Why is it so hard for Japan to make original sequels to already complete adaptations?

Because original sequels don't have a source material the fans can buy, so they probably yield less profit.

@Zarutaku to be fair most big anime ip like dragon ball are multimedia franchise now like dragon ball is kept popular because of its anime video games then you got gundam with its gunpla toys selling so well even today so they make anime sequels or spinoffs just to advertise the merchandises like toys

@deg Establishing such a big franchise is a Herculean task.

Cardcaptor sakura got a sequel. Moms were bringing their daughters into the franchise, and Sakura has a lot of unnoficial sequels (code geass, tsubasa, a lot of clamp works that rely on the Sakura baton pass and imagery). So did Ojamajo doremi recently with that movie. And Sugar Sugar Rune (author is Moyoko Anno) did something too.

As you say, Toei and Nakayoshi could push for more Sailor moon. https://myanimelist.net/manga/magazine/20/Nakayoshi (look their roster). But it looks like either they or Takeuchi have no interest in doing so. So they push for those other franchises. Give time from the Crystal remake, and it might happen.

The other projects you mention had their authors interested in it. Kurumada always gave OK to a lot of manga spin offs and animations. And Toriyama had a lot of mini movies, like the ones that kick started Super, and the games that kick start Dragon ball Heroes, so the Daima project greenlight was also an agreement that he had part. And that is after a lot of time, because GT was not a success (it started original, and later had Toriyama to reenter and get it on going).

Code Geass doesn't have anything to do with Cardcaptor Sakura. They don't even look alike.

Code Geass doesn't have anything to do with Cardcaptor Sakura. They don't even look alike.

Regarding Sailor Moon, the remake anime—including the movies—didn't gain much popularity domestically, and sales, including merchandise, were extremely poor, so I don't think they'll make any more. Also, for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, the original author, Naoko Takeuchi, holds strong rights, so it's impossible for an anime studio to make new works or sequels without her permission.

While the Pretty Cure series is popular enough to release new entries every year, Sailor Moon's older anime has such high quality that there's no perceived need for new series or sequels. Besides, not everyone who likes anime watches the Pretty Cure series.

Inuyasha got the spinoff sequel Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, produced by sunrise. Naruto got Boruto as well. Neither were written by the original creators and who knows how much involvement they had beyond the supervisory role. I’m sure there’s something out there that would say.

Hokuto no Ken Got a season 2 simply because the first one was super popular even when the final battle between Raoh and Ken happened and the story was told in completion. The scramble to come up with a new story using existing characters was a bit rough as it was rushed and it shows despite the original creators involvement in writing and illustrating the manga that the show was based off of.

So yes popular shows for their time did get spin off sequels, I don’t have any numbers in front of me but if they didn’t do as well as expected then the production companies that supply the money tighten their grip om the almighty wallets and are less likely to do more.

@kihel The Pretty Cure thing has nothing of popularity, it's the model taken from the tokusatsus that lends itself to yearly iterations. They didn't make that thing out of Sailor Moon because it was a magical girl show mixed with something taken from tokusatsus and not a 100% animated tokusatsu like the pretty cures, and magical girls shows don't have this yearly iteration thing. I know because I watch both Toei tokus and magical girls, from the very first incarnations I've watched them (Mahou Tsukai Sally and the Gekko Kamen Movies) and they don't work the same. The SM remake didn't get much popularity...eh, it happens when you put in the main writing chair idiots like the main writer of the first unwatchable Garo series, Yuji Kobayashi. I have no idea how in the hell that guy has managed to carve a career for himself by writing so many Urutoraman series, it makes no sense. Even if what the guy wanted to translate into anime form had been war and peace, it would have been a failure on all fronts.

Um, what? Season 1 didn't fully adapt the manga. Season 2 continued the story but still didn't adapt the whole thing, like most seasonals today.

@ProudElitist

Not everyone who watches Precure is looking for “tokusatsu elements.” The main audience is, of course, preschool-aged girls, even though there are also many adult male fans. And if someone mainly wants to see tokusatsu, they usually watch the Kamen Rider or Super Sentai series that air right after Precure.

As for the failure of the Sailor Moon remake, I don’t think the problem was the scriptwriter. Many people dropped out during the very first Crystal series before the anime really got going, mainly because of the character designs and voice actor changes. The direction and music were also considered better in the old series. Since the remake was set to follow the manga faithfully from the start, I don’t think the scriptwriter was to blame. That’s why you don’t see the writer’s name being brought up so often on Twitter or other social media as the cause of the failure. When a show fails specifically because of the writing, names like Natsuko Takahashi always get mentioned online.

Anyway, not many people tend to link this topic with tokusatsu, so your reply was actually quite interesting to read.

because they can recognize a waste of time, usually. should've continued super instead of make daima.

>everybody's going to watch Sailor Moon even if it's Chibi-Usa fighting Chaos
No, they won't. Precure never positioned itself as a one-and-done story unlike Sailor Moon did.

You can't just force sequels when the creators don't want to make sequels. That kind of mentality ruined a lot of Western media, that you can make a sequel purely because people are nostalgic for (insert well beloved media of the past).

Leave things be.

@TheMechaManiac its not just the sequels, its even the reboots. A lot of Western media are tainted because a reboot made some of the worst adaptations we could ever see in an animation and they made irreversible damage to the reputation the media franchise built up for.

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@ryzxgum aren't you old for a series targeted to sell toys to children of 6-10 years? because Super was made only with that objective in mind, by admission of Bandai themselves. I know, the Precure I'm currently watching officially is target at children too, but there's something as an adult I find of my liking (the women, the fights, the general superheroics). Super was a ca$hgrab for toddlers from the very beginning.

@ProudElitist ''i like my toddler cashgrab, why do you like your toddler cashgrab?" just a very silly reply altogether when the answer to your question lies within your own post.

@ryzxgum With a sole difference: the toddler ca$hgrab I'm watching is an original IP that has been around for twenty years at this point, Super is a continuation beyond its due past time and that's not how animes work. Animes are not tokus like the Kamen Rider or Urutoraman that stopped being produced for a decade yet they're still there and kicking, animes work that when the energies are put all at the very start, if there's a gap of years inbetween, what is going to be produced after that gap is shit. You or other people expecting from Super or Daima anything good were delusional to say the least. The only thing good in those is Yuya Takahashi, and not even in those series but in the Kamen Riders he has written and he is writing, nothing else.

@ProudElitist i couldn't care less. acting like one toddler cashgrab is any better than the other is definitely one of the replies of all time lmao, don't waste my time with that coughing baby vs coughing baby argument.

@ryzxgum The Pretty Cures are better because they're ongoing, they haven't stopped. They never stopped. Super was made after twenty years since GT, it was doomed to failure to begin with. Like Daima was. Everything that had to be told was told in the original anime trilogy, there was no space for anything else. The conclusive ending of GT didn't permit it.