Power Rangers Samurai, Part 2 - History of Power Rangers
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Samurai continues with the analysis that these Rangers have been forced into their current role without a choice... and they try to kick out the only one who DID choose to do it.
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This rant at the beginning about Mentor Ji just makes RJ from Jungle Fury an even cooler mentor.
Personally I think RJ is the coolest mentor we’ve had so far.
RJ is pretty much the one of the best mentors in the franchise.
@@michaelnally2841 I mean me and others like it because he's a mentor that the target demographic could possibly relate to. Whether you argue that the true unaddressed demographic for this series is 10 year old kids or teenagers, you can agree each demographic can relate in their own grounded way.
@@haywardbarrows5906 that and plus RJ isn’t the type of mentor that does lessons in the traditional sense. He doesn’t speak some philosophical b.s. he kinda teaches them without realizing it like when he taught Casey how to defeat a monster while it seemed to Casey he was just doing chores in the dojo.
Why RJ specifically? I don’t disagree, it just seems like a distant comparison.
For those who might try to defend Gi's actions in taking away Antonio's Morpher, I'd like to remind you that since Antonio built that Morpher himself, that means he has sole ownership and responsibility over it and Gi has absolutely no right to take it away from him.
All the other morphers held by the Samurai Rangers were passed down to them by their ancestors and family members all the way back to the original Samurai team, and since none of the previous Samurai Rangers are alive to train the current team, it's understandably up to Gi to do it and bear responsibility for the pace of their training and whether or not to deliver or withhold certain things from them.
However, he has no jurisdiction over Antonio.
JoshtheOverlander Exactly. See, this is why someone should be careful in adapting Sentai Seasons, with Shinkenger being a big example. Also, you should see Amit Bhaumik’s original plan for Samurai, and that was way better than the one we had now.
Problem basically is that tzachor adapts Sentai without the context. In shinkenger, Antonio's counterpart acted like a idiot who disrupted stuff with coming like a silly caricature of samurais, something mentor Ji's counterpart found insulting to the legacy. Also, in the Sentai, the gold Morpher was partially created using disks that belonged to the Shiba family. So it made sense that it was technically the Shiba house property and taking it away made sense even if it was harsh. Ji's counterpart came off as having good intentions but being TOO harsh.
Tzachor did not take any of the above context in account, so the scene lifted from the Sentai without the context took a very different meaning and made Ji looks like a piece of crap instead of a well-intentioned but really harsh mentor.
And before you blame writers, interviews with Megaforce cast and even one of the writers revealed this was also a problem in Megaforce: adapt 2 different Sentai seasons without the context, making a lot of the stuff make zero sense as a result and confusing viewers more often than not(the fact some episodes could have as much as 3 different Sentai episodes shoved in on terms of stock footage REALLY made for a tedious watch, at least samurai didn't try to cram so many episodes from Sentai at once despite being a really poorly made carbon copy of shinkenger).
Justine Sun what was it
@@ferchubenitez1995Facts
Mentor Gi is what TVTropes calls a manchild
I totally agree with your rant to Jii... in the American version. This was definitely one of the places where the straight translation of Shinkenger flopped, Japan kept the whole think about not accepting the Gold Ranger to JUST the samurai heritage (with some of Blue's misgivings being about how he doubted that Gold was even taking things seriously). Which is referencing the fact that thanks to Hideyoshi Toyotomi you had to be born into the samurai class. there was no moving up into it. And that's a historical fact that most Japanese people would know about like how we know the story of Washington crossing the Delaware. But here where they just utterly failed at trying to integrate samurai culture, it's just BAD!
Hell RJ THE FUCKING MENTOR OF JUNGLE FURY is a better mentor then "G" fuck Mentor g JUST. FUCK. YOU.
As a Canadian I have no idea what the Delware is. Guessing a lake? But that's the thing about regional stories and history that means you need to localize a story not just take the Sentai and throw it down after translating. And I liked the Sentai!
This is funny because Hidiyoshi was also of low birth before climbing the ranks via Nobunaga, I guess he didn't want anyone taking the same path he did and become a threat to his power.
But they did eventually let Gold on the team, right?
@@ProfessM It's actually a river that goes through the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware which leads into Delaware Bay and on to the Atlantic.
And I agree with you on your point.
His secret is WAY heavier in Shinkenger. Of course it's still "I'm not really the biological head of the Shiba clan" but the characters believed he was and they felt they needed to protect him at ALL costs even putting their lives at great risks more than once. Takeru's (the Red Shinkenger) lie was so heavy in a feudalistic system that he himself felt guilty that these people had to fight for him when he felt he never deserved it.
Shinkenger explores the concept of that lie in a great manner even having the characters calling Takeru "Tono-sama" (something in the lines of "Lord"). Their relationship was initially hierarchical but through character development turned out to become a great friendship with the characters even going as far as going against tradition sometimes (something VERY disrespectful that could even lead to the expulsion from the clan).
Seeing this HOPR it's clear that Shinkenger needed changes just like Thunderstorm did from it's original source. If you're not going balls deep with the traditional values and heavy cultural references that the show had in Japan it's just some guys fighting in a weird system for western audiences.
Fant I think you mean Ninja Storm.
Not to mention Takeru's eventual departure from the team when this plot twist is revealed is much better, where he gets everything taken away from him because his job is done and now he doesnt even know who he really is since he's been playing a part for most of his life
Less a Sentai issue more than a Japanese culture one.
Family ties is in Japan is so huge there is entire law and management around it. (Koseki, aka the family register)
That cannot translate to North America, with no equivalent system or values.
Shinkenger is just a way better show in general. It’s my favourite sentai and adapting it was just bound to fall flat because of how Japanese it was.
Also, there was no “brother-sister” nonsense bullshit. Takeru is just a decoy with no relation to the Shibas. He just so happens to be skilled in Fire Mojikara, thus he is chosen to be Shinken Red for now since Kaoru is just a baby at the time. After all, can’t let the Gedoshuu know that the real Shiba is currently in hiding and practicing the Sealing Symbol.
When I first watched “Room for One More”, I was a bit angrier with Jayden than with Mentor Ji.
It’s like Linkara said, Jayden put in a good word for Antonio at the start. We later find out that he encouraged him to become a samurai, giving him the Octo Zord, and telling Ji that he would stop his training if he tried to take it back. But in the present day, when Mentor Ji is the only thing standing between Antonio and his lifelong dream... Jayden sides with Ji. And when Jayden finally relents, you can see Ji nodding his head in the background.
Don’t get me wrong, Mentor Ji deserved the verbal lashing he got here. But if Jayden thinks _his_ word should outrank the efficiency of his _world-protecting job,_ then he’s not much better.
I'm really starting to regret not re-watching Power Rangers Samurai, when it was on Netflix.(it was removed on Feb. 1, 2021)
Cause my current opinion of Ji taking Antonio's morpher away, is based on the time I watched it. "While" it was airing on Nickalodeon.
Meaning I never binge-watched Samurai from beginning to end. Thus I didn't understand certain points.
And usually when I binge a TV show, I start to see the problems of said show, and why so many people hate certain things about said show.
In shinkenger Takeru’s deal is that he explicitly doesn’t want people fighting for him because he’s just a body double
@@phantombroker6856 They did it here too. What’s your point?
