[Phantom Stranger]

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:



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.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

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

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.