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9 unusual facts about Super Sentai


Asami Jō

Tokusatsu fans also know her as the villain Shibolena in the Super Sentai series Denji Sentai Megaranger.

Gekisō Sentai Carranger: Zenkai! Racer Senshi

Toei was so impressed by Bandai of America's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for the Super Nintendo, a title initially released only in America, that Toei decided to make a game of that same style based on a Super Sentai series rather than an American Power Rangers adaptation.

Jonathan Tzachor

Furthermore, under Tzachor, much of Power Rangers would draw more material from their Super Sentai counterpart this is also supported by every season's plot being similar to its sentai counterpart and very little of the plot is changed.

Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final

Following the tradition of all Heisei Kamen Rider movies, it is a double bill with the movie for 2002's Super Sentai series Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger: Shushuuto the Movie, both of which premiered on August 17, 2002.

Love Love?

Naoto Ohizumi is the screenwriter for the all-female Super Sentai TV show, The Super Transforming Cosmopolitan Prayers ("Cosprayers"), although this is only known by the show's producer.

Masashi Mikami

One of his most notable roles was Souta Mogami/BoukenBlue in the Super Sentai series GoGo Sentai Boukenger.

Sengoku Basara 2

New enemies to deal with, including Oni soldiers, ice and fire ninjas, dragon tanks, and five elemental mercenaries parodying the Super Sentai series known as the "Gohon Yari" ("The Five Spears").

Super Ranger Kids

Originally released in 1997, the film is a pastiche of the American television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the first Power Rangers series, and, by extension, the Japanese Super Sentai series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, which formed the basis for Mighty Morphin.

WiLL

The car was used as the police vehicle "Machine Bull" in the 2004 Super Sentai series Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger.


Ami Kawai

Kawai is best known for her role as Lamie in the 1992 Super Sentai series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.

Dub localization

The only exception of this is the tokusatsu series Power Rangers, because in an adaptation of the fighting scenes of the Japanese series of the same genre; Super Sentai, but with different history and exclusive characters of the American version, such as Zordon and Lord Zedd of the first series, converting to a different franchise series and therefore is not considered a dub localization.

Koichi Sakamoto

A fan of Jackie Chan and Super Sentai, Sakamoto worked to become a stunt performer for Blue Mask on Hikari Sentai Maskman at live stunt shows, performing at Kōrakuen Stadium and Tokyo Dome.

Mazinger Z

This is often interpreted as the root of later series like GoLion, called Voltron, Defender of the Universe in the United States, the Transformers, and the giant robots in the Super Sentai Series (the basis for Power Rangers).

Villain of the week

Some series alternate between using such antagonists and furthering the series' ongoing plotlines (as in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fringe and The X-Files, where fandom is often divided over preference for one type of episode versus the other), while others use these one-time foes as pawns of the recurring adversaries (as in Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and their American equivalent, Power Rangers).


see also

Denshi

Denshi Sentai Denziman (Electronic Squadron Denziman), Toei's fourth entry to its Super Sentai series, broadcast 1980–1981

Element Hunters

She takes the lead role in a TV show called "Element Five", a Super Sentai series.

Galaxy Ranger

Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger a 1992 Japanese tokusatsu television series and the sixteenth installment in the long-running Super Sentai franchise of superhero programs.

Metal Hero Series

The October 2012 film Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie saw Retsu Ichijouji (Kenji Ohba) pass the torch to a new generation of Space Sheriffs led by Geki Jumonji (Yuma Ishigaki), who makes a few cameos in that year's Super Sentai series installment Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.

Power Rangers Collectible Card Game

Toei's Super Sentai Series television franchise is the primary source of Japanese footage for Power Rangers.

Shōei

The role he is best known for, however, is Gouki/GingaBlue in Seijuu Sentai Gingaman, and reprises the role on two Super Sentai Series V-Cinema Films: Gogo V Vs Gingaman and Gaoranger Vs Super Sentai.

Super Sentai World

The film involves the team-up of five different Super Sentai teams (Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, Gosei Sentai Dairanger, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, Chōjin Sentai Jetman, and Chikyū Sentai Fiveman), who must defend the planet Earth from the evil demon Emperor Daidas.

The short was a precursor to the 1996 video release Chōriki Sentai Ohranger vs. Kakuranger, the Kakuranger team-up with Chōriki Sentai Ohranger, which started the Super Sentai V-Cinema Series.