oh, are we ever glad to see you!” Shining Armor said with a huge smile when Twilight landed and exited the balloon.
“Hi Armor! Hi Cadence,” Twilight smiled, trotting over before… bumping into Flash Sentry… quite literally.
“Oh, hello Princess Twilight,” he greeted, as Twilight blushed.
“Hello…” she blushed in response, and this awkward silence lasted a while before Cadence cleared her throat.
“Anyway, as much as we’re glad to see you, and as much as I’d personally like to chat and see how you’re faring, we need you to come with us,” Cadence told Twilight.
“Uh… yea, right.” Twilight started, as she got up from Flash’s arms, and then Cadence and Shining Armor led the way, with Twilight and Flash not far behind.
They arrived back at the archeological site not that much later, and Cadence showed Twilight the tracks leading up to the chest covered in rubies.
“...Okay… so a chest was found here covered in rubies… what’s so odd about that? I mean, this is still the Crystal Empire, so gems like these are more common here than other places, right?” Twilight asked.
“We’ve tried to uncover it, but it just somehow reforms a magic barrier, and then we found your name written into the rubies, so whoever left this thing here, must’ve known who you are,” Cadence figured.
“Uh… that is weird… I guess I can try,” Twilight figured as the others stepped back just in case something crazy were to happen before Twilight stepped up to the gems and removed one to see what would happen.
The gem simply remained on the ground, and this proved only Twilight could uncover the chest. With this, Twilight continued to remove the gems to clear the way to get to the chest until finally the entire area around the chest was clear of gems. She then noticed a note by the chest, and then removed the chest and the note from the ruby chunk.
“‘To whom it may concern- They have fallen. The Neo-Zangyack was simply too much for them,’ Neo-Zangyack? Why’s that sound familiar? ‘I have been tasked to return and hide this chest with the powers of the warriors of another world. If you find this, tell Twilight… she and her friends are the only ones who can help. Twilight… I have a strong feeling the Neo-Zangyack won’t stop until they destroy what’s inside this chest, so use the powers within to stop them. Please…’ …wow. So someone we know hid this thing? And… why does this hand writing seem so… familiar…” she said to herself.
Well, best be glad it's not Dai-Zangyack, otherwise, that would it imply that they're washed up jokes for all villains to go to when they're desperate. But in all seriousness, aside from less bland prose I'd like some show, not just tell. What could possibly have defeated Captain Marvelous and company? I'd actually like to see something like Twilight suddenly be shown a vision of the past and shown what exactly happened.
“Well… if you don’t want to open it right now, you don’t have to,” Cadence told Twilight. However, Twilight didn’t seem to listen as she opened the chest, which let off a very bright light that almost blinded everypony for a second before they looked at the chest’s contents and saw… a bunch of human-shaped objects, but Twilight recognized what they were.
“No… way,” Twilight said, before she trotted a bit closer.
“What is it, Twilly?” Shining Armor asked as Twilight lifted up one of the objects with her magic to examine it.
Twilight was silent for a moment, before shaking her head, regaining her train of thought. “They’re from the legends of the Super Sentai,” she answered, really surprising the other ponies there, holding up a red key with a pirate theme.
No, they're from the legends of the Kaiju! No shit Sherlock! What else could they be from? Honestly, what does this author take us for, stupid?
Can I just point out something I really should have before? In a later chapter, Neo-Zangyack appear finally, and when the Rangers morph for the second time, after Twilight performed a memory spell to wipe Ponyville's memories of who the Gokaigers are, everyone turns on them and sees Neo-Zangyack as someone to trust. Can I just point out a huge flaw in the author's reasoning right about now? A big whopping massive one? If the legends of the Super Sentai seem to be commonplace enough that Dash has collected them in a book, shouldn't the legends about their foes be common enough as well, and so by that logic shouldn't everyone... Oh, I don't know, know the by the flying fuck anyone with Zangyack in their name shouldn't be bloody trusted?
Okay, rant over.
“Are you sure it’s a good idea to be taking it with you, Twilight?” Cadence asked.
“Yea… I mean, what other choice do I have?” Twilight responded.
“You could maybe give it to Princess Celestia; she’d probably know what to do…” Shining Armor guessed.
“...but, I kinda want to amount to something,” Twilight muttered.
