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1900 - 1975[]

  • 1909: Manufacturing company Suzuki is established.
  • 1923:
    • Toy company Hasbro is established.
    • September 1: The Great Kanto Earthquake occurred, a devastating event at 9.0 on the Richter scale which caused 40 foot tsunami waves, fires and killed 140,000 people.
    • October 13: The Walt Disney Company is established.
  • Circa 1925: The first televisions appear.
  • 1929: Excessive stock speculation triggers a worldwide economic collapse, the Great Depression.
  • 1930: Ogon Bat, Japan’s first superhero (and debated to be the first ever in the world), debuted in kamishibai performances.
  • 1933: King Kong premiered in theaters, Eiji Tsuburaya sees the film and feels inspired to create a giant creature movie of his own someday.
  • 1938
    • January 25: Shotaro Onodera is born.
    • April 18: Superman debuted in Action Comics #1, establishing the core template of superheroes and laying a firm foundation of the superhero genre.
  • 1939: World War II begins as Germany under Hitler invades Poland.
  • 1941
    • December 7: Japanese Kamikaze pilots launch unprovoked attack on NS Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. US enters WWII.
  • 1944
  • 1945:
    • Japan surrenders after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War II comes to a close when the remaining members of the Axis surrender in defeat to the Allied forces.
    • Shotaro Ishinomori’s hometown in the Miyagi Prefecture was spared from any air raids by the Allied Forces during the war, as it was a rice making county with no military strategic significance to warrant an attack. This allowed the young boy to continue his education in elementary school uninterrupted and learn to read and write, though he later recollected that he laughed about the adults and children who were huddled around the radio crying when the announcement came that Japan surrendered, too young at the time to understand what was happening.
  • 1948
    • Wanting his country to have their own Disney style animation company, animator Kenzō Masaoka co-establishes what will eventually become Toei Animation with Zenjirō Yamamoto.
    • The Honda Motor Company is established.
  • 1949
    • October 1: A film studio called Tokyo Eiga Haikyu, later changed to simply Toei, is established.
  • 1950
    • July 5: Toy company Bandai is established.
    • Young Shotaro Onodera created his first manga, a doujinshi titled Bokujuu Itteki. He then submitted stories to various publications, winning and losing various contests for his submitted short stories. Shotaro’s father disapproved of his son’s hobby, a strict no nonsense man who believed Shotaro needed to focus on his studies and work towards a “real job” and even tore up the manga pages his son made in anger to pressure him to do what he wanted. Shotaro’s frail older sister Yoshie was far more supportive of her little brother and encouraged him to keep drawing.
    • US Senator Joseph McCarthy goes on a paranoid witch hunt for communists that destroyed people’s lives and infringed upon their rights, especially with the establishment of the House of Un-American Activities. Some of his accusations were proven wrong over the years and certain anti-communist policies were eventually considered unconstitutional and too extreme to remain as it compromised the USA’s beliefs of liberty and democracy.
  • 1952: Britain's King George VI dies. George's daughter, Elizabeth II, takes over. The young queen's coronation the following year is a national spectacle for the ages.
  • 1954
    • Gojira debuted in Japanese theaters, a film that helped establish the Tokusatsu genre with Eiji Tsuburaya managing the special effects and Haruo Nakajima establishing the art of “suitmation” portraying the titular character. Two years later, the giant lizard would be seen in American theaters and drive-ins under a new name that would make him famous the world over: Godzilla.
    • Shotaro, now a teen in high school, catches the attention of Astro Boy creator and mangaka Osamu Tezuka from his submissions to Manga Shonen under his pen name “Shotaro Ishinomori”. Despite his reputation as a celebrated manga artist and author, Tezuka was notorious for missing publishing deadlines, so he sent a telegram to Shotaro offering him a job in Tokyo as his assistant. Shotaro took time off school and travelled to Tokyo to learn from Tezuka how to be a professional manga artist.
    • Ironically, when he moved to Tokyo, Manga Shonen, the very magazine that gave Shotaro his job with Tezuka, ceased publishing due to tough competition from the growing manga industry eating away their sales.
    • Suzuki became Suzuki Motor Co. Ltd and pivots its focus to automotive manufacturing.
  • 1955:
    • January: Shotaro Ishinomori’s first serialized manga, Second Class Angel, is published.
    • Walt Disney opens Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Despite a rough start, the theme park is a success and is visited by millions of people.
    • Businessman Ray Kroc turns McDonald’s into a national brand with fast food locations popping up across the USA serving up hamburgers, fries and shakes.
  • 1956:
    • Mitsuteru Yokoyama publishes the manga Tetsujin 28-go (later known in the USA as Gigantor), the titular character being the first humanoid giant robot in Japanese popular fiction.
  • 1957:
    • April 4: Yoshie Onodera suffers a severe asthma attack and later died from shock as a result of a morphine overdose from the doctors trying to suppress her symptoms. Shotaro is devastated by the loss of his older sister and buries himself in his work, though he once had a complete breakdown and cried, with his friend Hideko Mizuno consoling him and promising at the time not to tell anyone about his breakdown.
    • July 30: Super Giant, the first onscreen Japanese superhero, debuted in theaters and eight sequels are quickly made in rapid succession in less than three years.
  • 1958:
    • The Tokyo Tower, one of Japan’s most recognizable landmarks, completed construction and three years later it began its service as a communications tower, broadcasting airwaves of radio and television to Tokyo and the country.
    • Gekko Kamen, the first Japanese superhero show on television, began airing.
    • Around the same time, DC Comics would enter the Japanese market with translated reprints of old comic book issues of Superman, with future founder of Tatsunoko, Tatsuo Yoshida, doing cover artwork for some of the collected volumes. A year later, the George Reeves 1957 TV series The Adventures of Superman would air dubbed episodes for the local audience. This expanded the popularity of superheroes, with even Emperor Hirohito tuning in every week to see another episode of the Man of Steel in action.
  • 1959
    • July 5: Children began imitating the dangerous stunts of Gekko Kamen, resulting in a young boy jumping to his death, the show gets cancelled after outrage from parents pressured Toei to end the show. The Gekko Kamen franchise continues in a series of theatrical films and then goes dormant.
    • Seven Color Mask debuts on television, the star of the show is a then new actor under the stage name Shinichi Chiba, who would later be called “Sonny” Chiba.
  • 1961
    • Atlas Comics is renamed Marvel Comics.
    • Shotaro Ishinomori considers quitting manga and decides to leave Japan for a while to avoid the sad memories of his late sister. He takes a journalist job with the intention of going on a three month long trip around the world. He visits the USA and attends a sci-fi convention in Seattle, which stimulates his creativity again. He then comes across a September 1960 issue of LIFE magazine with an article that introduced him to a brand new word in the English language: Cyborg. This coupled with further travels creates a spark of inspiration in his mind, which would later become an idea of a group of people from different backgrounds who were cybernetically enhanced, with nine in total like a baseball team. He returned home the following year and moved out of the Tokiwa-so building, but kept in touch with his friends there. Rejuvenated, Shotaro begins working on manga again.
