Future Sentai Themes after Zyuohger
 

With Zyohger coming after Ninninger, I wonder if it'll be the last sentai... or if it can continue.

For what we know so far is that 4 animal-like humanoids travel to Earth and one human leads them against an spacial outlaw enemy.

But what will Sentai do next after Zyohger is successful?

What makes you think Sentai will end after Zyuohger?

It won't. Zyuohger is just the beginning anyway.

I'm just setting this up poll up.

This is a rather misleading statement that made me assume you thought it would be the end, then...

How about a damn water themed series for once? The rangers are working with the marines or something and all of their mecha are based on ships and stuff? The monsters can be based on heat that are trying to dry up the environment to turn everything into a giant desert.

If time travel was used again, perhaps they'll use the historical figures theme like with Ghost.

Like what if there are rangers who are descendants... even their DNA is connected to anything ancestry.

I still want a true space theme. A water theme would be awesome; there are plenty of types of sea creatures they could use. Also, knights would be neat.

Does this thread really need to be a thing already? It's damn near pointless to speculate on stuff that you don't know about. Waste of time.

Greek Mythologies would be good with each mecha/zord being base off of different monsters from greek mythologies. Imagine Super Sentai meets Saint Seiya.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this topic at least 5 times on this forum. Anyways...

I still think an insect theme would be cool, (as long as they don't do big bug eyes though, because I don't want a team of Spandex Riders) but now that Dr. Kain mentions it, I'm fully behind that water theme.

Also, why is the poll so Rider-centric?

Mismatched themes. I (And probably many others) had a funny little idea of a team of heroes whose themes are wildly different from each others. Like an animal guardian themed hero, a military themed hero, a technology themed character, etc etc.

It gives for a good chance of variety

They tried something similar with the mecha in Ninninger and I can't say I've heard a single positive comment about how mismatched they are. It might be more interesting with the suits though, but I feel like they'd need at least something to tie them together.

Warship theme for once. There was a rumor about it during the airing of Kyoryuger. My hope for it still up to this day.

Super Sentai.....IN SPACE!

My thoughts were far more than mismatched mecha.

I dunno if that would work. It would be weird / complicated to create a mythology around a full season of the show with totally disparate themes. I'd be shocked if something like that would happen.

And I guess what I'd really like to see is something supernatural. Maybe like Magiranger, but less about benign spells and something that feels more like witchcraft. Maybe mecha or weapons based on the Sephirot or tarot major Arcana? Maybe I've been playing too much Persona, heh.

Why is the poll titled and modelled after Rider themes?

Obviously. But the mismatched mecha didn't go over well at all, I don't think they're going to base an entire team on mismatched themes.

It would be interesting though, to say the least. I wonder how it would be handled.

I'm also kinda puzzled about it.

Anyway didn't Zyuranger/Abaranger/Kyoryuger already do prehistoric beasts? If you want to get technical they haven't done "Ice Age" beasts yet, but still.

A mismatch one would be cool if they brought warriors from different cultures together ex: One Samurai/Ninja, One cowboy, One knight, One shaolin/monk, One gunsman like a modern day BFJ.

YES

Jumbled themes would be cool, but have all the mechs be cars or mech versions of the rangers or something

When you put it like that, it might actually be cool. I dunno, the more I think about it the more I want to hear the extent of MatrixBeast's idea.

That was what attracted me to Megaranger...too bad I wasn't a fan. It'd be cool for them to re-visit the concept.

What if each ranger's suit was based on a different Yokai? For example, there could be a Shisa, a Kappa, a Nurikabe, etc. Well, Nurikabe might be hard, but it could make a cool (or extremely boring) mecha piece.

A big misconception with Megaranger was due to PRIS being Space themed, Mega was too. Mega was more of a 1990's coming of age story alongside the rapid advancement of technology used as a theme.

Same with Timeranger. People complain that it had no time travel, but it was meant to focus more on the broken heroes, each with their own problems and working for a better tomorrow.

Haha well I realized that when I started watching it.

Cowboy theme. I need that to happen before I die.

And no, StarNinger from Ninninger doesn't count.

