Love u marzgurl. Keep it up :) :woohoo:

another great video. keep it up

aaactually, he has two.

The Dragon Dagger and Saba the Saber

...yeah, I know. I'll own up to my nerdiness.

Keep your real man :) Embrace the nerdiness

embrass it. i want that dagger so yep

Wow. A lot of work for a lot of monney.

not really a lot of work, half of the work was already done. Most of the action and special effects were already taken care of. Its like having an huge supply of stock footage to cram into your show, heck you can even take footage from unrelated stuff. The only real work is in editing which your going to have to do anyway. unless you just dub everything. This way tho kids were fooled into thinking it was an original creation made for them, when really it was just a hacked up japanese show spliced with cheesy american kids show writing and acting.

I always wanted to be the green ranger(because he always had cool colors!) :D

oh yes, and in spanish(south american), zordon asks for teenagers with "energy"

also, as far as i know, most of the power rangers theme songs are awesome(i think they're getting worst with every new series, though), that should've been on the video =P

Oh, geez, and to think I just bought the MMPR Megazord figure (Available at all your fine retailers for 10.95) out of sheer bloody-minded nostalgia.

This is gonna sound SO nerdy but I still watch the original Japanese sentai. Not because its good, but because the new stuff is just god-awful. SPD was the last good one, seriously.

I personally think it's good.. but you should at least watch R.P.M.. it's better than it's super sentai counterpart..which is a rare case.

it is alot like what DIC did with sailor moon here in the states,

I dunno about you, but you should check out the latest Power Rangers season. I've LONG outgrown Power Rangers, but this season seems kind of interesting.

By interesting, I mean totally hilarious. And by totally hilarious, I DON'T mean they do it unintentionally.

They've started poking fun of classic Power Ranger traditions and even make fun of the fact that they wear spandex and how they're a Americanized Japanese show.

It's pretty fun.

"They've started poking fun of classic Power Ranger
traditions and even make fun of the fact that they wear spandex and how they're
a Americanized Japanese show."

You mean how Power Rangers: RPM actually uses the title of the original sentei series "Engine Sentai Go-Onger" as a mobile travel van called G.O.-O.N.G.E.R.? Which stands for
Ground Outdoor Operational Network General-purpose Explorational Rover.

well the "go-onger" logo was in the orginal show. the van had a name "gojiro" I think.. I didnt watch it much.. it had a good ending :)

True the logo was on the van in the original show. But it just blows my mind that they kept the name of the original Sentai series title in :woohoo: The American Power Rangers. Which is something that has never happened before, nor would it ever have likely to have happen when I was growing up.

That's what I love about R.P.M, They dont REALLY hide the fact they are an adaptation, BUT.... they play off the stock footage so well, that it's earned it's place in my heart.

Here is the real question

KAMEN RIDER

RYUKI VS DRAGON KNIGHT

Ryuki hands down

I admit watching power rangers; up to the Turbo movie. Quite a while ago, somebody told me about the sentai series, though I still have yet to watch any of it.

In hindsight, I loathe PR for knocking my Sonikku off the airwaves and the otaku in me will probably enjoy sentai more.

Good job Marsgurl :3

Kind of ironic me and my friends were talking about power rangers today and most of them didn't know a lot of the show was actually from a japanese show. The only reason i even did is i got bored on Wikipedia on day.

I think its strange you and your friends didnt know it was a japanese show, the dubbing was so obvious for that evil chick. I was never a fan but all my friends and I knew it was some weird japanese show spliced with american footage. Most of my friends and I never got into it or really got it. For me it never made any sense, if I wanted giant robots and monsters I watched Godzilla, for me the acting and jokes were too stupid even for me as a kid.

I still like power rangers I need to finish seeing SPD and jungle fury

The Adult in me probably wouldn't like either. but the kid in me would like Power Rangers.

he was awesome

just as my mom says i am

I love the power rangers even after mighty morphin'. But the only ones I hated were Operation Overdrive and RPM, but that's it. The rest are pretty cool, especially SPD!!

What are you talking about RPM has the most story line in it. It's pretty much the best in the last year next to Jungle Fury and the shit storm Operation Overdrive was. It has good writing and they are making their own story and not a loose carbon copy of the japanese series.

RPM = Save the world from the destruction of a villian who has ALREADY pretty much taken over the world

Go-Onger = Some feeble attempt to make kids recycle.

But that same premise of RPM confused the hell out of me. If the robot has already taken over the world then how come he can't just launch his master plan WHICH IS ALREADY PREPARED and just end it. I do give RPM props though, it was better then everything since Dino Thunder (only because of nostalgia).
Also Disney is now trying to re-air Mighty Morphin' but now with random comic book like freeze frames that just ruins the show.

Awesome. I like to go watch the old episodes every once in a while and laugh at how much I used to like it, but it's a nice shot of nostalgia.

Also, we did get a series with a kid that got lucky, got ranger powers and became an adult when he morphed. I can't remember his name, but I think he was in Turbo.

loved power rangers, once in a while i'll catch some of the new series just to contrast it to the original show. But I rembered one of the later reancarnations was really good just how I rember i'll know which one since the 20 sequel's the original spawned

*insert Hallelujah chorus* more Translation Terrors! Excellent stuff Marzgurl :D (can I nickname you Marzy?)

I love Zyuranger and pretty much all of Super Sentai, Power Rangers while I loved as a kid can go to hell now.

