Reviews for Go! Go! Loser Ranger!

I haven't seen any reviews of this manga yet and I think it desperately deserves one. Here goes: as of right now, Ranger Reject seems like a more mature indie hit in the vein of Fire Punch. The premise is a fairly clever twist on super sentai -- I'd liken it to The Boys, if you've seen that. While it's a bit too early to make a final verdict, I'm still recommending this. A few more thoughts below. Art: The art is really well-done, though it's not particularly memorable in its own right. One gripe I have is that it's kind of hard to tell totell the different rangers apart in black and white paneling. The helmets are unique, but don't do enough to distinguish the rangers from one another. That said, it's still better than 90% of the stuff I've been reading lately -- crisp and well-composed.

Writing:

Bang on, and refreshing in that surprisingly western Fujimoto fashion. I've been impressed by Haruba Negi's ability to characterize so many characters in such quick strokes. The moral dilemma of reform vs. revolution has been handled excellently so far, and I'm genuinely invested in the protagonist. The humor is great, too. It's the kind of black comedy that manga usually fails to get right.

Final verdict:

This is my pick for "hipster manga of 2021", and I'd easily rate this as the best current release I'm reading, alongside Dai Dark and Jujutsu Kaisen. Keep your eyes on this manga if nothing else -- I wouldn't be surprised to see this blow up over time. Go read it!

This just might be my favourite manga I've ever read. Fighter D is such an endearing MC that you can't help but root for him. Watching him grow and learn with every new Vol is exciting. Not to mention his design is adorable, it's great seeing so much expression on such a simply designed face. All the secondary characters are also extremely well-written and just as expanded on perfectly. Though there are a lot of them. I do find myself finding it hard to remember everyone's name, especially when they haven't been used for a while. The overarching story is so well-written that it just pulls youin. Each new piece of information is exciting to learn and not just something that can be found annoying to add to the story.

Highly recommend!

Buckle up, this one is a mouthful. First off, I haven’t read the author’s previous manga, I knew next to nothing about this series, and am not particularly sentimental for Super Sentai/Power Rangers so you could say maybe I’m missing some context, or that I have a pure perspective—your choice. Either way this is a really shaky series. Sometimes while reading I was engrossed to the point of not being able to put it down! And other times I felt like I just wanted to skip through the pages of seemingly forced flashbacks and backstories that try desperately (and often fail) to pump up a villainor side character—literally in the middle of a big battle.

It’s a really frustrating experience reading this manga. Starting off, the premise is interesting enough, but it takes a really slow path to having any real direction. Once it gets going the characters are interesting and engaging, and then the author somehow manages to consistently take those interesting characters and throw them into the back burner to pursue some other new plot line.

Honestly it often just feels like a manga that isn’t playing to its strengths. It’s obvious to me this author is great at characters and their relationships, but it really feels like the author is fighting against their nature trying to force the story to be more actiony and battle shonen like. I think if it would focus on its strengths, play up the drama at a slow burn it’s payoffs wouldn’t feel so rushed and hollow like they do now.

As others have alluded to, the author’s art is really a miss for action too, half the time I am truly lost as to what is happening and the non-linear style, perspective swapping and frequent micro-time skips don’t help at all. Especially near the last quarter that I’ve been reading I’ve struggled to keep a clear picture of what is going on.

Overall this manga is really disappointing because it really feels like it could be truly an interesting perspective on a legendary Japanese series that pleased long term fans and made new ones. But as it is, it’s unfortunately just a big idea with no real clear substance.

I just picked up this series on the recommendation of another person that said "if you like Invincible check out Reject Ranger," and although it isn't necessarily the same, it definitely fits within the new trend of "the heroes aren't necessarily the good guys." Now, honestly, this is comedy gold, and I love every aspect that mocks and pays homage to the classic power rangers series, that told the same story every week, with the same cheesy lines, and the heroes always winning in some quarry. But, now we get to follow the underdog villain try to break this script in some ridiculously fun andmorbid ways, so yes, I highly recommend more people check this series out.

