History WebVideo / FranceFive

* [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Paris Is The Centre Of The Universe]]: justified, since the EiffelTower is what is protecting the earth.

* [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Paris Is The Center Of The Universe]]: justified, since the EiffelTower is what is protecting the earth.

* MeaningfulName: each character's name is meaningful, or is a ShoutOut or a PuneName.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Catherine

'''''France Five''''' (フランスファイブ ''Furansu Faibu''?), originally titled '''''Jushi Sentai France Five''''' (銃士戦隊フランスファイブ ''Jūshi Sentai Furansu Faibu''?, translated as ''Musketeers Squadron France Five'') and later known as '''''Shin Kenjushi France Five''''' (新剣銃士フランスファイブ ''Shin Kenjūshi Furansu Faibu''?, translated as ''New Sword Musketeers France Five''), is a French series produced by Buki X-1 Productions in 2000s. It is a homage to both Toei's ever-popular {{Super Sentai}} Series (which was extremely popular in France in the 1980s) and another Sentai pastiche, ''{{Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon}}'' ("''Patriot Squadron Great Japan''") (1982) by Daicon Films (now Gainax).

* TheOtherDarrin: Catherine/Pink a la Mode--The original actress left during the production of Episode 3. This unfortunately happened before they could record the ADR so there is a jarring difference between her out-of-suit and in-suit lines. Starting Episode 4, Catherine was played by a new actress...complete with a new costume.

** The original opening (Episodes 1-2) is a remix of the [[ChoudenshiBioman Bioman]] theme, while the ending (Episodes 1-2) is a remix of [[ChoujinSentaiJetman Jetman]]'s closing theme--both of which were broadcast and extremely in France.

** Blue Accordéon's original bow-and-arrow weapon in Episode 1.

* SixthRanger: Silver Mousquetaire

* EvolutionaryRetcon: Several costumes were upgraded over the series. Namely, the France Five suits (post Episode 2) and France Robo (Episode 3-onward). The original Red Fromage helmet does make an appearance later in Episode 3 via flashback.

Interestingly, France Five has become somewhat popular in Japan as well, with singer Akira Kushida singing an original theme for Episode 4. Prior to that point, the themes were French remixes of older Sentai theme songs (''ChoujinSentaiJetman'' and ''ChoudenshiBioman'') as well as an original French theme.

* JustEatGilligan: The standard one of these for Sentai series -- why the BigBad doesn't send all his monsters at once -- is parodically justified. The Eiffel Tower projects a forcefield around planet Earth, meaning that the BigBad can only send small squadrons of troops to Earth at a time, including a monster, some Panous-Panous and his two lieutenants.

** Because of the stretch of time between episodes, there have been a few other minor cast change-ups. Most notable, Magarine, the team's robot.
* ShoutOut: The series has frequent callbacks to other Sentai shows:
** The original opening (Episodes 1-2) is a remix of the Bioman theme; the ending (Episodes 1-2), a remix of Jetman's closing theme, "Kokoro wa Tamago"
** Also, the teleport fly-by from Episode 2 onward is an homage to the [[ChoUjinSentaiJetman Jetman]] opening

** Some Panou-Panous, along with Pink a la Mode and Black Beaujolais appear in the opening fight of another French indie production, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fca3UETyp_o Damned Next]].
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Well, it's a sentai after all.

* GratuitousEnglish: In several places, such as [[CallingYourAttacks calling their attacks]] and when doing their version of the [[HimitsuSentaiGoranger Goranger Storm]] in episode 3.

* LibationForTheDead: Done by Black Beaujolais in Episode 3, by pouring wine on the tomb of his Japanese Old Master.

** Black Beaujolais
** Yellow Baguette
** Blue Accordéon

** Babybomb (from Babybel, a french cheese)

* RedShirtArmy: Panous-Panous

** Some Panou-Panous, along with Pink a la Mode and Black Beaujolais appear in the opening fight of another French indie production, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fca3UETyp_o Damned Next]].

