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1800s[]

  • 1889: Nintendo is established, a playing card and hanafuda card manufacturing company that would pivot into various products and services throughout its existence.

1900 - 1975[]

  • 1901:
    • July 7: Eiji Tsuburaya is born.
  • 1909: Manufacturing company Suzuki is established.
  • 1910: Record label company Nipponophone Co., Ltd, which would later become Nippon Columbia, is established.
  • 1912:
    • July 30: Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji dies, his son Yoshihito becomes the Emperor and is given the name Taishō.
    • The company that will become Paramount Pictures is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1926: Yoshihito, Emperor Taishō dies, his son Hirohito becomes the Emperor and is given the name Shōwa.
  • 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
    • June 6: "D-Day": Allied forces land at Normandy Beach in northwestern France, an event that would tilt the balance of the war in their favor.
    • October 15: Haim Saban is born.
  • 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 Onodera’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 to various publications, winning and losing various contests for his 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”. Mr. Onodera 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.
  • 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
    • May 26: The International Olympic Committee awards the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
    • 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.
  • 1960
    • Service Games, later to shorten to SEGA, is founded in Japan, bringing secondhand arcade equipment to military installations overseas.
  • 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 the July 11, 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.
    • 8 Man, Japan’s first cyborg superhero, debuted in the pages of a manga created by Jiro Kuwata. Ishinomori is still trying to pitch his cyborg hero team idea to publishers but is struggling to find one that will take it because the ones he went to did not understand the concept of a cyborg.
  • 1964
    • Monthly Shonen King accepts the manuscript and Shotaro Ishinomori publishes the manga Cyborg 009, an early template for the concepts of Super Sentai.
    • October 10: The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, the first Olympics to be held in Asia.
  • 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 TV 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.
  • 1970
    • January 25: Eiji Tsuburaya dies from his heart condition in his sleep at the age of 68.
    • Hirayama hires Shōtarō Ishinomori as a character designer for the Maskman K 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. This stunt club included actor Kenji Ohba among its staff.
  • 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.
    • Hiroshi Fujioka, the lead actor in Kamen Rider, shattered his leg after a motorcycle stunt gone wrong, he is forced to leave the show and be replaced by a new actor portraying a new Kamen Rider until he recovers. This accident convinced Toei producers not to put some of their actors in any serious danger by doing their own stunts and later on would hire the Japan Action Club for stunt work and suit acting jobs for their live action superhero productions.
    • 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
    • February 3: The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, the first Winter Olympics to be held in Asia.
    • 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[]

  • 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, it 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.
  • February 2: The first episode of Denshi Sentai Denziman: "Ep. 1: Take the Express to the Super Fortress" premieres.
  • 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.
  • Bandai’s R&D department comes up with an idea for miniature model kits that are easy to assemble with snap-on components. This idea would eventually become the Minipla toyline.

1981[]

  • March 4: Toei Animation's 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. It would be exported to the USA for syndicated TV as Voltron: Defender of the Universe when Toei licenses it to World Events Productions a few years later
  • February 7: The third and final Toei-Marvel series, Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan, premiered its first episode: "Ep. 1: The Machine Empire of the North Pole".
  • 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[]

  • January 30: The final episode of Taiyo 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 Shozo 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[]

  • February 5: The first episode of Kagaku Sentai Dynaman: Ep. 1: The Tailed-People Clan's Challenge, premiered on television.
  • Popy folds itself into its parent company Bandai, ending the production of Popy brand toys and switching them to the Bandai label. The DX line toys continues under the new label.

1984[]

  • February 4: The first episode of Chodenshi 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[]

  • February 2: Dengeki Sentai Changeman premiered its first episode: "Ep. 1: Arrival! Secret Power!"
  • 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.
  • The first Super Sentai Minipla is released, Change Robo.

1986[]

1987[]

  • The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, originally a series of comics, receives a syndicated daily cartoon.
  • The first episode of Hikari Sentai Maskman: "Ep. 1: The Mysterious, Beautiful Runaway", premiered.
  • April 5: The Fox Broadcasting Company is launched, becoming the US's fourth permanent TV network.
  • July 17: RoboCop debuted in theaters, it became yet another influence on Japanese sci-fi and cult favorite.
  • 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 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: Choju 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[]

  • 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".
  • 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.
  • December 29: The Nikkei Stock Exchange reaches an all time high of almost 39,000, peaking the decade long rise of Japanese national wealth.

