#kiranger

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BAM BARABAM BAM BAM!! HERE'S TO ANOTHER 50 YEARS!!!!! 💚💛❤️💙🩷

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Watched Himitsu Sentai Gorenger Ep 67. What's sad about Daigoro's death is that we have him for 12 episodes and a movie as KiRanger but we barely knew him as a character. Like he only exist as a placeholder while Daita is away. His role in the team is be the big guy and do sumo grunts. His heroic sacrifice is well written, and the irony of it all is that he was killed by a monster named Can Opener Mask.

Nothing against can openers. Can openers are sharp objects and the episode highlighted what makes him dangerous, but if you only read how the first Sentai hero died in the show, it feels too much of a dark comedy, then you remember that this show's target audience are 70s Japanese kids.

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Day 3: January 3, 2026

Oiwa Daita: Kiranger (Gorenger)

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Kiranger

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I'd say “RIP Black Condor, DragonRanger, TimeFire, Shurikenger, AbareKiller, Gosei Green, Beet Buster, Kyoryu Cyan, Kyoryu Silver and Gaisorg” but you know...

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Is there anything as the Curse of the Yellow Sentai? As far as I know, the original Sentai Yellow died of suicide, right? Were there any other tragic cases?

Well, that was years after his role on Himitsu Sentai Goranger. Baku Hatakeyama was never really happy with his role as Daita/Kiranger.  He even left the show for a while after episode 55 to appear in a theatrical play he wanted to work on.  

After the series ended, he found himself typecast as his most famous role and found it hard to find serious, rewarding roles.  He became depressed and one of the producers from Toei offered him a guest role in 1977′s Kaiketsu Zubat.  It seems it was too little, too late though because he took his own life in 1978 leaving a note citing his financial troubles, frustrations with his professional life and not being able to escape the shadow of his Sentai role.  There have not been, to my knowledge, any other Yellows who have met such tragic fates except, of course, for the original Yellow Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.  Actress Thuy Trang perished after a car accident in 2001.

There was Yellow who quit the series back in 1984.  The first Yellow Four left the series over a rumored dispute in pay.  She was killed off onscreen in episode 10 and they had a funeral for her costumed corpse because the actress had already left and was not there to play her own body. 

All that said, there is a certain stereotype associated with the role of the Yellow Ranger in Sentai thanks to the original as the strong, goofy, curry-loving member of the team even though only Kiranger in 1975 and Vul Panther in 1981 really fit that bill.  It even prompted actress Ryo Narushima from taking the Yellow role in 1990′s Chikyu Sentai Fiveman.  It have even been lampshaded in 2011′s Hikounin Sentai Akirbaranger when Akiba Yellow complains someone should have told her it wasn’t really the role of the Yellow after she eats multiple bowls of curry and gives herself a stomach ache. So, there is no ‘Curse of the Yellow’ though there is a stereotype associated with the role thanks to Baku Hatakeyama’s iconic portrayal of the original.

Thanks for the question!

Addendum:  Kenji Shibata, who portrayed Domon/GoYellow in 1999′s KyuKyu Sentai Gogo Five was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor while filming the series.  After filming ended, his condition worsened requiring him to use a cane to walk.  However, he is still with us and reunited with his GoGo Five co-stars in 2018 where he stated they had been his support during difficult times.

Just wanted to mention that before someone reminded me.

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Símbolo del Himitsu Sentai Goranger sobre fondo rojo pintado con un efecto de tiza o desgaste.