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ummm it's a sentai/toku series. not anime.
Think more Power Rangers, less Optimus Prime.
Posted by: Don | February 03, 2009 at 10:26 AM
@Don: You're right, silly me!
Posted by: Lisa | February 03, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Looks like my studying has finally paid off and I can now at least watch/understand TV shows for kids.
Yeah, I thought this was some new Power Ranger show and not Transformers. Still, looks like a good way to push the merchandising on the kids. I counted numerous items.
Posted by: vagrant | February 04, 2009 at 08:53 AM
They just owned American power rangers.
Posted by: japan | February 04, 2009 at 11:18 AM
This is not a new show, its the latest series of Super Sentai. Power Rangers is originally a Japanese show which Disney buys the footage for, cuts out all the asian actors and re-films it with American ones. They also change the story, and make the whole thing so very much more cheesy lol. You'll see this robot in 'Power Rangers: RPM' this year.
This season - 'Engine Sentai Go-Onger' - is nearly over, and the next season starts in Febuary (with a samurai theme). If you are interested in watching the Japanese version with subtitles you can over at http://www.tvnihon.com/
P.S. If you were interested, the first season from our childhood, 'Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' was originally 'Kyoryu Sentai Zyu Ranger'.
Posted by: harpdevil | February 06, 2009 at 01:02 PM
I can't believe how many people actually thought this was a completely new show. Did they not even GOOGLE the term before writing articles?
Yes, this is just one robot from the show Power Rangers is derived from - the last one from that season. 4 Megazords, 3 component Zords each; put 'em all together and what do you get? In the US it's called the RPM Ultrazord.
If you haven't seen Power Rangers RPM, check it out. Let me put it this way: the bad guys already won, and that's the *premise.*
Posted by: Werewolf-song | June 23, 2011 at 09:29 AM