  • 1963
    • November: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launches its own brand of science fiction, Doctor Who. A sampling of sound effects from the BBC would be loaned out to Toei for use in their programming, including the sound effect of the TARDIS materializing.
  • 1964
    • Shotaro Ishinomori publishes the manga Cyborg 009, an early template for the concepts of Super Sentai.
    • The Tokaido Shinkansen railway line is completed, bringing fast public transportation to the citizens of Japan. The railway was completed just in time for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where international visitors got to experience high speed rail travel for the first time.
  • 1965
    • September 30: Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds premieres in the UK, the puppeteer’s incredibly detailed miniatures catches the attention of Eiji Tsuburaya who visited Gerry’s Century 21 Studio to see how they worked. The show itself gained cult status in Japan which led to an evolution of tokusatsu, with certain productions doing their own versions of the techniques Anderson pioneered to create action sequences featuring miniature vehicles especially in Kaiju films during the Kaiju Boom of the ’60s.
    • Shotaro Ishinomori hires a young artist named Go Nagai to be an assistant at his manga studio.
  • 1966
    • January 2 and July 17: The Ultra Series debuted with Ultra Q, a Twilight Zone inspired sci-fi show, followed by Ultraman, a show mixing Kaiju and Superhero sci-fi action. The ratings and cultural phenomenon of the latter catch the attention of the competition, who try to develop their own programs to counter it to keep good numbers in the ratings.
    • Tatsuo Yoshida begins his two-volume manga Mach GoGoGo. Over the next few years, Yoshida's creation evolves into the Speed Racer franchise.
    • Star Trek debuts, which influences science fiction around the world as its popularity grows.
    • Inspired by the American TV sitcom Bewitched, Mitsuteru Yokoyama creates Sally the Witch, establishing the Magical Girl genre of anime and manga.
  • 1967:
    • April 5: Kamen no Ninja Akakage, a television adaptation of a manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama of the same name, debuted its first episode. The show is Toei’s first production to be filmed in color and the first color live action ninja show. The production is supervised by Tohru Hirayama.
    • October 11: Another adaptation of Yokoyama’s manga, Giant Robo, premiered on television and yet another tokusatsu series supervised by Hirayama. This is the first Toei project to utilize suit actors for giant robot battles, a learning experience that would serve the company well in the future. The series is one of the select few to be imported to the USA at the time as Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot.
    • Go Nagai leaves Ishinomori to pursue his own professional manga career.
  • 1968
    • Producer Tohru Hirayama is commissioned by Toei to do a new project that is codenamed “Maskman K”. He is given an executive producer position to oversee its development.
    • Ishimori Productions, Shotaro Ishinomori’s production company, is established.
  • 1969:
    • Monthly Hobby Japan begins publication. The magazine originally focused on toys such as miniature cars and then expanded into various other hobbies including tokusatsu shows and toys.
    • July: Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are first to land on Luna/the Moon.
  • 1970
    • Hirayama hires Shōtarō Ishinomori as a character designer for the project, he at first created a masked wrestler who rides a motorcycle called Cross Fire, but changed his mind as he didn’t like how safe and mundane the character seemed. He desired something more fantastic and grotesque and tried to pitch his recent manga creation, Skull Man, to network executives as he wanted a horror show for children. This idea is rejected, with Shotaro reworking the concept with over 50 drawings and having his son Jo select the one he liked best to decide. Jo picked a grasshopper man with a red scarf and despite disputes with the choice from an executive who thought grasshoppers were weak and “ugly”, the production staff went forward with the show’s development.
    • Actor Sonny Chiba invested some of his own money to establish the Japan Action Club studio in Roppongi to elevate the production of stunts and fight choreography.
  • 1971
    • April 3: Kamen Rider debuts on television and later becomes the highest rated show in Japan. Creator Shotaro Ishinomori is asked by Toei to do more programs like this, leading to the Henshin Hero TV boom of the 1970s
    • McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in Japan.
    • The DX henshin hero toyline is established, starting with Kamen Rider’s Typhoon Belt made by Popy.
    • Children’s periodical TV Magazine debuted on shelves, featuring Kamen Rider on the cover of its first issue. The publication would showcase different TV shows that were on the air at the time of each issue.
  • 1972
    • October 1: Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, created by Tatsunoko Pro, airs its first episode. Aspects of the popular anime would later be incorporated into Super Sentai. These elements are wrist changers, personalized weapons and individual mecha for each team member, battling giant enemies and using a mecha finisher to destroy them. One of Gatchaman’s writers was Hirohisa Soda.
    • October: Go Nagai publishes Mazinger Z in Weekly Shōnen Jump, the titular robot is the first example in Japanese media of a giant robot piloted by a human protagonist.
    • Popy’s Chogokin toys began production, using newly developed methods of die cast molding. The toyline was brought to life by the success of the Mazinger franchise and the Super Robot boom that was building up. Super Sentai’s first toys were part of the Chogokin line.
  • 1973-1974: The global oil crisis hurts the production of tokusatsu, as certain materials were made from petroleum based products and travel to filming locations became a bit more difficult as fuel became more scarce. The rise of Super Robots in anime became popular enough for TV networks to pivot to a boom of that genre as they costed less than a live action kids show shot on location. The competition dwindled as the ‘70s rolled on while Toei and Tsuburaya endured the pain and continued making Henshin Hero shows.
  • 1974:
    • Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa create Getter Robo, the first combiner robot which also had more than one pilot and multiple forms based on which combination of components are interlocked in a specific formation.
  • 1975
    • Sometime before the production of Kamen Rider StrongerIcon-crosswiki, Kamen Rider co-creator Toru Hirayama came up with an idea to make a show about a team of Kamen Riders. After some reworking from screenplay writers, Shotaro Ishinomori and producer Susumu Yoshikawa, it became focused on a team of five colored costumed heroes rather than a team of Kamen Riders. The show's concept title was Red 1 and after a few name changes, was given the title Gorenger. During the planning and pre-production process, the Kamen Rider series was pulled off of the NET network after Kamen Rider AmazonIcon-crosswiki ended and forced to move to a new timeslot on the TBS network. This resulted in an empty slot in the Saturday night lineup for NET that was to be filled by the new show.
    • Toei hired Hirohisa Soda to be an episode scriptwriter, a job that he would work quietly in the background for during the first five seasons of Super Sentai.

