[wentwood]

Anime

Trans Formers East

Headmasters
Super God Master Force
Victory

Subbed In English

Released by Shout Factory on US DVD

I own all 3 sets.

[GurahkWeavile]

Seeing how small the list of Kamen Rider series officially available are is pretty depressing. Given it's one of the big three, you expect a lot more than what we see.

[GrandComplete]

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Originally Posted by GurahkWeavile

Seeing how small the list of Kamen Rider series officially available are is pretty depressing. Given it's one of the big three, you expect a lot more than what we see.

Kamen Rider frankly has always been struggling to get off due to vairety of factors part of it is just no hard commitment to do this.

[rw1997]

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

Kamen Rider frankly has always been struggling to get off due to vairety of factors part of it is just no hard commitment to do this.

This video might explain it.

[Switchblade]

I also get the impression that, following the failures of both Masked Rider and Dragon Knight, Toei is pretty gun shy about exporting anything Rider-related to the west.

[wentwood]

Shout Factory has brought a bunch of Rider stuff over for Stream on their
Toku feed. Also some are on DVD.

[rw1997]

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Originally Posted by rw1997

This video might explain it.

Another problem involves Toei licencing fees. It taked an entire series to be licenced as much as it takes to licence One Piece. And they licence toku series one series at a time.

[wentwood]

Most Rider shows are on Shout Factory Blu Ray so I think things
have settled down some about being gun shy bringing them over.

As for the Ranger shows Hasbro is likely working with Shout Factory
to get them on DVD in the US. That's why you can't stream Ranger
shows on Tokusatsu World on You Tube. 5 Man , Jet Man , Hurri
and Aba were the last 4 to get picked up so we'll likely see more.

Mill Creek has been bringing over Ultra Man like crazy.

The Rider shows might get blocked on You Tube due to
Shout Factory soon so heads up on this.

I'm more interested in Space Sherif and the series in that line
out of curiosity if for no other reason.

[rw1997]

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Originally Posted by wentwood

Most Rider shows are on Shout Factory Blu Ray so I think things
have settled down some about being gun shy bringing them over.

Most of them are on Blu-Ray in Japan, not in the west. While half of them in the west are streaming.

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Originally Posted by wentwood

I'm more interested in Space Sherif and the series in that line out of curiosity if for no other reason.

Have you heard that Discotek announce Gavan BD ?

[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by rw1997

Have you heard that Discotek announce Gavan BD ?

I hope they take on the whole Metal Heroes series and we finally get subtitles for Kabutak and Robotak.