“You already have Twilight. You and your friends saved Equestria on more than one occasion, and you even became an Alicorn yourself,” Cadence pointed out, but Twilight just sighed. “...Okay… if this is what you think is right, go for it.”
“Thanks…” Twilight smiled, before she took off.
“Good luck… Twi…”
Okay, credit where credit is due, this is actually a genuinely heartfelt moment. Not bad.
Eventually, Twilight brings these keys to Dash and her reaction is to be expected really.
“Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh! THE RANGER KEYS!” Rainbow Dash gawked as she was the one brought in to examine the keys.
“Yea… so, now what?” Twilight asked, as a knock came from the door to Twilight’s place. Spike walked over and got the door, and when he opened it, there were four other mares at the door.
One of them was a yellow pegasus with a pink mane and tail, blue-green eyes, and a Cutie Mark of three pink butterflies. Another was a white unicorn with blue eyes, a neatly curled purple mane with matching tail, and she had three blue diamonds as her Cutie Mark. The other two were Earth ponies (which looked like somewhat normal horses), the first being an orange pony with a blonde mane and tail, a brown cowboy hat, green eyes, and a trio of red apples for her Cutie Mark, and the other being a pink pony with a wildly curly mane and tail of magenta, blue eyes, and a trio of balloons as her Cutie Mark, two blue and one yellow.
“Hi,” Twilight said simply.
“Hi Twilight,” the mares replied.
“Come in,” Twilight replied as the mares did so, the pink one bouncing in.
“So what’s got Dash so… Pinkie?” the orange mare, Applejack, asked.
“... ‘So Pinkie’?” Twilight asked.
“Just means heavily excited.” Applejack replied.
“Oh… well… you’ll have to see for yourselves,” Twilight answered as she led the mares over to the chest.
“What’s that?” the yellow mare, Fluttershy asked.
“Apparently, Dash said these were the Ranger Keys used by the 35th Super Sentai… Kaizoku Sentai… Gokaiger, if I remember correctly,” Twilight answered.
“Dashie, you do remember this Sentai stuff is just myth, right?” the white mare, Rarity asked.
“Are you kidding me?! If these don’t prove their real, I don’t know WHAT does!” Dash responded, continuing to cheer and bounce off the walls.
“I love bouncing off walls for no reason!” the pink mare, Pinkie said, jumping around with Dash.
“...Okay… how these got here, I’m not sure,” Twilight sighed, as the six all walked up to the chest, Dash and Pinkie calming down, when suddenly, a flash of blinding light erupted from the chest.
“WHAT THE?!” Rarity gasped as suddenly, the six pirate-themed keys, those Dash knew as the keys for the Gokaigers, floated up into the air by themselves.
Suddenly, the devices also floated out, along with the belt buckles, which were golden and had the impression of the shape of the keys. Then, the keys hovered over to the ponies, Red to Twilight, Blue to Applejack, Yellow to Rarity, Green to Pinkie, Pink to Fluttershy, and Silver to Dash.
“What in the world?” Twilight gasped.
“This is so… AWESOME!” Dash gawked as she took the Silver key, the belt buckle suddenly wrapping the area around her neck, sorta forming like a necklace. “...But I admit… this is new.”
“I’m Green, so now you can call me ‘Greeny Pie’.” Pinkie said jokingly, taking her key.
“What’re you talking about?” Twilight gawked.
“Don’t you see, Twilight? We were chosen to become the next Gokaigers!” Dash realized.
“What?!” Twilight gawked.
“How can this be?!” Rarity added in shock.
“I don’t get it,” Fluttershy added.
“Me neither,” Applejack admitted.
All six exchanged a look of confusion, before looking at the Keys.
“Hey, it’s the best reason I’ve got,” Dash defended as Applejack shrugged and took the blue key.
Can I just say...
Seriously, that's just a little too convienient for my likings.
That night, Celestia and Luna were exchanging their shifts as Luna raised the moon while Celestia went to bed. However, amidst her beautiful stars, she noticed something… off. She saw what appeared to be a dragon shaped ship, pulling a circular shape, that had a black castle on it.
"What in the name of my sister...?!" Luna gawked when… it simply stopped moving.
“What’s going on…?” Luna asked herself, as the station simply remained in the air.
However, she soon saw more golden ships arounds it before they began to fly down.
“Well… this could be a problem…” Luna muttered to herself.
NO DUH!