1975[]

1976[]

  • May: Shogakukan publishes Televi-Kun, a beloved children’s periodical focused on popular kids media. The magazine would gain a reputation as a trusted source for information on tokusatsu shows by previewing or teasing events in a series and giving data on heroes.
  • July 22: Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Bomb Hurricane premieres as part of the "Toei Manga Matsuri"; it is the first actual Gorenger movie made of original material and not recut television footage.

1977[]

1978[]

  • March 18: J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Gorenger, uniting Shotaro Ishinomori's original two Sentai series, is released in theaters. Marking an end to Shotaro Ishinomori's involvement with Sentai.
  • May 17: Toei forms a partnership with Marvel Comics to license their characters in Japan, starting with the Spider-Man TV series. This show features the first instance of evil monsters growing giant and the use of a piloted giant robot to fight them.
  • July 13: Baku Hatakeyama (Daita Ooiwa) commits suicide due to depression on being typecast for his Gorenger work; marking the first death of a Sentai Ranger actor.

1979[]

  • Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) launches the world's first commercial cellular network.
  • February 3: After over a year off the air, Super Sentai returns to Japanese TV with the broadcast of "Ep. 1: Assault!! Run to the Ballpark", the opening episode of Battle Fever J, created by Toei alongside American comic book company Marvel.
  • Marvel expanded further into licensing with the Shogun Warriors comics, which were a collection of different Super Robots and Mecha from a variety of Japanese TV shows. Mattel, who got the IP licenses from Popy, launched the toyline that the comic is based on in the same year. Among the toys were robots and mecha of the Super Sentai series.
  • Marvel continues to license its own characters for Toei in non-tokusatsu media, which either did not get developed or flopped. These included a short lived Moon Knight manga that was originally going to build up to an anime series, the much ridiculed Dracula OVA and a never made Silver Surfer anime that featured a Japanese Ms. Marvel and The Thing.
  • March 21: Mirai Robo Daltanious premiered on television, the show is noted for being the first Super Robot show to utilize an animal themed mecha and said animal would prove popular to utilize in other franchises including Super Sentai in the future: A lion.

1980[]

  • January: Sci-fi magazine Uchusen began publication, detailing the topics of science fiction anime, movies and tokusatsu television.
  • The Winter Olympics are held in Lake Placid, United States. Notably, the USA's men's hockey team wins gold amid a searing rivalry with the USSR.
  • The Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, Soviet Union. A number of athletes boycott these Games due to the USSR's human rights record.
  • The Shogun Warriors toyline is discontinued by Mattel due to low sales and failure to comply with new child safety regulations for toys. Marvel’s team of writers would eventually seek a similar concept and play a role in the development of a then brand new and separate franchise four years later: Transformers.

1981[]

  • March 4: Beast King GoLion debuts on television, a Sentai inspired Super Robot show, this series features the first example of combining a set of animal mecha into a robot. Later imported to the USA for Saturday morning TV as Voltron: Defender of the Universe.
  • The original IBM PC debuts.
  • The competing Ultra Series goes dormant after the commercial failure of Ultraman 80.
  • January 20: Ronald Reagan assumes the office of President of the United States.
  • March 30: An assassination attempt is made on US President Reagan. The effort fails, though Reagan's Press Secretary, James Brady, is paralyzed.
  • June 12: Lucasfilm releases Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film is a huge success, and becomes a template for the action-adventure genre.
  • Rainbow Zoukei, a tokusatsu costume and prop company, is established and contracted by Toei to handle the workload of making costumes and prop weapons for their three Henshin hero shows.

1982[]

  • Armored Fleet Dairugger XV premieres. It would later be folded into the Voltron mythos.
  • January 30: The final episode of Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan, Final Ep.: Shine, North Pole Aurora airs; this completes the final episode of the three year Toei/Marvel partnership, as well as the end of Shouzou Uehara's run as main writer on the franchise. Uehara will return to tokusatsu several months later as the main writer of Uchuu Keiji GavanIcon-crosswiki, the first series of the Metal Heroes franchise.
  • February 6: Dai Sentai Goggle V airs its first episode; Ep. 1: The Invasion of Dark Science. Hirohisa Soda is promoted to head writer of the Super Sentai series, beginning what some fans dub as the “Soda Era”.
  • June 25: Blade Runner debuted in theaters, with its world designed by futurist Syd Mead. The movie became a cult classic and influenced cyberpunk and science fiction in general, with Tsuyoshi Nonaka citing it as an inspiration for his mechanical designs in the late ‘80s and early ’90s.

1983[]

  • A massive glut of low-quality video games and game hardware sends the fledgling industry into worldwide collapse, closing its second generation. Japanese toy and game maker Nintendo develops the Family Computer (Famicom) as part of a counteroffensive against the factors leading to the crash.

1984[]

  • The Winter and Summer Olympic Games are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Los Angeles, United States, respectively.
  • January 24: Apple Computer unveils the Macintosh 128K, to be the first commercial PC with a developed GUI.
  • February 4: The first episode of Choudenshi Bioman, "The Enigmatic Giant Robo Arrives" airs.
  • On a business trip to Japan, Haim Saban would stumble upon an episode of Bioman while watching TV in his hotel room. The show fascinates him and he would get a VHS copy of an episode in an effort to sell the concept to US networks, which would be a struggle for him as many executives didn’t see the appeal of these kinds of shows.

