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The series was created by Shotaro Ishinomori, then known for the 1971–1973 "Kamen Rider" TV series and the long-running manga "Cyborg 009". He developed the first two Super Sentai Series "Himitsu Sentai Gorenger", which ran from 1975 to 1977, and "J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai", released in 1977. Toei Company put the franchise on hiatus in 1978, collaborating with Marvel Comics to produce a live action "Spider-Man" series, which added giant robots to the concept of "tokusatsu" shows. The giant robot concept was carried over to Toei and Marvel's next show, "Battle Fever J", released in 1979, and was then used throughout the Super Sentai Series.
In its first week in theaters, "Super Hero Taisen" opened at the #1 spot in the Japanese box offices, edging out "". The DVD and Blu-ray was released on October 21, 2012 and was aired as part of TV Asahi's "Super Hero and Heroine Summer Vacation" special on August 25, 2013.
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.
Power Rangers Wild Force is an American television series and the tenth season and anniversary of the "Power Rangers" franchise, based on the Super Sentai series "Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger", which itself was the 25th anniversary of Super Sentai.
The license holding company Sentai Filmworks licensed the "Clannad" anime series, and ADV Films localized and distributed the television series and the OVA starting with the first half season box set consisting of 12 episodes with English subtitles, Japanese audio, and no English language track, which was released on March 3, 2009. The second half season box set containing the remaining episodes was released on May 5, 2009. Sentai Filmworks licensed the "Clannad After Story" anime series; Section23 Films localized and distributed both the television series and OVA starting with the first half season box set with English subtitles released on October 20, 2009. The second half box set was released on December 8, 2009. Sentai Filmworks re-released "Clannad" in a complete collection set on June 15, 2010, which featured an English dub, produced at Seraphim Digital. The English dub premiered on March 25, 2010 on the Anime Network. Sentai Filmworks re-released "Clannad After Story" with an English dub on April 19, 2011, and re-released "Clannad" on BD in November 2011.
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.
The series aired in Japan on the terrestrial TV Asahi network. It ran for 49 episodes; beginning on April 7, 1995 and ending on March 29, 1996. It received multiple manga adaptations, as well as video games. Four original video animation (OVA) episodes were produced including a retelling of the series, "Operation Meteor", and a direct sequel, "". In 2010, Sumizawa started writing the novel "", another sequel to the series. While the series fared modestly well in Japan, it found greater success in the United States and popularized the "Gundam" franchise in the West.
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).
The license holding company Sentai Filmworks licensed the "Clannad" anime series, and Section23 Films localized and distributed the television series and the OVA starting with the first half-season box set consisting of 12 episodes with English subtitles, Japanese audio, and no English language track, which was released on March 3, 2009. The second half season box set containing the remaining episodes was released on May 5, 2009. A complete box set of "Clannad" was released on June 15, 2010, featuring a new English dub of the series.
"Zelda" was first released in the early 1990s along with the "Super Mario Bros." cartoon. It was produced in the form of two-episode VHS tapes in four volumes; the gold color of the VHS slipcases matched that of the original NES games. The series was released on DVD in two volumes by the animation company "Allumination FilmWorks" The first DVD, "Ganon's Evil Tower", was released on July 22, 2003, including three episodes of the "Zelda" cartoon and two of "Sonic Underground". The second DVD was released on September 27, 2005, titled "Havoc in Hyrule", containing a further five "Zelda" episodes.
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.
The "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED" anime series is animated by the Japanese anime studio Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. It aired from October 5, 2002 to September 27, 2003, with fifty episodes on TBS. As with other series from the Gundam franchise, "Gundam SEED" takes place in a parallel timeline, in this case the Cosmic Era, the first to do so. In this era, mankind has developed into two subspecies: Naturals, who reside on Earth and Coordinators, genetically-enhanced humans capable of withstanding the rigors of space who inhabit orbital colonies. The story revolves around a young Coordinator Kira Yamato who becomes involved in the war between the two races after a neutral space colony is invaded by the Coordinators.
The series revolves around Yoshi, a green dinosaur-like character. He was first introduced in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) game released in 1990, "Super Mario World", where Mario and Luigi can ride on him. The antagonists of the series are Baby Bowser, the young king of Koopas, and Kamek, a Magikoopa who was Bowser's caretaker as a child. The first Yoshi game was the Nintendo Entertainment System puzzle game released in 1991, "Yoshi", which was developed by Game Freak. The first game in what is considered the main series, as well as the first to feature Yoshi in a playable main-character role, is the game released in 1995, "", which introduces the universe staples which are used in many following games. These staples include colorful storybook graphics, and several gameplay elements. One of the earlier games in the series, "Yoshi's Safari", differs heavily from the rest, as it is a Light gun shooter game. The latest game in the series is "Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World", a port of the Wii U game "Yoshi's Woolly World", released in 2017 for the Nintendo 3DS. An upcoming title, "Yoshi's Crafted World" is set to be released for the Nintendo Switch on March 29, 2019.
