[dreamcastegirl]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I imagine they'd do a lot better in a world with more resources to learn about foreign properties? Like, there are a ton of people who loved Shin Godzilla that are about to do some deep goddamn dives on Ultraman, just to make sure they get all the references in the new movie.

Oh, definitely, the internet has changed things to even a greater degree then when I first crawled into this fandom. I think the Casshern cartoon was fairly popular in France, if I recall correctly—the French also got Liveman in the '80s, which I am eternally jealous of—but I know that the first time I knew of it was when I saw the movie as a HK bootleg and noted that Aso Kumiko was in it, and just brought it on a whim.

I know there was an English dub of Ultraman and maybe Ultraseven in America, but I think the first we ever saw of the franchise was the cartoon, The Ultraman, and I remember being fairly indifferent to that as I was well into Battle of the Planets instead.

*snaps fingers at you* You there, boy, bring me my walking stick.