Thing is(and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think Sentai really has ever cared about how easily it can be turned into PR? Granted, I'm not a Sentai expert by any stretch, but from what I have seen it seems they just sorta do whatever without really caring about foreign context. Heck, I recall and interview where it was stated that any of the PR references in Gokaiger were basically incidental.

And in terms of aesthetics, things really haven't been that bad. The only one that even sort of has an issue is ToQger, and mainly because trains aren't a huge thing in the US. Everything else, well, it's a much more interconnected world now. Anime and other foreign concepts are way bigger than they've ever been, even when it comes to kids. So if Sentai went absolutely crazy in terms of suit design, it wouldn't be that big of a deal, I think.

I'd go on but I feel like the post would just spiral into a rant about the Toku Community, so I'll spare everyone that.

Pretty much all of this would be the absolute best case scenario for the franchise, IMO. Do what Saban did during their second Era; expand the franchise into multiple areas while still keeping the main show and its idea around. Seriously, they don't get enough credit for all they dd during the Neo-Saban Era in terms of expanding the brand.

I Get the feeling the reason why A LOT Of shows in Sentai have been Kyoryuger but with Trains/Ninjas/Knights or Kyoryuget in Space esc is because they're easy for Saban/Hasbron to adapt Finally they can try new shows again also that was Saban not Hasbro

TBH, as much as Sentai is my favorite thing in the world, I always thought there was an tension between what PR wanted to be and what the Toei footage forced it to be. Sometimes, that tension worked to the show's advantage, but most often, it made the show extremely disjointed and unpleasant to watch.

If PR is going to stay relevant, I think it needs to become its own thing, while ideally still preserving the things that made it a success to begin with.

I think it's important to note that Entwistle mentions bringing the show's "spirit of analog into the future." This implies to me that he gets the show's identity and knows what makes it cool -- i.e., the analog/practical effects and man-in-suit fighting. Fingers crossed he's able to preserve the show's full identity and appeal while tailoring it for an older, more modern US audience.

It is full-blown insanity to think that stunts and fights would ever be better in a Hasbro-original. :lol

Sentai has some of the best and most consistent fight/stunt choreography in any country, in any medium, flat out.

These imagined improvements are not only unlikely, they're based in a fantasy world where an average weekly Sentai fight isn't already better than literally all Marvel/DC movie fight scenes put together.

Could be. It's particularly interesting that the press release points out that Entwistle will head the "non-kids" iterations and that there will be kid-focused iterations as well. Maybe "traditional" PR will live on as the kid-focused show and the animated show(s) will be for older audiences?

Or maybe there will be original live action shows and the cartoon will be for kids. Who knows at this point?

It will be refreshing to have someone tied to the franchise that isn't, you know, an objectively terrible writer. It might make me care about Power Rangers as more than just watered-down, off-brand Super Sentai... or, actually, care about Power Rangers at all, which is something I haven't done since about 1998. :lol

Gokaiger aired in 2011 -- ie it was produced in the very very specific time when Power Rangers just didn't exist; when Disney had effectively cancelled it and no-one picked it up. Naturally Toei wasn't going to go about making specific scenes for a dead franchise they no longer had a deal with.

Otherwise, I'm hardly going to go about pointing out specific things - Sentai isn't my strongest point in tokusatsu and I don't really care about PR if it isn't RPM, decent comics, nice Sentai figures or a sick fighting game people are sleeping way too hard on - but if you're in this sort of partnership deal where the shows you make are going to be used by the company you're in a deal with to make their own show? You're probably going to make certain decisions in how you film things, take into account restrictions of the other company's target audience, even the entire premise from the get-go given that this adapted show is a toy commercial. Hell, I believe that for Magiranger they even done their shooting in New Zealand.

It's pretty clear after the deal went away things started getting more experimental with more creative control that would make things difficult to adapt between a show with heavy Japanese iconography in every frame, a 35th anniversary which heavily used suits from before Zyuranger, and a show like Go-Busters which went out of its way to go against the format and formula of the franchise up till that point as much as it could. But then from then on you get much more standard, easily adaptable seasons like Kyoryuger, Ninninger; and then Kyuranger which we know Bandai of America had a hand in creating. But then very recently you suddenly get stuff like Lupat which once again is much more experimental and difficult to adapt... I'm just saying, there's some interesting patterns going on there.

Thing is, it is still relevant. Is it mind-blowingly popular by any means outside of MMPR? No, but the franchise itself is still very popular with its target demographic, and if you mention Power Rangers to anyone older, they're still going to have an idea of what you're talking about. Heck, the 2017 movie was a total flop, but a ton of people still saw it. If it weren't still relevant, the franchise would not have gotten the various expansions that it has over the years.

This would be nice. Having both things co-exist would be alot better than one happening at the cost of the other.

Those are all fair points. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, I suppose.

The more I look up this guy's work the funnier this article gets.

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As I understand it, Toei never particularly cared about catering to Power Rangers. Bandai suuuper did, though, so the suit/mech designs and toy concepts, which Bandai was in charge of, were absolutely geared toward a more Global audience. But the writers and producers of the show at Toei pretty much always did their own thing.

When Saban got the show back, and it became clear they were going to stretch a PR season over two years, Bandai started doing a "one for them, one for us" kind of thing.

So we have Kyoryuger, which is very PR friendly. Followed by ToQger, which is... not. Then Ninninger, which is totally PR friendly. Then Zyuohger, which, again, is not. Then Kyuranger, which BoA actively had a hand in designing. Followed by Lupato, which is a wild formal experiment with designs that wouldn't translate in the US. And then finally, Ryusoulger, which really couldn't be more PR-friendly.

Not until AFTER we get Kyuranger adapted first, like it should’ve been INSTEAD of Ryusoulger!

The IP is definitely still relevant and valuable. Everyone knows what Power Rangers is as a brand.

But look at Beast Morphers. As I understand it, both the toy sales and ratings are in toilet. Clearly, that show isn’t working, despite fans seeming to like it.

Now, look at the Boom comics. They’re telling their own stories, which are rooted in nostalgia but not beholden to Sentai, and they’re a huge hit. And the Lightning Collection figures for Drakon and Ranger Slayer fly off the shelves.

If you’re Hasbro, and you see that “traditional” PR adaptations of Sentai shows aren’t profitable, while the original Boom comics and Lightning Collection toys are, I think there’s a pretty clear road sign pointing you to where the money is. Ultimately, tradition comes in second to profits. A company like Hasbro, that spent billions to own PR, aren’t going to leave money on the table just because a minority of fans care about new Sentai adaptations.

TBH, I think a lot of the future is still up in the air, and whether the traditional PR adaptations of Sentai live or die will depend on the success of Dino Fury. But just going off of what’s successful now, and what isn’t, the PR-Sentai union is not looking good.

It's been a grand total of one show, and Go-Busters wasn't exactly a huge hit either. Hardly anything decisive. We've had seasons with low ratings before(PROO, SMF), and the most that happened was budget changes.

They are also very different markets. The show is still catered towards 10-year olds, whereas all of the other aspects of the franchise, the Lightning Collection included, is catered towards an older audience and those who grew up with the franchise.

I hardly think that Beast Morphers being not quite the success as some other seasons is going to make Hasbro go "Ah yes, clearly the answer is to cut Toei and cater towards adults!"

Which, by the way? The those successful comics and figures? Guess what they're still tied to? Sentai.

It's hardly a minority opinion either: This rumor has gotten many fans arguing every which way, to the point I wouldn't be surprised if Hasbro spread the rumor themselves just to "test the waters" so to speak. But that could just be me being a conspiracy nut for the first time ever.