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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

I'mma just chime in here because Ultra was mentioned that yeah we did have a big Ultraman Day (July 10th) Stream on Twitch which was pretty cool. The fact that Tokushoutsu is even streaming on Twitch at all is actually really neat.

Also Ultraman Z and Ultraman Trigger are easily available on Youtube, and Ultraman Trigger Episode 1 ended up surpassing 1 Million views in like the first three days of it's release. Ultraman Z proved so popular overseas after it's initial run that it got a rebroadcast (with exclusive pre-episode skits after episode 9) to where it's now permanently uploaded. I'd say that's pretty big.

Like it's not a super big growth but there's no denying that at the very least, with the game plan that Tsuburaya has right now, Ultraman is growing more and more into the spotlight compared to other Toku shows.

I mean there's also just the fact that SSSS.Gridman and SSSS.Dynazenon exist and have been slowly but surely pushing more people to learn about Gridman. To the point where one of the selling points for giving the Blu-Ray to distributors was "Has a large fanbase that is hungerering for proper English Subs to view the series with".

Although this is a nice information and yes I'm aware of the Ultraman Trigger episode 1 getting 1 million views in 48 hours (from Reddit of course). But I've seen a K-pop music video being able to get 15 million views under 24 hours and I'm not making this up.

Also it doesn't help when this was talked about on Toku Reddit, and only 2 people left comments. I was expecting I don't know 50 or 100 Reddit users on toku Reddit to talk and hype about it. This is very disappointing and this is why I'm very disappointed in tokusatsu fandom. Reminder: the Toku reddit section's active member is still way below the active members on r/KDRAMA, and r/CDRAMA.

I mean you got a fandom like K-pop and K-drama fandom being more pro-active in their content sharing then tokusatsu fandom. And I say this as a toku fan.

As I said, if Ultraman Trigger was on Netflix and put under the "more like this" under every sci-fi/fantasy K-drama, and wuxia C-drama. I guarantee many K-dramas and C-drama/wuxia fans would watch Ultraman Trigger and a lot of these drama fans would branch out to tokusatsu.

Overall, I'm not even sure if it's possible for toku to get mainstream given that K-drama and wuxia dramas are overshadowing toku shows. The fact that Toei and Tsurbaraya didn't talk to Netflix about putting some of their recent Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and Ultraman series from the last 2 years on Netflix. It would really help tokusatsu a lot if Toei and Tsurburaya can negotiate with Netflix about putting up some of their recent toku content on that platform.