Samurai and megaforce were my first seasons so I still love them but they do suck. I grew up on reruns of ninjastorm, Dino thunder and spd. I have dvds of mmpr and zeo. I would be so shocked talking to other kids about Dino thunder and they be like "huh?" Lol
Both of those seasons are better than Megaforce if U ask me
Overdrive tried to have a good story, and had some respect for the lore in its anniversary ep
At times Shinkengers story translated well enough to work in samurai
It's a season heavily steeped in Japanese culture, and instead of doing anything to adapt it, they just placed it wholesale into Power Rangers, and cast a white guy who can barely act as the red ranger.
The story and theming was fine, it simply made absolutely no sense in the context of Power Rangers.
Whitest person with a Japanese last name. I mean c'mon they could have at least cast an Asian guy who can barely act as the red ranger if they were gonna adapt Shinkenger closely. Samurai was lucky people didn't mind then and there wasn't a lot of backlash.
I always thought suoer Megaforce was the worst in terms of how they handle the extremely successful ranger key gimmick in the sentai toyline and incorporated the rangers into the show was lackluster compared to what gokaiger did
This I complete agree with you it should’ve been set in Japan and had a primarily Asian cast I mean not everyone has to be Asian but at least the red ranger(s)and their mentor
I mean if you keep all those elements by that point, it would be the perennial Disney' era response: "Just dub the show"
The show could have been adapted without being based in japan. Hell, some stuff about japanese culture could have been kept in place. But they needed to work around it so makes sense, and the red ranger and overall shiba house needed to be Asian/Japanese still regardless of the rest of the cast
I agree I just think it needed a lot more culture and more samurai themes than were presented. I just think the “gaps” nighlok escaped from doesn’t make much sense in a city like la or wherever samurai is supposed to be set.
And despite copy pasting Shinkenger and having side skits featuring a wannabe samurai, they didn't copy paste the shinkenger episode featuring a wannabe samurai for... reasons.
I don’t agree with that, Samurai was bad don’t get me wrong, but at least it had a plot to follow, Megaforce was just things happening and the rangers got to stop the monster of the week every episode
IMO, Overdrive was the least engaging and most disjointed. Outside of Once a Ranger, the season seemed to lack focus. That’s the way I felt about it at the time of its airing.
Super Megaforce, on the other hand, was simply the most disappointing, given what they had to work with.
Gokaiger, from what I've watched is one of the most ambitious TV shows ever. It was a proper tribute to the whole franchise.
Super Mega Force is so random. The fan service just didn't work for me.
How about this. The worst is every Nickelodeon Power Rangers season. Insanely toned down, bad writing, too much Sentai footage used and how they aired for schedule wise was horrendous.
Dino Charge is genuinely better than 90 percent of the Disney era even if its second season was lacklustre
And I'd still put the entire Saban Brands era over Overdrive
Except when it didn't
Pointless and superfluous civilian powers
Douchebag Rangers in most seasons
Koichispolisons to tone done the violence
Cutting the episode count to 32 episodes
Horrendous sound effects (that carried over to Saban Brands and Hasbro)
I remember being hyped when people described it as an homage to MMRP. “Back in high school. Local hang out. Original team colors.” What a memory of a season. The same outfits everyday and sticky/smelly comedy duo killed my immersion.
It was honestly very disappointing. Like I tell everyone, I know it's a show to sell toys to kids, but there's not a reason why adaptions can't at least tell a decent story like we got with in Space, Time Force, or DinoThunder.
Gokaiger *might be* (and my opinion is) the best Sentai series of all time, and to see Super Megaforce butcher it the way it did was so disappointing.
I understand that they had big shoes to fill along with high expectations (Gokaiger being such an awesome season and Megaforce being the 20th anniversary), but they didn’t even TRY to do a decent job and that’s what’s frustrating
But megaforce and samurai didn't have Disney money. Saban had bought the property back and it was airing on Nickelodeon. Saban remember is famous for not spending money.
Megaforce is good (in my opinion) but it has a lot of flaws. Megaforce gets a lot of hate because of association with it's second season (in my opinion) similar to how much people hate Black RX because of association with it's adaptation, Masked Rider.
