What Ruined the Super Sentai DVDs? An Analysis and Breakdown [Soundout12]
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Welp, Fiveman is finally coming to DVD! Let's hope we get more Sentai DVDs on a regular basis from now on.
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 teased Fiveman in March of 2019 (unaware that it would come out 3 1/2 years later...) but that should have told everyone that Shout! had intended to continue releases, and something happened. Hopefully that's all figured out now and the DVDs will continue.
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. :)
In a weird sense with the separate licensing, it's a little poetic, if ironic, that the last modern series we got was Hurricanger. If things progressed the way it was going, Abaranger would've been the first series with the events of the movie being referenced in the main series. I wonder if they would've bothered getting those movie rights for continuity, or just not bothered.
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
There’s so much antiquated copyright laws in Asia. It’s the same thing with licensing anything from Toho and Godzilla.
That was a good analysis of the Shout Factory releases. It convinced me to fill the gaps in my Power Rangers collection. As for the Super Sentai seasons, I'll look for good sales.
Too bad Toei has next to no interest in licensing a bunch of their shows. I'd love a shelf of official Kamen Rider Blu Rays, or even more obscure stuff like Blue Swat. Instead, I get to see the first 2 episodes of any show on RUclips, then nothing.
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.
I don’t know too much about Super Sentai as a franchise, but I found your breakdown on these disks to be very engaging and interesting. Your physical media videos are fantastic.
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!
I was in Walmart at the time when the Lionsgate Power Rangers movie was out. I couldn't find a single dam set of Super Sentai. I was ticked off live better, my butt! This is why we need more competition and a variety of places to shop for films.
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 places like animanga and gaming conventions will start carrying them.
I was able to get Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger on DVD from the Shout Factory website directly and there is still hope. I jumped at the chance when this was announced and it didn't disappoint.
I remember seeing Dairanger always being available at every FYE in my area during the time of it's release. Which gives me nostalgia from back in the day.
There needs to be a well thought out vision. Physical media expectations in the West =/= the East where most media is rented and super expensive to buy. This was just passive income from Toei. If we can get Power Rangers back up and running, Hasbro could spearhead a team to get these up and going, remastered and complete with everything to justify price tags. Also remember that Ishimori Pro is technically different than Toei. Toei licenses Goranger and JAKQ from them.
Agreed. And Marvel may have a say in Battle Fever J, Denizman and Sun Vulcan but I have no way to confirm that
Great breakdown on the Sentai DVDs and good points about sales + Power Rangers itself struggling to find new footing being a reason why these haven't continued.
Thank you!
I did grow up with Power Rangers, but Super Sentai just appeals more to me now.
Prior to Hasbro buying E1, they stopped releasing DVDs in 2016-2017. Cause too bad, it would be cool to have Transformers Animated on Blu-Ray.
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.
Now we have Abaranger coming soon!
The other big reason is probably bootlegs that did the same thing but released much earlier and included movies. They even got seasons not available in the north america like shinkenger.
Dead or not, I'm still gonna continue buying Sentai DVDs. I recently bought Hurricanger and Dekaranger. Wanna buy Timeranger soon, as well.
I'm not sure if they did this with the Super Sentai releases but with Kamen Rider Zero-one Shout Factory added the series to streaming services the day the bluray was released which can't be good for sales when you can watch it streaming for free.
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 still need to get one of these. In my opinion, I feel the only reason why we haven't gotten any more is due to a multitude of factors. The Hasbro buyout is one of them, the other would probably be due to how expensive it can be. I wish that one day I can legally own a DVD complete series of Lupinranger vs. Patranger. I can still watch Sentai via VRV so at least that's a plus.
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.
Your claim of Them being shot and edited on videotape is absolutely false. They were shot and edited on film. But the issue is they are kinescopes, A film camera pointing at a monitor playing either film or videotape, and this is a video transfer of that, a telecine. Jerman has obvious artefacts from the CRT The camera was being filmed that as you can see literal scan lines.
Also there is another reason for that- if you look at the picture quality of the DVDs we got as opposed to the Toei domestic releases in Japan, based on my experience from at least the Megaranger one we got, is the picture quality feels like it was ripped out from the Toei Channel broadcasts of the shows (i.e. the strong lights gets darkened or blurred) like it's the best we'll ever get.
