'The Boys' Meets Power Rangers in Hulu's 2-Part Dark Action Series

Published Oct 18, 2026, 7:57 AM EDT

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If you're missing The Boys, it's time to switch gears and head on over to Hulu to watch Go! Go! Loser Ranger! For Loser Ranger, think of The Boys but swapping the Western comic book superhero satire for Super Sentai and Power Rangers-style thematic material. Much like The Boys, Loser Ranger flips the script on popular storytelling tropes. The show delivers a masterful deconstruction of Super Sentai, sending up a group of heroes wearing multicolored latex costumes who defend the Earth while striking dynamic poses. Based on the manga series created by Negi Haruba, Loser Ranger scratches a similar itch if you're done with The Boys but are craving some action.

'Go! Go! Loser Ranger!' Flips the Script on Genre Tropes

Go! Go! Loser Ranger! takes place 13 years after an alien invasion on Earth. The invaders were defeated by a team of heroes called the Dragon Keepers. After defeating the invading army's Executives, the Dragon Keepers subjugate the aliens' foot soldiers, who are called Dusters. The Dusters are the show's equivalent of the Putty Patrollers from Power Rangers. The poor, put-upon Dusters are now forced to perform a reenactment of the Dragon Keepers' defeat of the invading aliens every week, and the Dragon Keepers horrendously mistreat, abuse, and exploit the Dusters through slave labor. Meanwhile, the Dragon Keepers have been transformed into a lucrative multibillion-dollar business. They are revered by the public, and civilians can enlist to join the organization. However, the Dragon Keepers' harsh treatment breeds discontent and rebellion among the Dusters. One of the Dusters, Fighter D (Yusuke Kobayashi), assumes a human form, seeking to infiltrate the Dragon Keepers and dismantle them from within.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Superhero Team Should You Join? Avengers · X-Men · Teen Titans · The Boys

Every team is a personality test with a uniform. One saves the world and argues about it the whole way home. One has been fighting for the right to exist since the day it formed. One is still working out who it is while the fighting happens. And one has no powers at all, plus no intention of playing fair. Eight questions decide where you actually belong.

🛡️Avengers(Marvel Studios)

🧬X-Men(Marvel)

🐦Teen Titans(DC)

💊The Boys(Prime Video)

FIND YOUR TEAM →

01

What kind of power would you actually want? The power matters less than what you would be willing to do with it.

ASomething enormous and obvious. I would not hide it. BSomething I was born with, whether I wanted it or not. CSomething still growing that I cannot quite control. DNone at all. I would rather nobody sees me coming.

NEXT QUESTION →

02

Why join a team at all? Nobody puts on the suit for the reason they say out loud.

ABecause some threats are too big for anyone alone. BBecause people like me are safer together than apart. CBecause I did not want to do any of this alone. DBecause somebody has to hold these people accountable.

NEXT QUESTION →

03

How do you feel about the people in charge? Every team has a chain of command. Very few of them survive contact.

AI will follow a good leader and argue with a bad one. BThey have never protected people like me. I expect nothing. CI am still learning who to trust, and getting it wrong. DThey are the problem. That is the entire point.

NEXT QUESTION →

04

What is your role inside a group? Every roster needs the same handful of people to function.

AThe big personality. I take up room and I earn it. BThe one who protects whoever arrived most recently. CThe heart. I keep everybody talking to each other. DThe one who says the uncomfortable thing out loud.

NEXT QUESTION →

05

How do you win a fight you should lose? This is the scene the entire film gets built around.

AOverwhelming force, and a very good landing. BWorking together in a way nobody saw coming. CRefusing to give up long after I should have. DPreparation, leverage, and one extremely dirty trick.

NEXT QUESTION →

06

What is this work costing you? Nobody does this for free. The bill just arrives differently for everyone.

AMy private life. Everybody knows my face now. BMy safety. The world is frightened of me. CMy childhood. I grew up faster than I should have. DMy peace. I cannot stop now that I know.

NEXT QUESTION →

07

How should the world see your team? Half of this job is public relations, and everybody knows it.

AAs icons. The team everyone is relieved to see arrive. BAs people. Just people, which is all we ever asked. CAs proof the next generation is going to be fine. DThey should not see us at all until it is done.

NEXT QUESTION →

08

The offer arrives. What makes you say yes? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your team.

AThe scale. If the world is ending, I want to be there. BThe promise that I would not have to hide anymore. CThe people. I would be joining friends, not an employer. DThe chance to take down somebody who deserves it.

REVEAL MY TEAM →

Recruitment Is Complete Your Team Is…

Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it would cost you to stay.

The Avengers

You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.

• The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process.
• You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the real entry requirement here.
• The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement, usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building.
• When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.

The X-Men

You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.

• This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being wanted gone by the same people they keep saving.
• You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable.
• The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else to go and are never once asked to explain themselves.
• You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.

The Teen Titans

You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an inconvenient side effect.

• Every Titan is somebody's sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the villain of the week, is what the team is actually about.
• You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you, which is far less lonely than being the only one.
• The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more honest model of growing up than any other team here manages.
• The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.

The Boys

You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.

