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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Thing is(and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think Sentai really has ever cared about how easily it can be turned into PR? Granted, I'm not a Sentai expert by any stretch, but from what I have seen it seems they just sorta do whatever without really caring about foreign context. Heck, I recall and interview where it was stated that any of the PR references in Gokaiger were basically incidental.

Gokaiger aired in 2011 -- ie it was produced in the very very specific time when Power Rangers just didn't exist; when Disney had effectively cancelled it and no-one picked it up. Naturally Toei wasn't going to go about making specific scenes for a dead franchise they no longer had a deal with.

Otherwise, I'm hardly going to go about pointing out specific things - Sentai isn't my strongest point in tokusatsu and I don't really care about PR if it isn't RPM, decent comics, nice Sentai figures or a sick fighting game people are sleeping way too hard on - but if you're in this sort of partnership deal where the shows you make are going to be used by the company you're in a deal with to make their own show? You're probably going to make certain decisions in how you film things, take into account restrictions of the other company's target audience, even the entire premise from the get-go given that this adapted show is a toy commercial. Hell, I believe that for Magiranger they even done their shooting in New Zealand.

It's pretty clear after the deal went away things started getting more experimental with more creative control that would make things difficult to adapt between a show with heavy Japanese iconography in every frame, a 35th anniversary which heavily used suits from before Zyuranger, and a show like Go-Busters which went out of its way to go against the format and formula of the franchise up till that point as much as it could. But then from then on you get much more standard, easily adaptable seasons like Kyoryuger, Ninninger; and then Kyuranger which we know Bandai of America had a hand in creating. But then very recently you suddenly get stuff like Lupat which once again is much more experimental and difficult to adapt... I'm just saying, there's some interesting patterns going on there.