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I'm finding aspect of this conversation dumb because while anime has been rising in popularity for much of the past decade (and so), there was also something else that had gained traction throughout the 2010s. After all, what was the biggest movie genre globally during the 2012s? No, it wasn't anime. It was MARVEL. The MCU. SUPERHEROES.
Its why I mentioned Battle Fever J earlier in this thread. Super Sentai and Power Rangers BOTH had a tie to Marvel and could have cashed it on the MCU's rise during the 2010s. Hell, Disney bought power rangers, and their adaptations of Sentai from Wildforce to Jungle Fury were mostly adaptations of the sentais. In addition, the fact they were owned by Disney meant that, had they remainwd under Disney, they COULD have bled into Marvel, the way some Disney properties have appeared in Marvel and vice versa. All you need to is establish the link to Battle Fever J and voila - power rangers (and super sentai) would have had even more relevance as a legacy series within Marvel canon (and multiverse)
But that didn't happen. Disney sold it off because they weren't doing anything with it, and as one guy points out, Saban didn't really get with the times. And its frustrating because we could have mainstream Sentai recognition in the West and beyond by identifying the Marvel roots in Sentai.