Awesome / Gosei Sentai Dairanger

• Prior to this season, the Roll Call poses were always done by the suit actors. This is the first season to have the unmorphed actors strike the pose. Considering the roll call pose is one of the most complicated poses in the 41-year history of the franchise, the fact that untrained actors flawlessly pulled it off is something to be admired.
• Jin is stronger and better than Ryou, initially. But then Ryou trains by wearing a full-body spring cast to get up to his level. And then takes it off by flexing. What follows is one of the best action scenes in the show, with two actors in great physical shape trading very fast blows with each other - well, mostly Ryou. Well, pretty much entirely Ryou.
  • P.S: The full-body spring training scene, on the other hand, is very much horrific. If you can stomach that, yeah, you get rewarded with an awesome scene.
  • This was so awesome that Akibaranger S2 used this scene to restore Ryuuranger's memories.
• Here's one more in the second episode. Trying to Make My Monster Grow? The team's response? Give a big NO U and destroy the monster before it could grow.
• Oh no! Daigo's been sucked into Heatwave Hood - and if the others kill the Gorma, Daigo dies too! Not only that, but the Gohma's planning to self-destruct to kill Daigo! So what can they do? They don't need to, actually, because Daigo punches his way out.
• Near the end of the series, the Dairangers lose their ability to transform and summon their mecha. They have to protect one of the two towers that is fueling their master's victory for the control of Gorma. So they do their intro poses out of costume and begin throwing down.
  • This particular suitless roll call is notable amongst the fanbase because those poses are particularly intricate, and the actors nailed them. And it becomes a Signature Scene for years to come, often imitated, never perfected.
  • It's such a Signature Scene that this episode serves as the basis of the plot and Aesop for Gokaiger's Dairanger tribute episode.
  • It was even homaged in the finale of Power Rangers Wild Force.
• Kazu fighting the Dairanger Copies and crippling Copy Empress' copy powers in episode 25.
• Rin pulling This Is Unforgivable! in episode 33 towards Gara, followed by her walking towards her in Tranquil Fury and then sending the villain in full retreat by just one satisfying punch.
• Ryou/Ryuu Ranger: Can't take on your rival? Why not take off the training springs?
• Daigo/Shishi Ranger: Stuck inside a monster's belly? Why not punch?
• The series went out of its way to give every Ranger equal time, story, and character development and usually ran episodes in a series of four filler and one that moved the story forward (usually a two-parter). Since the stories were ordered by rank, they would almost always appear in Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Pink order. This means that for this season, much of the major story elements were carried by the Pink Ranger, not the Red Ranger. This says a lot about the strength of her character when you consider that this season's red ranger is considered one of the franchise's best examples.

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