Is Power Rangers Japanese or American?
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Production of "Power Rangers" episodes involves extensive localization of and revision of original "Super Sentai" source material in order to incorporate American culture and conform to American television standards. Rather than making an English dub or translation of the Japanese footage, "Power Rangers" programs consist of scenes featuring English-speaking actors spliced with scenes featuring either Japanese actors dubbed into English or the action scenes from the Super Sentai Series featuring the Rangers fighting monsters or the giant robot (Zord and Megazord) battles with English dubbing. In some series, original fight scenes are filmed to incorporate characters or items unique to the "Power Rangers" production. Like many of Saban Entertainment previous ventures in localizing Japanese television for a Western audience, the plot, character names, and other names usually differ greatly from the source footage, though a few seasons have stayed close to the story of the original Super Sentai season.
Power Rangers
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Power Rangers is an American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live-action superhero television series, based on the Japanese tokusatsu franchise "Super Sentai". Produced first by Saban Entertainment, second by BVS Entertainment, later by SCG Power Rangers and today by Hasbro, the "Power Rangers" television series takes much of its footage from the "Super Sentai" television series, produced by Toei Company. The first "Power Rangers" entry, "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers", debuted on August 28, 1993, and helped launch the Fox Kids programming block of the 1990s, during which it catapulted into popular culture along with a line of action figures and other toys by Bandai. By 2001, the media franchise had generated over $6 billion in toy sales.
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Power Rangers Dino Thunder is an American children's television series, the twelfth season of the "Power Rangers" franchise.
As with all "Power Rangers" series, it was adapted from a series from the long running Japanese Super Sentai franchise, in this case the 27th entry, "Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger". "Dino Thunder" was also the subtitle of the Korean dub of "Abaranger" in South Korea and had a similar/identical logo to the American version as well.
The series is notable as it features the return of Jason David Frank to a starring role. It was the first "Power Rangers" series to be aired on the new block, Jetix, and Toon Disney.
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Broadcast in East Asian territories has been treated differently from in other international markets due to the prevalence and familiarity of 'the "Super Sentai" brand originating in Japan. "Power Rangers" was briefly banned in Malaysia for supposedly encouraging the use of drugs because it contained the word "Morphin'" in its title, which could be associated with morphine. The show eventually aired without the offending word. In Japan, many "Power Rangers" television seasons and movies were dubbed into Japanese for television and video with the voice actors often pulled from past "Super Sentai" casts, leading to the English-dubbed action sequences being "re-dubbed" or "restored" back to Japanese as well. "Power Rangers Mystic Force" is the latest season to be broadcast in Japan on Toei Channel in January 2014, with the "Magiranger" cast voicing their counterparts. After broadcast of "Power Rangers" ended in South Korea with "Wild Force", Bandai of Korea started airing dubbed "Super Sentai" series under the "파워레인저" "(Power Ranger)" brand on JEI TV. Some seasons of "Super Sentai" broadcast in South Korea have similarly named titles as their American counterparts, such as "Power Ranger Dino Thunder" for "Abaranger" in 2007 and "Power Ranger S.P.D." in place of "Dekaranger".
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The Power Rangers Collectible Card Game is an out-of-print American trading card game created by Bandai based upon Saban's Power Rangers Series television franchise. It was released in October 2008. The artwork featured on the cards originates from the Japanese Rangers Strike trading card game created in commemoration of the Super Sentai Series's 30th anniversary. Toei's Super Sentai Series television franchise is the primary source of Japanese footage for "Power Rangers".
Power Rangers Collectible Card Game
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Power Rangers Jungle Fury is the sixteenth season in the American children's television series Power Rangers. Toy merchandising in the U.S. began in November 2007 and the show premiered on February 18, 2008, and uses footage from "Juken Sentai Gekiranger", the thirty-first Japanese Super Sentai series. "Jungle Fury" was broadcast on Toon Disney's Jetix programming block and ABC Kids in the United States. This was the third Disney series not to have a crossover series along with "Power Rangers Ninja Storm" and "Power Rangers Mystic Force" and also the third not to have an African American Ranger. This was the last Power Rangers season to be aired on Jetix and Toon Disney as both blocks were defunct and replaced by Disney XD in the United States as other countries continue with Jetix until 2010, the next season moved to its original programming block on ABC Kids. "Jungle Fury" was originally set to be the final season and was said to have low ratings.
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In 1993, American production company Saban Entertainment adapted 1992's "Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger" into "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" for the Fox Kids programming block, combining the original Japanese action footage with new footage featuring American actors for the story sequences. Since then, nearly every "Super Sentai" series that followed became a new season of "Power Rangers". Some countries, such as France, Brazil, Thailand, and the Philippines, switched from broadcasting "Super Sentai" to "Power Rangers". In 2002, Saban sold the "Power Rangers" franchise to Disney's Buena Vista division, who owned it until 2010, broadcasting "Power Rangers" on ABC Kids, ABC Family Channel, Jetix, and Toon Disney. On 12 May 2010, Saban bought the franchise back from Disney, moving the show to the Nickelodeon network for 2011. On 1 May 2018, toy company Hasbro announced they had acquired the "Power Rangers" franchise from Saban Capital Group for $522 million.
Super Sentai
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Squadron Sport Ranger ( "Kà-buan Gaan Sà-bpordtà Renje") is a Thai live-action superhero television series similar to the Japanese "Super Sentai" and the American Power Rangers franchises. It premiered on August 6, 2006 and aired on Thai Channel 3. Much like each "Super Sentai" and "Power Rangers" series has an overall theme (mythology, dinosaurs, magic, etc.), "Sport Ranger"s theme is sports, which each of the Sport Rangers has a specialty in.
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Programming from Japan has had a niche market in American television, with some anime programs (generally dubbed into English) having been seen on American television since the 1960s. The "Power Rangers" series was heavily edited from a Japanese live-action tokusatsu series, "Super Sentai", with newly filmed bridging sequences involving American actors (as the action sequences were entirely done in full costume, those scenes only had to be dubbed). The success of "Power Rangers" led to a wave of tokusatsu adaptations in the mid-1990s, none of which survived beyond two years.
Television in the United States
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Power Rangers S.P.D. is an American television series and the thirteenth season of the "Power Rangers" franchise, based on the Super Sentai series, "Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger". It debuted on February 5, 2005, on ABC Family. New episodes continued to debut on ABC Family until the episode "Messenger, Part 1". Starting with "Messenger, Part 2" episodes began to debut on Toon Disney. It is also the title for the Korean dub of "Dekaranger" in South Korea, whose logo is similar to the American series. S.P.D. stands for "Space Patrol Delta"; in "Dekaranger", it stood for "Special Police Dekaranger", and in the South Korean dub of "Dekaranger", it stood for "Special Police Delta". A Japanese dub of "S.P.D." started airing on Toei's digital television channel in Japan starting in August 2011, with two DVD volumes released on August 5. It features the original "Dekaranger" cast members dubbing over the voices of their American counterparts (with the exception of Mako Ishino, who is the series' narrator rather than voicing her character's counterpart).
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