If we do, it will only be because shout worked with Toei for the license of another season. Getting Fiveman, the least popular season in japan, means nothing as far as future seasons. Sentai Nerds need to get this through their heads. Beggars can't be choosers here. You either get the series they come out with or you don't .Sentai DVDs by themselves are for nothing but a niche audience, not the general public. Sentai Fans are niche whether they see it or not. As soon as Fiveman was announced you have a lot of nerds demanding this to be on bluray, better picture quality. Get real, Fiveman aired in the early 90s. Standard Definition was the common back then. Toei was not going back to put their old seasons in HD. Especially when Super Sentai has been declining in popularity in Japan. Kamen Rider gets a lot more attention and love because its very popular over there. Another thing, fans HAS to realize. popular Seasons like Abaranger, and Dekaranger are not going to get licensed for cheap. One more thing you have to consider Sentai did start airing certain series in HD around Shinkenger. I guarantee you the cost to bring those to America would be exceptionally high. They aired Boukenger in wide screen. Blurays for Seasons didn't start until they released the Shinkenger season.

Let's hope Shout! Factory will do Turboranger and Abaranger.

Well, Abaranger is coming at least! 😁

@@MGMVE Liveman And Others are DVD in 2023

It would be nice to get everything released pre Jetman.

I'm glad Fiveman finally came to be. Hopefully Toei and Shout get the sales they're looking for to keep the releases going, I'd hate for them to disappear again.

Bruno, you teasing Fiveman DVDs when you did seemed like nothing but an attempt to grab some attention. Personally I thought it was pretty crummy to tease something that was never official or would not be official until three years later.

@@MGMVE Maybe you could help shed some light on this. If you know we're the world's first and longest running channel of our kind, and have never once in our history posted misinformation (and work absurdly hard for our viewers) what made you think we'd suddenly change, and pick Fiveman to lie or mislead about? How would that even get us attention? Fiveman is not a popular search term for our channel, and I didn't even name it on the channel or in the tags. That would have been a fairly worthless thing to do for us to get views. Animation is what drives the channel, not quick news videos with a blurred image of a pre-Power Rangers DVD set. The comment you're responding to clearly states I did not know it would take that long, and now you can safely assume it had something to do with Hasbro. I don't know what to make of your comment when the "never official" set is up for pre-order, using the very same box art I teased. So, not a lot of sense is being made here, but you seem to speak for a lot of people. Why is this a thing people think when it disagrees with observable reality? We're not a new channel. 15 years of facts and high quality content. If you want to clickbait, use Mighty Morphin.

they may bring the past Sentai a shame they wont bring future sentai. Reason I got a Collection Package of 2001-2021 Super Sentai Series on ebay.

Didn't expect you to be here. :)

Now thinking of that, maybe that’s another factor of why they stopped. I wonder if they wanted the movie for something like Abaranger but that would have had to make the set more expensive than what would have sold

@@Soundout12 bro I’m getting new super sentai but 1 9 7 4

Definitely. It feels like Shout had to pull teeth just to get shows and get Zero-One on Blu-Ray

Kuuga Bluray is shipping very soon and Abaranger was just announced today. As for Metal Hero, Discotek Media is releasing Space Sheriff Gavan in October, Preorders are up on RightStufAnime right now. So supporting those releases will hopefully lead to more Metal Hero. The most important thing fans can do is support all of the physical releases, thats how we get more sets.

Thank you so much! I strive to make each video as standalone as possible so it makes me really glad to hear that I was successful here!

Yeah it sucks same with Kamen Rider can only find them online why not in a retail store

@GamerBoy870 Yep, it's just pure bullsh!t. It's called free choice. Why can't we have it?

@GamerBoy870 I know it's complete nonsense. There's a thing called free choice, why can't we have it? Hopefully, Something will change here in the next few years. Maybe animanga and gaming conventions will start carrying them.

Thank you!

