Super Sentai
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Power Rangers
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Has 48 official teams, 1 unofficial team, and 1 alternate reality team of Super Sentai.
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Has 28 teams (and also 6 non-existing powers) of Power Rangers.
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Has 48 official seasons, 2 unofficial seasons. and 1 mini-series.
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Has 30 seasons overall, including 1 mini-series.
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Only contains an entire original footage.
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Contains a mix of Western footage (storyline) and original Sentai footage (usually destruction, team morph battle and Zord battle).
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The first alien Sentai team were the Gokaigers.
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The first alien PR team were the Aquitar Rangers.
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Most Sentai teams seem to be unaware of their predecessors in some way until they team up with them.
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Most Power Ranger teams are aware of the existence of past Power Rangers.
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No two core Sentai teams are directly connected to each other.
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The Zordon Era Power Rangers are all technically legacies of one team.
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Tsuyoshi Kaijo is the de facto leader of many Sentai gatherings, including the Great Legend War.
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Tommy Oliver is the considered the best and longest serving Power Ranger, and leader of The Legendary Battle.
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The first season is Himitsu Sentai Gorenger.
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The first season is Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, which is somewhat based off of Super Sentai's sixteenth season, Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.
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Some long-range attacks are quite realistic like bullet-shooting, missile-launching, shuriken-throwing.
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Most long-range attacks are laser beams (over the realistic projectiles) or completely different to avoid violence.
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Super Sentai includes blood, foul language, usage of alcohol, and even deaths due to Japan's less strict guidelines on what is allowed in children's media.
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Generally, avoids blood, foul language, usage of alcohol and rarely has character deaths (with some notable exceptions). With this content in the Sentai footage being either cut around, manipulatively edited or being omitted entirely due to the American FCC's regulations.
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The series itself is only aired on TV Asahi.
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The series itself are aired on multiple networks, including but not limited to: Fox Kids, ABC Kids, Jetix (for ABC Family and Toon Disney), and Nickelodeon, as well as streaming platform Netflix. It has also broadcast on international networks ITV and Channel 5.
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Bandai Japan (including its subsidiary Popy) has been the only toy brand for the franchise.
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Bandai America and Hasbro have been the toy brands for the franchise.
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Most the Super Sentai's powers were made by Earth Science with only a few teams using magic.
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Most of the Power Rangers' powers came from magic with only a few using Earth Science.
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Super Sentai has teams who have Orange Rangers.
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Currently, there is only one team that has a Orange Ranger and that is the Cosmic Fury Rangers.
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Production of Super Sentai has filmed in Japan.
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Filming of Power Rangers took place in the United States (Mighty Morphin to Wild Force), then moved to New Zealand from Ninja Storm to Cosmic Fury. It is reported that future series will be shot in the United States once again or other English-speaking countries for the upcoming reboot.
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The Super Sentai shows all exist in the same universe, with only one existing in an alternate universe.
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Most of the Power Rangers exist in the same universe, with one team taking place in the future, while two teams existing in alternate universes.
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The names of the franchise's eras follow the succession's order of the Emperors of Japan.
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The names of the franchise's eras are fandom's conventions, usually relating to who owned the rights to the franchise at the time.
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The sixth sentai ranger was not given an official spot in the credits like the others until the 2001 series.
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The sixth Rangers were usually given an official spot in the credits like the others excluding three exceptions.
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Prior to Gingaman, the sixth member would only be a recurring character who only helped out occasionally.
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The sixth Power Ranger member were generally treated as regular characters, though are often indisposed or have to fight elsewhere.
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Most members of the Super Sentai teams were young adults.
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Most members of the Power Rangers were teenagers.
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A variety of mecha are sentient, some even capable of human speech.
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Most of the zords that were adapted from these mecha were not sentient and treated as regular machines, nor were any of them capable of human speech.
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