1985[]

  • Mikhail Gorbachev assumes leadership of the USSR. In the following years, his policies would open the country to the rest of the world.
  • The Famicom debuts in the United States as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Super Mario Bros. becomes an instant hit.
  • Mr. Watanabe of Toei contacted Stan Lee about Super Sentai and Margaret Loesch, CEO of Marvel Productions, was given a tape of an episode of Sun Vulcan by Lee. After reviewing it, Loesch authorized $25,000 to cut the footage into a pitch reel with English dub voices over the audio for TV executives of the three major networks (CBS, NBC and ABC) to look at for a proposed show. The Executives were unkind to the presentation, with one in particular dragging Loesch aside away from Lee's earshot to say that he could not believe that someone like her, a former Hanna-Barbera executive and Emmy award winner of children’s programming would give him such trash. Despite Loesch disagreeing with the guy’s opinions, saying that it looks fun and every kid dreams of being a superhero, she was still rejected on the development of a show and Lee gave up. Lee calls Watanabe, apologizing to his friend that they couldn’t make his idea work.
  • Marvel Comics and Toei dissolve their partnership after the failed attempts by Stan Lee to license the three Sentai shows they produced to TV networks in the US.

1986[]

  • The US Space Shuttle Challenger is destroyed by a faulty fuel system during takeoff, killing all on board.
  • A nuclear reactor accident obliterates Chernobyl, USSR.
  • Studio OX employee Tsuyoshi Nonaka is commissioned by TV Magazine to make artwork for an article about the third season of Transformers.

1987[]

  • The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, originally a series of comics, receives a syndicated daily cartoon.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation launches, also syndicated.
  • April 5: The Fox Broadcasting Company is launched, becoming the US's fourth TV network.
  • July 17: RoboCop debuted in theaters, it became yet another influence on Japanese sci-fi and cult favorite.
  • October 19: The New York Stock Exchange suffers one of the worst stock trading days since the Great Depression. Other markets worldwide soon follow suit, leading to "Black Monday".
  • Tsuyoshi Nonaka is hired by Toei to do design work for the Metal Heroes Series, starting with Kidou Keiji Jiban. He is mentored by Katsushi Murakami, who works alongside him.

1988[]

  • The Olympics arrive in Calgary, Canada, followed by Seoul, South Korea.
  • The American cable network USA airs a comedic dubbing of Kagaku Sentai Dynaman, simply called Dynaman, as part of the "Night Flight" block; this is the first airing of any Super Sentai footage in the continental United States.
  • February 22: Choujuu Sentai Liveman airs its first episode, "Ep. 1: Friends! Why Did You Do This!?". Due to both Gorenger and JAKQ not being considered as Super Sentai at the time, this season was commemorated as the franchise's 10th anniversary and 10th season.

1989[]

  • Thousands of Chinese protest government corruption in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, but the revolt is soon crushed with a massacre.
  • UK computer researcher Tim Berners-Lee lays the foundation of what would become the Internet.
  • January 7: Hirohito, the Emperor of Japan, dies, assuming the burial name Shōwa; his son, Akihito becomes the Emperor and is given the name Heisei. Due to the death of Hirohito, Liveman's forty-fourth episode is delayed until the following week, likewise pushing back the start of the next Sentai, Turboranger, which would ultimately become the first "Heisei Sentai".
  • January 20: Ronald Reagan completes his second and final term in office. Vice President George H.W. Bush assumes US Presidency.
  • February 9: Osamu Tezuka dies of stomach cancer at the age of 60.
  • February 18: The final episode of Liveman, "Final Ep.: The Fall of Great Professor Bias", airs; this completes the final Sentai created and filmed during the Shōwa era of Japanese history.
  • February 22: A special, Ep. 1: The Great Gathering of 10 Sentai: Counting on You! Turboranger airs to commemorate both the start of Turboranger as well as the 10th anniversary of the Super Sentai franchise; this is the first large gathering of Sentai heroes with characters from Battle Fever J to Liveman appearing together to support the new team.
  • March 1: The first actual story episode of Turboranger, Ep. 2: Did You Guys See a Fairy!?, airs.
  • August: SEGA releases the Mega Drive 16-bit game console worldwide. It becomes known as the Genesis in North America.
  • November: Demolition of the infamous Berlin Wall begins.

1990[]

  • The Super Famicom, known to other parts of the world as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), is launched.
  • March 2 - Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman premieres with its first episode Ep. 1: The Five Sibling Warriors.
  • August - Japan’s economy starts to collapse as the Nikkei index falls to half of what it was in 1989, due to some bad policy decisions by the Bank of Japan.

1991[]

  • March 3: Rodney King beaten by Los Angeles police. The incident is filmed and sent to local television station KTLA. Riots erupt across the South Central district.
  • Summer: Moscow falls under siege amid a coup attempt. Gorbachev is forced to accede to Boris Yeltsin, after which the collapse of the USSR begins.
  • During the decline of ratings for Fiveman, Toei is hit with the possibility of canceling the Super Sentai series. The production staff manages to negotiate the series continuing with one more season, which could make or break the franchise.
    • Fiveman’s problems that led to this were multiple factors: Hirohisa Soda was suffering creative burnout after being the head writer for Super Sentai for over a decade, Japan’s economic troubles caused consumers to panic and not make extravagant purchases like buying toys leading to the worst toy sales of Sentai products up to that point. Lastly, aside from bad episodes of Fiveman that turned away viewers, popular anime like DragonBall Z were siphoning attention and ratings away from Super Sentai.
  • February 15: Choujin Sentai Jetman airs its first episode; "Ep. 1: Seek the Warriors".
  • Summer: Saddam Hussein of Iraq orders the invasion of neighboring Kuwait, prompting the United States to lead and launch a multi-country allied defense, the Persian Gulf War. Japan, by law, cannot participate, but renders financial support.
  • Naoko Takeuchi’s Codename: Sailor V is published, the manga proves popular enough that she begins developing a sequel manga.

