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Power Rangers is a long-running American children's television series adapted from the Japanese tokusatsu Super Sentai Series, but is not simply an English dub of the original. Rather, it is a 'new' production with English-speaking actors spliced in with the original Japanese footage in varying ratios. Due to the very Japanese nature of many of the Super Sentai Series' stories and design, (The original Super Sentai series begins with the creation of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger in 1975 by Kamen Rider's author Ishinomori Shotaro.) the American shows are always at least slightly changed to fit a Western audience. However, the action sequences featuring the characters in costume, and the scenes featuring daikaiju and mecha (referred to as "Zords" in the English series), are typically dubbed. Like G.I. Joe, Star Wars, Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers also has a toyline, originally distributed by Bandai from 1993 through 2018, but now by Hasbro since 2019 (the same company that owns the G.I. Joe, Star Wars and Transformers toylines). The franchise was created by Saban Capital Group’s former subsidiary Saban Entertainment, and is currently owned by Hasbro.

The series that began the franchise was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Original name is Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger), which began broadcasting as part of the Fox Kids group of programs that aired on the Fox network. It lasted for three seasons (from 1993 to 1996). The franchise has continued, and as of 2018, has consisted of 25 television series and three theatrical films. The 26th/27th and current season, Power Rangers Beast Morphers, premiered in 2019. The 28th/29th incarnation, Power Rangers Dino Fury, premiered in 2021.

The Power Rangers series was distributed by Saban Entertainment from 1993 until the end of 2001 and was broadcast on Fox until the fall of 2002. The franchise was purchased by the Walt Disney Company as a part of the buyout that took place between 2001 and 2002. This resulted in Fox Family Worldwide becoming ABC Family Worldwide. This buyout also included Saban Entertainment becoming BVS Entertainment, from News Corporation, Fox's parent company, and Haim Saban. The show continued to air on Fox until its Fox Kids package was dismantled in the United States. From 2002 to 2009, all Power Rangers shows have aired on various Disney-owned networks (ABC Kids, Toon Disney and Jetix channels worldwide). ABC Family, another Disney-owned network, also used to air Power Rangers until it did away with its Jetix timeslot after August 31, 2006. Disney planned to end Power Rangers after the 17th season, 2009’s Power Rangers RPM, but Saban Capital Group’s new subsidiary, Saban Brands purchased the franchise back and continued the franchise with it's 18th season, Power Rangers Samurai and began airing on Nickelodeon.

In 2018, toy company Hasbro acquired the franchise from Saban Brands not long after becoming the new toyline licensee. Saban Brands would close in July of that year (although its parent company would remain open) and a select amount of key people behind the franchise were transferred to Hasbro’s live action entertainment division, Allspark Pictures, and later Entertainment One upon its acquisition by Hasbro. The franchise continued to air on Nickelodeon, but will move to Netflix in 2022 upon Nickelodeon's contract expiration, according to Dino Fury actor Chance Perez.

The difference with Super Sentai is that there is no fantasy style. This is because the original Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger had a great influence on JRPG games like Dragon Quest. This is also true of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman, the original title of the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. The reason is that it is estimated that the JRPG like Dragon Quest series was not sold in North America at this time. The exceptions are Power Ranger Mystic Force and Power Ranger Operation Overdrive, which retain the fantasy concepts of the original Mahou Sentai Magiranger and GoGo Sentai Boukenger respectively.

Another difference from the Super Sentai is that there is no Gag Squadron, the Power Ranger Turbo and Power Ranger RPM, which replaced the Gag-Gekisou Sentai Carranger (In the first place, the series was named "Gagsentai Carranger", and all the main characters and villains were gag characters.) or Engine Sentai Go-onger (However, unlike Caranger, there is quite a bit of dark content.) with a very dark piece. It can be seen that the gag code between the US and Japan is different.

And when the Mecha is changed to Zord, the setting may change. In some Sentai series, there are many cases of having an ego or talking, but the Power Rangers just change to Mecha without such a thing.

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