Ohhhh! I'm so happy, I was afraid we were never going to see the fabled Fiveman release! Hopefully this means any rights issues are now taken care of.

I'm not completely convinced that the Rights to additional Sentai are confirmed by this news! I feel as though SHOUT! already had the rights to sub Fiveman, but lacked distribution rights from the current license holder of Sentai in the West: Hasbro!

I feel as though this only refers to Fiveman and Kuuga given how both are depicted together, which offers a subtle hint that Kuuga may get a DVD release given the nature of the photo for both in the tweet.

Don't assume Gorenger, Gokaiger, or Turboranger are coming just yet! It's possible, but there's no evidence for it.

Hasbro was distributing Sentai since Hurricanger's DVD.

Permission granted by Hasbro, or much more likely in those days, Saban?

Fiveman's dvd has a copyright notice which does NOT mention Hasbro, meaning this was gotten directly from Toei

https://www.shoutfactory.com/product...roduct_id=7878

Pre-order link is now live. Unfortunately, TokuSHOUTsu just announced that Fiveman will be only released on DVD. Doesn't seem like they got the streaming rights for this one.

I already assume that Fiveman won't be available to watch through streaming until sometime later next year.

Well, TokuSHOUTsu has been liking tweets that are saying stuff to that effect, so you are likely correct.

Also worth mentioning is that according to the official press release, this was made possible through a collaboration with eOne (Hasbro's parent company).

https://www.rangerboard.com/index.ph...7#post-6153165

From what August Ragone (works for the film industry) that the PR bought out from Hasbro is why it took so long for Fiveman to get release. PR is co-liscence, so the other side has to say yes to it as well.

This is the same thing as, if you want to get the HD remasters of Toei's Spiderman and The Ultraman anime, you need to get approval from Marvel and Sunrise.