1990[]

1991[]

  • 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 8: Fiveman airs its final episode: Final Ep.: Departure to the Stars. The Soda Era ends as Toei decides to change up the head writer, selecting Toshiki Inoue.
  • February 15: Chojin Sentai Jetman airs its first episode; "Ep. 1: Seek the Warriors".
  • June 16: The International Olympic Committee awards the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
  • Naoko Takeuchi’s Codename: Sailor V is published, the manga proves popular enough that she begins developing a sequel manga.
  • Sonny Chiba sells the Japan Action Club studio to the DAISHINTO corporation, ending an era for Tokusatsu with the company eventually folding the studio into their assets.

1992[]

  • 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[]

  • 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 Chojin Gridman premieres.
  • 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[]

  • 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.
  • February: Los Angeles, California suffers the worst highway jam in history as thousands of parents try to take their children to see the Power Rangers live at Universal Studios Hollywood, only to get stuck in a traffic jam that stretched across eight miles of highway.
  • February 19: Gosei Sentai Dairanger premiered with its first episode: Ep. 1: Let's Tenshin!!!
  • 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.
  • Parental advocacy groups across the world tried and failed to destroy Mighty Morphin Power Rangers by whining and complaining about how violent the show was. While Saban did make small changes to try to tone down criticism and some countries did ban the show, these control freak parents ultimately would not win as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers kept going.
  • On the opposite end of the parental spectrum, holiday shopping goes into a frenzy as families search high and low for the toys to the popular show for their children.

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[]

  • 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.
  • March 1: Super Sentai goes into parodying itself and fighting for traffic safety with Gekiso Sentai Carranger.
  • March 8: The first Super Sentai direct-to-video movie Choriki Sentai Ohranger: Ole vs. Kakuranger was released. This would also be the beginning of the Super Sentai crossover movies dubbed by fans as the “vs. Series”.
  • June 1: FIFA awards the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea.
  • Japan Action Enterprise is established by former founding members of JAC, training men and women 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.
  • The toy craze surrounding Power Rangers during the holidays along with other toy fads served as the inspiration for the creation of the cult classic Christmas film, Jingle All the Way.

1997[]

1998[]

  • 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 7: The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano.
  • February 15: The final episode of Megaranger, Final Ep.: Seize it! Our Diplomas, airs.
  • February 22: The opening episode of Seiju 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.
  • Hayao Miyazaki made an infamous statement in The Akahata Sunday Edition newspaper that he hated Ultraman and to a lesser degree Tokusatsu hero programs. He blamed the show and parents for children getting addicted to television instead of raising them properly and using escapism to cover up a failing society. He later in another interview doubled down on his statement by saying the “Ultraman Generation” was making society dumber. While he never apologized for his blunt statements, he did admit to understanding that feeling of loving media by comparing it to his love of Osamu Tezuka’s work when he was a child.

1999[]

  • 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. Lost Galaxy gets its production funding by cancelling the pre-production and development of the proposed second season of Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, another Saban series that failed to gain significant viewership in its first season.

2000[]

  • Super Sentai is 25 years old, it also introduces the series' logo.
  • 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[]

  • September 3: Thuy Trang killed at age 27 in a car crash enroute to a wedding as a bridesmaid.
  • September 22: Hyakuju Sentai Gaoranger: The Fire Mountain Roars, the summer movie for Hyakuju 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. Further, this series is heavily modified to tone down any instances of over-the-top violence and destruction following the 9/11 attacks of nearly two weeks prior.
  • The city of Ishinomaki opens a manga museum dedicated to the life and works of Shotaro Ishinomori.

