There are a few other points beside that one I'd like to raise.

If I remember well (I've never been much of a SM fan), youma
are after people's
life energy, ans they usually try to get it throught somewhat
subtle means
(they're not that stupid or mindless, and are ordered around
by Beryl's generals
who are anything but stupid). The rampage usually starts when
the senshis find
out about their latest scheme. There must be somekind of
reason to explain the
way they act in US (outside Japan ?), maybe somekind of wild
ones or something.

It could be in this world, that the slow method was slow death for Beryl.
So they switched to heavier-handed tactics, and moved away from only Japan.
Higher drains, resulting in death.  And they might not even be the original
Youma, but something similar.

Another thought is, the best way to unite Humanity is to give
it a common foe,
which has been adressed somewhat with the 'alliance' between
USA and China, but
seems somewhat lacking (maybe it's just me). On the other
hand, the generals
seems smart enough to ally themselves/manipulate with some
human nations
(especially those really ressentful against US).

They haven't even tried.  They discounted the abilities of a technological
human race without substantial magic.

One last thing is that if there are report about people
fighting youmas with
unorthodox means (namely, the senshis), you can bet your ass
every and any kind
of intelligence service will investigate - I'd guess it
wouldn't take more than
a couple of months before they know the 'civil' IDs of the
senshis. Taking into
account that whatever country they're from, these agencies
don't play fair, I
would imagine two possible outcome of such a situation. Worst
case scenario,
they kidnap them in order to use them (through
brainwashing)/try to understand
and replicate their power. The outcome of such an occurence
would really be ugly.
But even if the officials do play nice (I'd imagine something
along the lines of
Ultimates' Fury 's attitude with spiderman), it could turn
dark - "We can't
afford to lose you, you must be protected when you're not
transformed..." or
"Senshi, please teleport to whatever location for the 16th
case of the week.
What do you mean you're exhausted, there are people dying out there..."

Japan, while in denial, still has enough mind left to keep a hand on the
foreign intellegence agencies.  It's not like most of them can insert agents
easily...  Besides, my guy wouldn't even know about that stuff unless it hit
the news sites.


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