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Your first time? (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
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! |
I am very confused right now:lol
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. |
::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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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. |
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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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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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.
I don't think I need to cover, yet again, how that went. |
The first Sentai I watched an episode of was my future darling, Gekiranger (But I didn't get into it, because I was unaware of it's greatness), and later on, Shinkenger.
I had seen the special with Zyu footage XW1n is talking about, and that did spark my interest some, but with no way to see it at the time, it quickly faded. |
My first experience with super Sentai was with that Dino Thunder episode but my first official experience was with Dekaranger and I love every single episode. :D
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I remember liking Power Rangers as a kid, but I only watched a few episodes and didn't remember much of it besides the awesome theme song. I also remember sometime later hearing something about the footage of power rangers being from Japan but that was it.
I was more interested in animation(western animation and anime) as a kid and even up to high school. Starting in college though my interest in Japanese entertainment grew beyond Anime and I started listening to a lot of JPop/Jrock, and watching Japanese drama's and films. Since there are so many drama's out there to chose from one of my favorite ways to search on a website such as gooddrama is click the info page to one of my favorite actors from a drama I saw and pick another one of their shows. I had been watching one of Matsuzaka Tori's drama and when I checked his page I saw a link to a show called Samurai Sentai Shinkenger the description of Shinkenger was this. Quote:
I defiantly didn't expect the suits but imediatly fell in love with the Shinkenger uniform. I loved the minimalistic samurai theme of the suit with the characters on the mask. I loved the fact that it felt like a modernday period drama as some characters mention on the show, since I enjoy watching Taiga dramas. Sometime after starting the show I did a google search, found out Shinkenger was part of the series called super sentai and the rest is history. Also the crossover Shinkenger did with Decade finally got me to take the time to watch Decade as well, since I had been meaning too ever since hearing Gackt's three Decade songs. Which introduced me to Kamen Rider as well. |
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My first time was just before finding this sight, to be honest. I found somewhere to watch Sentai episodes and decided to try a random season to see if I liked it. That season ended up being Tensou Sentai Goseiger, and we all know how that turned out. |
I don't! I juuuust got here, chee!
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Well, my first experience with Super Sentai was the parody episode from Dino Thunder (my current favorite PR season), which I thought was just a funny and weird episode back then.
Just this year, I started watching one of the shows when my first laptop broke...this year? Yeah, I think it was early this year or late last year. Anyway, the first season I watched was MagiRanger...and oh god, I still LOVE that season, as you can probably tell. :lol |
The first Sentai I ever watched was Go-Busters, and I fell in love with Ryuuji. My friends were into it because of Power Rangers and I was very interested in watching where it came from. I now still haven't finished Go-Busters but have Finished Battle Fever J and DaiRanger and almost finished Gokaiger. Also the liking of Sentai brought into the world of Kamen Rider and I've watched so many series of those this year. Also all this was this year.
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We got some neat assed responses going on in here so far. I like it, thanks for sharing so far, everyone. That's one of the things I like about Toku shows, opinions, views and tastes can differ so much due to it's vast catalogue of shows and media. As opposed to hearing opinions and views from fans of like a movie trilogy who eventually come to a point where people will echo sentiments.
Let's keep of going of ya'd like and share any tidbits. Everyone has unique input. Except that Scythe Kid, he didn't even try. It's also nice to see that Sentai knowledge brought up Kamen Rider into their lives. |
it was actually when i first discovered the gourai changer from hurricanger although i never watched it, i never heard of it, i thought it was a prop from ninjastorm and so was the brace throttle from dekaranger, it wasnt until i watched a scene in zyuranger on youtube with the dragonranger's first debut fight and of course seeing a scene when dragonranger hit the mammouth ranger in the jewels.
i did see the dino thunder episode when they were introducing the japanese footage of them but i didnt think much of it, i thought it was just a parady of dino thunder, i never thought pr was japanese footage until i saw the dragonranger fight. then i started downloaded zyuranger episodes with the dragonranger saga and i was impressed and i started watching boukensilver's debut in 2006 when i first saw his gear, then i started watching some episodes in gekiranger along with my gong changer to play with gekiviolet in some of his episodes. it wasnt until go-onger i decided to watch the whole series from start to finish and i havent stopped since, plus that was the first time my big collection habit started. |
I don't really have a defining moment with Sentai, because I never quite got into it.
Power Rangers is a big part of my life, and one of my all time favourite franchises, so I've pretty much avoided every Sentai show which went on to become a Power Rangers iteration that has my heart. I attempted to try out sentai shows that were either adapted into shit Power Rangers iterations or were completely new stories to me but I never really fell in love with any of them. Probably the closest thing I came to really falling for Sentai was when I watched Shinkenger, but those middle twenty or so episodes are so boring they could probably turn you into stone and are the main reason I've never tried watching it again. The HUGE length of each iteration works much more favourably with the much more story and character focussed Kamen Rider. |
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. |
Power Ranger's debut episode on Fox kids.I remember being so excited about it.Been watching since.
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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. |
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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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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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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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. |
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. |
Back when SPD was airing, I got myself a KO Deka Robo, an oversized minipla with Dekaranger packaging, at that time I learned of Sentai.
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I always knew about the SS footage but it wasn't until 2002 (or 03) that I discovered #tokusatsu channel on IRC and downloaded a random RAW and that kickstarted everything.
