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MMPR movie is not even in continuity with the series, hence the split articles there. The Dobutsu Go-Busters actually meet the Tokumei Go-Busters. In both cases, they have different character histories (in MMPR, the movie's opening narration mentions six teens getting recruited, so it seems that Tommy was recruited by Zordon instead of Rita, there was always six rangers, and there was never a green ranger, meaning their zords were most likely the "Zyu3" set; Go-Busters history splits 13 years before the events of the series, as in Dobutsu's world, the disaster with Messiah never happened). Akibaranger, on the other hand, has a storyline reason for the changes and isn't actually alternate universe. Remember, at the end of the first season, Saboru Hatte had been revealed to be manipulating their actions, and the Akibarangers had found out thereby breaking the fourth wall - they knew they were in a TV show. The changes in season 2 may have been Hatte's attempts to fix this. And subsequently, their universe has changed several times, with shows being cut from and restored to Sentai's history.