Well, on this Columbus Day/Thanksgiving, I decided to write a little guide on the various color schemes of the Super Sentai teams. Now, for this list, I will only be arranging them by the Primary Rangers from each team. By "Primary", I mean the main Rangers that fought in the first episodes. This does not include "Sixth" Rangers (e.g., Dragon Ranger from Zyuranger, King Ranger from Ohranger, Time Fire from Timeranger, Abare Killer from Abaranger, etcetera), nor does it include "Secondary" Rangers--members of a core team that joined partway through the series (e.g., Big One from JAKQ, Black Bison & Green Sai from Liveman, the Gouraigers from Hurricanger, Abare Black from Abaranger, Geki Violet & Geki Chopper, Go-On Green & Go-On Black, and Beet Buster & Stag Buster from Go-Busters). As of the 2016 series, Zyuohger, there have been nine different color schemes for the main teams. I will be listing them in chronological order by color scheme, and point out which members of the team are female.
Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Pink (15)
- Goranger (Pink female)
- Denziman (Pink female)
- Bioman (Yellow & Pink female)
- Flashman (Yellow & Pink female)
- Dairanger (Pink female)
- Ohranger (Yellow & Pink female)
- Carranger (Yellow & Pink female)
- Gingaman (Pink female)
- GoGo-V (Pink female)
- Timeranger (Pink female)
- Dekaranger (Yellow & Pink female)
- Magiranger (Blue & Pink female)
- Shinkenger (Yellow & Pink female)
- Gokaiger (Yellow & Pink female)
- Tokkyuger (I refuse to refer to it by that other title; Yellow & Pink female)
Red, Blue, Green, Pink (1)
Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, Pink (10)
- Battle Fever (Pink female)
- Goggle Five (Pink female)
- Dynaman (Pink female)
- Maskman (Yellow & Pink female)
- Turboranger (Pink female)
- Fiveman (Yellow & Pink female)
- Zyuranger (Pink female)
- Megaranger (Yellow & Pink female)
- Boukenger (Yellow & Pink female)
- Goseiger (Yellow & Pink female)
Red, Blue, Yellow (7)
For this group, I will include which Secondary Rangers were included in each particular team, as well as include a counter for how many times that particular secondary color scheme had been used. (It will make sense as we go along.)
- SunVulcan
- Liveman (Blue female; plus Green & Black secondary {1})
- Hurricanger (Blue female; plus Crimson & Navy secondary {1})
- Abaranger (Yellow female; plus Black secondary {1})
- Gekiranger (Yellow female; plus Violet & White secondary {1})
- Go-Onger (Yellow female; plus Green & Black secondary {2})
- Go-Busters (Yellow female; plus Gold & Silver secondary {1})
On a side note, I noticed that both times Super Sentai used the Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Black scheme, the Summer Olympics were held in an Asian city (1988--Seoul, 2008--Beijing). Does this mean that the 2020 Super Sentai team will have that same color scheme?
Red, Blue, White, Black, Pink (1)
- Changeman (White & Pink female)
Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, White (3)
- Jetman (Blue & White female)
- Kakuranger (White female)
- Gaoranger (White female)
Red, Blue, Black, Green, Pink (1)
On another side note, if I had done Kyoryuger, I would have used the Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Black color scheme (yeah, I know, it's not an Olympic year, but whatever) and have a female Blue. One of my major criticisms of the show is the lack of Yellow and the reasoning for the lack of Yellow (saying that Yellow is a "feminine" color, which I don't believe one damn bit, since there have been more male Yellows than female during the franchise history {20 to 17 as of 2016, though I do think that some day female Yellows will surpass male Yellows...and yes, I do count Battle Cossack as a Yellow Ranger. If you had read my previous entries, you would have known that by now.}).
Red, Blue, Yellow, White, Pink (1)
- Ninninger (White & Pink female)
Side note time. FINALLY, after a decade, we have a male Yellow in Super Sentai. Nothing against female Yellows, it's just after seeing so many of them over the past ten years, not to mention the reason why Yellow was skipped in Kyoryuger, it's good to see a male Yellow in Sentai again. Even more awesome, we have all-male primary-colored Rangers (the primary colors in Sentai are Red-Blue-Yellow, JTLYK).
Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, White (1)
- Zyuohger (Blue & White female)
Wow! For the first time since the early 2000s, we have back-to-back male Yellows.
And that's it for now. This may or may not be updated when the 2019 Super Sentai series is announced, but I'm not including Kyuranger because that series started with NINE Rangers instead of the normal three-to-five, nor am I including Lupinranger VS Patoranger due to consisting of two separate teams, as well as two reds in the combined group. Otherwise, I'd include it in the Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Pink group (with Yellow & Pink female).