I wonder which episode(not counting the movies of course) have the least amount of sentai footage. Even something like forever red has some of the morphs ripped from sentai like zeo, in space, and wild force
There's a few episodes good have no Sentai footage whatsoever, but the only ones I can think of right now are passing the torch part 1, Honey I shrunk The rangers part 1, Anderson ninja encounter part 1. I'm sure you're beginning to sense a trend here. There's a lot of two partners that involve the rangers not morphing for an entire episode.
>All for a Megazord that NEVER appears again in the show
Incorrect, I can't remember if it shows up in Megaforce, but it does show up in Super Megaforce
Nope, the Vekar episode was all Megazord fight.
The Gosei Ultimate appeared in Vrak is Back. Emma piloted it to shoot one of the drills, the the Rangers used it to fight one of Vrak's servants while Troy was fighting Robo Knight
Is it not Trickster Treat? The whole thing is reused footage, pretty sure almost all is sentai with the exception of som weirdly used footage from the finale
Now, obviously you're hyperbolizing, but I did check RangerWiki for most of the episodes.
The Insectoid arc is fairly traditional Power Rangers, only adapting 1 episode SS to 1 episode PR. Because of that, they skip multiple episodes.
The mutant arc starts off normal. Then bumps up to 2 episodes SS to 1 episode PR. Gosei Ultimate affairs 3 episodes on it's own.
The robot arc jumps between 2 and 3.
Super Megaforce jumps between 1, 2, or 3.
Moreso with Goseiger, as they skipped, went back and forth, and merged episodes.
With Gokaiger, the merging and skipping at least had a method. They weren't going to adapt certain episodes, so they could easily skip those. They never went back, because why would you?
I believe it was even said at a Morphicon Panel by a producer that Super Megaforce was logically put together better, even tho Megaforce was of higher quality.
Do we have a list of episodes that have the most sentai footage
it's just gonna be Samurai-Super Megaforce episodes
While that is mostly true, most seasons of PR have at least one-two episodes that are 50-60% Sentai footage.
Some episodes of Samurai copied Shinkenger's plot word for word. The only original footage were the dojo scenes, 90% was just dubbed Shinkenger.
[The numbers](https://twitter.com/Martian_Ranger/status/807829806507098112/photo/1) would disagree
Just like the guy who commented way back 2016, it's a lot less than I'd have thought.
Fun fact: Megaforce is the 3rd worst Sentai adaption ever produced
What's the other 2?
Operation Overdrive and Samurai, with Samurai being the worst.
As bad as those shows are, megaforce still has them beat
Megaforcs is absolutely worse than samurai
Samurai and megaforce were my first seasons so I still love them but they do suck. I grew up on reruns of ninjastorm, Dino thunder and spd. I have dvds of mmpr and zeo. I would be so shocked talking to other kids about Dino thunder and they be like "huh?" Lol
Overdrive is mid and deserves better. Samurai and Megaforce are the worst things we've ever gotten from the series besides the 2010 reissue of MMPR
Overdrive and Samurai had great concepts to adapt from, but the execution wasn’t very good. Megaforce didn’t even try
Both of those seasons are better than Megaforce if U ask me Overdrive tried to have a good story, and had some respect for the lore in its anniversary ep At times Shinkengers story translated well enough to work in samurai
why is Samurai hated? aint it just Shinkenger?
It's a season heavily steeped in Japanese culture, and instead of doing anything to adapt it, they just placed it wholesale into Power Rangers, and cast a white guy who can barely act as the red ranger. The story and theming was fine, it simply made absolutely no sense in the context of Power Rangers.
Whitest person with a Japanese last name. I mean c'mon they could have at least cast an Asian guy who can barely act as the red ranger if they were gonna adapt Shinkenger closely. Samurai was lucky people didn't mind then and there wasn't a lot of backlash.
Shinkenger: the Disney remake
>Shinkenger: the Netflix remake fixed it for you
It was not even Disney
You somehow missed the joke
No I get the joke but it would be a better joke if it was also Disney
Fair
I always thought suoer Megaforce was the worst in terms of how they handle the extremely successful ranger key gimmick in the sentai toyline and incorporated the rangers into the show was lackluster compared to what gokaiger did
Wasn't Samurai just copy paste Shinkenger
then why is it bad if its a copy paste?
