How come tokusatsu/anime only lasts for a year?
The nature of tokusatsu and anime is that of a movie divided into usually fifty 30-minute episodes. There is a beginning, middle, change in plot then an ending resolve to both beginning and secondary storylines. And, that ending is not necessarily a good one such as in most traditional western action hero stories. For example, the Real ending of Sailor Moon is that all the sailor scouts died when they won the battle. One of the greater advantages to tokusatsu being developed this way is that writers and producers have more control over the flow of the story unlike with American television. Usually, after a US network buys a program that was pitched, they will order 6-13 episodes, have them produced and let them run in either September, January, March, April, May or June (for summer shows). Should the A.C. Nielsen Media Research Company report to networks subscribing to their service moderate to good success for a program (or there be an enormous fan-base), a network may be apt to buy 1
