[SengalBoy]

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Originally Posted by Aoi Kurenai

The Ultra shows weren't super popular for Crunchyroll. A few reps personally said so during cons. I don't know if they were outright failures (and I don't think they were) but I got the impression from them that they didn't perform to the numbers they wanted from the shows. Tsuburaya have been wanting to make the push for a wider Western release for quite some time though.

So that's basically why R/B wasn't on Crunchyroll then?

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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

That's what sucks about being a fan of Toku in America. The fandom is too niche and they would probably have supported the official releases for them if they didn't already have fan subs for them. Not to mention, Japanese special effects don't appeal to many people.

It really sucks. Maybe someday Toku can have a boom like anime did back in the early 2010s.