[Kurona]

Yeah, sorry, but... in its current state the western distribution of Kamen Rider is the sort of service so phenomenally limited that it drives people to pirate in the first place.

Tokushoutsu is only offering 2 seasons a year if that, there's no sign of a simulcast, no other global projects, the whole 2-episodes-of-each-series thing on the youtube channel is a joke, and apparently movies are a very difficult thing to get the rights to. Compare to Ultraman - and I'm sorry if you think it's unfair, but I don't really care, given the point we're at - who managed to put out a ridiculous amount of the franchise within a year through Mill Creek which are very comprehensive including movies and specials, simulcasted each new show starting last year, has multiple global projects, and oh yeah, never pulled this crap and fansubs decided on their own initiative to shut down to support official releases. It's just completely night and day. Unless Toei ramps their efforts up to 11 out of nowhere, right now what they're doing is stupidity in the extreme and alienating their entire western fanbase.

Like, man, I'm just thinking about how one of the Team Rider guys is a huge Gaim fanboy, and they've sort of made a marketing gimmick out of that with him professing the season as the best thing made since sliced bread and doing humorous takeovers of any Gaim merch they're repping; and not only is there no official Gaim release but they're now trying their hardest to make Gaim impossible to watch in any capacity. What the hell is this approach, exactly?