• The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage, patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences.
• You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed not to mention.
• This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean.
• You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.

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Loser Ranger is a dark take on the Super Sentai and Tokusatsu genres. In Japan, the Super Sentai Series is a franchise featuring a story about a team of people who turn into superheroes with powers; they all don color-coded costumes with their own weapons and fighting styles and come together to protect the Earth. The franchise belongs to the tokusatsu genre, which involves live-action movies and TV shows that feature practical effects and colorful characters. While U.S. viewers might not be familiar with Super Sentai, the franchise was later adapted for Western viewers and named Power Rangers, which obviously became wildly popular in America.

In Loser Ranger, the series flips the script on those classic heroic tropes, deconstructing popular genre conventions. The villains become the underdog protagonists, and the so-called heroes usually appear as unhinged lunatics. Loser Ranger depicts the invading alien monsters, or Dusters, as aggrieved individuals, treated as second-class citizens who want their freedom from the oppressive Dragon Keepers. Meanwhile, the superheroes, the Dragon Keepers, are incredibly flawed, disturbed individuals. While the Dragon Keepers are presented to the public as idealized individuals, behind the scenes, they are revealed to be woefully arrogant, greedy, vain, and cruel. A group of malcontents forms to expose the truth behind the Dragon Keepers, similar to how The Boys CIA task force monitors superhero activity and takes action against "Supes" created by Vought International's Compound V.

'Go! Go! Loser Ranger!' Features Its Own Homelander

The biggest similarity between Go! Go! Loser Ranger! and The Boys lies in how both shows depict the figureheads of the Dragon Keepers and the superhero team known as The Seven. Both series reveal the typical heroes of their respective genres as incredibly flawed, amoral, aggressively violent, and sometimes murderous sociopaths. In The Boys, Homelander (Antony Starr) is depicted as an analog of heroes such as Marvel's Captain America or DC's Superman. On the surface, Homelander is the perfect superhero and represents positive qualities. But underneath Homelander's perfect, patriotic veneer exists a darkly narcissistic, unsettling individual who could snap at any moment and cause horrendous damage.

The Homelander of Loser Ranger is Sosei Akabane (Yuichi Nakamura), aka Red Keeper of the Dragon Keepers. As the leader of the Dragon Keepers and the Red Battalion, Akabane maintains a facade as the wholesome, brave, noble, valiant, and courageous leader of his team. However, beneath that pristine facade, Akabane is a violent sadist. In the fourth episode, Akabane brutally beats and murders one of his subordinates in full view of the other Dragon Keepers during a meal. After committing the act, he continues eating his now blood-soaked food after smashing his subordinate into a wall.

Superhero stories usually showcase heroes with sterling qualities and represent the best humanity has to offer. They save people and fight villains because it's the right thing to do. While superheroes in these stories might possess specific flaws, they usually represent the characters' everyman qualities to demonstrate that they suffer from problems similar to those of the common person. The Boys' Homelander and Loser Ranger's Red Keeper do not have those sterling qualities, and their unchecked power makes them highly volatile and dangerous.

'Go! Go! Loser Ranger!' Showcases the Darker Side of Humanity

Image via Yostar Pictures

Much like The Boys, Loser Ranger is grounded in how both stories highlight the darker sides of human nature. As the saying goes, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The Boys showcases the dangers that result when ordinary people are afforded real superpowers. Superpowers have become a reality through drugs created by science. And what happens when corporations attempt to monetize those individuals? The post-Compound V world of The Boys becomes a system rife with abuse and exploitation that grows steadily out of control. Ever since the monster alien invasion thirteen years earlier in Loser Ranger, the Dragon Keepers' organization has grown into a vast industry. The Dragon Keepers are at the top, and each main member has a personal battalion of subordinates competing for a shot at becoming the next Dragon Keeper. However, only a few of the Dragon Keepers or the Battalion teammates showcase truly altruistic qualities. One of the few exceptions is Hibiki Suzikiri (Daishi Kajita), who seeks to expose the truth behind the Dragon Keepers and find a peaceful coexistence between both humans and monsters after befriending Fighter D.

It's later revealed that Hibiki's parents were deeply religious zealots. They joined a cult that worshiped the invading alien monsters, believing the purpose of the monster Executives was to punish the wicked and reward the righteous, devout individuals, which led to a tragic outcome. The audience witnesses how some of the public reacted to the arrival of the invading alien monsters through Hibiki. Although Hibiki appeared to come from a normal, loving nuclear family, his parents fell prey to the exploitative cult. Now, Hibiki goes on a journey of self-discovery and attempts to think for himself while discovering the meaning of "true justice." Hibiki later forms an unlikely alliance with Fighter D to expose the truth behind the Dragon Keepers' cruelty. With two seasons and 24 episodes to binge, Go! Go! Loser Ranger is the perfect anime companion piece for fans of The Boys, and bonus points if you're a fan of tokusatsu stories like Power Rangers.

Go! Go! Loser Ranger is streaming now on Hulu in the U.S.

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  Yûsuke Kobayashi

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A foot soldier sets out to infiltrate and take down a group of warriors known as the Dragon Keepers. He encounters obstacles and challenges as he attempts to complete his mission against the group.