@@kylestubbs8867 Like, he's just a body double. That's it. He has absolutely no relation to Kaoru, and he was under orders to keep her existence a secret. The reason he fought alone is because he didn't want people risking their lives for someone whose life didn't even mean much in the grand scheme of things and wasn't even related to the person they were protecting. Yes, they did it in Samurai, but the context was changed entirely. When Kaoru enters the scene, he's actually forced off the team.
@@phantombroker6856 Ah... see, that last part was the important detail. Because from the way the other Samurai Rangers talk about Lauren, you'd think she did the same thing. It's off-putting because she didn't.
Linkara if you think Ji is a crappy mentor, then you're gonna have a field day with Gosei.
Oh god, I can't wait for Gosei
+MrEmpoleon2010 At least Gosei wasn't a self- righteous jerk like Ji.
@115269026091089189011 True but Ji was more active with the rangers compared to Gosei
+MrEmpoleon2010 Ji seemed worse to me. He tried to STEAL Antonio's morpher. Gosei's problem is he was just as lost as everyone else haha. Hmmm...okay maybe Gosei is worse after all XD
+MrEmpoleon2010 Ah, Gosei: AKA Space!Oprah
Honestly the interpretation that they all (except Antonio I suppose) have Japanese ancestry and their families followed the Nighlok to North America and over generations their ethnicities changed, but they kept the feudal Japanese lifestyles makes this more interesting and three dimensional. It would also mean that when Jayden said they had a choice it was just a platitude. He knew they would say yes because they were honor bound to do so and he really just said it to make them think he was giving them a choice. Which makes this all a lot more disturbing, but really explains a lot.
"but breaking my guitar?" in all honesty, I think it's more of the fact that the instrument also helped his headaches, he basically wanted to hurt her so much that he did something that hurt himself to do it.
So basically, in an attempt to really hurt Dayuu, he cut off his nose to spite his face.
Fun fact, a lot of legitimate ninja manuals (such as the shoninki) were actually written by samurai for samurai schools because samurai themselves could use those techniques
So a Samurai School for Samurais to be Samurais.
Oh. That's why Cam got Samurai powers in Ninja Storm.
That rant on Gi taking Antonio's Morpher away was Golden...
To be honest, my biggest problem with it, comes from how easily the situation could've been improved; let's say that, instead of their elitist bullcrap about him not being a Samurai, trained from childhood, to be a Samurai Ranger...they actually focus on the REAL accomplishment that happened here...
The fact that Antonio built his Morpher and Manufactured his Gold Ranger Powers completely on his own. Sure, he "reverse engineered" them by studying the Octo-Zord, but how far could that realistically get him?
The way to justify Gi taking away his morpher, would be to have them worry that - because the Gold Ranger Powers were manufactured by technology instead of Symbol-Power - the Powers might be unstable, and could potentially short-out on Antonio during a fight, or even worse, suffer catastrophic failure, causing Antonio to be seriously injured. This could also harken back to season 2 when Tommy's Green Ranger powers would occasionally short-out.
Therefore, it would be a smart idea for Gi to take away the Morpher, just temporarily, to run diagnostics on it, to see if it actually is safe to use...
Because let's face it...Antonio is a Doofus, just like you said. He doesn't exactly come off as a Tech-Wizard as he's supposed to be. I don't think it's unfair to assume that the Morpher is really just held together with rubber-bands and paper-clips.
It would've been better than just taking away his Morpher, for seemingly no reason other than elitism!
And perhaps Gi could have Antonio train in symbol power so when he morphs it doesn't potentially kill him like have Gi be trained by Tommy, Cam, and Adam have him hear stories of Tommy's GR powers being shortened and Adam's damaged BR morpher with this he takes the morpher to diagnose it like you said and trains Antonio in symbol power so he doesn't kill himself but a maybe unstable morpher
RokuNami4ever (Sora Lockhart) Exactly.
GanonGhidorah This!
that would mean Ji giving a damn about a ranger who wasn't Jaden and he already used up any spare care he had on Mike
Rodimus Rider Another reason why Mentor Ji sucks.
That’s favoritism for ya.
I love Lewis's rants! So funny and so very insightful and intelligent. It's not just yelling about something stupid, it is a well-thought criticism against something stupid or ridiculous about the subject he is reviewing.
Same. It's not easy IMO to rant about something and yet still be entertaining, understandable and funny compared to other reviews.
This is why I love Lewis. I never get tired of his stuff, no mtter how much I see it
@Kaidoku123 Ah! maybe that's why I wasn't mad at Ji for taking Antonio's Morpher away? Because I was viewing it from a Japanese perspective, instead of a Western perspective?
@Kaidoku123 Well, I never actually finished watching Samurai. Mostly because of Nickalodeon constantly airing reruns of Episodes I'd already seen. Meaning I had to wait quite a few months for new episodes.
I have been considering watching Goseiger and Gokaiger. Mostly so I can potentially mock Megaforce even more. Might have to do the same with Shinkenger?
@Kaidoku123 Honestly, when Saban Fucks up the Western Adaptation of a Sentai series, it actually makes me wanna watch the Sentai version more than the Power Rangers one.
Although, IDK where to find the Subtitled version? Unless Shout Factory has released said Sentai on DVD?
The reason they treat Jaden’s secret with such importance is mostly due to Samurai being essentially a 4Kids dub of Shinkenger. (The secret is basically the same but they kinda neutered the severity of it)
The idea of children and familial responsibility is a theme deeply rooted in Japanese culture. One of the problems with adaptation especially one so rooted in Japanese culture is that themes are either misinterpreted, taken out of their cultural context, or forced into a Western cultural perspective. I'm not saying Linkara is wrong to go off on a rant about that, I'm merely pointing out this is a weakness of adapting a show clearly meant for a Japanese audience.
T Kent Exactly!!!!
+T Kent and yet given what we know of psychology these days, we know how damaging it is to people's psyche.
Culture should not be an excuse for hazardous actions.
ShadowWolfRising "I'm not saying Linkara is wrong to go off on a rant about that, I'm merely pointing out this is a weakness of adapting a show clearly meant for a Japanese audience."
There's the part where I acknowledged that.
T Kent
oh.........somehow i missed that.
my bad.
+T Kent
Agreed. Had the main focus been Antonio's perceived lack of training, than it would have probably been just fine.
5:40 Not only that, when Rangers simply couldn't continue being Rangers, he freely released them from duty and found replacements. Also, for the guy who wanted to be a Ranger quite a lot (Tommy), he crafted new powers entirely. SO yeah, screw Mentor G, Zordon is and always will be awesome.
+vcom741 Thank you!!! Finally someone who actually understands with what I've been saying about this character.
***** I know, right?! I mean, this asshole is so bad at being a mentor character in Power Rangers history, he'd make Princess Shayla and Dimitria look like Susan B. Anthony and Hillary Clinton.
commenting on an old comment, I know, but I''mma also add that so far as I've seen, Mentor G/Jii is content to just stay in background and act as support more than anything else, while zordon not only went out of his way to directly help the rangers as best he could, he ALSO willingly allowed his life to be sacrificed to safe the UNIVERSE from evil.
