Reacting to Every Super Sentai Opening (Goranger - Kirameiger) 

Shinkenger was a modern take on the whole feudal lord and his vassal servants concepts. That's why the others were bowing to Takeru (Shinken Red) in the opening. That series was probably the most Japanese flavored entry in the series. The visors are also stylized takes on kanji. Red is fire. Blue is water. Greeen is trees. Yellow is Earth or the ground. Pink is skies. Gold is light.

Fun fact: The theme songs for Liveman and Turboranger are sung by the actors who played the Red for those two seasons. And Turboranger's Red also sang Zyuranger's theme.

“Why are you bowing? You are equals you bow to no man!” Actually... they aren’t... the Red Samurai is head of the clan and the others are his retainers. They have to listen to him.

Choujin Sentai Jetman's theme song was sung by Mr. Dragon Ball himself. Hironobu Kageyama. The writer for Zyuranger to Ohranger was also Noboru Sugimura. The man behind Resident Evil 2 and the Dino Crisis sequels.

It's funny how American adaptations work for Power Rangers. If the themes seem too "Japanese" and be lost by American audiences by some of the themes and differences in culture, they change the Sentai story drastically. For instance, Zyuranger is a fantasy series about warriors from an ancient civilization waking up in modern day to save children from a witch, and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers is about teenagers in high school fighting a witch

I’m glad that you asked about the HD quality. They started producing in HD in 2006 for Boukenger, the Adventurer-themed Sentai. Also, the cast started to get younger because the time slots for Sentai started to change in the late 90s and moms were watching with their kids as well. That’s how some cast members became very popular.

19:52 Ah yeah. When Haim Saban visited Japan and saw Choudenshi Bioman, he was going to make an American adaptation of the season as "Bio-Man". A pilot was made but the adaptation got rejected from being broadcasted. The names of the characters were then used for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers when MMPR Season 1 adapted Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger with some slight name changes to the characters.

The reason Battle Fever J's helmets look so weird, is because the show was originally supposed to be a sequel to Spider-Man, based on Captain America. When they reworked it into a Super Sentai show, they had the suits homage American style superheroes. Incidentally, the show originally being a sequel to Spider-Man is the entire reason Super Sentai/Power Rangers has giant robots.

1:42:45 This is a 4 episode special that served as a small hiatus between Lupinranger VS Patoranger and Ryusoulger, a battle royale of sorts. A fun watch.

1:12:13 They bowed to him because he's their Lord. And a Samurai's number one priority is their lord.

"Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters" has the same broadcast period as the other series, but has two completely different opening music.

1:20:45 Akiba ranger, their tagline is that they are the Official UNoffical sentai group. Basically they are sentai otaku getting the chance to become rangers. It's REALLY meta, especially for those who know a lot about sentai in general with tons of references and in jokes.

Both the Lupinrangers and Patorangers are good guys. But both teams always fight each other because the Lupinrangers are thieves while the Patorangers are obviously the police. Cops vs Robbers. Make sense right?

It's cool you are actually putting thought into your "reactions" ! You seem to have a good knowledge about music and a bit of japanese media culture. Very nice

1:03:20 The Boukengers are basically descendants of those adventures they represent in those paintings 1:37:27 Kyuranger is Space-themed with Constellations as its aesthetics

Actually for Dynaman, not all of them had "DR" on their helmets, only DynaRed. DynaBlack and DynaBlue had "DB" DynaYellow had "DY" And DynaPink had "DP"

Here in Brazil we had some Sentai series in the 80's, before Power Rangers, like Changeman, Flashman, Maskman, and others. We also had on TV Kamen Rider and some Space Sheriff series. It was awkward when Power Rangers came in, but we enjoyed too. As in Brazil there are many, many japanese migrants, they brought to Brazil japanese series often. It was a huge success. In Europe it was common too. They had series like Bioman on TV, and I think it was popular on France.

My guess for why the rangers seem to get younger over time is to relate to a young audience. Didn't want OLD men so much as just grown boys. They even tried: ...the white ranger in Diarainger (our Mighty Morphing white) was an actual kid, not even a teen, who grew into his suit when he morphed and later we would have the blue Turbo Ranger who did the same.