Agreed. And Marvel may have a say in Battle Fever J, Denizman and Sun Vulcan but I have no way to confirm that

I’m glad we at least got the Animated DVD set that was really dang good and fixed the aspect ratios that the Paramount DVDs screwed up

@@Soundout12 Why they sptopped releasesing physical media ? Due to them thinking that the physical media being a dead horse.

The Super Sentai shows were added some time after their DVD release to Shout’s website and they’re on Tokushoutsu now with the Kamen Rider shows. And while it may hurt the disc sales, the shows being on streaming are an additional revenue source for Shout as the shows are on an ad-based platform which is basically like them being shown on TV broadcast

I’m definitely glad that we got what we got and the streaming options available are great. Hopefully one day it can continue

@@Soundout12 I hope so too.

Nope, pretty much shot and finished on film but transferred on to tape starting with Carranger and stuck with that until Gaoranger.

@@mikedbz8530 you just agreed with what I said though...

Oh okay then I got confused there for a second but they eventually did switch to digital video for shooting for Gao onward

@@mikedbz8530 ye

But here's the thing, Megaranger is not the original broadcast to my knowledge, it's a revised rerun version with all the flashing effects toned down for up the epilepsy concerns after the Porygon incident much like JetMan had revisions to special effect scenes possibly from a TV Ashai Rebroadcast version.

That really was one of the biggest challenges of these sets being sold

@@Soundout12 That it is

Not to mention the picture quality. If it had the same picture quality as the JP releases I would have bought it, but alas, we get the quality of the Toei Channel broadcasts on them.

Toei is definitely guilty of giving lower quality masters to licensors and is likely for that reason of disuading importing

@@Soundout12 and yet the same can't be said for their anime we get in the US- always the best picture quality, and I'm jealous.

@@christiandacanay3086 Not with all anime, Dragon Ball Z famously has not had a truly good western release. Unsurprisingly it is a Toei show

Mainly it's because those strong lights are seizure inducing. Don't believe me, look up the "Electric Soldier Porygon" incident. And Toei did it with their JP Jetman's 5 volume DVD.

@@therussianwanderer4851 if the JP domestic release of Jetman is to be believed I think that is the only exception. Every other JP sentai release is kept untouched on that area.

I remember seeing those tweets and that’s what led me to looking into Toei licensing more

Saban Brands and Bandai had the same fixation and I think for too long now we’ve had PR’s public perceptions be “It’s MMPR and oh yea these other seasons exist”. It’s so weird to see a 30 year franchise so focused on the first tenth of its existence and none of the rest Shattered Grid, Battle for the Grid, Heroes of the Grid all feel like a template on how to really bring the universe together and I wish we could get that kind of energy out of Hasbro (outside the Lightning Collection which does have good character variety for the most part)

Toei not letting Shout use photos sounds just like what the problem is. They're weirdly cagey with materials for licensees.

I’ve been looking into that as well. Not entirely sure yet if the CSM Deca 2.0 is going to be a Bandai Asia import like some of the other CSM imports have been. So it could be Hasbro, or it could be Asia. We’ll have to see upon release

Agreed. I really don’t know why Toei gave them the broadcast masters, its just a dumb move (probably prompted by fears of Japanese customers importing the cheaper US release). So far it seems the Tokushoutsu releases of Kamen Rider, Kuuga and Ryuki use the Blu-Ray masters so I would assume if/when those make it to discs, they’ll be using those versions

@@Soundout12 the broadcast versions of the Sentai releases are a big turn off for me because of the blurring and darkening of the strong light effects in them, as opposed to the JP releases which has none of them (save for Jetman, as some people pointed it out to me in the comments) because they come from the proper masters that was unedited but cleaned up.

Going out of order to get more popular shows out to drum up interest would be a smart play for sure. And we definitely need Power Rangers in a healthy, comfortable spot to get the market attention that would be needed.

Although Toei heard the pleas of japanese consumers, and released the two-set DVDs for half the series thus far.

