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  • Angst? What Angst?:
    • Isao takes it surprisingly well that he's been unwillingly turned into a cyborg by Ijirude, and even easily adapts to the repercussions of his modifications, such as building his own charging station for when he needs to recharge.
    • Kaito has also been accused of having this mentality, not reacting much to major events like his mother going missing and his father being Hakaizer.
  • Anti-Climax Boss: Despite being arguably one of the most powerful characters in any Sentai series, the Creator of Worlds is only "defeated" after he lost a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, and simply decided to call it quits.
  • Awesome Art: The manga artwork in #28 is incredibly well-done, playing tribute to '80s and '90s manga while still keeping its own character. This carries over to the fight scenes of said episode, elevating the fight with some incredible special effects that are pulled straight out of a Shōnen.
  • Awesome Music:
    • "Zenryoku Zenkai! Zenkaiger" is an incredibly fun and catchy opening theme that brilliantly calls back to the retro themes of the Showa era, while still keeping the liveliness of the Heisei/Reiwa era Sentai themes. What truly takes it over the top is that it's a Dancing Theme, which only adds to the fun factor. Not to mention the lyrics shout out to every previous Sentai.
    • The themes for both versions of ZenkaiOh, "Zenkai Gattai! JuraGaon" and "Combination! VrooMagine" are insanely catchy and bring back veteran Sentai talent, Isao Sasaki and Mitsuko Horie (the people who sang the original theme song for Goranger) and Psychic Lover with Mayumi Gojo respectively. The former brings back the brassy theme of the '70s with a Hot-Blooded flair, while the latter is a fun electropop piece that fits right in with the modern landscape of the series.
    • Zocks’s shanty, "Song of the World Pirates", upon his introduction is no slouch either. Oh, and he dances to it, too! The full version is simply a blast to listen to, rounding off a very jaunty tune with a full band and orchestra mixed in with the sounds of the Geardalinger to make a catchy tune for the ages.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • Views of Kaito Goshikida range from him being a loveable and entertaining goof, to him being Takaharu but flatter.
    • Putting the controversy around his suit design aside, Zocks is either entertaining for how flamboyant he is, or annoying and lacking in a consistent motivation for much of the things he does.
    • As for the four Kikainoids, there are fans who like how different they are to the rangers of previous seasons and find their over the top personalities to be lovable, while others feel they're too different to the point of not resembling an actual Sentai team and dislike how exaggerated and relatively one-note their personalities are. Also on whether IF their personalities are one-note.
  • Common Knowledge: Due to their similar Rainbow Motif designs, many fans mistakenly assume that Zenkaizer represents J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai's Big One or is a Reiwa-Modernized Fusion Dance of Big One and Akaranger from Himitsu Sentai Gorenger. While Word of God acknowledges the resemblance, it is established that Zenkaizer only represents Goranger (his design being particularly based on their Varidorin aircraft) and has no official relation to JAKQ.
  • Contested Sequel: To the much beloved Mashin Sentai Kiramager. Fans of Zenkaiger like it for how wacky and different it is as a Sentai series, and for its creative episode plots. Detractors of Zenkaiger dislike it for leaning too heavily into its wackiness and lacking in drama as opposed to having more of an even balance of comedy and drama like other Sentai series, having main characters with underdeveloped and fairly cookie-cutter personalities, and (to a lesser degree) the copious amount of poor quality CG it uses in comparison to other Sentai series.
  • Crosses the Line Twice:
    • If you think Sentai wasn't capable of delving into pure Black Comedy then this one moment will prove you dead wrong. Sentai Gear #15 (Choujin Sentai Jetman) is a gear that recreates almost shot-for-shot the ending of the show, including Gai's death. The fact that they play it completely straight yet also play up the melodrama and the absurdity of the whole thing (most of the characters keeping parts of their Sentai costumes while also wearing civilian clothes) makes it all loop back into being incredibly hilarious. If that wasn't enough, it's the Monster of the Week that gets thrust upon Gai's role while Kaito and Magine get married (being Kaori and Ryu), while Twokaiser plays the role of the woman being pursnatched and then Vroon plays the role of the thief that stabs Gai.
      • Further increasing the dark hilarity of it is that the Monster of the Week ends up incapacitated on the iconic white bench just like Gai was (and has One Last Smoke with a rose)...which is when Zenkaizer and Twokaizer finally deliver the finishing blow.
