UPDATE: AS OF 6/11/2012 THE OFFICIAL Season is GOSEIGER and not GOKAIGER, While some of my picks for Rangers are still valid they will not be wearing the Gokaiger Suits!
(this is not official casting news, this is all speculation on my part)
It’s still unknown which team of Rangers is going to be used just yet, the popular belief is that it will be Gokaiger’s Pirate Rangers and the Goseiger suits will be used somewhere else, or after, or not at all! Basically no one knows and Saban is keeping it a secret!
Last year when we all thought that Goseiger’s adaptation was Season 19 and that Samurai would end there was a buzz over casting of the next season and I wrote one of these articles in which I featured my picks for the new cast. Of course, we all know that casting for the Goseiger Adaptation was cancelled and instead Super Samurai became the 19th Season. But the 20th Anniversary is coming quickly and the newest season will be the 20th and Anniversary season. Gokaiger seems like the perfect pick for that and even if the Goseiger suits have to be passed over or used in another way I want to see the newest Rangers’ tributes to past teams via the Ranger Keys, I just do!
RangerCrew (Click here to see the casting thread) is the best source for casting news and on their site they have listed all of the actors and actresses who have received a call back as the race for the suits commences! Among those, I have selected 5 who I think have the right look for Power Rangers as well as a good match for their Japanese counterparts, if you agree send them a tweet and let them know!
Seth Austin (Twitter)
Seth auditioned for last time around and I picked him for Red Ranger then as well, he has the right look and if you look him up on YouTube he has the right moves as well! Personally, I am wondering if they will go for the cocky hero like Marvelous was in Gokaiger. If they do, perhaps Seth can pull that off too.
Luke Patton (Twitter)
Luke has a fantastic look and again looks like he can match Joe’s mannerisms from Gokaiger. He has to have the tough Ranger-like appearance and mannerisms sort of like Ryuunosuke from Shinkenger that Najee De-Tiege attempts to pull of for Kevin, although I don’t think he achieves it.
Sundai Love (Twitter)
I loved the idea of an African-American girl playing the Yellow Ranger because Luka had swag and attitude and Sundai (from her picture layouts) looks like she is sassy and can work that ‘tude! Luka was bad-ass, beautiful and one of the strongest female Rangers I have seen. I can see that confidence in Sundai’s eyes.
Brandon Perea (Twitter)
Brandon is just adorable and looks like he has a goofy side. I remember thinking the same thing about Hector David Jr and of course we’ve all seen what sort of goofy and fun side Mike has. Don was the silly one, the one who was looked down upon by even the Villains but he ends up to be quite powerful and reliable. A goof-ball and the comic relief, it looks like Brandon can pull that off.
Baylee Curran (Twitter)
Ahim was demure, princess-like and always proper. Baylee looks like she can pull that mannerism off very well. Even from her pictures she looks like a Pink Ranger and I can already see the princess-like and feminine wiles that this Pink Ranger needs.
To conclude, when I place these headshots close together the team is very diverse, but they look as if they could make a team. The Gokaigers all had very different personalities and if we are going to copy Gokaiger as we did Shinkenger I believe that these actors have the right look for the team. Like I said, If you think so send them a tweet or a follow and let them know!
Stay Tuned, I will report when the Cast has been Officially announced!
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I think they should bring back 5 good rangers from the past series and put them together but have different colors (once a ranger always a ranger)
Are these people that actually auditioned or what? Sundai was on America’s Next Top Model cycle 13. So i got really excited… Now that we know its Goseiger this post is old but I think it could still work with Sundai as the yellow ranger. She could be either Aisha’s daughter!!!! YAY
Sundai will make a great Yellow Ranger but I still don’t think Gokaiger is the next season Saban Brands will let us know as time reveals.
you know i would make Seth Austin the Blue Ranger and get Blake Anthony Foster and make him the Red Ranger, would be awesome to have Justin a ranger again and this time as the Leader.
Yeah but Justin doesn’t match the mannerisms of Marvelous, remember they still have to match those!
Your info is kinda off… Samurai and Super Samurai were planned to be split into 2 seasons from the end of 2010. They started casting for then new season once filming for Super Samurai had ended, based on Goseiger. Then they held off auditions to save money, make more plans and expand casting for the anniversary because their plans had changed. They’re now still casting for the Goseiger colours, while using Gokaiger scripts – in order to puzzle people and keep the different in Black and Green rangers a secret, even from auditionees.
Thanks for the info! I guess I’m explaining from the puzzled person perspective
I agree with Craig E on this I Samurai was 18 and Super Samurai is 19 MMPR 2.0 was a stinker and I didn’t like the comic special effects at all I like Samurai and Super Samurai.
I absolutely LOVE these picks. While I don’t always expect PR to follow character personalities from Sentai, it seems like it would work with this season.
I swear, I’ve thought long and hard about how PR could do Gokaiger considering there are so many pre-MMPR teams and suits and it just seems feasible that they would just say there were rangers before MMPR, maybe in another dimension (considering in PRMF, Rita turned into a good witch rather than human). So, for Goseiger, those could be rangers from another dimension/time line.
In short, I would just like the Gokaiger adaptation to do something along the lines of time/dimension travel just so they could better tie together the storyline.