I am going to be frank: the expansion for VGMdb to include anime was extremely disruptive to the site. We made the change before identifying any experts in the field and before shoring up staff to cover the influx of new submitters and without addressing technical concerns raised by people here (like the idea of having separate entry portals for VGM and Anime). I don't believe that the quality and the quantity of VGM coverage are where they were prior to opening to anime.
In the end, what we have has become a good resource, one that was sorely needed. My main complaint is that the anime music world seems at times to be an endless sea of pop vocal albums, and that is orthogonal to at least my interest coming from the VGM side. This leads to situations where some people want to expand discographies for vocalists or composers who mostly compose/arrange vocals, and that leads to some friction too.
So any expansion of our scope has to be done right. I don't think we will fully cover the Sentai genre any time soon, and if we do it has to be done right. It would also require either rebranding "The Music of Visual Arts and Games", or shoehorning Sentai (or even Kaiju) into "Visual Arts" somehow.
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