Aum Shinrikyo.

Doomsday cult and all that, officially labeled as terrorist organizations everywhere but in Japan, shockingly, as they still operate, but under watch. It's crazy :lol

With all this talk of them doing Carranger and Megaranger, what do you guys think are the chances of them doing Jetman?

I hope they do it at some point but I'm guessing they are going to do all the Power Ranger related seasons first and maybe then go back and do the older ones if we're lucky .

So if we do get Jetman it wont be for a long time but then again that's just what I think so who knows ?

Sarin Gas, while I have no genuine knowledge of it, is not kind to humans or animals. Don't they (Japan) have some concern of what happens? Ohranger took a hit, as has been mentioned before on Tokunation, because it paralleled too closely with those attacks! The dark tone was leveled-off and Sentai nearly saw its swan song because of it if not for Carranger.

You both are right.

However, what everyone is saying is that the tone of the show changes significantly after episode 8. Not everything stays goofy, as there are episodes that get dark (like the one with Momo's childhood friend that disappeared), but then you end up with things like a dancing Oh Blocker, Hysteria drop kicking Bacchushund, the rangers having to play keep away with go carts, and all of the antics of the missile dude. Oh, and don't forget the skunk episode. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

There are like 20 truly great episodes in that 48 episode run.

My biggest issue with the show though is how little they even bother to develop the ranger cast. They are all pretty much the same from start to finish. Even OhRed is barely developed. He was to Ohranger what Optimus Prime was to the original Transformers.

Japan does have some concern, as they basically keep watch over them, as well as put into place a few laws basically tailored towards them. But it is a little confusing as to why they haven't outright outlawed them. However, seeing as the original organization has since split into two, both operating under different names and both trying to sever their ties to their violent past, perhaps they're fine with letting them exist? I dunno. There's a couple articles you can read and they have, like, 3 different Wikipeida pages, if you want to learn more.

Back to the topic at hand, is there any particular reason for the Ohrangers' design?

They said their plans include the pre-Zyu seasons, and I think it's a safe bet that Jetman is the most likely of those to get a release. It's just a matter of when.

On the subject of the reception of Ohranger, it started off fairly dower, not too much mind you, still people in bright spandex. But it really does a fantastic job of showing how big a threat the villains are, I think it's one of the best opening episodes for Sentai.

But things did get a little too real with the plot having terrorists and all, and it was harming the reception of the show. There's a lot of stuff dealing with that, and I won't get into it too much, but to put it simply Ohranger gets a lot of talk for how much it damaged the franchise, but the reality is more in the middle. Sentai was having problems for a while, and Ohranger made it worse due to its subject mater which was bad enough as it was, but the timing exacerbated it because of the subway attacks and the Great Hanshin earthquake. The series tried to quickly work in a more light hearted tone, but suffered from constant rewrites, lack of focus and tonal whiplash- which of course made things worse.

Not to mention the writing was just downright dumb at times:

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Ultimately it was extremely mixed and for the most part no one won with Ohranger. Well except Bandai.

As a disclaimer I should mention I have not seen all the episode of Ohranger, this is mainly recollections and observations on my part as well as various information I've gather over the years.

Well, for their visors, aside from the numbers, they're puns on the character's names. Hoshino has the kanji for Star, Maruo is a pun on maru (circle) etc. Now why they chose shapes, I have no idea. Supposedly they're supposed to be for various regions or ancient civilizations, but I've never been able to find anything about it.

Granted, the rangers themselves do represent ancient civilizations, as they get their powers from a lost civilization dating back to Pangaea(hence the gold bits). This is also seen when they pose and in some cases their zords. Red is Mesopotamian or Egypt(I think the pyramid is actually supposed to be a ziggurat of sorts), Green is Greece, Pink is Polynesian, Yellow is Japan, Blue is Egypt, Gold- and some people miss this one because of Pyramidder- Pangaea.

Ah, thanks. That does help with some parts. It just always kind of confused me about the whole "Ancient superpower" thing, but their helmet designs are shapes :lol