The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Diane E. Levin & nancy Carlsson-Paige, pg 359-366

Recap: Saben Productions has the top selling toy line with the Power Rangers characters. Violence has been around in children’s television shows for a long time. Even from the older cartoons there was violence established in them. Teachers have express concerns over the affect of the Power Rangers on grade school students increasing the amount of violence that was seen before they existed. Many children wondered if they were real or pretend. So many children acted out trying to be Power Rangers. With the large quantity of violent acts per show it was giving children the wrong idea of how to act and develop. Teachers are having to work to deal with the increased violence and to start developing class room guides to deal with the affects of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Comment: I can recall when the Power Rangers came out. There were a lot of Martial Art movies in the market place and children were getting into the idea of exploring the world of Martial Arts. Being that this character concept is from Japan poses an interesting question. It isn’t just America with the problem of violence geared towards children. How we deal with it and learn to grow around it will tell us a lot about how our society will grow in the future.