#boonboomger i think mira is a lesbian so.

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

incredible that it's abaranger that has one of the best, if not THE best, straight love stories to be found in sentai

[kabutoraiger]

legit pondered this for like an hour last night before going to sleep. skipping over showa since most of my picks there would be purely "this character would be hot as a woman",

zyuranger - goushi. nobody in zyu has much going on character wise but goushi's few traits of being the semi imposing awkward stern one would be more interesting in a woman.

dairanger - shoji. delinquent-esque girl with a heart of gold....

kakuranger - sasuke. we need more 26 yr old slacker women with no fashion sense in sentai. and a female sasuke's interactions with tsuruhime would be a lot more tolerable imo

gingaman - ryoma. adds an extra layer to the character taking the place of her older brother and feeling inadequate in the role, if we imagine the ginga village as a slightly misogynist society where women warriors happen but aren't as common or lauded & her overcoming that preconception.

gogov - didn't watch much of this one but maybe i would've gotten further if matoi was an aggressive annoying woman instead (i have blatant double standards & would've forgiven her more easily)

timeranger - domon. the mistaken identity part of the honami romance plotline instantly becomes 10x more compelling. and i really want to see the kind of woman cast as a pro MMA fighter.

gaoranger - haven't really seen this one but i pick silver nonetheless. let women be sexy mysterious cursed wolfgirls. my final message

hurricanger - isshu. would fall into the trap of having a female character who's a "constantly deferring to onii-sama" type, which no one likes, but still, let's face it: isshu doesn't have much going for him. being a girl would improve things somewhat.

abaranger - yukito. in a similar vein to matoi, as a woman i imagine i would find her qualities endearing instead of slightly tiresome. and the relationship with emiri would be much improved.

gekiranger - another one i haven't seen but i'm picking purple. (see gaoranger above)

go-busters - hiromu. i think his rude bluntness would make a very charming young lady. and enter becoming a dark replica of her would take on an added interesting gender dimension.

kyoryuger - ian. see matoi and yukito above. not entirely proud to admit it but i would go crazy for ian with the single simple change of her being a suave kinda futch lesbian. (kyoryu counts as a 1 woman sentai to me as yayoi transforms so infrequently)

ryusoulger - koh. no big reason. i just think she'd be cute.

zenkaiger - zox. tsundere morally questionable flashy pirate big sis....

donbrothers - taro. imagine the power that that would have. the clearance that would have.

king-ohger - jeramie, i guess? women deserve to be sopping wet and pathetic and have sexy monster arms.

boonboomger - too soon to say for sure but i'm going orange. a flirty experienced onee-san type... who sighs exasperatedly but fondly over mira being so genki and excitable as she pats her on the head and strokes her hair and she. um. 😳 ok im getting off track here

As another year of "this sentai looks really fun, alas that there's only one girl in it" rolls around, open question:

If you got to pick a guy to have been gender-flipped at the casting stage in any given one-girl sentai, who would be your ideal choice in each case?

Interpret any way you like-- "it's otherwise exactly the same character"/"it's realistically how that show's writer would've written her", whatever

(inoculating this post with a preemptive "yes king-ohger has one girl but no you can't pick Rita leave their non-biney alone")