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View Poll Results: Do you want Toku to become more mainstream? | |||
Yes, more people would be great! | 52 | 46.43% | |
No, a smaller fandom is best. | 25 | 22.32% | |
I'm fine either way. | 35 | 31.25% | |
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10-12-2021, 05:21 PM | #181 |
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Sorry for my late absence, been busy with a lot of stuff. But I hate to say this but it looks like Squid Game's mainstream popularity in the west is still continuing. I mean even Netflix Asia top exec explained to Hollywood Reporter why that series got mainsstream global appeal. I mean the show's popularity is no doubt in question after these:
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Netflix Partners With TBS to Release 3 New Shows Worldwide Japanese Star Original “Tokyo MER” Coming Soon To Disney+ Toei Animation, Parasite Film's Korean Distributor CJ Entertainment Announce Partnership So it looks like Japan is taking Squid Game's mainstream success outside of Asia very seriously. I'm really happy to see Kamen Rider Zero One will be coming to Shout Factory's website. But Shout Factory TV audience reach is nothing compared to Netflix (nor streaming sites that specialize in East Asian TV series). If you put Kamen Rider on Netflix, I guarantee that it can get a wider audiences. It can get a wider audiences if it carried the "Netflix originals" label on there. As I said, if you want tokusatsu to get the same level and love like Squid Game and K-dramas are getting in the west, you have to put them on Netflix. When I said that, I mean many years ago. I mean back in early 2000's, and way before Squid Game. I heard toku fans said tokusatsu would never get super mainstream in the US because of "American audiences can't read subtitles", or "toku would be too weird to be accepted". But now after seeing K-dramas, and foreign language films/TV shows/TV dramas on Netflix proving people wrong that American audiences can handle subtitles. But as I stated, if you want tokusatsu to get a wider audiences beyond the usual niche audiences, you have to put them on mainstream streaming services like Netflix in order for that to happen. |
10-12-2021, 05:47 PM | #182 |
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You're just repeating the same thing again and again at this point.
And why do you "hate to say" Squid Game's popularity is continuing? |
10-12-2021, 05:49 PM | #183 |
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Please stop. You are the only one bothered by this. You are the only person who is demanding for toku to be more popular so you can stop feeling bad about watching it. Because it's just super, super unfair that a show made for a wide audience of adults is doing better than a niche Japanese show made for 7 year olds. So unfair. Last edited by RyusoulRed; 10-12-2021 at 05:56 PM.. |
10-12-2021, 06:01 PM | #184 |
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Maybe you'd have better luck doing this over at Rangerboard, or the Tokusatsu subreddits, or maybe even going to K-Drama/C-Drama forums/subreddits/threads and doing it yourself, instead of asking US to do it.
Because to be frank, I feel like you're only insisting that this is a "we" problem so that you can have others go to K-Drama/C-Drama focused groups and suggest tokusatsu shows, and let them get embarrassed when people say 'no' or get made fun of for suggesting something that's not within their realm of interest. So please, stop telling us to do something and do it yourself. Last edited by MKDremare; 10-12-2021 at 06:06 PM.. |
10-12-2021, 06:06 PM | #185 |
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Maybe you'd have better luck doing this over at Rangerboard, or the Tokusatsu subreddits, or maybe even going to K-Drama/C-Drama forums/subreddits/threads and doing it yourself, instead of asking US to do it.
Because to be frank, I feel like you're only insisting that this is a "we" problem so that you can have others go to them and suggest tokusatsu shows, and let them get embarrassed when people say 'no' or get made fun of for suggesting something that's not within their realm of interest. So please, stop telling us to do something and do it yourself. Rangerboard would be significantly more rude. |
10-12-2021, 06:08 PM | #186 |
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Maybe you'd have better luck doing this over at Rangerboard, or the Tokusatsu subreddits, or maybe even going to K-Drama/C-Drama forums/subreddits/threads and doing it yourself, instead of asking US to do it.
Because to be frank, I feel like you're only insisting that this is a "we" problem so that you can have others go to K-Drama/C-Drama focused groups and suggest tokusatsu shows, and let them get embarrassed when people say 'no' or get made fun of for suggesting something that's not within their realm of interest. So please, stop telling us to do something and do it yourself. |
10-12-2021, 06:12 PM | #187 |
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10-12-2021, 08:02 PM | #188 |
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Honestly, it's a little insulting to insinuate that a Korean drama's success should lead to the success of a Japanese kids show. They are different kinds of shows, from two very different countries. Asian media isn't one big monolith.
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10-12-2021, 09:06 PM | #189 |
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When I said that, I mean many years ago. I mean back in early 2000's, and way before Squid Game. I heard toku fans said tokusatsu would never get super mainstream in the US because of "American audiences can't read subtitles", or "toku would be too weird to be accepted". But now after seeing K-dramas, and foreign language films/TV shows/TV dramas on Netflix proving people wrong that American audiences can handle subtitles.
you structured it in a way that made us think you were saying this is the current reality. You've just undermined your ability to have us take this seriously.
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10-12-2021, 10:08 PM | #190 |
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I don't understand what you mean by that. I mean a long time ago before K-drama and Netflix existed, a lot of toku fans I talked to said that there is no way tokusatsu would be taken seriously (the same thing was said about K-drama and K-pop pre-2010, but now fast forward to today, we were proven wrong). Now, people can watch subtitled stuff on Netflix, Prime Video, etc... And yet tokusatsu can't get the same love or mainstream success like Squid Game, or any foreign-language TV dramas on Netflix are getting. |
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