[Locke]

Rider seems to be doing better simply on the principle of its perceived edginess with the audience. Japan sees sentai as a more child focused show, whereas with Rider they see it as much more of a cross platform thing, that even adults can openly appreciate. It's sorta like how everyone is a fan of Batman, even if comics are seen as a platform for kids.

Whether this is actually true, is a personal thing, despite both being toku they are two very different shows that still manage to tackle very similar things. And we saw what happened when sentai tried to be more like Kamen Rider so who knows.

Ambition is part of my appreciation for Rider, and why I love it over sentai. When you hear 'fruit gimmick' for Gaim you roll your eyes and then suddenly there are like monsters, and samurais and knights and all this epic shit happens and it's just like DAMN. When it comes to a sentai, it seems to go for much more obvious themes and you pretty much know entirely what you're going to get, perhaps that is why it's hard to get excited for sentai, where something like 'trains' feels comparatively fresh, TRAINS.

I'd be really interested to see sentai tackle rings, switches, coins or USB sticks, just to see if they can create a show as similarly inspired as Rider did, from a seemingly uninspired gimmick.