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Superheroes, Japanese style. The word can be translated as "Task Force" or "Squadron." Usually come in teams, with color-keyed uniforms and a range of personalities/roles that usually follows some variation on the [[Five-Man Band]]. Known for their [[Super Sentai Stance|synchronized posing]].
 
Not strictly limited to anime -- thereanime—there have been innumerable live action [['''Sentai]]''' series in Japan, most notably ''[[Super Sentai]]'', the series which was re-edited into ''[[Power Rangers]]'' in the United States, and 2003's ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]''.
 
A very western form of Sentai is to feature five teenagers recieving powers, with a transformation, i.e. it doesn't have to involve color-coding, or full body suits.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is a hybrid [[Sentai]]/[[Magical Girl]] show that started the [[Magical Girl Warrior]] trope, which is basically a hybrid of these tropes.
* Even ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' has done it with Kukai. ''Ore wa...GUARDIAN FIVE!'' That is definitely his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
** Don't forget the Tamago Senshi!
* ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' has [[Sentai]] elements as well -- notewell—note the individually colored hardsuits and the almost stereotyped set of personalities found among the Knight Sabers.
* ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]'' (known in America as ''Battle of the Planets'' or ''G-Force'') is a classic [[Sentai]] anime -- ifanime—if not the [[Trope Namer]], it's certainly the [[Trope Codifier]].
* ''[[Moldiver]]'' both parodies and pays tribute to classic [[Sentai]] elements (not to mention [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]]s, too).
* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' is a classic anime mixing [[Sentai]] with mythological fantasy.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]:'' In an obvious parody of ''[[Super Sentai]]''/''[[Power Rangers]]'', the five girls from Negi's class with the lowest grades dub themselves the "[[Baka]] Rangers," complete with appropriate "hero names," like "Baka Pink" and "Baka Red."
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' does a few parodies of the [[Sentai]] genre. Episode 24 introduces Space Detective Kogoro, an explicit parody of Kenji Ooba in his role as the title character of the [[Toku]] series ''Space Sheriff Gavan''.
* Spoofed in ''[[Mai-HiME]]'', where Midori (the one who [[Jumped At the Call]], thinking she's [[Sailor Moon]]) proposes teaming up into the "HiME Rangers" to fight the [[Monster of the Week|monsters of the week]] more effectively. The two HiMEs who dismiss the idea as ridiculous ( {{spoiler|Natsuki and Nao}}) are tied up and dragged to the meeting place anyway.
* ''[[Lime-iro Senkitan]]'', with its five girl Lime unit, in five colours.
* ''[[Cos Prayers]]'', an intentional parody of the genre with added [[Fan Service]].
* ''[[Ronin Warriors]]'' had [[Sentai]] on the sides of both the good guys and the bad guys.
* ''[[School Rumble]]'' briefly featured the all-female team ''[[Show Within a Show|Hatenkou Robo Dojibiron]]'' in one episode, whose five pilots (and mecha) were very much a homage to ''Super Sentai''. For bonus points, the Dojibiron team's names were [[The Danza|nearly the same as the five principle voice actresses]], the only difference being the color-coded [[Theme Naming]]. For the record, Imadori is a huge fan of them.
* ''[[Show Within a Show|Chouken Sentai Blade Braver]]'' in ''[[Bamboo Blade]]''. Tama, the main girl in the show, considers herself an "ally of justice" like the Blade Bravers themselves, and in fact uses the motivation of fighting for right to join the kendo club. Later on, the show reveals that ''Braver'' is just one of many in the 31-year long "''Battle Hero''" series, making it an obvious [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] of ''[[Super Sentai]]''.
* The [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Ginyu Force]] of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' are a parody of this trope: there are five of them (instead of the [[Four Is Death|four]] which are traditional in villainous groups), and they constantly strike poses and throw group attacks. In fact, when recruiting new members for the team, Captain Ginyu is mostly concerned with their posing ability.
** Later on Gohan and even later, Videl become a two-man sentai team as the great saiyamen and saiyawoman. One of the videogame adapations blames the sentei behavior on Gohan being traumatized by the Ginyu force.
* ''[[Magical Pokaan]]'' has a singular, Sentai-based episode that becomes increasingly silly. Since the show only has [[Four-Temperament Ensemble|four leading girls]], the fifth spot is filled by no one -- theone—the green suit is an empty shell. On top of that, the team's [[Combining Mecha]] never forms correctly, with mishaps ranging from a missing component to five copies of the same component attempting to fuse together. The end of the episode is a stream of random gags that would take too long to explain here.