The picture quality is also to dissuade Japanese buyers from reverse importing them despite the difference in region code (there's a small chance Japanese users unlocked their DVD players to play Region 1 disks), despite the good price we have. In Japan you have to pay the same price we have here for 3 to 4 episodes per volume.
That's just my two cents so far on that from just one set I watched as a rental from my local library in California.
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'm pretty sure licensing is the reason shout has cited in multiple tweets considering they've started they actually want to release more seasons
I remember seeing those tweets and that’s what led me to looking into Toei licensing more
What’s the problem with getting KR and Metal Heroes released on dvd? I’m just glad we’re getting some Sentai at least.
I'm pretty sure the Sentai shows were shot and finished on film until they switched to digital tape a few episodes into Carranger, so everything before that should be able to be remastered if the negatives or a film print exists
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.
If you play the DVDs on a PC and set the software settings in Display settings on PC GPU and TV pictures settings natural depending on brand also think different for picture and sound so in sound settings make it CD and for video software use power DVD and if you use a 4K TV or display then you should get a 2K video out of these DVDs or any DVD with 1 NTFC region free
This is gonna sound dumb but I think the whole "Hasbro hates Super Sentai" deal came from the reveal of the imports for the CSM Decadriver 2.0. omitting the two Shinkenger cards
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
That's the main reason I didn't buy any of the Sentai is availability in retail stores and the price.
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.
I feel like toei definitely has better promo photos in the vaults but they’re too lazy to let shout use any. Since they release history style books quite often with monster promo photos and other stuff. Even letting them use some of the Japanese dvd covers would have been fine tbh.
Toei not letting Shout use photos sounds just like what the problem is. They're weirdly cagey with materials for licensees.
The only way I could ever see Sentai releases coming back is if Shout brings over Gokaiger and that does really well and they get better distribution and quality subs along with blu-ray. Still, considering just how popular Gokaiger is in Japan it might even be more expensive the other series meaning sales would need to be higher to even make it worth it. Hell even if Gokaiger did well the only other series I could see them wanting to bring over are Kyoryuger, ToQger, and MAYBE Kyuranger as those are popular amongst the Toku fans in western counties. In all honesty I think Hurricanger must have bombed really hard in sales for them to not want them to bring over more along with things like licensing. Other than that I think Sentai's future in the west is done for especially if PR starts doing it's own thing and stops adaptations.
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.
And now we have five man. I think Saban might've been involved thus us waiting perhaps instead of buying out the rights Hasbro or shout just waited for the rights to run out and continue. In the negativity of the internet I never lost hope just like with Disney and the Netflix shows.
Power Rangers "struggling" is mainly due to Hasbro still staying fixated on MMPR era instead of embracing seasons past that era which in turn would have them embracing the franchise as a whole much like how TsuPro has done with Ultraman.
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)
$60 is a high price point for US consumers, but considering that Japan's home video market is significantly more expensive, it's a good deal by comparison. Ultimately, I think slumping sales is why Shout Factory decided to pump the brakes on DVD Super Sentai releases. I certainly hope they release more Kamen Rider on Blu-ray, Zero-One was a good start, but they should use the Blu-ray masters and not the broadcast masters for the US release. I think episodes 8 and 9, or there about, have horrific interlacing that's super distracting.
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.
Interesting thoughts, disagree about your conclusion about the casual audience wanting blu rays, blu ray sales are much lower than dvds and a lot of people never even went past DVD. However, will say I doubt Sentai sells at all to a casual audience, you either need to be a pre-existing fan or more to get more than maybe one as a curiosity.
Ive got Zyuranger to Ohranger and it was knockoff look, damaged cases, hassle of importing to the UK plus the headache of getting them to play on a UK device that put me off.
Although I did hear that fans living in Japan did start buying the shout releases as it was cheaper than buying the Japanese releases.
