Review of The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World

'The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World' seems to be yet another trashy isekai, and it's probably easy to get overlooked. Despite this fear, it has some unexpected depth. § Overview After winning the battle against the evil Secret Society Relationship-enders aka Zetsuender, Asagaki Tougo finds himself transported into another world and eventually meets Arvoln Yihdra, who tries to help him get back to his old world while they solve the problems they find themselves involved with in this new world. § Notes1. Tougo is the red ranger, and their group is called the Kizuna Five. The word kizuna (絆) means bond or connection, and it's an important motif throughout this series. His enemies in his old world were about destroying any bond or connection people may have.

2. Tougo has a rather extroverted personality, and it can be quite annoying. But once you reach the episode telling us his backstory, it becomes easy for us to understand him and the reason why he is so ready and more than willing to build bonds with other people.

3. The anime has some good arcs, but it could have been better. I can't give it a higher score because some arcs do include some deus ex machina.

4. The physics of how his machines can get summoned back and forth from Earth to the isekai makes you facepalm.

5. It's a tribute to sentai/Power Rangers type of shows. If you watched a few of those shows back in the day, you will definitely appreciate this show and/or cringe. Like it or not, the leitmotif that plays whenever the Red Ranger uses his weapons or summons his machines/robot sounds so cringe, and it doesn't seem to transer itself well in the anime and might as well remain in live action.

6. You can compare this anime to 'Go! Go! Loser Ranger!' That anime seems to be a deconstruction of the sentai (superhero team) genre. Even though it came out earlier than Red Ranger, I recommend watching that anime after seeing this Red Ranger anime. Red Ranger assumes that rangers are heroes who protect people, while Loser Ranger presents rangers as villains.

7. The animation is slightly better than the usual slop.

§ Conclusion

This is one decent isekai. It has its moments of depth and moments of cringe. If you can get past that, you will have a great time because it's not that usual to feature a ranger in an anime.