Will Sentai Eventually Adopt the Two-Parter Format?

[FlashNeko]

As you know, one of the current differences between Sentai and Kamen Rider is that Sentai generally has a different monster every episode while Kamen Rider tends to have the monsters show up as two-part episodes.

Now, part of this is arguably to draw out the drama and threat of the monster involved but there is also a more practical reason for it. Only having to design around 25-30 (depending on reoccurring villains and minions) monster suits instead of a full 50-60 or so is probably a pretty good budget saving technique and given Sentai's recent ratings problems it's not unlikely future shows might have to consider ways such as that to save money.

So what would it mean for Sentai if they did such a thing? Would they have the monster destroyed in the first episode with the second dealing with it in giant form against the mecha? Or would they drag out the fights in other ways while also finding a way to bring up the robots in every episode?

What would it mean for how a Sentai story is told?

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

I've loved it whenever it's been done in the past. Giving a story that extra 20/30 minutes can flesh it out a ton. Though sometimes it can just become the same old formula with thin mysteries. I think it's just as easy to become stagnant with those two parters as done in ones. Zyuranger I think has more two parters than any other Sentai and it works amazingly well there. The first six episodes are all two part stories. The idea there is that the first episode deals with the Rangers going through some hardship while the second is them overcoming it and defeating the monster.

I don't know that it's ever going to become a full time thing, but I would love it. In Zyuranger I noticed that those two parters broke away from the character focus episode feel that Sentai deals with so often and they played out like a normal story that was spread out over two episodes. Though I do think doing the character focus thing in two part episodes could be an interesting idea.