The next morning, it seemed like it would be a normal day, however, many ponies gasped as they witnessed golden ships fly in from overhead, each one holding a magnet underneath them while carrying hordes of mysterious creatures. They were gray and silver, with some added white armor, while they even appeared to walk on their hind legs like dragons, but they had hands… with five fingers each… not to mention they wielded something in their hands. As the ships drew closer, these hordes of creatures dropped from the magnet, the only thing that held them to it being their helmets, and they landed just outside of Ponyville, making the ponies terrified.
Suddenly, some sort of image was projected onto a nearby large cloud that the pegasi neglected to move away; it was the face of the female leader of these grunts, surprising the ponies.
-Attention all locals of this village! I am Jizo Onichan, but you may refer to me as Jizo-sama. These creatures you see before you are my troops, the Neo-Goumin. We are currently looking for the Ranger Keys!- she spoke, confusing the ponies as most thought the keys were just a myth. -You have my word that these keys are in fact real. If you do not interfere with my troops, your fair town will be spared. If not… you all shall live to regret it!-
Still shocked by this, many of the ponies moved aside as the Neo-Goumin marched through town, the ponies in awe of both the fact that these creatures resembled the humans of myth and legend as well as how intimidating they were despite being mere troops for a higher power.
“Neo-Goumin? Sounds like the Zangyack are back in town,” Rainbow Dash muttered, as she sneakingly floated to Twilight’s home. She flew in from the window, much to Twilight’s surprise.
“Rainbow? What’s going on?” Twilight gawked.
“The Zangyack… or rather Neo-Zangyack as their new leader calls them, are back, and they’re after the Ranger Keys!” Rainbow Dash informed.
“So… what do we do…?” Twilight asked.
“If we are indeed chosen to be the new Gokaigers, we have to get out there and stop the Neo-Zangyack!” Dash answered.
Twilight gave a small look at her Ranger Key and realized: it was HER Ranger Key now. “Let’s!”
“Ah yea! That’s what I’m talking about! Let’s get the others!” Dash smirked.
Outside, the Neo-Goumin were still in there search for the Ranger Keys, and the ponies were still terrified of them, none of them noticing Twilight and Dash going off to find the rest of the Mane 6. After about an hour, the six saw the Neo-Goumin ready to begin their search at Twilight’s home, when they were blasted. The Neo-Goumin gawked before turning to see the Mane 6 walking towards them, the one responsible for blasting them being Twilight, using her left hoof to do so. The grunts were surprised by how she did it, though, holding up a black and red gun with a light blue trim around the same symbol seen on the flag Twilight saw in her dream, which she knew was the symbol of the Gokaigers.
“Gour?” one asked.
“I’ve had just about enough of this! Ponyville, and Equestria in general, has been the target of many creatures and tyrants in the past… well… this time, we’re going to stop you before you can even THINK of doing anything to our home!” Twilight responded before pulling out her Ranger Key and the red and black phone known as the Mobirates. “Ready girls?!”
“Ready!” the others nodded as they all stood on their hind legs long enough to hold the Ranger Keys and their respective Mobirates, except Dash who had the GokaiCellular. They followed this up with Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy holding the Ranger Keys in a way so they’d flip and actually turn into keys while Dash opened up her Cellular in a way to insert her GokaiSilver key the way it was before closing it, and then, all six posed with the keys.
“GOKAI CHANGE!” they shouted as the members of the Mane 6 who flipped the keys to their key mode and inserted them into their Mobirates before twisting them while Dash pressed the key on her Cellular that had the image of her Ranger Key’s helmet.
=GO~KAIGER!=
Okay, I'll admit writing intros to fight scenes is tough, and writing fight scenes, in general, is difficult so I have no room to comment here. But I also cannot do the Gokaiger morph music as I'm not exactly pumped up enough for it.
With that, the Mane 6’s bodies were covered in black bodysuits before three X’s and a V each in the color of the keys the ponies used flashed over them, forming the symbol of the Gokaigers under the belt buckles around their necks, the coats and skirts that forms more of the suits (which left room for the wings of Dash, Fluttershy, and Twilight), and finally, the Vs formed helmets for each pony, Dash’s being mostly silver with the top resembling a black bandana with an anchor design similar to the one on her Cellular with a golden yellow visor. The others’ helmets, though, looked almost the same with slight variation in the shapes of the black visors along with the Gokaiger symbol on top their heads, not to mention there were horns on the helmets for Twilight and Rarity.
