Super Sentai

Super Sentai Series
The official logo of the Super Sentai Series introduced in 2000 during the run of Mirai Sentai Timeranger
Creator	Shotaro Ishinomori Toei Company Marvel Comics
Original work	Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
Films and television
Television series	See below
Games
Traditional	Rangers Strike
Video games	Super Sentai Battle: Dice-O
Miscellaneous
Toys	S.H. Figuarts Soul of Chogokin Super Robot Chogokin

The Super Sentai Series (スーパー戦隊シリーズ, Sūpā Sentai Shirīzu^?) is the name given to the long-running Japanese superhero team franchise of TV series produced by Toei Co., Ltd., Toei Agency and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi ("Sentai" is the Japanese word for "task force" or "fighting squadron"). The shows are of the tokusatsu genre, featuring live action characters and colorful special effects, and are aimed at children. The Super Sentai Series is one of the most prominent tokusatsu franchises in Japan, alongside the Ultra Series and the Kamen Rider Series, which it currently airs alongside in the Super Hero Time programming block on Sundays. Outside Japan, the Super Sentai Series is best known as the source material for the Power Rangers franchise.

In every Super Sentai Series, the protagonists are a team of people who transform into superheroes and gain superpowers – color-coded costumes, signature weapons, sidearms and fighting skills – in order to battle a group of evil beings that threaten to take over the Earth. In a typical episode, the heroes thwart the enemies' plans and defeats an army of enemy soldiers and the monster of the week, and in one last effort to defeat the heroes, an enlarged version of the monster appears to confront them, only to be defeated again when the heroes call for their mecha (huge robotic machines that can combine to form one or more giant robots) to fight it. While each Super Sentai Series is set in its own fictional universe, various TV, video and film specials feature a team-up between one or more teams.