I can definitely see why Dino charge is a vast improvement from this season and mega-force. The team wasn't chosen base on their family ties and training but on being good people and having the will to stand up against evil and help people. Their mentor is useful and helps them through their problems (he'd have to be wise being millions of years old). And it showed anyone good could be a ranger (shown in the World's Famous episode). Plus the rangers weren't all completely friends to began with but slowly grew to like and befriend each other and get through their insecurities (and they have personalities).
TheZombiehunter24 only ones that were good friends were Chase and Koda. You see most of the rangers develop over the series. Well all except James and to a degree Xenowing mainly because they weren't used a lot
The Rangers in this series are so insular. We rarely see them interact with anyone else outside of the shared destiny team. The rangers of Dino Charge made impacts and talked with people. One off people had value and weight aside from being rescue fodder.
The whole Blood/legacy thing in PR Samurai actually makes perfect sense if you understand who the Samurai were: an aristocratic caste who fought to keep their ancestral (keyword here) rights during the Meiji period. You can say whatever you want about Samurai not being a terribly good show (and I personally dislike pretty much every season after Jungle Fury), but that particular thing I found interesting and History-accurate.
Plus, they have the first African American female as the pink ranger.
But being forced to be a ranger is something that is new and interesting and can be used for good character development or story.
And no. No everybody can be a ranger because they are good. Not everybody has to be a good person. All of what you are saying is some preachy bullshit that shouldn't be preach in children tv show anymore in my opinion. Why can't children have complex story and truth instead of lying to them or making things dumb down to them?
10:32 There's actually more overlap with samurai and ninjas than you would expect. Namely with certain samurai learning ninja tactics to bolster their own arsenal and them working with the ninjas hired/employed by their masters as spies and informants.
Also Dayu's attachment to her Shamisen is explained in her background on Shinkenger as it having the soul of her loved one bound to it. While alive she loved a man that loved another woman. Out of jealousy she burnt the entire engagement party place with him and her inside. The guy still loved the other woman and it made Dayu so desperate and corrupted with the feeling that she became Dayu and the guy's soul was bound to her shamisen (the guitar she carries). That's why she's so obssessed with it.
So...a Yandere?
@@SteveCrafts2k Yeah
That fire explain the comparative lack of development but then what is deckor then in Shinkenger.
@@skyslasher2297 A ronin (masterless samurai) filled with nothing but bloodlust and a love for violence.
Juzo does not have a sympathetic backstory like Decker but he acts as a dark mirror to Takeru (Jayden's counterpart in the Sentai) showing what Takeru could become if he loses his purpose and fills that emptiness with mindless bloodlust and violence. Most of his time is spent trying to corrupt Takeru into becoming like him so that he has an eternal nemesis to battle for all time.
It's simpler but with the wasted potential of Decker and Dayu in Samurai, I feel the Sentai's simplicity works a lot better at showing how close Takeru was to losing himself and becoming like Juzo after he stops being a body double to Kaoru Shiba.
Wow, that rant...
I'm sure some will argue cultural differences involving family values, but when it's adapted for a culture where such values are absent, it just makes their parents look like overly controlling jerks who tell them how to run their lives.
***** Especially since the original *japanese* show actually portrays that kind of attitude with a pretty critical eye.
Not only are 3 of the 5 rangers parents either against them becoming rangers, or regretful that this decision comes from a lineage and not from the children's choice, but the red's father end up being portrayed in an extremely poor light due to the responsability he put on his son shoulder, and Red's story arc is about how, even though there was good intentions at play, such a treatment left him with gigantic self identity issues and emotional scars, who almost mentally destroyed him during one of the final arc.
+Black INK.I.M so...........it's actually LESS accepted in the actual Japanese Version?
wow, they fucked the Localization up REAL bad.
+Caz Indeed. Especially since this aspect actually worked better in the original version since *EVERY CHARACTER IN SHINKENGER* are all coming from traditional Japanese families. But NOT in this season!!!!
Xaviergray87
actually technically they are in this version.
.......which makes the fact only one of them looks Asian even more hilarious.
.....then again, they could be descended from William Adams or Yasuke, but that's doubtful.
+ShadowWolfRising
No shit!!! At least in the original Sentai version, Shinkenger, we actually did get to see most of the Shinkengers' parents actually regretting their decisions to let the children carry such a heavy burden/task to defeat the Gedoshuu once and for all. Unlike this god-awful abomination.
Gotta say that rant was totally justified.
I love it whenever you tear apart that Power/Ranger short film, even if it is in passing. That thing still irks me to this day. People pass it off as a more modern interpretation of Mighty Morphing. The recent movie did a better job of modernising the original team, but a lot of people didn't even give it the time of day.
Because that film was boring.
@@adeptdamage3669 Even though I did like the movie, I can see why people think it was a bit boring. They don't even suit up properly until the last (I think) twenty minutes of the film
The thing was the short film was basically a jab at how Hollywood would make a darker and edgier version of the Power Rangers because that's what they do with properties.
@@Igarappappa and yet when the actual dark and edgy Hollywood remake came it was more like what the show was like in seasons three and four but set in the 2010s
@@Smashboi76 Eh, not really. Honestly it felt like Michael Bay-lite. Not horrible, but not very engaging.
0:37 That "family" thing is from the Sentai, and doesn't really translate very well. It was strictly a matter of caste/class difference that's a part of old Japanese culture.
Samurai were Japan's warrior-nobility caste, and the Shinkengers were all descended from them. Shinken Gold, on the other hand, was a sushi chef and a descendant of commoners, so having him in the samurai team was a no-no. Shinkenger was essentially a samurai drama set in the modern day, so it's another one of those strictly-Japanese things that doesn't translate well into another culture.
So yeah, Mentor Ji does come off as a self-righteous douche, but it does have grounds in the Sentai. In Shinkenger, the Jii character WAS a butler/caretaker, but he did still sanction their training because he had experience and served under the previous Shinkengers, so he knew exactly which direction to point them. He does the exact same thing to Shinken Gold (bar him from the team, take his morpher, etc), but that's because he was a strict traditionalist at the beginning of the series.
thank you for conveying to the people who dont know better
Still, if the thing your adapting doesn't work in the culture you'e adapting it for, CHANGE IT A BIT.
Yeah, I'm not saying that Linkara is wrong for harping on it. He's right to harp on it since the show was changed to an American setting. But I'm just reinforcing how the cultural stuff made sense in Shinkenger and NOT here.
Aside from that, the Red Ranger, Jayden's equivalent, also tried to bar him from the team both to keep his childhood friend away from danger, and to keep up his illusion of aloofness and invincibility. He let him back into the team once the others convinced him to let his guard down once in a while.
"Antonio, you can't be a Ranger without formal training."
Depends on how Power Rangers Samurai as an organization operates, Master Ji is right on this part. Sure he self taught himself to sufficient level, but he still has to go through formal training in order to be accepted. If Batman suddenly wants to join the GCPD, he would have to go through police academy. Of course he will get top marks and maybe graduate quickly, but he still has to go through it first.
