From: dagmarbuse@arcor.de   
      
   Jarel Jones wrote:   
   > Burgundy Ranger wrote:   
   >   
   >> Now that I'm on DSL, I've downloaded the first 19 Majiranger and have   
   >> just begun to watch my first Sentai season in full.   
   >>   
   >> The first question that's come to me is why there are this   
   >> intermittent use of straight-out English in the opening theme and in   
   >> some of the henshin?   
   >   
   >   
   > That's not unique to Magiranger alone.  Though I've watched very few   
   > sentai episodes before the last two seasons, I'm sure most of the rest   
   > of that is the same.  I know most of the henshins in every season used   
   > English words, as early as Denjiman, the 4th sentai out of currently 29.   
   >   
   > As far as general English words scattered in Japanese talk, I don't know   
   > about Abaranger and back, but Dekaranger had English all over the dang   
   > place.  Almost every final attack, Ranger or mecha, used English words.   
   >  And various times during normal speech, they'd throw in Engrish. Tetsu   
   > (Dekabreak, their Omega Ranger) said "Nonsense" all the time. Hoji,   
   > Dekablue, said "Perfect" a lot.  Hoji even attempted to say   
   > "Unidentified flying object" in English in one episode, and the results   
   > were not pretty.   
      
      
   Oh God, sounds like bad fangirl Japanese in all those anime fics. *shudders*   
      
   Dagmar   
      
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