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Originally Posted by FairyKing

Uh... I understand being frustrated at the lack of official English releases for toku, but taking that anger out on K-dramas and that fandom makes no sense. They're different genres, they're not even from the same country (the K literally stands for Korean), the only thing they have in common is not being in English. You might as well ask why fans of Spanish telenovelas or Swedish crime dramas don't branch out into toku.

The shows Rider, Sentai, Ultraman etc. would be competing with are western superhero shows. If you need to blame someone for Kamen Rider not being on Netflix (besides Netflix for just choosing not to pick it up), blame Marvel and DC for how much space they take up in the superhero market, and for their constant pushing of reboots, remakes and recycled ideas that hinder anything new or different.

You don't understand, and looks like you probably didn't read my recent post that revived this thread. I'm both a tokusatsu and a K-drama fan. Yes, I'm probably the only one in tokusatsu fandom and probably on this forum that is also a K-drama watcher. I'm not taking any hatred toward K-dramas, because I'm a K-drama watcher.

I'm upset and baffled that toku fandom aren't bother by the recent development in K-drama production when it comes to sci-fi/fantasy genre. You have sci-fi/fantasy K-drama that are borderlining to tokusatsu territory and those set of K-dramas are winning English-speaking American audiences of all race, while tokusatsu shows aren't getting the same love that sci-fi/fantasy K-dramas are getting in the US.

It's not only K-dramas, but wuxia C-dramas (which too have been compared to tokusatsu from time to time) are also winning US audiences too thanks to streaming like Netflix and Prime Video.

Many anime fans in early 2000's branch out to become K-dramas fans because of Korean adaptation of Boys over Flowers, Itazura Na Kiss, and City Hunter, and I assumed many tokusatsu fans would also become fans of K-dramas and wuxia C-drama because in the mind of tokusatsu fans, live-action stuff with martial art from Japan looks cool, so I assume people that watched tokusatsu would likely be the one watching wuxia drama because it had martial arts and tokusatsu-style special effect. But it looks like it wasn't the case and I was baffled.

The problem is that you got K-dramas and wuxia C-dramas borderlining to tokusatsu territory and nobody in tokusatsu fandom ever brought this up. That's what I'm complaining about and it baffled me. I mean we have people comparing Kamen Rider to Marvel and DC Superheroes. But nobody in toku fandom want to talk about the special effect in a Chinese wuxia show being compared to the special effect found in tokusatsu. That's what upset me the most.