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You all are grasping at straws to try and make PR much more important to the original Sentai staff when at most it's an afterthought at this point. For example, the concept of 6th rangers weren't popularized by PR for Sentai. If they had become so overwhelmingly hard to ignore then Lightspeed Rescue wouldn't have had to get PLEX to design an American only sixth ranger. Or that Gokaiger's main mechs being chosen cause they had PR adaptations, when in reality nothing suggests it. The picks were actually based on original series popularity, cast member availability, etc; series like Magiranger & Go-Onger being very popular in Japan whereas their American equivalents are not even close. RPM in particular, while very well received by a section of the fandom, is one of the most unpopular. Zyuran is also blatantly based off Geki and he doesn't exist cause of PR.

Aside from little nods and winks here and there, especially currently, Sentai staff are not worrying about how PR is gonna have to deal with adaptation. Notably, no one mentioned the one exact time that the US team had actual active involvement in Sentai and that was Kyuranger's designs which PR promptly ignored for years and never ended up using. Even way back when MMPR was super popular, Sentai producers never once thought of going back to Zyuranger instead only offering to make exclusive new footage for America of more Zyuranger material.

I get people are sad about PR dying a slow, pathetic death but let's not delude ourselves here.