    • If you thought that was bad, they decided to best themselves in episode 45 where the Zenkaigers with the Zenryoku Cannon summon Kiranger (Daigoro), Battle Cossack (Kensaku) and Yellow 4 (Mika) just for them to die exactly the same way they did back in their series: Kiranger being stabbed while carrying the bomb, Cossack being gunned down suitless and Yellow 4 taking too long to explode from her injures. Once again, it's so utterly absurd that it loops back around to being utterly, darkly hilarious.
  • Crossover Ship: The crossover specials with Kamen Rider Saber have caused a lot of fans to ship Magine with Reika. It probably helps that Angela Mei is a huge fan of Magine.
  • Epileptic Trees:
    • Many fans theorized that Twokaizer's design was originally a scrapped Super Mode form for Gokai Red, however, none of this is confirmed by Word of God.
    • Since Boccowaus does little other than berate his generals for their failures and Gege does a lot of the actual commanding, many fans assume that Gege will become the actual Big Bad himself by the end of the series. They were half-right, since the Creator of Worlds, who possessed Gege as a host body, was revealed as THE Big Bad in the final episode.
    • A popular fan theory for Stacey's origins is that he is Kaito's lost brother, secretly conceived between Barashitara and Mitsuko while she and Isao were held captive by the Tozitend. While it was eventually disproved due to the fact that Mitsuko and Stacey's mother were established to be two different people (portrayed by two different actresses), fans went on to theorize that Stacey's mother was instead a long-lost daughter of Yatsude, maintaining that he could still be connected to Kaito as cousins, but was disproven when Isao was revealed to be an only child through his history in episode 40. Others who are still insistent on the initial theory claim that he had Fake Memories implanted into him instead that prevented him from recognizing Mitsuko as his actual mother, although this was jossed with her actual appearance in episode 38.
    • Following his proper debut in Episode 30, many fans have theorized that Hakaizer is Kaito's father Isao, who was brainwashed by the Tozitend into serving them. Episode 34 reveals that this is indeed the case.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Stacy immediately won followers after his first few episodes, and the culmination of his Heel–Face Turn in the final episodes is always immensely satisfying. What really seals the deal on confirmation is that both his Battle Caesar Robo and Black JuraGaon mecha both received merchandise representations despite making miniscule appearances, whereas most mecha in similar situations are onscreen-exclusive.
    • Although he only appeared for a fifth of the show's run, fans were instantly taken by Hakaiser, with his jovial, childish and friendly demeanor greatly contrasting much of the villain cast. As such, his identity revelation and subsequent rescue as Isao Goshikida, the long-thought Disappeared Dad, is always pleasant to watch. The fact that his HaKaijuOh mecha form got represented in merchandise form despite being a one shot wonder also seals the deal.
    • While Zocks himself is mired in controversy, his younger siblings quickly became a sensation amongst fans, with the Twokai Twins' adorable designs and the innately hilarious nature of their miniscule bodies making for great hijinks, which is only sweetened by their combination abilities and their childish personalities. As for Flint, however, people were instantly taken by her nonchalant-yet-sweet sisterly demeanor, and the fact that she is more than willing to step into the battlefield or unleash her inner ham. Is it any wonder that whenever she assumes a ranger form there tends to be a whole lot of fanfare?
  • Fan Nickname:
    • Fans have taken to translating the Walds as "Worlds" as a more familiar term, despite the potential confusion this may cause between referring to them and the Parallel Worlds, as well as potential issues as noted in Writing Around Trademarks below.
    • Despite his name being revealed as Juran, fans prefer to keep the original assumed spelling of "Zyuran" due to it being cooler and paying more of a homage to the Sentai he represents. Likewise with Vroon being spelt "Vroom".
    • Some fans have given the human identity of Zenkai Red the name "Kai", even using it as his page name on the wiki until he was officially confirmed to have No Name Given.
    • "GokaiGold" for Twokaizer, due to how he looks like he'd fit right into Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger as their member rather than being a Sixth Ranger for the Zenkaigers. It got to the point where that was trending on Twitter in Japan instead of his actual title.
      • Additionally Zocks has apparently been called "Yohohoi" so often that his actor Atsuki Mashiko made a video just to specifically request for everyone to properly refer to his character as "Zocks".
    • The Kikainoid Zenkaigers have often been nicknamed as "Zenkainoids".
    • Hakaizer has been affectionately dubbed "Dadkaizer" even before the reveal.
