Toei cites streaming, changing audiences, and MCU-style expectations as reasons the formula can’t continue. The first major challenge is the revolution brought by streaming services during the ...

Earlier this month, chatter began circulating on social media that Japan’s long-running Super Sentai franchise, the source material for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, would be wrapping up after its ...

Super Sentai is easily the most famous subgenre of Tokusatsu. This Japanese term refers to live action films and shows that make heavy use of special effects. Typically, these shows involve fantasy, ...

It’s with heavy hearts that we repot the impending end of the long-running "Super Sentai Series" of spandex-clad superhero teams that have been a cornerstone of the tokusatsu genre for five decades.

Super Sentai first launched in 1975 with Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and has aired almost yearly ever since, cementing its status as a cultural staple and a crucial stepping stone for young Japanese ...

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The iconic Japanese superhero television series Super Sentai is reportedly ending after a monumental 50-year run. First launched in 1975, the franchise has produced a new incarnation nearly every year ...

A Japanese superhero series that inspired the hugely popular Power Rangers TV and movie franchise from the 1990s is ending after 50 years, local media report. Super Sentai will go off air as sales ...

The original Power Rangers aired on US TV in the 1990s and there have been multiple spin-offs A Japanese superhero series that inspired the hugely popular Power Rangers TV and movie franchise from the ...

This file photo taken in January 2016 shows actors who play superheroes in the Super Sentai franchise. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The half-century-old Japanese superhero franchise that spawned ...