So you think you know your Japanese media history

 WELL, TO QUOTE A WEIRD GUY, EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG

 I get it, you think Super Sentai only started in 1992 or 1993 just to be a spring board for a toy market here in the states.


Well, what if i told you it actually started the same year as Chuck Woolery's game show career and his Wheel of Fortune? Or that Kamen Rider as a franchise is older than the modern Price is Right on CBS daytime (WITH Bob Barker).


Or how SASUKE (no, not the rival of a hyperactive knucklehead ninja) inherited the hard obstacle course gene from American Gladiators' Eliminator after the latter ended its original run.

Heck, The same year volunteer armies tried their first attacks on Takeshi's Castle, American kids first attacked a giant nose to grab an orange flag.

But most people don't know this because of what we got instead: Mighty Morphin' Nostalgia Loop.. I mean Power Rangers, modern Kamen Rider slowly making it to the US prior via fan dubs before TokuSHOUTsu got the license to officialy dub various series in the franchise (including the 1971 original AND the currently running one), 

 We also had Ninja Warrior (the G4 sub)/American Ninja Warrior (NBC), and MXC.

Thankfully, at least for Kamen Rider, there IS the collection from Shout Factory's Toku side... along with a PARTIAL Super Sentai collection...that starts at the same era as what the US would get (albeit edited to death)

But American Ninja Warrior got the Primetime NBC treatment and MXC (for how funny it was) was, at the end of the day, a licensed parody dub.

Oh, and Ultra Q, the show that would become the springboard for the Ultraman franchise? I think Bill Cullen was just wrapping up his auction house about a year before started airing.

And now, I'm being summoned by the Hidden Leaf Village somehow.... something about calling their Hokage a "hyperactive knucklehead",

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