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03-20-2021, 10:58 PM | #271 |
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Weird parody idea for a Super Sentai series, but I've always wanted a Super Sentai series themed after an office workplace. To spice things up a bit, the Sentai team working there are ninjas who seek to protect their workplace form being bought by Piggy Inc., a greedy corporation who sends out monsters to damage other smaller companies so as to lower their costs and then buy them out. I call it:
Sokuninja Sentai Employger Soku is the japanese term for work. Employee Red: His main weapon is scissors blades. Employee Blue: Her main weapon is a stapler blaster. Employee Yellow: His main weapon is a pen spear. The main trio and interns at Smalltime Company, dedicated towards protecting their employees. Employee Thunder: Her main weapon is a paperclip claw. Employee Wave: His main weapon is a holepunch crossbow. Two veterans who become Employgers mainly for the money. They are very competitive, and loving pranking CEOs. Employee Blazing: Her main weapon is a tablet sword. The CEO of Smalltime Compnay, who wishes to revolutionize the company to ensure equality and fairness to all, an ideal which clashes with Piggy Inc. She serves as the mentor of the trio Employgers, and later on becomes one herself. RoleCall: "List of rules to follow!" "Rule 1: Always respect your peers! Employee Red!" "Rule 2: Make sure to organize! Employee Blue!" "Rule 3: Always clean up when you're done working! Employee Yellow!" "Thunder Rule: Make sure to strike at a problem before it can grow. Employee Thunder!" "Wave Rule: Always hide personal information from corporate dogs. Employee Wave!" "Blazing Rule: Make sure to treat all situations with fair and unbiased judgement. Employee Blazing!" "The employees working for office safety and fairness, 24/7!" "Sokuninja Sentai! Employger~!" Weapons: Employ Changers: Cellphones that serve as Employee Red, Blue, and Yellow's morphers. They are smartphones that activate via inserting the Hidden IDs into the screen and then tracing the symbol on it. They can also shift into a pen form. Employ X Morphers: Cellphones that are Employee Thunder, Wave, and Blazing's morphers. They are flip phones that activate via inserting the Hidden IDs into the top screen and then inputting in the code. They can also shift into a blaster form. Employ Destructo Beam: Cannon used for final attack. Summoned after paying 500 Yen into the Employ Changers/Employ X Morphers. Attack strength icnreases based on the amount of money paid, though it can also increase via the Employger's own bonds. Storylines would focus on the various day-to-day struggles of working in a company with actual ethics, dealing with the occasional financial struggles and the constant fight with larger companies vying for monopalies. Last edited by DrChief; 03-20-2021 at 11:14 PM.. |
03-21-2021, 04:54 PM | #272 |
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I just wanna say, it's so cool noticing overlap between the ideas we come up with, it reminds me of how Sentai has a few recurring motifs that they keep coming back to
And Vladranger inspired me to share some concept art I whipped up for Kowai Sentai Monstranger (made with a dollmaker because drawing is hard). It's still not finished, I haven't made their transformation devices yet (cell phones for Red, Yellow and Pink, wrist devices for Blue and Green), plus I feel like I could give the chest parts of their suits more flare and design their high collars more elegantly. I'm also not sure whether the "glowing eyes" should be a permanent part of their helmets or only appear when they transform. But anyway, this is the general idea:
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03-23-2021, 01:26 PM | #273 |
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So, this started as a joke with my friend and it turned into a legit idea for a Sentai/Ranger series I'd actually like to see. It would probably start off as a parody series in tone before it slowly built up into something more series.