PADDING! PADDING! PADDING! Seriously, we as Gokaiger fans already know what they look like costume wise! And before you say Sentai costumes on regular ponies looks ludicrous -To be on the safe side, the author probably should have done anthro like I do- I present you this.
But this may not work for all characters, or all suits, and how are ponies like AJ supposed to hold their weapons like cutlesses with normal hooves?
“GokaiRed!” Twilight started.
“GokaiBlue!” Applejack added.
“GokaiYellow!” Rarity nodded under her helmet.
“GokaiGreen!” Pinkie smiled under hers.
“GokaiPink!” Fluttershy bowed.
“Gooookai...SILVER!” Dash proclaimed rather dramatically.
The Neo-Goumin gawked at the sight of this, and everypony, even Onichan Jizo and her crew were stunned by the sight.
“I-Impossible! Those are…!” Onichan gawked when…
“Kaizoku Sentai…” Twilight started before she and the rest of the Mane 6 posed in their new suits.
“GOKAIGER!” they all shouted, ready for battle.
Ah, memories...
No way… the Super Sentai are myths!” one pony gawked.
“But there they are; Twilight and her friends became one right in front of us!” another pony gawked.
GokaiRed simply examined her new looks, which were quite impressive to her and the rest of the Mane 6, especially seeing as the suits were originally design for humans, but were easily modified for their pony bodies.
“This… is… so… AWESOME!” Dash/GokaiSilver cheered.
“Green is the thing, isn’t it?” Pinkie/GokaiGreen said.
“This is certainly a lot of yellow for my taste… but I guess I can’t complain with the overall design,” Rarity/GokaiYellow replied, examining her suit.
“This feels… right for some reason,” Fluttershy/GokaiPink said, simply smiling.
“Ah feel… so much stronger now,” Applejack/GokaiBlue gawked.
GokaiRed simply saw her team ready for action, but GokaiSilver, using her tail to hold a staff, which resembled a silver, gold, and blue trident, kept the team back. “Twilight, you gotta say Red’s line before we go fight,” she told GokaiRed.
“Really? I didn’t think that was really needed,” GokaiRed admitted.
“Can’t you see the villains aren’t budging? They don’t move until the Red Ranger of the team announces their line for an attack! Well… most of the time,” GokaiSilver explained.
Do we really need to hang that lampshade? And for God's sake Zangyack, you're proving as incompetent as your forebearers, it's a question of how you defeated Marv and co if you didn't shoot first before they morphed! Seriously, the transformation should not be a free action! One way to spice up a fight scene with characters like this, have the villains shoot and the Rangers morph at the exact same time!
“...Okay… do you remember GokaiRed’s?”
GokaiSilver simply trotted over, and whispered it to Red.
“Okay then… or rather… Yosh...” GokaiRed nodded before turning to the Neo-Goumin and held her GokaiGun with her magic, as well as a cutlass of similar colors with her tail. “Hade ne Ikuze!”
You are not nearly stylish enough to pull off that catchphrase yet Twilight. It needs to be earned. (And yes, I do understand some of the irony here if anyone reading WA wants to comment.)
Goumin, each of the Gokai-Ponies somehow wielding their own versions of the weapons GokaiRed had, except Silver who used the trident.
From the sun, Princess Celestia was watching the battle in total awestruck, not understanding what was happening. However, this didn’t stop her from watching as she had witnessed her faithful student and her friends become warriors of legend and were easily taking on the silver and white creatures.
GokaiRed, not that used to fighting, found herself a little overwhelmed on all sides by the Neo-Goumin as they forced her to drop her weapons.
“Dang it! There’s gotta be something… wait… if Dash was right…” GokaiRed pondered before she pressed the button on her “belt” buckle and the front of it flipped around, revealing a new key, which was of a red warrior with white gloves, a design on the torso and shoulder resembling a silver dinosaur head with yellow teeth, and the helmet itself resembled a red t-rex head with green eyes and yellow teeth, the large black gap between the teeth acting like a visor and a silver section covering the mouth. The new Gokaiger pulled this key out with her hoof and saw it was a key for KyoryuRed. She dodged many attacks, and she quickly took out the Mobirate.
“Gokai Change!” she shouted, using the same method she used to transform into GokaiRed, but this time, her suit glowed red before, with a flash of the design that appeared on the key, she was now in the suit of KyoryuRed, with a red skirt of course.
