MMPR Japanese Dub-Original Ending Themes?!

[Silver Wolf]

Merely crossposting it but nerefir posted a more accurate translation of the tweets, which for some of them make alot more sense:

toei_tokusatsu If you look at the "Power Rangers: Samurai" (the name for the US version of Shinkenger) page, they added a video link at some point! http://bit.ly/9tDPRA #sentai

1. _ladyeve Oh! RT @toei_tokusatsu If you look at the "Power Rangers: Samurai" (the name for the US version of Shinkenger) page, they added a video link at some point! http://bit.ly/9tDPRA #sentai about 8 hours ago via web in reply to toei_tokusatsu Retweeted by toei_tokusatsu

2. kumaorigami Jayden should be called lord rather than prince (lol) I expect him to appear on a white horse! I wanna see it... RT @toei_tokusatsu: "Power Rangers: Samurai" (the name for the US version of Shinkenger) http://bit.ly/9tDPRA #sentai about 8 hours ago via Twipple Retweeted by toei_tokusatsu

3. kitchentimer I saw it lol Feels like it'll get popular overseas lol RT @toei_tokusatsu If you look at the "Power Rangers: Samurai" (the name for the US version of Shinkenger) page, they added a video link at some point! http://bit.ly/9tDPRA #sentaiabout 9 hours ago via www.movatwi.jp Retweeted by toei_tokusatsu

4. They put up a lot of pictures on the Power Rangers:Samurai Facebook page! Wall Street too... http://on.fb.me/dEzRIi about 9 hours ago via bitly

5. YOFFY_Psychic Power Rangers Samurai!!! RT @toei_tokusatsu If you look at the "Power Rangers: Samurai" (the name for the US version of Shinkenger) page, they added a video link at some point! http://bit.ly/9tDPRA #sentai about 10 hours ago via Twipple Retweeted by toei_tokusatsu and 6 others

6. valonian I wonder how it will turn out. RT @toei_tokusatsu If you look at the "Power Rangers: Samurai" (the name for the US version of Shinkenger) page, they added a video link at some point! http://bit.ly/9tDPRA #sentai about 10 hours ago via DestroyTwitter Retweeted by toei_tokusatsu

7. under170 I want to see PR!　If there are DVDs or iTunes distribution I'll definitely watch. I want to see the old ones too! RT: @toei_tokusatsu: "Power Rangers: Samurai" (the name for the US version of Shinkenger) http://bit.ly/9tDPRA #sentai about 10 hours ago via Echofon Retweeted by toei_tokusatsu

8. modfactory Did Shinkenyellow have that kind of shuriken throwing weapon things? RT: @toei_tokusatsu If you look at the "Power Rangers: Samurai" (the name for the US version of Shinkenger) page, they added... http://bit.ly/9tDPRA #sentai#sentai about 11 hours ago via Echofon Retweeted by toei_tokusatsu and 2 others

9. flyingleaper66 Finally! I knew it would be Samurai. Seems like America will love it. RT @toei_tokusatsu If you look at the "Power Rangers: Samurai" (the name for the US version of Shinkenger) page, they added a video link at some point! http://bit.ly/9tDPRA #sentai about 11 hours ago via yubitter

And trivia note:
パワレン (Pawaren) is approximately equivalent to our abbreviation PR.

 

[Lynxara]

I'm so not on August's level, I've just been around for awhile.

 

[triassicranger]

Though I still can't find anything from Zeo, or In Space onwards.

I once read somewhere (on a blog) they never dubbed half of season 3 and Zeo.

Lost Galaxy and Lightspeed Rescue were dubbed into Japanese. Supersentai.com used to have images of the video covers.

 

[Silver Wolf]

That's pretty much what happened. In fact, the dub stops right before "The Wedding" arc, cutting out the latter half of Season 2 of MMPR altogether. It only came back on "Super Channel", which carried on the dubs from then onwards, once Turbo was available to work with. Also Lightspeed's dub ended up being cut down to only 24 episodes, skipping a large number of random episodes including:
-Riding The Edge
-A Matter Of Trust
-Cyborg Rangers
-Up To The Challenge
-Curse Of The Cobra
-The Fifth Crystal
-The Chosen Path
-Yesterday Again
-The Great Egg Caper
-Ocean Bluel
-The Last Ranger
-Olympius Unbound
-Neptune's Daughter
-In The Limelight

Can anyone figure out if there's a pattern to this or some explanation for these omittances?

It's possible, at least in terms of Zeo, that as Ohranger was kind of regarded as a black-sheep at the time (due to the political climate in Japan after a massive Subway attack and the Great Kanto Earthquake, which is partly why the latter part of the series and Carranger took such a massive tone shift), they wanted to avoid having controversy resurface and, instead, intended to possibly bring back the show when things had quieted down. Then Carranger became a hit, and Power Rangers was supposedly making a big "revival" with the Turbo movie, so they probably thought: "Why not give it another go?".

And yet oddly enough "Power Rangers Zeo-Full Tilt Battle Pinball" (or at least a modified version as it was simply retitled "Power Rangers Pinball") was released in Japan three days prior to it's release in the U.S.

On a related note, I only just really noticed the new episode titles they created. Though most are at least similarily themed to the English counterparts, some are a bit interesting. A good number of them are typical Japanese titles like "Launch! Turbo Power" (Shift Into Turbo), "Resurrection! Silver Ranger" (Survival of the Silver), "All out Battle!" (Grunchor on The Loose), "Super Train Megazord, Sortie!" (Rising From Ashes), or "Desperate Aquabase" (The Fate Of Lightspeed Part I) and so on (on a related note can anyone give a better translation of this for "The Fate of Lightspeed Part 2"/"ライトスピード最終任務!"? I only end up with "Lightspeed, Last Mission!" but I'm not really sure that's accurate). Others are direct translations or odd, but somewhat fitting, titles such as "Birth of the New Power Rangers!" (From Out of Nowhere), "Kendrix's Soul" (The Power of Pink), "Save Zordon!" (The Delta Discovery). And then there's ones in the really odd category like "Symphony of Hell" (Cars Attacks).

I also dug up some of the "Official" sites for the dubs, if people are curious or would like to give translating them a shot (at least with better accuracy then I could with just Online Translators):
Official Toei Sites
-In Space
-Lost Galaxy
-Lightspeed Rescue

Super! Drama TV
-In Space
-Lost Galaxy
-Lightspeed Rescue

 

[The 2nd Evil]

I can't wait to see the reaction from Japanese Tweeters once they find out Samurai's mentor is named Takeru.

 

[Mr. Yellow]

I can't wait to see the reaction from Japanese Tweeters once they find out Samurai's mentor is named Takeru.

Tweet them.

 

[The 2nd Evil]

But I'm scared!

Also, I don't know how to type in Japanese characters, and doubt they would understand me.