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12-31-2020, 04:24 PM | #21 |
The Immortal King Tasty
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I'm a little surprised how upset I keep seeing people be about the rate at which Toei is extending Rider's reach to an English-speaking audience. The progress made just in this year alone already seems pretty insane to me if you step back and think about it. We went from little more than an out-of-print DVD of The First and two adaptations that failed to catch on to having two cornerstone series readily available online with extremely high quality translations, plus Heisei Generations Forever, which debuted with a reasonably publicized livestream where Woz thanked everyone for being fans.
The comparisons keep getting made to how Tsuburaya is handling Ultraman, but all that reminds me of is the position they were in back before Ginga was on the air, and how gradually they worked themselves back up to the point we're now at with Z being a bona fide hit in Japan that also made fans across the globe. I feel pretty good about the momentum that's been building with Rider lately. I've been hesitant to jump in on this conversation, though, because it's hard to put my thoughts in a way that doesn't sound like I'm scolding everyone for not accepting their table scraps, which isn't my intent. It's downright valuable that everyone is loudly eager to see more! That's how change happens, and I swear I get that! The biggest gripe I have right now has less to do with the selection (I have deep fear of official subs being rushed and terrible; see "Honshin!"), and everything to do with the region exclusivity. And I'm not even directly affected by it! But getting the shows that are already out there to even more people definitely seems like it would be both an easy and effective way to keep building an audience. That's priority number one to me. It really hurts the sense of community fun to see people who are part of all these circles have to put a big asterisk on their excitement for these developments that they still have to take a page from the Gokaigers anyway, you know?
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12-31-2020, 04:48 PM | #22 |
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Oh hey, I predicted this back when they uploaded the Heisei openings. This is a great step forward. Really glad to see Toei hasn't given up on making Kamen Rider more accesssible.
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12-31-2020, 05:23 PM | #23 |
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The comparisons keep getting made to how Tsuburaya is handling Ultraman, but all that reminds me of is the position they were in back before Ginga was on the air, and how gradually they worked themselves back up to the point we're now at with Z being a bona fide hit in Japan that also made fans across the globe. I feel pretty good about the momentum that's been building with Rider lately.
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12-31-2020, 06:55 PM | #24 |
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Tsubaraya built themselves up through Crunchroll, then disappearing for a couple years for R/B and Taiga, then going to YouTube for Z, right? Like, over several years slowly building up their coordination with distributing in the West. Plus they didn't have Toei's notorious relectuance to distribute overseas.
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12-31-2020, 06:58 PM | #25 |
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It will take forever for them to catch up. Besides, Tubi has both the 1971 show and Kuuga. I think Toei needs to have Cruchyroll sub the recent Kamen Rider shows.
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12-31-2020, 07:21 PM | #26 |
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So these won't be geoblocked then?
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12-31-2020, 07:32 PM | #27 |
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That's all correct; it's not like Tsuburaya got good at this overnight, either (R/B not getting picked up came as a real shock after that solid string of X, Orb, and Geed), which is all the more reason I still feel very optimistic about how this is all going right now.
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12-31-2020, 07:36 PM | #28 |
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That's all totally fair! I'd love to be tuning in to a simulcast of Saber as much as anyone else.
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01-01-2021, 04:27 AM | #29 |
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The comparisons keep getting made to how Tsuburaya is handling Ultraman, but all that reminds me of is the position they were in back before Ginga was on the air, and how gradually they worked themselves back up to the point we're now at with Z being a bona fide hit in Japan that also made fans across the globe. I feel pretty good about the momentum that's been building with Rider lately.
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Tsubaraya built themselves up through Crunchroll, then disappearing for a couple years for R/B and Taiga, then going to YouTube for Z, right? Like, over several years slowly building up their coordination with distributing in the West. Plus they didn't have Toei's notorious relectuance to distribute overseas.
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That's all correct; it's not like Tsuburaya got good at this overnight, either (R/B not getting picked up came as a real shock after that solid string of X, Orb, and Geed), which is all the more reason I still feel very optimistic about how this is all going right now.
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They didn't get good at it overnight but they also didn't do, like, really stupid pointless things that's more likely to drive people away than draw them in. Toei's a rich company and there's now plenty of precedent for how to do this; I'd rather they get their act together than do a weird dripfeed of random movies and tiny hints to things you can't watch.
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01-01-2021, 04:32 AM | #30 |
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