History Manga / GoGoLoserRanger

* DecoyProtagonist: Early promotional materials indicate the main characters to be the Dragon Keepers themselves, however the plot actually follows VillainProtagonist Duster D, as he sets off on his own plan to infiltrate and defeat the Dragon Keepers from within their ranks.

--> '''Chidori:''' I'd be risking my own safety if I just handed out info on Green like candy.
* GenreDeconstruction: This is used to deconstruct the whole superhero tokusatsu genre from a henchmen perspective. The "Keepers" are nothing more than a bunch of figureheads who are also psychopaths who repeatedly kill the Duster {{mooks}} just so people can praise them long after the actually battle ended just for glory, and are even willing to kill their own just to stay on top. Meanwhile, the main character, a Duster named D, while sympathetic due to circumstance, is a VillainProtagonist with OrangeAndBlueMorality who wants the Keepers dead, but rather than fight, is forced to bring their organization down from the inside. [[spoiler:The Bailong Exams also examines the headspace of the kinds of villains who don't care about the common grunt getting killed, and whether the grunts' ingrained loyalty or their new experiences will win out.]]
* GoodRunningEvil: At some point during the 13 year war between alien Invaders and human Rangers, the Invader Executives all fled or were killed and their flying castle was abandoned. The Rangers moved in and forced the remaining footsoldiers to hold mock-battles against them once a week or be KilledOffforReal, so the Rangers maintain their popularity.
* ImmoralRealityShow: Thirteen years of Sunday battles have led the entire public to treat it as a BloodSport, constantly looking forward to the Keeper's slaughtering of the MonsterOfTheWeek every week while heavily jeering at the Dusters.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Through the Dusters perspective, the Dragon Keepers are the truly villainous people who gain respect of the public by taking advantage of their weakness and forcing the Dusters to continue playing their roles as the "villains" of the Dragon Keeper show. That said, like any good organization, there are members who are more self-serving and many who are dedicated to the surface cause of the Rangers.

* PullTheThread: This is how the team manages to escape a TimeLoop created by executive Magatia. [[spoiler:They trigger the loop over and over as fast as possible until someone starts showing signs of fatigue]].

* RedIsHeroic: Subverted. While Red Battalion plays up the trope when the cameras are rolling or the public is concerned, most of the named members introduced throughout the series are anywhere from SocialDarwinists to actively sabotaging each other for power.

** Finally, Pinks serve as little more than the emotional center and ''especially'' eye candy. Many people mock those who focus on their form as "trying for Pink", and pinks are generally kept to a supporting role.

* ZodiacMotifs: The Kaijin Army's 12 Executives, are supposedly themed around the Eastern Zodiac. Seven of them were killed prior to the start of the manga, but the remaining ones are the Snake (Magatia), Rooster (Peltrola), Rabbit, Monkey, and Horse.

** A concerned Mook F came down to Earth looking for D ''without donning a HumanDisguise'' just like the latter did[[note]]It could be justified as the following chapter explains different Dusters have different disguise specialities, and human disguises may not have been F's forte.[[/note]]. The public unrest he caused walking around soon caught the attention of Red Keeper, [[spoiler:who [[KilledOffForReal executes him]] for breaking the "No wandering on Earth during a non-Sunday" rule]].

* ShoutOut: When the final battle with Magatia begins, he dares D to come attack him while standing on top of a staircase. D moves to attack, but [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders he's unable to get very far on it because Magatia keeps moving him to his starting distance]]. He even taunts D the same way DIO does to Jean-Pierre Polnareff.

** D himself, despite being shown to be smarter than the average Duster, is very prone to giving in to his reckless impulses, and is ''terrible'' at acting despite having human disguises as his speciality. [[spoiler:It ultimately gets him ''almost'' KilledOffForReal in Chapter 5 by Blue Keeper for attempting to confront the Keepers instead of running away after they found him stealing Red Keeper's Divine Weapon.]]

