Similarities between abaranger and gekiranger

[live jetabare]

Even if Gekiranger has generally a more dark tone than Abaranger, and both series have very different themes and storylines, it seems there are many similarities between both series which aren't found in others sentai series, especially about the villains:
- both series begin with three rangers, (red, blue, yellow) with a female yellow ranger
- Both series are the only ones which have a ranger, or ranger-like warrior as an antagonist during most of the run, who becomes good only at the end (Abarekiller, and Rio and Mele) (Wolzard changes sides mid series, even if he is sealed most of the remaining time)
- motivation of an important villain for destroying the world? to make his life more interesting because he is bored (Abarekiller, and Long)
- the heroes and villains have a parallel quest for power at the beginning ( Asuka and Jannu are looking for the Bakuryu, the Gekiranger and Rio are training in their respective schools to gain power)
- The female villain is obssessed with the black warrior (Jannu toward Asuka (hate (then love when she becomes Mahoro back)) and Mele (her love toward Rio)
- Talking animals (the Bakuryu in abaranger, the seven Kensei in gekiranger (even if I must admit, the latter were previously human))
- The main villain has completely manipulated an important main human villain (Dezumozorya manipulated Mahoro; and Long manipulated Rio)
- the evil male warrior realizes with horror that he's been in a way manipulated by the main villain, and that his motivations weren't really completely his own (Abarekiller in episode 43; Rio in episode 46 ( even if in my opinion, Rio was more manipulated by Long than Nakadai was by Dezumozorya)), and changes sides after this discovery
- a female villain has a big crush towards the male evil warrior (Rije/Rijewel toward Abarekiller; Mele toward Rio)
- an horrible event triggered the evil motivation of an human villain (Jannu wants revenge against Asuka, because she believed she was betrayed by him, after she had been captured and violated by Dezumozorya; Rio wants power, even evil power, to become stronger, after Long slaughtered his family); in both cases, the main villain was responsible of the horrible event.
- in both cases, the male evil warrior dies heroically, by weakening the main villain (Abarekiller with Dezumozorya; Rio with Long)
- a time travel in the Edo era (episode 12-13 of abaranger; episode 33 of Gekiranger)

 

[Tokuboy]

Like all long running series, expect a lot of elements to be reused.

 

[Sentaifan'07 Xman]

Yeah, what you said.

 

[Mikon]

 

[RiderKing]

Two more similarities:
- Both teams' two additional Rangers are a dark colored one (AbareBlack and GekiViolet) and a White one who don't use the word "White" in their Ranger name (AbareKiller and GekiChopper).
- In both team's crossover with their successors, the villain turned hero Ranger or Bangai Warrior is somehow revived, which allowed them to help the teams fight the big bad of the movie, only to return to the land of the dead after the mecha battle (Dekaranger vs. Abaranger: Mikoto was revived by accident by SaunaEelGingko trying to revive Dezumosorlya and once he was destroyed, Mikoto vanished. Go-Onger vs. Gekiranger: Rio and Mele were revived by Shafu and the Go-On Wings through a secret Geki Waza technique, but the effect would only last until sunset).

Do you think the similarities might be due to both series having the same writer? I mean, Den-O and OOO were written by the same writer and they have a few similarities with each other too.

 

[lazycoconut]

Both Yellow Rangers turned their back on a certain position/role (idol singer, heiress) to follow what they really wanted to do (mechanic, martial artist)

 

[RiderKing]

Another two similarities:
- Both Blue Rangers have a skilled profession (Yukito the chiropractor and Retsu the painter) and get their cold personality from a traumatic event involving a family member (Yukito estranged himself from his father for always pushing him into taking over the family business, even going as far as paying his high school girlfriend to move away and Retsu thought his brother was killed by Rio, which caused him to seek revenge).
- Both dark colored Rangers were under the influence of something that temporarily turned them evil (Asuka wore a cursed armor and Gou turned into a werewolf because of a forbidden Geki Waza technique he used).

 

[Lakeview]

Do you think the similarities might be due to both series having the same writer? I mean, Den-O and OOO were written by the same writer and they have a few similarities with each other too.

Abaranger and Gekiranger didn't have the same head writer. Abaranger's was Naruhisa Arakawa while Gekiranger's was Michiko Yokote. Arakawa did write Go-on vs. Geki though.

 

[Galaxian]

Both "complex villains" (AbareKiller and Rio) made comments that the Red senshi was similar to them and demanded to fight the them in their powered forms (AbareMax and Super GekiRed).