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Himitsu Sentai Gorenger- The Classic Manga Collection Release Announced

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An unusual new item has popped up for Super Sentai & manga fans!

Publisher Seven Seas Entertainment has acquired the license for the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger manga series!

Originally written and drawn by Super Sentai creator Shotaro Ishinomori, this manga was a special adaptation of the very first Super Sentai series published in 1975.

The full collection of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger- The Classic Manga Collection in hardcover format- release is tentatively scheduled for April 2021 with a price of $24.99 USD.

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  2. Kurona's Avatar Kurona says

    ... there's a Goranger manga?!

    Well, this is awesome! I was thinking the other week about how weird it was that despite Super Sentai having the biggest western presence of the big three Toku due to Power Rangers, it doesn't have its original work officially subbed in English... yet both Kamen Rider and Ultraman do. So this is, kind of a step in that direction!

  4. Guyver Spawn's Avatar Guyver Spawn says

    I almost posted this lol. I hope we get the Kamen Rider manga next.

  5. TokuKnight89 has no avatar! TokuKnight89 says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kurona View Post
    I was thinking the other week about how weird it was that despite Super Sentai having the biggest western presence of the big three Toku due to Power Rangers, it doesn't have its original work officially subbed in English... yet both Kamen Rider and Ultraman do.
    What Rider and Ultra material has been officially subbed in English, beyond the Ultraman Manga which inspired the anime?

    What else has Seven Seas done?

    Suppose this isn't that surprising. Hard-to-find Transformers Manga have been released by Viz, so I can't say I'm overly astonished. All that was impossible to obtain is suddenly obtainable!

    The thing this makes me wonder about is whether that rumor is true about Hasbro and Toei! The idea of pushing Sentai in a non-PR context isn't new, but it could be inferred that Toei is getting into the business of directly marketing Sentai to the West. The only thing that could hurt that assumption is whether Toei was even involved with this deal or if Seven Seas made the deal with Ishinomori's family/estate.

  6. Kurona's Avatar Kurona says

    I do hope this means we see Shout Factory's Sentai releases continue, especially with that same "Before Power Rangers, there was..." thing at the top. And hopefully at a higher quality this time.

  7. Shin Henshin's Avatar Shin Henshin says

    This is definitely unexpected.

    I'll buy it for sure since I consider this a piece of Sentai history and getting it officially licensed I'm pretty sure no one ever conceived happening at any point.

  8. Sunred's Avatar Sunred says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kurona View Post
    ... there's a Goranger manga?!

    Well, this is awesome! I was thinking the other week about how weird it was that despite Super Sentai having the biggest western presence of the big three Toku due to Power Rangers, it doesn't have its original work officially subbed in English... yet both Kamen Rider and Ultraman do. So this is, kind of a step in that direction!
    Yep, it is an Ishinomori creation after all so I believe it was planned to be serialized alongside the show. They say the manga started as a serious spy action manga at first but as the tone of the TV show got lighter it followed suit later to match it. Fun fact, seems that Ishinomori emphasized the colorful aspect of the team cause this was around the time color TVs were being purchased more so seems like they wanted to embrace that apparently.

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