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Old 11/22/11, 10:11 PM   #21
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Default Re: The differences between Super Sentai and Power Rangers?

Basically the main difference between Sentai and Power Rangers is that Sentai can be more violent. There are deaths involved. You don't usually see a whole lot of blood in most cases but there are ways around people being killed but typically that's only a case for the Sentai warriors and they never stay alive once they're brought back.

Also there are various seasons in which you may see monsters or even other beings choking 1 of the Sentai warriors who aren't currently transformed whereas with Power Rangers you'll never see any umorphed choking during any episode.

Also Sentai can have monsters that are basically serial killers or mad medical beings. Like for example Medicon, the mutant that damaged Circuit in Time Force? In Sentai, he was actually a scammer/serial killer. Basically he would lie to force his patients to keep on coming back to him in an attempt to charge more money and then he would eventually kill his patient.

Also Sentai doesn't have the same type of continuity like Power Rangers does.

Also I agree with PRangerX in regards to the deaths of Kendrix and Alex. I'm not really sure if Mike was dead or not since it's hard to tell since they never try to make it seem like he died once he came back. With Kendrix and Alex, at least it was a big deal with them to the point that you know that they were dead. Sure, they came back but I would still consider it a death for at least Kendrix and Alex.

Also Sentai doesn't usually repaint monster suits or make hybrids of various monster suits like Power Rangers does. Sometimes they'll make monster suits based on a theme like for example some of the Overdrive Robots (and some of the villains as well) were based on old mecha.
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Old 04/17/14, 11:59 PM   #22
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Other differences would include...

Zyuranger = Bandora had a reason for attacking the planet, because of her hatred for human kind however she hated children the most.
Rita had no reason other than she wanted to.

Dairanger = Zedd and his Putties did not exist in Dairanger, they had what Power Rangers would call Black Putties.

Kakuranger = This was a full season whereas the Alien Rangers were just in a mini series. Ninjazords, Shogunzords and Battle Borgs along with Ninjor actually came from this season though.
Ninjor was not a main figure in Sentai.
In Power Rangers, as we all know, the Rangers got the Ninjazords first and then the Shogunzords. The Battle Borgs were the Alien Rangers' zords.
In Kakuranger, it was the Shogunzords first, the Battle Borgs second, the Ninjazords third and the Falconzord last. The Falconzord did not have a pilot in Kakuranger.
The Cycles were not technically a difference since Kakuranger did have cycles as well but the ones Power Rangers had, their Shark Cycles were far different in design.

Rito was the evil leader until he was destroyed in Kakuranger and then Master Vile took over. They were also related much in the same way that they were related in Power Rangers as well.

Tengas did not exist, they had what Power Rangers would probably call as Blue Putties.

Ohranger = King Mondo never came back in Ohranger once the Super Zeo Megazord destroyed him.
Sprocket and Gasket were actually the same character in Ohranger.
Kingranger did have a henshin device but the Gold Ranger did not have a Zeonizer.

Carranger = P-trons and Putrid Pods are original. The Japanese counterpart to Divatox was technically the leader but I think Rygog's counterpart took command a lot more often until Havoc's counterpart came around. I believe Goldgolye's counterpart was the overall leader.

Megaranger = Quantrons was a difference. Andros' Battlizer Power-Up was another difference. Astronema was just there to be her American counterpart to the Japanese character but Astronema as we all know is actually the leader. In Megaranger, the female is not the leader... in fact it's actually Dr. Hinelar who is the leader.
Silver Ranger's Galactic Rover is also another difference.

Gingaman = Leo's Battlizer Power-Up is a difference as are the Stingwingers. Scorpius is also a difference since Captain Mutiny and his crew were the villains in Gingaman but without a Furio since Furio was Dr. Hinelar's Monster Form from Megaranger.
Astro Cycles and Jet Jammers were also differences as well as the themes.
Gingaman had a forest/Earth theme while Galaxy was doing a Space theme.

GoGoV = Not a whole lot of differences. Cycles were a big difference since only Red had one in GoGoV. Vypra's counterpart also didn't have her Vyprari in GoGoV. Joel, Chad and Carter also did not have their power-ups.
There was no Titanium Ranger since GoGoV was only meant to be a team of 5 Rangers.
Max Solarzord was a zord that was basically a robot but was capable of human speech.
Once Diabolico was destroyed in GoGoV, he was destroyed for good, he did not return.
The bases were different. In Power Rangers, it was a high-tech base that was underwater. In GoGoV, it was neither.

