In a recent interview with Febri, director Keiichi Sato revealed some insight into the creative process behind the film. Go! Go! The ranger lost! anime adaptation.
During the interview, Keiichi revealed that he was inspired by American satirical superhero series'The Boys' when adapted Go! Go! Loser Ranger! manga into anime because he wanted to capture the dark and complex world of anti-heroes.
He highlighted the popularity of the anti-hero theme across both the domestic and international media landscape, quote The Boys set an outstanding example. He noted that Go! Go! Loser Ranger! with the premise of a villainous protagonist challenging a hero of justice with hidden darkness, consistent with the themes explored in The Boys.
This, combined with the manga's unexpected plot twist, convinced Sato to convey the series' style to the anime.
“There are many anti-hero works both domestically and internationally, starting with the foreign drama'The Boys'. Among them,'Sentai Daishikkaku', where the main character from the villain side confronts a justice hero with a dark side, has some similarities with'The Boys' and gives me a similar image like foreign dramas in the way the story goes in unexpected directions.. So I decided that if I were to do an anime adaptation of 'Sentai Daishikaku', I wanted the overall tone to be similar like a foreign drama.”
Go! Go! Loser Ranger! The anime begins airing on April 7, 2024.
The film was produced by Yostar Pictures and directed by Keiichi Sato, with scriptwriting by Keiichiro Ochi and character designs by Kahoko Koseki, with Kenji Hayama serving as animation supervisor.
The opening theme song is “Jikai Yokoku” performed by Tatsuya Kitani, while the ending theme song is “Seikai wa Iranai” performed by Nanawo Akari.
Go ahead! Go! Loser Ranger! is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Negi Haruba. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine since February 2021, with the chapters collected into 13 tankobon volumes as of February 2024.
Source: February