Power Rangers vs Super Sentai

Gokaiger doesn't count yet.

Here's my opinion. Overall, the franchise as a whole is just okay. It does have great entries but there is also bad ones as well as mediocre. I'm not a Sentai elitist or someone who prefer the Sentai. It's the writing I want and see based from the cultural context. I research how America or Japan (I can still see the nations-tan) on its time so I can understand. Super Sentai has a strong legacy in Japan if Gokaiger was any sign for it. Power Rangers also have a history here in America although it's often disparaged as stupid with all the puns and narm. Not that Super Sentai also have narm but still PR has a rep.

I still like PR, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider and other tokusatsu shows but seriously both franchises are good, having their own charm to it that may not endear it to some people (Zyuranger to Linkara although he doesn't mind it that much; I still think he still have Nostalgia Filter in his retrospective though in comparison to JesuOtaku's Digimon reviews where she didn't have much. I know that these two reviewers know better but still sometime bias steamroller can still come. I know Doug Walker doesn't seem to like Power Rangers much, just not for him seems like. I know for sure that horror genre doesn't endear much to me and Korean dramas doesn't have much going for me...then again my cousins and brother recommended only the best they seen to me but even then I was still not interested).

Also I really want to yell at the Saban producers for their presumptuousness about the Disney Era. Yes, Disney may not be perfect handling your flagship franchise but they kept the franchise going (and there are people who put genuine effort in it so don't say you didn't have lapses of 'don't care' that Disney executives have and really don't say that you are the only ones who care about the damn franchise when there are people involved in the Disney Era who puts as much work as you did in the Saban Era) and people still love the Disney Era just as much as the Saban Era. Don't call your era the Golden Age even though yes there are some good entries in there (In Space and Time Force to name a few) but there is just as much mediocrity in there as Disney Era has just as much good in it (Dino Thunder, SPD and RPM to name a few). Just don't think that your era is the best out of everything. It's the same kind of reaction I seen out of FMA fans with the manga/Brotherhood and the 2003 anime. It's insulting to the people who work on the series and it's insulting to people who likes it. It's childish, insulting, just offensive really to the basic nature of hard work poured into it and love rewarded in return. Look you can dislike whatever you like but you cannot disregard something you think doesn't deserve to exist in spite of people working on it (there is something called 'They Just Don't Care' trope which is very YMMV so really it's up to the people who decides it to be so. I mean Code Geass, for all its many flaws, is certainly ambitious and have quite interesting characters to dive into. I try to find positives in something so negatively received because I want to be fair. For all I rant about TS3 and Brave, I can admit some good parts on it despite my dislike. Instead of ranting about sexism and all those -isms, I would focus on how the story would be told better with improved writing on the females and trans and all those progressive stuff. I mean I do like How I Met Your Mother's surreal humor but I can see its many problems and would rather see those problems erased or try to be more progressive. I want the work to be better yes but I often feel going into rants about feminism and all those -isms would only awaken a beast in me. Overall, I wanted to be nice to the writer no matter how many dubious choices they made but still I would rather give kindness instead of malice and vitriol. I am even kind to Steven Moffat no matter how sexist his writing is because I honestly want him to improve and be progressive, not the crap he believed feminism to be...really the feminism that the world thinks when really feminism is more than that. I don't want to rail on someone and condemn them at all. All I want is to be kind to others even if it means that they're 'scum'. Maybe that's why I'm turned off by Channel Awesome lately for all their easy hate for certain people and works...). I mean I feel sorry for the Megaforce actors because no matter I know they can act, they just doesn't much to work with but Megaforce still exists in PR-verse even though the writing left so much to be desired (It's too superficial a homage to their nostalgic MMPR but Dino Thunder, a Disney Era season, is a better homage to MMPR than Megaforce could ever be.). I don't like to view something that isn't meant to exist no matter how bad it may be. It may be just me and my respect and kindness but I am a realist not a cynic even though the world is really trying to make me hate everything.

There are still differences between Super Sentai and PR. Sometimes there are character development that was present in Sentai but not in PR (such as Shinkenger and Timeranger, ironically having the same head writer, have strong individual character development whereas Samurai and Time Force has some degree of character development that are either the same/similar (Tatsuya and Wes, Takeru and Jayden) or different (Kaoru and Lauren) or no (Domon and Katie & Ayase and Lucas in which I am addressing the little development in the PR counterparts whereas their SS counterparts have a lot) character development) and visa versa but I'm too lazy to do that right now so I am mostly referring to the counterparts have close adaptations to make it more easier to understand. Yes, I have seen a lot of Yasuko Kobayoshi's works adapted a lot in America and rarely they ever work like Dragon Knight from Ryuki (oh boy, Kamen Rider doesn't have much a legacy here in America and at one point I heard that Saban was going to try to adapt a KR series here and I didn't know what to feel about it after all the attempts made with clumsy writing and pacing. I know it's all in the budget but sheesh consistency would be nice. The closest to a good thing was Dragon Knight wasn't the best. Yes there are some good moments but there are just so much to work with. You adapted Super Sentai which can be dark or light depending on the series into something of your tone which was consistent in their own series so if you can do SS then you can do KR) and Samurai from Shinkenger; I seen only one of her tokusatsu works adapted well from her and it's Timeranger to Time Force. Even though you did managed to pick and choose what can be adapted into America's Power Rangers (and even then it's dark and you did choose well with Naoto/Eric and Tatsuya/Wes. Seriously, you always make it adaptation heroism here whereas Japan tends to go really dark in their kids shows...well dark when it's appropriate), you still didn't do a good job regarding the other half of the cast's character development.

Both series are still good in their own merits. It's different but it's not a bad different. Good different and should let be a lesson to purists on both side and how I really dislike the notion of purism.