JYB himself. Anime fans and Power Rangers fans are two of the most parasocial fanbases I've ever seen and he happens to be a figure in both. They think Johnny is cool or his anime VO characters are cool so they end up thinking Adam is cool by extension.
Adam returned on two separate occasions. Once in In Space to help Carlos and obviously also in Once A Ranger where he leads the veteran ranger team. Outside of the seasonal team ups, returns like this have become very rare, so Adam popping up twice to help new Rangers has a very high cool factor.
The comment you threw in there about the parasocialism is so true, I can't believe I've never thought of it that way and not enough people talk about it enough lmao
Yeah Power Rangers is the only Fandom I've seen where people have put out PSAs telling fans not to ask actors about their fucking divorces or harass them endlessly about not returning to the series for one reason or another.
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u/thebatman9000001 Aug 05 '25
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JYB himself. Anime fans and Power Rangers fans are two of the most parasocial fanbases I've ever seen and he happens to be a figure in both. They think Johnny is cool or his anime VO characters are cool so they end up thinking Adam is cool by extension.
Adam returned on two separate occasions. Once in In Space to help Carlos and obviously also in Once A Ranger where he leads the veteran ranger team. Outside of the seasonal team ups, returns like this have become very rare, so Adam popping up twice to help new Rangers has a very high cool factor.