[Layton13]

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Originally Posted by dreamcastegirl

Gosh, this is some really sad news. It makes me feel that I should buy some Kiramager toys (though, of course, I'm not, that stuff is expensive, she said, cradling pointless idol merchandise that she paid far too much money for).

It surprises me that things are going so badly for them. I guess I always assumed that the brand was too big to fail. Certainly, whenever I see the stuff in toy shops, there's so much of it that I assume it must be doing well, whereas, by comparison, smaller toku franchises like the Girls x Heroine stuff take up far less space on shelves and have far fewer lines, which I personally think is sad, but that's me.

I can give you the numbers so you can look at it in context.

https://www.reddit.com/r/supersentai...ith_kiramager/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KamenRider/...ed_with_saber/

I actually think the "Too big to fail" argument is kinda a reason why it's dying. A fail to modernize, change with the time. Which kinda leads into the "Rider is becoming more like Sentai" thing. Riders is a franchise that's far more willing to try something new out. Which helps that the only thing that really needs to be followed for a Rider show is the "Cross of Fire" concept and the 3 major design concepts of Rider, big, bug-like eyes, a gem or object on the forehead, for example, Saber mostly uses the swords for that and a horn or something standing up from the head.

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I mean, we each have different opinions, but if you'd shown me that first episode of Saber without the credits and asked me what it was, I would told you with the utmost conviction that it was a new sentai show.

I personally think it's very similar to Ex-Aid's first episode, with a newbie gaining the power of a Driver, while having an unknown connection to the threat with a fight and victory against the first monster which also grows giant during the fight. Minus the mook fight in Ex-Aid and the order of the monster growing giant, the two episodes are very similar.