So why did you respond with talking about worldwide popularity when you tried to belittle my post?

Wasn't battling anything. Gundam is infact big worldwide, and that includes the US. Kamen Rider, however, is not big all around the globe, as it is still very niche in the US. It's been growing, yeah, but it's nowhere near the level of Dragon Ball or Gundam as of right now.

That new map thing that they have in their Tamashii Web product pages now shows the regions they sell products in (haven't actually really looked into it), and they divided it into Japan (self-explanatory), US (also self-explanatory), Asia (China, Korea, most of Southeast Asia, and Australia), EU (Europe, South Africa, and some tiny bit of Saudi Arabia), and LATM+ (Canada, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil). It's not actually worldwide, considering that most of Africa, West and South Asia, and Russia are omitted.

But back to Kamen Rider, yea it's big in Asian countries, but in the West it's really not. It's still really niche compared to Toei's and Bandai's other big properties, so it's not unexpected that they're not immediately putting up KR P-Bandai exclusives on the US Tamashii Web store.

The grass is greener where you water it, right?

Toei should just make a deal with netflix, round up some anime or video game english voice actors, dub a bunch of kamen rider series and throw it up there. Squid Game being as big as it was convinced me this is how you get people to watch non-english language shows in America. As long as they put the original language with subtitles as an option for me, I’d be happy with such an arrangement.

But yeah releasing all these p-bandai figures for shows that are not available in America probably would have some exec scratching their head. “Who would know what this is? WHY do they know what this is?! Just sell another Goku to those Americans, and stop wasting time!!!”

I'm a bit worried Shadow Moon might be too niche and it won't pull in the numbers Bandai would want. But I hope with the Geats SHF line coming soon, they take a chance on that the same way they're doing with DX and offering it stateside

In other news, it looks like amiami is maintaining their strategy of putting up new POs a day after everyone else sold theirs. The Shin Trio (Ultra reissue, Godzilla Resurgence, Shin KR) & Suletta Mercury SHF go up Nov 2 11am JST

This sucks so badly. AmiAmi was a shit pre-order gacha for a long time, now it's a shit pre-order gacha in the middle of the night. Screw that garbage.

If I really want anything, I have to buy it elsewhere.

But just in case anyone needed more intensive not to buy from them:

https://i.imgur.com/n8442NR.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/40Zrf75.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Txdl4kK.jpg

SUCH DISCOUNT, MUCH WOW

Meanwhile here's another item from the drop that probably won't be in hot demand:

https://i.imgur.com/AJXNnW2.jpg

Weird, huh?

For me it makes it much easier, because it goes up at 2AM rather than the 7AM it usually would be for me. It's only one option though so I can only hope I get it

They're also doing a Shin Evangelion re-issue btw. Not exactly Figuarts or Toku but worth noting alongside the other Shins

https://i.imgur.com/8kkbSFX.png

yikes

I just checked Anime-Export and they have most of those right now still open and for less. No listing as of now for Shin KR

I'm glad it's a bit easier for others now at least, but for me everyone updates their shop sometime before noon - except AmiAmi.

This worries me - but some things I thought they "never" listed were just very late so - maybe tomorrow?

It seems to be mostly accurate barring a couple oddities like the recent Angewomon not being available in the US despite many US stores already having her up for pre-order.

Bandai has been releasing Rider merch in the US officially for many years now. Long before there was an official/legal release for any of these series. Don't see why it's now suddenly a problem.

Not to mention, the other figure that just got announced for pre-order, Agito, can be watched legally. And once again, this is an online storefront where Bandai has customers prepay for figures bypassing most overhead costs that a traditional store ensues.