Teach Me Sentai

We've all been waiting and the moment is here. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie! Is it INCREDIBLE? No. Is it GARBAGE? Also no! Natalie and John are here to breakdown all of that fun and funky grey space and to bring you behind the scenes details about the zenith of Power Rangers Mania. Featuring monorails, bad CGI, good puppets, broken promises, Mariska Hargitay, and not even trying to expla...

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season two finale is here and it's honestly pretty mid but the two parter right before that is a blast! Join John and Natalie as they take you through an adventure in the anachronism filled Angel Grove Wild West that you'll never forget. Featuring Shadam for some reason, laser turkey basters, decorative eye patches, saloon based hijinks, multiple quick draws, and t...

After our longest ever to be continued, Natalie and John are back in Power Rangers for the wild and weird ending of Return of the Green Ranger. Episodes 45-48 of MMPR season 2 are just plain wacky. Buckle in. Featuring rats, Benjamin Franklin, being your own ancestor, politics, feminism, and what can only be described as green screen hell. Follow us on Instagram and Tumblr @teachmesentai Contact t...

We did it, rangers. Episodes 48-50 see the end of our second Sentai season. Dairanger has been great, but how with John and Natalie feel about the ending? And when all is said and done, will we get a resolution to the Rin-Ryo-Shoji love triangle that mostly exists in our heads?? Featuring duels, stabbing, mud, tears, yelling, eyeballs, and a very silly send-off to the series. Follow us on Instagra...

It's time for the Dairanger endgame and things get intense... and a little frustrating! Master Kaku has chosen the worst possible moment to stop communicating and Natalie and John will help you sort through the mess of episodes 45-47. Featuring death, bad cops, angst, that OP magic ring, and a roll call that gave us chills. Follow us on Instagram and Tumblr @teachmesentai Contact the show at t...

We are so beyond back. Rita Repulsa, time travel, duplicates, and drunken revelry. Episodes 41-44 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 2 are simply the best and John and Natalie can't wait to tell you all about them. Featuring Australia, asshole waiters, a vortex of morphin energy, sassy Goldar, elementary school projects and incredibly confusing population numbers. Follow us on Instagram an...

We're racing towards the Dairanger finale! In episodes 41-44, Natalie and John look bring an end to Kujaku's quest for the Peacock Tear and Kou's quest to reunite with his mother. And there's a lot of sadness and death and also Merry Christmas? Featuring bad parents, righting past wrongs, avoiding the part that makes you look bad, SCREAMING, and Master Kaku's secret past. Follo...

Oh Lord Zedd. Oh your silly plans. Oh your inability to see them through. In this episode John and Natalie walk through episodes 37-40 of season two of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and all of the silly silly things Zedd thinks of to stop the rangers. Featuring bad lifeguards, children, confusing time travel, awkward long distance friendships, and simply too much Goldar. Follow us on Twitter, Insta...

This episode was recorded in the midst of Pride month in a different arrangement than usual so please forgive audio weirdness and John's voice BUT these episodes of Dairanger make it all worth it! We are cooking with gas and Natalie and John are psyched to walk through all of the explosive action of episode 37-40. Featuring pachinko, possessing your underlings, invading dreams, diplomacy, a fa...

Sometimes filler is fun. Sometimes filler is like this. Episodes 33-36 of MMPR season two are a real mixed bag but John and Natalie are here to find the fun. Featuring confusing Bulk and Skull schemes, fire safety, asking children to find a cannon, day players, and Billy being kind of a bitch (good way). Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr @teachmesentai Contact the show at teachmesentai@g...

It's Dairanger's turn for some filler! Episodes 33-36 find our team dealing with nefarious talent scouts, needy plants, ultimate fist masters, and tragic backstory. Natalie and John are here to walk you through every step and help capture the kernals of interesting ongoing plot throughout these straightforward one-offs. Featuring a hit single, an uncomfortably queer-coded villain, Gara, a...

After all of the offscreen drama that made it's way onscreen, things on the Power Rangers set have stabilized, but can you tell that from the episodes? John and Natalie walk through episodes 29-32 of Season 2 of Mighty Morphin and figure out if the filler is fun. Featuring a surprising villain, a Bulk and Skull feature episode, a big mirror, pachinko, and a weirdly restrained amount of Tommy O...