1992[]

  • Final year of combined Olympic Games (Albertville, France, then Barcelona, Spain).
  • After working on the Metal Heroes series for several years, Tsuyoshi Nonaka is asked also to do mechanical designs for the Super Sentai series and works with other designers to develop the 16th Super Sentai show.
  • February 6: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon begins publication, creator Naoko Takeuchi incorporates tropes from the Super Sentai series and applied them to a Shōjo story. The manga and its following anime adaptation are a colossal success, making waves around the world and Naoko one of the richest female mangaka of all time. The “Sentai for girls” trope would then be duplicated by many in an effort to cash in or do their own takes on the Sailor Moon formula.
  • February 21 - Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger premieres with its first episode "Ep. 1: The Birth"; this episode also marks the beginning of Noboru Sugimura's four-year stint as main writer of the franchise.
  • June 19 - Yamato Tribe Knight Burai is introduced in Zyuranger episode 17, Ep. 17: The Sixth Hero, introducing the very first official Sixth Hero in the franchise.
  • October 31: Fox and Marvel premiere the Saban-produced X-Men: The Animated Series. The composer of the opening theme is Ron Wasserman.
  • Japan’s entire economy crashed, leading to a unique form of economic stagnation dubbed “The Lost Decades”, as its catastrophic impact is still felt to this day.

1993[]

  • January 20: William J. "Bill" Clinton sworn in as US President.
  • February 12 - Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger airs its final episode: Final Ep.: Viva Dinosaurs
  • Margaret Loesch, now a programming executive at Fox Kids, asks Haim Saban for something special to fill the vacant 7:30 AM time slot during sweeps. She stipulates that she wanted “something funny but with action” as their competition all had a standard comedic cartoon on air at this particular time and she wanted to subvert expectations. Excited, Haim had just the thing for her, showing off his worn out Bioman tape. Loesch recognized what it was from her days at Marvel and approved the development of a show. Despite nobody at Fox believing in her project, Loesch pressed onward.
  • Despite a pilot for an American Bioman being tested, the two decided to use a more recent Super Sentai series for stock footage, capitalizing on the hype surrounding the Jurassic Park movie and choosing to license Zyuranger.
  • Denkou Choujin Gridman premieres.
  • April 30: The World Wide Web goes into the public domain, allowing ordinary everyday people across the world access to the internet for the first time on their computers.
  • August 28: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the adaptation of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger makes its debut on Fox Kids in the US.
    • The series' first Sixth Ranger, Tommy Oliver, makes his debut in a weeklong miniseries.

1994[]

  • Jeff Bezos founds the company that will become Amazon.
  • Sony Corporation begins work on the PlayStation console.
  • The Tokuma Shoten Publishing Company launched Hyper Hobby Magazine, a periodical focused on science fiction and fantasy movies, television, anime, tokusatsu and collectibles such as model kits and figures.
  • January 17: Southern California struck by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake centered in the Northridge district of Los Angeles. Hollywood halts some productions, relocates others.
  • August 6: Super Sentai World, a short 3D film featuring a crossover between Kakuranger and the previous four Sentai (Dairanger, Zyuranger, Jetman, and Fiveman), is released in amusement parks and special events nationwide in Japan alongside Kamen Rider WorldIcon-crosswiki and Toei Hero DaishugōIcon-crosswiki.
  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers picked up for second season; Dairanger adapted.
  • DIC Entertainment would try to capitalize on the success of Power Rangers with an adaptation of Tsuburaya’s Gridman; Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad.
  • Saban's VR Troopers begins airing to syndication, combining three Metal Heroes series under one umbrella. It is the first official sister series of the Power Rangers franchise.

1995[]

  • January 17: Japan is rocked by the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a devastating seismic event of 7.3 on the Richter scale and the worst quake disaster that occurred in the nation’s history since 1923. Multiple buildings are destroyed, the public railway network is in ruins and fires broke out around major cities with a death toll of 6,400 people. The Japanese government is criticized for its slow response to disaster relief, forcing the officials to create new building codes and infrastructure reinforcement as well as the development of the Hyper Rescue response squad to contend with future disasters.
  • March 20: The Aum Shinrikyo cult conducted a sarin attack on the subways of Tokyo, killing 13 people. As a result of this, Ohranger, already having written and produced 8 episodes, is forced to change its storyline and dramatic intentions from episode 9 and for the remainder of the season.
  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers renewed for third season; Kakuranger adapted.

1996[]

  • Nintendo launches its eponymous 64-bit console. Though the "N64" falls well short of the SNES' and competitors' sales as the only cartridge-based home console of this era, it manages quite a few memorable games in its library.
  • As the Internet begins to explode in growth, awareness grows of a longstanding oversight in computer design: the Year 2000 memory allocation bug. Some people spent the next few years believing that the world was going to end because technology would fail from the “Y2K bug”, not helping was scam artists/sensationalists who tricked people unfamiliar with how computer technology worked into buying books or other things to “help” them and people panic buying supplies for “doomsday preparations”.
  • Larry Page and Sergey Brin launch the Google search engine.
  • Now called Saban's Power Rangers, the series is renewed for its fourth season. Saban chooses Ohranger for adaptation, becoming Power Rangers Zeo. Five Rangers from the previous season return. Nakia Burrise steps in for Karan Ashley.
    • David Yost, the last original Ranger by this point, departs amid harassment, other concerns.
    • St. John returns late in the season; he and Frank swap roles.
  • Tsuburaya revives the Ultra Series for its 30th anniversary with Ultraman Tiga, resurrecting their rivalry with Toei.
  • March 8: A first Super Sentai direct-to-video movie Chouriki Sentai Ohranger: Ole vs. Kakuranger was released.
  • Japan Action Enterprise is established, training men and women to be stunt workers and suit actors to be the best in action and fight choreography. The company would begin its partnership with Toei on maintaining a rotating roster of suit actors and stunt people for its tokusatsu productions.

