Sunday, October 10, 2010

Girl Power Week: Rare Colors

Going over the female Rangers by colors, if they had skirts and what about their costumes were different. Here are colors that have been used less. Blue has been used the most out of these so let's cover that first...

BLUE
Blue Dolphin (Liveman-1988)
She was the first female Blue Ranger in Super Sentai. Her other teammates had white legs, she had white legs too but the only difference is that she had a white skirt with blue trim. She was the same shade of blue as the other male Blue Rangers, no deviation.

Blue Swallow (Jetman-1991)
3 years later, there was another female Blue Ranger with a lighter shade of blue, it was near aqua. The male Jetman had white legs and ranger-color underwear-like shorts. The females had skirts, Blue had a blue skirt with yellow trim.

Ayame (Kakuranger, 1994)
She is a villainess and I don't mention the flower ninja much in my list of Rangers because I do not consider her or the Hana Rangers as part of the other good sentai. It is like counting the Nejiranger/Psycho Rangers. They go with the evil Sentai. Her color was more of an indigo.


Hurricane Blue (Hurricanger-2002) / Blue Wind Ranger (Ninja Storm-2003)
She was the first female Blue Ranger in Power Rangers with Ninja Storm. Her shade of blue was lighter than male Blue Rangers, a tad different shade of Blue Swallow. Her outfit was significantly different from the male Rangers as they had Ranger-color legs and she had silver mesh legs like her arms and everyone else's arms. She has a blue skirt with no trim.

Magi Blue (Magiranger-2005) / Blue Mystic Ranger (Mystic Force-2006)
Three years later we got our fourth girl Blue Ranger for Sentai and second for Power Rangers. She is a light different shade than the other ones. The male Rangers had ranger-color legs and Pink and Blue had skirts like the male legs with black and gold stripes and white legs. In Sentai, she is the third female blue ranger to have white legs.


SILVER
Deka Bright (Dekranger-2004) / Nova Ranger (SPD-2005)
Deka Bright was the first silver ranger as I have covered before. Like the other female SPD Rangers, she had no skirt. She had an entire silver body suit with navy vest, gloves and boots. Her helmet has the resemblance of a lady police hat from Europe. Deka Bright appeared in one episode of Dekaranger and Nova Ranger appeared in one episode of SPD.

Go-On Silver (Go-Onger, 2008) / Ranger Silver (Go-Onger, 2009)
She is was much like a sixth ranger as she was tied with Gold like a package. Go-On Silver and Ranger Silver are the first female Silver Ranger to officially be called 'Silver.' She had the same motif as her brother, with a skirt that matched her legs in both with black and silver with no accents. Her whole outfit had red accents.


RED
SPD A-Squad Red Ranger (SPD, 2005)
The first female Red Ranger ever, even before Super Sentai. Produced Bruce Kalish asked Disney if they could have a girl Red Ranger, they were weary about it but in the end, they did agree. The A-Squad had the helmets of the Megaranger/Power Rangers in Space with some modifications with motor-cross armor and SPD accents. The female SPD Rangers had no skirts. She had a whole black suit with red accents.

Shinken Red (Shinkenger, 2009) / Red Ranger (Super Samurai, 2012)
The first female Red Ranger in Super Sentai and will probably be the second female Red Ranger in Power Ranger history. Her costume is the same as the one as the male Red Ranger but with red skirt with no trim and black legs. Shinken Red also donned white long vest as Super Shinken Red. This will be updated once she appears on Power Rangers.


GREEN

Mele (Gekiranger, 2007) / Camile (Jungle Fury, 2008)
She is most commonly considered a villainess, but fans consider her most than anything like the first female Green Ranger. She has a zord/mecha and armored form and transformation sequence in Jungle Fury. I think of her more as an ally and also a test, I am sure there will be a female Green Ranger soon.

Suiren (Kakuranger, 1994)
In that regard, Suiren the Hana Ninja was indeed like a female Green Ranger. She is a villainess and I don't mention the flower ninja much in my list of Rangers because I do not consider her or the Hana Rangers as part of the other good sentai. It is like counting the Nejiranger/Psycho Rangers. They go with the evil Sentai.

VIOLET

Yuri and Ran (Kakuranger, 1994)
The other Hana Rangers, Yuri was orange and Ran was purple. There has been no official good female Purple Ranger nor orange. Deka Swan/Kat Ranger had orange accents but considered more like a white ranger.


 Kyoryu Violet (Kyoryuger, 2013) / Violet Ranger (Dino Charge, 2015)
Kyoryu Violet in Kyoryuger, there was two and the second was female. 

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