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08-05-2015, 10:46 PM | #21 |
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Magiranger, if I recall correctly.
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08-06-2015, 06:19 AM | #22 |
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Hurricanger. Hurricanger's cool, even with nonsense subtitles.
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08-06-2015, 04:36 PM | #23 |
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My first Sentai series was Jetman. I had just read on Wikipedia that power Rangers was really this other series but with spliced footage and I was like really?I can't believe I was so stupid that I couldn't figure it out!. It had been well over a decade since I watched power Rangers so I was browsing through the series list and I saw Jetman was before Zyuranger and I was like ,well lets see how the one before Zyuranger is Ive already seen the majority of the battle footage thanks to MMPR lets check something new out and then i got hooked.
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08-06-2015, 07:05 PM | #24 |
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Being half Japanese, I was exposed to things like Godzilla dubs at a very young age. So when I first watched Power Rangers at age 8, I immediately knew from the dubbing of Rita/Bandora that something weird was going on with that show.
I ran to my mom to ask her what the hell this show was, and she immediately recognized it. "I remember watching these kinds of shows when I visited family in Hawaii as a kid, they're all over TV in Japan," she told me. And she was able to determine that the producers shot new, American footage and spliced it into those shows she used to watch. Not knowing any more specifics than that, I continued to blissfully watch Power Rangers, feeling more connected to it based on my ancestral ties to Japan. As I got older and the low quality levels of Power Rangers became more and more apparent, I fantasized about the Japanese version of the show and how it was probably way better than what Power Rangers had to offer. When my family finally got an internet connection, one of the first things I searched for was "Japanese Power Rangers." Through various Geocities and Angelfire fan pages, I learned all about Super Sentai. I read about the stories. Characters betrayed each other and had dark secrets. There was a lot more action. Heroes even died sometimes! I was desperate to learn anything I could. In fact, I think that learning about Super Sentai kept me watching Power Rangers. Even though I'd aged out of that show, I'd still watch and obsessively try to reconstruct what was really going on in the original Japanese versions. Eventually, when I was about 15 or 16, I went to a pop-up Japanese flea market in the parking lot of some church in Ohio and stumbled upon a VHS tape full of GoGo V episodes recorded from a Japanese TV broadcast. I lost my mind when I watched it. This was my first real taste of Sentai, and I was hooked. From there, I scoured Limewire for anything that was available. I found a few ultra low-res episodes of Megaranger and Gingaman. I had no idea what anyone was saying, but my teenage mind was like, "oh my god, this is badass! The stakes are so much higher! The characters bleed! They fight battles at night! All this overwrought, melodramatic acting is hysterical!" Not too long after that, I was able to score some pirated VCDs of Jetman on eBay. Unfortunately, I had no way to play those at the time, and the discs gathered dust for years and years. Time passed, and while I still checked out Power Rangers from time to time, other interests (and school) kept me from seeking out more Super Sentai. Then, about 4 or 5 years ago, I found TV-Nihon's Shinkenger subs and watched that whole show. That was my first complete Super Sentai viewing. It rekindled my childhood obsession, and I haven't turned my back since. TLDR: the first actual sentai episodes I watched were from GoGo V, and the first full series I watched was Shinkenger. Last edited by Kamen Rider Lucha; 08-06-2015 at 07:17 PM.. |
08-06-2015, 07:58 PM | #25 |
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My first Sentai was Gokaiger, after my youngest son showed interest in Super Megaforce. I was curious why they began in that one form, and then changed into another form and they seemed totally un-related. Also the difference in symbols threw me and I started researching. Pretty soon, I was completely hooked on the genre.
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08-24-2015, 05:07 AM | #26 |
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Dairanger, watched it back in the 90s. I'm a big shaw brothers fan and this really appealed to me.
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08-24-2015, 06:11 AM | #27 |
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Zyuranger.
A fit of Power Rangers nostalgia triggered by Pacific Rim made me curious about Super Sentai, and I discovered Fansubs were a thing, and thus downloaded GUIS' subs of Zyuranger (Bear in mind there was no DVD release on the horizon), and fell in love from there. |
08-24-2015, 09:04 AM | #28 |
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I learned about Super Sentai when Shinkenger was airing and I watched clips of Shinkenger through Go-Busters and when Kyoryuger started, I started watching that. Kyoryuger was my first Sentai, but I learned about Sentai from Shinkenger.
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09-07-2015, 06:14 PM | #29 |
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My first exposure to Super Sentai outside of Power Rangers was Kakuranger, my first episode was Abaranger, and my first series was Jetman.
I had known from the beginning that Power Rangers was just a pseudo dub of Super Sentai, but had never had a chance to actually watch it until my friend brought a couple episodes of Abaranger from a Japanese video store. Prior to that though, I had seen picture books of Kakuranger and Ohranger in that same store, which I currently still own. I believe this was back in 1996 when I was 4 years old. After I found out there were Sentai subs online, I decided to watch Jetman because of the Gatchaman-influenced theme and the fact that there is no Power Rangers equivalent of that series, and I've been a big fan of Super Sentai ever since.
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09-07-2015, 07:29 PM | #30 |
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Gokaiger was my first, along with Zyuranger. Gokaiger was all over Facebook so it was easy to find and I didn't have to download anything. Likewise, Zyuranger was all over youtube at the time.
For Gokaiger, I really enjoyed it. I love legacies and paying tribute to those that came before, and Gokaiger is one big love letter to Sentai's history. It was fun, it was serious when needed, humorous, and it gave me two favorite characters in the form of Don and Luka. In the case of Zyuranger I was halfway though Gokaiger and wanted something to alternate with Kamen Rider Black(also on youtube at the time). I love sword and sorcery, and Zyuranger had a very strong magical- if albeit sometimes fairy tale- like atmosphere that I enjoyed. Of course Zyuranger wasn't flawless, the early episodes tended to be hit or miss with me. Usually the first part being good and the continuing second part being rather rushed.(Sure was lucky Grifforzer's lazer just happened to destroy the wall that had Hiroshi's mom behind it. Well we have 5 minutes left, better have the dino crystals appear with no damn explanation. etc. etc.) Still I did enjoy the majority of the series in spite of certain early flaws. |
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