  • Friendly Fandoms: Fans of Zenkaiger mingle well with those of Kamen Rider Gotchard, as both series are Lighter and Softer, have an Idiot Hero protagonist who lives with a relative that owns a café/restaurant, and their allies (Secchan and Hopper1) are voiced by the same seiyuu.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: In episode 21, Gege thinks of Flint fondly unlike his angered fellow Tozitend elites. His voice actor Tatsuhisa Suzuki was revealed to be cheating on his wife not long after this, which resulted in his going on hiatus and eventual retirement from Gege's role.
  • He Really Can Act: Kiita Komagine shines in the Grand Finale as he has to play both Kaito and the Creator of Worlds, switching back-and-forth between the former's headstrong nature and the latter's quiet sadism - even in the same scene at one point. It's especially noticeable with the Creator that he can convey their personality with a raised eyebrow and a serene smile on his face! Although it might work in his favor depending on how you feel about him.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Ho Yay: Aside from the general rainbow motif of the season, the only member of the Zenkaigers that is presented without any homoerotic subtext is Vroon;
    • Kaito has lots of ship fuel with Stacy throughout the series, to the point where it's pretty much the only Kaito ship besides Zocks/Kaito that remains popular.
    • Juran and Gaon also get a bunch of it with each other; from kissing during their first combination to their bickering like an old married couple; and Episode 18 just unloads a whole bunch of yaoi tropes with them.
    • Magine is just laden with lesbian subtext, having had two separate different and notable cases; the above-mentioned interactions with Reika during the Saber crossover, and her interactions with Flint in episodes 18 and 37. They even have her holding arms with a bride in Episode 8 just to really drive it in.
  • I Knew It!: Many fans guessed correctly that Hakaizer's true identity was Kaito's father Isao.
  • It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Fans were rather put out by Twokaizer's suit being so close to a standard Gokaiger suit, calling it a lazy design choice to the point where, when it was revealed, "Gokai Gold" started trending on Twitter instead of "Twokaizer".
  • Jerkass Woobie: Stacy may be opposed to the Zenkaigers, but it’s hard not to feel sorry for him, given how Kaito had a happy childhood with Good Parents, whereas Stacy grew up in a Crapsack World wherein his mother died, his father barely acknowledged him (as well as supposedly being the reason why his mom died according to the lad), and where he constantly suffered from Half-Breed Discrimination.
  • Lady Mondegreen:
    • The Monster of the Week are named "Warudo/Wald" in Japanese as a corruption of the properly spelled word "Waarudo/World" without an elongation, in an attempt to avoid copyright issues as their first monster would have shared the same name as Kinoko/Mushroom World from Super Mario Bros.. Many fans and fan translators still take the term to mean "World" in English anyways, often citing the infamously misheard/misspelled "ZA WARUDO/The World" meme as justification for them to be the same. This also resulted in the other meanings of its name being Lost in Translation.
      • This may also be a reference to ZyuohTheWorldnote , since Misao's title and the monsters are both representatives of worlds, and Junko Komura also was the head writer for the series he came from.
    • Su-san (the elderly frequent customer of Colorful) has often been misnamed as "Mr. Sue" due to his name sounding similar to the English name. This is despite the fact that there is no indication he came from any western origin.
    • The Goldtsuikers' ancestor Pillart Goldtsuiker had his name misinterpreted by Over-Time fansubs as Kirat Goldtsuiker.
  • Memetic Mutation: See this page for examples.
  • Laughably Evil: Aside from Stacy, you're just as likely to laugh at the Tojitendo Dynasty as you are to loathe their heartless and despicable antics.
  • Moe: Twokaizer's younger brothers, Cutanner and Ricky, are a duo of flat-out adorable SD robots that will make you smile.
  • Most Wonderful Sound:
    • Most of the sounds made by the Geartlinger, courtesy of wrestling announcer Lenne Hardt. This thing has enough pork-filled transformation announcements to give Doctor Ulshade pause for thought.
      Geartlinger: Ba-ban! Ba-ban! Ba-ban! Ba-ban! BA-BA-BA-BAAAAAAN! ...ZENKAI JURRRRRAN!!/VRRRRROON!!/MAAAGINEE!!/GAAOOOOON!!/ZEEEEENNKAIZAAAAA!!
      • Here's one to encapsulate the power of the Zenkaiju Gear. It's something amazing with Lenne Hardt emphasising on the word "super".
        Geartlinger: Kaiju! Kaiju! (Kaito fires) Ba-ban! Ba-ban! Ba-ban! Ba-ban! BA-BA-BA-BAAAAAAN! CHOU ZEEEENKAAAAAAAAAIII!!!