1:12:53 They are bowing to him because in Shinkenger, the Red Ranger is their "Lord" and the others are retainers whose families swore service to his family. It's one of the most interesting team dynamics in Super Sentai and is one of the MANY reasons Shikenger is probably my FAVORITE super sentai. It's the first Sentai I watched in FULL and was INFINITELY better than the power rangers version (I mean PR basically showed the eps out of chronological order?)

I scrolled a fair bit to see if it's been mentioned and didn't see anything lol MMPR used Zyuranger, Dairanger, and Kakuranger footage but kept the Zyuuranger suits because they thought kids would be confused by the same characters suddenly changing fighting styles. It wasn't until Ohranger (adapted into Zeo) that they finally let the main team change suits. (And the Kakuranger suits were used for the Alien Rangers)

Toqer (The train one) Is actually one of my favorites. Especially love one of the main concepts. The rangers are called by number not color, because they have a tendency of switching colors, and main weapons, almost once an episode. Its actually kinda cool.

46:54 Yep your right 1:19:24 Akibaranger is known as the unofficial Sentai, but yes it’s a technical spoof as Sentai is parodying itself here and celebrating a bit of their history. 1:40:28 It’s technicality associated to the concept of Kaitou (怪盗), meaning Phantom/Gentleman Thief, which just refers to the genre, with Lupin being used in reference to the Gentleman Thief Arsène Lupin. 1:42:45 The short and non-spoiler explanation is that they are participating in a supposed team royal to obtain a wish, that they were dragged into. 1:44:31 Actually, the most recent one, which has already finished, is Zenkaiger, which celebrated the franchise’s 45th anniversary, with the anniversary concept flowing over to the next Sentai that is starting, DonBrothers.

At 1:21:53 when u mentioned about challenging patriarchy, u'd be surprised at how early Super Sentai challenged patriarchy by having a female leader in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger( at 37:31 ) where in the plot, altho red is the first to be introduced in the montage, white female (NinjaWhite) was the official leader of the group. Where as for the next non male leader was from Mirai Sentai TimeRanger ( at 49:40 ) with Time Pink and then Geki Yellow from Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger ( at 1:07:34 ) . And momentarily a female red during Samurai Sentai Shinkenger ( at 1:12:00 ). Just thought I'd let you know. 🤣

You forgot Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger, which was just completed this week. The next Super Sentai season Avataro Sentai Donbrothers is coming out this week and I'm curiously interested in it. Its opening theme recently came out.

Omg thank you! This is the super sentai reaction that I need. Pausing and takes time reviewing each one of them from the actors, the stunt works, the costumes the zords, the songs. Great video, man. Thank you. I'm on 44:23 now, will get back to continue watch it till the end.

One of the cool parts about the Lupinranger VS. Patoranger theme is that the full thing is a duet, but if you isolate the vocals to just one of the singers, you get the "theme" of one of the two teams.

Lupinranger VS Patranger is an interesting concept, actually. We have two teams right from the start, with Thief versus Police setup, and the sixth ranger has both Thief form and Police form for his transformation. Definitely one of my favorite, regardless of the final reception of the series.

Dude you didn't watch the Maskman opening. I think the user who upload the video forgot to include it on the bunch.

1:07:28 Yes that was the theme for Boukenger, Adventure, Bouken is Japanese word for Adventure or To Travel that's why the logo is a compass 😊

With Kiramager the simplicity was really part of the charm, its my favourite sentai and how cleverly it used its simplicity is kinda amazing considering most of the season was made during the first covid wave

Now this is a proper reaction channel! you actually talk about the thing you're reacting to! instant sub

I liked your reaction vid! I feel like rewatching some of my favorite sentai shows now!

Fun Fact: the creator of Super Sentai as well Kamen Rider is also the creator of the manga and anime series Cyborg 009. On the subject of old anime, Jetman is inspired by Gachaman.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks ToQGer's theme song goes hard

Dairanger & Kakuranger opening will be stuck in our head for a long time if you heard it for the first time

I at first really disliked Timeranger too. But after listening to it all over again, I'm totally in love with it!

So interesting fact about Dairanger: the design for Master Org's human form in Wild Force is based on the villain of Dairanger.

The dog thing you mentioned, they did something similar to that in Kamen Rider W. One of the villains of that series was an actual house cat that transformed into a monster.

MagiRanger and GekiRangers best sentai ever. Loved the openings and the both series. If you haven't watched it then you may want to.

In Japan they will find opportunities to use english words in media or advertisements any time they think it will sound cool to do so. Even if they already have a Japanese word for it.

