YMMV / Kousoku Sentai Turboranger

• Complete Monster: Great Boma (Violent) Emperor Lagorn is the supreme ruler of the Hundred Boma Tribes who sought to finish their war with humanity and the fairies. Despising failure and having a short fuse, Lagorn would punish his men and even force his three most loyal generals, who were responsible for freeing him, into final stands which resulted in their deaths. Despising anything human-related, Lagorn manipulated both the Wandering Boma and Turborangers into trying to kill each other, and later stripped them of their powers. A monstrous misanthrope who doesn't care about his tribe and is only concerned with power and the destruction of humanity, for his final scheme, Lagorn would attempt to destroy the Turborangers' base in order to release the army of 108 Boma sealed beneath it.
• Creator's Pet: Zulten is a pathetic Dirty Coward per excellence and is loathed by many. Yet he outlived Lehda, Jarmin and Zimba, and isn't killed until the final episode. Lots of Turboranger fans would agree that he is one of the most disliked Sentai villains ever and not in a Love to Hate or supposed to be hated either.
• Growing the Beard: It starts out slow, but once Yamimaru comes in, the show gets really good.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The title translates to "Hi-Speed Task Force TurboRanger". Who would've guessed the West would make a series holding the word "Turbo" 8 years later?
  • In a bit of wordplay by different homophonic Kanji, "Kousoku" can also mean "Lightspeed". So, yeah.
  • This series having a lot in common with Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, such as Recruit Teenagers with Attitude to battle evil that have been sealed for (over) 10,000 years and a Red/Pink/Blue/Black/Yellow team.
• Moral Event Horizon: Episode 27 is this for Jarmin. She revives Suzunari Bouma, her Monster of the Week, and orders her to kill the Turborangers and she'll revive her Bouma tribe. Suzunari Bouma disguises herself as a human girl and fools Youhei into falling in love with her, but she becomes the mask and refuses to use the controlling spell on him when the time comes. Jarmin takes Suzunari Bouma back to her lair, where she whips Suzunari Bouma and throws some of the beads that Suzunari Bouma's tribesmen are trapped inside to the ground, killing some of them and threatens her. This makes Suzunari Bouma finally use the spell, cue "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight between Youhei and Riki while the rest of the rangers find Suzunari Bouma. When Suzunari Bouma stops using the arte, Jarmin kills the rest of Suzunari Bouma's tribesmen, then whips Suzunari Bouma to death. She then makes her monster grow so that the Turborangers will have to finish her off.
  • She already passed it since Episode 19. She revives the two halves of Goukaku Bouma, brothers Hyouma and Enma. Hyouma doesn't want to fight since it'd make Enma die just like in the past, Enma likes to fight. Jarmin wants both of them to combine, so what does she do? Swear friendship with blood with Enma so he could attack Hyouma for being a traitor. Then suddenly for unknown reason, she attacked Enma to coax Hyouma to combine. Enma ends up Taking the Bullet for his brother, forcing Hyouma to combine with him in order to preserve Enma; both end up as mindless monster, forcing the Turborangers to kill them (especially hard for Shunsuke, who had a similar experience).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: While Riki is the one who killed most of Lagorn's main generals (and Lagorn), he's somehow not the one killing Jarmin. Seeing how much she pissed off Youhei and hit a nerve of Shunsuke as mentioned above, you'd think that they'd be the ones killing them - or even Haruna if for no other reason than to have a Designated Girl Fight. But no, that task goes to Daichi, who hasn't been personally slighted by Jarmin.
• Tough Act to Follow: Came after what was essentially the golden age of Sentai, a four season long stretch from Changeman to Liveman. Thanks to Choujin Sentai Jetman coming soon after, both Turboranger and the succeeding season, Fiveman, are not that well known among Sentai seasons.

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