    • Stacy's Geartozinger gives a most spine-chilling announcement that still works out to be amazing as well, electronic voice and all.
      Geartozinger: Ja-BAAAAAAN!/FEEE-BAAAAAAN!!! (menacing rock jingle) STAAAAACAESAAAAAR!
    • Zocks's Geardalinger brings in a fun and showy transformation jingle set to stunning music (which sounds very similar to "Kiramekouze!" from Kiramager) and Tomokazu Seki's hammy announcements to make every other jingle sound normal. Oh, and just for kicks, Zocks dances and hits his gun's wheel to the music!
      Geardalinger: Mawase!!! (Zocks spins the wheel) Two~~KAIZAAAAAAA!!!! (Sea shanty jingle) (dancing) Hey! (more dancing) Hey hey! (some more dancing) Hey! (even more dancing) Hey hey! (Zocks fires) Yōsorō!!! TSUUUUUUKAI NI REVOLUUUUUUUTION!!!!!!!
      • But Wait, There's More! Zocks's device also packs in a jingle for his Ohran form...and Zocks also dances to it!
        Geardalinger: Mawase!!! (Zocks spins the wheel) Oh~~RANJAAAAAAAA!!! (Egypt-like jingle) [dancing] Olé! [dancing] Olé! [more dancing] Olé! Olé! Olé! (Zocks fires) Yōsorō!!! CHOOOOOORIKI NI REVOLUUUUUUUTION!!!!!!!
      • And if that isn't enough, there's his Shinken form jingle and... you get the gist now.
        Geardalinger: Mawase!!! (Zocks spins the wheel) Shi~~nKENJAAAAAAAA!!! (Japanese Ondo jingle) Sore, Sore! {X-shaped hand chop} Sore, Sore! {X-shaped hand chop followed by downward slash} Sore, Sore, Sore! (Zocks fires) Yōsorō!!! SHIIIIIINKEN NI REVOLUUUUUUUTION!!!!!!!
      • One more...here's his groovy, frantic jingle for the Zenkaiju Gear. It's a fast breakdance.
        Geardalinger: Mawase!!! (Zocks spins the wheel) Kaiju! Kaiju! SUUPEEEEER!!! (breakdance) Sei! (more breakdancing) Sei! (some more breakdancing) Sei! (even more breakdancing and Zocks fires) Yōsorō!!! CHOU TSUUUUUUKAI NI REVOLUUUUUUUTION!!!!!!!
    • The Zenryoku Zenkai Cannon has a pounding electronic beat as its standby music. Simple, but surprisingly effective for pumping you up before one of the most over-the-top Finishing Moves in the entire franchise. While Lenne Hardt does add a few clips, most of the other voice clips in the design are provided by Banjo Ginga. Cue the baritone.
      Zenryoku Zenkai Cannon: Moyase! Super Sentai power!! (music) Zenkai! (music) Zenkai! (music) Zenkai! (music) Zenkai! (fire) DAI-DAI-DAIIIIII ZENKAI! BA-BA-BA-BAAAAAAN!! DO-DO-DO-DOOOOOON!!!!!
  • Narm: The flashback of how Cutanner and Ricky turned into their SD forms in Episode 11 is meant to show how Flint feels immense guilt over doing nothing at that time. The problem comes from her pose during the entire scene being her looking from the distance with her hands on her hips, and when the incident happens, she only slightly turned to see them and yell their names with little distress in her voice.
  • Narm Charm: Juran giving Kaito a pep-talk about his parents while they're still stuck together in Sushi Wald's seaweed restraint in Episode 5 really shouldn't work because of the sheer Mood Dissonance, but it manages to do so brilliantly despite the fact thanks to the genuine emotion the both of them give.
  • Signature Scene: #18 has them recreate the ending of Jetman as a Finishing Move on Renal Wald...and it's absolutely played for comedy.
  • Special Effect Failure:
    • In general, a lot of the CG that Zenkaiger uses doesn't look very realistic and was obviously done on a tight schedule.
    • The opening sequence in episode 1 has Magine and Vroon's Gear numbers mixed up in their introduction. This was fixed from the following episode onwards.
    • ZenkaiOh JuraGaon's combination CGI has the Gaon side's fist modeled with an extra shape protruding from its front half.
    • Despite ZenkaiOh's combination names being officially named with incomplete "Jura-" and "Vroo-" prefixes, the announcement pronounced the full "Juran-" and "Vroon-" in their names, likely due to a mid-production name adjustment that went uncorrected with the recorded audio.
