This thing would shelfwarm if it was in all those stores. This IS a niche item. Its for Sentai and Ranger, Toku fans. Your random everyday person wont buy this. Even if it was becuase MMPR, once they see what it is, they'll pass. HOPEFULLY this sells well enough to continue more releases.

Exactly. It took a miracle for the final VRTroopers volume to be released, and it was shown here in america before. Hell, we still dont even have the final Beetleborgs volume. :(

In all honesty, while it's actually rather admirable that they're not trying to sell this on PR's coattails, it's probably not going to sell well at all with Power Rangers taking a surprisingly small amount of the cover.

It's nice that they're trying to sell Sentai for what it is, but without POWER RANGERS plastered on the cover, it won't catch the casual fan's eye, especially in a non niche store.

I'm not saying it is going to be Bayformers levels are popularity. I am saying it is going to sell to both anime fans and Power Rangers fans if it is marketed well.

Live action is different though. You can't make the audio not look like they were out of sync.

This.

Then how do they expect to sell them if they aren't selling them in stores? If they market it, people will buy it, kids and adults. Anime fans will check it out. Power Rangers fans will check it out. Even those who impulse buy and come across it may buy it. Not everyone surfs the internet. So if it isn't sold in stores, how are they supposed to make new fans from people if they don't even know it exists?

No one sold those series in stores. In fact, I did not even know VR Troopers came to DVD until it was announced that it was canceled.

I'm not saying it is going to sell millions. I'm saying that thinking only 100 people in the entire country are going to buy it is foolish. I get 75-90 people in my Toku panels every year at NDK, and I even have people who have to be turned away because the room is beyond capacity. And that is just at a convention with an attendance cap of 7,500. Imagine how many Toku fans there are at a convention of 50,000 people. Then add on just random Walmart shoppers be it kids, teens, or even adults.

But whatever.

BTW, when I said I want something extra, I don't mean it having to be special features on the discs. I just mean giving us like an episode synopsis booklet or interviews and images of the monsters like Toei puts in each of their DVDs.

It doesn't matter whether it looks out of sync or not, the purpose of a dub is EXACTLY the same. I don't think it needs it either, but the people who don't want to watch subtitles for anime are going to be exactly the same when it comes to live-action shows.

This better than mmpr s1

Glad we're starting to see steps like these.

...so, any chance we can start getting some Rider dvds released stateside? I mean since Dragon Knight managed to win an award, it would be a great service if we were to see the show that inspired it get a similar treatment to the one that inspired MMPR.

I..I just really want an officially subbed release of Ryuki, that would make me so so very happy.

At the moment, no. This is happening because Super Sentai was included in Shout's licence for the Power Rangers DVDs. Shout doesn't even have the rights for per-Zyuranger Sentai. I'm not saying it never happen, just not in the near future.

Also, Ryuki is still tied up with Adness Entertainment (the company that made Dragon Knight).

I remember Kpa from Sci-Fi Japan saying on Toho Kingdom that Shout! Factory has no plans to release Kamen Rider on DVD. It's possible but unlikely at the moment. I won't mind if the original 1971 series gets a proper DVD release here in the US. Just release the DVDs as Season 1 before you put them in one big box set.

I just don't see why any company would choose to release Kamen Rider (Outside of maybe Black RX) stateside.
There isn't any brand recognition outside of Hawaii (Didn't some series air there?) and didn't the First fail when they brought it over?

I don't see why there has to be some sort of brand recognition to release something in the US. If that was the case, only 5 anime series would ever be released.

The First failed because MB failed to promote it. I put far more effort into promoting it at the time I worked at Best Buy than MB did.