- Arc Fatigue:
- Some felt that the Bailong Exams (Chapters 17 to 50) overstayed its welcome. Particularly, the earlier portions where it centers around D and the colorless recruits taking on the exam to try to become colored rangers. It's not that it's a bad arc or anything, but more that D's quest to defeat the 5 Dragon Keeper Rangers is considered to be so much more interesting than a recruitment exam plotline that people just wanted the series to finally return to D's primary objective. Thus, the Blue Dragon Keeper getting involved in the last third of the arc from chapter 36 onward is viewed to be what saves the arc from being a slog the whole way through.
- Lasting roughly the same amount of chapters as the above example, the Three Way Battle arc is seen as an exhausting one by many readers who think the manga is trying to include too many plot twists into a single arc, resulting in it becoming both very long and very plot heavy. From the get go multiple Executives are partially resurrected, its revealed Yellow Keeper created the Invaders, its also revealed the Divine Tools are all derived from clones of Yumeko, the dopey couple that keeps getting into trouble are actually Executives, the Dragon Keepers are seemingly defeated in one chapter then demolish the Executives in the next, and it all culminates with the return of the Giga-Invader Death Messiah. Add this to the fact that Four Lines, All Waiting is in full force here because this arc brings back most of the manga's very large cast, and complaints that it has become hard to keep track of the events of the arc became common.
- Ass Pull:
- Akane Yamabuki's backstory and Face–Heel Turn in a nutshell. Her focus chapter initially started off with portraying her as a by the books youth and Ranger, but after a brief "Reason You Suck" Speech by Yellow Keeper it turns out that Akane was an Unreliable Narrator as she was really deluded into thinking she was a good person. To say it came out of nowhere and went from 0 to 100 really fast is an understatement.
- The Backstory arc of Shinya Kiritani. He was originally an unremarkable scriptwriter with no apparent acumen for science, but towards the middle of the arc, it's revealed that not only did he devise a way to harness the power of the Dragon Gods of his wife's shrine but also used that power to invent cloning. It calls into question why he limited himself to be a scriptwriter if he was seemingly a scientific genius all along, but there wouldn't be an opportunity to further exploit this as he suddenly kills himself moments after creating two perfect clones of himself.
- Fan Nickname: Ranmaru Koguma is sometimes called "Ranger Mineta" due to having a character design that has some striking similarities to Mineta from My Hero Academia. Particularly the two of them being short guys, and Koguma's afro-like hair looking similar to how Mineta's head has sticky superpower balls acting as his hair.
- Fridge Brilliance: Normally a Super Sentai team doesn't have a group of allied fighters, even when they belong to a large organization, yet the Dragon Keepers have the Ranger Corps... because they're actually villains and the Ranger Corps a villainous organization, so of course they have foot soldiers.
- Harsher in Hindsight: When Sanae and Momoji are first introduced, they come off as friends or family of Chidori living in seclusion because he keeps as much of his personal life a secret to everyone. When they're reintroduced during the Red Ranger's Amnesia mini arc, they have moved to the slums outside of Milky Way City as its revealed towards the end of the mini arc that Sanae has been targeted by the Rangers Association for a very long time. It's heavily implied Chidori's presence kept the Rangers Association away from them so with him recovering from wounds sustained in the previous arc, they were forced to flee without his protection.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In a one-off joke during Yakushi Usukubo's two-page long power speculation for Death Messiah, he guesses that the Invader is good at golf. Golf tournaments have had a long, muddied history with kids shows and especially Tokusatsu productions like Super Sentai, as the tournaments would usually take the time slot of the show and delay it to the next week. Loser Ranger itself would eventually mirror its inspirations by having its fourth episode delayed by a golf tournament.
- Very early promotions for the series used the heroines of Haruba's previous hit, The Quintessential Quintuplets, in illustrations and in the Keeper uniforms. Loser Ranger itself would eventually reveal that a completely different set of quintuplets would sit at the center of the mystery surrounding the Ranger-Kaijin conflict, and that all of them provided the powers and weapons the keepers use.
- In the Invader Rights Association arc, there's much discussion about the original Rangers TV series as Yakushi and Sosei were both super fans. Subsequent arcs would reveal Sosei was the original actor for the Red Keeper of the show and Shinya was not only the original Yellow Keeper but also the lead writer. It almost turns into a Death of the Author discussion as Yakushi's interpretations of the show, especially with the Giga-Invader Death Messiah, differ greatly from what Shinya had intended.
- I Am Not Shazam: It is rather confusing considering that most Sentai fans would associate the main suited characters as the "Rangers" and would refer to them as such here too; but here the suits are instead collectively known as the "Keepers", while "Rangers" refer to the recruits/trainees of the organization formed to assist and train future Dragon Keepers. The English title makes this a little more confusing, since it emphasizes the Rangers as an organization.
- It's Short, So It Sucks!: One of the more common criticisms about the anime adaptation is its severely fast pacing, which left certain scenes either feeling rushed or cut out completely.
- Season 1 adapted about 50 chapters of story into just a 12 episode season. Some consider this to be a good thing as the anime breezed through the particularly long Bailong Exams arc that some people feel is the weakest arc of the manga that suffered from Arc Fatigue. However, the pacing can still feel rushed and uneven at times, which people tend to agree that a few more episodes here to fix the pacing wouldn't have hurt.