+Thinh Nguyen Actually, if you'd seen Shinkenger, the sentai that this series is adapting from, the situation with recruiting the Gold Ranger was entirely different. In Shinkenger, Takeru/Shinken Red didn't want his friend, Genta/Shinken Gold to be a part of the team because he didn't want his childhood friend getting involved because of the fact that he was never born with the Mojikara powers in him and the fact that Genta's actions were wreckless and that it could almost get him and the other Shinkengers killed in battle. That's why he didn't want to make Genta a sixth member of the team. Here!!! It's just Mentor Jii being an asshole for no damn reason because Jonthan Tzachor wanted to make Power Rangers be more like the Sentai when in reality...it really shouldn't, nor did it need to at all.
Plus, we've seen Antonio in action and he clearly knows what he's getting himself into. So...in a way, yeah!!! *Mentor Jii is a dick!!!* This is why Haim Saban should've brought back Judd Lynn to write for Samurai back when he got the rights back from Disney, instead of Tzachor since unlike Tzachor, Lynn prefers to bring in more original ideas and stories for Power Rangers over "copy-and-paste" everything from the Sentai.
*****
*BINGO!!!*
***** I agree.
Still doesn't justify taking away the morpher that Antonio himself made.
Nah, bruce wouldn't be able to shoot anything.
10:57 Uh..... Harmonium? Seriously? I've heard the term before, wasn't quite sure what it was, but after looking it up.... it is NOTHING even remotely RESEMBLING a shamisen. It has keys like a small piano, in fact. I can understand not calling it what it is, the shamisen isn't very widely known outside of Japan, but using an almost as obscure instrument that doesn't even come close in design is just silly.
If the kids don't know what a shamisen is, they're probably not likely to know what a freaking harmonium is either. So teaching them the correct term isn't going to kill them. If you really want to keep any Japanese culture away from this show (about Samurai, mind), then call it a guitar, a lute, a mandolin, SOMETHING THAT AT LEAST HAS THE SAME BASIC SHAPE. Where the hell does "harmonium" come from?
I only assume that Harmonium was supposed to sound cooler, not having thought through how different they really are from shaimsen
A harmonium, sometimes known as pump organ, or reed organ, is a keyboard similar to an organ. It’s almost as though somebody didn’t think shamisen would be familiar with English-speaking audiences, and changed the name.
The "you're not from a samurai family therefore you can't be a Power Ranger" reasoning epically falls apart when you consider that LITERALLY EVERY OTHER TEAM ISN'T MADE OF SAMURAI, with the exception of Cam from Ninja Storm, and even his status is questionable. And said teams, INCLUDING SEVERAL WITH HIGHLY-PUBLICIZED IDENTITIES, are canon. I'm actually surprised Linkara didn't just shove Lightspeed Rescue up their faces!
In fact, I wonder what BULK would've said about it since he knew the identities of at least some of the first few Rangers. I'd imagine he'd piss off; after all, most of the Zordon era Rangers were high schoolers with no exceptional heritage whatsoever. He'd be so insulted at the suggestion that those people weren't really Rangers by the Samurai's definition. I want to see him haul their asses to Reefside and have Tommy school them on what a Power Ranger really is by having him kick their asses- or better, by approving of Antonio over them as a Ranger right in front of them.
In fact, feel free to make that into a fanfiction. Or if there is such a thing, please post the link. I'd love to read it.
+agentrikamcgee yeah that line does kinda discredits all other power rangers though that was probably unintentional.
Fanfiction material right there
Add in the climax to In Space, and Bulk should really lose his sh!#. That attitude is saying that awesome moment should never have happened.
agentrikamcgee Cam was Sensei Kanoi's son and heir, so that still makes sense considering that Cam's powers were truly Samurai (the legacy/family/blood thing comes from them) and the rest of the bunch are NINJA.
You think that's bad. Imagine how he would have reacted to the Overdrive Rangers.
1:19 my reaction and thoughts exactly…
RJ denying Dominic Ranger status made sense, if the entire team says they don’t want Dominic to fight with them, and he almost got a civilian killed, then it’s too dangerous to send him out with a morpher and fight.
Same reason why Kruger’s actions made sense. He took away Jack’s morpher after the entire team unanimously said they didn’t trust Jack to be their leader. That’s a very dangerous thing from a tactical standpoint and understandable. As for the Dino Thunder rangers, given what we learn about the blue Dino Thunder ranger at the end of the episode, Kruger ordering them to stay put makes sense as if ANYTHING happens to one of them, they could Marty Mclfly the future away!
6:33 a monster of the day that’s actually pretty competent? What is this madness!
7:09 yea, I’ll give the show credit for that too
12:57 yup, that’ll do it…
About the rant, it's clear as day that was an adaptation problem.
The conflict in Shinkenger is actually a classic Samurai story dilemma with a modern take.
Here in Samurai it's just weird.
The problem is this has to stand on it own without the Sentai and it doesn't succeed
+KidSnivy69 "adaptations fail if there unable to stand on there own"
disney era power rangers that's what I said (and if I was unclear, trying to say)
KidSnivy69 i know i said that to agree with you as weird as that sounds. sorry for the confusion.
disney era power rangers My bad
2:55 If I did Samurai, I would switch things around to have the other Rangers be high and mighty members of Samurai families, and the Red Ranger be an average joe. That would be much better in my opinion
If I understand correctly that's what the Sentai did.
The Red Ranger was just a random kid that Lauren's counterpart plucked off the street and used him as a decoy
@@Mobysimo Yeah. The fact that Takeru is very talented in Fire Mojikara makes him a very convincing Shiba, thus he is chosen as a decoy since Kaoru (the real Shiba heir) is just a baby at the time.
who the heck gives someone a sword as a wedding gift
Someone who married a guy that likes swords.
Also Japan.
Matthew Brown Also why would they give their other half, a Sword that’s name means injustice.
I'd love to get a sword as a wedding gift, personally.
#lazywriting and no japanese do not give their fiance a katana
A great wedding guest, that's who!
FOUR YEARS? Damn, that’s a long time to hold in a rant...Not sure I could’ve waited that long if I was the one doing these videos. You are one patient dude, Linkara.
And it was worth the wait
Wow, Lewis, just wow! You torched that Mentor guy!
Ironic how much this segment revolved around roasting Mentor Ji, as we then see Kanoi-sensei from Ninja Storm later on (or at least his actor). Even Kanoi as a guinea pig would've been better suited to mentor them, even though his Rangers were ninjas.
Kinda sad how Samurai and Megaforce basically desecrated the concept of actual "mentors."
I'm writing a Power Rangers Samurai and Super Samurai on my Wattpad account. Robert James aka RJ from Power Rangers Samurai becomes Jayden Kevin Mike Antiono Andrea (the Samurai Black Power) Alicia (the Samurai Nova Purple Ranger) Alicia and Emily's new mentor after Ji is fired by Mrs. Shiba, Jayden's mother (who will be serving in the military as we never knew who is mother is) fires Mentor Ji from his Samurai mentor duties. Antiono will come from a family of Samurais (once again only in my Wattpad story) and his symbol powers are light and heat powers. And he has a older sister named Andrea who is the Samurai Black Power Ranger. Her Zord is the Jaguar Folding Zord and her symbol powers are snow and ice powers.
Sentai fun fact: In the Sentai, Shinken Gold strait up made the Ebi Origami and Daigoyou (The Claw Zord and Light Zord) from scratch. Do not fuck with Shinken Gold.
