History YMMV / KaizokuSentaiGokaiger

** Gai joining the Gokaigers and becoming a wanted criminal in the process comes off as this after [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-10-30/screen-voice-actor-junya-ikeda-arrested-for-alleged-fraud/.203924 Junya Ikeda's arrest due to his involvement in a fraud situation]]. Gets worse when you remember in a few of his early episodes, Gai actively encouraged Marvelous to help out several people whom he thought needed it, especially some old people who couldn't easily climb stairs (Junya specifically impersonated a police officer and had an old man in his 60s give him 3 of his bank cards, subsequently robbing him of ¥1.5 million from his bank accounts).

** Gai joining the Gokaigers and becoming a wanted criminal in the process comes off as this after [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-10-30/screen-voice-actor-junya-ikeda-arrested-for-alleged-fraud/.203924 Junya Ikeda's arrest due to his involvement in a fraud situation]]. Gets worse when you remember in a few of his early episodes, Gai actively encouraged Marvelous to help out several people whom he thought needed it, especially some old people who couldn't easily climb stairs (Junya specifically impersonated a police officer and had him give him 3 of his bank cards, subsequently robbing him of ¥1.5 million from his bank accounts).

** The fact that a lot of the fight scenes involve the Gokaigers transforming into past Sentai teams that never received a ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' adaptation made adapting this series a challenge for the PR-team. One option would be to limit the StockFootage to just that of teams that ''did'' get a Power Rangers adaption, but that would mean shooting a lot of new scenes to make up for the unusable ones, which ''could'' seriously strain the budget a bit. ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Power Rangers Super Megaforce]]'' responded to this by...just leaving in ''some'' the unadapted Sentai teams in the Gokaiger footage while leaving others out inconsistently, with only the vague explanation of them having "never been seen on Earth before," which many fans decried as a lazy solution. Then there were the fleeting moments where they ''did'' bother to shoot new footage of adapted team and individual ranger suits in some episodes, sometimes also green-screening an individual suit over one in the ''Gokaiger'' footage with having the suit actor replicate the movements in the footage as best as possible to cover it, or they shot pick-up shots on location to insert in to smooth over the transitions between suits to skip over unadapted ones. But ''then'' there was the moment in episode 19 (which adapted episode 49 of ''Gokaiger''), where they replaced Vul Eagle with the red ranger from ''Mighty Morphin''/''Zyuranger'', but kept the other 4 suits (Blue Mask, [=FiveYellow=], [=ChangeGriffon=], and Green Flash), including making their ''own'' versions of those suits for no real reason for pick-up shots. It really brings up the question of how much money they had for each episode and how much of that money and effort would it take to shoot new footage of adapted teams to replace unadapted ones and what the mindset was of the producers was towards budgeting and making sure production-wise if anything made any sense to the audience ''why'' they did or didn't do something they should've, which comes off as very inconsistent.

** The fact that a lot of the fight scenes involve the Gokaigers transforming into past Sentai teams that never received a Franchise/PowerRangers adaptation made adapting this series a challenge for the PR-team. One option would be to limit the StockFootage to just that of teams that did get a Power Rangers-equivalent, but that would mean shooting a lot of new scenes to make up for the unusable ones, which would seriously strain the budget. ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Power Rangers Super Megaforce]]'' responded to this by...just using ''some'' the unadapted Sentai teams while leaving out others, with only the vague explanation of them having "never been seen on Earth before", which many fans decried as a lazy solution. Then there were the fleeting moments where they ''did'' bother to shoot new footage of adapted team and individual ranger suits in some episodes, sometimes also green-screening an individual suit over one in the ''Gokaiger'' footage, having the suit actor replicate the movements in the footage as best as possible, then they shot pick-up shots on location to insert in. But ''then'' there was the moment in episode 19 (which adapted episode 49 of ''Gokaiger''), where they replaced Vul Eagle with the red ranger from ''Mighty Morphin''/''Zyuranger'', but kept the other 4 suits (Blue Mask, [=FiveYellow=], [=ChangeGriffon=], and Green Flash), including making their ''own'' versions of those suits for no real reason for pick-up shots, it really brings up the question of how much money they had for each episode and how much of that money and effort would it take to shoot new footage of adapted teams to replace unadapted ones and what the mindset was of the producers towards budgeting and making sure production-wise if anything made any sense to people why they did or didn't do something they should've, which comes off as very inconsistent.
** Apparently, Haim Saban didn't like the whole "pirates being good guys" thing for some reason (even though the point of it was that they become better people over the course of the series and have morals that have them protect the innocent against the Zangyack stemming from their own backstories like any other Ranger team would), so the writers were presumably told to gut that part from the series when they licensed it and began planning on how they would adapt it into ''Power Rangers.'' This left the characters in ''Megaforce'' mismatched with Pirate-themed suits and Zords, as well as not a lot of character traits to adapt that would mesh very well with their personalities or backstories (as nonexistent or unestablished as they were).

** Gai joining the Gokaigers and becoming a wanted criminal in the process comes off as this after [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-10-30/screen-voice-actor-junya-ikeda-arrested-for-alleged-fraud/.203924 Junya Ikeda's arrest due to his involvement in a fraud situation]].

* AssPull: ''Sometimes'' when the Gokaigers are brought back in future crossovers or anniversary stuff, it's explained how they get the Ranger Keys back (and even ones for the teams after them), such as ''Go-Busters VS Gokaiger'' where they explaain that Gai got them and the Zyuohger crossover where they show Gai going around asking for them. However, the other half of the time, not even an attempt at an explanation is given, with the Rangers just inexplicably having them again out of the blue. This creates PlotHoles in certain ones (the ''Super Hero Taisen'' films, ''Ten Gokaiger,'' etc.) where they ''shouldn't'' have the keys, as the powers would be back with their original owners as seen in other crossovers with some of those characters. You'd think the writers would have Doc or someone create a way to duplicate the powers into Keys, but nope. Not yet, at least.

