Super Sentai Series

Super Sentai Series
The official logo of the Super Sentai Series introduced in 2000 during the run of Mirai Sentai Timeranger
Created by	Shotaro Ishinomori Toei Company Marvel Comics
Original work	Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
Films and television
Television series	See below
Games
Traditional	Rangers Strike
Video game(s)	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 a 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. Super Sentai 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 uniforms, 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 defeat an army of enemy soldiers and the monster of the week; in a last ditch effort to defeat the heroes, an enlarged version of the monster confronts them, only to be defeated again when the heroes fight it with their mecha. 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.

The series was originally created by Shotaro Ishinomori, known for his creation of Kamen Rider and Cyborg 009. He developed the first two Super Sentai series Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai. Later Toei Company put the franchise on hiatus for a year, collaborating with Marvel Comics to produce the live action of the Japanese Spider-Man, which added giant robots to the concept of tokusatsu shows. This was carried over to Toei and Marvel's next show, Battle Fever J, and the giant robot concept was used throughout the following Super Sentai programs.