Yeah, PR: Samurai uses footage from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. After Disney dropped PR and I thought I’d never see another PR show again, I picked it up and was immediately hooked.
Sentai right now is finishing up Goseiger and the next series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (PIRATE RANGERS) starts next month. Its the 30th anniversary season and is supposed to be chock-full of crossovers and fanservice including a new “Forever Red” with all 30 Red Rangers, and apparently the Gokaigers have access to ALL prior mecha and powers from past seasons. Too good.
I’ll be watching that for sure.
Sweet thanks for the explanation, I’ve always heard that the footage was taken from “the original Sentai” so when you were saying “Shinkenger” I thought that maybe they had comlpetely changed names, not that you were referencing a different part of the name (to be more specific to the season, which makes sense).
Fun fact - kaizoku literally straight up means “pirate” in Jap speak, they’re getting right to the point with that.
This is a true statement. Also, the Rangers will have the ability to transform into Rangers from the previous series. They also have muskets and cutlasses. It will be awesome.
I believe the actual theme doesn’t use that chorus. The chorus/theme along with using the pictures of the original MMPR helmets as logos was all done in the ads by Saban to try and appeal to the crowd that used to watch MMPR when they were young but haven’t in years.
Idk, I mean, of course it’s a kids show, but a good director and producer can easily send nods for people who have watched a lot. Hell, RPM was just a huge nod to older PR series, on top of making it a bit darker.
It is a kids show but you’d be surprised about the adult fanbase for the show. Just check out Rangerboard. They can still try to bring back people for nostalgia or have those people who watch the show younger who are now adults and parents, turn their kids on to it.
Edit: True. RPM was a good example of taking a kid’s show and making it more hazy in terms of age range. Too bad Go-Onger had some of the stupidest looking zords ever.
It really was. I thought they did a great job with not having uni-dimensional characters, have them actually develop over time and provide somewhat of a deep setting.
Plus, they did a better job that Terminator Salvation with the exact same storyline
It depends on what you like. If you like campyness more and such, Go-Onger was better. If you like a more serious and grounded story, than RPM was better. It’s tastes in this case as RPM is actually such a radical departure emotion wise, from Go-Onger.
