Over a decade ago, the Nefarious Monster Army invaded Earth. However, they were thwarted by the great protectors of humanity, the Dragon Keepers, who wiped out the army’s powerful generals in just under a year.
Now, the foot soldiers of the monster army are forced to put on a show every Sunday where they fight the Dragon Keepers and are killed for the entertainment of the unsuspecting public who don’t know that the war is long over.
Determined to put an end to their cruel farce, a foot soldier monster simply known as D infiltrates the Ranger Force of the Dragon Keepers in an attempt to get their powerful divine artifacts and take out the leaders.
Usually if you want Super Sentai twists, you are limited to just comical ones. It is about time someone did an action-based re-imagining of the genre. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Go! Go! Loser Ranger, head on down below.
Anime Like Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
For Fans of Super Sentai Twists
Love After World Domination
Fudo Aikawa dons the mantle of Gelato Red, leader of a group of protectors that stand against an organization bent on world domination. Desumi Magahara is a fierce warrior in the ranks of that organization.
After first meeting, it was love at first sight for Fudo, and they agreed to go out.
However, their relationship must remain a secret, though that doesn’t mean they can’t make special moments for themselves.
Similarities Between Loser Ranger and Love After World Domination
- Both series are twisting the usual Super Sentai tropes
- Heroes and villains get along
- The main characters hide their activities from others
Differences Between Loser Ranger and Love After World Domination
- Love After World Domination is a romantic comedy, not an action anime like Loser Ranger
- Whereas Loser Ranger is gritty and sinister, Love After World Domination is cute and funny. So it features an incredibly different vibe.
- Loser Ranger presents the Dragon Keepers as bad people, but they are still the good guys in Love After World Domination.
Samurai Flamenco
Fueled by hero tales, the legend of his own grandfather, and an enduring sense of justice, the superstar model Masayoshi Hazama turns into the Samurai Flamenco by night.
Featuring a cheesy handmade costume, he tries to foil crime with his nonexistent fighting skills.
Similarities Between Loser Ranger and Samurai Flamenco
- Both series twist Super Sentai tropes in new ways
- The main character is, not technically, a Super Sentai hero
- Both series feature interesting action
Differences Between Loser Ranger and Samurai Flamenco
- Samurai Flamenco follows a model who wants to be a Super Sentai hero in a world where that doesn’t exist. He’s also pretty bad at fighting.
- Samurai Flamenco starts off more comedic, but does grow into an action anime
- Samurai Flamenco is a Super Sentai parody right up until it isn’t a parody anymore.
Astro Fighter Sunred
In the city of Kawasaki, the villainous General Vamp is constantly creating schemes for world domination with his minions only to be foiled by Sunred, the stalwart ally of justice that protects the city.
However, in reality, the heroic Sunred is a bit of a jerk. He is rude, violent, and mooches money off his girlfriend to play pachinko all day. Meanwhile, General Vamp and his (mostly harmless) minions are polite and conscientious.
Similarities Between Loser Ranger and Astro Fighter Sunred
- Both series twist Super Sentai tropes in new ways
- The Super Sentai heroes are big jerks in both series
- The Super Sentai villains are actually displayed as being the better people than the heroes
Differences Between Loser Ranger and Astro Fighter Sunred
- Astro Fighter Sunred is a gag comedy and not actual action anime
- Astro Fighter Sunred takes place in a neighborhood rather than the hero compound like Loser Ranger
- Astro Fighter Sunred focuses more on the villain and hero as main characters together whereas Fighter D is really the only main character in Loser Ranger.
Mr. Villain’s Day Off
Operating in the shadows, an evil organization of invading aliens is working to take over Earth and wipe out humanity. While a group of brave heroes constantly fights back against them, everyone needs a chance to rest.
For one high-ranking general in the evil organization, he is very diligent with his work, but also takes his days off very seriously. During his time off, he often enjoys well-deserved rest by engaging in fun human activities like going to the zoo to see the pandas, eating ice cream from the convenience store, or doing a little shopping.
Similarities Between Loser Ranger and Mr. Villain’s Day Off
- Both series are twisting Super Sentai tropes in new ways
- Both series follow Super Sentai villains as main character
- The Super Sentai team is presented as more complex in personality just being the paragons of heroism.
Differences Between Loser Ranger and Mr. Villain’s Day Off
- There is virtually no action in Mr. Villain’s Day Off. It is very much a slice of life, lightly comedic series.
- The good guys are good and the bad guys are bad (when on the clock) in Mr. Villain’s Day Off.
For Fans of The Good Guys Are Actually Bad Guys
Planet With
Despite not having memories of his past, Souya lives a peaceful high school life. However, one day his town is threatened by huge objects floating in the sky.
Conventional weapons are useless against them, but the 7 heroes charged with defending the city emerge in their mechs and head into battle.
Souya, too, finds himself drawn to battle, but not against the objects, he is drawn to fight the heroes.
Similarities Between Loser Ranger and Planet With
- The protagonists of each series are, technically, the villains
- The “good guy” heroes of the world are not quite what they seem
- The main characters are fighting against the heroes for various reasons
- Introduces intrigues early, and slowly unravels them over time.
