Instead, Toei simply airs it in Japan with little regard for any other markets wanting to see it. Especially when a season of Kamen Rider has over thirty episodes, beggers truly do have to be choosers.īut what really peaked my irritation for the lack of western accessibility to Kamen Rider is this year Toei and Team Rider had a golden opportunity to change that with a brand new season Kamen Rider Saber, which was eagerly awaited by fans and even some of the cast hoping this season was to get international love. A Tokusatsu Fan’s FrustrationĪs I have said before I am not above piracy but the difficulties with Kamen Rider are that many had to fansub (when fans subtitle a work themselves) and not to mention many different opinions on where to start. So legally I only have scraps to work with. It’s even more insulting that Toei has an official YouTube channel where a lot of their tokusatsu works for can be viewed for free, but very few actually have official English subtitles.
Sadly when it comes to official channels, Toei and its subsidiary Team Rider has been lackadaisical with bringing Kamen Rider to the west with Shout Factory only having the original Kamen Rider and Kamen Rider Kuga available for streaming along with the Amazon Prime exclusive Kamen Rider Amazons. Unfortunately, the two things holding me back are where to start and where to watch. Why is it so hard to watch Kamen Rider here in the west?Īs someone wanting to dive more and more into the larger Tokusatsu genre, the one franchise that loomed over me was Toei’s decade-spanning Kamen Rider franchise.
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