@MakoPako Pretty much, here’s the lineup for you brother. Showa Era: 1. Himitsu Sentai GoRanger - 1975-1977 2. J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai - 1977-1979 3. Battle Fever J - 1979-1980 (first sentai to have a giant robo) 4. Denshi Sentai Denjiman - 1980-1981 (first sentai to have a transforming robo) 5. Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan - 1981-1982 6. Dai Sentai Goggle-V - 1982-1983 (my birth year sentai) 7. Kagaku Sentai Dynaman - 1983-1984 8. Choudenshi Bioman - 1984-1985 (first sentai to have two women on the team) 9. Dengeki Sentai Changeman - 1985-1986 10. Choushinsei Flashman - 1986-1987 (10th anniversary sentai) 11. Hikari Sentai Maskman - 1987-1988 12. Chojyu Sentai Liveman - 1988-1989 (last sentai of the Showa Era of Japan)

greetings i'm from brazil and here changeman was really a favorite from when i was a kid. Till today is remembered with a lot of fondess from my generation. you vibing in the changeman opening really gave me that nerd felling "amazing, the thing that made me happy is making him happy" thanks for the video 'man. Stay safe Stay happy

Awesome reaction! Though, you forgot about Zenkaiger (the most recent season). Before you react to that one though, might wanna wait a week or 2 so that the Donbrothers opening drops, since that's gonna be the latest season. And there's also The High School Heroes, a sentai spinoff similar to Akibaranger, but this time it's a drama instead of a comedy, though it doesn't have an opening just an ending theme. Slightly unrelated fun fact, the narrator in the Kiramager opening is the same voice actor as Gintoki from Gintama, and the guy with the glasses is the Pen Pineapple Apple Pen guy.

The openings do change frequently during the season. Sometimes actors are replaced, or new members join. In the case of JAQK, the show wasn't doing well with the original four members and added The Big One, who became the new leader.

Really loved your reaction. Very energetic and involved. The analysis was concise and on-point, and even when you were guessing something, you were mostly correct.

First of all I liked how they tried to make the animal zords look like they were alive on Gaoranger. Some of my other favorites were Kyoryuger because of the diversity of the team. (Green was in high school, Pink was a rich girl in college, and Blue was 30 years old.) Gokaiger because the Pirates still pay tribute to the others teams. Also Lupinranger vs. Patrenranger because the 3-way battle of thieves, cops, and monster gangsters kept it interesting.

1:03:22 It's 2006. They count series not years. And because of Gorenger being 2 years long and 1978 having no Super Sentai, the 30th Series isn't in 2004 but it's in 2006.

As you already said PR is the adaptation of Super Sentai, though in terms of production both Sentai footage and costumes are licensed out for the making of PR after the respective series has finished airing in Japan. Though as you probably noticed from MM, Jyuranger-Kakuranger were amalgamated for its seasons, mostly taking the mecha from Dairanger and Kakuranger, with MM White being Kibaranger from Dairanger.

GOGO V It's amazing, soundtrack, robots and theme. There are five brothers who are firefighter, policeman, doctor, etc, each of them are heroes before the series even starts. GOGOV's theme was inspired by the problems Japan had with earthquakes and other natural problems at the beginning of the decade. The opening lyrics mean: "Saving a Live is saving the future, go further, GOGOV" Ps: The singer of Goseiger and Boukenger is the same of Pegasus Fantasy Saint Seiya And Gekiranger is the same singer of One Vision, of Digimon Tamers

The opening footage of Bioman, Changeman, Maskman (you skipped it) and Liveman are fan-made with some different footage from the real thing. The correct number of years displayed at the beginning of Flashman's video is "1986". I'm sorry for the machine-translated English

Bioman and Jetman are the best openings, the graphics and animations look pretty cool even today in compare with other seasons. Songs make a feeling that you watch something special and spectacular, the way how characters are introducted gives you an understanding of their temperaments. I also love the first two songs, sang by Isao Sasaki (they're too different from others and rememberable). Denziman is fine (the 4th season), Changeman is incendiary, I also enjoyed Turboranger (interesting fact, it was sang by Kenta Satyo, who also played Red Ranger in this season). From our age, I think, Hurricanger, Abaranger and Magiranger are great songs . Sadly, creators used too much CGI instead of practical effects, and may be the budget wasn't enough to make it on a good level (instead of Magiranger)

I like this reaction, he also give explanation or comment about every opening song. Im really enjoying watch this reaction. Thank u.