This is actually one of the very few things in Samurai that was vastly different in the Sentai. The Gold Ranger wanted to be a samurai, but he didn't have Mojikara in his bloodline like the others did, so he went off and invented a means of emulating it through technology. The one who rejected him was actually the Red Ranger, because he was afraid having his old friend around would make him look weak. His whole character is built around trying to present himself as invincible, and accepting having someone around who's known him from his childhood is a major step in his character growth of dropping his pretense and opening himself up.
+Couch Almark Uh-huh!!! See?! That's exactly one of the reasons why I was so disappointed with Samurai/Super Samurai being this "direct-translation" of the Sentai, instead of actually being an original series for Power Rangers. And probably the main reasons why I'm starting to become more of a fan for some of the Disney-era Power Rangers shows than I am of this series and Megaforce/Super Megaforce under the "Neo Saban-era" because unlike Samurai/Super Samurai and Megaforce/Super Megaforce, the Disney-era knows exactly how to bring in originality into Power Rangers without having to rely so heavily on being a "copying-and-pasting" of the Sentai.
+Xaviergray87 That probably explains why there was Mesaggog and Emperor Grumm, which were not direct copies of Sentai.
Wah Tek Lim Yeah!!! I mean, sure the Disney-era didn't have the same range of epic moments and fighting style qualities as the classic Saban-era did. And yes, Disney had been constantly screwing with the Power Rangers from 2003-2011 because the company didn't even like the franchise because of the amount of violence that were seen in every series, up-to-Wild Force from behind-the-scenes at that time. But at the very least....they didn't have to rely on so much materials being adapted from the Sentai, they were trying to come up with their own original ideas while figuring out which episodes from their respective Sentai counterparts should be adapted into a Power Rangers episode. So, the way I see it, the Disney-era of Power Rangers is as equally as good as any other series from the classic Saban-era and perhaps Haim Saban, himself should've just respected that era for what it was, instead of being such a dick about it because of his petty grudge against the company for screwing with one of his "properties". *Pff!* What an asshole!!
+Xaviergray87 Yeah, even Imperious, Necrolai, Motor, Jarrod, Camille, and Venjix were copies of the Sentai. But at least Disney altered their back story.
Wah Tek Lim Actually for Jarrod and Camille, they're kind of the polar opposites of Rio and Mele from Gekiranger. You see, Rio, in Gekiranger, is kind of like Darth Vader from the original Star Wars trilogy and Mele is like the sentai version of Harley Quinn from the Batman franchise. Where as with Jarrod/Dai Shi...he's kind of like Anakin Skywalker's character from Star Wars Episode III: "Revenge of the Sith" meets King Piccolo from the "King Piccolo" saga of Dragonball. And Camille?! Well, she's nothing like Mele. But, in a way, she's kind of like the Baroness from the original G.I. Joe cartoons, minus the interchangeable accents. Now for Necrolai?! Yeah, there's really no comparisons between her and the character of Vancuria from Magiranger. It's just that for Vancuria...she pretty much wanna cause chaos and mayhem just for fun because as the Vampire Queen, she's bored out of her immortal lifestyle. Hence why she can split herself into two people known as Nai and Mea, most of the times. Necrolai, to me....is just wasted potential. She could've been as equally as good as Vancuria, but nope!!! The writers clearly don't know what they wanted to do with this character at all.
Which leads us to Imperious....Meemy in Magiranger is kind of like Jafar from "Aladdin", but he's got more of a mummified "Tim Curry"-vibe in his character. Imperious is yet another example of wasted potential, to me because, I would definitely loved to see him as like the next Deviot from Lost Galaxy where he's like the "Starscream" of Mystic Force. But again....he got the shaft much like his predecessors, Furio and Trecheron from Lost Galaxy did.
Now, I don't know who "Motor" is, but I think you mean, Morticon or Moltor, right?! And Venjix?! No....I don't see how he's anywhere near of a copy of Yogoshimecritein from Go-Onger, since he didn't make an appearance until the final episodes of Go-Onter. And plus Venjix is nothing like Hiramekimedas since he's like Yogostein's vice minister in Go-Onger. Venjix is basically an eviler version of Hal-9,000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey and a more twisted version of Ultron from the Marvel universe and Skynet from the Terminator franchise.
That rant made me remember a video about discrimination within Japan. Can't recall what it was called but in ancient Japan, fishermen who worked in the markets were treated poorly by guys who had Samurai like status do to their social classes. There's more to it but that's as much I can remember.
it's basically a caste thing. Samurai is of the nobility-warrior caste, were as fishermen usually come from the commoners
To Linkara:
I understand where you're coming from with your rant, I really do. But I would like to respond to it, and a few more points.
The real problem is that Power Rangers and Samurai are two almost opposite concepts. Just look at the Power Rangers: Power Rangers SPD: the two-parter SWAT is very explicit that the Rangers are all about being a team. Hell, let's look back to Tommy - or Dr. O, as he's called in that season by his fellow Rangers - in Dino Thunder: 'As long as you work together and remember you're a team'. Samurai were all about single combat. Fighting 5 on 1 is considered dishonourable. Power Rangers, especially in Time Force, is about free will. Samurai, however, aren't Samurai because they're expert swordsmen or know a moral code. They're Samurai because they just are. In Deadliest Warrior - which admittedly isn't the most accurate of sources, but I like to think they just lack competence and don't outright lie to us - a descendant of a Samurai Clan said: "The only way to enter the Samurai class was to be born into it, and the only way to leave was to die." (I don't know why he bothered to say 'class', because he went on to define a CASTE, which is what the Samurai actually were. Could be just a mistranslation, could be because he felt 'caste' would have a bad ring to it. Anyway...) It's painful when Bulk says: 'I'm going to train you to become a Samurai.' No. Just... no. You don't BECOME a Samurai. Kevin's right, Antonio is no true Samurai. Sorry, you may or may not like that concept, but that's how it worked. Like Antonio, I would love to be a Samurai, they've always intruigued me. And I can become an expert with the katana and the yumi bow, I can learn the moral code, but I can't become a Samurai. Why? Because that's not what I am. I wasn't born into it.
About none of the Rangers being Japanese: the same explanation you gave Jayden can go for the others. What I think happened is this: the Japanese Isolation ended and the Shiba Daimyo back in those days or his heir married a Western noblewoman who came to Japan. He also sent 4 Samurai out to discover the wide world and the 5 families kept in touch. Hell, Mia's family may even have kept the blood pure. She looks pretty Asian to me, who's to say she's not Japanese? About Kevin, I've been thinking even further (it's not intended to be racist, I just remembered the Japanese Isolation ended not that long before the Civil War). I like to think his ancestor came to a State which would later join the CSA and entered a plantage. There, he saw a slave girl being abused. Being a noble Samurai, he saved her and they hooked up. Hell, it'd be cool to speculate: a Samurai and/or a Power Ranger fighting in the Civil War. But that's taking it unnecessarily far.
Let me give you credit, though: After Dino Thunder with Kira saying: 'It's called honour. I thought you ninjas knew all about it', I'm just glad when people know the difference between ninjas and Samurai.
Thanks for undermining a fun rant
KidSnivy69
I actually think Lnkara was being damn serious. All I wanted to do was give an explanation for the show's reasoning. I hope you didn't take offense.
