Hasbro's Power Rangers era and General Tokusatsu discussion

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I mean, it's not like this is remotely important or worth getting upset about or arguing over. It's an incredibly trivial technicality about something that's just recreational.

I'm not upset, just curious since you assumed Fandom.com Wiki wrote with a authoritative voice and assumed legitimacy, that it would be legitimate. Which I find puzzling considering they have shown no proof on the page to link their authority for translating it into English.

As I said, gray and silver are technically colorless -- essentially different levels of white light, with silver being more reflective. We perceive these things based on hue, brightness, and reflectivity, and we give priority to hue; so if there is a specific hue, we define the color based on that, with brightness or reflectivity being treated merely as modifiers (though there are exceptions, such as defining light red as a separate color, "pink"). But when there is no color, just shades of gray, then reflectivity becomes a more important distinction, and we use it to delineate gray from silver. At least, that's how it seems to me.

I guess that's one way to interpret color.

Again, though, what you or I think as individuals has exactly no bearing on how a studio in Japan decides to define character categories. That is something for us to observe, not to determine.

Fair enough.

 

[Christopher]

I'm not upset, just curious since you assumed Fandom.com Wiki wrote with a authoritative voice and assumed legitimacy, that it would be legitimate.

I didn't "assume," I gave the benefit of the doubt. It's not important enough to get prosecutorial about.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I didn't "assume," I gave the benefit of the doubt. It's not important enough to get prosecutorial about.

Fair enough.

 

[Samurai8472]

Well. Here they are. Exactly as described

 

[Christopher]

Wow, that's... cumbersome. So only one of them has a proper Ranger form and the others are mini-Megazords (so to speak)? And they've even got the anniversary logo on their foreheads, a contrivance previously reserved only for AkaRed.

Good grief, he's even got Akaranger's perforated visor.

 

[Samurai8472]

They really strive for homage with the holes in the helmet with Zenkaiser

Official reveal on December 21st, 5:00am JST

https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/zenkaiger/#/

Press conference is expected to be held


And yeah. No way this is getting adapted for power rangers.

It lends credence to the rumor that after Dino fury then hasbro and sentai go their separate ways

how would power rangers even explain the anniversary logo on Zenkaisers forehead? Lol

Sentai is single again and ready to hit the town and do it’s own thing


No logo version

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

That looks REALLY BAD. Like the initial Fat Chibi Form of Ex-Aid

 

[Christopher]

Silly-looking costumes are par for the course in this franchise. What matters will be the stories and the actors. Though having only one human lead and four robots without human forms is not an encouraging sign. Hopefully there will be some other human characters, as the support team or Sixth and additional Rangers.

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

No, Purple is associated with Violet, but it's still quite distinct in it's own right.

That depends on who you ask. There are two versions of the Colour Spectrum and they only appear in one each:

Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Cyan-Blue-Purple

Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet.

And Pink & Magenta are distinct from each other

At a very granular level (magenta is properly more reddish), but the two are often used as synonyms (For instance of the two Captain Magenta that appear in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and New Captain Scarlet only the latter (Mario Moro) was accurately named, the former (Patrick Donaghue) actually wore pink).

Should Gray & Silver be part of the same family?

Broadly, only the biggest teams are likely to have both if at all.

What about Yellow and Gold?

Now, there is a real, meaningful difference there. Gold is more of a yellow-brown than pure yellow.

That depends. (Zeo) Gold Ranger certainly wasn't a Yellow Ranger but rather a Black Ranger if anything (he has a similar pallet to DT Black) and I'd mainly not say the same of RPM Gold because they have a Black Ranger, and maybe the helmet.

On the other hand, Solaris Knight, Gold Samurai Ranger, Dino Charge Gold Ranger, Ninja Steel Gold and Beast Morphers Gold are more like Secondary Yellows.

 

[Christopher]

That depends. (Zeo) Gold Ranger certainly wasn't a Yellow Ranger but rather a Black Ranger if anything (he has a similar pallet to DT Black) and I'd mainly not say the same of RPM Gold because they have a Black Ranger, and maybe the helmet.

Zeo's "Gold Ranger" was based on OhRanger's KingRanger, who is classed as a Black Ranger. I'd guess that Zeo called him Gold instead of Black because the former Black Ranger, Adam, was still on the team as Zeo Ranger IV Green, so they wanted to avoid confusion.

 

[Samurai8472]

Silly-looking costumes are par for the course in this franchise. What matters will be the stories and the actors. Though having only one human lead and four robots without human forms is not an encouraging sign. Hopefully there will be some other human characters, as the support team or Sixth and additional Rangers.