=KYO~RYUGER!=
“Sugoi…” Gokai-KyoryuRed simply said in amazement.
This got the other Gokai-Ponies to look over for a moment, and all of them gawked at this, especially GokaiSilver.
“HOW’D YOU DO THAT?! THE GOKAIGERS DIDN’T HAVE ACCESS TO POWERS AFTER THEM!” Silver shouted.
“I dunno… I just thought I needed more power, and then I hit the button on the… buckle, and it gave me this key,” Gokai-KyoryuRed replied.
“Wow…” GokaiPink gasped, a bit louder than she normally would as Fluttershy.
Again, padding. We know what these costumes look like, and actually,,, the Gokaigers did have access to these powers if you take in a 40th anniversary season into account. Dash should know this! Not such an otaku as you claim to be eh?
From here on out, what happens is predictable enough, the Gokaigers go through different forms and even an all Red color change and beat up the villains showing off their stuff. Surprise surprise. I'd be disappointed, maybe, but allow them the first win. A possible suggestion however to future Ranger writers, and this won't reach the author as I think he's left the site, maybe show the Rangers as inexperienced and let them lose a few early fights and gain in skill.
“That was… AWE-” Dash started, when Rarity put her hoof in Dash’s mouth.
“Not so loud dear. I think it’s safer if fewer ponies knew we actually were the Gokaigers,” Rarity whispered.
“What’s the point? Most of Ponyville saw us transform anyway,” Dash pointed out.
“Actually, they didn’t. I did some magic to make them forget just before we came over here, they didn’t see us turn into those warriors, so now we need to keep this on the QT, okay?” Twilight said.
“...Fine…” Dash groaned.
“That was so much fun! Do you think I should get some green highlights in my mane?” Pinkie asked.
“...I don’t know dear… it might not look too good on you,” Rarity answered.
“It was a joke,” Pinkie informed.
“Uh… when I said ‘Time’s up boys’ do you think I was acting… out of character?” Fluttershy asked AJ.
“...Well… Ah admit Ah didn’t see that one comin’... but… we won’t hold it against ya,” Applejack smiled.
“...Thanks,” Fluttershy smiled.
“The 40 Super Sentai teams are in our hands now girls, and it’s up to us to keep the world safe, but as your leader, I can assure you, we can do it!” Twilight stated.
“Hold up there, Twi… what makes you think you’re the leader?” AJ asked.
“Red Senshi always lead, right Dash?” Twilight responded.
“Well… most of the time, but there was Kakuranger led by NinjaWhite, Megaranger led by MegaBlue, Timeranger led by TimePink, and Gekiranger led by GekiYellow,” Dash informed, and then Twilight simply sighed a little annoyed. “...But GokaiRed was indeed the leader of the Gokaigers, so… yea…”
I'd say Dash should be sorta shadow leader, given she's the nerdiest about the Ranger Teams and so she would know a lot about this sorta stuff, but as Twilight's the girls' leader generally in canon I'll accept her being the team leader. However, a Time Force/TimeRanger approach would not be amiss with a field commander and another commander who's the true leader plotting up the big plans and such.
Final tally... Sorry to say this, but 5/10. Sorry, girls but you're not worthy successors to the Gokaigers. I shall view this as the Hibiki of stories here. Interesting enough ideas, but bad execution.
The instant I saw you lose control for the first time I said to the review, on the screen, "Omae wa mou shindeiru."
Now, I don't like Power Rangers as much as others do, and all the names and Japanese stuff and 90s style went over my head, but I could still tell this was a very amateurish work. The flow was off, the diction was repetitive, the prose was boring, the dialogue was scripted, the action was slow, the plot had nothing going for it, and the characters were hollow.
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The first thing you said upon seeing this review... sums the whole story up in a nutshell.
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Also, is the Convenient?? clip a clip of you, or someone else?
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Someone else, god knows who.
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JoshScorcher. He's a Brony Analyser. Also runs FOB Equestria.
The Convient line is from one of his reviews of the shows episode.
Still better than Megacrap, but that's not saying much.
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Ah, should have recognized it, as I've listened to a few of his reviews at times. Never showed much interest -with a few exceptions like SilverQuill- in the Analyst community honestly as I think there are better things to do with one's time than go over every aspect of a cartoon in the end, but that's neither here nor there.