Watched all the openings last night while drawing, now I'm spending this night drawing with you reacting to all of them. Thank you for the content.

One thing I like about both Super Sentai and Power Rangers is how different they could be and I love them both for it. Take Rita vs. Bandora for example, Rita wanted to take the Earth for personal gain and is much funnier and a joy to see goof off. Rita is so iconic she is still remembered fondly and featured as a villain in other PR works. Bandora is a grieving mom wanting revenge on the dinosaur gods for killing her son and forms a pact with Satan, much more nuanced and terrifying and in my opinion interesting but with much less of the lovable comedy aspect and traits that make her as huge of an icon.

Oh, did you know, Battle Fever J, the third sentai series I think, they are part of Marvel's Universe, back then they had some deal with Marvel, around that time it was also when Spiderman (The Japanese Series) was been broadcasting

During the Liveman intro there's footage of a puppy on a skateboard. This was lifted from an episode of the previous season, Maskman.

1:38:19 ZODIAC!? Its constellations, constellations are literally plastered all over the opening, its a space themed sentai

In Kyuranger, all of them are None Humans (They're all aliens) other than the Skyblue Ranger.

I just finished watching gokaiger a week ago... and the song is already giving me nostalgia! Wow!

Wait till you research the surprising STAN LEE connections to super sentai.

Glad you enjoyed Gekiranger, hands down my favorite

Go-Busters didn't have a 2nd season. They just had a 2nd opening to add the silver and gold ranger to it

great reaction!

bro have talked about a lot of facts in 1 video, keep it up

You missed Zenkaiger and now there is Avataro Donbrothers. Lupinranger Vs Pataranger actually has a duet with two different theme songs that mash together. It is one of my favorites

"They must advertise the card game as well." Yep, that's basically accurate.

Here's a Fun Fact for you the Theme Song to Changeman was done by Hironobu Kageyama who's famous for doing music for Dragon Ball Z, as well as other Anime and Tokusatsu series.

@14:03 that is because Sun Vulcan Red or vuleagle's actor was replaced mid season and is the only red sentai to be replaced. consequently it also happened to Goranger and Bioman having their respective yellow rangers to be replaced

To answer your question about the HD: Boukenger (The adventurer one) was the first one filmed in widescreen, but Sentai didn't go HD until Shinkenger (The Samurai one)

Funny that you mention that some Sentai openings sound like One Piece openings-Toei owns both series. Also, the blue ranger in Kyuranger has the same VA as Zoro, the black one is Blackbeard, and the purple one is Law.

Hey man, great react! You mentioned the designs of ToQGer @ 1:32:30, during the show, they actually change "lines", and in doing so change color and weapons, like the Red Ranger, No1, would swap with the Blue Ranger, No2, and swap colors and weapons with him, so the Red Ranger would be using the Blue Rangers Gun and blue outfit, while the Blue Ranger would get the Red Rangers sword and Red Outfit. It is used for cool effect where they are swapping around colors and weapons during fights, and the simplicity of the outfits really lets that gimmick shine imo

29:26 Chikyu Sentai Fiveman the logos on their heads represent what subject they teach they're all siblings & teachers

So, not sure if you followed up on looking up the synopsis of Akibaranger. I looked back in the comments a bit to see if anyone had mentioned it, but I didn't see anything, so sorry if I am repeating something that has already been said. But, yeah. Akibaranger was not an official Sentai season. It was produced by Toei, like the rest. But it was an adult, kind of perverted show. And you pretty much nailed the synopsis as you were guessing. Three otaku, Red specifically being a Sentai otaku, get to become Sentai themselves. There is even references to American Power Rangers, or "Powerful Rangers" as they call them for copyright reason. Jason and Tommy (not ASJ and JDF, which would have been cool) show up for the episode instead of Geki and Burai, the white neck guards and belts are replaced with an American flag motif. It's pretty fun, I definitely recommend it. The anime girl is a show in universe, and works as their morpher and weapon set.

great insight, the effects got better over time!? clear jr high school graduate here!!

i agree with how the special effects kinda stayed the same as everything else started to get better. it's like they stopped caring about them. this is just a suggestion but maybe you could watch ultraman (especially the more recent series) since they work with both special and practical effects and i think they do both very well.

