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12-23-2013, 01:20 AM | #1 |
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You know what I'm talkin' about, oooh, oooh, not that though. Or that. Possibly that. Not that either. Okay, that.
So if you're like me, but not me, more like you, but a you-me, then ya probably grew up in America and with Power Rangers. I'd wager you watched that show or later seasons once or twice? There had to be a defining moment where you discover Super Sentai for the first time, right? What was it like?? How'd it feel? Didja feel like a champ? Did you continue to enjoy both shows or favor one over the other? Course the internet really made it much easier to watch Toku shows, it wasn't always around in the early days. Did many find out about Super Sentai via the internet? Share your experience! Come on, come on! I'm all ears. Accept when I go to the bathroom, then stop talking, but I'll Be-Are-Bee, I swear!
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12-23-2013, 01:33 AM | #2 |
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I am very confused right now
I'd say during the MMPR Revival days, after finding a PR wiki, I stated watching a few of TJOmega's reviews of Kamen Rider stuff and being really drawn in to Toku by the Cyclone Joker Figuart review. I also remember watching Vangelis review the Gosei Great minipla. Eventually I sat down and started watching Mahou Sentai Magiranger and here I am today. |
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12-23-2013, 01:38 AM | #3 |
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::My first time::
Chapter one: Call me Ishmael It was a dark and stormy night, and I was asleep, for it was stormin' outside. Might as well, amirite?! So I woke up, turn on the Teevee, or 'Boobtube' as you youngsters call it these days (No one calls it that) and got my daily dose of MMPR re-runs while I ate cereal before school. Making sure to constantly yell at Tommy and make "Seig-Hiyagh" noises with my mouth, possibly spewing small chunks of Fruit Loops. So, at the time, I lived hilarously close to relatives. Hilariously because whenever an argument would ensue, we'd begin an argument in the same room and finished it in our own respective household. Paper thin walls are good for something. So these relatives are a rare breed of Nerdlinger commonly associated as Otaku, I think I share a hybrid class of that breed, but I'm not sure, I'd say that classification of me is barely at level twelve. It was from them that I discovered what Zyuranger was and eventually Dairanger. It was an awesome experience and really hard not calling Geki, Jason. Can you imagine if I'd done that in Japan?? They'd either egg me till I became a cake somehow or throw me a parade. It was magical, though I still enjoy both shows for what they delivered. PR will be my go-to for cheesy, campy, fun with hammy acting. It had episodes that were sheer genius! Did you see that episode where they stayed at a hotel for who the hell knows what and had a pillow fight?! You totally thought Kimberly and Trini were gonna have a pillow fight, cuz hurr-hurr, they're girls, but no! Not this show! No, sir. Jason, Zack and Billy had a pillow fight, and it got better, they added their love of martial arts into it for some Pillow-Fu! Wasn't that awesome (not really)?? I'd watch the entire series over again if they did that in its entirety! Can you imagine the Dino Megazord pillow slappin' a giant monster with a pillow the size of a Beluga Whale?! Giant monster would be smothered into submission, lay down on the floor, and explode. Pillow posing. The Dragonzord could've even been a body pillow, but that's a tale for another day. Lookin' back, I think I was that hipster-jackass kid in middle school who was all: "Uh-Hurr-Durr, Power Rangers, I liked them better as Zyurangers." Though not really, cuz I was still hella on-board with PR up until the Lost Galaxy season. Best part though is explaining in high school to peeps that one episode of Zyuranger where Barza teamed up with the creepy guy with the weird nose to kill his grandson with a bunch of guns and hand grenades cuz he wasn't suppose to wake up Green Ranger Mummy, then explaining to the same exact people that you're not on drugs. Good times.
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12-23-2013, 01:41 AM | #4 |
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My job here is done!
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I'd say during the MMPR Revival days, after finding a PR wiki, I stated watching a few of TJOmega's reviews of Kamen Rider stuff and being really drawn in to Toku by the Cyclone Joker Figuart review. I also remember watching Vangelis review the Gosei Great minipla. Eventually I sat down and started watching Mahou Sentai Magiranger and here I am today.
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12-23-2013, 01:50 AM | #5 |
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The first time I remember seeing any Sentai footage was actually when Fox Kids did their power playbacks. When they originally showed the first version pilot for MMPR, they had an intro with Walter Jones and St. Austin John talking about the show's history. In this intro they actually showed Zyuranger footage of the team unmorphed. I remember for years when I watched this I was like "What the heck is up with their outfits?" It wasn't until I got into Sentai last year that I found out about the plot, and wasn't until this year that I finally sat down and watched all of Zyu.
Other then that, Megaranger for first Sentai series I watched a full episode of, and Hurricanger for first one I saw everything for.
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12-23-2013, 01:51 AM | #6 |
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Honestly, I can't say I have a defining moment of discovering Sentai. I remember that once when I was probably no older than five or six, my sister told me something about Bandai being a Japanese company, and that Power Rangers was based off of a Japanese show. I didn't care at all at that point, but I think I always had this idea that there was a ton of stuff like Power Rangers over in Japan. When I was 13 or so and I started to get back into toys, I'm sure I discovered Bandai of Japan and the whole Sentai craze from there. A few more years, and here we are.
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12-23-2013, 02:01 AM | #7 |
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Okay I know I started understandin Sentai with Gokaiger and Goseiger this year thanks to this place, but Id say my first actual sentai footage is that one episode from Dino Thunder.
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12-23-2013, 02:07 AM | #8 |
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The first time I remember seeing any Sentai footage was actually when Fox Kids did their power playbacks. When they originally showed the first version pilot for MMPR, they had an intro with Walter Jones and St. Austin John talking about the show's history. In this intro they actually showed Zyuranger footage of the team unmorphed. I remember for years when I watched this I was like "What the heck is up with their outfits?" It wasn't until I got into Sentai last year that I found out about the plot, and wasn't until this year that I finally sat down and watched all of Zyu.
Hehehe, I know which one. At my smaller cousin's school, that episode sort of layed down the groundwork that PR's started here in America. He came home from school with another of his "Did you know?!" segments and it I slightly had that urge to put him up for adoption, haha.
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12-23-2013, 02:10 AM | #9 |
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Well I'll always be able to remember it. I have it on tape along with a shit ton of PRs like Lightspeed, Time Force, and NInja Storm along with random episodes from other seasons up till Ninja Storm.
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12-23-2013, 02:18 AM | #10 |
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I got back into Power Rangers when Dino Thunder started (JDF's return and all that). When Disney cancelled it after RPM I was really bummed, especially after seeing what MMPR "Remastered" looked like. I was still on a high of loving the show after how great RPM was, so I decided to start watching the new Sentai series that was beginning around the same time: Tensou Sentai Goseiger.
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