According to multiple Japanese news sources, TV Asahi is ending the Super Sentai series, the tokusatsu hero show that gave birth to the American Power Rangers.

While multiple news sources are reporting this, at the time of writing there has been no official statement from the show’s producers.

This may be unrelated, but at the start of the month, Toei announced that the company had undergone restructuring. While that could be corpo-speak for just about anything, it’s possible that Super Sentai was a casualty of this process.

The Super Sentai series has enjoyed fifty years of cultural relevance, their latest series No.1 Sentai Gozyuger specifically commemorates the legacy of the franchise. For all intents and purposes, it’s hard to tell if the popularity of the franchise really has waned, or maybe it’s just corporate greed.

It’s also unclear what this will mean for the Power Rangers franchise, which has traditionally made use of creative editing to combine western unmasked actors with masked scenes pulled straight from Super Sentai, combining them into their own story.

We’ll keep you up to date as we learn more.