** Red Fromage

** Pink à la Mode

'''''France Five''''' (フランスファイブ ''Furansu Faibu''?), originally titled '''''Jushi Sentai France Five''''' (銃士戦隊フランスファイブ ''Jūshi Sentai Furansu Faibu''?, translated as ''Musketeers Squadron France Five'') and later known as '''''Shin Kenjushi France Five''''' (新剣銃士フランスファイブ ''Shin Kenjūshi Furansu Faibu''?, translated as ''New Sword Musketeers France Five''), is a French series produced by Buki X-1 Productions in 2000s. It is a homage to Toei's ever-popular {{Super Sentai}} Series, which was extremely popular in France in the 1980s. It's been said that the series is also a nod to another Sentai pastiche, ''{{Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon}}'' ("''Patriot Squadron Great Japan''") (1982) by Daicon Films (now Gainax).

The series' fourth episode ended on a CliffHanger with the fifth promising to be the GrandFinale. This did not happen.

It fell in the {{Vaporware}} category for awhile until June 2012 when it was finally released online.

** Some Panou-Panous, along with Pink a la Mode and Black Beaujolais appear in the opening fight of another French indie production, [[Damned http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fca3UETyp_o]].

** Some Panou-Panous, along with Pink a la Mode and Black Beaujolais appear in the opening fight of another French indie production, Damned.

* BaguetteBeatdown: Yellow Baguette. In the first episode, he fight with a sword shaped like a baguette, before switching to croissant boomerangs in later ones.

* LibationForTheDead: Done by Black Beaujolais in episode 3, by pouring wine on the tomb of his Japanese Old Master.

* TheOtherDarrin: Catherine/Pink a la Mode--The original actress left during the production of Episode 4. This unfortunately happened before they could record the ADR so there is a jarring difference between her out-of-suit and in-suit lines. Starting Episode 4, Catherine was played by a new actress...complete with a new costume.
** Because of the stretch of time between episodes, there have been a few other minor cast change-ups. Magarine, the team robot has had the most!

'''''France Five''''' (フランスファイブ ''Furansu Faibu''?), originally titled '''''Jushi Sentai France Five''''' (銃士戦隊フランスファイブ ''Jūshi Sentai Furansu Faibu''?, translated as ''Musketeers Squadron France Five'') and later known as '''''Shin Kenjushi France Five''''' (新剣銃士フランスファイブ ''Shin Kenjūshi Furansu Faibu''?, translated as ''New Sword Musketeers France Five''), is a French series produced by Buki X-1 Productions in 2000s. It is a homage to Toei's ever-popular {{Super Sentai}} Series, which was extremely popular in France in the 1980s. There have been four half-hour episodes of France Five made, with a fifth (supposedly the conclusion) underway. It was supposed to be out in 2007.

This series is said to be a nod to another Sentai pastiche, ''{{Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon}}'' ("''Patriot Squadron Great Japan''") (1982) by Daicon Films (now Gainax).

Interestingly, the series has become somewhat popular in Japan as well, with singer Akira Kushida singing an original theme for Episode 4. Prior to that point, the themes were French remixes of older Sentai theme songs (''ChoujinSentaiJetman'' and ''ChoudenshiBioman'') as well as an original French theme.

In the fourth episode the shield is disabled and Lexos's army is shown prepared to invade the planet.

The fifth episode was announced for 2010, at worse. It fell in the {{Vaporware}} category for awhile until Jun 2012 when it was finally released.

The fifth episode was announced for 2010, at worse. It fell in the {{Vaporware}} category for long, until June 2012, and before the sixth episode.

* NeverTrustATitle: [spoiler:Episode 5 "Farewell, France Five! The Day of Glory has Arrived!"...ended on a CliffHanger

The fifth episode was announced for 2010, at worse. Now it falls in the {{Vaporware}} category.