[macblo]

As I've been watching old sentai, I've noticed a lot of things different between sentai then and sentai now. One of those things is the lack of children in Sentai nowadays. Watching Kakuranger, I've seen more children in the first 15 episodes or so then I've seen in the entirety of say...Ninninger.

While I'm pretty indifferent to this, it does raise a question. Is there a reason why children don't really appear anymore? or does the amount of children, or one off characters in general, that appear in a show just vary based on the writer? Maybe its because more recent Sentai care more about plot then older Sentai?