    • Ricky and Cutanner's CGI models in general are said by many to be rather jarring and off-putting, particularly in their rather stiff movements and their speech not synchronizing very well with their mouth sometimes.
      • During Kaito and Zocks's argument in episode 10, Ricky's stationary CGI watching them does a sudden shift in position after a few seconds.
      • A Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment in episode 12 has Flint reaching her hand out in front of Yatsude to hold up her pancake-making, her hand going through the back of Ricky's CGI. The problem is that Ricky was floating beside Yatsude, not in front of her, which meant that he was out of Flint's reach and thus such a movement should have been physically impossible.
      • If you take some notice at the scene where Zocks is hard-thinking by Kaito's bad drawing in episode 34 when he requests to find Halloween Wald's pumpkin. When Cutanner and Ricky's CGI is moving around Zock's side, there's no reflection of their movement on a window behind them. For Cutanner it may be subtle since his movement isn't so far, but for Ricky, it's barely more obvious since he moves to the other side, and his movement distance are more distant than Cutanner's.
    • It's incredibly obvious whenever Secchan is flying around that's he being animated in CGI.
    • The frozen world in episode 3 is both an obvious greenscreen around the characters and incredibly jarring.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: The jingle that plays when Juran and Gaon fuse sounds a lot like the beginning of Gourmet Race from the Kirby games.
  • Tainted by the Preview:
    • One thing that everyone can agree on is that design-wise, this is a huge departure from the Sentai norm. Some fans find it too big a change, with the single human ranger and four robots making it seem less like Super Sentai and more like Kamen Rider or Metal Heroes. Others don't mind the shakeup but take issue with the designs of the Kikainoids themselves in their Ranger transformations mostly being Palette Swaps of past Sentai mecha, calling it lazy.
    • Made even worse when it was revealed that Shinichiro Shirakura, the executive producer for the second half of Kamen Rider Hibiki, the controversial Super Hero Taisen movies, and the progenitor of a certain controversial “fangs” statement about Kamen Rider Amazons, would be the series producer, though some have pointed out that his earliest Sentai works were well-received amongst certain fans and that most of the problems affecting Kamen Rider Zi-O (which he also produced) were the result of Troubled Production and Real Life Writes the Plot and his previous anniversary series were awesome.
    • In a similar vein, many were turned off by the announcement of Junko Komura as the head writer, given the frosty reception to her previous works. However, others pointed out those works’ major problems were more to do with their producer (who was the same guy on all three, Takaaki Utsunomiya, who isn't involved here) being someone who favors filler over advancing the Myth Arc his shows set up and her main non-tokusatsu work was made without said producer’s involvement and was well received.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
    • There are a number of fans who feel Boccowaus was underutilized as a Big Bad. Unlike the Big Bads of the previous two series, Boccowaus is there from the start yet it takes until #48, which is also his final appearance, for him to do anything but pound his fist and shout at his subordinates, and very little is explored about him. By extension, his power up, which enabled him to utilize all the powers of the past Sentai, only gets to see only five out of the forty four Sentai powers used before the power of the Sentai worlds leaves him and recharges the Zenkaigers.
    • The same can easily be applied to the Creator of Worlds as well. Not counting all the time he spent possessing Gege, he doesn't really do anything until the end of the series, despite arguably setting the plot in motion. It doesn't help that his motivation wasn't explored that much, just like Boccowaus. Even the final battle with him isn't one between the entire team, but only with Kaito in his mind while the latter copied techniques from the other six.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • In episode 4, they had a boxing-themed monster, but at no point do they ever utilize Denziman, the Sentai all about punching, to fight Boxing Wald!
    • A problem with Kaito as the main character is that he rarely seems to react whenever his beliefs are challenged. When Zocks makes it clear he doesn't care about civilians getting caught in the crossfire of his battles with the Tozitend, Kaito doesn't call him out for his unheroic behavior, but instead says this is a good thing because he can focus on his goal. When Kaito's mother gets lost in the parallel worlds escaping the Tozitend, after going out searching for her in one episode, he doesn't seem to be upset, and simply resolves to keep looking for her without taking the time to grieve. Even when it was revealed that Kaito's dad was Hakaizer, he didn't even react much after he was taken away by Stacy, and just said he'd get him back with a smile on his face.
    • Most fans are in agreement that Flint never getting her own Ranger form was a waste and odd given she was the one who actually made Zock's transformation items in the first place, yet never seemed to think about making one for herself. A stage show in Tokyo Dome City was more than happy to pick up the slack and give Flint a Ranger form, though it was originally meant to be yet another Super Mode for Twokaizer before the power was used on her by accident.