***** I don't, I understand why you wrote it. When I said fun rant I meant for watching, not him goofing off
KidSnivy69
Thank you :) And my apologies for the misunderstanding!
***** Forget about it
Attention writers adapting something from another culture. If something doesn't gel with the culture you're adapting for, you change it in some way. You don't need to toss it out completely, but you do need to put it in a different context at least otherwise it can end up confusing or even insulting. Even something like Hamlet doesn't make sense if you put it in a different cultural context.
+The7thDraconian alot of Publishers in the game industry (for JRPGs specifically) and Anime studios don't ever seem to get that. (looking at you Atlus with your puzzling decision to leave Japanese Honorifics in localized games.........even though they don't mean anything in English and just make you look like a doofus when you use them in English.)
ShadowWolfRising In this day and age, leaving Japanese honorifics in Western translations smacks of pandering to weeaboos for their money.
Says the fellow with a sailor scout for their icon. Yeah, traditional schoolgirl uniforms make a fuck load of sense to Americans, where most schools don't have forced dress codes, and the whole thing is seen more as a fetish in the West.
You know, they could have had Mentor Ji OFFER Antonio formal training saying he has "the heart of the samurai, but not the body". That way, by the time the monster rematch came, he would prove himself to Ji and show that he can truly be an asset. But, I don't think they do that in the show proper.
Another take I came across is, instead of Gi’s reason for taking Antonio’s Morpher being a lack of formal training, having the reason be due to the fact that Antonio created the Morpher himself, meaning his Ranger Powers could be unstable, causing his powers to short out during battle and cause Antonio harm.
Makes me wish they included the fact that the previous Pink in Shinkeger was freaking paralized during the "final battle" that sealed the evil away. Have it as a reminder to the rangers the risks they face.
That’s my favorite episode of Shinkeger and I’m glad Nick never touched it.
Ooo-oohhhh gosh, the acting is so off, though I don't blame the actors, just the heavily rushed production that severely hindered this series.
Yeah, the Master Ji BS on Antonio rant is spot on, Ninja storm is also a good example as well, though the Wind ninja rangers obligation is to training & fighting evil, they balance that with their activities as present with their skill set, thank goodness Dino charge came in and restored how a pr season should go.
I've never watched Power Rangers...anything, so EVERY time you say the name 'Jaden,' I think you're about to dive into a non-sequiter about Yu-Gi-Oh GX.
Honestly, I wish Jaden Yuki was the red ranger here. He'd be his own Elemental Hero. LOL
So apparently in Amit's original proposal for the series, Bulk's son (who would be extremely similar to skull) was going to be the gold ranger. As someone who believes in alternate universes I wish I could go to the universe where that happened
that would be awesome
Ditto!!!
Rhyperior Ranger Yeah. Plus the main 5 are half-Japanese, which makes more sense.
Looked it up and it was _so_ much better.
10:28 Is the secret by chance, like the one Phineas kept from the Mystic Force rangers, but didn’t really need to?
12:20 “Lady, I’m a Power Ranger, and I don’t give up on people that easily.”
Kinda weird that he didn't mention that the elder "Daisuke" is played by Lothor/the mentor from ninja storm
+Wreck-It Rhyperior No, it really isn't. As I said in the episode, reused actors happen all the time in New Zealand. If I pointed out EVERY SINGLE ONE, we'd be here all day.Also, I didn't notice because he was a minor character.
+Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall oh ok
+Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall any chance you'll tell me what you think of Dino Charge so far?
Lothor was the VILLAN, not the mentor
+Kevin Scates they were played by the same guy. Also, that human torchic thing is brilliant
1:45
If anything, Antonio earned it more than any of the "real" Samurai Rangers. He found his Zord, created his own Morpher, developed his own fighting style, all without the pressure of familial obligations being shoved onto him as a child unlike all the others.
Also, I think I would've liked it better if the sixth ranger was more like a ninja than a samurai, would've justified the apprehension towards allowing Antonio on the team a little more.
Not to mention the fact that he freaking DESTROYED a monster in his debut.
If he thought Antonio didn't have the necessary training, why not keep him around as back up and train him during the down time? lmao Mentor Gi was such a fuckin clown.
I'm actually picking up on more cultural themes and references than I did on my first viewing of this series. I think knowing more about Japanese mythology actually makes this series make a lot more sense. That said if they were going to stay so close to the Sentai source material the way they did, they should have just dubbed this series.
Fun fact:" in "the tengen gate" Daisuke is played by Grant McFarland a.k.a "Lother" from "ninja storm" linkara forgot to mention that"
He mention it in the Megaforce review, also Grant McFarland played the sensai from Ninja Strom too.
Fun fact, “Daisuke” the elder from the Tengen Gate is played by Grant McFarlane (RIP) who was both Sensei Kanoi Watanabe AND Lothor in Power Rangers Ninja Storm. If this season gave more care to the legacy they would’ve just kept him as sensei kanoi and tried to make some sort of connection but that’s what happens when you rush the show into production
Honestly Dekur's story reminds me of Ryan's story from light speed resque both were on the edge of dying but both their loved ones were force to make a deal with a demon to save them despite having no other option
The reason why Jaiden's secret is built up as a big thing lies in the sentai:
The red ranger Takeru was casted as an imposter for the real clan heir and real red ranger Kaoru.
And he felt ashamed of all the things you mentioned in your rent at 1:50.
The others sacrificed their dreams for him and were ready to sacrifice their lifes for him, because they think he is part of the shiba bloodline.
Which he is not.
Decker and Daiyu have one of the darkest villain backstories in the franchise.
Facts
What gets me isn't just there dark backstories, it's the fact they don't really get a happy ending either.
Master Org says hi.
Mentor Jii confiscated part 1 on this series.
"Hey Kevin? NONE OF YOU PEOPLE ARE JAPANESE!" Except, yknow, for Mia, whose last name is Watanabe, and IS Japanese. :-p
OrangeRangerVideos Mia’s actor IS Asian, but not Japanese.
Justine Sun You do know that Japan is a country in Asia, right?
I mean either way his point stands for the entire rest of the team.
@@hansruhlmann454 All Japanese are Asian, but not all Asian are Japanese is what Justine is trying to point out
@@jesusdavila7052 I don’t even remember making that comment or Why i made it. Huh.
The ONLY way Ji taking away Antonio’s morpher could make any since would be if Ji was intended to be a twist villain later in the season.
Or just make it more like Shinkenger. Seriously, there is no way Shinkenger can translate well in America.
Mentor Ji's whole bullshit reasoning for denying the rangers these things that he has no real say in is pretty much like that quote from Bojack Horseman when Todd says "you can't keep doing shitty things and then feels bad about yourself like that makes it okay, you need to be better"
Let me guess, Mentor Ji managed to dethrone that lady from "Trekina's Revenge" as "Dumbest Person in Power Rangers Ever"?
Oh no. That lady and Megaforce Ernie are much dumber than Ji. He's just a bland asshole who's dumb to kick out a volunteering ranger but he's not as dumb as those guys.