2002[]

2003[]

2004[]

  • Wikia launches.
  • February 1: The Pretty CureIcon-crosswiki series is established, debuting with Futari wa PrecureIcon-crosswiki. This Magical Girl anime series would air alongside the Super Hero TimeIcon-crosswiki 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 directing the show.
  • April 15: Mitsuteru Yokoyama is tragically burned all over his body from a fire breaking out in his home and died in the hospital after going comatose. The loss of the father of the Japanese genres of mecha, ninjas and magical girls is mourned by the manga community.
  • September 11: Tokuso Sentai Dekaranger the Movie: Full Blast Action, the summer movie for Tokuso 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[]

  • The Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), now nearly 20 years old, hits a practical limit as newer high-definition (HD) digital programming begins production around this year. A bitter battle ensues for next-gen optical discs between rival Japanese electronics makers Sony Corp. and Toshiba to replace DVD as a de facto home medium.
  • 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[]

2009[]

  • The US begins switching to digital television: DC ultimately settles on a midyear deadline to complete the country's transition.
  • 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.
  • July: Kamen Rider had its first TV crossover with its sister series Super Sentai in a two part story between Kamen Rider Decade and Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, with the two halves of the story taking place in an episode of both series.
  • 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.
  • Rainbow Zoukei begins focusing on just Super Sentai costume and prop design manufacturing as it spins off another studio, Blend Master, to handle the Kamen Rider series side of things as well as other projects.

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. Samurai is also the first series in the franchise to be filmed in HD widescreen.
    • 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.
  • The Ishinomori Manga Museum is badly damaged by the tsunami internally but the overall structure is surprisingly left intact. Miraculously, a statue of Akaranger is found still intact, as was the statue of Kamen Rider 1. These symbols of heroism inspired hope to the people of Ishinomaki, who through the help of fans around the world donating money, work to restore the museum.
  • April 5: Super Sentai is now 35 years old.
  • 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.
  • Tsuyoshi Nonaka is promoted to head of PLEX’s international design department, working with Bandai America to create original designs and products for the Power Rangers franchise.

2012[]

2013[]

  • Power Rangers goes Mega for 20th season: Goseiger gets trimmed, then adapted into Power Rangers Megaforce.
  • September 8: The International Olympic Committee awards the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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 1st, 2015 Ricardo Medina Jr was arrested for stabbing his then roommate Joshua Sutter.
  • 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 continues its 40th anniversary celebration with the announcement of its 40th season.
  • Dino Charge gang returns for Power Rangers Dino Super Charge.
  • Boom! Studios obtains 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.
  • Wikia splits. One of the new companies becomes a document archive. The other rebrands itself as Fandom. The document archive does not take shape as envisioned. so wikia.org is eventually folded into Fandom.
  • February 14: Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger airs its first episode; "Ep. 1: The Exciting Animal Land".
  • September 11: Super Sentai airs its 2,000th episode.
  • Bandai launched the Super Minipla model kits, a more premium version of Minipla that has more detailed sculpts and posability.

2017[]

  • 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[]

  • Dinosaurs return to the forefront as Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger premieres.
  • March 20: Disney absorbs 21st Century Fox, including all prior film and TV properties.
  • 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.
  • May 11: Pua Magasiva (Ninja Storm) is dead by suicide following years of domestic disputes.

2020[]

  • Beast Morphers enters second season. It is the first since the Disney era to simply be called Power Rangers, seemingly cutting ties to Saban. Saban, however, continues to work behind the scenes.
  • 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.
  • Hyper Hobby Magazine ceases publication, with its final issue featuring Kiramai Red on the cover.

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.
  • Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger debuts.
  • Power Rangers picks up the dual-themed Ryusoulger, which becomes Power Rangers Dino Fury.
  • First COVID vaccines and medicines advance out of testing stages.
  • July 23: The 2020 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, deferred by COVID taking hold in Japan. Due to this, "No. 21-kai! Giant Monsters of Great Destruction!" is aired on the following weekend instead.
  • October 12: Haim Saban’s friend and the CEO of Hasbro, Brian Goldner, tragically passed away from his long battle with prostate cancer. His vision for the company is halted as the board works on finding a replacement to maintain steady leadership.

