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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

That's just Japanese story telling in general. They forget to answer the questions they made and instead, leave a series off with even more questions and very little answers. It is one of the things I really hate about anime/movies/toku/manga, especially when they know how long a series is going to run and yet they still cannot get an ending given. I mean, it isn't like Kamen Rider or Sentai is just going to abruptly end its newest show at 30 episodes, so an ending should be planned out when the show is just starting, NOT 3 weeks before it needs to air.

We don't ever really agree on anything but on this, I agree one thousand percent.

They have no fear from the axe man, they simply have fifty episodes to tell their story, so then why is it, despite this fact, that the shows are always so poorly planned out?

Rushed anti-climactic messes in the last ten episodes. That middle section where the show starts to drag and meander waiting for a secondary Rider to come pick the show up. The amount of shows that introduce a mythology in the first ten episodes and then spend the next forty episodes contradicting it and so on.

Toku shows should be, all things considered, the tightest of the tight when it comes to visual storytelling and yet in many ways they are some of the worst. I've seen American shows run for almost a decade, spend every season terrified of being cancelled at any moment, and yet still managing to be better paced and consistent than most toku shows.