[TheJaz]

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Originally Posted by OmegaEclipse

To Kiwami, I wouldn't pay for a streaming service.

No shade, I'd like to help, but would you not be willing to pay for official DVDs/Blurays either? If the answer is no, then I'm afraid to say this is a situation where the show is going to get less and less atainble through the methods you prefer

As it stands, while it's a slow burn, and has been at times confusingly inconsistent, toei is venturing into official western releases more, and as they do fansubbers (for the most part) are going to be deleting their releases of the subs

On top of that toei has clearly become a lot more willing to bring out their lawyers over fansubs, so it's hard for me to imagine that any sites streaming the shows directly, or that host direct downloads of the show, will survive through the next 5-10 years especially if the show continues to grow it's official western presence

Now if you're in the USA or Canada at least the series shout has subbed so far (1971, and Kuuga) are free to stream with ads, and soon Ryuki will be added as well, and then most likely Zero-One will be streaming on shout once the physical release comes around

In the USA specifically but NOT any other part of North America, Agito and 555 are actually subbed on "TOKU" a channel you can add onto Amazon Prime for an extra $3.99/month (which sounds like it isn't an option for you, but feels worth mentioning for the subject as a whole)

Why toei is currently splitting series between two different companies for the western release, and why they aren't available to more regions, is beyond me, but that's a bigger discussion

In any case, if you're outside of North America then I think it is going to slowly become a lot harder to watch rider, at least "for free", over the next 5-10 years, that's my prediction anyways.

My hope is that they get all of the show on YouTube or Shout and unlock it for basically every county that doesn't get Kamen Rider already, that'd be great, but it seems DVDs, region locked on shouts website, and paid streaming networks are what toei has their eyes on

And if rider ever starts getting simul subbed the fansubs will probabaly just stop entirely, at which point paying for the show will be the easiest option

It's a shame that you can't watch revice since you clearly want to, but that may just be how it is going forward for anyone relying on anything besides torrents and official releases

I will give you some pro-tips for if you try torrenting again tho, if you set a torrent's priority to high it should download faster, it just may use literally all you're bandwidth, torrents also go the fastest if you're not using the internet for anything else, if it's an option I'd say try to download them when you're the only one in your home using the internet, and just do something offline (or something that uses very little bandwidth like a podcast for example), and if you have any always online devices in your home that you don't need on during that time consider turning them off. Do some of or all of that until the file is done downloading, then it should go at least a bit faster that way, maybe that'll make it a more viable option for you. Since you have low internet speed also make sure you don't seed torrents (I.e. you should hit "stop" on a torrent even after its done downloading) if you have things seeding that also uses bandwidth

A good option is also to leave torrents downloading over night, this is especially a good option if you want to download multiple torrents at once

Also if you're fine with the 360p on streaming sites consider getting SD torrents when possible, those are usually in 480p (which is a big improvement over 360p) and have substantially smaller file sizes, if there's no SD option look at various releases and see what their file sizes are and go for the smallest option