[FairyKing]

I've noticed a shift in how the monster-of-the-week suits work. In a lot of Showa and Heisei seasons, it looks like each monster is a whole new suit, though often with parts kitbashed from previous monsters in the same season. But in a few Heisei and every Reiwa season so far, the monster suits seem to be more modular:

- Ghost and Saber use one generic lower half suit for all the monsters and combine it with unique upper halves (which a lot of recent Sentai seem to be doing too).

- Build, Revice and Gavv do something similar but with multiple different lower halves, and Build even mixed-and-matched them, using a repainted upper half and a different lower half to make a new version of the same monster.

- Zero-One and Gotchard use a whole generic base suit for all their monsters, not just a lower half, and makes them unique by adding different heads, weapons and various other attachments.

- Geats mixes the methods, using a base suit with attachments (in this case clothes) for the pawn Jyamato, and a lower half with unique upper halves for the advanced Jyamato.

What are people's thoughts on this? Personally I have mixed feelings, sometimes it comes across as cheap and lazy (though I don't know what it's like behind-the-scenes, modular suits might take more effort than I realize), but other times I find it's really good for giving the monsters a unified aesthetic.