Loser Ranger is a story with no clear villain but not in any sort of way that would make the story deeper or more engaging. To summarize a synopsis you've probably already read: Invaders (probably from space, or maybe they're manmade idk the comic does a lot of yapping) come down to earth in a floating fortress and set upon the planet with the goal of total world domination. To combat the invader overlords and their army of minions (the comic calls the overlords "executives" but I'm going to keep calling them overlords because that communicates the concept much better) a team of rangers is formed,wielding the power of the mcguffin weapons that would allow them to defeat the overlords and take back earth for humanity.

13 years later and all the overlords have been killed, their remaining minions being secretly forced by the rangers to continuously stage mock invasions only to then allow themselves to be publicly defeated by the rangers in a mix between a false flag operation, propaganda, and televised bloodsport.

One of the minions - Footsoldier D (Yes, they really named the protagonist that), realizing that he's sick of playing the part of a fake enemy and being constantly beaten and humiliated decides to defect, forges himself a new identity (although he later steals someone else's identity and instead lives as them) and vows to join the rangers with the goal of destroying them from within.

One of the first problems that pops its head up is that the overlords are still alive, and they truly are the cruel, machiavellian gods that they're hyped up to be. It undercuts the gut-punch and narrative purpose of the rangers perpetuating their own existence by artificially creating a problem that they then solve when you add in an actual, tangible, credible threat that only they alone can solve; and it makes the rangers seem less like bad guys when you add in worse guys.

Making the conflict even more muddied is that the rangers, at least some of them, aren't actually bad people. Blue is a tough guy with a heart of gold and a found family, Pink suffered legitimate trauma and has a brother that means the world to her, Green is more goofy/aloof, but he still looks after his subordinates and has his own wife and kid. None of these people feel like they would go along with the pretend invasions, tolerate any of the vile shit that the rangers have done, or especially just sit by and watch while red murders one of his own subordinates in front of them and then just appear slightly annoyed afterwards like red just passed a really bad fart. By forcing decent people to share a faction with complete amoral psychopaths, especially when they're actively participating in something so clearly fucked-up like the mock invasions, it doesn't make the conflict feel more nuanced it just makes those characters seem dumb for being good people in a clearly evil faction or it looks incongruous when their motivations conflict with their actions; and it increases the amount of prerequisite yapping we have to listen to as they all exposit their tragic backstories.

and worse still is that as D infiltrates and makes his way through the ranks of the rangers, he still has to endure a lot of the trappings of a typical shonen battle manga, a training arc, an imprisonment arc, a battle arc, the rival. These things on their own aren't a problem, but in the context of subversive media it's kind of bizarre to watch them be played straight.

There was potential for a pretty decent, punchy story about a lowly henchman fighting his way through a series of colorful, ranger-themed bosses that all embody some form of corruption or delusion.

There was also potential for a story about a henchman, who aligns themselves with "evil" with all the gung-ho and glee of a saturday morning cartoon villain; infiltrating the rangers faction, learning about heroism and comradery, and seeing the true face of evil from the other side.

Instead it tries to both at the same time, tied together with some vague theme of going your own way, and accomplishes neither.

I got to about chapter 100 before I dropped it, kind of in the middle of the big battle arc. It's a group of humans that worship the overlords as gods, and some overlords VS the rangers. D mulls over who he wants to side with in the battle and ultimately comes to the conclusion that both factions suck and that he's just going to attack everyone indiscriminately, and that was it for me. "Fuck it, if the protagonist themselves doesn't want to keep track of what's going on, neither do I."

I know I shouldn't be judging the author based on their works (and vice versa), but I fear for Negi's sanity. Having read all the currently available chapters in a few days, I am honestly shocked by how it became more and more brutal, pessimistic, cynical and depressing. Especially the IRA arc - yeesh, I hope Negi's okay. After that ended, things were starting to look up a little, but now we're back where we started: frustrating, somewhat pointless-feeling battles that are simply not fun to read. Not because they aren't well-drawn or anything. Well, the pacing's hella slow, but it's not slow enough to beterrible. It's just that there are mainly two kinds of battles in Sentai Daishikkaku: those where both sides are filled with such idiots and/or assholes that you don't want either side to win, or occasionally, those precious few likable characters are pummeling each other and you don't want anyone to get hurt. Neither is exactly entertaining.

