Why There Is No KyoryuYellow

A yellow-colored Sentai team member had been a tradition for 26 years, starting with Flashman. The new series Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger broke that tradition, and chief producer Takahito Ohmori explained the decision behind the missing KyoryuYellow.

“This is actually not the first time a team is without a Yellow member. J.A.K.Q, Battle Fever J and Dengeki Sentai Changeman never had a Yellow member,” Ohmori said. “When it was decided that the Kyoryugers would be required to defeat a dinosaur in order to be able to transform, we wanted the characters to be absurdly strong. In order to show this, we chose to have more male characters over female characters. Seeing how modern Yellows have been female, we couldn’t have a male Yellow. If the Yellow was a male, the kids would probably think it’s feminine and we wanted to avoid that.”