Super's own content isn't focused on advertising any specific product, at least so far. Remaking these movies even goes directly against that, since in these 30 or so episodes they won't introduce any important new characters or transformations that can be used for merchandising.Doctor. wrote:Super has advertisements for Discross and ICCardass when the episode cuts to commercials, doesn't it? That should count.
A franchise focused series, especially from Toei, would be a direct tie in with all the merchandising and games. We'd see something like SSJ4 Gohan debuting in the show right alongside his Heroes promotion because the marketing/merchandising team wanted to promote it, and then the tv show's writing team would need to fit him there somehow. The story itself would need to be paced to match those promotions and releases, and decisions from the marketing/merchandising/game side would have direct influence on the route taken by the show. It's how the Yokai Watch anime works, or for Toei, the Pretty Cure series (the live action Super Sentai and Kamen Rider series also work in a similar way).
Pokemon is kind of different from them, since although it advertises some content to a point (new game with new region? New anime season in new region! New legendary revealed? New movie focused on that legendary at the same time!), the actual flow and many characteristics of the anime are very different from the other products (like how Black & White pushed for older characters in the games, but the anime went out of its way to keep Ash as the protagonist and specifically state that he still was 10 years old).
