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Mar. 6th, 2025 01:09 amhave been farming seasonal diys in animal crossing (for november, i am a great time traveller in the animals crossing), and because this is a process that involves standing in one place staring at the sky on my switch screen for hours and spamming a button once every 5-30 minutes to pop a balloon when it comes by, i have also been watching a tv slightly more involved than my usual youtube streams of video games i'm already intimately familiar with.
specifically, i am watching "tokusou sentai dekaranger" because leia likes it very much and keeps using the characters instead of ocs whenever we need a sequels-era x-wing squadron for a star trek fic. super sentai is the japanese show that gets recut with american actors and dialogue to become power rangers; like power rangers (at least after the first few seasons), it tells a self-contained story with different characters each season.
dekaranger is the season that became power rangers spd, which stands for (i think) special police department? something like that. the ranger team is a group of future cops protecting earth against alien terrorists. like power rangers, it's a kids' show, so it's relatively uncomplicated in its morals and tone, but what really strikes me -- i wouldn't say i've seen many japanese cop shows, i have in fact seen two, this one from 2004ish and a miniseries from 2017 that was a spinoff of lupin iii. both were... pretty blatantly copaganda, and so the thing that keeps striking me about them is how *different* the aims are from american copaganda. it's a lot more... it's a lot more andy griffith show? but not quite. let me try to articulate.
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anyway my point is that i only have about ten episodes of dekaranger left so i am pondering what to watch next. i might watch carranger again. that's the parody season they did for the 20th anniversary back in the '90s, where instead of being a dedicated heroic military-esque group of badasses like most sentai teams, the rangers are five losers who work at a random garage because the ranger mentor couldn't find anyone better in a hurry. it was the first season leia showed me, and i'll probably get a lot more of the parody humor now that i've seen some of the normal seasons.
specifically, i am watching "tokusou sentai dekaranger" because leia likes it very much and keeps using the characters instead of ocs whenever we need a sequels-era x-wing squadron for a star trek fic. super sentai is the japanese show that gets recut with american actors and dialogue to become power rangers; like power rangers (at least after the first few seasons), it tells a self-contained story with different characters each season.
dekaranger is the season that became power rangers spd, which stands for (i think) special police department? something like that. the ranger team is a group of future cops protecting earth against alien terrorists. like power rangers, it's a kids' show, so it's relatively uncomplicated in its morals and tone, but what really strikes me -- i wouldn't say i've seen many japanese cop shows, i have in fact seen two, this one from 2004ish and a miniseries from 2017 that was a spinoff of lupin iii. both were... pretty blatantly copaganda, and so the thing that keeps striking me about them is how *different* the aims are from american copaganda. it's a lot more... it's a lot more andy griffith show? but not quite. let me try to articulate.
( at some length )
anyway my point is that i only have about ten episodes of dekaranger left so i am pondering what to watch next. i might watch carranger again. that's the parody season they did for the 20th anniversary back in the '90s, where instead of being a dedicated heroic military-esque group of badasses like most sentai teams, the rangers are five losers who work at a random garage because the ranger mentor couldn't find anyone better in a hurry. it was the first season leia showed me, and i'll probably get a lot more of the parody humor now that i've seen some of the normal seasons.
