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Hasbro's Power Rangers era and General Tokusatsu discussion

I'm surprised they'd license the figures out to a different company, I assumed the whole reason they bought the franchise was to make all that kind of stuff themselves.

That was their intention when they bought the franchise seven years ago, of course, but the toys weren't as profitable as they hoped, so now they're hoping they can make more profit by selling the license to someone else. Hasbro still holds the media rights and non-toy merchandising rights.
 
To all tokusatsu fans I want to recommend this very nice anime series.
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Basically, the red member of your classic team finds himself catapulted into a fantasy world, bringing with him the various tropes of the sentai genre! In fact, every time he defeats an enemy (a goblin, a dragon, a monster), it explodes, to the dismay of those present!
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Uh, a Power Ranger reacts to a Red Rangers Become an Adventure in Another World!

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The toys can officially be revealed



Here are the product pages:

DX TegaSword - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14462/
DX TegaSword Sentai Ring Set - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14467/
DX LeonBuster50 - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14463/
DX TyrannoHammer50 - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14464/
DX EagleShooter50 - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14472/
DX UnicornDrill50 - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14473/

DX Sentai Ring Set GozyuLeon & GozyuTyranno - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14466/
DX Sentai Ring Set GozyuEagle & GozyuUnicorn - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14474/
DX Sentai Ring Set King-Ohger & BoonBoomGer - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14465/
DX Sentai Ring Set Ryusoulger & Donbrothers - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14475/

DX Robo Universe Daizyujin - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14482/
DX Robo Universe GaoKing - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14483/

Sentai Hero Series: GozyuWolf - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14468/
Sentai Hero Series: GozyuLeon - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14469/
Sentai Hero Series: GozyuTyranno - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14470/
Sentai Hero Series: GozyuEagle - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14476/
Sentai Hero Series: GozyuUnicorn - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14477/

Action Hero GozyuWolf - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14471/
Action Hero TegaSword Red - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14478/
Action Hero Don Momotaro - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14480/
Action Hero Tyrannoranger - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/item/detail/14481/

Password campaign details - https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/sentai/topics/detail/3973/


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Showcasing the dx gozyuger weapons/mecha. Currently they're not showing off the TegaSword modes until a later date.


Press Conference is this weekend too. Seeing as this season will be a season of 1st we get our first ever silloutte of a cast before the reveal

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Boom's new Power Rangers Prime series is a reboot set in it's own new universe, and it includes the VR Troopers as characters. Is this the first time they've ever been part of a Power Rangers story?
 
Boom's new Power Rangers Prime series is a reboot set in it's own new universe, and it includes the VR Troopers as characters. Is this the first time they've ever been part of a Power Rangers story?

As far as I can tell, yes, but a couple of other characters from the Metal Heroes franchise have been seen in the Power Rangers universe. World Ninja Jiraiya was adapted into "Space Sheriff Starfire" in the Ninja Steel episode based on Ninninger's Jiraiya crossover, and the actual Space Sheriff Gavan (or the original Gavan's successor from the revival movies) was adapted into Beast Morphers as Captain Chaku. RangerWiki says some costumes from VR Troopers or its source shows were used in PR, but I'm not sure which.
 
Gozyuger press conference in 90 minutes. Additionally you can watch the super hero time at 6 pm central time/ 7 pm eastern



The new sentai cast!

Henshin demonstration

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Red Sentai Gathering during press con

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The Gozyugers' names and actors:

🔴 GozyuWolf: Hoeru Tono, played by Mio Fuyuno (born in 2003).
💙 GozyuLeon: Rikuo Byakuya, played by Hideharu Suzuki (born in 2003).
💛 GozyuTyranno: Ryugi Bakugami, played by Masakazu Kanda (born in 1994).
💚 GozyuEagle: Kinjiro Takehara, played by Jin Matsumoto (born in 2005).
🖤 GozyuUnicorn: Sumino Ichikawa, played by Maya Imamori (born in 2006).





The character bios on the site indicate that a key plot point is each of the heroes having a dark past involving a traumatic incident that led them to become outcasts:
  • Red has given up on ever having dreams and became a drifter as a result of whatever happened
  • Blue was an idol but got fired from his agency/lost his career
  • Yellow's obsessive devotion to TegaSword has caused his family to reject him
  • Green's family has also rejected him
  • Black was in police academy but had to drop out and become a private detective
 
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Gozyuger story synopsis



“In the past, in a place beyond time and space, a battle between all the Super Sentai Robos and a “calamity” occurred. This battle known as the “Universe War” was brought to a close by one certain giant. The name of this light was “TegaSword”, a transcendent being who houses all the powers of the Super Sentai within himself. Sustaining wounds from the battle, he is forced to enter a great sleep—



Toono Hoeru, a young man who moves from part time job to part time job, is fired from another such part time job. At the same time, a mysterious organization named “Bridan” attacks the city; by attacking the Earth, they hope to awaken TegaSword.



