Why Blue is so important color in Super Sentai (beside Red)

[vin13ish]

I meant can they least make a Super Sentai show without Blue and replace it with Orange. I mean why Blue is so important?! I know Red is important because it represent as a leader or hero but what Blue represent as?!

Tell me! Why Blue is so important?! It been every Super Sentai show?! Why?!

The only purpose blue have to be the quiet one like why?!

 

[Ryuutaros]

Maybe because it looks good with red (and the other main colours)? The colours work in harmony and therefore a team?

I don't know?

 

[Solari]

My guess
They are usually characters who play off each other's..
Red oni, blue oni

 

[Fox-Chan]

Well, I believe it is because the colors in a sentai are ideally supposed to be uniform, but still contrast with each other. A color like orange would not work very well as a replacement for blue, especially if there is a red and a yellow on the team. Depending on the orange used, the suit would end up being far too similar to either the red or the yellow.​

 

[Black Fang]

Battle Fever J had red (Japan), blue (France) and orange (Cossack). And orange essentially replaced yellow. So we could have a Sentai that repeats that someday, assuming Toei wants to try dropping yellow again like with Kyoryuger.

 

[Jacky392000]

if Red is the hot-headed leader, then Blue will have to be cool and calm because he is almost always The Lancer. what other colour can represent such personality other than Blue? I can't think of any, because Blue has always been called a "cool" colour if you get what I mean and as mentioned by the others, there has to be someone who is Red's contrast in the team. if it's not Pink, it's Blue.

 

[Fox-Chan]

Battle Fever J had red (Japan), blue (France) and orange (Cossack). And orange essentially replaced yellow. So we could have a Sentai that repeats that someday, assuming Toei wants to try dropping yellow again like with Kyoryuger.

Battle Fever J in particular had a very minimal amount of uniformity amongst the suits. That's why it could get away with using analogous colors. Hell, Japan's suit is chiefly white.

If Toei were to try to repeat that scheme, they should try to experiment a little with the rest of the suit too.​

 

[toni2212]

Sentai is created to sell toys to kids in order to gain profit for Toei. Red and Blue is easily color that kid wants to buy. After a long time of using the same system, it's hard for Toei to take a risk of dropping a Blue, a color that seems cool with kids and have a steady profit stream throughout its history. It has been in every Sentai since the Goranger too, throwing it out now can cause an uproar bigger than the one Kyoryuger get when they decide to throw Yellow out.

The same can be said of why Toei sometimes drop the color Pink (or Yellow in Kyoryuger's case). Because its not a color that's popular with the kids due to being girl-color. When it's not popular with the kids, it usually generates less profit.

Perhaps when you've grown up, you can go to Toei and propose a Sentai where there's not a Blue color in it.

 

[KamenRiderBritannia]

weird thread number 37, is it???

 

[kuroihikari]

The only purpose blue have to be the quiet one like why?!

Not really. Dairanger, Maskman for example. Dekaranger, too.

Red, blue, and yellow are the primary subtractive (paper) colors, so if they're going to choose a spread-out color scheme, it's bound to be spread out between those three.

Also, Red is a warm color, reminiscent of embers and lava. Blue is a cool color, like the ocean and the sky. It's a really a common visual element to make them contrast with one another because they look good against each other. Most Gundams for example end with the blue Gundam fighting against the red villain mecha.