Thunder Sentai Hyperman (Thunder Squadron Hyperman-yeah, it's pretty straightforward.) OR Power Rangers Thunder Force! Cause Hyperforce is already a thing... The series would follow our heroes, a group of slackers. They cut class, read manga, and goof off without any real aspirations. But, worst of all, they spend all their time watching...Super Sentai and letting their lives pass them by! Their teachers are usually annoyed with them, their at the bottom rung with their classmates, and their family lives aren't much better. But, hey, they have each other, so who cares what they think! But then, just like in their shows, boom! Monsters start appearing out of nowhere! With seemingly no source. And one of them tries to eat an alley cat that "Red" ends up running into. For better or worse, our teen heroes try to fight and stop this monster before it can do any harm! And they get their tails kicked. But then, their cellphones begin to shimmer brightly and a mysterious app appears. "Time To Go HYPER!" And after pressing the app, they properly transform into rangers! So, before moving forward, let's talk more about the show's themes: Our 'Slacker Rangers' are all teens who have dreams for their future, but have given up on them. Through a mix of various traumas and incidents, they don't believe they have a future and have already given up. The monsters are the creation of a drug called...'EX-Factor' (cause I couldn't think of a better name), usually given to people down on their luck. After injecting themselves, they gain what they wanted most, at the cost of becoming grotesque monsters that give into their greed and desires. The overall theme of this series would be hope. Losing hope, giving up on hope, falling into despair, and then finding that hope again and taking your life back! Thunder Red: The loudest of the group. Only the "leader" because nobody wants to argue with him, cause he ALWAYS finds something to argue about. (It also helps he knows Judo and lives in a dojo.) He's usually the first one to lead the charge into a fight. He fights with a spear and pilots 'Red Rescue', his personal Zord, which is essentially a Firetruck, because his dream was to become a Fire Fighter, having given up on his dream after being stuck inside of a burning building and developing a fear of fire. Thunder Blue: Aloof, calm, collected...lazy. He'd rather sleep than do anything, so Red is usually dragging him around everywhere. He fights with a pistol and pilots 'Blue Justice', which is a police car. He gave up on his dream after his father was arrested. His father WAS a bad man, and might even turn into a monster later on, but as far as he knew, his father was a good person who took care of him and his mother and when he was taken away, they fell on hard times. Thunder Yellow: Obnoxious is the right word to describe him. He's always telling bad puns and is usually the butt of most jokes-he's most likely gonna get beaten up the most, usually by Red. He's also usually the one thinking they should run from a fight. Speaking of, he fights with a pair of yo-yos, which is a constant prop for him, and pilots 'Yellow Speeder', an ambulance. His dream was to become a doctor, but no matter how hard he studies, he's barely scraping by and a teacher even told him to not bother with medical school, saying he'd never make it. Thunder Green: Wannabe lady's man who's always getting rejected. He thinks he's smooth, but isn't. He fights the most with Green, and can back it up since he knows boxing, but usually it doesn't amount to much of anything. He fights with an axe and pilots 'Green Rush', a drill. This...sadly, doesn't tie into his dream, which is to become a musician, and is even musically inclined. But his father, a fisherman, wants him to take over the family business and even destroyed an instrument he had bought with his own money in his childhood. Thunder Black: Resident nerd. He knows everything there is to know about electronics and is an otaku. If he's not shoving his latest manga in someone's face, he's playing some kind of gaming device, or trying to reenact a cringy anime trope 'in real life'. But what he truly goes crazy over is cars. He fights with a pair of daggers that can be brought together to form into a sword, and pilots 'Black Shimmer', a race car. His dream is to go into programming video games, but his parents disapprove of his love for video games. He has the best grades of the group and is even pushing to live Blue's dream, but that's not what he wants to do. When these five zords come together, they become 'Thunder King'! Throughout the series the five of them will be in constant contact with 'Senpai', someone who graduated a few years ahead of them and acts as their confidant and counselor. Despite her job as a freelance reporter, she sees it as her duty as their senior and older sister figure to help these five get on track. Her role is to help these five stop their acts of delinquency, get them socially adjusted to society properly, and just help them. But whenever they're in REAL danger, she becomes... Thunder Pink: A mysterious 6th Ranger who comes in to save the day every once in a while and disappears just as quickly. She fights with a sniper rifle, and usually helps them from a far-off distance unseen. But when things get REALLY hairy, she rides upon 'Pink Dream', which is a dragon that becomes its own proper mech and fights as 'Thunder Dragon'. It CAN combine with the Thunder King and becomes 'Thunder Dragon King!' Throughout the series, the team's interactions with 'Pink', their mutual support, and through all the fighting, the rougher parts of the personalities start to smooth out and they start to drop/tone down their worst traits-they'll even get meta and joke about it as they become better people. |
