Power Rangers

[nexus]

Would anyone happen to have or know where to find Champions write ups for the Power Rangers?

[SKJAM!]

Not the Power Rangers per se, but if you can find the Allies sourcebook for Fourth Edition, Zen Team is my homage to the sentai genre.

[Lethosos]

No.

Just... say No to Power Rangers. They've gone through sooooo many incarnations that they're starting to blur together, for me. (At least the Green Dragonzord is still nice and distinct--can't hate the Gojira homage.)

[Twilight]

No.

Just... say No to Power Rangers. They've gone through sooooo many incarnations that they're starting to blur together, for me. (At least the Green Dragonzord is still nice and distinct--can't hate the Gojira homage.)

Well the SuperSentai shows that inspired Power Rangers, not to mention provided footage for it on occasion, did run for something like twenty years or so and are still putting out episodes so it's hardly a surprise that Power Rangers is still going.

[ShinDangaioh]

Some of the Super Sentai shows are very distinct.

Jetman for example had the team be able to fly under their own power

DaiRanger and KakuRanger gave the rangers induvidual powers.

The anime Shinesman is a send-up of the various battle teams.

The Zen Team from Allies works for some of the Sentai shows, but not all. You'd have to do some modifications to do certain shows, and that is not counting the vehicles

As to English versions of battle team shows:
Monster Squad-Wax figures of Dracula, Frankenstien's Monster, and the Wolfman come to life and become heroes to make up for the past actions of the beings they are based off of.

Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverley Hills-The less said about this show, the better.

Thunderbirds-Thunderbirds are Go! The Tracey family with the various Thunderbirds(1-rocket-plane, 2-cargo plane, 3-space rocket, 4-sub, 5-space station)

[moquif]

The anime Shinesman is a send-up of the various battle teams.

Oh yes, can't forget the Shinesman with their fantastic colors (one color I had to look up the dictionary) and their awesome weapons. Too bad there were just two episodes. There's a thread in the Star Hero section about funny quotes from sci-fi. I wonder if anime counts....

[ShinDangaioh]

2 Anime episodes and 9 manga tankoubons for Shinesman(I should know. I have all nine/Still learning kanji. I have Katakana and Hiragna down) Let me guess, the color you had to look up was sepia.

Just toss the Shinesman into a Champions universe and watch the fun.

[Mister E]

Not the Power Rangers per se, but if you can find the Allies sourcebook for Fourth Edition, Zen Team is my homage to the sentai genre.

Can you define sentai for me? Does it simply refer to all giant-robot shows, or something more specific? I've never heard this term used before, and except for the old Voltron cartoon, haven't really followed the genre that closely.

[SKJAM!]

Can you define sentai for me? Does it simply refer to all giant-robot shows, or something more specific? I've never heard this term used before, and except for the old Voltron cartoon, haven't really followed the genre that closely.

"Sentai" is a subgenre of Japanese television shows (which has since expanded to all other media) which focuses on a "battle team" (roughly what the word means.) Traditionally, the team all have similar powers and outfits,and usually the same origin, almost always the same origin type. The typical team has five members, corresponding directly or metaphorically to the five elements* There have been many, many variations on the basic notion--Sailor Moon was sentai for girls, for example.

*The bad guys generally have four major lieutenants under the enemy leader, as four is an unlucky number in Chinese and Japanese folklore. In contrast to the heroes, who use their friendship and teamwork to become more effective than they would be fighting individually, the four lieutenants are individually quite powerful, but refuse to cooperate or work together except on direct orders from the leader.

[Twilight]

"Sentai" is a subgenre of Japanese television shows (which has since expanded to all other media) which focuses on a "battle team" (roughly what the word means.) Traditionally, the team all have similar powers and outfits,and usually the same origin, almost always the same origin type. The typical team has five members, corresponding directly or metaphorically to the five elements* There have been many, many variations on the basic notion--Sailor Moon was sentai for girls, for example.

*The bad guys generally have four major lieutenants under the enemy leader, as four is an unlucky number in Chinese and Japanese folklore. In contrast to the heroes, who use their friendship and teamwork to become more effective than they would be fighting individually, the four lieutenants are individually quite powerful, but refuse to cooperate or work together except on direct orders from the leader.

Also sometimes the lieutenants are very stupid, which often helps the hero win in an otherwise hopeless situation. Of course, now that I think more about it that's hardly a sentai only bit.

[moquif]

2 Anime episodes and 9 manga tankoubons for Shinesman(I should know. I have all nine/Still learning kanji. I have Katakana and Hiragna down) Let me guess, the color you had to look up was sepia.

Just toss the Shinesman into a Champions universe and watch the fun.

Yep, "a dark redish brown color" (because I know people will want to know what it is). Crayola never made one for this. Except for red, this was the most muted group of colors I've seen.

[SKJAM!]

I wrote up a list of villain types appropriate for Sentai genre games a while back. If you folks are interested, I can dig it up.

[nexus]

I wrote up a list of villain types appropriate for Sentai genre games a while back. If you folks are interested, I can dig it up.

Color me interested.

[Twilight]

I wrote up a list of villain types appropriate for Sentai genre games a while back. If you folks are interested, I can dig it up.

I'm definetly interested.

[JmOz]

Wasn't there a DH article on Sentai a while back as well...