Timeranger = TimeFire died in Timeranger. Quantum didn't.
Vector Cycles, Strata Cycle and TF Eagle was a difference.
Wes' Battle Fire Armor and Eric's Mega Battle was also a difference since they didn't exist.
Don (Gluto's counterpart) was the evil leader in Timeranger but they used some of his stories as their stories for Ransik.
Captain Ryouga (Alex's counterpart) was more devious since he allowed time changes to happen as they occurred except he sent them their zords when he wasn't supposed to since they were supposed to die then but he altered the timeline in order to change that. In Timeranger, he was also the one responsible for sending the Morpher and Q-Rex back in time so that a modern day human (Naoto in Timeranger) would find it and end up dying since he knew that regardless of the timeline, he was meant to die as TimeFire/Quantum Ranger but he didn't want that to happen.

Gaoranger = Only Merrick had a Cycle in Gaoranger. Cole's Battlizer was also a difference since GaoRed didn't have one in Gaoranger.
There was no Master Org in Gaoranger, in reality it was just a myth, a hoax since the Master Org was just a symbol of the combination of power between the 3 Highness Dukes, who we know as the 3 Org Generals, those being Retinax, Nayzor and Mandilok.
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Old 05/16/14, 11:22 AM   #23
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I wanted to add more to some of my previous post but within a new post.

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Zyuranger = Bandora had a reason for attacking the planet, because of her hatred for human kind however she hated children the most.
Rita had no reason other than she wanted to.
While Rita was the leader of her group, her powers were not natural. Dai Satan or as we know as Lokar in Power Rangers is the one that gave her the powers. However there was a catch because of her being a witch. Witches can't cry otherwise they'll lose their powers.

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Dairanger = Zedd and his Putties did not exist in Dairanger, they had what Power Rangers would call Black Putties.
The monster that we know as Mondo the Magician was one of the lead villains in Dairanger. The exterior pyramid-like thing that was used for the exterior shot of the Deserted Planet was actually the exterior shot for the Gorma Palace. Serpentera was a neutral God in Dairanger, he didn't fight for either side, he was just angry at both because of the destruction that was happening due to the war between Gorma and the Dairanger.

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Rito was the evil leader until he was destroyed in Kakuranger and then Master Vile took over. They were also related much in the same way that they were related in Power Rangers as well.
Rito also did not come back like he did in Power Rangers.
The Thunderzords were not destroyed by him since he came from Kakuranger and the zords came from Dairanger.

Ohranger = Auric, Klank and Orbus later became friends once the rest of the Machne Empire leaders were destroyed since they had to care for Gasket and Archerina's child.

Carranger = The Chromites were the foot soldiers.

Megaranger = Craterites were the foot soldiers.
Once Darkonda was destroyed by the Mega Voyager, that was it for him in Senta, he didn't come back.

Gingaman = Hexuba was just basically a Monster of the Day here in Power Rangers but she along with Treacheron, Deviot and Villamax were Generals in Mutiny's army in Sentai.

Gaoranger = Shayla's counterpart had a Grandmother (I believe it was a Grandmother) that sang to the Deerzord instead of Shayla's direct counterpart singing to the zord however she had to take it up in place of her in order to summon the zord back to them since the Grandma wasn't able to sing anymore due to a previous attack by special Putrids.

Hurricanger = No Lothor. The zord you saw him using was actually a clone of the ultimate form of Tao Zanto, Lothor's counterpart. Tao Zanto never did anything in Sentai except remained in his base until he took his new form. He left the dirty work to all of his minions.
Kapri, Marah, Zurgane and Choobo were already there. The others, he was waiting for them to appear since it was foretold that they would appear at some point.

The Thunders' Sentai counterparts were more dark since they were never evil in Sentai until the whole poison gas thing.

Abaranger = There were 2 alternate Earths - Dino Earth and Another Earth. Another Earth being our Earth. The villains - Evolian or Evorian operated from Dino Earth. There were a little girl that was the leader but she was actually possessed by the overall leader. She only had to deal with 3 Generals. 2 of the Generals were the silent ones that Lothor brought with him when he returned from the Abyss in the teamup.
The other General she had to deal with was a female warrior.
Zeltrax was a warrior but he was a cursed power, basically a tormented warrior. His powers weren't just limited to villains but good guys could take on the powers as well but if they did, they would become corrupted.
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Old 05/28/14, 05:14 PM   #24
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Season 2 used Zyu 2 footage. Power Rangers Season 1 did so well that Fox commissoned more episodes then they originally ordered. So Toei shot extra action footage with the Zuyo costumes/zords. These we're used at the end of of Season 1 and in Season 2. They did do US only scenes. Especially in season 2 and 3. So thats why Tommy could still have his powers in "Green No More" and Kim having a Shark Cycle. The Shark Cycles we're actually all US footage.
It was Season 1 and 2 that used Zyu2 footage actually... and of course a bit of Season 3.