03-26-2021, 02:08 AM | #274 |
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Alright! I think I'm finished with this Monstranger concept art. I redesigned their suits for a more striking look, taking some inspiration from Gokaiger and Lupinranger with the jacket-style patterns and high collars, but adding monster traits and permanent "eyes" to set them apart from other Sentai:
The initial trio of Red (vampire) Yellow (mummy) and Pink (Frankenstein) are all undead so they use Coffin Changers and have a more sleek design, while the later additions Blue (werewolf) and Green (mermaid/gillman) are both animal-people so they use Beast Cage Bracers and have a more "wild" look. And because I'm pretty proud of them, here's a detail look at the changers: The Coffin Changer is a handheld device that can unfold into a gun. In coffin mode, the five buttons select the function (up=transform, down=communicator, left=summon personal weapon, right=summon mecha, middle=combine) and pulling the trigger activates it. In gun mode, pulling the trigger fires a single shot and holding it down projects a targeting sight from the eye. The Beast Cage Bracer is a wrist-mounted blaster. Turning the dial selects the function (it has the same five as the Coffin Changer) which also changes the icon showing in the cage, and pressing the dial down activates it. A trigger is concealed in the hand, pressing it fires a single shot and holding it down fires rapid shots from both barrels. This makes it a faster but less accurate weapon than the Coffin Changer. Both changers also double as the ranger's standard sidearms.
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03-26-2021, 06:15 AM | #275 |
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Oh wow, their suits have really come along nicely! And you even gave a design for the morphers! :O
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03-26-2021, 10:00 AM | #276 |
Yodonna oshi
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Oh, FairyKing, you must have put so much time into this! These look great though! I am totally bowled over by the wealth of details and imagination in these designs! You've done an absolutely great job!!
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03-26-2021, 10:22 AM | #277 |
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@FairyKing What would be the sixth ranger of the team be like? Or will we have another "Go-On Wings"?
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03-26-2021, 07:26 PM | #278 |
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Yeah I did spent a long time on the design, though a good chunk of that time was just flipping back and forth between a couple possibilities trying to decide which I liked better. Probably my biggest weakness when it comes to character design is how indecisive I can be! Quote:
They'd also have a movie-exclusive ranger, Monster White, a ghost with an owl as her animal mech. In the main series she's one of the villain generals, but she was forced into evil against her will, and she's eventually rescued by Red (who she fell in love with) and Slayer (her older brother before she died). After being rescued she vows to never fight again, but in the movie the situation gets desperate enough that she takes up a Coffin Changer of her own. I'd like to make Monster Slayer and Monster White eventually, and then maybe their personal weapons, unmorphed appearances, villains and supporting cast, possibly even their mecha if I get really ambitious, but that would take a lot of time and work ;-; I might also make concept art for some of my other ideas, or even other people's ideas if that's something anyone wants? But I can't make any promises.
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03-26-2021, 07:55 PM | #279 |
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04-15-2021, 02:47 AM | #280 |
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I haven't developed this idea much, but inspired by Zenkaizer being the first trash hero, how about an entire team of them?
Ponkotsu Sentai Shūriger! (Piece-of-junk Sentai Repairing-ger) I'm not sure what their actual theme would be. It could be a parody like Akibaranger where their suits, changers, mecha etc. are all made of garbage. On the opposite end of the silly-serious spectrum, it could also be set in a post-apocalyptic future and have them working to repair the world. Or it could be all about teaching kids to recycle? Oh, or it could be something involving tsukumogami, maybe with each one partnered with a different haunted object, maybe even with those objects being their mecha! Although it's hard to imagine how you could combine a giant robot out of an umbrella, bottle, lantern, mirror and shamisen...
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