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Originally Posted by Locke

To be fair though...so did Shinkenger, it was very Japanese but only really very Japanese as according to an American audience who has discovered Japan through anime, I can think of very few aspects of Shinkenger that were uniquely Japanese and something only a person with an understanding of Japanese culture would include.

Shinkenger was still truer to Samurai tradition, even though they both were a bit fairy-tale like in their ideas of Samurai. For a good example, compare the episodes in which ShinkenGold decides to spare Juuzo. In Samurai, Antonio was totally awesome for showing honour by not attacking a defenceless evil dude, which made him a true samurai. In Shinkenger, Genta was reprimanded for not following the Samurai path and sparing an enemy and in the end Genta came to terms with the fact he won't follow Samurai tradition. The two had completely different views of the samurai ways of life.