YMMV / Seijuu Sentai Gingaman

• Awesome Music: The... whole soundtrack, actually. "Seijuu Sentai Gingaman", though, is Shimon Masato briefly coming out of retirement.
  • "Ore wa Kurokishi Hyuuga". An unstoppable force of justice, basically.
  • "Sono na wa Sherinda"! Probably the coolest and iconic villain song next to Bandora's.
  • "Misetsukero Seijuu Damashii featured Yukio Yamagata's Hot-Blooded voice, taking the song up to 11.
  • "Giga Rhinos! Giga Phoenix! Giga Bitus!" Miyauchi Takayuki singin' his heart out as... overly enthusiastic backup sorties.
  • The ending, in a serene way.
• Base-Breaking Character: Shelinda. Those who hate her because she is just a shallow villainess with nothing more than a one-sided rivalry with Ginga Green and for pure Fanservice. Those who love her because she is a badass villainess with awesome attitude, her death via a massive explosion is not a Tear Jerker but Moment of Awesome and of course, Fanservice.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: The season is sometimes known for its most stripperiffic villainess in the entire franchise.
• Bizarro Episode: Episode 21. Among other things, it involves the Gingaman drawing markers on Gōki's face when he falls asleep and Hayate shoving a tomato down his trunks to avoid eating it.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Chapter 17 involved robots functioning as Suicide Bombers to destroy buildings, with humans committing similar acts a few years later.
  • Chapter 40 involved the Majin Degius whose death was tragic, Degius's voice actor Kiyoshi Kobayashi died 24 years later.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Equal this and Hilarious in Hindsight. Hayate aka. Ginga Green is involved in a rivalry with Shelinda with the former often ignoring the latter's attempts to have an one-on-one fight. The actors who portrayed their American adaptation versions Damon and Trakeena became a Happily Married couple in real life after they fell in love during filming of Lost Galaxy.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • We've got five heroes not from around here, protecting Earth with their big giant head mentor and a Team Pet of sorts, while seeking refuge with a father and son in their home... are we talking about Gingaman or Tensou Sentai Goseiger?
  • While Hayate and Shelinda were rivals in this series, their Power Rangers Lost Galaxy counterparts, Damon and Trakeena, were not. However, the latter two's actors, Reggie Rolle and Amy Miller, ended up marrying in real life.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Captain Zahab is the leader of the Space Pirates Balban, the Gingaman's nemesis and a fearsome, deadly and intelligent foe. When freed from the 3,000 year seal along with his group he restructures their modus operandi to avoid as much infighting as possible which caused their downfall in the past, sending out one general at the time to scheme to fully resurrect Daitanix. When Iliess undermines her fellow general, Budoh, and frames him as a traitor Zahab manages to figure out the truth and lets her think she fooled him up until she's no longer of use, using her remains to slow down Daitanix's rotting, while throwing out Bucrates as well for his compliance in her scheme. When Daitanix begins to rot away even after being freed, Zahab leaves it to die so the Balban can grow a second Demon Beast from its remains. In the final arc of the series, Zahab proves to be capable of adapting and overcoming every inconvenience and setback that pops up for his plans, eventually getting his second Demon Beast, and even after losing his entire crew and all of his Demon Beasts in the series finale he remains defiant and plans to restart his goals from the ground-up, only being stopped by the heroes pulling all stops to defeat him.
  • Samurai General Budoh is the most cunning and calculating general of the Space Pirates Balban. Taking affirmative action to be chosen as the new acting commander after witnessing Sambash's death by revealing a secure and surefire plan to find the Lights of Ginga by investigating all possible hiding spots one-by-one as detailed in legends of the artifacts. Respectful of both opponents and minions alike, Budoh commended every one of his fallen men's efforts and fought fairly against the Gingamen. When pressured by both the return of BullBlack and Captain Zahab's growing impatience, Budoh simply calls forth his Four Shogun and sends them out to finish the list with the last one succeeding before sabotage and incrimination from Illiess causes him to lose the Lights to the Gingamen. Even when branded a traitor and hunted down, Budoh refuses to give up or fight his own side and opts to just try and clear his name up until Medoumedou, the monster responsible for framing him, tells him the truth in an attempt to break him which Budoh laughs off before killing her in retaliation and fighting GingaRed in one last honorable one-on-one Duel to the Death, all after requesting his last two minions to leave with their lives.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Captain Zahab crossed it before the story began when he killed the original Black Knight's younger brother, Krantz, and destroyed the Knight's homeplanet of Taurus.
  • Shelinda crossed it when she created an illusion of Miharu, Hayate's fiancee who was turned to stone along with the entire Ginga Forest, and has Hayate destroy "Miharu" just so she could provoke him into responding to her attempts to form a rivalry with him.
  • Sambash crosses it when he has Gurinji deceive Ryoma into helping him obtain the Lights of Ginga.
  • Illiess crosses it when she frames Budoh as a traitor for her own ends then sends out a squadron led by Medoumedou, the monster she used to frame him, in order to break him with the truth and then kill him.
  • Biznella crossed it when after saving the Lost Starbeasts' lives he turned them into his mind-controlled slaves after forcefully turning them into robots.
  • Battobas crosses it when he backstabs Biznella and enlarges him into a giant to make his escape.
• Older Than They Think: Many people think this was the first Sentai to have a team Super Mode granting additional armor and a special finisher. Nope — 1990's Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman had done it with the Five Tector armor — the finisher was exactly the same, having the heroes fly through a target in the form of a fireball.
• Retroactive Recognition: The victim of the week in episode 19 was played by the child actress who would be known as Aoi Yūki (later on becoming famous for Madoka Kaname, Hibiki Tachibana, Futaba Sakura)
• So Okay, It's Average: Generally considered this among American viewers, to the point where they considered its Power Rangers adaptation to be superior.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • The Starbeasts' effects have not aged well at all, they get pretty bendy, have textures that make them look worn down and damaged and flop around a lot.
  • The iceberg in episode 28 is obviously made of plastic. You can see it bend when Yuuta hits it.
  • You can easily note which Daitanix suit was the one reworked into Ghelmadix for the crossover with Megaranger, the first Daitanix suit has a fully mobile lower jaw and limbs, while the second has a barely moving mouth, stiff limbs that fold its notable rubber body and overall looks like an aged recycled stage show suit that was loaned just to fill in for the other suit.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Starbeast Gingat's face in its debut is meant to look animalistic, but ends up bizarrely humanlike with its sunken eyeballs, pale face and fur making it look sickly, and a small mouth with shark-like teeth. Once released from petrification in Episode 7, the suit is notably redesigned to look cuter.
• Vindicated by History: While it was initially seen as neither horrible, nor amazing, as fans became more aware of the flaws of its American adaptation, people warmed up to this series more. The fact that the head writer went on to write some of the more beloved Tokusatsu series probably helps a bit.
• Woolseyism: In Millionfold Curiosity's subs, Barba-X's name is changed into the more natural-sounding Barban Extract. This was carried over to the Shout! Factory subs.

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