That’s definitely been a major issue with the licensing of Toku shows with Sentai, Rider and Ultra. I always strive to say that the shows have been licensed “in North America” and not just “in the West” because of this. These companies really need to branch out and give more availability to fans in other countries

@@Soundout12 aye its a shame, alot of people are anti my views on it, but I recall when mighty morphin first got its german release and everyone was saying to hiy them to support further official releases, then the set in the states came out same again, by the time of its UK release everyone that wanted mighty morphin already had it and in some cases multiple times, it's no wonder it failed here. Ah well lets see what the future brings, especially now with fan subs being back released in the shadows, and the blu ray steaming ways of newer stuff. I think you raise a good point in the video about if they do ever put sentai on dvd again it wont hit the same, and the licensing point of view seems about right. Although I was always under the impression the masters Shout used for Sentai where the copies Saban got to make power rangers which is why the release quality is different compared to the Japanese dvds.

Having compared to Toei Video’s DVDs, the quality is slightly lower on the Shout DVDs but not by much. I think Toei’s just not great at preserving their stuff

How is this comment already outdated in a month lmao

The teaser was from me, and Shout was not thrilled. Someone very high up sent me the image and said it was okay to tease on my channel, but evidently, it was not okay with other people working there, and then something happened causing a long delay. As far as I knew, this was about to be announced. Had I known it'd be 3 1/2 years later, I certainly wouldn't have said anything.

​@@Kenkarangerbut didn't shout just release Dekaranger in February? I'm so confused are they done or what?

I’ll see what I can dig up

Oh crap, you’re right. I think Gao not discounting off list price threw off my memory of all of that

The whole Alf deal is fascinating to look at. One franchise has been bounced around so much

Oh yeah, anyone outside US/Canada isn’t to blame for not picking them up right away. Importing them was expensive and having the tech to play them even more so

Yep! I got a video on the Dekaranger set on the channel now

@@Soundout12 I really hope they keep going with the releases especially the classic Super Sentai

I also waited for sales on the Sentai DVDs as well before I was covering them in videos. I definitely fight through the prices on the newer sets

Good to know!

I definitely feel better when buying the Rider Blu-Rays vs the Sentai DVDs.

It really is fascinating to see what stocks regionally across the world

Agreed

You don't need to be so dramatic about it. That's how DVDs work. The only season I know to be on Bluray was Shinkenger. HD seasons probably won't come because of how expensive the rights to them will be.

Both my FYEs closed but when they were open they had a set or two for more than list price most of the time

I definitely remember how it went from two sets a year to that drop of 5 in one year and couldn’t keep up. If they were priced more like the Ultraman sets it would have been less of an issue

With Deka having a Blu-Ray in Japan, I’d hope they could released it on Blu-Ray here as well. But who knows if Toei would charge more for the license for that

@@Soundout12 And besides, it's an upsclae, not a proper HD remaster.

True, but it’s a good upscale and the lower disc count would help with the overall budget

@@Soundout12 The reason they upscaled Kuuga and Dekaranger, it's because of cheapness and budget, right ?

Its because they were produced on video tapes as opposed to film. Film elements can be remastered, video tape elements can’t

They can be turned off

Toei hasn’t remastered any of these shows for HD so SD video is all that’s available

I like Fiveman too! I look forward to it arriving

Well, Toei made it. Duh.

It's probably out of print, which is why.

They released The First on DVD in the 2000s and its out of print. They’re set to release First, Next, Shin, ZO and J next year

@@Soundout12 Nice.

Okay. So I did recall something do with fansubs being used.

That’s a universal problem with them

That’s interesting. I wonder why Walmart CA decided to carry it I think my critique on video quality comes from studying video production over the years and comparing and contrasting releases. While the Sentai sets don’t look great, they look fine in most cases

@@Soundout12 I've no idea. That was the only set I found there though so I'm unsure how they sold here, I'm guessing not all that well since the only other place I've seen these sets was at a local video/music store liken to yourself. Yeah, quality could have been better, but I'd rather this than them trying to do an HD upscale and making it even worse.

