Power Ranger influenced by DBZ?

Katalyst · Post by **Katalyst** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:03 pm

I know we've had topics like this before (what series have been influenced by DBZ and what-not) but I didn't want to bump any old topics.

Anyways, I was flipping through the channels last night and came across the first Power Rangers movie from way back in the day (when I was a young lad). I starting watching it to see how corny it was and as soon as I saw the "White Ranger" I noticed the huge similarity between his armor and the saiyan armor.

Your thoughts?

Mystery Person X · Post by **Mystery Person X** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:05 pm

Why have you specified "US" in the thread title? The White Ranger design comes from the Japanese series Gosei Sentai Dairanger.

Katalyst · Post by **Katalyst** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:06 pm

I knew the Power Rangers came from japan, I just wasn't completely sure if the designs were exactly the same. Sorry.

/changed title.

Payne222 · Post by **Payne222** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:09 pm

Mystery Person X wrote:Why have you specified "US" in the thread title? The White Ranger design comes from the Japanese series Gosei Sentai Dairanger.

Yeah. Basically, Power Rangers was based on Gosei Sentai. In Power Rangers, they just had Americans act out the dialouge and such and they cut the fighting scenes from the Japanese series.
EDIT - Though, which came first? Vegeta's Manga introduction or Gosei's TV appearence?

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:11 pm

uh... only Tommy's white costume and later zords came from it. The rest was Zyuranger footage.
[/PR nerd mode]
But yea, I can see what you're talking about.

Mystery Person X · Post by **Mystery Person X** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:13 pm

Payne222 wrote:Yeah. Basically, Power Rangers was based on Gosei Sentai. In Power Rangers, they just had Americans act out the dialouge and such and they cut the fighting scenes from the Japanese series.

The "Gosei" part is specifically part of Dairanger's title. Each Sentai series has a title that's "_____ Sentai _____ranger".

In seasons 2 and 3 of Power Rangers (which included the White Ranger), most of the non-Zord action scenes were actually new for the American version. This was because they wanted to keep using the same Ranger costumes as in season 1 (from Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuranger) even after they ran out of footage from Zyuranger. They gave up on this for the fourth season (Zeo) and just changed all the costumes to match that year's sentai series from then on.

Casual Matt · Post by **Casual Matt** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:14 pm

Payne222 wrote:
Mystery Person X wrote:Why have you specified "US" in the thread title? The White Ranger design comes from the Japanese series Gosei Sentai Dairanger.
Yeah. Basically, Power Rangers was based on Gosei Sentai. In Power Rangers, they just had Americans act out the dialouge and such and they cut the fighting scenes from the Japanese series.
EDIT - Though, which came first? Vegeta's Manga introduction or Gosei's TV appearence?

Dragon Ball Z started on TV in 1989, while Gosei Sentai Dairanger never started until 1994.

Post by **TripleRach** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:17 pm

Payne222 wrote:EDIT - Though, which came first? Vegeta's Manga introduction or Gosei's TV appearence?

DaiRanger premiered in February 1993. Vegeta debuted in Shounen Jump in January 1989.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:58 pm

I was shocked when I recently found out Power Rangers was such a big cropped/edited thing with fight scenes taken from a totally different show.

Watched it way back in elementary school. Makes me feel slightly cheated that they did all that to it.

Mr.Piccolo · Post by **Mr.Piccolo** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:05 am

Chuquita wrote:I was shocked when I recently found out Power Rangers was such a big cropped/edited thing with fight scenes taken from a totally different show.Watched it way back in elementary school. Makes me feel slightly cheated that they did all that to it.

Same, It always felt like something was..off in a way; they went from corny jokes and slapstick comedy with those two bullies to Godzilla like bouts..? Believe it or not, they explained this in an "I love the '90s" episode but for the sake of my childhood I was in denial.

-Billy the blue ranger

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:03 am

Ironically enough, Toei and Saban produced both shows at a time. Heck, it's because of some Rangers backlash it is assumed why Saban was so uptight on DBZ. After things died down a bit, know they let later PR seasons and Digimon get away with things they wouldn't let fly on DBZ.

KinoFourpaws · Post by **KinoFourpaws** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:19 am

Chuquita wrote:I was shocked when I recently found out Power Rangers was such a big cropped/edited thing with fight scenes taken from a totally different show.

Watched it way back in elementary school. Makes me feel slightly cheated that they did all that to it.

It's actually not the first (or at least only) time Americans have chopped up one or more Japanese TV shows to make a new one. They did it with Robotech as well, didn't they? o_O

Mystery Person X · Post by **Mystery Person X** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:24 am

KinoFourpaws wrote:It's actually not the first (or at least only) time Americans have chopped up one or more Japanese TV shows to make a new one. They did it with Robotech as well, didn't they? o_O

A hilarious example is Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:31 am

KinoFourpaws wrote:
Chuquita wrote:I was shocked when I recently found out Power Rangers was such a big cropped/edited thing with fight scenes taken from a totally different show.

Watched it way back in elementary school. Makes me feel slightly cheated that they did all that to it.
It's actually not the first (or at least only) time Americans have chopped up one or more Japanese TV shows to make a new one. They did it with Robotech as well, didn't they? o_O

It was still a great hit though. True I admit I don't think anyone under 30 should badmougth Robotech for doing that, but still...

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