YMMV / Dengeki Sentai Changeman

• Anti-Climax Boss: All it takes to destroy Bazoo, once the Changemen make it down to his core, is one Super Thunderbolt from Change Robo. That's it.
• Awesome Music:
  • Holy cow, that theme song is incredibly catchy. Many Sentai have themes you can dance to... Changeman may be the only one that you can swing dance to.
• Complete Monster: Star King Bazoo is the leader of Great Star League Gozma and a ruthless sociopath obsessed with gaining power. Years prior he began a campaign of interstellar conquest and subjugation by destroying a planet of winged people so peaceful and kind that merely looking upon their smiling faces and hearing their voices will make you lose all violent impulses. Many of his forces are either comprised of the champions of those worlds he'd already conquered, forcing them to fight for him lest he finish the absolute destruction of their homes. Not that he intends to ever let them go back, as his true form is the size of a planet, and he eats the planets he conquers. He also uses innocent beings from the worlds that he’s conquered and forces them to fight for him by forcefully mutating them into his soldiers against their will. A wicked abuser of his forces, those who fail him are punished by a beam fired from his head that causes them immense pain. Years after his debut, Bazeu stands out as one of the absolute worst villains in the franchise.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Episode 20 when the Changemen are attacked by carnivorous alien fish called Pirani. It's horrific that the fish leap out of the ocean and attack the Changemen, but somewhat funny that the Pirani make repeated beelines towards Tsubasa's chest while Sayaka Nagisa is mostly ignored save the one biting her thigh while everyone else is covered in man-eating fish.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Ahames still remains as one of the most popular and memorable Sentai villainess up to this day.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It was a massive hit in late 80s/early 90s Brazil, paving the way for other Super Sentai series and, eventually, anime. It got a comic adaptation in Brazil for some good years, along with Juspion, another hit in the country, eventually crossing over with the Metal Hero in the Brazilian comics.
• Growing the Beard: Changeman represents a dramatic shift in Super Sentai towards complex plotting, fleshed-out villains, and a Darker and Edgier tone. Changeman's head writer Hirohisa Soda (who'd been head writer for the past three years before Changeman) has stated that he considers Changeman to be a Growing the Beard moment (though not in those exact words) both for the Super Sentai franchise and for his skill as a writer. The next three seasons followed Changeman's example, and all four together could count as a Growing the Beard era.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The one with the mermaid motif being named Sayaka might make some fans laugh (or considering the case, cringe).
  • An early episode has Tsurugi performing a technique called the Dragon Ball, around the same time the manga’s first volume hit shelves.
• It Was His Sled: Bazoo is actually an avatar for the entire Gozma planet and eats the planets he conquers. This is one of the final twists in the show, but Bazoo's status as one of the most infamously monstrous villains in the franchise has made the twist one of the show's most famous aspects.
• Memetic Molester: Hayate's womanizing antics would sometimes involve young girls, which some fans took notice of.
• Nightmare Fuel: Episode 4 features animals transformed into people. The results look horrifying.
• Narm: Some of the Space Beast Warriors have very alien-sounding names such as Dokyura and then there are names such as Daryl. Maybe that sounds scary to a Japanese audience, but for westerners it's a common given name.
• Rooting for the Empire: It's fairly easy to find yourself rooting for the Gozma commanders, particularly Booba, Shiima and Ahames, given how much more developed and sympathetic they are compared to the Changemen.
• Special Effects Failure: The mooks in the final battle are depicted by downright horrendous chroma keying, even for the era. Plus the part where the Change Robo is making its way into the core of Bazoo, represented by superimposing mech footage over stock footage of cells dividing.
• Tear Jerker: Booba's death in Episode 52, just moments after he restored Shiima to her former self.

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