[wrestlemaniac]

Hello everyone,

Since this is my first real post aside from my little introduction in the "new member" part of this board i thought i'd start of by letting you know how i feel about this hobby currently and see how everyone reacts.

The thing is, Mighty morphin power rangers was one of the biggest influences of my childhood and i have been a fan ever since. offcourse as a kid i had no idea that what i was seeing was basiclly a japanse tv show with american actors fitted in, that i was... in some ways...watching a scam and not the real thing...same goes with other series that aired in the 90's such as vr troopers and masked rider and beetleborgs, as a kid i thought it was american and to be honest to first time i found out about the real history of these shows many years ago,i was kinda shocked....then got intrigued and started looking up a ton of videos and episodes online of diffrent stuff to try to get into it....then got dissapointed and reverted back to simply loving the power rangers as i had always knew them.

i just turned 27 this month and yes i still love power rangers. Over the years i have tried over and over again to get into kamen rider,sentai and other original japanese stuff but there's always something that keeps me from getting pulled in...i can't really put it into 1 word it's more of a general feeling i get when watching the japanese stuff...i guess i miss the charm of my good ol' american power rangers and this is not meant in a disrespectfull manner at all but...the japanese actors all tend to look the same to me and the language gets irritating to listen to for long periods of time.

then why do i keep trying to get into it ?...well...by snooping around boards and reading praise after praise about series.. &... and how much better it is than the american versions an how butchered some of the american scenes seem to be, i always find myself intrested enough to want to see the real thing, then inevitably get bored again when i realize that i'm not watching "power rangers" as i have always loved them.

i've also tried to get into kamen rider mainly because i freaking love most of the rider costumes and the action always seemed to be more "bas ass" than the general ranger stuff. but again, everytime i try following a series online,i stick with it for 3 or 4 episodes and then go back to american power rangers.

Now...a lot of the stuff i tried watching online didn't have subs so i have spend a lot of time watching random kamen rider episodes from diffrent series and not knowing what the hell was going on storywise and getting annoyed at the "ping yong haiii" language lol.

Again, no disrespect to the japanese meant, i just find it odd from myself that i claim to love this genre then on the other hand not really knowing sh*t about it.

Sometimes i get the feeling i'd be better off sticking to watching an collecting mighty morphin era stuff since i think it's pretty safe to say that nothing will ever top those years for me...no matter how advanced the costumes get and how smooth the special effects and cgi looks now compared to the early 90's, the original charm has never been matched...maybe it's just me wearing rose tinted glasses i dunno...i'm glad i became a member here and i'm going to read up as much i can about foreign (to me at least) series and i still hope to catch the bug tbh, i WANT to like all of this and from a purely visual perspective i already do, i'm just to uneducated on mostly everything aside from american MMPR to reeeaaally be able to enjoy it i'd dare say.