I also feel like the release of Super Sentai and Kamen Rider licensed in the states is a big stab in the global fandom. Like the ease of access to fan subs gets taken away as the subbers tend to stop when licensed and the hoops going round to getting them imported. I did once contact the company manga who reproduced shouts mighty morphin in the UK if there was any plans for more rangers or sentai and it was just a blunt no, clearly no market here :(
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
I like seeing each of the teams unmorphed on the cover of the DVDs. When we get to Jetman, that’s where they actually show the Rangers all suited up.
I'll be honest, I never purchased these, despite wanting to, because I was hoping for a Blu-Ray release. I'm just a little worried because I'm always worried with shipping. Even if it's marked as fragile, I've still gotten DVD's that have been bouncing around the case for who knows how long, leading to a scratched disc and broken case. At least with Blu-Ray, the minor scratching doesn't matter that much, and it's "typically" a better quality. Sadly, seems like that was just a pipedream.
Just so you're aware, you made one mistake in this video. It's a mistake I see others making all the time as well, so I can totally see how you made it too. I don't blame you for it at all. The Jetman DVD set actually came out before the Gaoranger one. Jetman was released in September 2018, Gaoranger in December 2018, and Hurricaneger in March 2019. Seems like the pattern may have ended up being "1 going backward, 2 going forward." I do wonder if that will end up being the pattern from here on out, with Fiveman on the way.
Oh crap, you’re right. I think Gao not discounting off list price threw off my memory of all of that
It's criminal that we got a teaser for a Fiveman DVD set before they stopped
Edit: OKAY SHOUT YOU PROVED ME WRONG YOU’RE AMAZING LMAO
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'm pretty surprised you're saying Toei don't remaster anything because these shows were filmed on videotape ! I do think you're wrong because I just bought a thorough book on Bioman which is a sentai series from 1984-1985 and it says on the book that it was filmed on a 16 mm film : just like most movies. So if Toei doesn't give good masters for these foreign DVDs it's because they don't bother remaster things. But could they if they really wanted too. I think the answer is YES ! But Toei for Sentai is no Paramount with Star Trek I guess
Good video. I really enjoyed it.
Yeah… I try to get them cheaper, but damn… these prices have my udders dry, and chapped. 😂
When Shout Factory will put Abaranger, Dekaranger, Magiranger, Boukenger, Gekiranger and Go-Onger in DVD complete series together
I have seen some sentai DVDs on stores. Mostly on malls that are far away though. They had a gingaman and jetman DVD. I wanted to buy them but I didn't have the money for it. Whatever they cost, they were 10 dollars off in that store. Could have been around 2020 or 2021.
Good to know!
Super sentai now distributed to north america in dvd ,then what will happen to the popularity of power rangers?
You mention about some people not getting these sets initially when they first came out.
I was one of them, but for a different reason. None of these sets got an official release outside of North America (in fact, the only Shout Factory sets relating to PR/Sentai we got here in the UK was MMPR under Manga UK) and I was still iffy about importing back then. The accessibility of the Ultraman Blu-Rays being region free got me more confident in doing so so I've slowly been picking up the Sentai DVDs, but as you mentioned in the video, the pricing means it is going to be slow.
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
Do a video about "Why Hasbro stopped releasing the physical media".
I’ll see what I can dig up
I know this adds to more problems for Shout Factory but is not the main problem is that Shout Factory now owns all the rights to ALF. We all know ALF under Shout Factory is being new Blu-Ray releases but Shout Factory is also seeing all the properties that came with ALF. The sitcom, the two animated shows, The odd talk show ALF did on TV Land, and the made-for-TV film "Project ALF." The sitcom and two anime shows were done under NBC, the talk show was done under TV Land and the WB, and the made-for-TV film under ABC. It's kinda a mess.
The whole Alf deal is fascinating to look at. One franchise has been bounced around so much
Coming back to this video to report that now space police dekaranger is now going to be a new Shout Factory release I'm so happy they are continuing
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
17:15 i noticed that too ! Toei never put super Sentai dvds in my walmart stores retail wise or in general ! Added insult to injury as the quality of the home media, subs grammar and horrible Case management etc . Very sad but I'll stick with Ultraman and Kamen Rider and the gavan blu rays ... 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Amazon continuously has sales of buy 3 for 2 on these sets. It’s how I got most of mine. My biggest problem with these is that they should really be SD blu rays. We’d get better quality subs on screen (as a dub isn’t even an option) and we would get way more episodes per disc. I loathe changing discs and low quality subs (pixelated, etc).