5:55 - The idea of combining magic and technology could be potential for a Sentai that’s basically gem cars. My theory for that adaptation is that Justin, the Blue Turbo Ranger, now grown up, experimented with the spare Turbo morphers and the Zeo Crystal, practically combining them, making the two Turbo morphers into five, later six NEW morphers that form into the new team. Don’t know if Justin could a superfluous mentor or something, but maybe, just maybe, the thoughts of combining powers could be a great improvement and a great consequence.
Or not, since Linkara loved Zeo as a kid and hated Turbo as same kid. So, if this series does end up getting adapted, he’ll get mixed signals?
7:45 When that scene is watched in its entirety, it looks like Master Xandred locking himself in the head (the ship's bathroom) and wrestling with constipation tbh.
Xandred breaking the guitar takes on a whole new meaning when you realized in the sentai it was her love fueled obsession she killed and turned into a Shamisen, the hole that was made is a wound, her “Shin-San” is screaming the whole time it’s broken outside small times where Dayuu tells him to “shut up” as she can’t bear to hear his dying wails once again
that duel in the finale is pretty badass
The worst part about the destiny thing is that Shinkenger actually pointed out multiple times, "Hey, maybe conditioning children into the role of Samurai in a centuries-long war is a BAD thing."
They didn't do all that much with it either, but it was still at least acknowledged.
Again, this is why I say Shinkenger is vastly superior as a TV show about a modern-day samurai lord and four retainers than this horse-shit of an "adaptation".
That, and Takeru's character-development was more important to understand and acknowledge why it was so well-written than this horse-shit of a "character-development" for Jayden.
@@xgray2012 these comments are facts
Shinken Green Indeed.
I swear I can listen to you rant all day and it would still be satisfying to hear.
I think because of the cultural differences it makes this series have an undercurrent of darkness, I like it :D
What? A new HOPR? *drops everything to watch*
Shinkenger works because it is a samurai drama pretending to a Sentai series. Lines about Gold's heritage makes more sense if you consider that there was a caste system. In the Japanese, the line was akin to "This looks like the work of an artisan and not a samurai." If you know Japanese history, artisans and merchants were at the bottom of the caste. Also, Ji taking away the morpher makes more sense since the morpher was made using Shiba family disks and therefore Shiba family property.
Not to mention, the biggest reason Genta gets rejected in Shinkenger (and they made sure to tell him upfront) is that taking the role of a retainer for the Shiba clan also means he has to put his life on the line, and as much as he is excited and willing to join it would still be on them if he, an inexperienced fighter, died in the line of duty.
Something Genta gets sad about but actually accepts, also because his morpher is not downright taken away, Genta just leaves it there, sad but resigned with Jii's choice.
Which is a far cry from American Jii just going "nope, you can't have this" and Antonio freaking out the way he did...
Funny about the xandred thing. In the sentai, doukoku locked himself in just so he could focus on not imploding as his power is severely amped during summer (not sure why summer specifically, though its likely due to japanese mythology for the gedoushu) so somehow tzachor or some guy trying to localize the sentai failed to realize and got it conpletely wrong.
Ain't it funny that in the first episode, Jayden is referred to as the 18th Red Samurai Ranger? It's funny because he's also the 18th Red Ranger (Not counting the Quantum Ranger and the Crimson Thunder Ranger).
Man it really goes to show how just translating a show over doesn't work. In shinkenger the team worked their entire lives to help the red ranger and NEVER questions it. They are there to do whatever is necessary for him. Their gold ranger was also a childhood friend of red but it was more intertwined with everything. There it works with everything but here, its just ridiculous.
1. Let me guess. Dayu's human form is her voice actress. 2. If they had bothered to be original, Dayu could have been equivalent to Ghost Rider.
I really liked Dayu and Decker even as a kid. They always struck me as interesting characters.
Destiny, family obligation, 'chosen bloodline' heritage... you're right that this season's scripts are pure Japanese in flavor.
I really feel for Dayu cause she had spent her life in the Netherworld cause of the whole deal with the devil ordeal and having Dekker not remembering his previous life.
The thing about "not being Japanese" can be up for debate depending on their family histories. I happen to have four 1/4 Japanese second cousins and two of them are more "white bread" looking than I am.
Oddly enough, Mia is the only real Japanese character in the show. (Her actress isn't Japanese though.)
In the Sentai, Dayu and Deker's backstories are completely separate, but they do end up sort of bonding over their equally tragic pasts, and Xandred (Ugh, Dokoku is so much more fitting) had no hand on said pasts whatsoever. Dayu turned into a monster for *revenge*, that's what made her lose her humanity. I find that works a lot better as opposed to what Samurai gave us. It overly simplifies the characters by needlessly connecting their pasts and turning said past into a cookie cutter star crossed love story we've seen a thousand times.
Sperium3000 Spoiler:
It was Serrator, not Xandred, that transformed Deker and Dayu.
I'm personally okay with PR chaning Sentai stuff, because PR is supposed to be an adaptation, not a dub.
MegaShadowblast Secondarie that argument is invalid when we're dealing with garbage seasons that recycle scripts, mythos and story beats even when they don't make sense given the new series' context as Samurai does. This kind of comparison is much more warranted here than in other Power Rangers seasons that change a lot more due to how half-baked the adaptation is.
That's how any military in the world works, actually. No matter how skilled, strong and willing you are, no one will allow civilian to join an elite task force out of nowhere, for example.
Florin This example would work if he hadn't proven himself in the prior episode. Gold guy literally solo'd the monster after it beat this so-called "Elite Team".
BlackWingedSeraph Like I said, that's not how it works. He proved his skills, but not being able to work in a team or follow orders or whatever else that pseudo-samurai training stuff implies.
+Florin except that a modern military would see a person wielding a 6th, previously non-existing super weapon and using it to aid them as promising, and probably offer him a position as trainee and immediately start training him.
...........or note him as a threat, capture him and steal his shit, start training a 6th person to use them in his place.
either way, your example is flawed.
+ShadowWolfRising The second option is... somewhat close to truth, yes. But the point of my example is not about that. I was just saying that discipline and uniformity take priority over strength, that's common sense.
+Florin If the Samurai Rangers were actually a part of the military, it would make a lot more sense. But here....it doesn't. The Shiba clan isn't even funded by the government at all. So, how exactly does things function financially and ethically for this season?!?!
ill give some shinkenger context here since they did try to do a translation on samurai for some reason.
in shinkenger a secret wasn't explicitly told, the reason juzo (decker's sentai counterpart) noted that takeru (jaden's sentai counterpart) was way too willing to die, which was something that even accounting a samurai mindset was too weird which is what made takeru warped.
in samurai, decker notes his warrior spirit and not giving up the sealing symbol till the bitter end which frankly doesn't make sense in terms of being warped because being the head shiba and not giving the symbol power is the logical thing to do.
Also that episode where antonio rescues jaden is the same episode in the sentai where the black box is complete, it is also the debut of their super form. so while it does make an interesting change in timing, it does turn jarring when they have to fight the same monster 3 times with the footage being extremely obvious they repeated things.
this was actually why the xandred continuity error happened
Fprgot to add. But it is stated and shown that takeru had a childhood even without genta. He was taken to the amusement park and wet himself when he went into a haunted house. It also is what gave him a hounted house phobia that would be followed later on.
Love how during the dream sequence Diau’s actress (however you spell her name) shows no emotion besides boredom. The love of your life is dying in your arms show some kind of fear and sorrow
RIP Grant McFarland.