- It then got worse in Season 2 where the pacing was even more rushed due to the anime trying to adapt all the way to the end of the Three Way Battle arc, meaning that it went through another 75 chapters of story in just 12 episodes.
- It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: One of the main issues as to why the Bailong Exams suffers Arc Fatigue is due to all three days of the final exam taking place in a parking garage testing area. Getting sick of being stuck within a bland looking parking garage really starts to hit people midway through the arc.
- It Was His Sled: D successfully infiltrates the Ranger Association disguised as Hibiki Sakurama. Since it happens early on, and so much of the story revolves around this switcheroo, it's almost impossible to discuss the plot and its characters without giving this away. It also doesn't help that one of the volume covers shows off D-Hibiki
, and the intro and ending for the anime adaptation doesn't even bother hiding how important it is that D has to disguise as Hibiki. - Love to Hate:
- As much of a bastard Red Keeper is, many fans enjoy him precisely for being a unapologetic piece of shit protagonizing some really morbid scenes and having zero qualms for his brutal actions, all while deludingly keeping his "hero of justice" persona around, which many find twistedly amusing.
- A chunk of manga readers feel the same way about Yellow Keeper. He's pretty quick to mention that he was responsible for many of the series' atrocities, but he's just so smug and honest about it that you can't help but respect him a little.
- Magnificent Bastard: Yumeko Suzukiri is Footsoldier D's biggest benefactor, a descendant of an ancient priestly clan, and the most clever enemy of the Ranger Association. Supporting D while claiming her sole motive is being sympathetic to losers, Yumeko uses repeated attacks on D to train him never to let his guard down, all while she masquerades as a member of the Ranger Association. Pitting D against the Dragon Keepers and manipulating proceedings from behind the scenes, Suzukiri takes advantage of the chaos of the eventual Three-Way Battle to sneak into the Keepers' secret laboratory to free the dozens of clones of her the Keepers harvest for weapons, freeing them and leaving successfully amid the chaos and leaving her cause to D.
- Memetic Mutation:
- Due to the nature of the series being about an invader footsoldier who's tired of constantly getting beaten up by a group of ranger heroes that have a major case of Villain with Good Publicity, comparing the series to The Boys is quite common. "Red Keeper = Homelander" in particular is seen a lot.
- "This too was foreshadowed." Explanation
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
- A minor nitpick some have regarding the official English title is that Ranger Reject had more uniqueness to it over the Power Rangers inspired Go, Go, Loser Ranger! title. To be fair, the Ranger Reject title is fan-made, but that doesn't stop some people from complaining.
- Episode 4 of the anime ended up rushing through all 6 chapters of D's forest escape, which led to several scenes being cut short or left out entirely. Among other changes in the anime, some fans did not like the humor and some key scenes being cut from D's first fight with Hekiru. In particular, some fans raised concerns about the burns Hibiki suffered, as they were not as intense as the ones in the manga and the anime outright showed the damage instead of leaving it implied. Luckily, the second cour keeps the gnarly burns.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
- The Dusters. While their sorry situation was what kicked off D's character development and we get to see standout Dusters such as F and XX while the Invader Rights Association uses them as their justification for opposing the Rangers, the Dusters themselves get very little spotlight and no insight into their situation from their own perspective. We get it teased when Footsoldier A is downright confused when Hwalipon cooks up a fake Sunday Battle during their own fake battles, but we get nothing else.
- The failed ranger cadets, Ranmaru, Yamato, Renren, and Tsukasa, end up dropping out of the story after the Bailong Exams, which can be a bit disappointing after how much time was spent on building them up as characters. At the very least, they made a brief return 60 chapters later during the Three-Way Battle arc.
- Peltrola and XX. Unlike Magatia and Hwalipon in their respective arcs, Peltrola managed to survive and escape with XX at the end of the Bailong Exam. XX had a few non-speaking cameos where she was revealed to be a part of the Invader Rights Association's leadership and Peltrola had a single appearance as he, Hwalipon, Yakushi, and Chakobul/Yakekokab prepared for the Deathmecia's revival. Despite this, they both did not participate in the Three-Way Battle arc and almost didn't appear entirely save for XX having a brief exchange with Hibiki toward the end of it. Even with the Neo Rangers established both have yet to reappear.
- One that's applied to a character design—D's initial human disguise. While the disguise is fairly generic as a short, black haired young man, some fans still liked it and wished it was used more often. However, because D needs to operate as Hibiki Sakurama while acting as a Ranger, the majority of the story has him switch between his Invader form and the second human disguise.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Some fans argued that the Three-Way Battle arc robbed the story of slowly exploring the other Ranger battalions after getting thorough looks into those for Red, Blue, and Green. We at least get to know the functions of the Pink and Yellow Battalions, and some members are highlighted in the Three-Way Battle arc; but both are packed into an already condensed arc with multiple focus characters, leaving little breathing room for them. Pink Battalion later got more development during the Chopman arc, while Yellow eventually had his origins and motives revealed.
- Uncertain Audience: While it takes a lot of window dressing from Super Sentai, fans of that series are offput by how cynical the whole thing is and how a lot of the sentai influence seems superficial to the themes of the story. Likewise, those who are interested in the plot of reforming the Rangers find the sentai influence weirdly dissonant.
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