** There actually is a fifth ranger. She just happens to be invisible.
* The ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'' manga is somewhere between a [[Deconstruction]] and [[The Parody|Parody]] of this genre. The Municipal Team Daitenzin is [[Sentai]] group made up by the local government to fight the evil organization ACROSS, but it's staffed by a collection of disinterested or stupid employess who do more damage than they fix.
** The anime, meanwhile, throws out the serious elements and goes into full-blown parody with Municipal Team Daitenzin.
* ''[[School Days]]''' OVA ''Magical Heart Kokoro-chan'' has elements of this and [[Magical Girl]] in it. In this particular instance, the team of powered heroines is working for low pay, using a ''vacuum cleaner'' as a weapon and has particularly kinky outfits for their battling.
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** It's the audio drama on the "Addition" soundtrack (4th one, with four of them on the cover). There are plenty of translations floating about, including one with graphics.
* ''[[Tentai Senshi Sunred]]'', a parody of these types of shows.
* Parodied and deconstructed in ''[[Franken Fran]]'': Takeshi, a sprinter with a bone disorder, goes to Fran and receives surgery to rebuild his body. Unfortunately, several other sprinters received the same surgery -- whensurgery—when they ''all'' break the world record, he's discredited and disgraced. The others beat the crap out of him, so he gets more surgery and becomes a sentai hero named Sentinel. Then he becomes a [[Knight Templar]], beating people up for littering, until finally {{spoiler|his victim's family members gun him down. He receives one more surgery, leaving him monstrous... and in his new form he is attacked and killed by ''more'' sentai. The end of the chapter shows the city in a riot of [[Let's You and Him Fight]] battles, while Fran is complaining that everyone wants superpowers but nobody wants to ''pay'' for them.}}
* Most shows about [[Combining Mecha]] use the sentai style to some extent -- inextent—in fact there's even a [[Combining Mecha]] anime called ''[[Chojin Sentai Balatack]]'', which includes the [[Five-Man Band]] with color-coded outfits. About the only thing these sorts of shows don't use is the [[Super Sentai Stance]], since typically the heroes rarely fight outside their vehicles or robots, but even so, the combined robot will usually do plenty of posing upon combining.
* ''[[Bleach]]'' episodes 212 and 213 parody this like there's no tomorrow.
* One of the earliest strips in ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'' has the five lead girls becoming the "Color Rangers". Keeping with the art theme, they're yellow, magenta, cyan and monochrome. Except for Tomokane, who's red, because every good Sentai team needs a red leader.
* Another [[Show Within a Show]] example is the Star Rangers in ''[[Muteki Kanban Musume]]''. Akihiko is a huge fan of them, to the point that when anyone so much as mentions the show, he starts to think he ''is'' Red Star. He seems equally convinced that the rest of the main cast are the other Star Rangers.
* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], who already shared superficial similarities to Sentai, were turned into this outright for the Japanese OVA ''Mutant Turtles: Legend of the Super Mutants''--complete—complete with the gigantic super-form "Turtle Saint".
* ''[[Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders]]'' was a parody of this.
* In the ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' manga, Kakeru seems determined to turn the student council into a proper "School Defense Force" and starts assigning colors. He claims Black for himself (because he thinks it would make him seem [[The Lancer|cool and mysterious]]) and, after teasing Yuki about how his [[Bishonen|pretty face]] should make him Pink, gives him Red for being student council president. [[Kawaiiko|Kimi]] insists on being Pink and sticks [[Sugar and Ice Girl|Machi]] with Yellow (like Beat above, Kimi claims it's because Machi likes curry so much). [[The Comically Serious|Naohito]] just plain refuses to play along. And [[Large Ham|Ayame]] is named the Commander immediately after Kakeru meets him, much to his delight.
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== Western Animation ==
* American animators have made their own version with a twist: ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]!'' features a [[Sentai]]-ish team of, well, robot monkeys, complete with different colors and personalities.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' also makes reference to sentai with the team colors (Beast Boy: Green, Robin: Red, etc) which are displayed at the end of its upbeat [[Title Sequence]], then of course there's all the team poses.
* Parodied in ''[[Megas XLR]]'' with the [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|S]][[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman|-For]][[Voltron|ce]], then again with the "Ultra Chicks", who blend [[Super Sentai]] with [[Sailor Moon]].
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has hints of this with their [[Five-Man Band|Five Bot Band]] main robot cast. They're not much for team poses, but they have many other team-dynamics down pat.
* Parodied in ''[[League of Super Evil]]'' with the Force Fighters V. <ref> The V is not Roman Numberal 5, [[Shaped Like Itself|it's the letter V]]</ref>
* ''[[Road Rovers]]'' was an attempt to cash in on the sentai craze.
 
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