[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

Was it? I thought Gokaiger fell victim to the same ratings decline as every other recent Sentai series.

Mmm... possibly. I've attached to this post a chart of the ratings for the 10 most recent series.

Gokaiger's average rating was 5.0%, which was slightly lower than the four previous series, but still fell within reasonable boundaries for Sentai at the time. Gokai's ratings were about the same as Go-Onger's. Geki-through-Gokai's ratings vacillated, but all had averages within 5-6%.

With Go-Busters, we saw almost a full percentage point dip in the average rating share, to 4.1%. That was by far the most drastic change in 6 years. The ratings have declined every year since, and they've never rebounded.

Zyuohger currently has an average of 3.6%, which is the lowest rating in Sentai history.

Regardless of the (many) causes of the ratings decline, Toei needs to do something drastic if they hope to stanch the bleeding of viewers. One way to do that (though admittedly not the only way) would be to experiment with inviting older audiences back to the table... because alienating them with increasingly childish series clearly hasn't helped.