At that time, Hoeru is suddenly enveloped in a mysterious dimension and meets TegaSword. TegaSword informs him that if he gathers the “rings”, pieces of his power that have been split up, he will grant him any wish he desires.



Toono Hoeru, who has no wish, decides to become No. 1 to find a wish—He enters into a contract with the rings, and becomes GozyuWolf, deciding to take on Bridan!



What is Toono Hoeru’s wish? And who are the other ring warriors? 5 people with varying backgrounds and idiosyncrasies form the “No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger” so we ask you to pay attention as they take on every No. 1 battle!”
 
Hm. It sounds like a mix of concepts we've seen before, and another contrived anniversary premise. But of course, the execution is what matters, and Super Sentai has generally had more entertaining anniversary-gimmick seasons (Gokaiger, Zenkaiger) than Kamen Rider has managed (Decade, Zi-O).

A lead character who doesn't have a specific wish but spends the series trying to figure one out reminds me of Ultraman Decker. As I recall, that arc had a rather disappointing resolution, with the protagonist never quite figuring out his life goal. Hopefully this will be more satisfying.

We already had AkaRed, the embodiment of all Red Ranger powers, and now we have an embodiment of all Super Sentai powers. I wonder if AkaRed will be referenced at all.
 
Hm. It sounds like a mix of concepts we've seen before, and another contrived anniversary premise. But of course, the execution is what matters, and Super Sentai has generally had more entertaining anniversary-gimmick seasons (Gokaiger, Zenkaiger) than Kamen Rider has managed (Decade, Zi-O).

A lead character who doesn't have a specific wish but spends the series trying to figure one out reminds me of Ultraman Decker. As I recall, that arc had a rather disappointing resolution, with the protagonist never quite figuring out his life goal. Hopefully this will be more satisfying.

We already had AkaRed, the embodiment of all Red Ranger powers, and now we have an embodiment of all Super Sentai powers. I wonder if AkaRed will be referenced at all.


If they do bring back AkaRed they’d probably have a different voice actor.


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On May 22, 2024, Furuya was the subject of extramarital affair, domestic violence, abortion coercion reports, which he later admitted to.[1]On June 24, Aoni Productions announced that Furuya was asked to step down from his voice roles in One Piece and Detective Conan due to the investigation, with Furuya complying.[2]
 
The Boonboomger’s have their own team theme

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Gozyuger theme revealed at the annual super sentai kamen rider music festival

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Tonight the BoonBoom stops........until the VS movie

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It will be interesting how much they fit in 20 minutes or so.
 
Number 1 Sentai Gozyuger premieres in two hours. Here are few new scans. We get to see that TegaSword does have a cockpit for the rangers

FireCandle’s personal Robo is called KingCandeler, while Bouqet’s personal Robo is KarenDeus.

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I definitely like GoZyu Wolf's finisher.

The Tekken Producer Katsuhito Harada gave a nice shout out to GoZyu Wolf's finisher.



I'm watching "Sentai Red Isekai de Boukensha ni Naru" ep 8.

There's some nice Actual Tokusatsu & Anime Cameo's in there

Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Cameo of Ninja Red & Ninja Blue

Tokusou Sentai DekaRanger Cameo of Deka Yellow & Deka Pink

Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters Cameo of Yellow Buster & Red Buster

Denji Sentai MegaRangers Cameo of the core 5 Mega Rangers, split into 2x seperate shots. The boys in one set of shots, the girls in another.

We also get a Cameo of Touma from Lupinranger.

We also get a Cameo of Tetsuzan, the commander from Battle Fever.

We also get a Cameo of Kijino & Natsumi from DonBrothers.

We also get Gills & Agito from Kamen Rider Agito.

The Core-5 of Jetman is in there as well.

We also get Faiz & Kaixa from Kamen Rider 555

And a very random "Aquarion Genesis" cameo from Sousei no Aquarion.
(NOTE: The Animation Studio that the show uses is the same one that did Aquarion, that's why there was a cameo from them, which is the most random type of cameo, but I enjoy the heck out of it).

And Toshiki Inoue himself wrote this episode!
 
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New Kamen Rider series trademarked


Kamen Rider Zeztz

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Zest?

Maybe buzzing sound like a bee or fly?
 
The katakana are ze, the sokuon (the small tsu character indicating that the next consonant is double-length), and tsu, so it would be pronounced zettsu. Something like Zetts or Zetz would make more sense as a transliteration, but I guess they're going for style over precision.

It does suggest an insect buzz, but it could also come from zetto, the letter Z. We've had several Z-named Riders before -- ZX, ZO, Cross-Z -- as well as Ultraman Z. It could be zetto + Z, the same way the original Ultraman's final enemy Zetton is zetto + N, because N is the only consonant that can end a Japanese word, so it was two final letters. Perhaps they're contrasting with Sentai's Number 1 theme this year by going in the opposite direction. To support this, note that all three kana in the logo are stylized to look like the letter Z.
 
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