[Layton13]

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Originally Posted by dreamcastegirl

I've heard rumours that sentai was doing badly in the toy sales department, which, to me is crazy, because it feels that every year Toei is pushing the Rider shows to ape the sentai formula more and more. Whenever I have been seen all the toys in shops, I've always been impressed with them so I would never have know that they were underperforming so.

Let's put it this way, the last show that meet expectations in the sales department was Koryuger, which was around 7 years ago. Ever since the sales have been shrinking and not been meeting expectations. In the last three years, it has gotten so bad that Sabers first quarter, one of the weakest in the last decade, probably because of the pandemic, has made more than those series in their entire run. And Kiramaiger has only brought in about 1/3 of Koryuger's earnings.

There's no way of sugarcoating it, Sentai's dying.

And I wouldn't really say Rider is becoming that much more Sentai like. Or at least, only on a superfical level.