Anvilicious: This is not a show that believes in subtlety, especially when it comes to messages about family.
Awesome Music: The series' soundtrack is catchy and hopeful, perfectly embodying the themes of magic, courage, and family present throughout, especially some of the more notable vocal songs created for the series. Also among the Image Songs, Kai's "Yuuki wa Phoenix" stands out. Yes, that is Atsushi Hashimoto singing it. Surprised?
Complete Monster: Hades God Dagon, leader of the Infershia Pantheon of Hades Gods, is dedicated to the revival of the Dark GodN Ma. Adhering to the Dark Precepts, Dagon shows no regret in executing his fellow God Ifrit when Ifrit fails to defeat the Magirangers within a time limit. Dagon soon shows his true colors by cheating, and when the good-hearted Hades God Titan attempts to seal away N Ma within himself, Dagon ambushes and kills him, releasing N Ma to devour Magitopia, Earth and even Infershia as well. Betraying and attempting to kill his honorable companion Sphinx, Dagon later rejects her offer to ally with the humans, claiming all he desires is destruction and to see "the ultimate nightmare."
Crazy Is Cool: Many of the spells take on unusual forms, yet are devastating in no small part because of this.
Even Better Sequel: While Dekaranger is by far the more popular series, Magiranger managed to avert Tough Act to Follow by still being a very popular and well-received series due to its likable characters, strong plot, and worldbuilding. It's common for many fans to like both (see Friendly Fandoms below) but have a stronger preference for Magiranger.
Friendly Fandoms: With its predecessor series Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, due to sharing a lot of similarities in style (especially with them sharing Hideaki Tsukada as a producer) and having a very popular crossover movie. This extends to their respective casts as well, who are noticeably good friends with each other even years after both series ended and some of the actors have since retired from the industry.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While it was successful in Japan, Magiranger was so popular in Korea, they made an MMO game based on the series. In 2011.
Growing the Beard: The show definitely comes into its own with the introduction of the Heavenly Saint Lunagel in Stage 16, gradually ramping up the stakes as the Magirangers and Infershia get stronger.
In stage 22, the Magirangers end up in a Jidaigeki themed Marudeyona World and are forced to dress and fight like ninjas. The core cast would later appear in Chou Ninja Tai Inazuma, a Super Sentai parody set in the Jidaigeki period with our heroes being magically empowered ninjas.
Nic Sampson, the actor who played Tsubasa's Power Rangers counterpart Chip, went on to play the Sentinel Knight, gold-armored Zuban's counterpart, in the following season. Five years later, Hiroya Matsumoto, Tsubasa's actor, would play a gold warrior himself, Masato/Beet Buster.
In Stage 37, a foreign woman asks Tsubasa for directions in English, but Tsubasa struggles out a decline due to not knowing enough English. Years later, Tsubasa becomes a guest instructor at a magic school in England and even taught Yakumo Kato of the Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.
It Was His Sled: Wolzard actually being the siblings' disappeared father is common knowledge to people with a passing familiarity with the series, especially due to Gokaiger prominently using Wolzard Fire in association with MagiMother.
Les Yay: Houka with both Nai and Mea/Vancuria, the two girl's first major plot had them hypnotizing and transforming Houka into their vampiress servant, and are always touchy-feely with their enemy and disregarding of personal space.
Like You Would Really Do It: As though the writers were really going to kill off Blagel, Sungel, and Miyuki at the very end.
Meemy crossed it with his betrayal of Magitopia and willing defection to Infershia for the sake of power.
Dagon crosses it when he kills Titan, who intended to enter a deep slumber to free himself of his service to Infershia, all in a bid to free N Ma and let him destroy existence.
N Ma crosses it when he destroys Magitopia, following by killing Hikaru/Sungel and Isamu Ozu/Blagel then dropping their corpses for the Magiranger to watch in horror.
Narm Charm: Let's face it, how they did the theme of family, courage, and magic is a little silly but somehow, they make it work epically thanks to its characters and plot.
Never Live It Down: Despite only doing it once in the entire show, Mandora Boy's most commonly referred to trait is the fact that he sings.
N. Ma's final form, he has a Creepy Monotone and Horror Hunger, not just for magic but everything in existence even time itself, which he demonstrates by actually sending the Magiranger to the future, while we're treated to a sight of a corpse rotting away as N Ma transports the heroes to a future where he won and destroyed all life he could see.
Though in the actual show most of the details of N. Ma's actual Eldritch Abomination form are obscured by red tinting, the concept art shows all of the horrific design.
Shocking Moments: Stage 42 explodes past all limits with WolKentauros vs. Hades God Sleipnir on his chariot, complete with nod to Ben-Hur!
The premier of Travelion's Destruction Fire Reverse Spray is decidedly underwhelming. It was 2005 though, so we can't knock them too hard for it.
The suit for when MagiPhoenix rides MagiDragon looks odd due to how it's worn: the stunt performer is clearly wearing the torso of MagiPhoenix and the legs of MagiDragon◊, turning the rest of the dragon into a lifesaver around the performer's waist from which the lower legs of MagiPhoenix dangle. Whenever the performer moves in this set-up, the entire suit wobbles unconvincingly, and when it's filmed in slow motion after defeating a monster it's even worse.
Tear Jerker: Stage 28's Star-Crossed Lovers plot was simply heart-wrenching when you realize that by Rei'sDeath by Origin Story, this killed any chances of Tsubasagetting the girl. The kicker? The song of the same name of the episode, "Eien ni..." (Eternally...) is mind-numbingly depressing as well and plays at the end of the episode, when Rei finally moves on to the afterlife.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Meemy used to be an electric heavenly saint, Raigel. He could be used trying to corrupt Tsubasa due to his element and cynicism towards Kai, who has the same element as his father. This could have resulted in many cool scenes.
Unexpected Character: The 2018 Hero Mama League special is centered around Sentai heroes who have grown up to become mothers and struggle to juggle their hero work with their lives as housewives...so imagine everyone's surprise when one of the featured ladies turned out to be none other than Houka, whose general flightiness and Really Gets Around tendencies don't exactly inspire an immediate image of a natural housewife and mother. (Fittingly, in the special itself, while she's shown to have committed to a husband, she's easily the ditziest of the moms present to the point where her toddler daughter keeps calling her out on it.) Making it even more surprising is that while the other two participating actresses were enthusiastic Sentai alumni who had reprised their roles multiple times by that point, Houka's actress Ayumi Beppu had previously declared an intention not to appear in children's shows again; her cameo appearance in Gokaiger indicated she wasn't completely against reprising her role as Houka, but the announcement still came as a huge surprise for those who weren't expecting to see her come back for more.note In fact, Beppu is openly fond of Magiranger and her role as Houka, so it seems her statement was probably more relevant to any new roles and not past ones.
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: For a series revolving around a heartwarming "Family" theme, MagiRanger can be pretty dark when it comes to human casualties; victims are killed off in ways as Nightmare Fuel-ish as possiblenote As much as a general-audience show can allow, for the very least., and after they die, they stay dead.
The Woobie: Tsubasa after Stage 28. The poor dude lost his first love Rei after she passes away for the second time due to the MOTW, and he's clearly not okay afterwards.
" stands out. Yes, that is Atsushi Hashimoto singing it. Surprised?
