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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

If PR is going to stay relevant, I think it needs to become its own thing, while ideally still preserving the things that made it a success to begin with.

Thing is, it is still relevant. Is it mind-blowingly popular by any means outside of MMPR? No, but the franchise itself is still very popular with its target demographic, and if you mention Power Rangers to anyone older, they're still going to have an idea of what you're talking about. Heck, the 2017 movie was a total flop, but a ton of people still saw it. If it weren't still relevant, the franchise would not have gotten the various expansions that it has over the years.

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Could be. It's particularly interesting that the press release points out that Entwistle will head the "non-kids" iterations and that there will be kid-focused iterations as well. Maybe "traditional" PR will live on as the kid-focused show and the animated show(s) will be for older audiences?

This would be nice. Having both things co-exist would be alot better than one happening at the cost of the other.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

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.

Those are all fair points. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, I suppose.