The word sentai (delivery sénta-i ) indicates a kind of Televised series Japanese E.
The name of this kind of televised series comes from a Japanese word resulting from the union of the Kanji S 戦 SEN “combat” and 隊 TAI “squadron” whose union means literally, “squadron of combat”. In the beginning, this word indicates a formation of combat used in the Aviation of the Army and the marine imperial Japanese woman during the Second world war.
Today, it is employed to indicate groups of heroes of Fiction who fight the forces of the Evil in series televised S Japan eases such as Bioman , and their American derivatives ( Power Rangers ).
Series of sentai
The series of sentai appeared on television Japanese in 1975. It was necessary despite everything a certain time to come to the scenario " classique".The first series of sentai, " Himitsu Sentai Go Renjā", was created by deceased Shotarō Ishinomori, creator of " Kamen Rider" and " Cyborg 009" in 1975. It stopped creating series of sentai after its second attempt, " JAKQ Dengekitai" , which was not an enormous success.
The third series, " Batoru Fībā J" (1979), is the first officially announced like " Super Sentai" (because of being the first to have a giant robot because until there the five heroes had only simple vehicles).
Main features
The super sentai is a kind before any pretext with a great number of effects special and visual, simple but often astonishing, in particular thanks to a syncopated assembly and a sustained rhythm. The use of models and actors in costumes is current in this televisual kind, and these techniques were refined considerably with the wire of the decades, before seeing assistant the use of synthesized images in the most recent series. The costumes of the characters always profit from a very neat design and a realization.The scenarios, traditional, put in scene five heroes (sometimes more, sometimes less) which are seen allotting special capacities (magic or technological), in order to fight against powerful beings come from another planets or other dimensions to invade the Earth. In the majority of the episodes, after having overcome an army of infantrymen and a monster, the heroes call vehicles or giant creatures which combine to form an immense robot thanks to which they face and embank an increased version of the monster.
With the passing of years, of the rules are added to the kind: arrival of one or more new hero during the series, new robots,… So certain rules are added, certain are forgotten then sometimes begun again, thus allowing a great diversity in spite of a basic idea remaining always the same one: the fight of the good against the evil. The superone is however far from being Manichean, and certain series are pretexts with development scenaristic complexes, which follow the evolution, even the total reversal, certain characters - keys.
Humor is also of the part, and it happens that the super-sentai car-parody, proving that it is about a kind which is not caught with serious and assumes its naivety completely as part of its charm.
Export
The series of sentai were exported in many countries.In 1993, Haïm Saban produces the first series Power Rangers by doubling the scenes of engagements of the series of sentai of 1992 Kyōryū Sentai Jū Renjā , and by filming new sequences with American actors for the between-combat.
Chronology of the series of sentai
Felt amateurs
- Japanese Dai ( Aikoku Sentai Dai Japanese )
- France Five ( Jushi Sentai France Five/Shin Kenjushi France Five )
Series Saban and Disney
External bonds
- English Site on felt
- English Site on felt
- Super Sentai Saga: History, Typology & Influences
- Site on the Japanese series for special purposes
- Site on the Japanese series for special purposes (tokusatsu) of which the sentai is a category
- France Five: sentai French amateur
- Bioumen: sentai Corsican amateur
- Blog of a French fanartist devoted to felt and Power Rangers
- Super Sentai series (Japanese official site)
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