I don't know if Wolf theme Sentai Team is a good idea

God, Japan would have so much fun making a bunch of racist American jokes with that theme.

That statement itself is pretty racist...

Um, how?

Assuming that a group of people are going to act racist is pretty racist in itself.

I think a cowboy theme is too (lack for a better term) western for them to do. Just how people question whether or not ToQ can work for PR, all of those same questions arise in regards to cowboys for sentai. Pretending to be a cowboy isn't really a thing in Japan; that is why Star Ninger and Ninja Black are from America. They stand out as the exception, not the norm.

Racism is the belief that one race is better than another. I don't think Epsilon meant to suggest that Americans were any less racist, nor that Japanese racism made the Japanese worse than Westerners.

Even though pointing out a culture's racist tendencies isn't necessarily racism, he probably shouldn't have been joking about it, as it's a sensitive topic.

The definition of racism is belief of one being better than the other, but making assumptions based on stereotypes or misguided thoughts is also racism. I honestly think race stuff is only sensitive because we don't talk about it. And when it is brought up, people want to dance around each other and end up pissing each other off; the only way to progress is to admit there is a divide, talk it out, and come to a conclusion how we can close that divide.

Regardless, I still can't see Toei doing an all-out cowboy theme. The cowboy theme barely held up with Star Ninger (who doesn't really do anything cowboy like other than saying "Yee Haw")

A cowboy theme would be silly because I don't think Japan really ever cared about cowboys. The wild west thing was always, well, a western fad. I don't think it'd interest Japanese kids.

^This, pretty much.

Not true at all. Westerns were very popular globally, and were especially popular in Japan. In fact, the symbiotic relationship between samurai cinema and cowboy cinema is one of the most well-documented (and interesting) phenomena in all of international film studies.

A lot of Japan's stereotypes of Americans (i.e., that we're loud, brash, gun toting, ill-tempered, grizzled, Levi-clad individualists) are rooted in the cowboy archetype, as popularized by early John Ford westerns in particular. Do you think it's coincidence that the only American Sentai heroes have had overt cowboy mannerisms/affectations?

Westerns were distinctly not an American fad (look at Spaghetti Westerns, which were written, directed, and produced by Itallians, filmed mostly in Spain, and tuned to European tastes). Even today you see plenty of Japanese takes on the western. Sukiyaki Western Django springs immediately to mind, and I'm certain there are others.

Whether modern Japanese children would be interested in Cowboys is another question. But I suspect there is a market, as proven by this year's 6th ranger-- which is traditionally one of the most important and highest selling Sentai product lines of any given year. Bandai wouldn't have allowed a Cowboy 6th if westerns, or at least the idea of them, weren't still somewhat alluring in Japan.

But we are talking about kids here. What might have been popular with the generation that is now grown up is not necessarily with the generation that watches Sentai right now. I haven't seen any cowboy-related toys in stores so far- and trust me, I've been in toy sections of various stores. The only cowboy you might see is Woody from Toy Story and that's because Japenese people (and especially kids) love Disney. I haven't seen kids with cowboy-related merch either. Not even Starninger's arsenal.

Interesting. Do you interact with a lot of kid in Japan? I'd be interested to know what they think of Cowboys, even if they aren't gobbling up cowboy related toys.

Not that much atm, but we had some shared activities with foreign students and kids from elementary school before. I briefly talked about Kamen Rider with a boy from that group, but we didn't have that much time, so the only information I got from this that he really likes Ghost, but not Spectre.

As from what I've seen when it comes to toys, aside from popular franchises such as Pokémon and Yokai Watch, kids here still really dig cars, or vehicles in general.

All I meant by that was that it seems like every time an American shows up in Sentai, they're a cowboy. They wear cowboy boots and a cowboy hat and say Yee-haw. Just look at Kinji and Jiraiya. Also, Starninger transforms with a hamburger and his super form wears a poncho. It's like how any time an Asian person shows up in an American show or movie that has any level of action, they either pull out a sword or some mad martial arts skills.

I'm not trying to be offensive, but those stereotypes do show up in entertainment. I'd hate to see an entire show based around the theme of it.

Edit: Proof

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