[Kamen Rider Meteor]

I'd just cool it on the whole not being able to tell Asian people apart thing. You are digging a grave here. I like you mr.wrestlemaniac and I get what you are saying. But I saw 3 skateboarding white kids with bieber haircuts and backwards hats and I couldn't tell them apart. It's all relative.

[Sentai]

Okay guys. Let's ease this Thread off the racial issues.

[Ruckyducky]

I'm kinda a split down the middle. I stopped watching power rangers a few years ago around when SPD was out. After finding out about Kamen Rider, I was instantly hooked into Toku especially sentai and kamen rider. However I haven't gone back and watched the older sentai series that was used for the ranger series I've watched, so I'll probably says from mmpr to spd I love the power ranger versions. However I can't speak much on after SPD to Samurai. And currently I like Shinkenger better than Samurai, so I think for me it depends on which one I watched first. But Ultimately I like both for their differences and quirks that each country brings to the table.

[Dr Kain]

I will always appreciate Power Rangers for introducing me to Sentai. Hell, Power Rangers was the first series to take me away from Transformers when I was a kid.

My problem is not how the adaptations are executed, my problems lie with the lack of writing and acting capabilities. A lot of the Disney era stuff threw in enough explosions to give Michael Bay an orgasm. Add on top that every ranger team had to have some type of super power, diminishing the threat of the villains when they fight unmorphed. Then you have villains like Mr Snow in Operation Overdrive, Lothor in Ninja Storm, and Grumm in SPD that shows they were not even trying when it came to coming up with the villains. They either made them look ridiculously stupid to the point where you couldn't take them seriously, or/and they made them just down right idiotic in nature. Next, is the acting.

Sure, the acting was not always the show's strong point, but the ranger cast at least grew as the show went on. In the recent stuff, the series are so short that the actors have no chance to even improve to prove themselves to the audience. DinoThunder and SPD were the only series in the Disney era that had actors that started out pretty good in the beginning but then really got into their characters and were great by the end.

WIth that said, no, I will never find Power Rangers to be better than Sentai, but I will give it credit when it is do. They did an incredible job when they adapted the first several series (sans Turbo) into PR, because they were full of new ideas and were taken by surprised at how big the show became. Disney just pretty slammed it into the ground like Indiana Jones and had its way with the series. Just look at what they did to MMPR. They were losing money on the PR franchise, so what better way to make a profit than taking episodes already made and let their children draw on the video to make it "new" and "profitable." Sadly, Samurai did not help matters because it feels like a Disney PR show.

[wrestlemaniac]

Ok thanks for the opinions everyone, this is what this topic was meant to be, not a racial debate.

I guess it really is a matter of perspective and depends largely on where you live who you would reckognize best.

i haven't watched every season of pr yet since i stopped watching religiously right after in space ended back in the day, altho i kept up a little bit and at least watched some episodes of every subsequent series, enough to know who is who, and to me, and only speaking for myself here, that is enough to build a basic knowledge to be able to reckognize the actors.

The best way i can put this, is if you were to send me to morphicon, i could at least tell who is whom/which ranger even to for some of them my knowledge would be as limited as say only watched 1 or 2 episodes with said actor ( ninja storm, spd..), which is something i would never in a million years be able to do if you sent me to the japanese equivalent to morphicon even tho theoreticlly i should, since i'm sure by now there are some sentai series i have seen more footage from recently than the aforementioned rangers i would reckognize..

But anyway that was the last comparison i' mgoing to make about this since this fire has already been fueled more than enough. i will give watching toku a rest for a while and try again, there are elements i really liked in the stuff i've been watching recently, so it's not as if i can't "get it", maybe i just burned myself out by trying to much to quick. For now, i'll just keep enjoying everything on it's own and try not to compare too much.

[kamenlidaa]

Personally, I can't watch Power Rangers because of the acting, I dont find it all that strong & I'm sorry to say that it turns me off.
I don't think that the acting on the japanese shows is really any better but I find it easier to tolerate.
Maybe it's because I don't understand japanese & have to follow the subtitles so I have less time to focus on the flaws of their acting.

[OujaStrike]

i only watch PR not really into sentai

[Den-O]

I mean I can freely admit that Power Rangers got me into Toku as a child and it was the introduction that gave me interest as an adult. But I wasn't aware that anyone preferred US versions of Sentai to the original source material. I don't think there's any US series that I've seen that I would ever say is better than it's source material. The early stuff is so wildly reinterpreted that it's actually hard to consider them the same shows. Even then the US stuff is fun but generally terrible when compared to it's source.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

I mean I can freely admit that Power Rangers got me into Toku as a child and it was the introduction that gave me interest as an adult. But I wasn't aware that anyone preferred US versions of Sentai to the original source material. I don't think there's any US series that I've seen that I would ever say is better than it's source material. The early stuff is so wildly reinterpreted that it's actually hard to consider them the same shows. Even then the US stuff is fun but generally terrible when compared to it's source.

Megaranger is gonna have to be mind-blowingly amazing to come close to In Space...

I can't say that I prefer Sentai to PR, primarily because I only have 2 completed Sentai under my belt (Geki and Gokai), and the few Sentai I started did show some promise (Such as Shinken, Magi, Bouken, and Go-On. I did start GoBus, but I dropped that trainwreck at day one.), but I just stopped watching for one factor or another (Such as boredom with Shinken or general disinterest with Magi), so technically I have to say I preferred PR to Sentai, as a whole.

[PkmnMstr]

I don't think I was ever religiously into Power Rangers as a kid. Sure I really liked it, but I doubt I tuned into every episode. I watched whatever I could catch and probably stopped around Lost Galaxy. And since then I kinda wanted to watch Power Rangers so I'd try to watch an episode here or there, but it would never catch me enough to want to see more. I enjoy a lot of elements in Sentai over Power Rangers. I didn't get into Sentai until I was looking for this one subbed Anime and found it on TV-Nihon. I noticed they subbed a lot of Sentai, so I picked the one with the most interesting Power Rangers counterpart(Gekiranger/Jungle Fury) and I was hooked ever since.

Something about Power Rangers just doesn't cut for me. It's cheesy, but not the good kind of cheesy like Sentai. But that might just be personal taste.

I would have no problem attending Power Morphicon or a Super Sentai equivalent. I usually look into the characters and stuff of Power Rangers without actually watching so I at least know how to compare the equivalent series.