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Having watched 2 or 3 different wuxia C-dramas for the last few days on Netflix. And paying attention on how people on Netflix can stumble upon them and also help give these obscure show a mainstream push from people that don't normally don't watch them. Now I know how tokusatsu can get a push in mainstream awareness in the US, they need to be put on mainstream streaming platform like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video rather then Shout Factory TV and other lesser well-known and ad-supported streaming site. Given Netflix and Prime Video have 100+ million subscribers, that can really help tokusatsu a lot if they were put on there. I mean Netflix doing simulcast for K-dramas and putting obscure K-dramas, Taiwanese dramas, and wuxia dramas on their platform for US and worldwide audiences to watch is really helping those shows get more mainstream audience even if they're obscure and those demographic aren't hardcore drama fans.

I believe if Toei and Tsurbaraya put these shows on Netflix (and if Netflix goes far as to label these as "Netflix originals" like they did for Neon Genesis Evangelion and Saint Seiya 1986):

• Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger
  
• Mashin Sentai Kiramager
  
• Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger
  
• Kamen Rider Zero-One
  
• Kamen Rider Saber
  
• Kamen Rider Revice
  
• Ultraman Taiga
  
• Ultraman Chronicle Zero & Geed
  
• Ultraman Z
  
• Ultraman Chronicle Z: Heroes' Odyssey
  
• Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga

If any of these shows were to be put on Netflix (or Prime Video), I guarantee that tokusatsu would get a lot more fans then ever. That's why K-dramas, C-dramas (including wuxia), and other non-English foreign language TV dramas/series are getting more mainstream demographic in the US then what tokusatsu are getting despite getting some shows from Japan.

I also got chance to look at Reddit, and I found some disturbing trends:

r/toku (7.8 thousands members)

r/KDRAMA (240 thousand active members. Yep, you read it right, 240,000+ active people)

r/CDRAMA (13.9 thousand active members, and that does include wuxia dramas watcher)

The toku subsection of Reddit is much lower then the K-drama and C-drama subreddit section. This is very disturbing because this show the effect of K-dramas mainstream popularity in the US thanks to mainstream platform like Netflix, and other factors like K-pop act (ie: BTS, Blackpink, etc....). Although C-drama reddit is 14,000+ active members, I suspect this number to be much higher because now we have more C-dramas on mainstream streaming sites, and I expect more C-dramas being picked up more and more.

Here's what I find disturbing, the fact that anime fans can branch out to K-dramas, but toku fandom has never branch out to K-dramas nor wuxia C-dramas, and K-dramas and wuxia C-dramas fans didn't branch out to toku fandom also left me scratching my head and as I said, I find that disturbing and that does bother me.