[EitoRanger]

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.

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For eighteen generations, samurai of the Shiba House have suppressed the evil intentions of the Gedoushu, malevolent spirits that enter the world of the living from gaps between buildings and other structures. Now, Takeru Shiba, the youngest head of the Shiba Clan must gather his four vassals in order to battle the Gedoushu as the Shinkengers. However, as they are joined by his childhood friend, the vassals slowly learn that there's a reason for Takeru's behavior that sets him apart from his predessors

It sounded awesome and I had to check it out, especially seeing as how it had almost 50 episodes! Which compared to an American show isn't a lot but JDramas are normally 8-12 episodes that are 45 minutes long(first and last episodes normally being an hour long) so I just didn't expect what I thought was a JDrama have so many episodes. The only other Japanese live action show I watch with that many episodes are the Taiga dramas(historical dramas)

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.