Trivia / Gosei Sentai Dairanger

• Cast the Runner-Up: In an early promotion, Kazu was to be played by Keiichi Wada, with Keisuke Tsuchiya portraying Ryo; they switched prior to the beginning of filming.
• Late Export for You: The show would be distributed in America by Shout Factory on November 10, 2015, 22 years after it had ended.
• Making Use of the Twin: In Episode 25, the Copy Empress made evil duplicates of the Dairangers. Kazu's was played by Keisuke Tsuchiya's twin brother, Daisuke. The roles were later reversed when Daisuke went on to play Blue Beet two years later, while Keisuke played his Evil Counterpart Black Beet.
• Milestone Celebration: As Battle Fever J was still recognised as the start of Super Sentai at the time, Dairanger was officially recognised as the 15th series with an anniversary logo and a special stage show. Due to the incorporation of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai, the 20th anniversary would be celebrated only two years later.
• No Export for You: While the monsters, mecha, and Sixth Ranger got used in Power Rangers, Emperor Gorma would not be adapted until Wild Force, and the main five ranger suits never did until Super Megaforce 20 years later.
• The Other Darrin: Sugisaku Imagawa, the actor who originally played Kameo, left the show for health reasons, so his role was taken over by Tomihisa Naruse (who previously played Raita in Choujin Sentai Jetman) from Episode 29 and onward. But since Kameo is just a human disguise of Daimugen, why not?
• Prop Recycling: Iron-Face Choryu's armor skirt was originally made for Burai from the previous season.
• Recycled Script: Kujaku's subplot has strong similarity to the "Burai's lifespan" plot from the previous season. Seeking magic healing water to restore life-force, close to the end it's revealed it won't help the person and is instead needed for someone else, at the end character dies and ascends. Additionally, the character is vengeance driven at first and causes damage to heroes and villains alike before having some sense knocked into them.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Although the suits were never used during Mighty Morphin, Saban did reportedly plan to use them for a team of "Ancient Rangers" during Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. However, those plans got derailed due to the Pink Ranger having to leave due to her battle with leukemia (fortunately, she survived). The only thing from those plans that seems to have made it into the final product was the morpher from the series, which was used for the team's Sixth Ranger (whose Sentai Counterpart used his sword to transform).
  • Keisuke Tsuchiya was originally cast as Ryō and Keiichi Wada as Kazu, and they filmed early promotional material before it was decided to switch their roles because of Wada's martial arts skills.
  • Jin Matoba's Garouki form was initially going to have a Sinister Scythe as shown by his concept art and production image. However, he ended up not using it and instead attacked with his claws.
• Working Title: The show was originally going to be titled Daikenger (which roughly means "Great Fist Ranger"). The Japanese version of The Other Wiki once claimed that Chinaman was a working title, but this was actually disconfirmed by Super Hero Taihen #6. Funnily enough, the title got used by an unoffical sentai show, and explored a possible What Could Have Been, under the title Chuuka Sentai Chinaman.

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