Our Wonder Bread heros are not just turning Japanese, they're becoming altered beings in a parallel aesthetic realm, with its own internal logic, myths, and ethics. And maybe their audience is somehow transforming too. But the Power Rangers craze dwarfs these fandoms. But they're also the grand-children of the men who dropped the atomic bomb that contributed heavily to the anxieties that fuel Japanese monster media in the first place. Not to mention that they're almost certainly watching their heros on Japanese TVs.
Nothing is innocent here.
Look at the monsters, the robots, the martial art. But most of her foamy and lumbering monsters look less like devils than refugees from Ronald McDonald Land. These beings are monstrous not only because they don't make any sense, but because their repulsive qualities are partially composed of goofy cuteness. When the Power Rangers attack these creatures, they don't just use their bodies as weapons, but as magical weapons. The intensely kinetic choreography of the Ranger's violence, as well as the show's own repetitive structure, is not just theater.