Super Sentai is a Japanese program that follows the tokusatsu genre. The genre is often associate with its fake-looking costumes, outrageous character uniforms, and giant monster fights. While cheap costumes and silly sci-fi is often looked down on as B-level cinema in the West, tokusatsu surged throughout the decades in Japan, with Super Sentai being one of many tokusatsu to be on Japanese airwaves. The show first came to television in 1975 with Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, and it continues to air to this day.

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With a few exceptions (mainly Godzilla), tokusatsu never really hit it huge in the United States. There were some attempts to bring Super Sentai in the '80s, but it wasn't until Saban Entertainment decided to re-edit Super Sentai footage with American shot footage in the early '90s. Using the sixteenth season of Super Sentai, titled Zyuranger, as the baseline, Saban created the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV show, and the rest has been history. The Power Rangers franchise would take a lot from Super Sentai. However, there are key differences between the two properties that make them stand separately from one another.

10 Less Death

Zyruranger Green Ranger

Super Sentai isn't more serious than Power Rangers, as the Sentai has had many wacky and crazy humor scattered throughout the decades. For example, Timeranger, the Sentai season on which Time Force is based, featured a main villain who was able to project himself in the air with his own gas.

With that said, the Sentai wasn't afraid to kill off major characters. Zyuranger, the Sentai Mighty Morphin is based on, actually killed off their Green Ranger. Death of Rangers predated Zyuranger in the Sentai, but there have been some noticeable deaths during the Power Ranger era. The Quantum Ranger from Time Force and White Ranger from Dino Thunder actually perished in their Sentai versions.

9 The Original White Ranger Was A Kid

White Power Ranger Saba

When Power Rangers ran out of Zyuranger footage, they decided to incorporate footage from the direct follow-up, Dairanger. However, since the classic Zyuranger Ranger uniforms were so popular and iconic, Power Rangers allowed their lead characters to keep their original uniforms.

What the Power Rangers show did instead was give the main characters the Zords from Dairanger. They also changed Tommy Oliver from the Green Ranger to the White Ranger from Dairanger. This was a noticeable change because, in the Sentai, the White Ranger was a kid, just like how Justin from Power Ranger Turbo worked.

8 Created Their Own Villains

Lord Zedd in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Rita from MMPR was pretty much a tame version of the Witch Bandora from the Super Sentai, minus the incredibly dark backstory and the her penchant for wanting to slay kids.

From there though, Power Rangers would often create their own main villains. Some Power Ranger seasons would directly adapt the main antagonist from the Sentai, yet more often they had their own arch-villain. Lord Zedd, Astronema, Ransik, Sledge, and several more main villains were created just for Power Rangers.

7 Avoid Showing Blood

Power Rangers Time Force

Japan has a different standard in what they can show to children, and they were at one point way more lenient in showing blood than America. This is not to say that Super Sentai was a super gory, violent show. It was still a kids program at the end of the day. Nonetheless, there were still many scenes that heavily featured blood in the Sentai.

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Power Rangers does not have that privilege, and thus blood is never featured in the show. At worse, audiences get to see the characters have scratches and dirt on their faces.

6 Most Power Ranger Abilities Are Magical Rather Than Scientific

Power Rangers Zeo team together without their masks

Each season of Super Sentai and Power Rangers (post-season six) follow a completely different set of characters, with a different set of costumes and powers. One season's team will have a totally contrasting set of powers that weren't like the other seasons. Some seasons will have Rangers with magical powers, while others will have it be more technological based, and this was true for both series.

Nevertheless, Power Rangers had more of the habit of making their Rangers more magical than their Super Sentai counterparts. This was especially true in the early years when the show needed to tie-in to the more mythical origins of the original Mighty Morphin Rangers.

5 Teams Were More Directly Connected

Power Rangers In Space

Each season of the Super Sentai show exists in its own little vacuum, completely separate from one and the other. Outside the crossovers between the different teams, each season acts as if none of the other teams exist.

This is not the case with Power Rangers. In fact, the first six seasons were all part of one continuous storyline, with In Space serving as the finale of that era. The proceeding seasons of Power Rangers would follow a similar pattern to Super Sentai, with each incoming team existing in their own vacuum. However, most seasons of Power Rangers do establish that other rangers and teams exist, and the events of the previous seasons are canon in all seasons.

4 Changed The Sex Of Some Rangers

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Yellow Ranger Trini And Aisha

Power Rangers from the get-go wanted to star a diverse cast. It was a conscious effort on the showrunners to include Rangers played by actors of different races and sexes.

This would be difficult at times for Power Rangers, as Super Sentai wouldn't have much diversity in their own casts in some seasons. Sentai would always have a token female member on the team, yet sometimes, other than that, they wouldn't have any other female characters. So when it comes to seasons with only one female Ranger, the creatives of Power Rangers would change the sex of one of the other Rangers.

3 Was Not Military Based

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger Super Sentai team on position with arms wide open

It was evident that Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was meant to evoke classic American superheroes. All the Rangers hid their identities from everyone and had a secret base of operation.

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Certain seasons of Super Sentai will evoke the same thing as Mighty Morphin, like having secret identities and the main cast being in school. However, that's not how the series started. "Super Sentai" can be loosely translated into "Super Squadron (or Task-Force)"; the series was initially about a military squad gaining superpowers to fight crime for the United Nations. Power Rangers has always been its own separated operation, rarely being connected to  governments in any way.

2 Titanium Ranger From Lightspeed Rescue

titanium Ranger

Power Rangers have made their own Rangers that weren't a part of the Sentai. In Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, the Sentai in which the season was based, Kyukyu Sentai GoGoFive, didn't have a Sixth Ranger.

Because Sixth Rangers have always been some of the most popular characters in the show, the creatives of Lightspeed Rescue decided to make their very own Sixth Ranger, exclusive to Power Rangers. That is how the Titanium Ranger was born. The Spirit Rangers from Jungle Fury were also made exclusively for Power Rangers.

1 Different Mentors & Allies

Zordon Power Rangers In Space

Zordon is one of the most iconic characters from the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He was also completely made up for the show. He was very loosely inspired by the Mysterious Sage Barza from Zryuranger. Likewise, Alpha 5, Zordon's robot assistant, was also fabricated for Power Rangers.

Most of the mentors and allies from Power Rangers would only be loosely inspired by their Sentai counterparts, with a few exceptions. For example, Anubis "Doggie" Cruger is one of the few characters that exist in both the Super Sentai and Power Rangers.

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