2022[]

  • Avataro Sentai Donbrothers debuts, mixing virtual reality with the fairy tale of Momotaro.
  • 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.
  • February, date unknown: Chris Cocks is selected to be Hasbro’s new CEO. Toy collectors and enthusiasts notice a downward shift in the quality control of products under his leadership, including the Lightning Collection.
  • July 8: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated in Nara while speaking on a political event in the upcoming local elections. He dies later in the day.
  • 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, is found dead by suicide, caused by a constant struggle with depression in his final years.

2023[]

  • Super Sentai takes on a royal fantasy setting with Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger.
  • Filling the void of losing Power Rangers a few years ago, Bandai Namco USA gains the master toy license to Ultraman from Tsuburaya Pro as part of the studio’s aggressive campaign to make the heroic giants of light a global brand.
  • Power Rangers turns 30 years old. Changes within Hasbro, as well as the departure of the franchise's New Zealand-based showrunners and ongoing dual union strikes by the Producers' Guild of America (PGA) and the Writers' Guild of America (WGA) pause the franchise, already with plans for a more mature reboot.
  • Hasbro sells off in-house film and TV divisions.[Citation needed]from 19 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Darkest Hour, a 12 issue anniversary story event, begins in the MMPR comics.
  • Bandai launches a sub-line of Super Minipla called Alternative Destiny, which takes robots from older shows and makes tweaks to their designs to modernize them. Live Robo is the first Sentai Robo to be released in this new toyline.
  • April 19: 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.
  • October 4: A new Boom! comic series, Ranger Academy, starts with its first issue.

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.
  • Toho celebrates Godzilla’s 70th anniversary with a variety of products and projects, including crossovers such as a second comic crossover with the Power Rangers.
  • 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 3: Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger airs its first episode; "Bakuage 1: Deliverer's Handle"
  • End of March: Indie developers East Side Games and Mighty Kingdom gain Hasbro's blessing. Testing begins on Power Rangers Mighty Force. A June release date is set.
  • April 22: Hasbro announces a partnership with Playmates Toys to produce their own additional cross-category Power Rangers toys, beginning with a kid-targeted Mighty Morphin toyline set to release the following year. Hasbro retains all entertainment rights and continues to oversee the brand, although whether or not they themselves will continue to produce their own Power Rangers merchandise in any capacity remains to be seen.
  • Late May: Cosmic Fury overtakes Once & Always as most-streamed Power Rangers content, per a post from Hunter Deno.
  • End of May: Hasbro announces Once & Always pseudo-sequel beat-'em-up Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, due later this year.
  • June 11: Hasbro reportedly drops Netflix as partner for planned reboot TV series, leaving the project in limbo. The fourth film is still presumably on-track.
  • July 10: Random House Publishing purchases Boom! Studios with plans to have it as part of their Random House World imprint, but Boom! retains its independence in operations and publishing.
  • July 19: Cyborg 009 turns 60 years old.
  • Midsummer: Reports from San Diego Comic Con further confirm that the franchise remains in a suspended state: although previous assets are to be auctioned off, the comics and other side projects continue to be developed. More information is presumed forthcoming.
  • November 13: Boom Studios releases inaugural issue of Power Rangers Prime.
  • November 20: In an interview with Bloomberg, Hasbro CEO Cocks hints that the company is no longer backing film projects based on its IPs after the apparent failure of films such as the recent Transformers One, preferring to focus on interactive games in the immediate future. Studios such as Sony and Lionsgate will reportedly continue to produce media based on Hasbro properties. However, no specific mention is made of Power Rangers. [1]
  • Late November: Toei announces No.1 Sentai Gozyuger for a 2025 debut.
  • December 25 (Christmas Day): Reports via reputable bloggers indicate that Paramount Pictures is in development of the proposed Power Rangers reboot film.

2025[]

  • Playmates expected to reveal its first Power Rangers collectibles
  • Super Sentai will be 50 years old.
  • January 1: Netflix agreements expire for the last two remaining Power Rangers series of the Saban Brands era, plus Dino Fury in select regions.
  • July 5: Bandai will celebrate its 75th anniversary.

Citations[]

  1. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com./news/articles/2024-11-20/hasbro-s-gamer-ceo-refocuses-on-play-after-selling-film-business
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