The MC is "interesting", because he qualifies for both of the above, weirdly enough. It's certainly an accomplishment to have a manga where the main character sometimes feels like the hero of the story and other times the villain, and this can change almost from one scene to the next, but the price Negi pays for this is that his character development is just all over the place. The MC's goals are increasingly hard to pin down, which may be intentional to a degree, but at the same time, he's nonetheless stubborn about them to the point of stupidity and self-sabotage. It's hard to root for him either like this.

After the Quintessential Quintuplets, the hacked-together plot is also depressing to witness. There are flashes of Negi's earlier brilliance and planning here and there for some plotlines, but largely, you get the feeling that he's writing the story by the seat of his pants, changing directions from one chapter to the next on occasion. Even the character writing, which I think is one of Negi's greatest strengths, isn't at all consistent: he regularly warps characterizations to make them fit the current story direction. What kind of character is Hisui? Or Chidori? Or Usukobo? It's hard for me to say, despite having read 150+ chapters of this manga. It's sad.

As much as I wanted to like Negi's new work, I honestly feel strangely relieved having reached the (current) end of the series and have little motivation to follow it further. It's probably not for me, but I think it's objectively not that good, either. 4/10, dropped.

Do not come into this series expecting it to be the Power Rangers, since the story is not focused on the heroes, but instead the villains. The story is decent, although I wish the pacing and transition was smoother through the panels. Some of the scenes can be frantic and it is hard to decipher what is really happening it many of the battles. This is not helped with the massive load of dialogue, which makes reading the chapters sluggish. The characters for the post part are nothing to write home about. Most are very generic, and are not very appealing. However, a select few areshrouded with mystery, and that is keeping me invested for the time being,

I enjoy the ideology behind the Invaders and how the term, justice, is interpreted in the plot, but I do not know how long this series will fully catch my attention. I have already read up to chapter 30, but the quality has not gotten better. Sadly, I want to support this series since I loved the author’s previous work, but this is not a fulfilling read so far.

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The art is solid, which is probably is biggest highlight to this series. Despite the art, the story and characters are mostly troupes we have seen in many series before, so I would not expect anything out the ordinary from this series so far.

I do find enjoyment in this series and I hope most of my complaints will get addressed. This does not have the quality of the Quintessential Quintuplets from a narrative perspective but

I got real mixed feeling about this manga. It's good. I like it. But I don't know if it's just my own preference, or it just really is hard to relate to a non-human character or the fact that the villains posed aren't really that unlikable. It has The Boys feel to it, against superhero that are rogue and not as goody as they appear to be, but the thing is only one of the Ranger is really kind of hateable but only because of very shoehorn character traits. He's nothing compared to the Homelander, if you have seen The Boys, it's hard to reallyhate the Rangers because they are still portrayed as somewhat anti-hero-ish instead of downright villainous.

Only one of the Ranger is downright villainous but you don't see him being evil all that much either unlike Homelander.

A twist might be coming, but I sure hope it comes soon because I am not fully down rooting for the MC.

There was actually a Ranger with a scar I liked more than the main character because he actually feels like a better version of the main character, a true anti-hero in a way with his backstory. But ironically, the narrative is wanting to see the underdog pawn villain win because the heroes always win instead of the villain.

Well, the tables turn, this manga stars the underdog villain. So it felt like from the start this particular anti-hero Ranger was the underdog because he was bound to lose no matter how powerful he seemed.

So real mixed feeling about this because it's still an engaging story and world. There is still a lot of mystery in this world, so I will be looking forward to see how things unravel.

Also a sidenote about the art, it's pretty good, in fact, I always thought his previous manga's art was too good for just a romance manga. Some of the weapon designs are nice.

The weakest fights the strongest This is the trope of this series, and it is enjoyable to watch. Like most action series, the story evolves into dealing with bigger and stronger villains/issues. But, the MC does not get any stronger. So it does have that charm. However, the recent chapters are a complete mess. And certain characters are so out of place in the story right now that the story feels so messy. There are so many times the audience is probably wondering "who the hell is this", or "i remember this character from 50 chapters ago". The author wrote a romance comedy before this. His currentwork, this action series, is trying to do too much. So many characters and plot lines. Unlike Gotoubon with romance between 5 girls and one dude, the author cannot handle writing a large scale story that tries to critique society and contains dozens of different characters you forget about every few chapters. It is just so messy to read. Some of the twists and scenes are still decent, so I do feel conflicted on this series.

