“This is actually not the first time a team is without a Yellow member, J.A.K.Q, Battle Fever J and Dengeki Sentai Changeman never had a Yellow member. When it was decided that the Kyoryuger’s would be required to defeat a dinosaur in order to be able to transform, we wanted the characters to be absurdly strong. In order to show this, we chose to have more male characters over female characters. Seeing how modern Yellows have been female, we couldn’t have a male Yellow. If the Yellow was a male, the kids would probably think is feminine and we wanted to avoid that.”
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that's... STUPID Huracanger had a male yellow and in what universe is Luca Feminine?
Don't forget Magiyellow
They're saying "modern", but in reality they were trying to say "in recent", as from the 30th Anniversary Sentai (Boukenger) up till the last (Go-Busters) have female Yellows. In terms of age broadcasting (Kindergarten to Early Elementary) that would be inside the range of the current viewing child, and mostly would only be familiar with Sentai from their generation.
You are right.
It is just a problem of translation or interpretation.
um, i DO think Luka (i'm assuming you mean GokaiYellow here) is pretty feminine.
sure, she's a tomboy and makes a much better man than Don (see ep.27), but she's still more feminine than many other tomboys out there.
Please read my comment.
Maybe it can be an answer to your question.
Thanks.
And Toei didn't think that Kyoryuger will be adapted to power rangers, and they must use the black or the green to make it a female role? Or maybe Toei knows that Power Rangers can't go on after the Gokaiger's adaptation?
Why can't it go on?
That's the ticket. Have adaptation go old school.
Actually, now that Saban is back in control of the Ranger series, I expect there will be a lot more changes both to storyline and characters in the future. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if we made our own Yellow for this series. We did the same with Titanium Ranger, and he was the best Ranger of the series! (Mind you, all the acting pretty much sucked. It was too similar to how commercials are done. Even so, of all the Rangers, Titanium had the best character development and personality.)
That's....a pretty lame reason. If you never make a male yellow again then of course kids will only see it as female because you ONLY make female yellows. Give us a yellow and make him manly, it's not that hard.
Please read my comment.
Maybe it can be an answer to your question.
Or... even better: Give us a female yellow, and make her a powerhouse. Show that girls can be strong as well. You could even have an episode about it! All the guys start thinking "She can't do it, she's a girl," and then BAM! She does it better than all of the men on the team. UGH! This annoys me SO much. I know that there's a history of this kind of thinking in Japan, but there's also a huge feminist movement right now. Wake up, Takahito Ohmori, and look around you.
Its a bunk statement. Luka and Ahim were both INCREDIBLY strong female characters. Heck, Ahim was the default heir-in-exile of her planet and one of the greatest heroes of the anti-Zangyack resistance. She was given one of the most powerful and inspiring characterization episodes of a female Sentai hero. Luka easily matched blades with the rest of the team, was strong, independent, and equally badass to Marvelous and Joe. And that's just Gokaiger, but it still dispels the idea that "girls just aren't strong enough".
Mind you, Power Rangers has had its share of teams which were pretty much led by their female members. Jen (Time Force Pink) and Taylor (Wild Force Yellow) were the most experienced members of their teams, even if somehow the inexperienced Red Rangers became the leaders. Vida (Mystic Force Pink) was one of the more engaging members of the team (mind you, I found Vida a big step up from Houka, aka MagiPink).
We shall, I suppose, see how things go. I am REALLY looking forward to the first episode of Kyoruger, once it gets subbed.
Please read my comment.
Maybe it can be an answer to your question.
It is just a problem of translation or interpretation.
He never said that.
Actually that sounds incredibly cliched.
Honestly, does everything have to be sexism if it says women are different than men in this or that way? I'm not saying sexism isn't real, but I get really tired of people yelling sexism in a "2+2=4" way at things that are, at best, debatable.
This, this, this. I keep thinking, looking at harem mangas and the like, that people blow every little thing out of proportion. It's all "look, there are tons of skimpy dressed females in this manga, it's sexist, and unrealistic and there should be blah blah blah," and yet, I can pull up tons of shoujo/josei manga that feature scantily clad pretty boys with unrealistic proportions, or just turn on the TV and find guys topless and in briefs and what not, but somehow that's okay, and not sexist at all. Why is it okay to complain about a guy's female-related-fantasies, but all female's male-related-fantasies are okay and don't need any complaints, or rather, if you do complain, you're sexist because you don't like half-naked men being crammed in your face?
Please read my comment.
Maybe it can be an answer to your question.
It is just a problem of translation or interpretation.
To Sentai producers: Way to be sexist! Hasnt Power Rangers taught you anything? We've had female leaders and female blues and reds, and they werent butch! They held their own! Why not have a female yellow in there and hold her own? Is it that Japanese women are weaker than American women?
when did we have a female red and blue? I thought they were always pink and yellow
In Power Rangers? Or in Super Sentai?
Liveman, Jetman, Hurricanger and Magiranger had female blues. Shinkenger had a female red.
Please read my comment.
Maybe it can be an answer to your question.
It is just a problem of translation or interpretation.
That is still horribly sexist, just as bad as the translation they offered.
By the way, Power Rangers has never taught Sentai Series anything about "female leaders and female blues and reds", because that is what Sentai Series has taught Power Rangers.
Power Rangers had a female Red first (in SPD) but Sentai had a female Blue first
I don't think the female SPD red is much an example you'll expect, given her betrayal, along with the rest of her team.