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.
Interesting video with a cool perspective! Didn't know the DVDs had such sub-par qualities, that's really bizarre- but less-so than the situation Shout is in trying to get them out. I had my eye on them, but only dipped in when they branched to Rider and released Kuuga. The straightforward production style with little-to-no extras for $50 felt a bit hard to swallow, but such an eventful release(and for one of my favorite series) couldn't go unsupported. I, too, wish the cases were of better quality though; when mine came in, many of the discs were loose inside 😬at least I got a poster for pre-ordering! 😄
I definitely feel better when buying the Rider Blu-Rays vs the Sentai DVDs.
Thank you for the this video. I am picking these up slowly when I find a sale. But I am sure the licenses for the show is expensive, but I just don't want to pay that much for a DVD considering how the Kamen Rider and the Ultraman series are well-priced.
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
I think its interesting to see the difference in the countries. I bought Zyuranger at Walmart when it came out in Oakville in Canada. And now I've seen a good number for a while at sunrise records in my mall. Though I've seen the ultraman releases there as well.
It really is fascinating to see what stocks regionally across the world
I never once saw any of the Super Sentai DVDs in my trips to Target while looking at their media section, I always ordered them from either Amazon, Shout, or even Target's website from time to time when I would look for the best price/deal. For me the DVDs also kept coming out a little too quickly to keep up; Shout pumped out multiple sets spread out over a single year (with 2018 they put out 5 of the 12 sets). Maybe if Shout slowed down on the multi-year release of sets maybe sales would be better and we would still be getting sets released that would gradually transfer over to blu-ray discs as we get more of the newer seasons.
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
Didn't you realized Toei licensed the PreCure series.
Proof:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Cure
Well, Toei made it. Duh.
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They were nice while they lasted despite some hiccups here and there. I'm just glad I have my favorite season, Carranger on DVD and it does have the best cover and that isn't bias, It looks awesome! Plus I'm glad to have a few other favorites like Dairanger, Gingaman, Timeranger and Hurricanger. I think every fan should have their favorite season on DVD of possible. Pretty sure the Ohranger and Megaranger sets copied and pasted Millionfold Curiosity's fansubs. Of course there's always the Malaysian bootleg DVD's which I did research on out of curiousity. Abaranger through Gekiranger have inaccurate subs while Go-Onger onward have copied and pasted fansubs. I own the Gokaiger, Go-Busters and Kyoryuger sets and they have Overtime subs on them. I'll only get a bootleg if there's no official way to get a show on DVD or Blu Ray over here in the US and I asked Tsuyoshi Nonaka last Power Morphicon how Toei felt about Malaysia making bootleg DVD's of their shows and he said "We don't care. We think it's too small and inconvenient to worry about."
Okay. So I did recall something do with fansubs being used.
Hasbro you wouldn't have the rights to Power Rangers and Power Rangers wouldn't be without Super Sentai period.
I think Toei isn't 'insane' with their fees. I think they know what they are sitting on and know it's real value. Add to this the fact many of their properties (Kamen Rider, etc) were so mishandled by American companies in the past they may be unwilling to let anything go cheap. Just a theory.
Well now we have Fiveman out, and Abaranger coming later this year!! I'm happy!! Whether I watch these shows at all, I'm buying them as a collector! (Actually, I kinda like Fiveman lol)
I like Fiveman too! I look forward to it arriving
FYE is pretty much the only physical store that has these DVDs, at least the ones that still sell physical media.
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 think sentai dvds could still work, since they’re headed into the more popular seasons like dekaranger
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
Does anyone know why Shout only releases Super Sentai stuff on DVDs only?
Toei hasn’t remastered any of these shows for HD so SD video is all that’s available
they are bringing back super Sentai five man is coming out in September.
Yep! I got a video with my thoughts on the news
i got the Zyuranger set for $20 at a WALMART!
The video quality with these releases never bothered me. I guess I'm just not a videophile lol. Also here in Canada Walmart was carrying the Zyuranger set back in 2015. It's where I bought mine. So it's really weird distribution I guess.
