History YMMV / KyoryuSentaiZyuranger

* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: While her human adult and knight designs may not look so bad, in the west, Clotho's child form got the nickname of [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan the littlest Klansman]].

** This makes a lot of sense when you learn that the arrangements of the opening and ending themes were done by Kenji Yamamoto, whose serial plagiarism got him fired from his role as composer for ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' and got his soundtrack for the ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai'' games replaced in the HD rerelease.

* AngstWhatAngst: None of the Zyurangers seem to care at all that the dinosaurs have been wiped out and their friends and family are all dead.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The show isn't bad, but it's not a fan favourite. The general consensus is that Burai and the mecha designs are great, but the story and other characters are underdeveloped. It ''does'' have a strong cult following in America, [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers for obvious reasons]]. Grown-Ups In Spandex's fansub release also helped in this regard.

* AssPull: Bandora's backstory, tragic as it is, comes SO LATE in the narrative, during the final episodes, that it comes across too late to have any proper impact and would make her less sympathetic than was probably intended.

* HypeBacklash: Arguably worse than what its adaptation gets. ''Zyuranger'' is often cited as being better to MMPR due to being more overt with its darker themes such as death, god-vs-devil conflict, and a revenge quest. Yet, those who have actually watched both and compared them have cited that much of these supposedly more mature elements fall apart with the smaller details, from contrivances, lack of character focus, agency, or development by the heroes, the divine forces that are supposed to be helping them actively hamper them for the flimsiest of reasons, and so on. Burai's HeroicSacrifice, while in concept is not bad, is guilty of all of the above, and in many ways could have been easily avoided, or at least played out in better ways. Plus, many have pointed that a character dying is not automatically better than a character getting to live, especially if more can be done with the character.

* ToughActToFollow: Part of the reason why the season was considered SoOkayItsAverage by Japanese viewers was because it was the first Sentai season to come out after ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'', which is considered one of, if not the, greatest seasons in the franchise.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The show isn't bad, but it's not a fan favourite. The general consensus is that Burai is great, and that's it.
** It ''does'' have a strong cult following in America, [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers for obvious reasons]]. Grown-Ups In Spandex's fansub release also helped in this regard.

%%* EvilIsCool: Burai, pre-HeelFaceTurn.

** Appearance-wise Daizyuzin gets hit with this, to the point of being the first ever Sentai Robo to get a Soul of Chogokin treatment, mainly due to [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers its [=MMPR=] counterpart]] [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff being the most memorable of the Megazords]].

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[spoiler:Burai's death]] was supposed to show that sometimes the heroes can die in battle.

* {{Moe}}: Mei. Super cute face provided by Reiko Chiba? Check. [[CuteButCacophonic High pitched voice]]? Check. Innocence? Aplenty, so check. Bonus points for being BadassAdorable.

* EarWorm:
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k308dg1Cynk Jyurenjaa! Jyurenjaa! Kyoryu Sentai... Jyurenjaaaa!]]''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHnAfCFRuFQ Bandora's]] VillainSong.

* EvilIsCool: Burai, pre-HeelFaceTurn.

* BrokenBase: Between those who thinks Zyuranger on its own is awesome, links with ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' notwithstanding, and those who think that the series qualities decrease because they are going to see a lot of helpless little kids considered TheScrappy series-wide because [[ChildHater Bandora]] specifically targets them.

* OutOfFocus: For being the show's heroes, the core Zyurangers often got overshadowed by the kid(s) of the day, who often times were the ones to actually save the day ''THAN THE TITULAR HEROES''. It also resulted in making the core Zyurangers feel like cardboard cutouts and, unlike their American counterparts, were so often robbed of spotlight that we don't see any form of development or depth at all.

* StaticCharacter: The core Zyurangers walk the line between this, {{Flat Character}}s, {{Supporting Protagonist}}s, or all of the above: They get little real development, since their time is stolen by random kids of the day, and they barely get any meaningful character interactions with each other, let alone Burai (considering his condition). In fact, their only role in the story is to bail out distressed kids and do the fighting (ie. beating up the Bandora Gang) for them. Comparing them and their American counterparts side-by-side, it's clear that though both sets are cardboard cutouts, the teens with attitude are at least made of thicker cardboard compared to the legendary warriors.

%%* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Several actually.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Zyuranger is often considered LighterAndSofter than Jetman's drama-ladden story. Of course that's without taking consideration of some REALLY creepy stuffs Bandora go through in order to terrorize the children that she hates. Which up and up including snatching them outta nowhere as long as there's a reflection, [[AndIMustScream putting them in a suspended state inside a pillar with their faces visible, conscious all the time]], as they're to be sacrificed with the giant laughing head of a demon known as ''Dai Satan''. [[NightmareFuel Uh... yikes?]]

** As mentioned below, fans attempted a letter writing campaign to [[spoiler:bring Burai back]], which didn't work. The same would happen to his ''Power Rangers'' counterpart Tommy, with more successful results.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k308dg1Cynk Jyurenjaa! Jyurenjaa!]]''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k308dg1Cynk The opening theme]].

* StaticCharacter: The core Zyurangers walk the line between this, FlatCharacter, {{Supporting Protagonist}}s, or all of the above: They get little real development, since their time is stolen by random kids of the day, and they barely get any meaningful character interactions with each other, let alone Burai (considering his condition). In fact, their only role in the story is to bail out distressed kids and do the fighting (ie. beating up the Bandora Gang) for them. Comparing them and their American counterparts side-by-side, it's clear that though both sets are cardboard cutouts, the teens with attitude are at least made of thicker cardboard compared to the legendary warriors.

* StaticCharacter: The core Zyurangers are more or less {{Supporting Protagonist}}s: They get little real development, since their time is stolen by random kids of the day, and they barely get any meaningful character interactions with each other, let alone Burai (considering his condition). In fact, their only role in the story is to bail out distressed kids and do the fighting (ie. beating up the Bandora Gang) for them. Comparing them and their American counterparts side-by-side, it's clear that though both sets are cardboard cutouts, the teens with attitude are at least made of thicker cardboard compared to the legendary warriors.

* FlatCharacter: The core Zyurangers are sadly this. They get no real development, since their time is stolen by random kids of the day, and they barely get any meaningful character interactions with each other, let alone Burai (considering his condition). Comparing them and their American counterparts side-by-side, it's clear that though both sets are cardboard cutouts, the teens with attitude are at least made of thicker cardboard compared to the legendary warriors.