1997[]

1998[]

  • Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan.
  • January 28: Shotaro Ishinomori passed away from heart failure at the age of 60.
  • February 6: The two-part opening episodes of Power Rangers in Space, "From Out of Nowhere", airs, beginning the final storyline of the original "Zordon Era" of Power Rangers.
  • February 15: The final episode of Megaranger, Final Ep.: Seize it! Our Diplomas, airs.
  • February 22: The opening episode of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman, Chapter 1: The Legendary Blades, airs.
  • February 27: "Shell Shocked", the fourth Power Rangers in Space, airs, teaming up the Rangers with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, most notably their live-action incarnations from the Saban series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation.
  • April 14: Netflix launches its initial DVD-by-mail service.
  • November 21: The final episode of Power Rangers in Space, the concluding part of "Countdown to Destruction", airs; this episode is notable for the death of Zordon and the conclusion of six years of storyline stemming from the original MMPR series with the eradication of all known evil active at the moment of this series.

1999[]

  • A shift to digital music begins as consumers "rip" songs from CD to share online. Napster launches.
  • Power Rangers renewed for seventh season despite plans to close. Gingaman adapted into Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. This is the first season to air exclusively in a Saturday morning programming block.
  • September 9: Sega releases its last-ever console, the Dreamcast, in North America. Though the CD-based console generated much hype and built a niche following, a series of miscues coupled with the crushing dominance of Sony's hardware line shutters the project by 2002. To survive as a company, Sega pivots to developing and licensing new and existing properties.

2000[]

  • Sony follows on blockbuster success of original PlayStation with PlayStation 2 (PS2). Because it is backward-compatible with the original and also plays DVDs for the same price as a standalone player (~US$200 at the time), the PS2 is adopted extremely quickly. It is also Sony's longest-lived unit, in production until 2013 and actively supported until 2016.
  • Robert L. "Bob" Monahan, voice of Zordon, passes.
  • January 1: The total majority of computers and machines with internal clocks are able to overcome the Y2K glitch through programmers around the world and their tireless efforts to update systems to recognize the change to the year 2000, The human race enters the new millennium with hope and optimism about what the 21st century could bring.
  • January 30: RevivalIcon-crosswiki, the opening episode of Kamen Rider KuugaIcon-crosswiki, airs; based on Ishinomori's designs for a new KR series prior to his death and written by Sentai and anime writer Naruhisa Arakawa, it airs after GoGoFive's Ep. 49: Awakening! Two Destructive Gods, beginning a partnership between the two franchises that continues to this day. This partnership would later become known as the Super Hero TimeIcon-crosswiki Sunday morning block.
  • February 6: The final episode of GoGoFive, Final Ep.: Burning Rescue Spirits, airs.
  • February 12: The opening episode of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, "Operation Lightspeed", airs; this is the first PR episode not directly associated with the "Zordon era" in any way and begins the Sentai-like habit of a new story per season unassociated with previous seasons outside of crossovers. (Video games: GBC|N64|PC|PSX)
  • February 13: Mirai Sentai Timeranger premieres with its first episode Case File 1: The Time Fugitives.
  • November 18: Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue ends with the conclusion of the two-part finale, "The Fate of Lightspeed".

2001[]

  • The so-called "dot-com bubble" that materialized with the growth of the Internet implodes, causing worldwide economic meltdown.
  • Nintendo develops the GameCube and Game Boy Advance hardware.
  • Apple finalizes its first digital media player, the iPod, along with the iTunes media manager.
  • January 20: George W. Bush sworn in as US President.
  • September 3: Thuy Trang killed at age 27 in a car crash enroute to a wedding as a bridesmaid.
  • September 11: Four passenger planes hijacked by then-unknown terrorist group al-Qaeda in coordinated attempt to plunge the US into chaos: two destroy New York's World Trade Center; a third dents the US Department of Defense complex in DC; and the fourth is downed in rural Pennsylvania by its passengers overtaking the hijackers. In all, more than 3,000 are dead and hundreds wounded. Major response to this worst attack on US soil includes the toning down of violence and over-the-top tragedy in media, among others.
  • September 22: Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger: The Fire Mountain Roars, the summer movie for Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, is released in theaters alongside the summer movieIcon-crosswiki of Kamen Rider AgitoIcon-crosswiki.
  • Power Rangers adapts Timeranger as Power Rangers Time Force, the last full season to air on broadcast TV; all future seasons will require some form of pay TV subscription.

2002[]

2003[]

2004[]

  • Facebook founded.
  • Wikia launches.
  • February 1: The Pretty Cure series is established, debuting with Futari wa Precure. This Magical Girl anime series would air alongside the Super Hero Time block as part of the larger Sunday Kids Time block every year from here on in. The first season would do audio drama crossovers with Super Sentai and the franchise would have writers from the tokusatsu shows working on episode scripts or directors for the show.
  • September 11: Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger the Movie: Full Blast Action, the summer movie for Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, is released in theaters alongside the summer movieIcon-crosswiki of Kamen Rider BladeIcon-crosswiki.
  • Jason David Frank resumes as Tommy Oliver in Power Rangers Dino Thunder, the adaptation of Abaranger.
    • February 28: "Legacy of Power" airs, commemorating 500 episodes in the franchise.

2005[]

2006[]

  • Twitter flies out of the gate.
  • Video games begin their seventh generation with the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and the Nintendo Wii leading the field. Nintendo also debuts the DS handheld. Microsoft, creators of PC software and add-on hardware, makes its first legitimate console in the Xbox 360.
  • February 19: Episode 1 of GoGo Sentai Boukenger, Task 1: The Heart of the Demon God, airs; this is the beginning of the Sentai commemorating the 30th anniversary of the franchise using a theme of "adventure" and using various actors of the franchise's past for cameos, alongside using villains inspired by mecha of the past.
  • February 20: Episodes 1 and 2 of Power Rangers Mystic Force, the opening two-parter, "Broken Spell", is first broadcast in the US on Toon Disney/Jetix.
  • March 31: Bandai and Pac-Man developer Namco executed a merger of their gaming divisions, becoming Namco Bandai, later re-labeled as Bandai Namco Entertainment.
  • November 13: Episodes 31 and 32 of Mystic Force, the two-part finale, "Mystic Fate", is first broadcast in the US on Toon Disney/Jetix.
  • Former Sentai character and creature designer/film director Keita Amemiya launches his own creation, a tokusatsu fantasy/horror series geared towards adults, GARO.
  • The Detail of Heroes Photobooks begin their annual publication for Kamen Rider and a one off is published for Garo.