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
Theyre back lets goo
There is a Kamen rider manga to.
Yep. Didn’t feel like it was relevant to mention here
I would honestly like to Buy The Super Sentai Series on DVD, But Sadly I can't Find Them at any Stores From where I'm From 😥
That’s a universal problem with them
It's funny that you mentioned that Ohranger was one of your least favorite and Kakuranger is one of your favorites cause that's the same opinion my wife has. I personally think Ohranger is criminally underrated and Kakuranger is just OK.
That’s an interesting correlation. I guess that shows how great Sentai is at having different shows for different people
I'll be honest... Sometimes Shout Factory goes above and beyond with their releases and sometimes it legit feels like you bought a bootleg and not even a high quality bootleg. The time and effort put into the All In the Family or the Power Rangers complete series box sets are great. Then I buy The Colby's Complete series and it legit looks off colored and has that smell to the DVD's that you can't avoid that happens when I used to buy bootlegs off of ioffer.
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.
Kamen rider was released by media blaster? I can not find it I'd love to buy it
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.
What’s wrong with watching them online for free you can find all online easily..
I bought Carranger through Best Buy
subtitles can be turned off? or are they pasted to the video?
They can be turned off
DISKOTEK should get the licence, they did Juspion
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
Gaoranger was on Amazon I bought everything on Amazon.
just got abaranger today. hyped
Shout factory must have saw this video and remembered they haven't released fiveman
The timing was kind of insane wasn’t it?
Is this Toei licencing tactic true for Digimon, Sailor Moon, etc. That's why any Metal Hero series ex. Juspion wasn't released.
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
are you gonna talk about the bootleg malaysian releases? or do you not have those?
I don’t have any of them and I don’t think I’ll cover them
There are 15 years of Super Sentai before Power Rangers, none of which have a licensed US release.
JN Production/Generation Kikaida got the Kikaida 3D movie with Kikaida boxed set but did not get Kamen Rider V3 movie with V3 set, or Inazuman 3D movie with Inazuman set. Apparently Toei dind't make them available.
That's correct. I believe they got the Kikaida movie due to it airing in Hawaii during the show's run there
Hopefully fiveman is a sign of more releases
Hoping so!
hasbro doesn't own super sentai, so they can't stop dvd releases
They sometimes get them at fye.
Well looks what's back?
It surprised the heck out of me and it happened so soon after this video too
Can you do the power ranger releases next
It’s in my queue for history videos!
I think personally shout relied to much on fans asking for DVD rather than doing marking and commercials to bring more attention to the DVDs also they didn't put the DVDs in stores only on their website they had the power ranger DVDs in stores but now Sentai or Kamen rider DVDs
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.
Zyuranger looks pretty bad even on my old CRT TV and when that happens I know something is up, it to be quaint is just far too dark in some scenes but there is a neat factor I can consider that is a good thing and that being is that it retained the film grain. The set has no DNR or smooth filtering so every bit of noise is still there, though I noticed some weird reverberating issues on the 3rd episode it seems the later episodes have little to no issues at all. I think as age old fans we have to agree that this likely would look better in SD HD but with the cost of loosing the grain and filtering the stuff out it likely would not really look that different... it was filmed in some dark settings so stuff well just looks dark though I noticed most of the battle and fighting scenes when they use the Dino Buckler look even better than Saban's method of brightening up the footage to crazy levels also I know the subtitle issues are pretty bad with weird changes to certain names and stuff but at the end of the day it's great to have a physical release of my all time fave series in it's original unaltered format at long last especially as the DVD set once went out of print and is now available once again.. oh nice explanation on the releases btw ^^
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
And yet now we have Fiveman…
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
Shout used the most cheapest garbage DVD cases ever. A bootleg maker could provide a higher quality DVD case than Shout Factory. Whoever at Shout Factory designed those garbage cases deserves to be fired. Why spend almost $60 for a DVD with a really fragile crappy case.
For real. And its not just a Sentai problem. My Rocko’s Modern Life set was also in a broken case
Happy to be a consumer of “something only certain people like”. 👍
Always!
Make it power rangers copy super sentai please love mark
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