Ask Zyuranger and Timeranger both because Sabertiger Yellow and TimeYellow both were already MEN before, none of them act like a feminine. =/
Please read my comment.
Maybe it can be an answer to your question.
Hooray sexism?
He could've just said the yellow sash would not work with a fully yellow costume.
Wouldn't they have decided on the set-up of the team before the costumes were designed? If they were going to have a Yellow, the sash wouldn't be there
So..... sexism. More male then female? Whatever
You may be politically correct in US or north-west Europe, I agree, since I myself have lived in US.
With that in mind, if to defend what he really means, they are just trying to express the "physical" strength so as to defeat dinosaurs, not a "mental" strength, even not a "human" strength, you know.
By the way, please read my comment.
Maybe it can be a help to understand what he really want to say.
There seems to be a problem of translation or interpretation.
to think of it this way, one super strong girl can match up to four other men. i don't think it's sexism, but feminism. it wasn't their original intent, but kyoryupink seems like more than a match for the guys on the team, given how carefree she is during the battles
It feels less like feminism when they have to explain that the reason there isn't a yellow sentai member is because using that color on a male would be loosely associated with being weak because it's feminine.
Actually no, you're right, that's totally feminism!
LOL. You act like that this is the first time that they only had one female member on a team. Look at Goranger, J.A.K.Q., Battle Fever J, Denjiman, Goggle V, Dynaman, Liveman, Turboranger, Zyuranger, Dairanger, Kakuranger, Gingaman, GoGoV, Timeranger, Gaoranger, Hurricaneger, Abaranger, Gekiranger, & Go-Busters.
Plus Sun Vulcan didn't have a female member at all, as it's just only 3 guys.
With Liveman, Hurricanger, Abaranger, Gekiranger, and Go-Busters, what was nice about them was that even though there was only one female in all of them, they were a different color other than pink which was substituted for either Yellow or Blue. It's so irritating that the Pink has to Always be a female just because Japan still must be under the ancient stereotype that Pink is only a girls color.
Ancient my ass. That's an invention of the tail end of the 19th century
It's not sexism. It's merchandising. Sentai is for male kids (that's what japaneses say) and they always sell a lot more figures of the male characters. Less girls, more sold toys. The SH Figuarts female figures ar almost all Limited Edition and really expensive, because they have to earn the more money they can with the less figures made. That is the real reason
It's still sexism even if it's merchandise-based sexism.
Could have replaced pink with yellow.
That's such a sexist reason. Sentai has always been sexist whether they realize it or not. To see teams like this again, it takes me back to the first time I saw Ninja Storm and wondered why there is a ratio of 5 guys to 1 girl on a team of Rangers. I can't wait for the day when there's a team of 3 guys and 3 girls. A team where the leader is female and isn't leader by default or some special reason like in Shinkenger.
Time Ranger had a female leader, Tme Pink.
Kaku Ranger had a female leader, Ninja White.
but americans put them as leaders not japanesse
Incorrect. They were leaders in the super sentai as well.
Do not lie.
Both original Time Pink and Ninja White are leaders in Super Sentai Series.
doubt bruh. Red will always be the leader u gotta show me one video to prove it
Video?
What you have to do is only to watch the 1st episodes of both Kaku Ranger and Time Ranger.
Ninja White is called "Tsuru-Hime", she is "hime", which means "princess" in Japanese language, so "Tsuru-Hime" means "Princess Tsuru", and other Kake Ranger members are her servants.
Time Pink is only the undercover proffesional agent of police in 30th century, other 3 (Blue, Yellow, Green) are freshmen of time patrol, and Red is the only guy of 20th Century.
I felt that Ninja White was not really the leader except at first, because she knew more than the others, that role fell to Sosuke as the series wore on. Time Pink was not the leader of the team, and Timeranger went down as a team that had no declared leader. Though it was Tatsuya who took the other four in hand, helped them by providing a place to live and guidelines for working, and who high-handedly trapped them aboard the time-ship and sent them back to their own time.
She's considered the official team leader, but Sasuke (Red) is still the main character. It's the same for Timeranger.
Time Pink and Ninja White were leaders in both Japanese and American. Gekiyellow from Gekiranger was leader too in the same episode she became a yankee. Not only that but the ratios were off on those seasons too with many more guys than women but they were the leaders of all of them.
I don't see it as being sexist. The biggest reason Toei started adding more than one female Ranger was in an attempt to up viewership by young girls. Honestly, Sentai, as well as Power Rangers, has been deemed a "boys' show", and not by Toei or Saban or any of them. The kids themselves deemed it that way. Also, I have some female friends who did watch Power Rangers growing up, and they were actually satisfied with the makeup of the teams. They thought it was cool that the girls were the underdogs, and that when the guys were in a serious pinch, it was the girls that saved the day. And you know what, I agree with them. So, sexist? Not really. If anyone's being sexist, it's the little kids that watch the show. In any case, this break from tradition could, in the future, lead to a change of gender-color pairings. It seems to me, from the way they have done Gokaiger and GoBusters, that Toei has many changes in mind for the Sentai series, and is slowly starting to implement them.
This is assuming that kids can't relate to protagonists of the opposite gender. Which really isn't the case. Super Sentai and Kamen Rider attracts a very large female fanbase, and magical girl series tend to have large male fanbases as well.
Ninja Storm/Hurricanger at least did not have the female be Pink.
What's Awesome about Akibaranger, even if it's unofficial is that there is only 1 guy and 2 girls.