[Den-O]

This is a completely different discussion than the DVD/Shout! one. For that there's a legitimate lack of sales numbers to justify the creation of those last volumes. I'll agree with you for that situation people should not complain. With something like that, it's unavoidable when the sales numbers aren't there. There has to be a demonstrated demand for the product for them to produce it. Shout just isn't big enough to make tons of those sets, not sell them, continue to do so, and take huge losses from it.

In this situation we're being asked to pay for a service, that while it isn't expensive, isn't exactly cheap either. The main demographic is the nearly 400,000 Japanese speakers living in the US so subtitles while welcome aren't the initial point. But in order to get people like us with the promise of Tokusatsu, they need to have that available soon. Maybe not by day one but certainly before a whole year has gone by. It's a tough sell to ask people to pay $20 a month for 1 or 2 channels for a year or more just for the hope to eventually get subbed toku on them.

If I knew I was getting subs from the get go I'd be all over it. That's a pretty damn good lineup of shows, Gingaman? Hell yes. But if they aren't subbed then I might as well grab the Hi No Tori torrents, even with them being hard to find.