I have actually seen every Power Rangers series except for RPM. It actually was pretty cool that they tried to keep the continuity between the different Ranger entities. They actually gave us a few really cool crossover episodes (like the very cool "Forever Red" episode of Wild Force}.

It might be interesting to see Disney try to do an entirely original Ranger series.

PS. I still wish they would have spun off the Psycho Rangers into their own series.

I've got a headache now.
I wonder this is kinda like a remake of all the old Sentai serieses. The first successful remake ever?

well.. In the 80s, I believe Nickelodian made a rather horrible dubbed version of Dynaman but that's neither here nor there since it isnt a remake.

robotech was a remake of 3 spliced together japanese shows that was sorta successful for its time, and it succeeded in getting americans exposed to japanese animation.

speaking of which is marsgirl gonna talk about that series? Or the even more bizarre dvd release that took the "american show" and threw in nude scenes from the original cartoons. It didn't really make sense because the american version wasn't even a real series, it was spliced together from 3 different cartoons so there can't really be a "directors cut" to something that never existed in the first place.

Man I so remember loving Power Rangers...It was good times. It definitely doesn't hold up in the slightest, but then again, not a whole of stuff from your childhood does I think unless there is something really special or interesting about it lol

Looking at the history of the Power Rangers and how it was cut with older Japanese stuff is pretty wild I think. The Japanese stuff looks alot better I think with less of the stupid highschool crap lol

I still remember the toys I had also. Those were pretty awesome I think with how you could play with them and then build up a big mech guy. Fun.

Power Rangers seemed to have some obvious Japanese influences, but I had no idea that some of the footage was actually taken from some Japanese shows.

This is quite possibly your most informative video yet, in my opinion. Keep up the excellent work.

cause they removed everything japanese from the plot.. unless you count Bandora..who they didnt change (asian) She died recently..and by recently I mean like in 2006

Thank you marzgurl for making this broad clear analysis of the history of power rangers. I tell this sort of information to people all the time, and they become utterly confused how something so dark and serious could become a campy joked upon american phenomenon.

Actually, to be clear on a child turning into an adult power ranger. We did have something close to the white ranger in Dairanger, which was Justing the 12 year old Blue Turbo ranger from Power Rangers: Turbo.

Also, not only did Saban created the vilain Lord Zedd entirely for their show; but the also made an original american made Power Ranger that didn't originate from a super sentai series. This was the Titanium ranger from Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue.

P.S. I hope you are aware that in 2001, Thuy Trang, had a an unexpected death in a car accident. May she rest in Peace.

Yeah that's why Marz said "the 'late' Thuy".

i watched the orginal and being a kid i never seemed to connect the black ranger wearing the black suit and the yellow ranger wearing the yellow. which is odd cause i grew up around racists most of my life.

i fell away from the rangers before the first movie i mean i liked tommy and i loved the dragon zord but i grew up and rita really gave me a migriane toward the end of the shows.

but i did get back into breifly when they introduced the train mega zord during lost galaxy i think it was. man that zord effin owned.

my son was into it for a while now the tapes are all collecting dust through i think it was space rangers had that really hot asian chick with bat wings she was easier on the eyes and didn't screak so damn much.

The mild racism didnt click with me as a kid either.

And the Supertrain Megazord was from Lightspeed Rescue which came right after Lost Galaxy.

my friends and I used to joke that if they ever had a mexican he'd be the brown ranger.

Hey chill Kaito. :P She isnt as in depth as we are in this stuff. For someone who did research I think he did a hell of a better job than some people.

You did your homework and you aced your test with flying multicoloured spandex colours!

I was dreading watching this video..just for the sole fact that not many people know about it's japanese origins!

There is no way they could bring Samurai Sentai Shinkenger into the states.. but I've heard horrible rumors.

Also for anyone interested in watching these shows please check out http://tv-nihon.com They subtitle Kamen Rider and Super Sentai :)

Yeah Super Sentai is pretty cool. I still love old school Power Rangers, but I think that has to do more with Nostalgia than anything else. The writing in the old series was pretty bad but it improved over time. The current season actually has some decent writing, but unfortunately the Japanese footage doesn't mesh well because the Jap version took a more silly approach while America took a serious approach with their footage. In other words, spotting the Jap footage is very easy this year.

Yeah, which is why I am back in Love with Power Rangers this year :)

actually iin the "turbo" series they did have a kid ranger.

When Power Rangers first came out I hated it. We moved to a new city and all the kids there liked it, I didn't understand why at all.

It's funny now, because I got more into Japanese and Asian culture, but at that time I didn't even know this show was ripped from Japan.

Now I live in Taiwan and I see this kind of stuff all over the place. Good job with the video - I really enjoy seeing the changes between culture. I think Saban was smart about changing the show because if my friends had known it was Japanese they probably wouldn't have gotten into it so much.

Oh I remember one of the new Power Ranger shows where they got all the red rangers from all the shows just for one battle..and they re-used the old beetleborg costumes..lol

i remeber that, that episode was okay.
was the episode title forever red?

Yes It was Forever Red. Kinda obnoxious how they reused the costumes from beetle borgs hoping newer generation audiences wouldn't recognize them. But as we all know, everyone who watched power rangers most likely would remember that show and be just as surprised.

"Forever Red"

Yeah the beetleborg bad guy in that episode was named General Vinjix. Which is interesting cause the villain of the current season is called Vinjix, so everyone is wondering if there is suppose to be a connection between the two.