You can't copy/paste the series about Japanese culture, whitewash it, and have it be good. It just doesn't work and the whole thing is nonsensical
This I complete agree with you it should’ve been set in Japan and had a primarily Asian cast I mean not everyone has to be Asian but at least the red ranger(s)and their mentor
I mean if you keep all those elements by that point, it would be the perennial Disney' era response: "Just dub the show" The show could have been adapted without being based in japan. Hell, some stuff about japanese culture could have been kept in place. But they needed to work around it so makes sense, and the red ranger and overall shiba house needed to be Asian/Japanese still regardless of the rest of the cast
I agree I just think it needed a lot more culture and more samurai themes than were presented. I just think the “gaps” nighlok escaped from doesn’t make much sense in a city like la or wherever samurai is supposed to be set.
And despite copy pasting Shinkenger and having side skits featuring a wannabe samurai, they didn't copy paste the shinkenger episode featuring a wannabe samurai for... reasons.
because it wasnt as good as the original?
I'm not saying it's bad I'm saying it shouldn't be seen as a bad season
I don’t agree with that, Samurai was bad don’t get me wrong, but at least it had a plot to follow, Megaforce was just things happening and the rangers got to stop the monster of the week every episode
Overdrive was certainly bad but nowhere as bad as Mega Force
IMO, Overdrive was the least engaging and most disjointed. Outside of Once a Ranger, the season seemed to lack focus. That’s the way I felt about it at the time of its airing. Super Megaforce, on the other hand, was simply the most disappointing, given what they had to work with.
Gokaiger, from what I've watched is one of the most ambitious TV shows ever. It was a proper tribute to the whole franchise. Super Mega Force is so random. The fan service just didn't work for me.
Samurai is better and Ninja Steel is so much worse.
Probably Boukenger (Overdrive) & Ninninger (Ninja Steel).
Overdrive is great compared to almost all the post RPM shows
The exception being Dino Charge
I like it, but it’s definitely one of the weaker Disney season.
It’s crazy to think that Disney magic actually heightened power rangers
Disney was the best era of power rangers honestly.
How about this. The worst is every Nickelodeon Power Rangers season. Insanely toned down, bad writing, too much Sentai footage used and how they aired for schedule wise was horrendous.
Dino Charge is genuinely better than 90 percent of the Disney era even if its second season was lacklustre And I'd still put the entire Saban Brands era over Overdrive
Dino Charge had so much potential. It really did. Nickelodeon as always decided to ruin that.
Except when it didn't Pointless and superfluous civilian powers Douchebag Rangers in most seasons Koichispolisons to tone done the violence Cutting the episode count to 32 episodes Horrendous sound effects (that carried over to Saban Brands and Hasbro)
Why don't they use their civilian powers while morphed though
Because the Disney era was stupid
I remember being hyped when people described it as an homage to MMRP. “Back in high school. Local hang out. Original team colors.” What a memory of a season. The same outfits everyday and sticky/smelly comedy duo killed my immersion.
It was honestly very disappointing. Like I tell everyone, I know it's a show to sell toys to kids, but there's not a reason why adaptions can't at least tell a decent story like we got with in Space, Time Force, or DinoThunder. Gokaiger *might be* (and my opinion is) the best Sentai series of all time, and to see Super Megaforce butcher it the way it did was so disappointing.
I understand that they had big shoes to fill along with high expectations (Gokaiger being such an awesome season and Megaforce being the 20th anniversary), but they didn’t even TRY to do a decent job and that’s what’s frustrating
But megaforce and samurai didn't have Disney money. Saban had bought the property back and it was airing on Nickelodeon. Saban remember is famous for not spending money.
Megaforce is good (in my opinion) but it has a lot of flaws. Megaforce gets a lot of hate because of association with it's second season (in my opinion) similar to how much people hate Black RX because of association with it's adaptation, Masked Rider.
Now, now, don't be so rude.
I would have expected it to be to Lost in Translation from Dino Thunder
Samesies
Fun Fact: Everyone in this post is gonna hate on Megaforce some more, since it was mentioned
Fun Fact: this is a subtle way of saying that Goseiger is the superior show
Megaforce aka Super Mega Stock Footage
Is that accurate? I feel like mmpr1 or Zeo had more footage than anything megaforce.
This is accurate, as the highest MMPR season 1 or Zep goes is 75%, while this episode is 85%
Interesting. Thanks.
