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Originally Posted by Cen
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AVGN did a thing where he went back to watch all the power rangers since he missed out on it as a kid and the whole intro sequence where he was able to link it to the entire umbrella of Tokusatsu blew his mind, and that if he had just realized what he missed out on it was what he always wanted. Voltron is way, WAY modern to classic Tokusatsu and the umbrella Sentai.
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Oh, I'm not saying Voltron didn't come from a long line of Japanese Tokusatsu shows, like Ultraman or Kamen Rider. I'm saying that
here in America a bunch of TV executives saw Voltron and thought "let's do that again".
Remember, neither Voltron nor Power Rangers were purely Japanese shows. Voltron was like Robotech: it was made out of (highly) edited and dubbed footage from an anime (primarily Beast King Go-Lion, but later Armored Fleet Dairugger XV). Power Rangers was even more American, as it not only dubbed and edited the heck out of Super Sentai footage, but it also added American footage.
In short, both shows stole a ton from Japan, but both were American originals also ... but the latter show was very much a rip-off of both the hybrid Japanese-American model, and Tokusatsu content, of the former show.