Except Shout continued to give updates since the announcement in April.

https://news.tokunation.com/2021/11/...el-recap-72646

It should also be noted that Media Blasters hasn't even formally announced it. Just talking about it on Twitter. There is no press release or anything.

On their Twitter, the social media person seemed to be very anxious in particular with the acquirement of Rightstuf by Sony.

https://twitter.com/mediablasters1/s...23942478192642

It appears that they still have the license. What's taking so long is anybody's guess.

Mine is they want to get a dub for them which I think is a waste of time and money.

The Media Blasters person has a Youtube and talked about Kamen Rider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsrB0F0JgA&t=219s

Basically, the recent acquisition of RightStuf by Crunchyroll also led to their sales dwindling for their Christmas sale. As such they are focusing on releasing Hentai titles at the moment since they are a more reliable source of sales. He estimates a summer release for Kamen Rider.

After Jet Man in February I'm getting Rider shows in March. What Rider shows
are out on DVD? I want to buy that line next. I'll catch up the Ranger sets so I
was curious.

V3 is the only one on DVD. Blu-Ray has Kuuga, Ryuki and Zero-One

Kuuga, Ryuki, and Zero-One are out on blu-ray via Shout. Black is coming to blu-ray later this year. I think V3 is still available on dvd by way of the insanely overpriced set from Hawaii.

That's it. Toei is really bad about letting other countries get Kamen Rider.

Looks like the release from Media Blasters might come out faster than first expected.

https://youtu.be/uVyNRiAb-ow

The Region free sets for the Ranger line have been in great shape visually. I have a 1080
TV and a DVD player that goes 1080 so I watch episodes up to Zen Kai no problem. Don
Bros is next soon.

I'm buying the Rider line next as soon as I can get XYZ (SeriesXIX)
and Journeys (Series XXIII) of Pocket Monsters from Viz Media on DVD.
Master Journeys pre ordered.

With the delay for Turbo and Magi the Rider line is next.

I wanted to get the other lines caught up on DVD before
buying Rider shows.

https://twitter.com/mediablasters1/s...56602500440437

"So it begins... pray for us all. Can Rider come to our rescue? Will it live up to it? Details to follow in Friday Thoughts, stay tuned."

If this is true, it's certainly about time.

For those who don't wanna watch the video in full, here are the things it confirms:

1. The ZO and J crossover will be included.
2. Media Blasters plans to give us a dual pack of First and Next in the future.

Very excited, personally.

In short, SHOUT! failed to license Super Sentai World, but MB succeeded with Kamen Rider World!

Yay, Giant Shadowmoon!

They should release a preorder special that includes a Kamen Rider Zonjis sofubi.

Pre-orders are up.

https://twitter.com/mediablasters1/s...15641387229643

https://mb-storefront.com/products/k...6b804022&_ss=r

https://twitter.com/mediablasters1/s...38526592348425

Pre-orders seem to be doing very well. If they sell out, high likelihood of even more extras from Japan being added.

New short video from Media Blasters, giving updates about the features and possible photo galleries:

- they're working with Japanese and American people for the features
- every set will be numbered by hand
- "once it's gone, it's gone"

https://youtu.be/ZUvn30kXm4Y

New YouTube video by John of Media Blasters, with a first look on the cover art for the Elite Kollection box set and some new details about the features

https://x.com/mediablasters1/status/1796631579776672164

On Twitter they're anticipating a September release. Nothing concrete of course.

https://x.com/mediablasters1/status/1796634183625777407

https://youtu.be/npJHBR3-y6w

Update summary:
-The set will include the making-ofs for J and Zo.
-Won't include the Shin making-of; international rights weren't cleared for that one.
-The standard edition will include World.
-The commentaries and making-ofs will be exclusive to the limited edition, though.
-The limited edition run will be expanded.
-There will be a photo gallery.
-He's considering MediaOCD to handle the authoring, although he hasn't actually approached them about this yet.
-Still hopeful for an August or, more realistically, September release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOysU7MPeG0

Packaging and authoring for the set is complete. Waiting for final Toei approval. Estimating shipping at this time in about a month.

The set has shipped and people are receiving their copies. Unfortunately, it seems like Shin's audio has about a half second delay.

https://x.com/IkusaOne/status/1856510499325690364

Media Blasters try not to fuck up a hyped release challenge: IMPOSSIBLE.

Seriously, they were working on this release alone for almost a year and they still let something this egregious slip through the cracks.

https://x.com/mediablasters1/status/1856714135624450057

Sounds like the issue is being looked into at least. Guess we will see if there are any replacement for people who already got theirs later.

https://youtu.be/irtwkrVKYQA

Media Blasters uploaded a video explaining the situation. TL;DR - they will fix the issue and if you already got your set you will automatically be sent a replacement disk, no need to send your old one back.