I hope you like answers because this week we're getting some! Natalie and John dive into episode 29-32 of Dairanger and learn all about some of our most confusing friends. Featuring a stone with a bad attitude, poor communication, digging literally for something metaphorical, quarries, and a zord who makes way more sense in context. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr @teachmesentai Co...

Our long nightmare is ending and it doesn't quite feel good. John and Natalie walk through the last gasps of weird editing, missing characters, and bad energy as Jason, Trini and Zack head off into the Swiss sunset, and Rocky, Adam and Aisha join the team. It's episodes 25-28 of MMPR Season 2 and it's... well listen, it's tough. Featuring sports, sleeping, Z branding everything, fa...

Back to Dairanger! And most importantly, back to Kazu. The Qilin Ranger takes center stage in episodes 25-28 and Natalie and John couldn't be happier to explore his queer journey. Okay maybe the queerness is just in their head. And there's a two parter in the middle about a murderous karate master. Featuring the dangers of modeling scouts, unbirthday gifts, Dark Karate, an inscrutable appa...

Buckle in, friends, it's going to be a bumpy one. It's time for our long teased deep dive into what went wrong with the contracts that led to the departure of three founding Rangers from the show. It's a story about unions, safety on set, and the complicated allegiances behind our choices. John and Natalie peel back the layers and tell the story of six actors, too young to be in the po...

Holy poop, it's episode 50! Can't believe we made it this far and thank you so much for joining us. Today, John and Natalie dive into episodes 21-24 of Dairanger, closing out the KibaRanger intro saga and checking back in with old friends and foes. There's a lot of child endangerment. Featuring abuse, heat stroke, baby zords, pollution, a promise between men and a very silly baseball g...

Look, obviously a labor dispute is not good, but while Natalie and John watch episodes 21-24 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 2, they've got to look at the bright side. We've got three fun new friends, the return of Pumpkin Rapper, and some respectible creativity. Also bad wigs. Featuring a waste of two monsters, homemade helmets, unclear construction, a baby, layers of time wasting,...

We've met the White Ranger, now it's time to get to know KibaRanger, a twelve-year-old brat who Natalie and John can't help but love. Episodes 17-20 of Dairanger introduce the delightfully annoying Kou, the 3 Ladies of Hell, and the Gorma Emperor themselves. Featuring strange treatment of women, jewelry, well-meaning grocers, surrogate mothers, and a cartoonishly evil mother. Follow us...

I know you all missed Tommy so much, but don't worry! He's back! Just in time for labor disputes to send the show into very weird territory. Join Natalie and John for episodes 17-20 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers season 2. Don't worry, their voices still sound the same. Featuring secret doors, Zordon being a jerk, AC/DC, the continued existence of Ricky and Curtis, a person in a bear...

Once upon a time, Toei created the three best monsters that have ever existed and today, Natalie and John introduce them to you. And also talk about three other excellent episodes, episode 13-16 of Dairanger to be specific. Featuring possession, death, quirky uncles, soccer matches, fortune slips, and a surprisingly effective demonstration of how to teach children about trauma. Follow us on Twitte...

We're back from a holiday break to descend into absolute madness. How will Tommy lose his powers for good and why does this mean he's still the main character of the show? Join John and Natalie with episodes 13-16 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season Two as the Power Rangers come face to face with their most dangerous enemy yet. Labor Disputes. And also candles. Featuring time loops that...

We've all been saying it. When is one of the Dairanger going to fall in love with an immortal goddess? Well the wait is finally over. Natalie and John are here to tell you all about episodes 9-12 of Dairanger and the exciting new recurring character we meet. Featuring vengeance, vanity, weird gender essentialism, magnets, a car chase, and finally understanding who Kazu is as a character. Follo...

Gobble Gobble! Hope you're ready to stuff your face with Tommy Oliver. Join John and Natalie as they descend into madness dealing with episode after episode of Green Ranger, power losing nonsense. Mighty Morphin Season 2 episodes 9-12 to be specific! Featuring Tommy, Tommy losing his powers, Kimberly being concerned about Tommy losing his power, Zedd wanting Tommy's powers, and a stunning...

Coming to theaters near you! What is basically a fun, normal episode of Dairanger. John and Natalie had a blast with the Dairanger movie and with the extra time, seemed like a great chance to dig into what we know about Dairanger behind the scenes. Featuring shuffling cards, the dangers of close up magic, leap frog, crediting the creators, and the return of Two Truths and a Sent-lie! Follow us on...