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I was a fan of MMPR during the MMPR boom during the mid 90's then I stop watching Power Rangers around 1997 when Turbo started. I first discover Super Sentai when my friend had a bootleg tape of Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai back in 2002 and I had no idea what it was. He told me it was the Japanese version of Power Rangers and the VHS tape had no subs.
Then in 2004, I hear that Tommy was going to be in Dino Thunder and I look up Dino Thunder on the Wikipedia. I found out that Power Rangers was based on a Japanese show called "Super Sentai". I didn't watch Super Sentai and Kamen Rider until 2012 when I watched Gokaiger. |
I watched Power Rangers as a kid, I don't remember much of it but I think I stopped right before Lost Galaxy came out...I had the toys from it but I don't know if I ever watched the show. Anyways, I got into Godzilla for a while and loved it, but eventually some other people I knew got into it and talked about it nonstop. So, being completely burnt out on Godzilla because that's all I ever heard about anymore, I turned to the Ultraman dvd my girlfriend got me, which made me aware of Tokusatsu as a whole.
There was a week or so where my sleep schedule was awful, one day I was up at 6 am...I wasn't sure if I was trying to pull an all-nighter, or if I just woke up super early, but there i was, bored at 6 am. I knew about Super Sentai, but never really watched it, until I saw a friend posting about Power Rangers, and somebody else thought they were talking about Kamen Rider...so I went to correct him, but had to make sure I was talking about the right thing too (that would be embarrassing if I got it wrong haha) and it inspired me to actually sit down and watch. It wasn't like I had anything else to do. Anyways, I went on youtube and watched the first two episodes of Kyouryu Sentai Zyuranger and absolutely loved it. I can't explain, but something about watching that made me incredibly happy. I felt like I discovered a whole new world that I didn't know existed before. It was a great moment. Now i'm watching through Megaranger |
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Some Tokusatsu shows were aired in my country (France) when I was a kid in the 80's. The very first one I saw was "Message From Space" (it aired two or three times between 1979 and 1982), then we had Gavan in 1983 and later Bioman in 1985 (5 or 6 more Sentai series followed after that). What bring me back to Super Sentai and tokusatsu was a screenshot of Gokaiger with a hundred guys in spandex that I came across randomly on a website. "Do they really still continue to make those shows after 30 years ?" Yes, they do. When MMPR emerged, it was aired the next year in France, then I was a teenager and had zero interest in the genra at the time. I never take the time to watch directly any PR related stuff, I watched Linkara "History of Power Rangers" to have a idea of the US counterpart of Super Sentai. Not the other way. |
First sentai for me was Shinkenger, which I was watching during its airing in 2009, then 2010 I went into Goseiger, not the whole show but a few of the episodes, then sonic boom I'm a fan of Sentai, Power Rangers, & Kamen Rider.
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Like most people growing up, I spent a majority of my childhood watching the Saban adapted Toku and loved most of it, though VR Troopers never really clicked with me, don't know why. I also had VHS tapes of Ultraman Great and the Super Fighter Legend anime dubbed in Cantonese, of course I still didn't know what Toku was at the time.
Fast forward some years later, I was helping a friend track down Toku music and found HJU. Listened to a few tracks from Dekaranger and ended up digging them, and then I saw Deka Master's epic debut on Youtube and decided right the and there I needed to see this series. So yeah, Dekaranger was my gateway drug into Sentai but I didn't start watching Sentai on a weekly basis until Gokaiger started airing. |
I grew up watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. There were some odd scenes that felt out of place, like when Trini turns into the Yellow Ranger, she has a male physique and masculine poses and disaster scenes that are filled with japanese people running away.
I learned about Super Sentai accidently while browsing for Ninja Strom pictures in 09. Surprised and curious, I watched a few episodes of Hurricanger and enjoyed it more than Ninja Storm. But back then, I could only get it through bittorrent and it took forever to download one episode, so I didn't have the patience to do it for the entire season, so I stopped there. Fast forward to the present, and I choose to get into it seriously now that getting episodes is easier than before. No more 2 hour download per episode, instead I could just stream one in seconds. Yes, it has effected my view of Power Rangers. I checked out Megaforce and the two mutants spawned from the toxic sewers wore samurai armor and a kanebo. What are the chances they find samurai armor and an ancient samurai weapon in the sewers of an American city? I don't like it anymore knowing that its a cut and paste show. |
Thanks to Night Flight, this was my first introduction to Sentai around '87 or so. I saw PR around in the early 90s, but I was never really much into it. I'd kind of aged out of that sort of thing, I guess. I didn't come in contact with Sentai again until last year and Go-Busters. (Cutie Honey the Live and Kamen Rider Fourze were my gateway Toku drugs. Sentai watching followed them in turn.)
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My first time discovering Sentai was around 2007 when I really started using the internet on a regular basis and startet googling Power Rangers. I found the actual show but I also found pics of Justirisers(?), Kamen Rider Den-O and Gekiranger. I didnt think much of it at the time and thought of it well...as Power Rangers. I also saw the first pics of Go-Onger and really saw that it had japanese actors in it and I was completely confused. Yes at the age of 16 I still thought poer Rangers were a completely american show :lol
Over the course of the last five years I started watching more Super Sentai and also Kamen Rider turning into a giant toku nerd thanks to these two shows :lol My interest in Power Rangers has mostly disappeared and its just something I check out from time to time. Over the course of 2008 I completely forgot about it though so I watched Jungle fury during the end of the year and looked for a german pr forum. Through this site I came across the Go-onger designs again and started watching the show instantly loving it and so making it my first full Super Sentai experience. |
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