I'm starting to enjoy Power Rangers

Anonus

I've been watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers so that Cirque du Yogi could make fun of it and also have a giant robot.

And I admit I am enjoying the way it's basically a televised B-movie mixed with the Japanese flair for ridiculous shit.

What's happening?

Imipolex G

your tastes continue to decline

Anonus

I'm supposed to disdain Haim Saban and everything he stands for!

Also when did they start declining? Were they ever "good"?

Anonus

but for real, the Super Sentai footage makes me wish Haim had just flown THAT in without any of this new shit around it

Imipolex G

...good question.

Sredni Vashtar

Look up some actual tokusatsu stuff. You might dig it. I know my mom was big on Ultraman when she was young.

Anonus

fuck it I should just watch shitloads of Kamen Rider and Super Sentai

praise be to Japan

Sredni Vashtar

Yes! Join us hopeless weebs and be one with our demoniac masse! 0vvvvvvvv0

Anonus

Genndy Tartakovsky and Rebecca Sugar are weebs

Dexter's Laboratory had 73 episodes involving giant robots

Anonus

but truly this no-budget sitcom framing is alternately amusing and tedious

one of its pluses is that Walter Jones has some serious dance moves

Anonus

also the principal looks like Arthur Blank, founder of The Home Depot and owner of the Atlanta Falcons

Anonus

this episode is literally called "Food Fight"

also one must wonder how Rita Repulsa stands to do nothing but watch the Power Rangers

also Rita Repulsa hanging around her moon lair demanding her henchman make monsters for her reminds me of Simon Bar Sinister hanging around his 400 year old house hatching plots to do evil

Anonus

this food fight is tedious

please get back to the pig monster

Anonus

"It appears that Rita has unleashed a ravenous pig upon the Earth. Its sole purpose is to eat."

"...this pig must be stopped."

Anonus

pig monster is eating their weapons

Anonus

also I have no idea why the dude dubbing the Red Ranger's voice sounds nothing like Jason, unless this is Jason's actor trying too hard to sound "authoritative"

I remember the future Red Rangers sounding less...bad

Anonus

there are 54 more episodes after this

Anonus

in this season

Section42L

I just watched the first episode of Power Rangers and I am kinda baffled by how Saved By The Belly it is.

Section42L

0vvvv0 said:

Look up some actual tokusatsu stuff. You might dig it. I know my mom was big on Ultraman when she was young.

I've intended to watch Kamen Rider Gaim for a while now, but I know that's kinda, erm, different from what we're talking about.

Anonus

At the time Saban bought Power Rangers back from Disney, the show had 700 episodes (not counting the 2010 "re-versioning" of MMPR that existed solely to be the franchise's swan song before Disney buried it forever)

Holy shit

Anonus

oh god this chicken monster is accompanied by a menacing rock version of Old McDonald

Anonus

seeing the Rangers just do martial arts and stunts in casual situations is amazing

Calica

Anonus said:

At the time Saban bought Power Rangers back from Disney, the show had 700 episodes (not counting the 2010 "re-versioning" of MMPR that existed solely to be the franchise's swan song before Disney buried it forever)

Holy shit

well, on the Japanese side, it's more like there were 30 or so shows each with 50 episodes; the different Super Sentai and Kamen Rider series feature a different hero or set of heroes each year.

Anonus

oh my god they are driving a flying VW Bug, which was in Super Sentai too

Anonus

Calica said:

Anonus said:

At the time Saban bought Power Rangers back from Disney, the show had 700 episodes (not counting the 2010 "re-versioning" of MMPR that existed solely to be the franchise's swan song before Disney buried it forever)

Holy shit

well, on the Japanese side, it's more like there were 30 or so shows each with 50 episodes; the different Super Sentai and Kamen Rider series feature a different hero or set of heroes each year.

I know that

I'm just getting Archive Panic

Calica

Ultraman X, which is airing right now and is on Crunchyroll, features flying Nissan Leafs

Anonus

oh my god Rita's flying over on her big bike thing

Anonus

a penny-farthing

Calica

Anonus said:

Calica said:

Anonus said:

At the time Saban bought Power Rangers back from Disney, the show had 700 episodes (not counting the 2010 "re-versioning" of MMPR that existed solely to be the franchise's swan song before Disney buried it forever)

Holy shit

well, on the Japanese side, it's more like there were 30 or so shows each with 50 episodes; the different Super Sentai and Kamen Rider series feature a different hero or set of heroes each year.

I know that

I'm just getting Archive Panic

as far as the Japanese shows go, nobody watches everything, especially since most of the older stuff hasn't even been subtitled (and a lot of more recent stuff only has bad TVN -sama-chan-tachi subs)

Anonus

also for some reason in Japan things rarely get reran

Anonus

I have no idea why Bulk and Skull keep trying to start shit when they invariably end up embarrassed

Anonus

this show wasn't designed for binge viewing

my mind is too zapped to even enjoy the Super Sentai segments

Anonus

gdi i need to watch Gundam or something

Anonus

need more giant robots

Anonus

I know in America we think giant robots are awesome but in Japan they were a complicated metaphor for nukes

Anonus

this dude looks like a less red-haired Dr. Quest

Anonus

the ninth episode of the first season is next

I'm so tempted to spend the next day or so binging the first season of MMPR but that's a bad use of my time

Section42L

Anonus said:

I know in America we think giant robots are awesome but in Japan they were a complicated metaphor for nukes

[insert BOC's "Godzilla" here]

Anonus

this show has been deteriorating my mind

Anonus

i'm tired

Anonus

i've been plunged into Haim Saban's World of Schlock, and my mind is resisting attempts to get out of it

Anonus

okay I'm leaving it now

Calica

Anonus said:

I know in America we think giant robots are awesome but in Japan they were a complicated metaphor for nukes

nah the Japanese mostly think giant robots are awesome too, it's just that Tomino wanted to do a serious war story while his superiors wanted giant robots and three and a half decades later plastic models based on these serious war stories are known for printing money

Haven

Power Rangers used to be my very favorite thing, but if I tried to watch it now it would probably destroy me.

Although maybe I'm just tired or brain shit is happening but I was able to watch this without cringing, so:

Bee

"Dammit Alpha, these aren't teenagers with attitude!  They're the most well-adjusted and socially active teenagers I've ever seen!"

Anonus

PUMPKIN RAPPIN' IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN

you must find this monster before he ripens

also holy shit that's so old there's a Fox network bug in the corner (it's hard to discern)

Salix Babylonika

PUMPKIN RAPPIN

IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN

LOAD Cherry

Calica said:

Anonus said:

I know in America we think giant robots are awesome but in Japan they were a complicated metaphor for nukes

nah the Japanese mostly think giant robots are awesome too, it's just that Tomino wanted to do a serious war story while his superiors wanted giant robots and three and a half decades later plastic models based on these serious war stories are known for printing money

This. Also, I kinda wanna get into Kamen Rider myself, but I have no idea wehere to start. I also need to finish Gundam 0079 and watch Zeta. Iron-Blooded Orphans as well, if that's already started airing, which a cursory google search reveals that... it has!

One-Winged Eagle

Start with W/Double, most of our generation has.

Calica

yeah, start with W, use the W-Time/Over-Time subs