2007[]

2008[]

  • Due to spiking overseas fuel prices and other factors variable by region, economies worldwide collapse for the second time this decade: in the US, investment firms are plagued by scandal and large banks bottom out on subprime mortgage lending. The automotive industry struggles following over-reliance on large vehicles such as sport utility vehicles.
  • Google releases Android 1.0 on phones such as the HTC Dream, which debuts in the US as the T-Mobile G1.
  • Apple's "iPhone OS" hits version 2.0. With both platforms solidifying, consumers can now download more custom applications ("apps"), including games.
  • A bitter battle ensues for next-gen optical discs. Blu-ray wins over HD DVD thanks to the first PS3s.
  • Bandai creates the S.H. Figuarts toyline for collectors, with Kamen Rider being its first figures before expanding into a vast number of other characters from different franchises.
  • February 18: Gekiranger meets Kung Fu for season 16 of Power Rangers: Episodes 1 and 2 of Power Rangers Jungle Fury, the opening two-parter, "Welcome to the Jungle", airs.
  • August 9: Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Boom Boom! Bang Bang! GekijōBang!!, the summer movie for Engine Sentai Go-Onger, is released in theaters alongside the summer movieIcon-crosswiki of Kamen Rider KivaIcon-crosswiki.
  • November 3: Episodes 31 and 32 of Power Rangers Jungle Fury, the last two episodes, Path of the Righteous and Now the Final Fury, air.

2009[]

  • The US begins switching to digital television: DC ultimately settles on a midyear deadline to complete the country's transition.
  • January 20: Barack Obama sworn in as US President.
  • Disney begins process of selling franchise after several years of lackluster performance, stops production on future Power Rangers seasons.
  • An independent producer acquires the rights to Kamen Rider Ryuki for adaptation into Kamen Rider: Dragon KnightIcon-crosswiki. The series is only the second in that franchise to be adapted and, despite receiving some accolades, it also drops after one season.
  • March 7: Go-Onger is adapted, though it takes a complete tonal shift from its original version: Episodes 1 and 2 of Power Rangers RPM, "The Road to Corinth" and "Fade to Black", are first broadcast in the US on ABC Kids.
  • August 8: Samurai Sentai Shinkenger the Movie: The Fateful War, the summer movie for Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, is released in theaters alongside the summer movieIcon-crosswiki of Kamen Rider DecadeIcon-crosswiki.
  • December 26: Episodes 31 and 32 of Power Rangers RPM, the two-part finale, Danger and Destiny Part 1 and Part 2, are first broadcast in the US on ABC Kids.
  • December 31: Disney acquires Marvel for US$4 billion.

2010[]

2011[]

  • Toei, Bandai and fast food company McDonald's make a licensing deal, allowing the burger chain to make toys of Sentai characters for their kids meals in exchange for sponsorship of the Super Sentai show.
  • February 7: Shinkenger heads West: American cable channel Nickelodeon premieres Power Rangers Samurai with "The Team Unites", skipping over the initial "Origins" two-parter and quickly setting up the series status quo on its new airing platform. Due to the American TV season at the time being 20-22 weeks long, this and future series are divided into equal halves.
    • Saban Brands also grants streaming rights of its previous tokusatsu series to Netflix.
  • February 13: Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger debuts its first episode; "Ep. 1: The Space Pirates Appear".  This season would commemorate Super Sentai's upcoming 35th anniversary by having past Ranger powers be used and some veteran Rangers making guest appearances.
  • March 11: An Earthquake of 9.0 on the Richter scale hits Japan, the epicenter 70 miles east of the Tohoku region and leading to both a massive tsunami striking the region and subsequently a meltdown at a nuclear plant in the city of Fukushima. While Gokaiger, the Sentai currently on the air, has a one-week break due to the disaster postponing the fifth episode, this leads to the season becoming a motivator of courage and ultimately a cameo by every previous season to emerge during the series as motivated by actors such as Teruaki Ogawa.
  • April 5: Super Sentai is now 35 years old.
  • May 2: US launches highly-classified sting operation in Afghanistan, exterminates al-Qaeda frontman Osama bin Laden.
  • August 6: Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger the Movie: The Flying Ghost Ship, the summer movie for Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, is released in theaters alongside the summer movieIcon-crosswiki of Kamen Rider OOOIcon-crosswiki.

2012[]

2013[]

  • Power Rangers goes Mega for 20th season: Goseiger gets trimmed, then adapted into Power Rangers Megaforce.
  • Microsoft and Sony go toe-to-toe as eighth generation of video games kicks off with PlayStation 4 (PS4), Xbox One.

2014[]

2015[]

  • February 1, 2015 - The "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (also known as "ISIS" or "ISIL"), releases video footage of the beheading of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto; due to this, Station 46 of ToQger is delayed one week, pushing back the final two episodes and likewise delaying the start of Ninninger.
  • February 7, 2015 - Power Rangers Dino Charge airs.
  • February 22, 2015 - Shuriken Sentai Ninninger airs its first episode, Shinobi 1: We're Ninja!.
  • April 5, 2015 - The 40th anniversary of Super Sentai and Himitsu Sentai Gorenger is celebrated. However, due to the delay caused by the news coverage of the execution of Kenji Goto the previous month, the anniversary episode is pushed back to the following week. Thus, Shinobi 6: Tengu's Spiriting Away airs instead.
  • April 12, 2015 - Shuriken Sentai Ninninger's Shinobi 7: Spring Ninja Festival! airs, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the franchise by having past Ninja Red Rangers, Ninja Red and Hurricane Red, make a guest appearance as well as a special cameo of Akarenger, the very first Red Ranger.

2016[]

  • Super Sentai is now 40 years old.
  • Dino Charge gang returns for Power Rangers Dino Super Charge.
  • Boom! Studios obtained the license to Power Rangers from Saban Brands and began publishing a comic book series, which proves very successful in sales, compelling the company to keep making the comics.
  • February 14: Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger airs its first episode; Ep. 1: The Exciting Animal Land.
  • September 11: Super Sentai airs its 2,000th episode.

