Hasbro's Power Rangers era and General Tokusatsu discussion
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So they actually care about details like that.
Based on the interview, it sounds as if they just like the convenience that it aligns the 50th Sentai team with the 50th anniversary of the series. And they like the opportunity to separate out their anniversaries from Kamen Rider's so they don't get overshadowed anymore.
It's also more financially beneficial to have seperate Anniversaries.
This way the bleed through of the Anniversary bumps will help the other show w/o having to spend extra $$$/Resources for that series Anniversary show.
Also, more "Annual Special Events" on different calender years.
So I can easily understand why Toei would want to do that.
That's the whole point of decoupling Sentai & Rider's Series Start/End point on the Calender.
Keep the interest going year round and if one series is in the starting / slow phase, the other series will be in the more interesting latter phase.
We just our first official tease of Gozyuger after tonights Boonboomger episode. Counting down from 50 reds to GozyuWolf
December 22nd will have more info and Christmas day.
50th anniversary logo
December 22nd will have more info and Christmas day.
50th anniversary logo
Some speculation going forward with super sentai being talked about
There’s supposedly a rebranding or name change similar to Kamen Rider/Masked Rider. Apparently this is so that the brand can be more open in other markets.
So “Super Squad”? “Super Task force”?
The changer/ morpher will be more integral. The changer could be going forward part of the main robo or the main robo
This makes people buy the changer + collectible to complete the robo
There’s supposedly a rebranding or name change similar to Kamen Rider/Masked Rider. Apparently this is so that the brand can be more open in other markets.
So “Super Squad”? “Super Task force”?
The changer/ morpher will be more integral. The changer could be going forward part of the main robo or the main robo
This makes people buy the changer + collectible to complete the robo
But that would be the reverse of what Kamen Rider did. For the first 38 years, the official English name was Masked Rider, as you can see in the logos for the first ten Heisei-era series. But starting with W in 2009, KR started using Kamen Rider as the official English title. (This was shortly after the American Ryuki adaptation Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, so I wonder if the American show using that name convinced Toei that they didn't need to translate it. Or maybe both Adness and Toei were trying to distance themselves from the reputation of Saban's Masked Rider.)
It seems to me that the most natural English-language rebrand for Super Sentai would be Power Rangers, which has decades of name recognition behind it and which nobody in the US seems to be using anymore.
Please, GOD NO!
Just leave it in Romanji.
If you want it to be SEO (Search Engine Optimized).
Leave it as "Kamen Rider" & "Super Sentai".
Trying to use other generic terms like that is going to make it harder to find on Google.
Hasbro says “Hi”
It needs to be something that Toei can market to other countries globally easily
Interesting changes if indeed true for the next couple of years going forward for the super sentai franchise
"Kamen Rider"
"Super Sentai"
Trade Mark it in English!
Remember, words like "Sushi" & "Tsunami" become common terms in the English language already.
"Tokusatsu", "Kamen Rider", "Super Sentai", "Ultraman" can all eventually become common terms one day.
Apparently super sentai can’t market in the west. They’re not allowed to market here. Thanks to power rangers and hasbro.
Hasbro has the right to block any push Toei would make into the West given that they own the Power Rangers licensing. (And they own it in perpetuity I might add.)
toei are focused on other Asia markets right now.
Hasbro has the right to block any push Toei would make into the West given that they own the Power Rangers licensing. (And they own it in perpetuity I might add.)
toei are focused on other Asia markets right now.
Yet we can legally buy Super Sentai / Kamen Rider series Blu-Ray TV series Discs right off Amazon.
So how's that going to work?
Toei can license and have their products sell in the US.
Yet Power Rangers & Hasbro still exist.
But Shout! Factory has released a ton of the old Super Sentai series in the US, so obviously they can't be totally blocking them from releasing it here. Or does that only apply to new series?
I guess I had the impression that Hasbro had lost interest in Power Rangers and might even be planning to sell it.
Hasbro has no Rights on Kamen Rider, so they can't do anything, as for the Super Sentai Series that are sold in the US, that's because Shout Factory had Saban and Later Hasbro's permission to sell them. It's also why the last Super Sentai Releases (Dekaranger and Fiveman) are only available on Physical and not on streaming on their website, it was Hasbro's condition to allow Shout to release these series
BoonBoomGer will have 49 episodes, concluding on 2/16. Gozyuger is likely to appear in 48, and possibly 49 as well. (The first toys release on 2/15.) The week after (2/23) will be a special episode. Gozyuger premiers on 3/2.
So much for "Don't stop the BoonBoom." Well, they'll be back for the movie, and for future reunion specials.
Gozyuger will be unveiled in next months issue of telebi-kun magazine at the end of this month
Christmas Day in Japan will have the website online and a new poster
We can see the five modes of the main mecha personalized by the ring which makes the head
Gozyu Wolf the red ranger is the only one who requires just the ring and the changer to become the robo
The other four use their personal weapons plus ring to outfit the mecha
Also featured is Geats third rider( pudding themed and Geats new form (king fu Ramen )
Christmas Day in Japan will have the website online and a new poster
We can see the five modes of the main mecha personalized by the ring which makes the head
Gozyu Wolf the red ranger is the only one who requires just the ring and the changer to become the robo
The other four use their personal weapons plus ring to outfit the mecha
Also featured is Geats third rider( pudding themed and Geats new form (king fu Ramen )