It worked out great for this series

Takeru Sato was a really good actor and was able to carry the show talking to suits. Can they find someone with a likeable presence for Zenkaiser? It will be tough

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

It worked out great for this series

Takeru Sato was a really good actor and was able to carry the show talking to suits. Can they find someone with a likeable presence for Zenkaiser? It will be tough

Zenkaiger is going to be a 'Den-O' variant within Super Sentai, I hope they hire the best actor possible along with the best possible Seiyuus.

 

[Christopher]

It worked out great for this series

That's a good point, but of course Den-O had a sizeable human cast as well -- Hana, Airi, Yuto, Owner & Naomi, and the two guys from the coffee shop. Sentai shows don't often have large regular casts beyond the core team.

Also, for me, one of the major draws of these shows is the often quite beautiful female leads. I hope there's at least one regular human female supporting character.

 

[Samurai8472]

Once we know the cast it will probably look more familiar to people. I could imagine the lineup looking similar to Go-busters or the smaller grouping of Kyuranger later on in the Zenkaiger.

My guess

-Supporting actress like Ui (Ryuusoulger) or Swan-san from Dekaranger who will become a ranger later on. Maybe even get a partner robot

-6th ranger- Robot with human supporting actor

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So the final cast will probably look like this

3 actors and 6 or 7 robot partners

This Kyuranger photo is a good example of how I see the final cast looking like

The poster is just jarring to our minds because we don't know about the cast and all we see is one actors and four suited characters.

 

[Christopher]

The poster is just jarring to our minds because we don't know about the cast and all we see is one actors and four suited characters.

I don't find it "jarring." I just see it as something that could make the show less engaging or satisfying than it might otherwise be. I wasn't particularly fond of Kyuranger, in part because of the oversized cast that was half suit characters. Not every suit character can be a Momotaros or a Cheeda Nick. Sometimes you end up stuck with a Balance instead.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I don't find it "jarring." I just see it as something that could make the show less engaging or satisfying than it might otherwise be. I wasn't particularly fond of Kyuranger, in part because of the oversized cast that was half suit characters. Not every suit character can be a Momotaros or a Cheeda Nick. Sometimes you end up stuck with a Balance instead.

I guess I'm one of the few who really enjoyed Kyuuranger.

 

[Christopher]

I guess I'm one of the few who really enjoyed Kyuuranger.

It wasn't all bad. It had the best giant robo/vehicle designs since Go-Busters, nice and simple with those aesthetically pleasing spherical cockpits that the Rangers were visible within. The music was pretty good (though it usually is). And I appreciate its ambition in building a whole alternate universe for a space-based series. But it really could've done with a smaller cast and more appealing characters.

 

[kirk55555]

They really strive for homage with the holes in the helmet with Zenkaiser

Official reveal on December 21st, 5:00am JST

https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/zenkaiger/#/

Press conference is expected to be held


And yeah. No way this is getting adapted for power rangers.

It lends credence to the rumor that after Dino fury then hasbro and sentai go their separate ways

how would power rangers even explain the anniversary logo on Zenkaisers forehead? Lol

Sentai is single again and ready to hit the town and do it’s own thing


No logo version

I love Zenkaiser's design, and the robots are tolerable, I'm definitely interested in the series. After the bland crap that is kiramager, possible the most generic sentai its possible to make, the show needed a real shake up, and this is definitely different.

 

[Samurai8472]

Kiramager episode 35

Sentai does "The Hangover"

This has to be the most bonkers and hilarious episode so far. I heard Mabushina's suit actor learned how to play drunk from some of the crew members (Weekly episode blog)

I lol'ed at Drijan being stuck in the lake

I love how the episode was largely told via flashback, how Hiroya Matsumoto got Yodonna hooked on ice cream, and how the Kiramager finally defeated the enemy of Super Hero Time: Golfgom.

I want a .gif of that explosion behind Jyuuru after he made that eagle shot

Hiroya Matsumoto's cameo was really small. He basically had a Stan Lee level of cameo.

With ZenkaiMagine next year I bet he'll make another cameo since it's Magiranger related

 

[Christopher]

Kiramager episode 35

Sentai does "The Hangover"

This has to be the most bonkers and hilarious episode so far.

It was fun. Nice way to mix things up, starting with a giant battle and then having Garuza ultimately defeat the Jamenju for his own reasons. The search and flashback accounts were fun, and very cartoonish, with Sena's bursts of superspeed and whatnot.

Defeating the Jamenshi with golf ("How literal") was funny, and the way his explosion was filmed was very novel.

Hiroya Matsumoto's cameo was really small. He basically had a Stan Lee level of cameo.

Apparently Yodonna's Changer is voiced by the same actor who played "J" on Go-Busters, so that must be why they had Matsumoto interacting with her, though that's a bit of a reach for a connection.