Some language has been adjusted to ease reading in English, PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS AS A DIRECT TRANSLATION:
-"What is Super Sentai anyway?" If you think about it, there are Robot Anime that fit the definition as we know it. But then we also have Goranger and JAKQ now added to that name, Super Sentai. Following Tosho Daimos, Battle Fever J became the new definition of Super Sentai, a tokusatsu program with 5 human characters. However, if you consider that the definition, you can also fit in shows like Kamen no Ninja Akakage, or Gatchaman, so let's stick with the idea of a show like Combattler V; a show where 5 people pilot a robot. I thought, is there any way to go for an original setting instead of this? To make it so the giant battles at the end weren't a throwaway, so we decided on robots from the beginning.
-Having characters be robots both pre-transformation and after transformation is something that shows like Go-Busters and Kyuranger had already done, so it certainly isn't our goal to make something "weird" that hasn't been seen before in Super Sentai. When considering the capacity of our studio stage, things like the enemy base have been an issue. With sets like Yodonheim, this was solved with blanketing things in black curtains and water on the floor, among other schemes, but it left a feeling of "is this what we really want to do?" Taking into consideration both physical and monetary limitations, we started from square one asking "what is it we really want to do?"
-There is a lot of big talk going around that the "budget has been reduced." If that were the case, it would be easy for us to do 4 mecha that just make arms and legs, so what we did is in spite of that. At least from the start, we didn't want our mecha to do the same thing they always do. In that regard the "bad insides" is outweighed by the good of the gattai possibility between Juran and Gaon. (sic. For example.)
-The setting has the various legendary sentai as having fought in various parallel worlds. This has its pros and cons. There are certain things it keeps us from doing, but also certain things it allows us to do. It gives us an "escape route" for certain issues.
-Because of the setting, we needed to find an actor who could convincingly use the various items/attacks on his own, and carry the weight of the 5 heroes on his back. We needed someone who wouldn't bend or break under that pressure and so keeping that in mind, we made our selection.
-Because Saber is already doing an ending dance. we decided against doing one
-In 2001, we had both the 30th anniversary of Kamen Rider with Kamen Rider Agito and the 25th anniversary of Super Sentai with Hyakujyu Sentai Gaoranger. This setting was decided upon so that every 10 years Toei would hit a double anniversary.
-Rider's popularity has encroached on Super Sentai's "pie" since then, and this has only magnified. For example, in the early days of Heisei Rider, the enemy didn't really consist of any "generals" distinct from "monsters" or "minions." For the most part, they were just, the enemies. Now, like Sentai, Rider has come to have enemy organizations with distinct generals and minions, and even the heroes have become linked to organizations. At that point, "isn't Kamen Rider just a Super Sentai?" In addition to that, what if anything has Sentai taken from Heisei Rider? (sic. to balance that out)
-However, it's not the case that in these 20 years Kamen Rider has gained the responsibility of carrying the weight for both shows. (He laughs here.)