Coming back to this tetralogy after a year, and after having watched Shinkenger in most of its entirety (I probably missed a few specials, and guest appearances in other series, but I did watch all the way from the first episode to the last).
In my personal opinion, Power Rangers Samurai is ironically the best gateway for Power Ranger fans to get into Super Sentai, because they can watch Shinkenger AFTER Samurai and say “Oh! So THAT’S what they were trying to do.” I’m not a die hard Sentai fan, mind you. I’ve watch all of Shinkenger, and a little bit of Goseiger, and there’s some Kamen Rider I want to check out, so I’m fine admitting to be a casual enjoyer.
Again, in my opinion, all of the things that were mishandled in Samurai, for all the reasons they might have been mishandled, are not problems in Shinkenger. Even Jii taking away Genta’s Sushi Changer, which is played more for comedy than drama, works for me.
Antonio seems more Italian than Latino to me.
10:24 Let us not forget, Saban is the same company that turned a series about robot ninja cats who delivered pizza as a day job, that had the word NINden in its name into a series about Samurai Pizza Cats. Japanese culture is clearly not their forte. Nor is translating their language. This is most likely why 4kids tried to avoid that kind of thing as much as possible people, they also had better voice actors and actual translators As such I assert once more that Saban is worse than 4kids.
Also SLUSHangemon.
What series was that?
Still doesn't given them a pass in fucking up Ultraman Tiga and not airing the last 4 episodes of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
Just as a heads up: Part 1 of your HOPR Samurai is blocked in Brazil due to copyright restrictions.
And in South Carolina
Your rant at the beginning of this is so beautiful, as is your entire video.
I want more Duel of the Fates mixed in with Power Rangers duels lol
Jayden: It's over, Deker! I have the high ground!
i will say, i'm proud of linkara for not mentioning that Ricardo Medina Jr (the guy who played Decker AND Caleb in Wild Force) actally murdered someone, admitted to it, and is currently serving time in jail.
It hadn't really happened yet (at least not the full confession and all) when I made the video plus it wasn't relevant to bring up.
“Samurai and ninjas are the same thing, right?”
Eh, kinda...
1:23 PURE GOLD (no pun intended)
Hearing Duel of the Fates legit made me cackle!
Not to defend Ji's actions, but as far as bringing Antonio into the fight, I can understand having some concerns. First of all, that bit about Antonio not having "proper" training does actually having some meaning to it. See, historically speaking, those who managed to found martial arts schools that taught samurai how to fight were usually those who had fought in actual combat with the techniques they teach. Ergo, they are techniques that work for keeping you alive in a battle. And considering the Samurai Rangers are going up against eldritch monsters from the netherworld, it would make sense that the techniques passsed down to the Samurai Rangers were developed over time to help keep them alive against the Nighlock. Antonio, being self taught and using a similar but still vastly different set of abilities in battle, would not have the same level of combat experience nor test of his abilities that the other Samurai Rangers have with their abilities. That's not to say Antonio isn't one hell of a fighter in his own right, just that the techniques used by the other Samurai Rangers are more combat tested than his. It would be like somebody in the modern day coming up to a government with a super advanced piece of weaponry and asking their soldiers to trust their lives to it, but then it might have some technical issues that can screw the soldiers over in the battlefield.
That still doesn't excuse Ji taking Antonio's morpher, but it's just a thought I've had since listening to this rant a few times now
This whole "Japanese children need to follow their family traditions no matter what" just makes me appreciate Persona 5 even more. Argue cultural values dissonance all you want, force-feeding children what they should be when they grow up is archaic at best, mentally damaging at worst.
Jayden, Kevin, and Emily didn't choose their own paths. Jayden was force to be red because his sister was learning a sealing symbol; Kevin was force by his father to abandon his swimming dream; while Emily had to take the role for her sister.
I question the fact that when it was brought up that Emily's sister was sick and that she gave the power to her but how long has she has been sick for cause it was established in the Season 2 finale that her sister was still sick and has been bed ridden since she was a kid.
8:51 is that Lothor/Sensei Kanoi??
I love this Power Rangers Samurai is my first Power Rangers moment
I just kept wanting to shout at mentor "if you're such hot shit, then YOU go fight the monsters jackass." Even the other teams who couldn't exchange powers (Dino Thunder for example) still didn't have it HAMMERED IN THEIR HEAD that they had to train and fight every moment of every day, but then again every other mentor didn't suck this hard.
This series really just cant reconcile being set in America while being so deeply tied to Japanese culture and sense of familal duty and responsibility. The rant at the start is so incredibly valid and the idea of mentor ji taking the morpher in japan would make TOTAL sense, because being a samurai is so deeply entrenched into the principles of bushido and a rigourous training regime. A home taught ranger would be unacceptable and a formal sensei would have authority over who can and cant be a samurai. Without the tradtional ideals of familial duty the whole plot just falls short
If I was Mentor Ji, I will accept that I messed up and allow breaks between training, even the occasional movie night.
They are samurai, but at the end of the day, they are teenagers with some big boots to fill.
What about a book club?
Alright, as somebody who's actually seen Shinkenger, I can explain a lot of the issues with the Gold Ranger. He was...to put it lightly, a bit of a goof. While he meant well, the group had misgivings that he wasn't taking the duties of a Samurai seriously. Couple that with the very feudalistic beliefs a lot of the characters showcase (namely, that you couldn't move into the Samurai caste, you were born into it) and those misgivings were understandable. Then, Gold shows up dressed as what is basically a parody of a Samurai, complete with oversized Hakama pants. He then revealed that he was given the disc for the Octozord by Takeru without permission. So when the old man ultimately rejects his bid to join the team, it comes off less as being elitist assholes, and more a harsh but fair critique of what he'd shown so far. Also, him taking back the Octozord came off more as taking back a piece of property that had been given away without the owner's knowledge. Not as him being a dick.
Here is something that makes Mentor Ji even worse for me.
If you go back to SPD, it's up to Krueger who gets which morpher. And Sky wants, more than anything else in the world, to be the Red Ranger. But Krueger decides to assign him the color blue. If you think about it, many people would consider blue the opposite of red. This means Krueger is basically telling Sky that he is as far away from being the red ranger as possible in his position. And constantly reminds him of that fact every time he morphs. Which is basically Krueger's way of literally putting Sky in his place. He humiliates him but in a way that forces him to think about why he is not the red ranger and, in the long run, adds to Sky learning of humility and how to be a bit humbler. It's a neat little detail that shows what kind of Mentor Krueger is. He thinks before he acts, is deliberate in his choices, and carefully watches his rangers.
Ji does none of that, however. He does not show Antonio why it is not ready, does not question his ingenuity or fighting abilities, and makes not the slightest effort to see where his standing with the team is, what he could add to it, or if his dreams are achievable. He does not give a rats ass about the rangers, the team, or Antonio in particular. If Mentor Ji had led SPD, B-Squad would have been fired in the first episode and Grum would have won.
Hell if Ji would have led SPD, at best he had given Sky the Red Ranger Position right away because "Who gives a damn about character development or team dynamics, he trained for this".
What an idiot.
Hey! Its Lothor!
That mentor at the black box is from ninja storm