History Series / MahouSentaiMagiranger

* {{Foreshadowing}}: You can figure out [[spoiler:Wolzard is actually the siblings' father]] early if you pay attention:
** Pay close attention to [=MagiMother's=] fight with Wolzard in Stage 2; she suddenly gets very emotionally shaken and asks why he'd use dark magic for Infershia. Wolzard then defeats her, sending her off in PGExplosives, and he momentarily glances at a magical arrow she'd managed to hit him with. [[spoiler:Miyuki had recognized him as her husband, and her arrow had managed to break his brainwashing for a moment, which he'd used to [[DeathFakedForYou quickly teleport her away at the last minute]] before anyone (including his own brainwashed self!) could notice. If you [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely]], you can actually see the moment Miyuki DisappearsIntoLight before it's directly pointed out later in Stage 35. Without knowledge of future events or the lore behind magic, a first-time viewer is likely to mistake Miyuki's statement as IncorruptiblePurePureness trying to reach out to a fallen magician with potential, or the DisappearsIntoLight as simply stylistic tokusatsu effects.]]
** Kai is the one with the most personal vendetta against Wolzard and seems to have some kind of connection to him, to the point of Wolzard's own horse Barikion temporarily allowing him to ride him. Wolzard, for his part, seems to be most particularly interested in Kai's growth out of all the siblings. But that's just LawOfChromaticSuperiority at play, right? [[spoiler:Remember how everyone keeps pointing out that Kai is the one most like his father? Notice how members of Kai's family tend to be the most concerned about him out of his other siblings due to him being TheBabyOfTheBunch? Funny how Kai also bonds with his father's horse in the movie, a horse that suspiciously resembles a PaletteSwap of Barikion down to mechanics...]]
** [[spoiler:If you're perceptive enough, you might be able to catch that Blagel/Isamu is played by Wolzard's voice actor Tsutomu Isobe in all of his flashbacks (Blagel/Isamu is uncredited until Stage 34, presumably to prevent people from catching onto the SignificantDoubleCasting too easily).]]
** Most glaringly, Wolzard keeps displaying incomprehensible behavior of ''helping'' the Magirangers, which characters from both the Magiranger and Infershian side catch onto and are perplexed by; he'll suddenly let them off the hook instead of killing them by using some narrowly specific justification of HonorBeforeReason, and he seems to have an obsession with making them into [[WorthyOpponent Worthy Opponents]] to the point his "taunts" sound like actual advice at times. [[spoiler:It's because he's FightingFromTheInside and wants to help his children, so he was unconsciously trying to come up with excuses to not hurt them and give them advice as a StealthMentor.]]

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** Stage 10 has Makito raising a cactus trying to win the heart of a girl and even names it after her, unaware that the plant is secretly turning monstrous and carnivorous, bringing to mind [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Audrey II]].

** And then there's the movie, where the Heavenly Temple [[Anime/DragonBallZ should seem familiar]]

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The motif this time around is "Magic", and the themes of "Courage" and "[[ThePowerOfFamily Family]]" is also strong all over. While it's the third Sentai series to feature a SiblingTeam (following ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' and ''Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV''), it's notable for having a much stronger focus on ThePowerOfFamily as its core theme, as well as having its Red be TheBabyOfTheBunch (the youngest Red in the franchise at the time of its airing) going through a ComingOfAgeStory. Also the first Sentai team to [[BadassCape don capes]] since... [[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger around the]] [[Series/JAKQDengekitai first time]].

Fortunately, a human woman named Miyuki Ozu has been preparing for this for the last fifteen years and teaches her five children to become magicians... only for her to be [[SacrificialLion killed right in front of their eyes]]. Armed with their newfound magic fueled by "courage", they transform into the Magirangers to protect their home from the Infershian threat while also [[OrphansOrdeal helping each other cope with their mother's death]]. What's more, their DisappearedDad turns out to have been [[SecretLegacy a famed Heavenly Saint warrior from Magitopia]], and soon more and more figures from Magitopia and Infershia start getting involved with their lives, revealing the truth behind their SecretLegacy.

[[caption-width-right:350:Turning overflowing courage into magic!]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:"Divine! Adventurous! Courageous! It's just MAGIC"]]

The only hope for the world rests with the Ozu family, five ordinary siblings who suddenly discover that they are the heirs to a secret magical legacy. Drawing arcane power from courage, they transform into the Magiranger and must master the art of magic to defend the world from evil. They are later joined by SixthRanger Hikaru, a legendary hero of Magitopia who becomes their [[{{Mentors}} mentor]].

The motif this time around is "Magic", and the theme of "Courage" and "Family" is also strong all over. Also the first Sentai team to [[BadassCape don capes]] since... [[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger around the]] [[Series/JAKQDengekitai first time]]. This series was adapted in the Western ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' franchise as ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce''.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: [[spoiler:Pretty much everything since the series finished has been very open about the fact the series ends with Isamu and Miyuki alive and Hikaru marrying into the family, resulting in a complete eight-person Ozu family. [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerrangers/images/0/0f/Ozu_Family.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110717204224 One of the more prominent series photos]] is of the entire family together in the rubble of the final battle.]]

** The Ozu family residence is located in "Tokyo-to Kanza-su Doro-shi 5-2-13". Kanza-su and Doro-shi, or, that is to say, [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Kansas and Dorothy]].

* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Downplayed; while the term "Magirangers" shows up here and there, the word is used less often than an equivalent would be used in some other series, with the siblings mostly being referred to as "magicians" or, well, siblings. It makes sense that the family would refer to each other in terms of their familial relationships before identifying as Rangers, so the term "Magirangers" mainly comes up when the siblings are specifically bringing up their role in the war against Infershia.

* SecretIdentity: Humans aren't allowed to know about magic, so the Magirangers have to keep their civilian identities secret. Within the story, this mostly serves to create a LovesMyAlterEgo scenario between Kai, [=MagiRed=], and Yuka Yamazaki.
* SecretRoom: The siblings study magic in a secret hidden room of their house that [[InvisibleToNormals only magicians can enter]] (although [[Film/MahouSentaiMagirangerVsDekaranger other Rangers]] seem to be fair game too). After Hikaru moves in, he spends most of his time there when not in Magitopia or going out with the siblings. [[spoiler:Miyuki later reveals there's ''another'' hidden room behind even that, which she uses to perform her own magic.]]

* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler:Urara and Hikaru been building up quite a bunch of ShipTease since Stage 19, and they'd apparently gotten close enough to each other both on and offscreen to the point [[EveryoneCanSeeIt the entire family was shipping them]], but they still hadn't openly acknowledged their feelings for each other until Urara breaks out a LoveConfession in Stage 47 and (after some consideration) Hikaru responds with his own that also doubles as a marriage proposal. The family is so excited that Isamu conjures up a marriage ceremony ''on the very spot''. It's implied part of the reason for the rush is that everyone knows [[LastWishMarriage Hikaru is likely to die very soon]], and given that the very next day has Hikaru be killed as predicted and N Ma causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, they weren't exactly ''wrong'' -- but thanks to Nai and Mea resurrecting him and the Magirangers defeating N Ma, Urara and Hikaru move to Magitopia together and remain HappilyMarried by the time of the epilogue a year later. Or even [[https://twitter.com/sentai_official/status/1373438610716852224 around sixteen years later]], if crossover material is to be believed.]]

* WeddingSmashers: [[spoiler:Lunagel interrupts Hikaru and Urara]]'s wedding [[AlmostKiss right in the middle of their altar kiss]], but coming to warn them about Magitopia being destroyed]] was a pretty good reason to warrant that. Hikaru and Urara still consider themselves married by the next morning.]]

* MomentKiller: Hikaru and Urara get possibly one of the most drastic ones ever when [[spoiler:''their marriage kiss'' is interrupted by a severely injured Lunagel coming in to tell them that N Ma has destroyed Magitopia]].

* WartimeWedding: [[spoiler:Urara and Hikaru marry just before N Ma takes the war to Magitopia.]]
* WeddingSmashers: Lunagel interrupts [[spoiler:Hikaru and Urara]]'s wedding, but she had a ''very'' good reason.

** Hikaru: [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} MagiLamp Buster]]

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Makito does ''not'' approve of Houka rushing into marriage, and doesn't care what her excuses may be; that said, it's done mostly out of reasonable concerns about her going into a ShotgunWedding with a near complete stranger without thinking it through. After learning her reasons, he's willing to support her happiness, but it ends up moot as it doesn't pan out anyway.

* RomanceInducingSmudge: Stage 36 has one between Urara and Hikaru. Urara doesn't actually wipe it off herself, but it helps set the tone for their (very ShipTease-heavy) conversation that follows.

** Miyuki's actress Azusa Watanabe was a particularly extreme case at 36 years old, playing a character whose oldest child is only 12 years younger than her; the producer was even initially worried about casting her as such an AbsurdlyYouthfulMother but went ahead with it because Watanabe herself was interested in being in Sentai.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: [[spoiler:Pretty much everything since the series finished has been very open about the fact the series ends with Isamu and Miyuki alive and Hikaru marrying into the family, resulting in a complete eight-person Ozu family. [[https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/File:Ozu_Family.jpg One of the more prominent series photos]] is of the entire family together in the rubble of the final battle.]]

* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Magiranger had quite possibly one of the longest sequences at its time, roughly on par with ''[[Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger Dekaranger]]'', at least until [[Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger two years later]]. But length-wise, it still outdraws the others due to ending with what was the largest roster in Super Sentai history at the time[[note]]The record would be broken eight years later with ''[[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger Kyoryuger]]''[[/note]].

* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Magiranger had quite possibly one of the longest sequences at its time, roughly on par with ''[[Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger Dekaranger]]'', at least until [[Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger two years later]]. But length-wise, it still outdraws the others due to having the ''largest'' roster in Super Sentai history.[[note]]At least until [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger eight years later]]![[/note]]

* ColorCharacter: Another "[team prefix] [English color]" Sentai. Though the FiveManBand play this trope straight, it is subverted in the case of the extras, from the golden [=MagiShin=] to the the white [=MagiMother=] to [[spoiler:Wolzard Fire, the second Red hero]].

* EvolvingCredits: Hikaru enters the opening credits starting in Stage 21.

** Miyuki's actress Azusa Watanabe was a particularly extreme case at 36 years old, playing a character whose oldest child is only 12 years younger than her (resulting in the ''Magiranger'' actors jokingly referring to PlayingGertrude as being in the "Watanabe category"); the producer was even initially worried about casting her as such an AbsurdlyYouthfulMother but went ahead with it because Watanabe herself was interested in being in Sentai.