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Why do you assume they really wanted to? They certainly could have if they tried hard enough. As I said:
If Toei could get the main Hibiki and Den-O casts back for Decade, I am very skeptical of the idea that they couldn't obtain the stars of all nine previous Heisei shows and do a proper anniversary treat.
Toei brought the Den-O cast back... but not the actual Ryotaro and even Zeronos' actor only appeared for a cameo in the Den-O movie, not Decade itself.
Yes, they can bring back the less notable actors, but their ability to bring back everyone, especially at a moment that fit with the timing of the production, is doubtful.
Toei's recent magical girl franchise, Pretty Cure, started having crossover movies between multiple series... and Toei does bring everyone back, multiple complete teams. However, that's an anime, which only has VAs. I'm pretty sure that, if it were just as easy to gather the actors, they'd have done it once at least. Even with Decade's current set up, that would have been possible in the series finale, All Riders, or even Movie Wars.
****, they even had Seto Koji as Kurenai Wataru in the very first god damn episode of the series. Hence why I still frown upon the Kiva World episodes to this day BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAD THE ORIGINAL KIVA IN FRONT OF YOU!!!!
The premise was about Decade traveling around in alternate worlds. They could have featured the original actor in that episode, and it'd probably have been pretty easy, but it'd be just inconsistent from a creative standpoint.
Really, if they HAD brought him back, people would be accusing Toei of acting like the audience was stupid and wouldn't notice that almost everyone but the newest Rider had been recasted.
AU Wataru probably ended up as a kid just to make it completely clear to any members of the audience that it wasn't the original continuity. People had just watched Kiva, after all.
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