Power-Sentai Showdown: Mighty Morphin vs Zyuranger

For those of you who don't know, Power Rangers is made using stock footage from a Japanese series known as Super Sentai, in combination with American acting and voice overs. I've decided to do a weekly thread, putting a Power Rangers series up against it's Super Sentai 'older brother'.

I am starting with:
Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger




Mighty Morphin Power Rangers



THE PLOTS:

-Zyuranger-
1700 million years ago during the age of the dinosaurs, Shogozyus (Protector Beasts) came under attack from the forces of the evil Dai Satan, led by the witch Bandora. She hated dinosaurs and wanted to wipe the entire species from the face of the Earth. In the end of the war, Bandora and her servants were imprisoned within a vase on the wandering planet Nemesis. The dinosaurs never recovered. But it was known that after seventeen hundred million years, Nemesis' orbit would take it back into proximity with Earth, and it was predicted that Bandora would escape and the planet would be a dead place. So five children of the five great kingdoms volunteered to be in suspended animation to stop Bandora. Barza the white wizard guarded over their long sleep. Indeed, Bandora escaped thanks to wandering astronauts. The five were awaken and fought the evil forces along with the protector beasts. Little did they know, someone else was put to sleep---the leader Geki's older brother Burai, who swore revenge aganist him. Burai would later join them as the 'Dragon Ranger'.

-Mighty Morphin-
When the threat of Earth being taken over by Rita Repulsa arose after she was freed from her dumpster prison on the Moon, a wise old sage named Zordon, who had established a Command Center in Angel Grove, recruited five teenagers with attitude to assume the power of the Morphing Grid to defend the planet as Power Rangers - Jason, Zack, Kimberly, Billy, and Trini. When the battle escalated, they would call on their individual assault vehicles named Zords and destroy the monsters who threatened peace in Angel Grove, all while trying to live normal lives as high school students. Rita gave the Dragon Coin to a new student at Angel Grove High- Tommy, who fought against the Rangers as the evil Green Ranger, and later joined the team once the spell over him was broken.


THE OPENINGS:

-Zyuranger-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbtKYvhiSmE

-Mighty Morphin-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlmE8FngzKE


THE TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCES:

-Zyuranger-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c96VTMZb7Ps

-Mighty Morphin-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWOQQyP-fLU



So, which team of heroes do you think is better? The Kyoru Sentai Zyurangers or the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers?

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I've never seen Zyuranger, but I will say that Mighty Morphin's intro was and will always be pretty damn awesome.

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mighty morphin wins hands down - the opening theme to zyuranger gives me a sesame street feel, not an omgawesome feel.

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I am an ebil markeeter and will steal your moneiz ...correction stole your moneiz. I support keeping the poor down because it is impossible to make moneiz in this game.

Oh yeah, and Mighty Morphin' has this guy with his epic theme tune.

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Masaki Endoh of JAM Project tells us his opinion.

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[I]And don't you forget it.[/I]
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MMPR was made using footage from three different Sentai Series.

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It also had Bulk and Skull, and therefore wins.

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Always remember, we were Heroes.

Plus, it had Ron Wasserman handling the music, and just about every tune he did was solid gold.

See Example A

Example B

Example C

Example D

Example E

And, most importantly, it had THIS.

Say what you will about Mighty Morphing Power Rangers... but you cannot deny that it had one of THE greatest soundtracks and title songs of any TV series, ever.

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The only problem is that most everyone here saw Mighty Morphin' in their childhood, while many may have not seen Zyuranger yet. Therefore, it is a tad bit skewed in favor of Nostalgia.

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True, but in all honesty, Zyuranger wasn't very good compared to other series. Now if it had been MagiRanger vs Mystic Force (I believe that was the american equivalent) and we had similar results, I'd call shenanigans.

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"the reason there are so many sarcastic pvpers is we already had a better version of pvp taken away from us to appease bad players. Back then we chuckled at how bad players came here and whined. If we knew that was the actual voice devs would listen to instead of informed, educated players we probably would have been bigger dicks back then." -ConFlict

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Didn't they record new sentai footage for Power Rangers? Because the American series ran out, and needed more? I seem to remember something like that, and Linkara mentioned it in his History of Power Rangers videos. Which, by the way are totally awesome if you're even a slight fan of any of the seasons. He's up to Lightspeed Rescue now.

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Aegis Rose, Forcefield/Energy Defender - Freedom
"Bubble up for safety!"

Saban has rights to PR again, our next series we're getting is going to be Shinkenger, which will probably be called something like Samurai Thunder or Shogun Force.

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Leave it out. I think it was only one or two episodes...and wasn't the crossover done on Decade's show not Shinkenger? *goes to check his information*

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