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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
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
* 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
* ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]'' (known in America as ''Battle of the Planets'' or ''G-Force'') is a classic
* ''[[Moldiver]]'' both parodies and pays tribute to classic
* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' is a classic anime mixing
* ''[[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
* 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
* ''[[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
** 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
** 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
* Most shows about [[Combining Mecha]] use the sentai style to some
* ''[[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''
* ''[[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
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Road Rovers]]'' was an attempt to cash in on the sentai craze.
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