2017[]

  • January 20: Donald J. Trump takes office as US President.
  • March 3: Facing irrelevance, Nintendo rolls out its new hybrid device, dubbed the Switch, closing out the eighth generation of gaming gear. Its versatility proves key to its success.
  • October 1: Due to schedule changes to Super Hero Time, Super Sentai moved their airing timeslot from Sunday 7:30 JST to 9:30 JST, starting with Episode 32 of Kyuranger, "Space.32: Orion, Forever".
  • Saban issues third Power Rangers film, this time with a darker and more serious slant as it breaks from the Sentai action-comedy mold.
  • Power Rangers adapts Ninninger into Power Rangers Ninja Steel.
  • December 22: Detail of Super Sentai, a spin-off of the Detail of Heroes line of Photobooks, begins its annual publication with its first book for Kyuranger.

2018[]

  • Power Rangers is now 25 years old.
  • The danger intensifies as Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel picks up where 2017 left off.
  • February 16; Hasbro acquires Power Rangers. The company voids most earlier streaming rights and obtains the global master license for the brand for toy production from Bandai America
  • Shattered Grid, the first major story event of the Boom! Studios comics, runs through the year as a celebration of the anniversary.

2019[]

  • Power Rangers Beast Morphers premieres. Drawn from the earlier Go-Busters, the production team decides to take another detour of sorts and link back to RPM.
  • April 30: Akihito, of advanced age, abdicates to Crown Prince Naruhito; Heisei Era ends and the Reiwa Era begins the following day.
  • Late: COVID-19 identified as first cases develop in Wuhan region, China.

2020[]

  • Beast Morphers enters second season.
  • Mashin Sentai Kiramager kicks off.
  • March: First COVID-19 cases in United States are recorded from Seattle-Tacoma-Everett metroplex in Washington State, including a major nursing facility in Kirkland, northeast of Seattle. From this point forward, the virus is monitored extensively and begins to spread with unprecedented speed and rapid mutation ability, triggering a global pandemic. The economic engines of every nation in the world grind to a halt as citizens enter forced quarantine. For the next three years, humanity must learn to live with the new virus as it searches for effective means to neutralize the worst of its effects.
  • Spring-Summer: Excessive use of force by US police is once more under scrutiny following the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Protests break out nationwide, including Seattle and Portland. Unmarked police detachments are deployed in hopes of quelling these riots.
  • Hyper Hobby Magazine ceases publication, with its final issue featuring Kiramai Red on the cover.
  • Mid-Late: The ninth generation of console gaming opens with PlayStation 5 (PS5) vs. the Xbox Series. Nintendo trails the pack once again, but holds its own.

2021[]

  • The “Big Three” of Henshin Heroes have major milestone anniversaries: Super Sentai turned 45 years old, Kamen Rider turned 50 years old and Ultraman turned 55 years old.
  • Bandai America rebranded itself as Bandai Namco Toys and Collectibles America, focusing on getting Japanese IPs to American collectors starting with Godzilla and his Monsterverse Hollywood films.
  • Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger debuts.
  • Power Rangers picks up an earlier series: 2019's dual-themed Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger becomes Power Rangers Dino Fury.
  • First COVID vaccines and medicines advance out of testing stages.
  • January 6: Rioters converge on US Capitol complex with the goal of stopping the orderly transfer of power, killing 5.
  • January 20: Joseph R. "Joe" Biden takes office as US President.
  • July-August: Tokyo area hosts Summer Olympics/Paralympics, deferred from 2020 due to outbreak of COVID in Japan.

2022[]

  • Avataro Sentai Donbrothers debuts, mixing virtual reality with ancient fairy tales.
  • Mega-billionaire Elon Musk (PayPal, Tesla, Not-a-Flamethrower, The Boring Co.) buys Twitter, renaming the service X.
  • Power Rangers Dino Fury launches its second season as an online-only series, with the franchise eventually moving to Netflix as Nickelodeon ends its support of the Power Rangers series.
  • June 2: Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 70-year reign, but dies weeks later (9/9) of natural causes. Her eldest son becomes King Charles III.
  • August 31: Boom! Studios published the milestone 100th issue of its MMPR comic.
  • November 19: Jason David Frank, veteran martial artist and Power Rangers actor, found dead by suicide following depression.

2023[]

  • Super Sentai takes on Game of Thrones/Masters of the Universe aura with Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger.
  • Power Rangers is now 30 years old. Changes within Hasbro, as well as the departure of the franchise's New Zealand-based showrunners and ongoing dual union strikes pause the franchise, already with plans for a more mature reboot.
  • Netflix debuts series anniversary special, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always.
  • September 23: Netflix retires DVD-by-mail after 25 years to place full focus on streaming.
  • September 29: Power Rangers Cosmic Fury releases, becomes first in the franchise to launch exclusively as direct-to-stream.
  • Darkest Hour, a 12 issue anniversary story event, begins in the MMPR comics.
  • As the US exits pandemic protocol, economic inflation skyrockets in the middle of the year, with prices of consumer goods spiking upward from snarls in the supply chain, higher wages and a lower unemployment rate. The interest rates in the USA reach a high not seen in four decades.

2024[]

  • PGA and WGA settle with studios on new contract terms early in the year. Production of existing projects resumes.
  • The Tokyo Tower will eventually be closed for renovation, mostly to maintain its iconic red and white paint scheme by applying a new coat to restore it. The process will take about a year to complete.
  • To the dismay of fans, Hasbro announced in a stream that they have no plans for Power Rangers this year and the franchise will be semi-dormant with no new shows or toys made by them until the reboot series starts with its projected next year release.
  • January, date unknown: Power Rangers Beast Morphers season 1 expires from Netflix's US catalog without any warning or explanation. To view this season, one must use a rental service.
  • March 1: Renowned Japanese illustrator Akira Toriyama (DragonBall, Dragon Quest) passed away from Subdural hematoma at the age of 68.
  • March 3: Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger airs its first episode; Bakuage 1: Deliverer's Handle
  • July 6: Tsuburaya reaches a milestone with its 30th Ultra Series: Ultraman Arc.
  • July 19: Cyborg 009 turns 60 years old.
  • Toho celebrates Godzilla’s 70th anniversary with a variety of products and projects, including crossovers such as another comic crossover with the Power Rangers.
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