The fact is sad but true but Sentai fanboys and Power Rangers fanboys tend to fight over the music of their respective favorite franchises. Let's take a look at how the battle begins:Sentai fan says: Power Rangers has all the loopy music. Super Sentai is much better. It has all the techno-beats and all.
Power Rangers fan says: Are you kidding? Our music is way better than your (censored)! Yours is just drunken karaoke night.
Of course this is just plain childish isn't it? I have to admit though that here have been some advantages with Super Sentai music:
- It has a wide variety of tunes used from light to fast to heavy depending on the mood.
- There are different theme songs for different situations and they are usually not as noisy as the American version. For example, I like Burai's theme better than Tommy's theme but that's just my opinion. :-P
- Some of the Sentai cast members get to actually sing their own song in the OST but not in the show.
- During Ron Wasserman's era, he tried to be quite original but ended up being more "Anime" in some areas of his music. Perhaps he was a fan of other Anime that drove him away from the Sentai feel for another type of feel.
- During the Disney era, some fans berated the music to be horrible.
- Most themes were mostly instrumental.
For Power Rangers, Ron Wasserman's music was the best in the franchise. In Super Sentai, I like Psychic Lover's the best. These two have a rock & roll, up-tempo beat that I think fits both franchise better than some of the slower paced music. Although I like some of the slower music by Mika Kikuchi in Dekaranger and Magiranger.
ReplyDeleteIf we're talking about insert songs, then I think it's unfair to try to compare from the two franchises. Since the only music we had from Power Rangers was during MMPR-PRiS. And it's pretty damn epic if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteNow, if we're talking about theme songs and BGMs, then that's a different story.