YMMV / Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan

• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • Inazuma Ginga goes down just like any other Monster of the Week after being converted into Lightning Monger, rather than having a proper final fight against Sun Vulcan.
  • In the final episode, all it takes to defeat the Omnipotent God is just one hit from Chief Arashiyama with the Vulcan Stick.
• Awesome Music:
  • The opening theme. Sung by the master himself, Akira Kushida.
    • Memorable enough that it gets a Shout-Out in Super Robot Wars Alpha 2 as, of all things, the last boss's attack names. "Follow The Sun", for example.
  • Tatakau Nakama! is also a rather invigorating theme tune.
• Cerebus Rollercoaster: The second half of the season is much more light hearted than the first half.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • Queen Hedrian, who's just as hammy, stylish and cool as she was in Denshi Sentai Denziman.
  • Amazon Killer as well, being a tough Dark Action Girl who's always able to hold her own against Sun Vulcan whenever they face off.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The first episode sees VulPanther trying to flirt with Misa. This, and all his friendliness with children, can be harder to watch knowing his actor was arrested in 2013 for sexual assault of a minor.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In episode 43, the villains give away handheld computers to kids that will answer school questions, and thus people will not think for themselves and lose their brain cells. This basically is predicting the influence of smartphones many years later.
  • The early concept for the series was for the Denzimen to return with new powers. The same thing done with Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and the rest of the Zordon Era.
• Magnificent Bitch: Amazon Killer is a Vader Clan field officer who joins Machine Empire Black Magma out of loyalty to Queen Hedrian. Upon her arrival on Earth, Amazon Killer formulates a plan that successfully destroys Sun Vulcan's base, and keeps Sun Vulcan on their toes throughout the series with both her cunning and strength in combat. When Führer Hell Saturn appoints Inazuma Ginga to be his new right-hand man, Amazon Killer conspires with Queen Hedrian to manipulate Inazuma Ginga into killing Hell Saturn in a duel. She then nominates Inazuma Ginga to succeed him, causing the Zero Girls to back Queen Hedrian to become Black Magma's new ruler so Inazuma Ginga won't get it. When the Omnipotent God intervenes to kill Hedrian and appoints Amazon Killer as its new Puppet Queen, Amazon Killer reveals the Omnipotent God's location to Sun Vulcan before choosing to commit suicide rather than continue serving it.
• Memetic Badass: The Vulcan Stick, bizarrely enough. It tends to be portrayed by the fandom as an incredibly powerful weapon that can counter anything.
• Memetic Mutation: The theme song. Expect to see "Eagle! Shark! Panther!" and "Follow the Sun!" pop up a lot wherever the series is discussed.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Despite the various references to Denshi Sentai Denziman, including a new member of the Vader Clan, the previous team never appears in the series.
  • Misa's appearance as White Rose Mask in episode 29: while it could have led to Misa finally being able to fight alongside the heroes even though she lacks powers, instead she only managed to beat a few Mooks on her own, then get beaten easily by the Monster of the Week requiring the others to save her.
  • Apparently it was known from the beginning that the original Red's contract wouldn't keep him there the whole season. Therefore, a more meaningful exit for the character than a sudden "oh by the way he's leaving and the guest star of the week is the new Red" in one episode's last fifteen seconds could have been had - especially when you consider how other sentai series tended to handle unexpected departures.

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