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Originally Posted by DreamSword

To say that Power Rangers has no target audience or appeals solely because Toku has slowly been growing bigger over the last few years is no different than saying other long-runners like Mazinger Z or Sailor Moon have no place because anime of their kind have become alot more common place/popular over time.

Then why are they not reaching the same mainstream level of audience demographic in the US that watched K-dramas, or any foreign dramas that people are watching on Netflix, Prime Video, etc... I mean Korean pop culture like K-dramas, and K-pop has reached an all-time high popularity in the US, I can say the same for anime/manga and yet tokusatsu hasn't reach that level of popularity in the US despite there's clear evidence of more people watching foreign-language TV dramas which consist of Korean TV dramas, Chinese-language TV dramas, and non-English language European TV dramas. Here's the evidence:

More Than Half of English-Speakers [in the US] Now Watch Foreign-Language Content


Foreign-language shows on Netflix are getting a lot of attention in the U.S.


Hollywood Reporter: Americans Are Watching More International TV Than Ever Before


And if you want to see more evidence of people in the US watching foreign-language dramas:



More Americans are watching their foreign-language dramas subtitled then dub, so tokusatsu should be in the mainstream territory in the US just like K-dramas, and foreign-language TV dramas and films are getting already. So what's keeping Tokusatsu genre from reaching the same mainstream level in the US that K-dramas, anime, and non-English language foreign language TV series/miniseries already received?

I pretty much talked about this in 2021 in a closed thread.

Speaking of K-dramas, several K-dramas on Netflix have expanded to sci-fi and what looks like Tokusatsu territories, I've said this here on that same closed thread.

I will make this unpopular tokusatsu opinions regarding toku fandom, and I've said this before:

It seems like it's easy for a toku fan to be able to crossover to wuxia genre because wuxia and tokusatsu genre are very similar (wire fu, costumes, and sometime like in the case of Inframan, and Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain, suitmation aka man in the monster suit). Also, the opposite is true, you can get a person who watch wuxia to watch tokusatsu for that same reason.

I find it odd that despite many anime/manga fans crossing over to K-drama (that's because of K-drama along with Taiwanese drama adaptation of manga like Boys Over Flowers), what happened to the same anime/manga demographic not crossing over to tokusatsu? What happened to K-drama fans not crossing over to tokusatsu despite having K-dramas that borderline to toku territory when it comes to special effect? What is preventing K-drama fans from branching out to tokusatsu?

You know here's something odder: I've seen K-drama fans can crossover to Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese dramas, but not to tokusatsu. Has there been any K-drama fans that watched rom-com or serious romance K-drama crossover to Chinese-language drama of that same genre? Yes, it has happened. Have there been cases of fans of rom-com or serious romance K-drama that watched Chinese-language rom-com/serious romance drama genre ever crossed over to wuxia genre? Yes it does happened, if the fan liked a certain Chinese actors/actresses in that non-Wuxia drama he or she watched and looked up his or her acting record and found that Chinese actors/actresses acted in wuxia drama, that K-drama person that just crossed over to Chinese drama can crossover to wuxia, it's possible.

I like to note that I found this on Reddit on the kdramarecommends subreddit: K-dramas similar to the Xianxia/Wuxia genre in C-dramas

So this is clear evidence, and this indicate to me that K-drama fans have already started to branch out to not only Chinese-language dramas but also wuxia dramas too!!!

But what's bothers me is that if this is the case like I described above, then shouldn't the tokusatsu fandom have saw a massive growth given that wuxia and tokusatsu genre are very similar, including this forum thanks to K-drama fans crossing over to Chinese drama crossing over to wuxia drama then it should've led to crossing over to tokusatsu.

As I said, I've seen cases of wuxia drama fans are able to crossover to tokusatsu, so there should've been massive crossovers of K-drama fans--->Chinese-language dramas fans-->Wuxia dramas fans-->tokusatsu fans

I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, and I've seen to be the only user on this forum that has been involved in tokusatsu fandom, K-drama/K-pop/Hallyu fandom, wuxia fandom all combined. Along with my experiences watching East Asian entertainment way before streaming and before it became cool today.

Disclaimer: Before I became a toku fan & K-drama fan, I was a wuxia fan ever since I first watched my first wuxia drama as a kid, and I grew up watching Hong Kong TV dramas (from TVB), and Taiwanese dramas from the 80's and early 90's. That's how I was able to get into Korean TV dramas, and tokusatsu easily. So I'm probably the only forumite on Tokunation that is able to watch tokusatsu, wuxia drama, Korean TV dramas, Taiwanese TV dramas, Mainland Chinese-language TV dramas. That's why I know of people that watched wuxia dramas can crossover to tokusatsu easily, and I've seen toku fans crossed over to wuxia dramas.