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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Kamen Rider did not try twice to get popular in the US because it was just some aholes that thought Americanizing the series was going to do it as opposed to just releasing the series subtitled. I just hate this mentality that they need to add American actors into a series to make it appeal to American audiences. I thought we had moved past this stage when DVD went mainstream ten years ago and anime was finally being released properly. Obviously I was wrong. They need to stop marketing Kamen Rider as Power Rangers and just market the series as Kamen Rider! Power Rangers was a fluke. No show will ever have the same success as Power Rangers as lightning does not strike twice.

If the goal is making Rider more popular, then subbed DVD sets won't really do it because those only appeal to people who are already fans of the series. Let's be honest, casual audiences are going to be put off on the idea of having to read subtitles. We deal with it because the series are already familiar to us and we love Toku. That isn't true for other people.