Super Sentai/Headscratchers
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For Juken Sentai Gekiranger, see here
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- How come two of the Super Sentai series that greatly emphasize the Green Aesop, Kousoku Sentai Turboranger and Engine Sentai Go-onger, are both car-themed series? Isn't that kind of counterproductive? (Go-onger less so, since they're half-vehicle half-animal...)
- Maybe the writing team and the toy/model developing team don't talk to each other enough?
- Go-Onger specificaly stated that the enjins run on energy only,thus they don't produce pollution.
- As for Turboranger, it's stated that their mentor, Dr.Dazai was working on engine technology that produced zero pollutants. The car-motif of the team was based off his love of cars.
- What is wrong with the world in Zyuranger? The Rangers saved COUNTLESS LIVES from the wrath of Bandora and the freaking Devil! But when they return to Heaven the only ones who care to thank them for all they did were the kids?
- Sometime before the final -- one of Dora monsters and few Golems fake the Zyu Rangers. This MIGHT be the reason.
- Ok, DekaBaseRobo. It starts with tank form with the dog's head in front. The dog's head splits in half to become the chest for DekaBaseRobo. Therefore, when DekaBaseRobo stands up, it's facing away from the monster.
- It may be a giant robot, even by giant robot standards, but is it really that hard to just turn around after it stands up?
- How come Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and Tensou Sentai Goseiger don't have omake segments at the end of their episodes? Did they decide to stop doing them after Engine Sentai Go-onger?
- Go-Onger was more comedy-based than either Shinken or Gosei, therefore, the omakes would have made sense then.
- Two things have been bothering me: Why do the bad guys never tried to attack the Super Sentai while they are transforming and why do the bad guys always attack the same area every time, like come on, if you want to create much havoc as you can, do it where the good guys will either can't reach or will take a long time to get to, you know?
- For the first question, whenever someone tries that they almost invariably fail.
- Except with DekaGold.
- To elaborate: this is the story of a Dekaranger named Marie Gold. She was some kind of special officer with a badass suit that seemed to be equal to Deka Red. She transformed to stop the villains in the movie but her henshin was stopped before we ever got a decent look at her.
- For the first question, whenever someone tries that they almost invariably fail.
- Why is it that the page name for Go Go Five titled Rescue Sentai Go Go Five instead of Kyuukyuu Sentai Go Go Five, with the japanese word at the begining instead of an english translation? Y'know, like every other Super Sentai page?
- That's because that's the name used on the merchandise. See the archived discussion of Rescue Sentai Go Go Five for more details.
- So we're just going with the merchandise instead of, you know, the actual show?
- That's because that's the name used on the merchandise. See the archived discussion of Rescue Sentai Go Go Five for more details.
- I wonder why in current Sentai, there seems to be less to none main Villains who are human looking. all we see now are just... Kaijin-esque main villains like Burajira, Oiles Gil, Doukoku, etc. The last one we had was Long (human form, not dragon form) from Juken Sentai Gekiranger.
- One factor would be budget; it's cheaper to have a guy in a suit and a voice actor as opposed to a full fledged actor.
- Gekiranger wasn't the last one. Go-onger had Kegaleshia, and Shinkenger had Juzo. Gokaiger has Basco. It is true that Goseiger lacks a human face villain though.
- One factor would be budget; it's cheaper to have a guy in a suit and a voice actor as opposed to a full fledged actor.
- Were the villain groups in Boukenger meant to be an intentional shout out to Power Rangers? The designs of the major members of three of the four groups were based on mecha of the three Sentai seasons that were used to make Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Also, since the only major villain who wasn't designed as such was Gajya/Gajah/Gaja, who wouldn't be used in the corresponding Power Rangers season anyway because you could see his face, is it possible they did this so that the designs of the villains would hold significance to Power Rangers fans as well as Sentai fans?
- While it would be nice, I doubt that the Boukenger staff ever thought about making nods like that; Power Rangers just isn't that big a deal in Japan. Episode 5 of Gokaiger had blink-and-miss nods to RPM because the guy who directed that episode worked on Power Rangers, but otherwise Gokaiger has been focused entirely on the Sentai side of things. Similarly, unless someone on Boukenger had done work in Power Rangers, I don't see any significance to the main villains being patterned after mechs that were from sentais adapted into Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
- But Zyuranger, Dairanger, and Kakuranger as a set don't hold much significance in Sentai. They weren't some of the first sentai seasons, they weren't the halfway mark (that would be Jetman), they weren't the first of the Hesei period, and the only real milestone found within them is the first sixth ranger in Zyuranger. Why would they use those three seasons as main villains instead of, say, JAKQ's, Battle Fever J's, and Denjiman's mechs? However, they do hold significance in Power Rangers, as they were the three seasons adapted for the very first rangers.
- Or maybe the head writer or director or executive producer of Boukenger happened to be a big fan of Zyu, Dai, and Kakuranger, so he decided to have the main villains be an homage to those seasons. There are any number of possible reasons why those seasons were picked, with the most likely one being that it's one big coincidence of no significance or meaning whatsoever. Besides, if this was supposed to be a reference to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, why didn't the Boukenger encyclopedia segments at the end of the show ever mention Power Rangers when they got to Zyuranger?
- Referencing Power Rangers in villain design doesn't mean that they have to reference it in the encyclopedia. And I'd say that your suggestion that the executive producer was a fan of them is much more likely than three completely random consecutive seasons being used for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
- Or maybe the head writer or director or executive producer of Boukenger happened to be a big fan of Zyu, Dai, and Kakuranger, so he decided to have the main villains be an homage to those seasons. There are any number of possible reasons why those seasons were picked, with the most likely one being that it's one big coincidence of no significance or meaning whatsoever. Besides, if this was supposed to be a reference to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, why didn't the Boukenger encyclopedia segments at the end of the show ever mention Power Rangers when they got to Zyuranger?
- But Zyuranger, Dairanger, and Kakuranger as a set don't hold much significance in Sentai. They weren't some of the first sentai seasons, they weren't the halfway mark (that would be Jetman), they weren't the first of the Hesei period, and the only real milestone found within them is the first sixth ranger in Zyuranger. Why would they use those three seasons as main villains instead of, say, JAKQ's, Battle Fever J's, and Denjiman's mechs? However, they do hold significance in Power Rangers, as they were the three seasons adapted for the very first rangers.
- While it would be nice, I doubt that the Boukenger staff ever thought about making nods like that; Power Rangers just isn't that big a deal in Japan. Episode 5 of Gokaiger had blink-and-miss nods to RPM because the guy who directed that episode worked on Power Rangers, but otherwise Gokaiger has been focused entirely on the Sentai side of things. Similarly, unless someone on Boukenger had done work in Power Rangers, I don't see any significance to the main villains being patterned after mechs that were from sentais adapted into Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.