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As for comparing Sentai to PR. Some seasons try to adapt Sentai closely. To where they actually shoot US scenes to match the sentai. Like a lot of Time Force, Wild Force, and Mystic Force. But other seasons try to use the Sentai footage to tell there own story. With original US footage. MMPR Seasons 2 and 3 we're very much like this. They did a ton more american footage during that point. Space and Galaxy are examples of Ranger seasons that totally did there own thing ( Since MEgaranger and Gingamen we're not about Space Rangers).
That's correct, some seasons try to adapt Sentai closely like in the case of Time Force, Wild Force, Mystic Force and even to some points... Space, Galaxy and S.P.D.
That's true with Space doing its own thing since Megaranger was a video game oriented season but Space still decided to keep a good portion of the Sentai plots.

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Super Sentai can get away with more then PR. Since children's standards and practices don't censor as much out there. Sentai can be more violent and have darker storylines. But there is still plenty of comedy and camp. The target audience actually is for younger children then PR is. Sentai tends to not really have a tight continuity ( outsite of team ups). Unlike early PR had ( obviously now they are similar to Sentai, with little inter-season continuity besides team ups).
Indeed, Sentai can get away with a lot more because their standards aren't as strict as U.S. censorship is... so they can be more violent and have darker plots as well as darker monsters.
Actually Sentai doesn't really have a continuity, that's what some people tend to say, it doesn't have a continuity unless they need to make it work in the story like with teamups/crossovers and Gokaiger.

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mike used 5 main dairangers 's aura changers to transform into 6th ranger
hutta used sword in gingaman
That's correct, not to mention Jungle Fury using Sunglasses instead of the Gekiranger Henshin Gloves.
Also Riki had what we knew of as a Zeonizer to transform into KingRanger but Jason and Trey didn't have a Morpher.

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Correct, the Magna Morpher is a repainted Aura Changer. Obviously they needed a morpher for the toyline, and since BullBlack didn't have one, they used Dairanger's.
you're probably right in regards to why they opted for giving him a Morpher.
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Dekaranger = No Gruumm. Mora did not have a counterpart but Morgana did but she was just a typical Monster of the Day. Broodwing was the only regular villain that you saw throughout the series besides the foot soldiers.

Cruger's design was different. The American design was more reptilian. The Toei design was more cheap.

No Battlizer. There was no instance of Omni and no battle in which Slate's clones all fought at once. The Rangers did not have civilian powers except for Jasmine/Yellow who had a psychic ability much like Bridge did but she actually had to physically touch something that the person touched in order to read his or her mind.

Magiranger = No Leelee. No Fire Heart. No Battlizer. No Strike Rider. No instance of the Underworld villains gaining control of Jenji and wishing away the goodness.
No Tribunal.
Red was not known as The Light.
All of Magiranger was related except for Hikaru/MagiShine, that's our Daggeron/Solaris Knight.
Everyone that had an Ancient Mystic Mode in Power Rangers including Niella, they were actually Heavenly Saints in Magiranger. The Saints are so powerful that typically once they become Saints you will lose your previous memories.

Boukenger = No Flurious. No Battlizer.
Gekiranger = Masters were not stuck in animal forms like they were in Sentai.
Go-Onger = Sentai had various dimensions including the Machine World where their mecha came from.
No Venjix.
Power Rangers altered the way of how RPM summoned a few of their zords in order to avoid any instances of them showing human-ish stuff.

Shinkenger = New cockpit. Samurai had zord-only pilot suits, Shinkenger did not.
Goseier =
Gokaiger =
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Shinkenger = New cockpit. Samurai had zord-only pilot suits, Shinkenger did not.
Lauren was related to Jayden whereas their counterparts weren't initially related. Lauren's counterpart adopted Jayden's counterpart

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Gokaiger = Armada and Warstar had no relation in Sentai. Gokaiger was a separate team and wasn't a Goseiger power-up instead Goseiger itself was part of their standard Gokai Changes along with Robo Knight's change.
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