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I can't do anything for specifics, but you might want to check the Wikipedia pages for Super Sentai, Ultra series, and Kamen Rider series, to see if any of the titles in the lists of shows belonging to those franchises spark a memory? Those are the biggest sentai (Power Rangers-like; Super Sentai was actually the footage source for Power Rangers) franchises in Japan as far as I'm aware.
Yeah I looked up all the seasons for super sentai, kamen rider and the ultra series but I didn't find what I was looking for
The first one is probably Chou Sei Shin Gransazer.
I've been trying to find 2 shows I watched when I was a kid. I watched it on a vhs tape that a friend showed me when I was visiting family in Vietnam. I don't remember the plots just some details. I know that they weren't in english that's for sure, but they had subtitles. I think it was either japanese, chinese, vietnamese, maybe even korean I don't know. They were both similar to power rangers and I want to find them because its been bothering me not remembering what the shows were.
1. The first one had teams of three people fighting other teams of three, and they activated their powers, suits, and robots by glowing symbols on the back of their hands. Some of the team colors were I think red, purple, orange and blue(light blue?). The red team had a robot bird, I think the purple team had a robot turtle or something, blue had like a shark maybe? I just remember that the purple team were one of the bad guys and the red team were one of the good guys. The red team had 2 males and a female. The female's weapons were fans, one of the males used his fists only(I think) and the other had 2 swords. It takes a 3 members of one team to summon their robots though.
2. The second one had 2 characters: a female and a male. The female's suit was white while the male's was brown. I think they were best friends or a couple(I forgot). I remember that their was a scene where they were fighting each other and the male was very injured by the female and another scene where the male went to the restroom and someone who looked just like him abducted the male and took his place. The only difference between the male and his doppelganger was that the male was joyful or like showed lots of energy and emotion while the doppelganger was emotionless or looked serious all the time.
They were live action of course but had more drama and story to it for its time at least and most of the time they were fighting against others like themselves no monsters.
It would be great if someone can help me, pls reply if you can thank you very much
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