In 1979, Tomino directed and wrote "Mobile Suit Gundam", which was highly influential in transforming the Super Robot mecha genre into the Real Robot genre. Mark Simmons discusses the impact of "Gundam" in his book, "Gundam Official Guide":
In an interview published in "Animerica" magazine, Tomino discusses what he was trying to accomplish with "Mobile Suit Gundam":
Although the last quarter of the show's original script was canceled and it had to be completed in 43 episodes, its popularity grew after three compilation movies were released in 1981 and 1982. "Mobile Suit Gundam" was followed by numerous sequels, spin-offs and merchandising franchises, becoming one of the longest-running and most influential, popular anime series in history, being chosen as No. 1 on TV Asahi's "Top 100 Anime" listing in 2005.
Sailor Moon, known in Japan as , is a 1992 Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation using Super Sentai motifs. It is based on the manga of the same title written by Naoko Takeuchi that was published from 1991 to 1997 in "Nakayoshi". "Sailor Moon" first aired in Japan on TV Asahi from March 7, 1992, to February 8, 1997, and was dubbed into various territories around the world, including the United States, Australia, Europe and Latin America.
The series was adapted into an anime television series by A-1 Pictures in 2011 and into an anime film ("Ao no Exorcist Gekijouban") in December 2012. Viz Media has licensed the manga for North American production, with the first volume released in April 5, 2011. Aniplex of America also released the anime's DVDs in English regions. A second season, titled "Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga", premiered on January 7, 2017.
"Jushi Sentai France Five" (later known as "Shin Kenjushi France Five") is a French online mini-series that was released in six installments from 2000 to 2013. The series was so popular in Japan that Akira Kushida recorded its second opening theme.
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), also known as the Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America. In Japan, the system is called the Super Famicom (SFC). In South Korea, it is known as the Super Comboy and was distributed by Hyundai Electronics. The system was released in Brazil on August 30, 1993, by Playtronic. Although each version is essentially the same, several forms of regional lockout prevent the different versions from being compatible with one another.
The manga series was adapted into a one-episode original video animation that was released in May 2005 and a live-action film starring Jun Matsumoto and Nana Eikura that premiered in Japan on January 20, 2007.
Hoping to capitalize on the success of "Gundam Wing" from the previous year, Bandai Entertainment released a heavily edited and English-dubbed version of "Mobile Suit Gundam", premiering on Cartoon Network's Toonami weekday afternoon after-school action programming block across the United States on Monday, July 23, 2001. The series did not do as well as "Wing" but the ratings were high enough for the whole series to be aired and to spawn an enormous toy line. Due to the September 11th attacks, Cartoon Network, like many other American TV stations, began pulling, and editing, war-themed content and violent programming, resulting in the cancellation of the series. However, the series finale was shown as part of Toonami's "New Year's Eve-il" special on December 31, 2001 and the unaired episodes were aired in reruns during 2002.
As with all "Power Rangers" programs, "in Space" is based on one of the entries of the "Super Sentai" series. However, due to miscommunication between the United States and Japan as to the contents of the Sentai series, much of the space footage is original to the American adaptation. "In Space" was a turning point for the Power Rangers franchise, as the season brought closure to six seasons of plot, and it ended the practice of having regular cast members act in consecutive seasons. The theme of this series, and its successor, "Power Rangers Lost Galaxy", bears little similarity to their Sentai counterparts.
In the late 1970s, "J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai" was the first Sentai series to be shown in the Philippines. "Choudenshi Bioman" (the last "tokusatsu" dubbed in English on Philippine television) and "Hikari Sentai Maskman" (the first Super Sentai Series dubbed in Filipino on IBC) were broadcast in the Philippines in the 1980s. "Choudenshi Bioman" was so popular that many people from that generation came to associate all the Super Sentai Series as continuations of it, and "Hikari Sentai Maskman" was marketed as "Bioman 2 Maskman" on local TV. During the early 1990s, some other series were shown, such as "Kousoku Sentai Turboranger", "Chikyu Sentai Fiveman" and "Chōjin Sentai Jetman" which became the last Sentai series to broadcast on ABC5 in 1994. "Dai Sentai Goggle-V" was also aired on RPN 9 in 1998 every Sunday morning. From 1995 to 1999 and 2004 to 2015, ABS-CBN aired the American-produced "Power Rangers".
At the 2014 San Diego Comic Con, Shout! Factory announced that they would be releasing the entire "Zyuranger" series with English subtitles on DVD in North America. On February 17, 2015, ""Super Sentai Zyuranger": The Complete Series" was released on DVD in North America. This is the first Super Sentai Series to be released in North America. In addition on January 23, 2016, Shout Factory streamed the series on their website.
On 25 July 2014, Shout! Factory announced that they would release "Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger" on DVD in the United States. Since then, Shout! has been the official distributor of Super Sentai DVDs in North America. Beginning in 2016, Super Sentai episodes would be available on demand on ShoutFactoryTV.com. These episodes can only be viewed in North America.
After Honolulu, Hawaii's KIKU-TV had success with "Android Kikaider" (marketed as "Kikaida") and "Kamen Rider V3" in the 1970s, multiple Super Sentai Series, including "Himitsu Sentai Gorenger" and "Battle Fever J", were brought to the Hawaiian market, broadcast in Japanese with English subtitles by JN Productions. In 1985, Marvel Comics produced a pilot for an American adaptation of "Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan", but the show was rejected by the major US TV networks. In 1986, Saban Productions produced a pilot for an American adaptation of "Choudenshi Bioman" titled "Bio Man". In 1987, some episodes of "Kagaku Sentai Dynaman" were dubbed and aired as a parody on the USA Network television show "Night Flight".