Hawai'i Is Also A Power Ranger

Hawaiian actor Kainalu Moya appeared as the character Titus Ioane, the brother of a victim, in Season 2, Episode 5 of "NCIS: Hawai'i," titled "Sudden Death." All the while, he was the Blue Ranger on "Power Rangers: Dino Fury," which ran for 44 episodes from 2021 to 2022. Moya told The Illuminerdi that the first episode of the "Dino Fury" series might be one of his favorite episodes. "The first episode, that one's really special to me, and that's just because we got to do a lot of my favorite things in that one, which is fighting and then morphing, and it was crazy," he said. He is slated to appear in the 2023 series "Power Rangers: Cosmic Fury" as well.

In a further example of connective tissue, the actor also appeared in a 2018 episode of the "Hawaii Five-0" reboot. Of further note, the actor appeared in two episodes of "The Villains of Valley View," playing the character of Declan on the Disney Channel show. In that show, the actor is credited as Kai Moya, which is the name he is credited on "Power Rangers: Dino Fury" as well.

In an interview with Mixed Life, Moya talked about the importance of representation in children's programming. He said, "Ultimately, it's a children's show, it's written for kids ... And it was just a great opportunity for the kids that were from, to see a Hawai'i boy with a lot of different ethnicities, doing that. Power Rangers is already really inspirational for kids, there's a lot of lessons to be learned in the episodes."