    • Oddly, the Lupinranger Gear is never used once, outside of the ZenkaiRed special, despite the Patranger gear being used. Ironic considering how the Lupinrangers are considered to be the Spotlight-Stealing Squad in their original show.
  • Tough Act to Follow: Zenkaiger had the unenviable task of not just following up the highly-regarded Kiramager in terms of chronological releases, but also the generally well-liked Zyuohger and widely-adored Gokaiger in terms of explicit anniversary seasons, all three of which were considered to have good characters and plots. Combining this with Zenkaiger focusing heavily on comedy and having criticized character writing means that whether you find Zenkaiger to be good for what it is or an outright bad season, it pales in comparison to the standard set before or after it. Amusingly, the series after Zenkaiger is much more well-received despite it's initial controversies.
  • Unexpected Character:
    • While there were some hints, no one really thought that Basco would be coming back for the next Super Sentai film, Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger the Movie: Red Fight! All Sentai Great Assemble!!.
    • As much as it is a tradition to have the team leader for the next series make a cameo in the presently-airing one, no one expected DonMomotaro from Avataro Sentai DonBrothers to make an extended appearance in episode 42, several episodes away from the customary hand-off.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While the final episode arguably tries to put him in a more flattering light by making him out to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist, it doesn't really do much to excuse a lot of what the Creator of Worlds did throughout the entire series. he explains that he started manipulating the Tozitend into sealing the other worlds into Toziru Gears because he believed he could get a better handle on them, but he still allied with a tyrannical dictatorship that's oppressed its citizens for generations, and it makes him come across as too lazy to keep up with the worlds he created or do the work sealing them away himself. His behavior while trying to justify his methods doesn't really help his case, especially considering he believed the reason Kaito's parents were kidnapped by the Tozitend was because the parallel worlds existed in the first place. After his fight with Kaito, the Creator supposedly saw the error of his ways, but he never really seemed that remorseful, simply claiming he subconsciously wasn't that excited to seal all the worlds away, but we never really got to see him follow through on his promise to take better care of the worlds, and therefore, don't know if he really changed his ways or not.
  • Vanilla Protagonist: Kaito has been criticized as this by some, being easygoing most of the time and having little variation to his personality. Events that should bring about very emotional responses from him like his mother getting lost or his dad being Hakaizer instead fail to produce much of a reaction from him other than his typical happy, optimistic personality.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome:
    • The first episode of the series is one of - if not the most - visually impressive episodes of Sentai to date: utilizing innovative camerawork, striking visual effects, and impressive choreography throughout the fight scenes.
      • Zenkaizer and Zenkai Juran fighting within the explosion is a showstopper, especially with how clean the explosion looks with the mooks and Zenkaigers. The second episode has another scene akin to this, adding in Zenkai Gaon into the mix.
      • JuranTyranno transforming back into Zenkai Juran brings some impressive practical choreography that invokes KishiRyuOh's impressive flexibility during giant battle.
      • Wire Fu makes it return here in a spectacular fashion when Zenkaizer fights against the Kudaiter, effortlessly lifting him up the ground to make it seem like he's floating.
    • Zenkai Gaon's flexibility is impressive in episode 2, especially with the bulkiness of the suit.
    • Introducing Zenkai Red features a very clever cut when Gaon conveniently walks behind the others, coming out of the other side as a human when the team is about to go.
    • Due to the (Great) Wald's ability to cause When Dimensions Collide, the mecha battles this season utilize much more props and special stage setups than before, allowing for greater use of CGI and much more extensive camera work, as well as a lot of flexible and creative fight choreography.
    • Episode 10 has Zenkaizer using Sentai Gear #21 (Megaranger) to make Juran's shield float like the Cyber Sliders. The shot is very well-done, with some clever camera tricks and special effects helping to make the scene feel seamless.
    • Episode 28 features some incredible special effects that are pulled straight out of a manga, elevating the fight scenes with some seamless Medium Blending.
  • Woolseyism:
  • WTH, Costuming Department?:
    • Just the mere fact that the Zenkaigers have very individual suits that share almost nothing in common caused a huge uproar upon their reveal, a large number of fans commenting that the team doesn't actually feel like a Sentai because of this.
    • A lot of fans were disappointed with the Sixth Ranger Twokaizer's suit design, often citing it as lazily designed and "just a recycled Gokai Red suit in Gold".

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