So the whole thing about doing weird reshoots instead just dubbing the show or producing an actual new show based on the same concept, maybe it started out as a way of making the thing more marketable... But it went on for 30 years and bizarrely enough other studios did the same basic thing with other Toku shows, long after nobody should think it matters that the characters clearly aren't Americans and long after Power Rangers had supposedly proven the concept of a Toku show had value on American TV...

... I have to ask... Is it a tax loophole or something? Like, did some accountant look into tax laws and funding alternatives, then ended up making the conclusion that it was somehow cheaper to do the reshoots thing instead of just dubbing if they pulled the right strings? I can't really imagine why else this nonsense approach would refuse to die, from my point of view it seems like most studios would eventually declare that shit futile if there was no direct monetary benefit from doing it like that.