Do some sentai fans hate power rangers?

[ShinnGun]

I like em both, to a degree. The only PR seasons I loathe are Mystic Force and Operation Overdrive. There are Sentai series that I feel are boring, or just don't catch my interest. They're about equal in my eyes.

Even Sentai is better than PR, Sentai can water down Sentai itself. There are Sentai shows that really sucked (i.e., Boukenger) and not all of Sentai are perfect.

If you ask me, narrow-minded Pinoy Sentai sh*tties that loved Maskman, Bioman, Fiveman, and Jetman really hate PR for false reasons...:redface2:

 

[HaiTien78]

Usually the Sentites who hate PR are utterly moronic, not all of them, but they can be pains in the ass with no tolerance for even the slightest peice of cultural diversity.

QFT

Yes, some sentai fans do, but they're weaboos.

In most cases with more younger viewers that say PR sucks that is true. Not in all cases though...like if they are already Japanese (like Yoffy of Psychic Lover for example who showed his distaste for S.P.D. on his blog as some of you know already) :laugh:. If you are going to use that in an argument luke against said Sentai zealot, make sure you have more weeaboo-ism proof to back it up (ex: only likes Japanese bands, doesn't like a single non-asian show, has a picture of himself eating pocky etc.) :thumbs:

 

[HenshinRenegade]

I love Sentai and I love PR both. PR introduced me to Sentai. I will forever be grateful to PR for doing that.

 

[DarkWolf]

My disliking of PR comes from my disliking of Americanizations in general.

My reasons for disliking Americanizations are not because they're "bad", or "watered down", or whatever other complaints are usually thrown out there by the rabid fanboys; it's because they put Americans (and any foreigners that watch Americanizations) into a state of denial that the original Japanese show ever existed and are brainwashed into thinking the "adaption" is not an adaption at all and that Americans made the show from the ground up.

Dino Thunder is probably the only exception in my mind, considering in one episode they made an allusion to Abaranger where the PR cast was actually watching and critiquing their Sentai counterparts. That's the most I've ever seen from any americanization.

In my own opinion, if they aren't going to give ample credit to the original work, and make clear that it is not their own creation, they shouldn't adapt/Americanize it at all. I'd love for Americanizations to one day disappear and actually start getting subtitled, unedited releases of the originals, but that's not likely going to happen in the near future, sadly. But I'm hoping this new flood of domestic DVD releases and the upcoming Dragon Knight will help raise awareness of toku, rather than further burying it into obscurity, as PR has done.

Although I will give PR credit for introducing me to toku in the first place, but that was only by accident during a Google search years back...

 

[Kenori]

I agree and I disagree. I definantly agree with the fact that PR should give some credit to Sentai (and a passing reference in Dino Thunder is NOT giving credit) but I also disagree in that I don't think it has completely buried Sentai, quite the opposite. As you can see, most people who enjoy Sentai in America started with PR, then moved up. Like Robotech, Pokemon, Yugioh, Inuyasha, and all of those have helped people get into anime, I think that PR has helped get the younger generation into Toku.

 

[DigDoug]

Dino Thunder is probably the only exception in my mind, considering in one episode they made an allusion to Abaranger where the PR cast was actually watching and critiquing their Sentai counterparts. That's the most I've ever seen from any americanization.

Ooh! Which episode?

In my own opinion, if they aren't going to give ample credit to the original work, and make clear that it is not their own creation, they shouldn't adapt/Americanize it at all. I'd love for Americanizations to one day disappear and actually start getting subtitled, unedited releases of the originals, but that's not likely going to happen in the near future, sadly. But I'm hoping this new flood of domestic DVD releases and the upcoming Dragon Knight will help raise awareness of toku, rather than further burying it into obscurity, as PR has done.

Well, there ya go. Kamen Rider Dragon Knight should really help raise awareness if it does well, since Steve Wang isn't trying to hide the fact that it's a Japanese show. In fact, he has it written pretty clearly on the homepage.

 

[DarkWolf]

I agree and I disagree. I definantly agree with the fact that PR should give some credit to Sentai (and a passing reference in Dino Thunder is NOT giving credit) but I also disagree in that I don't think it has completely buried Sentai, quite the opposite. As you can see, most people who enjoy Sentai in America started with PR, then moved up. Like Robotech, Pokemon, Yugioh, Inuyasha, and all of those have helped people get into anime, I think that PR has helped get the younger generation into Toku.

It has helped to some extent; I won't argue with that. The problem is it only helps with those willing to look deep enough into PR to discover toku to begin with; otherwise it does the opposite; most people I've ever known are too damn stubborn to believe in such a thing as "Japanese Power Rangers", and are too lazy to do any research on what they watch.

Anime is a completely different story, because those are almost direct translations of the original Japanese work, with very little Americanization, if any at all. How Anime is handled now in the U.S. is a great example of what toku COULD be like here, if given the same respect.

I do agree Dino Thunder could've done much more, but that's the MOST I've ever seen from ANY Americanization; not just in PR...

Ooh! Which episode?

I believe it's called "Lost and Found in Translation" (a clever title, IMO ).
I'm not sure what the episode number is, but there's a wiki page on the episode here.
They did change some things in the original footage, like some of the things they say as well as their names. They didn't mess it up too bad, but it might irk you a little.

 

[NinjaJack]

I'm a fan of both, I see them like two sides of one coin worth it's weight in cool toys.

 

[dramonmaster222]

Power Rangers is what got me into Sentai originally and while I like both, I dislike the current direction PR is going in.

 

[grimreapernik]

Power Rangers is what got me into Sentai originally and while I like both, I dislike the current direction PR is going in.

Same goes here.