[Librarian]

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Originally Posted by Aoi Kurenai

I would say Sentai is "suffering". It hasn't hit sales projections for four years in a row. LuPat will almost definitely be the least successful Sentai toy line ever. I don't know why people ignore these things and say everything is fine.

Bandai has ownership stakes in Toei and the Sentai brand, so Toei literally can't use any other manufacturer less they buy out Bandai's shares, which probably won't happen.

I say it's fine because I'm more aware of the finances, and markets than most. As well as other factors that keep them all afloat.

BoJ only has that in Japan. Worldwide markets are a different factor. As we're literally seeing with how Hasbro has PR control in other markets now, and how the brand itself broadened out for a bit in the states with imaginext and Mega Construx. Toei revenues come from wider sources than you're realizing or mentioning as it pertains to sentai.

These aren't factors being ignored, but 'internet people' that scream "the sky is falling, the sky is falling!" really are silly. BoJ is far more accommodating than you're really giving them credit for, and you're really not looking at bigger pictures either, or wider market. As well as how more involved the revenue draws Sentai creates for both Toei and BoJ are.

So yeah, "struggling" is a far reach. They are fine. Bottom lines aren't anywhere as impacted as much as you think they are. Though part of that in the Japanese market has to do with low birth rates too, and other factors. But the global marketing has actually increased revenue amounts more than you realize. Like how the market has grown with South Korea and other areas. Which is sales data you're not seeing in those assessments. Same as you're not seeing other side market data like game sales and more.

If the bottom line actively was getting impacted, I'd be the first to mention that as a concern. But that's actively not as much of a concern as people seem to think, especially as ratings have been increasing in the audience reach, besides wider licensing opportunities and wider markets.

That sales data you're seeing is only one fraction of the larger pie. And even then, you're still not seeing all the numbers or other factors too. So yeah, everything is fine. Revenues are coming in from more than only toy sales in Japan(and even that is data that's got other factors involved too you won't see in it per the market itself and how that data is gathered).

The revenue flows sentai gets are sustaining it fine. No one is going to cut BoJ out of it. There's no need to "buy bandai out of it" or anything like that. That's even sillier talk.

If the sky was falling, or BoJ was actively pissed and threatening to end it, or anything like that, then why would they do such a blatant "welcome to the family" type of throwback show for Hasbro with so many Hasbro inspired influences?

BoJ and Toei are much more open and co-operative than people really seem to want to give them credit for. As well as have much more open views to how to gain market share than they get credit for as well. They aren't some spiteful jealous corporate entity like how many fans seem to want to think they are. They are forward thinkers and are always a step ahead and very welcoming.

So nah, I'm not actively worried about "sentai struggling". That's laughable. Outright so. Something only the gullible would believe. Those accounts haven't even been dented tbh. So it's more laughable than even I'm saying.

BoJ and Toei have a lot of "false images" that fans have made up about them that it's quite sad on how misunderstood they are and the lack of intelligence out there. More and more proof literally is rubbed in the English speaking's fanbase's face about that, even to the point of outright mocking them for how much they think they know, and it keeps going right over their head every time. Even I'm facepalming over it now, pretty sure BoJ and Toei are too.