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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Kenshi is Knight and Kenpou is the name of a fighting style. I'm assuming you are talking about the two episodes with the most badass character in the history of Sentai.

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Kenpō (拳法?) is the name of several Japanese martial arts. The word kenpō is a Japanese translation of the Chinese word "quánfǎ. This term is often informally transliterated as "kempo", as a result of applying Traditional Hepburn romanization,[1] but failing to use a macron to indicate the long vowel. The generic nature of the term combined

Developed in 1932 by Muneomi Sawayama, the art places an equal emphasis on striking techniques using hands and feet, immobilization and controls, projections and take-downs.

Yeah, that's more or less what I figured the terms meant. I'm not sure why TVN left those untranslated, though (actually I totally know why they did it, but I'mma bitch anyway).

Is "You cannot face him as a single kenshi" in any way a clearer translation than "You cannot face him alone"? Is there something wrong with "we need to learn a new attack to defeat him" that's corrected by "we need to learn a new kenpou to defeat him"?

I'm not a big TVN fan anymore, but I can usually just accept that some people prefer them and move on. But come on, it's not like these are even terms that can't be directly translated or approximated in English.