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Originally Posted by Byg42

While that does get into how Hasbro buyout of Power Rangers affected the commercial aspect of Sentai, I think this interview with Shirakura shines light on the creative issues that Sentai has been having.
https://archive.ph/N1ZcY

It's kind of a shame an interview like this is doomed to get boiled down to a few particular factoids that'll be spread around, because that whole conversation is full of some pretty deep insights that are interesting way beyond just what they tell us about the decision to give the Super Sentai brand a rest.

That anecdote about Zyuranger is especially fascinating to me. Shirakura explicitly mentions how the chief producer Takeyuki Suzuki, after about a decade straight of fulfilling that role on Sentai, had ended up at a point where he saw the overall format as immutable enough to leap right over the question of what kind of show they wanted to make that year, but he also specifically mentions "the writer" being the one to speak up about how messed up that is. He doesn't mention him by name, but if first-time Sentai writer Noboru Sugimura was the guy in the room willing to be vocally upset about that, it really does perfectly encapsulate the broader points Shirakura is making elsewhere in the interview about stuff like how he thinks 10 years would be a good amount of time to wait to bring Sentai back, and how important it is to get new blood in there to create properly new shows.