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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

Wait, wait, wait. I haven't seen Gozyuger but they really just fired one of the Rangers for underage drinking?

Yep.

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Originally Posted by DaikaijuSokogeki01

I wouldn't count on that at all. Toei has not gone scorched earth for a main actor like this since Bioman. Mika Yajima, the original Yellow Four, has NEVER done a public meet up with the rest of the cast. She pretty much vanished off the face of the earth. If they're going out of their way to delete her from existence in episodes they've already filmed, her career with Toei is finished. The only hope she has now is if someone like Sakamoto will be willing to work with her again on an independent project, and she will probably have to work under a pseudonym at that.

Yajima was a different case though. The agency didn't drop her, she dropped them and just stopped showing up. From what I heard, Ota's (Takasugi's actor) the only one who's seen her since. Any contractor will see that behavior as a permanent liability, whereas it will be literally impossible for Imamori to repeat her faux pas in 4 months. Of course, it's true that the fact she did it at all will surely work against her.

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Bunshun has been hounding her for so long and, whatever the validity of the accusations thrown against her, I can't help but feel like her agency and Toei is just throwing her under the bus to cover for themselves from all these purported scandals.

What could Toei even do though? The agency dropped their talent, so the contract between Toei and Imamori was rendered null and void. The other Gozyuger actors are probably obliged to stay quiet about it right now, but I'm curious to hear their opinions once the show is over.

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Originally Posted by GreenPsychoRanger

From what I've been hearing, they've pretty much wrapped up filming for the series proper already, since they started filming early like with Gavv and Zeztz. All that's left are the VS movie, V-Cins, and Stage shows, all of which Maya will not be appearing in. So everything that's happening right now, is happening right now. And there is either going to be a lot of money spent on post-production edits to remove all of her civilian scenes and dubbing over her suit scenes, or they're going to spend a lot of money to recast/replace her, and edit them into her place throughout the rest of the series.

Considering how Gozyu Unicorn has also been removed from publicity, it looks like Toei and TV Asahi are now making an effort to disassociate the hero from the character Sumino, which suggests that they intend to give the hero a new identity in a new user.