[GreenPsychoRanger]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Oh, probably. I'm sure they also have a lot of unused concepts sitting around that they considered at one point and then passed on.

And yeah, the head producer and writers do most of the decision making on plot and characters. Toei/Bandai usually seem to dictate the general theme and designs. Plans usually aren't set in stone from day one, though, and the shows are definitely not fully mapped out in advance. Sometimes that works out well, like when Date ended up staying around much longer than planned in OOO. Sometimes it doesn't, like when Wizard wanted to add three more Riders very late in the show's run and had to reuse mook costumes from the movie because there was no budget for all-new suits.

Take Ryuki for example. The Rider's with the colored under-suits (Ryuki, Knight, and Zolda) were meant to be the focuses of the series, the only long running characters. But the audience/viewers loved Ouja as a villain so he ended up being a long running character anyways.