* AssPull: ''Sometimes'' the Gokaigers are brought back in future crossovers or anniversary stuff, it's explained how they get the Ranger Keys back (and even ones for the teams after them), such as ''Go-Busters VS Gokaiger'' where they explaain that Gai got them and the Zyuohger crossover where they show Gai going around asking for them. However, the other half of the time, not even an attempt at an explanation is given, with the Rangers just inexplicably having them again out of the blue. This creates PlotHoles in certain ones (the ''Super Hero Taisen'' films, ''Ten Gokaiger,'' etc.) where they ''shouldn't'' have the keys, as the powers would be back with their original owners as seen in other crossovers with some of those characters. You'd think the writers would have Doc or someone create a way to duplicate the powers into Keys, but nope. Not yet, at least.

** "[[Recap/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerE30AtLeastMyFriendsSoul At Least My Friend's Soul]]": [[MadScientist Great Scientist Zaien]] is a scientist who specializes in experimenting on living beings in service to the Zangyack. A [[EvilGenius mad genius]], Zaien loves to [[UnwillingRoboticisation convert people into cyborgs]], leaving them as slaves with no memories of their past and [[FateWorseThanDeath no way to return to their original forms]]. When Sid Bamick betrays the Zanyack, Zaien [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] him through torture into Barizorg, with Joe Gibken horrified and heartbroken at what his former friend has become. Arriving to assist Warz Gill's invasion of Earth, Zaien kidnaps human athletes to put his Barizorg project into mass production, before vowing to do this to the [[Characters/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerGokaigers Gokaigers]] for freeing them.

* CompleteMonster: [[RuthlessModernPirates Basco ta Jolokia]] stands out as viler than the [[Characters/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerZangyack Zangyack Empire]] he serves, despite having fewer resources. Once a member of the Red Pirates, Basco [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrayed them to the Zangyack]] upon learning of Aka Red's intent to give the Ranger Keys back to the Super Sentai, desiring the Greatest Treasure in the Universe for himself. Believing "you have to sacrifice something to get something else", Basco holds an ill child hostage for the [=GoGoV=]'s Greater Power, breaks Gai's arm on a whim, and threatens to [[WouldHurtAChild bomb a school]] in order to obtain the Megaranger's Greater Power. Basco's cruelest act comes when he abuses his pet monkey Sally, and [[KickTheMoralityPet blows her up]] when she defects.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a ''Space Pirate" due to negative connotation of being the latter. Considering the [[RuthlessModernPirates kind]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder of character]] [[TheSociopath Basco is]], you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being the latter. Considering the [[RuthlessModernPirates kind]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder of character]] [[TheSociopath Basco is]], you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai)
[[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being the latter. Considering the [[RuthlessModernPirates kind]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder of character]] [[TheSociopath Basco is]], you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) relentlessly [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being one. Considering the [[RuthlessModernPirates kind]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder of character]] [[TheSociopath Basco is]], you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) relentlessly [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being one. Considering the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder kind]] [[TheSociopath of character]] Basco was, you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

** In Episode 7 of ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'', Ignis (played by Basco's actor Kei Hosogai) relentlessly [[InsistentTerminology insists]] that he is a "Treasure Hunter" instead of a pirate due to negative connotation of being one. Considering the [[CompleteMonster the kind of character]] Basco was, you get the humorous impression that Hosogai ''himself'' want to distance himself from his previous role.

* HilariousInHindsight: In #28, MonsterOfTheWeek Kiaido suggests that he may pick a fight with Damaras. [[spoiler:Kiaido ends up slain by the five Gokaigers in the same episode, while Damaras later overpowers all six Gokaigers as well as Basco, who himself proved a match for them, with it taking the whole team at 100% to defeat Damaras after he is literally stabbed in the back by Basco and humiliated at being outwitted by Don. With all the evidence available, the odds are that Kiaido, as imposing as he was, would have had his ass handed to him by Damaras.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:

* CompleteMonster: [[ItsAllAboutMe Basco ta Jolokia]] stands out as viler than the [[Characters/KaizokuSentaiGokaigerZangyack Zangyack Empire]] he serves, despite having fewer resources. Once a member of the Red Pirates, Basco [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrayed them to the Zangyack]] upon learning of Aka Red's intent to give the Ranger Keys back to the Super Sentai, desiring the Greatest Treasure in the Universe for himself. Believing "you have to sacrifice something to get something else", Basco holds an ill child hostage for the [=GoGoV=]'s Greater Power, breaks Gai's arm on a whim, and threatens to [[WouldHurtAChild bomb a school]] in order to obtain the Megaranger's Greater Power. Basco's cruelest act comes when he abuses his pet monkey Sally, and [[KickTheMoralityPet blows her up]] when she defects.

*** He crossed it via his conversion of Sid into Barizorg. While Warz was also involved, he at least cared about Barizorg, while there is no indication Zaien actually cared.

** Episode 34, a Luka episode, would have been the perfect time to have a Yellow Charge for the Gokai Galleon Buster. Ultimately, Luka remains the Gokaiger not to have taken the lead with the Team Cannon.

* LoveToHate: Yes, Basco is a scumbag of the highest order who is motivated by his own greed and his willingness to hurt people in order to get his way including children and his own pet and partner won't get him any likeable points. However, he is considered the greatest villain of the season not only because of how personal of a threat he is tho the Gokaigers compared to the Zangyack, but being a great foil to Captain Marvelous and being super cunning, which allows him to be one step ahead of his enemies. Kei Hosogai's performance also makes him fun to watch.