I was referring more to things like the Wedding episode, which were just plain painful to watch. The Messiah card arc had some interesting ideas, but once again had little to no pay off, beyond one remark Enter made about Escape. If they explored any of the ideas, it might have worked, but instead it just felt like they had to quickly throw something together to keep the show going.

The last four or five episodes were really good, but that was far too late for a show to finally become interesting. Everything from 31-45 felt like they were stalling for time. Ep. 46 was the highlight of the show for me, it was exactly what the series should have been more like from the beginning.

Just a bad typo, apologies :lol

Question: Are these ratings for JUST tv?

I'd think so. But maybe they do count internet traffic, some companies do. I know NBC counts television and online. Through Youtube and such. Does Toei offer Kyroyuger online the day after like with Megaforce and Hulu?

I thought it was clear Kyoryu's low ratings were due to Gobuster's abysmal ratings.
It's hard for word of mouth to spread when no one is watching it to begin with, after all :p

I wouldn't expect to see ratings improve until episode 10 or so, since that would give it ample time to pull in the viewers Gobusters lost.

Right now Nielsen (the ratings agency in the USA) does NOT track online ratings but they have announced they will start tracking those numbers officially in the next few months. And by online they mean Hulu, Youtube, Apple store and Amazon.

Yes, from what I have heard that is exactly the reason why Kyoryuger's ratings are so low. Go-Buster has scorned a lot of fans but Toku in general has had a ratings slump these past few years. It also doesn't help that Japan's birthrate has been falling like crazy so there are less and less kids watching.

Perhaps they'll need to take after Toho's book and retire the franchise for 5-10 years.
It'll be painful to not have new Sentai, but it'll let them reinvigorate the franchise with new life thanks to better ideas when it returns...

If Sentai did indeed retire for a few years, it would be interesting to see how that affects Power Rangers just when its finding its footing popularity-wise again.

I don't think we have to worry about Sentai retiring for awhile as long as the toy sales and movies continue to perform well.

Considering how far behind and slowly Power Rangers is running now, they've got material from Go-Busters and Kyoryuger to take them up through 2018 pretty safely.