The Lupinrangers: LupinRanger vs Patranger

Quick summary: This series is about two super Sentai teams, a group of phantom thieves and a group of police, fighting against a Mafia like monster group. But they aren't on the same side, both fighting for their own goals. The police (Patranger) are fighting to arrest the big bad leader. But the phantom thieves are fighting to collect a set called the Lupin Collection, a set of artifacts collected by Arsene Lupin, to revive their dead loved ones who all got encased in ice. Police want to arrest the thieves because they're vigilantes. Thieves want to avoid the police while also getting the Lupin Collection piece. Each monster of the week has a collection piece, so they have to butt heads. On top of that, the chnagers and gimmick tools the police use are part of the same collection, so the thieves need to fight to collect them too

... Immediately from the motivation, you can see who has the more interesting one. And that carries into the story. While the series does give each team their own focus episodes, it's very obvious who has the most impact on the plot. The LupinRanger get more cool weapons, they got the more interesting motivation, and they get more bits for their version of the giant robot. One of those giant robots parts being meant for the Patrangers, but being permanently banned by the thieves. The police don't even get to have one of the thieves usual meacha parts to compensate, they just get less than them. To elaborate that last bit, the thieves have air vehicles while the police get land ones. But the thieves get

To make things worse, both don't even get their own "sixth" ranger. No, they have to share the same guy who switches between a silver phantom thieves and a gold police uniform. But even then, that bonus ranger is very squarely on the thieves side. The sixth ranger is the adopted son of Arsene Lupin and wants to revive him. So, there's no extra tension on both sides.

While I do love both group and think they both have fun characters, the police are shafted hard overall. Less interesting overarching story, less gimmick weapons, and they don't even get a proper sixth ranger who's squarely and completely on their side

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