[BlueBuster116]

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Originally Posted by smt1923

You aren't. You're just sharing your opinion, and while that is a good idea, I hardly think they'd do that for the 40th anniversary. After all, the past 15 years since Gaoranger have gone with a certain pattern for seasons, and while that would be good for a later season, it probably won't be that. Why fix what isn't broken?

As for the ideas, I don't think they'd go over that well with the audience in Japan these days. Most of those ideas (most, not all) were used in Go-Busters, and we all know what a bust that season was. We may have liked it, but Japan sure didn't. It tried be like the classic Sentai, but its ratings and toy sales bombed. Badly.

I'm not trying to derail your ideas. I'm simply saying they wouldn't work for an anniversary season, especially with the trend they've been going with since Hurricanger. I could see them bringing back eyecatches, but kids like all that magic, supernatural, outer space stuff. Again, not saying it isn't a good idea. I'm simply saying it's just not a good idea for a 40th anniversary.

Sure, i have to agree with that, it is very unlikely that they would want to move away from what they been doing for a while. But you know what?, if they think that will be just fine, ultimately it will be their doom.
You mentioned something important. If is not broken why fix it?. Well they already did that when Jetman came out in the 90s, after realizing that the series had fell in a long term rut, they took immediate action, replaced a veteran writer which had worked on Sentais since its inception (Gorenger), with a new one (Toshiki Inoue) who refreshed the show, the results were clear, higher ratings and increased revenue from the sales that followed.

As such, like Toei at the time, I'm a firm believer in Marcus Lemonis 3P's (people, process and product), which ultimately is the key to have a sustainability and success on anything either is business or unrelated. I highly doubt that the ideas i mentioned would not do well, and as much as i like Go-Busters, they really tried to move away from being a Sentai (in the traditional sense, hence i dont see them as a classic homage) and by doing that plus other factors that came to play (which are too lengthy to explain on details) became its demise. I commend them to break the mold but the timing was not adequate.

Sure, all kinds of feedback are welcomed. Much like reading yours, its interesting. I kind like the motif that you propose and as well the coins idea is good. But as a suggestion, doing an anniversary edition is more than just bringing up older teams with their costumes to be shown like puppets or replicas, it should be a homage to represent what they fought for and their spirit as a whole passed to the next team, much like what Gokaiger did with the 'Greater power' concept and as an extension to this i think Sevenlima read my mind with "they should bring back the same sense of justice of the 80s and 90s", because that's the key.

Okay, going back to earth-based or tech Sentais. is really magic, nature or supernatural the only things kids in Japan find appealing these days?. i am skeptic as this reason falls in a very subjective aspect, unless there is empirical data to support these claims (but it cant as taste and empathy are unstable depending of human conscience and they cannot be modeled even using the most complex differential equations or Runge-kutta). So to put things in a straight and layman terms, if something is done right there should be no problem with its adaptation.

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Originally Posted by Red5

Is was is used for sentai any sillier than a fruit-themed samurai, donut-eating wizard, uber positive astronaut, or a tire-wearing cop that has a transient car and belt, all of which are loosely bug-themed? Not at all and KR kills it every year.

I think the most proper answer to this is just KR Hibiki.

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Originally Posted by smt1923

Not to mention the people wanting that are really adult and teenage Americans, where as the target audience is young and adult Japanese people.

Quite frankly, more people beyond the age and population you mentioned really want Sentais to return to its roots. Am i American? no, Am i a teenage?, i wish. Am i an adult? yes, and i really enjoyed sentais as a child, i was introduced to them first and i didn't mind if the story was dark or had a serious tone, in fact it was interesting because at the time, they did cared for building up a concept and as such it was easier for the kids to relate with something that could happen (more or less) taking out the fact that it was just fiction, but when Toei began to rely heavily in supernatural plots and out of this world solutions plus emphasizing more animation generated content, it became like something cheap and disposable. In the long term yields predictable scenarios and plots plus Kids now accustom to the idea that a deus ex machina (magic, nature, or whatever) will make things to get solved.

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Originally Posted by Red5

Sentai doesn't need to be dark, they were once dark and decided to move away from that and I think it was a good move.

Sentais always had an identity, but I disagree that it was a good move to depart from that definition. But only time will say.

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Originally Posted by Sevenlima

I was wondering how would be the sentai of the future.

If the current trend is maintained, probably something so mainstream and over goofy that even hardcore fans of today will find it hard to digest. Neither to imagine how would the kids of tomorrow be like.