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Originally Posted by Kurona

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.

--SNIP--

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.

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.