- Both series are subverting older tropes in their respective genres
- Both series are rather creative with their characters than the standard action anime
Differences Between Loser Ranger and Planet With
- Planet With is playing with older mecha tropes, Loser Ranger is playing with Super Sentai tropes
- Planet With keeps the reason the main character is fighting the heroes vague until later on.
- Planet With, what with its meat-denying maid and giant cat guy, is a bit weirder at first.
Sengoku Youko
Humans and demons known as Katawara live in contentious balance with each other. With Katawara often devouring humans, even offering their protection and blessing in return or sacrifices, they seem to hate humanity and humanity lives in fear and hatred of them.
Tama is a Katawara that loves humans and has vowed to protect them from evil, even if it means fighting others of her own kind. Jinka is a human raised by Katawara that hates humans despite mostly being one. The pair of sworn siblings are joined by Shinsurke, a cowardly swordsman who is on a quest to earn true strength.
However, the group gets on the wrong side of an organization of priests working for the Shogunate that are experimenting with a process to create super-powered humans by fusing them with Katawara. Now it is both a fight for their survival and to save the numerous humans and Katawara being used in vicious experiments.
Similarities Between Loser Ranger and Sengoku Youko
- The protagonists of each series are, technically, the villains
- The “good guy” heroes of the world are not quite what they seem
- The main characters recruit other allies motivated by a variety of different factors to fight the same people
- Both series offer excellent, creative action sequences and surprising sinister moments
Differences Between Loser Ranger and Sengoku Youko
- Sengoku Youko is a “Feudal Japan with demons” set series rather than a Super Sentai twist like Loser Ranger.
- Sengoku Youko feels much more like a standard shounen action anime, at least at first. It shows its grittier storytelling later on.
- While every Dragon Keeper is some kind of messed up, not every “good guy” they are fighting in Sengoku Youko is evil. Many are just doing what they are told or just looking for strong opponents.
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
One day, Yuuhi Amamiya finds himself ceaselessly followed by a talking lizard. This lizard claims to be Sir Noi Crezant who has chosen Yuuhi to be the Lizard Beast Knight, one of several guardians of a princess who is destined to beat a mage that threatens to destroy the world.
After being attacked by a representative of the mage and saved by his neighbor, Asahina Samidare, he discovers that she is the princess in question and is suddenly able to see a giant hammer in the sky threatening Earth.
While swearing loyalty to her, he discovers that while Samidare wants to defeat the mage, that is only because she wants to destroy the world herself afterwards.
Similarities Between Loser Ranger and Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
- The protagonists of each series are, technically, the villains, but they are also fighting villains
- While the protagonists have initially evil-seeming motives, that becomes more ambiguous as things go on.
- Both series offer creative new premises that twist older tropes
Differences Between Loser Ranger and Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
- Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer has the main characters fighting to save the world so they can destroy it instead.
- Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer has darker motivations, but still feels very much like a shounen anime in its action. It lacks the grit and often the maturity of Loser Ranger.
For Fans of Infiltrating The Enemy
Talentless Nana
Earth has been assaulted by monsters that have come to be known as the “enemy of humanity.” To combat this, secluded schools were formed to train children with extraordinary powers to fight back.
However, that is an elaborate lie.
The truth is that these super powered children are the threat to humanity and one powerless girl has been sent to their school to kill them off.
Similarities Between Loser Ranger and Talentless Nana
- A main character infiltrates their enemy to take them down
- You follow their various plots and manipulation as they fight and gain allies
- As things unfold, secrets are revealed
- Both series twist the tropes of established genres in a dark new way
Differences Between Loser Ranger and Talentless Nana
- Talentless Nana is twisting superheroes with superpowers while Loser Ranger is twisting Super Sentai.
- While both series have their darkness, Talentless Nana is far bloodier and filled with more frequent deaths.
Kill la Kill
Ryuuko Matoi is on the hunt for her father’s killer, and her only lead is the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade.
On her quest, she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a school that is ruled over by the super powerful Satsuki Kiryuuin and her Elite Four. Believing Satsuki knows who killed her father, Ryuuko challenges one of the elite, but gets beaten due to their special uniforms.
After receiving a special uniform of her own, Ryuuko sets plans into motion to dominate the school and find out what happened to her father.
Similarities Between Loser Ranger and Kill la Kill
- The main characters infiltrates an organization and takes down any leader in their way
- The main characters slowly discovers the real truth about the events that motivated them.
- Allies are gained inside the institution that fight for their own reasons
- Both offer exciting, yet gritty action and creative powers
Differences Between Loser Ranger and Kill la Kill
- Kill la Kill is frenetic in its action, and wildly fast-paced even outside the fights.
- As Kill la Kill works with a power system based on how naked the character gets – you see more skin, but not really in too ecchi of a way.
- Kill la Kill is about infiltrating a school to investigate who murdered the main character’s father, so it lacks the obvious Super Sentai element, but definitely still has some Super Sentai references in there.
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