A very interesting twist to the sentai genre. Taking a somewhat meta lens by turning the show everyone cheers on as a kid both real and fabricated at the same time. Although on a very surface level, the series managed to bring the topics of conflict management and propaganda through the medium of super sentai battle. I must say that while the premise itself is interesting, the main character doesn't have much to be desired. Although you could understand where he's coming from, he always came off as more annoying and self-centered than a victim. And while this series has the potential to explore deeper politicalconflict through the lens of both parties, it just feels like it is barely able to do so right now. So far, what we have feels more black and white and simple than what it could've been. However, there is still potential for it to explore that depth as the story goes on. Try to stick to it for now.

I just caught up with this after reading the first 7 volumes that are out. I am enjoying it but I can't help but feel like this series is missing something. nothing about it is dealbreaking but it seems like were always one step away from real greatness and it just ends up ending quickly and on to the next thing. Alot of the reveals are just simply revealed too. the characters dont get naturally lead to the discovery of the information in an organic way through the story telling. Maybe im alone here? just feels like this premise had a lot of potential thatjust isnt going to be met once its all said and done. maybe the anime will change my view point but Yostar Pictures doesnt exactly have a crazy good resume to get me excited about it. imma stick with it tho cause there is some good about this. I like all the characters. the designs. and the art work goes crazy at times. just wish the action was a bit more dynamic and fleshed out in the art a bit tho.

Is this really a Shonen action manga? That question pop up while reading ranger reject. Shonen action manga is the most popular manga that have most reader and have most potential to be animated. This review will only point to compare with mostly common shonen action manga. Art: nothing noticeable from this point. As a action Shounen, ranger reject definitely not the usual art that I have been read. There is rarely "cool" moment pose for MC or villain in one page. Writing: the most reason I read action manga is because there is less dialogue in action manga. Ranger reject writing has so many dialogue, even duringfighting page there is a lot explanation, this make action experience in this manga drop drasitacaly. Ranger reject at this point feels like a manga that comes from novel adaptation.

This manga doesnt fit in shonen action manga for me, more like shonen drama with a little action. If you are looking for a unusual action manga, ranger reject might give you a new way to enjoy this genre that doesnt usually offer in other manga.

As a Super Sentai Enjoyer and before that; Power Rangers, this manga immediately displays an interesting take on the many prevalent themes present in those shows. Offering interesting commentary and character studies, in preparation of what could possibly be a riveting story. However, 10 chapters in and I am quite honestly bored out of my mind. The supporting characters are random and uninteresting, often rambling about who knows what and why. Solely created to be an obstacle for the equally uninteresting main character. If you’re looking for flashy fights or intriguing combat sequences, don’t bother. I skipped ahead to the most recent chapter ( 100 something atthe time of me writing this ) and it appears that there is still no evidence of the MC having anything else going for him besides an immortality factor and shape-shifting. What little fights do happen to occur are not enough to make me continue reading from where I left off at, as everything seems to be pretty minor in scale until the plot calls for it to be ridiculously overpowered to impede the MC who has to play 5D Chess in order to finagle a win.

The Art isn’t bad, but it’s nothing to write home about either. Pretty standard stuff and just about the only thing you can latch onto, since the dialogue itself isn’t doing the story any favors.

I really wanted to enjoy this, so a piece of me is disappointed. Ironically, the trite and cliche themes enveloping Sentai, seem to also restrict this story from standing out.

Art are not suitable for action manga like Sentai Daishikkaku. I think Negi forgetting writing and drawing a manga with none-romance-story, not Go toubun No Hanayome. Athough Sentai Daishikkaku has a good story, drawing is not proportional to it, which decreases my enjoyment alot. I has stopped after 20 chapters and i'm not sure if i come back to it. I don't suprise Sentai Daishikkaku hasn't got high score on MAL. Negi should consider his drawing skill and style if he wants to continue this manga. For me, Go toubun No Hanaome is medicore, and Sentai Daishikkaku is even worse because when i'm writing this review, I'm amostforgot about its story.