i love denziman and battle fever j

Super Sentai has existed longer than modern gaming.

If Shotaro Ishimori was still alive, What would he think of Recent Super Sentai?

I think he would probably HATED it because Recent one doesn't have a same flavor as Old-School Super Sentai, He might feel Recent lost the spirit of Super Sentai due of Toei Executive doesn't understand the concept of team and they always give everything to Red Ranger but not his teammate

I heard Takeshi Sasaki was criticized the actor who played New Kamen Riders because he doesn't like it I guess

BTW, I am not disrespect him. I just think of what would he think of it!

From what I remember, he didn't have much to do any of the Super Sentai shows after JAKQ and his Super Sentai shows didn't become apart of the Sentai official line up until 1995. I doubt he will care much about on the modern Super Sentai. It won't surprise me if he didn't watch any of the Super Sentai from 1979 - 1997 seeing what happen with JAKQ.

And Toei couldn't care less. You aren't the target audience, get over it.

Could the hour time change someday ?

Have the super sentai summer movies become a joke lately or was it always because I never seemed to enjoy one in awhile or maybe forever?

Well I wouldn't quite say I don't enjoy them but they're always extremely forgettable to me. The earliest one I've seen is Magiranger's, and it wasn't any better than the more recent ones.

battle fever j got 1st giant robo
i lover giant robos right after battle fever j

Probably Kamen Rider sells better for them. Super Sentai is always a series for kids. Japan can get away with more content than what is allow on American TV. Having older fans tune in to watch the show does help ratings and toy sales, but kids are always the main audience for Super Sentai.

They could take a break with the SS ?

I doubt it as long if toys sell well. I think the low ratings over the years is likely with less people watching TV and Japan's low birth rates recently too. The older fans probably move on too.

no way - i like toei 's ss - no ss and mean no ss footage for saban 's pr

...And no PR too.

If Super Sentai did end, I can see Saban paying Toei to make original suits and footage for them.

What you mean with low birth rates ?

I have heard about for well over a decade is that Japans population as a whole has been shrinking for decades and less people are having kids. Less kids means less kids watching the shows and buying toys.

Ah, the low birth rate - that's a gold point.

People have DVR and the Internet, so people who don't wake up early can probably record episodes or find them on the web later. Merchandise sales are always the biggest thing for action kids shows. Both live action and animated shows in general.

What you mean with gold point ?

I just finished Ohranger. While I thought the season was, at best, just OK, there were some things that I really liked about it. Specifically Hysteria, the machine queen.

While Riki was my favorite character in the show, he was one of the few characters I actually gave a damn about, I think she's by far the best character. Her arc, while quite subtle given that no episode specifically focuses on it, was one of the most interesting things in the entire show. To see such a cold heart woman transform so drastically by the end was actually quite amazing.

Could the hour time affect the audience somehow ?

Depends. How many Japanese adults are interested in getting up at 6:00 in the morning to watch a children's TV show? If I recall correctly, sundays are also one of the few days off they have.

While it's impossible to disagree with you on this, I honestly wonder how long Toei can afford to ignore older audiences. It's not hard to make an argument based on recent series' ratings and toy sales data that these extremely child-centric series perform increasingly poorly every year.

The only show that I think has been a ratings success over the last 6 years is Gokaiger, a show largely geared toward the nostalgia of older fans.

Between the low sales of ToQ/Ninnin/Zyuoh, the plunging ratings of every series since Go-Busters, and the declining birthrate in Japan, Toei will probably be forced to at least try a series aimed at an all-ages demographic, closer in spirit to the Sentai of yore (or Kamen Rider of present), within the next few years.

It's either that or allow the series to become gradually less profitable until they're forced to cancel...

I agree! Hysteria does become a surprisingly well-rounded character toward the end of the series, and she's certainly the only member of the Baranoia Empire that demonstrates any real depth.

Was it? I thought Gokaiger fell victim to the same ratings decline as every other recent Sentai series.

We had the Sunday morning time slot for years. Kids are off from school on Sundays. We did had the shows air on Fridays in the 90's before Megaranger from what I can remember.

The target demographic becoming so small that they're forced to make something aimed at all ages? It's terrifying to think that might not be an over exaggeration. I heard that there are more pets in Japan then children.

Side note: If I recall correctly, Gokaiger's toy sales were really good.

Mmm... possibly. I've attached to this post a chart of the ratings for the 10 most recent series.

Gokaiger's average rating was 5.0%, which was slightly lower than the four previous series, but still fell within reasonable boundaries for Sentai at the time. Gokai's ratings were about the same as Go-Onger's. Geki-through-Gokai's ratings vacillated, but all had averages within 5-6%.

With Go-Busters, we saw almost a full percentage point dip in the average rating share, to 4.1%. That was by far the most drastic change in 6 years. The ratings have declined every year since, and they've never rebounded.

Zyuohger currently has an average of 3.6%, which is the lowest rating in Sentai history.

Regardless of the (many) causes of the ratings decline, Toei needs to do something drastic if they hope to stanch the bleeding of viewers. One way to do that (though admittedly not the only way) would be to experiment with inviting older audiences back to the table... because alienating them with increasingly childish series clearly hasn't helped.

Which super sentai series was just straight garbage like no plot at all/a plot that didn't even make sense and too much comedy in it.

Oh, this should be good.

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Well I'm a quarter done with Carranger and it's like 100% comedy and 0% plot so I guess it's pretty garbage. :p

Blasphemy. THE POWER OF ALL 40 SENTAI TEAMS COMPELS YOU!

Being a comedy series is only bad if your jokes and gags aren't funny.

I dunno man, Green Racer episodes had me rolling on the floor majority of the time and Red Racer is still to this day my favorite idiot leader.
Plus they saved super sentai during their heydays apparently when Ohranger almost diminished it the year before due to unfortunate circumstances so not only did they save the Earth circa 1996 but the franchise as well.
I admit some of the jokes can be dumb, but again the incompetence of Red Racer and Green Racer is where the true comedy lies on the show.

Oh, my apologies, I wasn't making any comment on Carranger in particular, not having seen it, more just a general statement about... well, any form of media.

No offenses taken here. :)
Just a shame that there still are folks who have not seen it yet.
But yeah Red Racer and Green Racer really sells the show though all five have their moments of glory here and there.

I don't suppose anyone has subbed the 10 years after thing for Abaranger? I cannot find it anywhere.

You can't find it because it does not exist.

Oh... I guess that would do it huh? Thanks!

What if Toei hire designers from final fantasy ?