Sternbild City is home to people called "Next," who use their special abilities to protect the people as superheroes. These heroes solve cases and save lives so they can wear sponsor logos or acquire "hero points." Their activities are documented on the popular program "Hero TV," which picks the "King of Heroes" in a yearly ranking. The veteran hero Wild Tiger has always preferred to work alone, but now he's been assigned the rookie Barnaby Brooks Jr., who has a different perspective on being a superhero.
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I think its biggest problem is that it's kind of predictable.
It’s the distant future for us… Okay, it’s just an alternate version of the mid seventies, but who’s counting… and a bizarre mutation has started to occur among our population. Human beings with superhuman powers are popping up everywhere, and we’ve taken to calling them Nexts… Presumably because ‘m…
If you like American superheroes or sentai, don't bother. An unfortunate and baffling hybrid.
As much as this is clearly drawing from American superhero tradition, this show also has an unfortunate sentai bend when it comes to the frankly nonsensical hero suit designs. Scratch that, almost all the suits---hero and villain---make no sense _as super suits_. (The rest of the character designs a…