[Sevenlima]

They should come up with a better way to celebrate a Sentai season anniversary rather than just releasing DVDs and Blu-Rays.

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

An incredible idea suddenly occurred to me. What if Toei had sent Toshiki Inoue to help with PR in the 90s and Saban allowed him to work on the script? I imagine it would have been an American high school soap opera, like Beverly Hills, 90210, with the obligatory tokusatsu attributes.

Since you brought it up, would Degrassi be more akin to Inoue's style? I'd say the MMPR we got was more Saved By the Bell-ish.

[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Since you brought it up, would Degrassi be more akin to Inoue's style?

Maybe. I haven't watched Degrassi.

[EpsilonX]

Question:

I grew up on Power rangers but aside from that movie reboot, I haven't watched it since I was a kid. So when I watched Zyuranger as my intro to Sentai, I absolutely loved having Power rangers nostalgia + discovery of something new and exciting. Now, I'm 10 years in and have seen muliple seasons. However, even though I had hopes to, I never got around to watching Dairanger or Kakuranger. But lately I've been having a craving to go back and revisit mmpr.

So I'm wondering - should I revisit mmpr first? Or should I hold off and finally get around to watching Dairanger and Kakuranger first? What do you all recommend?

[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

But lately I've been having a craving to go back and revisit mmpr.

Well, if you have the desire, why resist it? MMPR has its advantages, otherwise the show wouldn't have spawned such a long-running franchise.
Although, for me personally, rewatching it was disappointing because I realized how stupid the writers consider their audience. I understand some Japanese yōkai can't be adapted directly, but Greek mythology is something we learn at the end of elementary school. And what about fairy tales? Most of the target demographic is certainly at least briefly familiar with them. So I think if the Minotaur weren't such a popular monster, they'd have named him Cow-Boy and voiced him with a Texan accent.
So for me personally, the peak of PR is from In Space to Wild Force.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

Question:

I grew up on Power rangers but aside from that movie reboot, I haven't watched it since I was a kid. So when I watched Zyuranger as my intro to Sentai, I absolutely loved having Power rangers nostalgia + discovery of something new and exciting. Now, I'm 10 years in and have seen muliple seasons. However, even though I had hopes to, I never got around to watching Dairanger or Kakuranger. But lately I've been having a craving to go back and revisit mmpr.

So I'm wondering - should I revisit mmpr first? Or should I hold off and finally get around to watching Dairanger and Kakuranger first? What do you all recommend?

I’d watch MMPR first, that way you can get a ton of “Oh, that’s what that was!” moments when you watch the Sentais. Especially for Kakuranger because MMPR changed so much of it.

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

"Oh, that's what that was!" moments

This.

[EpsilonX]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Well, if you have the desire, why resist it? MMPR has its advantages, otherwise the show wouldn't have spawned such a long-running franchise.
Although, for me personally, rewatching it was disappointing because I realized how stupid the writers consider their audience. I understand some Japanese yōkai can't be adapted directly, but Greek mythology is something we learn at the end of elementary school. And what about fairy tales? Most of the target demographic is certainly at least briefly familiar with them. So I think if the Minotaur weren't such a popular monster, they'd have named him Cow-Boy and voiced him with a Texan accent.
So for me personally, the peak of PR is from In Space to Wild Force.

I had always intended to watch Dairanger and Kakuranger first, and now I'm starting to go in the other direction. But instead of being impulsive, I'm trying to be intentional to make sure I get the best experience. So basically, I'm asking: will watching mmpr first make Dairanger worse in any way? Or should I stick with my original plan to watch that first?

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I?d watch MMPR first, that way you can get a ton of ?Oh, that?s what that was!? moments when you watch the Sentais. Especially for Kakuranger because MMPR changed so much of it.

I suppose that's better than saying "ugh, they ruined it" if I watch mmpr second

[Mesnick]

Adding fuel to the fire of endless debate isn't the best idea, but I've come up with an idea on the topic of PR vs. SS that I'd like to share. I'll start from afar, but I'll eventually return to the topic to express my idea more clearly.
If you ask most people in the world, "Wooden boy who came to life," they'll answer, "Pinocchio."
But people from the post-Soviet space, like me, will start chanting:
"Bu-ra-ti-no!"
And it's not because they didn't know about Pinocchio or banned him. I remember a tattered book in the school library and a beautifully illustrated one at my cousin's. The Disney cartoon was also shown on TV.
It's just that Alexei Tolstoy's 1936 fan fiction about friendship, adventure, and revolution in a puppet theater was much more popular with Soviet children than the moralizing original Collodi with its biblical references. Just as the Disney cartoon lost out to 1959's "The Golden Key." And then came the 1975 live-action film with its iconic songs, which cemented the victory.

Why am I telling you all this? To convey one idea: back in the USSR, Buratino win fairly. And I'm sure that if MMPR and Zyuranger had been shown simultaneously on American television in 1993, most viewers would have liked the American adaptation more. At least, that's certainly true for the target audience. But that wasn't possible. And it's precisely this sense of injustice, conscious or not, that sometimes drives Super Sentai fans to excessive and unjustified anger toward PR. Or maybe it's one of the reasons.
Also, an interesting fact for general literacy: unlike Geppetto in the original, who is Pinocchio's only parent, Buratino's situation is different. He was made by the carpenter Giuseppe for his friend, the organ grinder Carlo (the two old men in the video). So, Buratino has two fathers. And this happened in the 1936 fairy tale! So Alexey Tolstoy was a very progressive writer. So much so that in the latest adaptation, from 2025, Giuseppe was removed, making Carlo a single parent.