Adam Tyner

This is a different label. Shout Factory is streaming several Kamen Rider series on TokuSHOUTsu across a bunch of different platforms, but Kamen Rider Black is coming from Discotek/Toku Time.

Toei doesn’t do the blanket license thing that Tsuburaya did with Mill Creek and Ultraman. They license shows one by one, and they don’t necessarily bundle physical and digital rights.

I think there are four labels in the US right now with Kamen Rider DVDs or BDs in-print or on the way.

fujishig

Oh, I didn't even realize that Black was coming from Discotek. Yeah now I'm confused.

So we have:
Shout releasing Zero-1, Kuuga, and having subtitled the original Kamen Rider and Ryuki and some movies
Discotek having the original Kamen Rider Black
Media Blasters having the five movies: Shin, Zo, J, the First and the Next (though this was delayed)
Generation Kikaida having released V3 on DVD way back (along with Kikaida, Kikaida 01 and Inazuman) and still selling it

Crunchyroll airing Fuuto Pi, the anime sequel to OOOs
Amazon having aired Amazons and soon Kamen Rider Black Sun

Anything missing?

Adam Tyner

TokuHD has 555 and Agito, and Toei is streaming the first two episodes of nearly everything (and occasionally adding movies/specials, usually for brief windows) on their YouTube channel, but otherwise, that's everything I'm aware of.

fujishig

Ah, right, I must have been thinking about TokuHD when I said Agito. I've heard those TokuHD subs are terrible though.

It's kind of amazing to me the breadth of series that Toei translated in its youtube channel (though I wish there was more depth). But untranslated they have like thousands of episodes up there.

Adam Tyner

Also...!

Discotek confirmed in a Q&A after the stream that the Kamen Rider Black set will include the two TV specials, but not the two theatrical releases -- Hurry to Onigashima and Terrifying! The Phantom House of Devil Pass -- since those require separate licensing.

fujishig

I don't get why Toei doesn't just do some kind of master license, particularly if the Saban rights are expired. That's one thing Tsubaraya has over them, once they got that rights mess figured out (I think) they have basically new subbed episodes of Ultraman every week.

Adam Tyner

Money and control, I'd imagine.

Adam Tyner

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Kamen Rider Ryuki: The Complete Series + Exclusive Poster | February 7
https://www.shoutfactory.com/product...roduct_id=8004

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Kamen Rider Black Blu-ray | February 28

https://www.rightstufanime.com/Kamen...-Black-Blu-ray

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Posted yesterday by Media Blasters:

Adam Tyner

The earliest we’ll see Media Blasters’ Kamen Rider collection is summer.

Adam Tyner

Discotek/Toku Time's Blu-ray release of Kamen Rider Black showed up on my doorstep today, so I grabbed a few random screenshots for anyone who's interested. I'm hiding some of these behind spoilers so it's not super-overwhelming.













Here's a full list of extras. One that Discotek hadn't announced is a Kamen Rider Black RX teaser, and we might get that announcement on Monday night as part of Discotek Day!

Disc 1
No extras

Disc 2

• This Is Kamen Rider Black - behind the scenes promo special (25 min.)
• Cast and Crew Reunion Special - Part 1 (41 min.)

Disc 3

• Original TV promos (2 min.)
• Cast and Crew Reunion Special - Part 2 (42 min.)

Disc 4

• Recap special (60 min.; when playing, it says "Toei TV Hero Encyclopedia")
• Cast and Crew Reunion Special - Part 3 (44 min.)

Disc 5

• Long Long Ago 20th Century: The Birth of Kamen Rider Black (historical essay by Mike Dent)
• Photo Gallery (16 pages of photos)
• US Blu-ray trailer (1 min.)
• Kamen Rider Black RX teaser (1 min.)
• Original Transformation and Attack Sequences (1 min.; these have the original strobe effects in place, which have been removed from the HD masters of the episodes themselves)

51 episodes. 5 discs. 1080p24, as you'd hope for. Some of the extras are 1080i60 or standard def. Uncompressed Japanese audio. Optional English subs.

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Kamen Rider Black RX Blu-ray (via Discotek Media)

fujishig

I can't even... I want it so badly but I wouldn't get around to it for years (didn't stop me from getting the Ultraman steelbooks... I guess I'm grateful these aren't steelbooks)

Adam Tyner

At least we have a little bit of a window before Black RX! Discotek has announced their slate through April, so it shouldn’t be coming any sooner than May (unless it’s a May release shipping in April).

I’m working my way through 2 Ultraman DVD sets, have a backlog of Ultraman BDs (and will probably buy more when they go on sale again at DeepDiscount), am watching Kuuga with my wife, have Kamen Rider Black waiting for me, and will probably buy Ryuki sooner rather than later.

I did the math, and if I watched all the Ultraman stuff on DVD and BD that I don’t currently own — and that doesn’t include my backlog or series since the current Mill Creek deal! — it’d still take me 4.5 months to watch even if I treated it like a full time, 40 hour a week job. Plus I want to watch more Kamen Rider and get more into Super Sentai! It’s a sickness.

Adam Tyner

No word yet on an American theatrical release, let alone Blu-ray, but I figured I'd post this here anyway.

John Pannozzi

On a related note, it seems that the guy in charge of Media Blasters doesn't even know what lossless audio is. Le sigh.

https://www.rangerboard.com/index.ph...2/post-6216975

Adam Tyner

AFAIK, all of my Media Blasters discs either have uncompressed or lossless audio.

Adam Tyner

Media Blasters is trying to tie their Heisei-era Kamen Rider release(s?) to AnimeNJ, so expect a release roughly around mid-December (maybe a bit before). Could be a special screening and perhaps a con exclusive edition.

fujishig

Not Blu-ray (yet) but I'm excited anyway:
https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/s...en-rider-73213

fujishig

This seems like a one night engagement but who knows since it's not officially put up yet.

I know this isn't the merch thread but it's so rare and such a focused audience, forgive the aside. Uniqlo just put out a "Shin Japan Heroes" collection celebrating Hideaki Anno which has a Shin Godzilla, a Shin Ultraman, and two Shin Kamen Rider shirts which I thought was pretty cool:

https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/spl/ut-...eroes-universe

WTK

Theatrical distribution handled by Fathom Events: https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Shin-Kamen-Rider.

https://www.atomtickets.com/movies/s...n-rider/342915
https://www.fandango.com/shin-kamen-...movie-overview

fujishig

Is this just a one night release (May 31)?

Adam Tyner

Yeah, similar to what Fathom did for Shin Ultraman. That one was two nights; one subbed, the other dubbed. This is apparently just subbed.