Oh god yeah. Toei’s HD upscales can be a nightmare Its a real damned if do, damned if you don’t situation

I would love that cause they do the best work but I believe they once said they got Juspion cause it was the cheapest license they could get

@@Soundout12 the footage would be remastered from the 35mm video or upscaled, more can be done, they can hire TV-Nihon for the Subs thereby making them official, they would be on Blu Ray, they would come out more readily and frequently. Just look what they did with Project Ako! Maybe they could do Speilban, B-Fighter? Blue Swat?

I think they could do some of the unadapted Metal Heroes cause knowing Toei’s backwards thinking, they probably think the obscure adaptations make it a selling point to sell better so they’ll charge more for the license

@@Soundout12 like Robotack Kabutak, Jiban, Janperson (Exceeddraft Winspector and Solbrain would sell big in Brazil) Guyferd, The Toho Sentai Series, Changerion, Voicelugger, heck why hasn't Mill Creek licensed Bio planet Woo?

I hope with Mill Creek’s success with Ultra it’ll start a new wave of Toku releases for NA and Toei will start to want to get more in on the market and open things up more

That’s an interesting correlation. I guess that shows how great Sentai is at having different shows for different people

Yep! I got a video with my thoughts on the news

Its honestly kinda odd how their quality changes release to release

@@Soundout12 I get the impression it's all based on the interest of whoever is in charge of putting together a certain project. Who knows though.

Yep. Didn’t feel like it was relevant to mention here

The timing was kind of insane wasn’t it?

Hoping so!

Depends on the series probably. I feel like the reason we didn't receive Metal Heroes like Metalder or B Fighter is because VR Troopers/Big Bad Beetleborgs wasn't as successful, and thus not as profitable in Shout/Saban's eyes. The real reason for the deal in the first place was to get Power Rangers out on home media, and those were just cheap extras.

Toei Animation is a different entity altogether, more experienced with licensing and even has US and European offices.

I’d like to chime in as well and mention that I believe Discotek said once that they released Juspion because it was the cheapest Metal Hero license to get

@@Soundout12 Why Juspion is so cheap ? Is it due to being not popular in it's home country, or it's populaity in Brazil ? And why Metal Heroes, or any Toku is expensive, even though Metal Heroes is stopped a long time.

If I’m remembering correctly, the Discotek guys weren’t sure either why it was the cheapest and I’d guess that Toei wants more for the adapted Heroes cause they could “sell better due to visibility” cause they’re so stuck in the past they’d think VRT and BBB would be selling points

It surprised the heck out of me and it happened so soon after this video too

I don’t have any of them and I don’t think I’ll cover them

For real. And its not just a Sentai problem. My Rocko’s Modern Life set was also in a broken case

That's correct. I believe they got the Kikaida movie due to it airing in Hawaii during the show's run there

Oh yeah. There was like 0 marketing and it pretty much was only known through fan groups and press releases

@@Soundout12 poor marketing and Toei and Kamen rider and ultraman being more popular hell you can find ultraman stuff at Walmart and Kamen rider zero one just got a Blu ray release not long ago

I really feel like Mill Creek changed the game for tokusatsu disc releases and I’m glad that Shout’s Zero-One Blu-Ray is definitely following in those footsteps

@@Soundout12 more people are asking for Kamen rider DVDs

@@christianthrasher8677 But it would be harder, due to Toei's way of licencing.

It’s in my queue for history videos!

I was shocked when that announcement happened

@@Soundout12 That and Kuuga I was both 🤯 and 😭

@@maingamer6846 Same here!

@@Soundout12 Here’s to hoping they sub Abaranger and Dekaranger next

Thanks! I’m glad you like owning the releases, I do as well. Tokusatsu releases on disc will always make me happy, but I always push the companies to do better. There’s no reason for toku to get a lower quality release that most anime so I always hope with each release things improve

Always!