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Oh no, someone's bailing out on Rider/Sentai. Whatever shall we do?
The new Gavan movies are V-Cinema releases though, and Sentai summer movies are very short and promoted as a sort of bonus to the Rider movie. Plus nothing like Kikaider/Gavan was released last year, and since Kamen Rider is the bigger franchise (and Gaim is doing really well in terms of toy sales) it makes more sense to piggyback off it than Sentai
They still could use the tv show to promote the V Cinema though, I don't see why that's relevant. Last year didn't have Kikaider or Gavan, but it still had Super Hero Taisen Z and the Wizard summer movie. Neither got tv tie in episodes, but this years' equivalent had those (Kamen Rider Taisen and Gaim summer movie). It's not Toei, it's Takebe.
It's relevant because a V-Cinema is "direct to video", it's not as big an event as a theatrical release (which Toei doesn't seem to have been prepared to risk after the poor performance of the Gavan revival movie.) Three tie-in episodes in one year suggests cashing in on the success of Gaim's toyline and/or part of Toei's efforts to more heavily promote the movies over the last few years.
Three tie ins in one year after one year without tie ins and one year that had one tie in. The element connecting the current year to two years ago, that was absent last year, is Takebe.
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Why would the success of the toyline matter if their intention was promotion movies through tv episodes? Their main goal would be ratings there, since more people watching the series would mean more people seeing their promotion. Higher toy sales wouldn't have any place there.
Gaim is no more darker than any other pre-Den-O rider series. Obviously Gaim screwed up the monsters of the week, but maybe Drive will fix that.
If Toei had released the Gavan movie last year I bet they'd have made Kyoryuger have the crossover episode~
So...? That movie didn't have a tie in tv episode or anything. It also had nothing to do with the New Gavan that we got afterwards.Takebe had nothing to do with Gokaiger, but we still got the Gokaiger Vs Gavan movie.
He'd have to agree to it, yes, but he wouldn't have to be the main person pushing for its production. That's where I believe Takebe fits.If producers have to agree to crossover episodes, that means Utsunomiya agreed to have one for ToQger. I am sure we'll be seeing a lot more of them in the future;
Except it did not now explain your reasoning.Absolutely, Gaim got MOTW perfect. Absolutely perfect.
Except it did not now explain your reasoning.