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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I genuinely wonder what Toei/Bandai/the guy who played Chase on Drive think about English-speaking Kamen Rider fans. Do they think it's cool and super-passionate? Do they think it's really weird? Do they think we're clowns? I don't, like, care what they think of me, as a non-Japanese fan. (Well, Chase.) It wouldn't change my interest in the franchise. But I wonder if they have feelings about boards like this, fans like us. I'd be interested to know how we're perceived.

From what I've gathered it's taken a long time for them to realize we exist. Part of why it took so long to get any official licensed releases (outside of The First randomly showing up here back in the day) was because no one at Toei thought that there was enough interest in them. It took some long conversations with companies like Shout and Bluefin before Toei started actively paying attention, and that was just last year.