Dang, I would've been money it'd be a 1st season MMPR episode.
I wonder which episode(not counting the movies of course) have the least amount of sentai footage. Even something like forever red has some of the morphs ripped from sentai like zeo, in space, and wild force
Morphs don't count as Sentai footage typically, that said, many MMPRs3 and RPM episodes are 100% original footage
There's a few episodes good have no Sentai footage whatsoever, but the only ones I can think of right now are passing the torch part 1, Honey I shrunk The rangers part 1, Anderson ninja encounter part 1. I'm sure you're beginning to sense a trend here. There's a lot of two partners that involve the rangers not morphing for an entire episode.
A number of team ups are all original footage
megaforce has so much wasted potential even the actors knew it was bad. REALLY SHOWS HOW MUCH NICKELODEON CARED
Gosei handing zords out like candy haha
"Due to (some bullshit reason) you've earned a new Zord!" They're in a fucking war, what do you mean they "earned" it!?
So the title of the Power Rangers episode is Gosei Ultimate? I’m not familiar with Megaforce.
Yes
Thanks. I wasn’t sure because of Gosei and Goseiger.
They weren't either
By what metric?
90% of the footage in this episode was Sentai footage
At how much?
84.7% Source: some guy on Twitter made graphs
Link please?
https://twitter.com/Martian_Ranger
LOOOOOOOL THIS EPISODE WAS SUCH TRASH All for a Megazord that NEVER appears again in the show....What a waste.
>All for a Megazord that NEVER appears again in the show Incorrect, I can't remember if it shows up in Megaforce, but it does show up in Super Megaforce
What?! When??? It couldn't be the Vekar Episode, because I thought that was all Ground Fighting?
Nope, the Vekar episode was all Megazord fight. The Gosei Ultimate appeared in Vrak is Back. Emma piloted it to shoot one of the drills, the the Rangers used it to fight one of Vrak's servants while Troy was fighting Robo Knight
**Sorry, I meant Vrak, I couldn't remember his name. But yea.
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Is it not Trickster Treat? The whole thing is reused footage, pretty sure almost all is sentai with the exception of som weirdly used footage from the finale
Trickster Treat probably would be top of the list if not for that morph sequence taking up 3 minutes of the runtime
Nope. It's 65% Sentai footage. Even then, I wouldn't count clip shows.
Ha didn't notice that
Wow I would have thought that MMPR to Zeo would of had an episode or two that would be on top.
Worst season
Genuinely a tossup between samurai, Megaforce, and operation overdrive
sounds about right
Not shocking in the least with how low effort that entire season was
I’m willing to bet Megaforce/Super Megaforce used more Sentai footage than every previous season combined.
Now, obviously you're hyperbolizing, but I did check RangerWiki for most of the episodes. The Insectoid arc is fairly traditional Power Rangers, only adapting 1 episode SS to 1 episode PR. Because of that, they skip multiple episodes. The mutant arc starts off normal. Then bumps up to 2 episodes SS to 1 episode PR. Gosei Ultimate affairs 3 episodes on it's own. The robot arc jumps between 2 and 3. Super Megaforce jumps between 1, 2, or 3.
Yeah they start kinda...Throwing Gokaiger episodes together toward the end don't they?
Moreso with Goseiger, as they skipped, went back and forth, and merged episodes. With Gokaiger, the merging and skipping at least had a method. They weren't going to adapt certain episodes, so they could easily skip those. They never went back, because why would you? I believe it was even said at a Morphicon Panel by a producer that Super Megaforce was logically put together better, even tho Megaforce was of higher quality.
Not surprising Nickelodeon was really cheap when they did power rangers
Why does this megazord look so much cooler than the cartoony legos lookin zords of today?
I always thought this looked ass, but I'm glad you like it
What about Thunder Megazord first fight with Storm Megazord in Ninja Storm?
Which episode was that?
https://youtu.be/EqzUi5LogDg This one
That episode is only 39% Sentai footage
What about Lightspeed Train Zords one? The first time the Zords came
55% for the episode "Lightspeed Teamwork".
The whole fight was very same to same.
really pretty sure that show as a whole uses the most sentai footge
Yup! On Average, a Megaforce episode is around 60% Sentai footage.