Power Rangers Megaforce vs Gokaiger

Now I don't know how many Power rangers or Super Sentai fans are on here, but I'm just gonna yap about the two for a quick min. I know I'm probably going to sound like a pretentious asshole and elitist, and I know I know "this is a kids show why are you arguing schematics about-" BECAUSE I CAN.

Now I grew up with power rangers with samurai being my introduction into the series (And eventually watching the older versions which Mystic force and SPD have a special place in my heart <3). I was also there to see the start and end of Power rangers Megaforce/Super Megaforce.

 I eventually found out that the entire PR series were FRAUDS!! JK, I found out that PR was based on super sentai the original, so younger me was like "wow wish i could watch sentai to see the differences too bad it's a Japanese show and i have no access."(I was in elementary school and didn't know about finding ways to watch it in America if you know what I mean). But anyways I just got the urge to binge power rangers again and decided hey I can watch sentai now and compare the two.

AND HOLY FUCK IS SENTAI BETTER THAN POWER RANGERS. SPECIFICALLY, GOKAIGER AND MEGAFORCE. 

Now don't get me wrong I Still love power rangers. It has a special place in my heart due to being the series I practically grew up with. I like the corny and cheesy acting of it all, but Megaforce was one I couldn't truly get soaked into. Like at least with samurai, it had the appeal of swords and elemental themes, hell the morpher was something I dreamed of having as a kid, ALTHOUGH there is the issue of whitewashing Japanese culture, which I can totally see. (Also, Yes Shinkenger >>>> Samurai all the way)

ANYWAYS

The acting in Megaforce was not that great, but that could also be said for samurai as well. The main issue I see with the Power Rangers series and Sentai is the adaptation of sentai towards American audiences.

Lowkey It's even stated in the show where Jake (The black ranger) questions why he's given a green ranger key instead of black (Continuity issues but I guess Saban could say that oh green and black interchange on rangers teams from time to time. or something whatever).

I think megaforce could have been received better by both older PR fans and Sentai fans if they just adapted Goseiger for Megaforce and adapted Gokaiger with a different cast for the next season or hell even if they wanted to keep the same cast they could have done in universe excuse for the keys and new pirate themed outfit. Truly think the Megaforce seasons were such a missed opportunity.

And can i mention that within the first 12 mins of the first episode of Gokaiger I love the main cast and specifically the gokai red more than megaforce because get this THEY HAD UNIQUE PERSONALITIES AND GREAT ACTING WOAHHHH. 

Don't get me wrong, Megaforce still has a place in my childhood shows I grew up with, but God was Troy such a terrible character. He was the blandest red ranger and that's saying something from someone who hated (Well not hated just disliked the acting in that season) Jayden Shiba growing up. This could be said for the other megaforce rangers as well because they clearly have fun personalities yet for some reason the writers just couldn’t give them a good script to work with.

However, in Gokaiger, Captain Marvelous is a much more intriguing character and a better red ranger (Using Ranger to correlate to PR series but otherwise i would call him gokai red) than Troy ever was. Even then the other rangers have also made me fall in love with their characters quite easily as well.

Now I don't mean to make this post to just be Thing, Japan. I just kinda wanted to rant how badly the Neo-Saban era butchered the adaptation of sentai. I mean At least they kinda redeemed themselves with Dino charge which was good (And that's a whole nother long rant that I won't get into). Although we're just not going to even get into the new NEWER season like cosmic fury because I don't even have words for that I stopped watching after Dino super charge.

Again, don't take this post personally, it's not a diss on power rangers fans or the franchise itself, It's just my opinion on the state of the power rangers franchise. I am going to be very sad if they do stop adapting sentai stuff (I would say what would younger kids even grow up with? but do they even watch cable anymore?).

Anyways I think I'm gonna watch the Sentai original versions of my childhood power rangers shows After I finish Gokaiger of course.

Peace~