Today on Treasure-Thursday it's "Morphin-Time".
This week's pick is my RyuuSeiOh. The Super Sentai Series is a life action series. The first season started 1975 in Japan, it was later adepted to the west under the name Power Rangers.
The original Japanese Super Sentai series is normally much more mature and sometimes dark resulting in deaths of main characters (not every season but not totally impossible or as rare as in the western "version")
In every season a group of young adults has to deal with a threat, mostly impersonated by a group of villains who try to conquer the world.
To fight those evil forces they "morph"/transform into powerful "super heros" who have an arsenal of many different weapons such as sabers blasters...
Almost every episode has the same structure - the minions and 1 monster are sent to the world to do "something evil", it's faces by the rangers and is beaten, but then the villain boss uses a magical spell/skill/whatever to revive and enlarge that creature to make it as high as a skycraper.
To face this huge version of the monster the heros use their "big machines"/robots/"zords"..., mostly animal robots that can combine into an even stronger robot and beat the monster.
The Dairanger series was aired in 1993-1994 in Japan. The series' theme has many chinese symbols, e.g. the animal robots, they have the form of an Tenma (pegasus-like), Kirin (unicorn-like), Shishi (lion-like), Houou (phoenix-like) and Ryuu (dragon) - on the other hand the enemies are often Yōkai or other typically Japanese creatures.
This genre of series is called Tokuhatsu, another example is Kamen/Masked Rideror Ultraman.
Many of this figurines can be found on ebay or in every Mandarake shop in Japan ;)
That's it for the treasure!
See u folks!
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