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Toei usually register their trademarks in September for the Sentai series coming the following February, and sure enough the ever-faithful trademark bot has revealed that today (September 25th) Toei registered not one but TWO trademarks related to Super Sentai!
The trademarks are for Keisatsu Sentai Patoranger and Kaito Sentai Lupinranger.
'Keisatsu' means police while 'Pato' is derived from patrol (think like Deka Red's individual mecha, the Pat(o) Striker).
On the other hand 'Kaito' means a "phantom thief", which is the Japanese term for what we'd call a gentlemen thief. The word Lupin (coming from the name of the early 20th Century fictional French thief Arsene Lupin) seems to have become something of a shorthand for that kind of criminal in Japan. For examples of these terms being used in toku, see Daiki Kaito a.k.a. Kamen Rider DiEnd or, of course, Kamen Rider Lupin.
So the most obvious guess is that we'll be getting a 'cops and robbers' scenario with one Sentai trying to capture another? Looks like the Sentai shakeup continues!
The trademark bot tweet can be found here: https://twitter.com/trademark_bot/status/912335451981090816
The trademarks are for Keisatsu Sentai Patoranger and Kaito Sentai Lupinranger.
'Keisatsu' means police while 'Pato' is derived from patrol (think like Deka Red's individual mecha, the Pat(o) Striker).
On the other hand 'Kaito' means a "phantom thief", which is the Japanese term for what we'd call a gentlemen thief. The word Lupin (coming from the name of the early 20th Century fictional French thief Arsene Lupin) seems to have become something of a shorthand for that kind of criminal in Japan. For examples of these terms being used in toku, see Daiki Kaito a.k.a. Kamen Rider DiEnd or, of course, Kamen Rider Lupin.
So the most obvious guess is that we'll be getting a 'cops and robbers' scenario with one Sentai trying to capture another? Looks like the Sentai shakeup continues!
The trademark bot tweet can be found here: https://twitter.com/trademark_bot/status/912335451981090816
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