** Greens keep to themselves and are focused on their work. They are widely seen as grunts who do nothing but mop up after the other battalions, but this low profile is exactly what the greens want since [[spoiler:their real mission is to investigate and destroy any and all surviving Executives without alerting the public]].

** Greens, from what little we see of them, are strong, but they are comic relief.

* AwesomeButImpractical: All Rangers have a multi-purpose energy weapon issued to them, but it is currently only limited to a sword and blaster form. Koguma tinkers with them to create a "Burst" form, which makes the weapon shoot out an incredibly strong energy wave but exhausts the weapon's battery in minutes.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Subverted. In the fight of D against Hekiru, Hekiru makes a grand speech about how it is the power of his bonds with others and their support that makes him strong enough to fight D in typical shounen fashion, but because D is an alien, the concepts he keeps spouting are totally foreign to him and he doesn't understand or care about them, but he points out that it is not his feelings or convictions that are beating D, it's the fact he has a weapon that was tailor-made to kill those like him. Hekiru takes him up on this challenge and drops his weapon promising that the feelings others have for him will work even if they were to fight bare-fisted, but D sends him flying with a single punch, at which point he changes his tune to say that [[MovingTheGoalposts the feelings of his friends are imbued in his weapon instead]].

* GenreDeconstruction: This is used to deconstruct the whole superhero tokusatsu genre from a henchmen perspective. The "Keepers" are nothing more than a bunch of figureheads who are also psychopaths who repeatablely kill the Duster {{mooks}} just so people can praise them long after the actually battle ended just for glory, and are even willing to kill their own just to stay on top. Meanwhile, the main character, a Duster named D, while sympathetic due to circumstance, is a VillainProtagonist with OrangeAndBlueMorality who wants the Keepers dead, but rather than fight, is forced to bring their organization down from the inside.

Thirteen years ago, the {{immortal}} ''Evil Army Kaijin'' attempted an AlienInvasion on Earth, only to be shortly thwarted by the ''Ryujin[[note]]Dragon God[[/note]] {{Sentai}} Dragon Keeper'' and their [[WeaksauceWeakness Divine Weapons]] within a year. All of their commanders were eradicated, and their {{mooks}}, the Dusters, were eventually forced into a ceasefire agreement: The Keepers would stage weekly live battles on Sundays, where the Dusters are forced to be their {{butt monkey}}s and [[StagedShooting purposely lose to them every week]] in exchange for their lives being spared. Thirteen years of this have passed, and one Duster, [[OneLetterName D]], decided he's had enough of this farce. Using a HumanDisguise, he plots to eliminate the Keepers from the inside through enlisting in their recruitment programme, but soon learns that he isn't the only person with the same plan in mind, and realises he may have gotten way too in over his head.

* {{Deconstruction}}: This is used to deconstruct the whole superhero tokusatsu genre from a henchmen perspective. The "Keepers" are nothing more than a bunch of figureheads who are also psychopaths who repeatablely kill the Duster {{mooks}} just so people can praise them long after the actually battle ended just for glory, and are even willing to kill their own just to stay on top. Meanwhile, the main character, a Duster named D, while sympathetic due to circumstance, is a VillainProtagonist with OrangeAndBlueMorality who wants the Keepers dead, but rather than fight, is forced to bring their organization down from the inside.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''Sentai Dai Shikkaku'' can refer to the current Keepers, who secretly act like corrupt and immoral people pretending to protect the peace; or it can refer to the team D forms in his qualification test, made up of a group of weak, hopeless people (who even D doesn't want to know the backstory of) who no one expects to move onto to the colored rangers.

''Go, Go, Loser Ranger!'' (''Sentai Dai Shikkaku'' / 戦隊大失格, literally "Sentai Disqualification" or "Ranger Reject") is a manga series by Negi Haruba (''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets''), which began serialization in ''Weekly Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' in February 2021.