While Boukenger is the 30th anniversary of Super Sentai. It actually aired in 2006 and not 2005. Gorenger, the very first season of Super Sentai lasted 84 episodes. It started in '75 but ended in '77. JAKQ only lasted about half a year with 35 episodes. After that though, there was a new 50-ish episode season each year.

ok yeah im definitely subscribing your reaction to Changeman was fire haha because Yes their theme song goes hard. Can't wait until you see some of the others. i'll drop a link to kamen rider opening hopefully you can react to that. its the Original series that brought forth Super Sentai. Kamen Rider is (older brother) Super Sentai is (younger sister) series.

I had the same reaction with the 'black people' getting punched by the sentai when I first watched them a few years ago.

Zyuohger, you were trying to figure out why they said elephant... They said all the animal names in English, bro. Eagle, Shark, Lion, Elephant, Tiger. But you got so fixated on the elephant that you didn't notice the others I guess. And Lupinranger vs Patrolranger (LuPat) is basically a cops and robbers rangers, yeah. It's pretty cool, and I would love to see them adapt that into a modernized Power Rangers: Hexagon. But I don't think it will happen.

Kakuranger = Alien Rangers Fun fact: MMPR S3 Beginning is Kakuranger's ending and vice-versa - Muteki Shogun was the first mecha to appear while the Shogun Megazord was the last and the reverse goes for Kakure Dai Shogun / Ninja Megazord. Also Tsubasamaru was autonomous and didn't have a ranger unlike the White Falconzord. And since Tsubasamaru appeared at the middle of the season they had to find a way to make the Falconzord "disappear". This was again because of the reversed order

wow i love the anime frames you got in the bg

sorry to be so late to the party, but since I didn't see anyone else address this, I will. The reason for the emblems on the helmets of Fiveman that you found so odd is because they are all elementary teachers and the emblems are the subject they teach. Music note is of course the music teacher.

two Sentai in one series . Lupin rangers vs patto rangers

This whole time I had no clue that the lupanranger theme was from sentai. I only heard it while playing taiko no tatsujin on switch and just thought it was a cool song from an anime I didn't know

The Dynaman suits were intended to be baseball theme btw

Nice reaction bro....Respect

You mentioned Gatchaman and if I hear correctly Getter as well, You definitely know you stuff man

1:43:44 it was a tv special that saw random team members grouped together for a huge tournament, and it was also meant as the introduction of the Sentai team that was to follow

Akibaranger is an unofficial sentai. It was made as a joke so it doesn’t count as an actual sentai lol. And no it didn’t get 2 whole years for itself, the show was very short

The first 2 were like 2 seasons each and also were not officially a part of Super Sentai for like 20 years because they did not have Zords but finally in the 90s they were officially added. The BF stands for Battle Fever btw. Yes the names change every year, in fact each one is in its own universe last I checked.

For some reason Shinkenger theme song felt like an anime

The thing about Akibaranger, its a Super Sentai Parody that was retroactively made canon later

where can i watch the earlier sentai series?

On Shinkenger, you are technically right. They are equals but the others shinkengers didn’t know that. Takeru is a kagemusha for the real shinkenred. He later,close to the very end of the series, does become the real head of the Shiba clan when the real shinkenred adopts him after she gets injured in battle and couldn’t continue fighting.

The "noticeably younger guys" in Turboranger (1989) was because they were the first team of teens.

some speculate it took them long to do Samurai theme bcos they wanted to make it easy for Power Rangers to adapt their series, so they had been avoiding a very culturally japan theme Shinkenger was released around the time Power Ranger live action series was on hiatus after Disney pulled the plug by the end of Power Rangers RPM

In Super Sentai Jakq, each one of them represents a playing card, the rainbow guy represents the joker card in the deck, he is the creator of the team, he only joins the team later, until then, the one who leads in the fights is the red one.

Is anyone going to point out the fact the Hikari Sentai Maskman is missing?

I am a year late, but if you are watching this a year later too the akibaranger anime girl was their morpher and as for the lead always being male you could say that shinkenger did something different since they had the red shinkenger as a girl later on. Also the extra sentais are made to stand out as special rangers that are not exactly part of the main theme so their designs will always look really cool.

Lupinranger and Patranger season are kinda unique since it's 3 way battle till near final. It's based on Cop and Robber after all so both teams can't really get along