CRKrueger
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Spider-Man 78 does have similar tropes to the Super Sentai series. Wrist-worn devices enabling transformation, the X Cross organization bad guys, etc. Tohei definitely was playing in the Sentai pool trappings-wise. Then you have the whole “every episode has a bad guy become giant and therefore need to be battled by a giant robot” thing. Something that wasn’t true of the previous Sentai series, but was pretty much true of the Power Rangers.Sentai translates to "squad". Spiderman is a solo hero, and therefore is not Sentai or Super Sentai. Being a partial influence on the watered down Power Rangers doesn't change that, no matter how many videos you link to by people who don't know that Sentai is a group, not a solo hero.
You’re looking at Sentai=Squadron and ignoring nearly every other aspect of the related series in question. Tohei created the Spider-Man show as a 1-man Sentai show using all the trappings of those shows, and continued the evolution with Power Rangers picking up the formulas of all the previous shows.
Saying it’s not in the “Super Sentai” genre may be technically correct, but it, nonetheless, definitely has a place in the evolution of the genre.
Although I do think “Spiderman was the first Power Ranger” is a bit click-baity of those articles.
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