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12-24-2013, 12:32 PM | #21 |
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I've long been aware that Sentai existed, just never bothered to check it out until recently. I was only familiar with MMPR, Beetleborg (which is un-watchable now that I'm not 6), VR troopers and a few tidbits from the other PR series and assumed the changes were similar to dubbing, I was expecting the Japanese scenes between the fights to just be Japanese kids having similar antics to the kids in Angel Grove.
Yeah, you know how that goes, watched Zyuranger, my jaw hit the floor and I instantly fell in love with Sentai. This was maybe a fortnight ago, I feel more then a tad silly but I'm very glad to be absolutely wrong and I'm enjoying Kyoruger far more then any show I have watched in a long while.
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12-24-2013, 12:39 PM | #22 |
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Power Ranger's debut episode on Fox kids.I remember being so excited about it.Been watching since.
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12-24-2013, 01:06 PM | #23 |
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I grew up in the United States and was a fan of tokusatsu stuff for better than a decade when PW first aired in 1993. Even my two sons (who were three and four year old at the time) had watched quite a bit of anime and some sentai shows by then.
They both kind of liked Power Rangers but prefered the original shows despite the language barrier. I absolutely hated PW as a show but I thought it was nice to be able to buy the toys easier and cheaper then ever before. Now that my older boy are grown and have kids of their own, they still watch sentai shows and do so with their children who, I might add, also prefer the Japanese originals to the PW versions. To better illustrate this fact, I have even seen my four year old granddaughter argue with another little kid in a store when he told her that the Green Dragon Ranger was named "Tommy" not "Barry". Point of fact, she was saying "Burai" but he didn't seem to understand her. It was rather amusing until he told her that she was just a girl and too stupid to know anything about Power Rangers. A mistake both the young boy and his parents quickly learned to regret when I spoke up as too what she knew and didn't know.
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12-28-2013, 12:41 PM | #24 |
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As for me, it started in late 2005/2006. Back in the day, I had a friend I know from the RP forums who was a huuuuge fan of Power Rangers (which I at least knew by name, because I was a 90s kid and PR was THE THING in elementary school. Personally, I don't remember watching Mighty Morphin or something, I preferred the Mystic Knights). As he always talked about it, I thought I might as well have a look at it, so I watched some episodes of S.P.D., which was on TV at that time. When Mystic Force started, I became really interested, because I always loved fantasy/magic stuff and I liked it a lot. As with all things I liked, I googled for some cool pictures and stumbled over a page that explained that Power Rangers was only an adaption. I read some stuff about Sentai and then tried some episodes of Magiranger. That's what got me hooked for the first time ^^
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12-28-2013, 12:48 PM | #25 |
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Something about 7 or 8 years ago being referred to a "Back in the day" makes me feel downright ancient. My youngest son is twice the 7 years and my eldest grandchild is half the 8 years...
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12-28-2013, 12:54 PM | #26 |
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I always suspected Power rangers used japanese footage but it wasn't till i saw Goonger that i knew for sure.
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12-28-2013, 12:58 PM | #27 |
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Oh well xD For me, it's been an awful long time and as most of my friends are younger than me, it feels even more like that x,D
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12-28-2013, 05:12 PM | #28 |
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My first time was watching Magiranger episode 27. I wanted to watch SS, and had finally figgured out how the torrents worked, so that's the first one I saw. I eventually got the rest of the Magiranger episodes, and continued on with Bokuenger. I kinda stopped near the end and watched a few episodes of Gekiranger, and the first episode of Goonger. I finally got serious about SS when I heard about Gokaiger. And since have finished up Bokuenger, Dairanger, Zyuranger, Shinkenger, and Liveman. Working on Bioman and Kakuranger (once new eps are fansubbed) right now. Next I'll probably go to Gaoranger.
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12-28-2013, 06:05 PM | #29 |
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Well, aside from shenanigans involving a certain Dino Thunder episode, the first time I became really consciously aware of Sentai was probably back in 2010 when, like a lot of people I think, the absence of a new Power Rangers show led me to finding out about Shinkenger.
That being said, I've never watched Shinkenger, because I didn't really figure out about fansubs and torrents and whatnot until 2011, by which point I was super into Kamen Rider. I mostly stuck to watching OOO and playing catch-up with shows like Ryuki, but I found the concepts and designs behind Gokaiger way too cool to resist, and even though I was kind of lackadaisical about watching it, I think it's a pretty awesome show. I'm not the biggest Sentai fanboy out there though, if I had a "completed shows" list in my sig, it would read "Gokaiger, Go-Busters". I'm actually in the process of rectifying that a bit, as I'm currently 15 episodes into Go-Onger, and loving every second of it.
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12-28-2013, 06:12 PM | #30 |
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The day MMPR debuted, my young mind exploded. I was the perfect age -- 3rd grade -- and I had the perfect combination of interests.
After a special prime time airing of the show, my mom -- who is half Japanese -- mentioned that she used to watch this show all the time as a kid when she'd visit family in Hawaii (as an adult fan, I think the Sentai show she remembered had to have been JAKQ). So early on, I knew the show was of Japanese origin, but for years I had no way to know what it was. Then, along comes the internet and the age of Geocities and Angelfire and Excite. And suddenly, I'm able to find search for Japanese Power Rangers and discover all these basic fan pages. And I learn the basics of the show and read a lot of the brief summaries (which allows me to scratch the OCD itch for complete information). At this point, I'm getting a bit too old for Power Rangers, and all I dreamed of was watching a Power Rangers show that was, you know, good. Sentai seemed to be that mythical show I always dreamed of. It earned a venerable position in my nerd psyche. Over the years, I found raw episodes on VHS at Japanese markets and fairs - an episode of Carranger here, an episode of Kakuranger there. Then Limewire came around and, hearing the reputation of Megaranger, I was able to seek out very low res captures of Megaranger and Gingaman. Around this time, I was trying to find MP3s of every opening theme song. It was great. Around high school, I became too ashamed of my fanhood and gravitated more toward anime. And that's how I left it until about 2 years ago when I discovered the robust toku fansub community. The first show I watched was Jetman -- I'd always been desperate to find that show, it was like the holy grail because of the rave reviews on all those old Geocities fan pages -- and I loved it. Shinkenger, Goseiger, Gekiranger, Gokaiger, Go-Busters, and Kyoryuger followed. Something tells me here's no going back. Last edited by Kamen Rider Lucha; 12-28-2013 at 06:16 PM.. |
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