Kyouryuu Sentai ZyuRanger

I summon DaiZyuJin in attack mode! And that's 20% done for ZyuRanger, not too shabby for half a year's work.

But man, what an unfortunate DVD/Blu-Ray release schedule. Japan usually releases stuff in the last third of the month. So we've got Eternal and Precure DX 3 from last month. But for some reason they released the August stuff the first week. So now there's All Riders Net Movies, Garo movie, and stuff going on as well. And next month there's Kiba and the DC for OOO/W. Crazy! I think the OOO hyper battle video should be coming out soon too.

Remember when a series was just a TV series, a movie, and a hyper battle video? When did everything become so complicated?

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Did you know that the monster is loosely based on Greek mythology? If you've ever read the Odyssey, then this story should sound familiar. Odysseus lands on an island, and his men get turned into pigs by the witch Kirke (latinized to Circes).

http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Kirke.html

Moly is even mentioned. Hey, this show is teaching you something about mythology! How about that?

"So spoke the Radiant One; then gave the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly. For mortal men it is perilous to pluck it up, but for the gods all things are possible. "

Anyway, if you've never taken a class in Greek mythology, the k sound in Greek was usually converted to a c sound when it was latinized. Like how cyclops would be kyklops:

http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/GigantesKyklopes.html

Since Japanese is a phonetic language, they tend to use spellings and pronunciations closer to the original borrowed word than the English version. It's just something that comes up every once in a while, so I thought I'd explain that.

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Watch out! It's Godzilla! No wait, that was for the pic I used last time.

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Have I ever explained what the name Kyouryuu Sentai ZyuRanger means?
Well, kyouryuu/dinosaur (恐竜 from the kanji scary-dragon) is the theme, even though a saber tooth tiger, a mammoth, and technically pteranodon are not dinosaurs.

The pronunciation for ZyuRanger is actually JuuRanger since the jyu/獣 part means beast. The reason it's spelled in this way is because it relies on some outdated romanization techniques (The same one that spells shi as si and chi as ti, I think). So the official spelling is completely meaningless. It's the same word for "beast" that you know from GekiJyu/Fierce Beasts or HyakuJyu/Animals.

Note that JuuMammoth probably does not use this kanji. That Juu is probably this kanji.:

That's why we spell if JuuMammoth instead of ZyuMammoth.

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ZyuRanger 06 released

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Helllooo ladies
Hmmm, just what is Luka looking at? She doesn't look into the camera in any of the shots.

A pirate sentai? What next, a ninja Kamen Rider?

Choushimono 調子物 【ちょうしもの】 (n) matter of chance, person easily elated

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Chiba Reiko, who plays Mei, later on became a yoga instructor. You can see how she looked in 1995 because she did a guest appearance in one of the Hibiki commercials. For a while, there was a rumor that she was the daughter of Sonny Chiba, but this was proven false and IMDB has removed this information from her page since then. (Sonny Chiba does have children, but they took on his real family name, Maeda)

Looking at her Japanese wiki page, apparently she had never met a man as scary as Director Toujou Shouhei during the filming of ZyuRanger. In an unverified pargraph, it says the director said things like, "Mei, you idiot! Why don't you go die?!" "You sure are crying a lot! Stop it! Change in scenario! Switch heroines!" "I've never seen such an awful female warrior before!" which would cause her to cry everyday. But he strictly taught her manners and courtesy and in the end she was grateful to him. The last thing that it says is that they both came from Fukushima, so the director complained that she had a bit of an accent. Secretly she thought, "The director also has that accent..."

Like I said, I didn't see a source for this story, so who knows how true it is. Take it with a grain of salt

ZyuRanger 05 released

First release of the year is ZyuRanger 4! And now we're all caught up with ourselves from last time. Go us

You count the Medals, one, two, and three!

Not these guys

These guys

Yup, if you come to this site, you're already fully aware that ZyuRanger is the original Sentai whose footage was taken to make Power Rangers here in the states

ZyuRanger aired from February 21, 1992 to February 12, 1993. About half a year later, the first Power Rangers series was released in August 28, 1993. And the rest is history

Power Rangers 1 released

What does Yashahime, Zolda, and Captain Taiga have in common?

They're all in this episode of Garo!

ZyuRanger Promo released