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Aresef
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Don't mind if I do.
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MFrontier
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Can't say no to more Kamen Rider in the West!
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Top Gun
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This has been your annual reminder that Media Blasters still exists.
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seoulman1985
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Mmm, yes, PLEASE!
This will be great to have more ways to watch the movies than just the Toei Toksatsu World Youtube channel. On a side note, Fujioka Hiroshi's son will be playing a variant of Hongo Takeshi (the original Rider) for the upcoming holiday film, Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations. |
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
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Spawn29
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I wish Arrow picked up these movies instead. Media Blasters is so-so at best.
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Saeryen
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Hopefully this will open the door to more Pretty Cure licenses (both series are Toei).
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Lord Geo
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Toei Animation & Toei Company may as well be different entites, when it comes to licensing, similar to how Sony Computer Entertainment has nothing to do with FUNimation & Crunchyroll, even though they're all part of the larger Sony conglomerate. Just because Media Blasters has licensed various live-action Kamen Rider movies, it really doesn't do anything in regards to getting anime series, because they have totally different licensing divisions to deal with. Toei is way too big of a company to have all of its licensing be handled by just one division. It'd be like saying that, since it had released some Super Sentai series before, Shout! Factory should have been able to license & release Pretty Cure. Could it help? Maybe, but only in the vaguest sense. |
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NJ_
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To add to this, there's also Toei Video who they most likely went through to get Doomed Megalopolis. |
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TheRevemgeMemer#932400
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Media Blasters never intentionally nor unexpectedly went out of business. It was the early 2010s that almost killed them but they legitimately hang on despite losing other various material. It took them several more years to recover from those issues. But what really keep them alive is the fan base for the international material they release like the gundam, horror, action, erotic, thriller, mecha, animated genres. Hentai was and is their biggest priority since the company’s founding. They’re the only ones left in America today that officially record new dub material for pornographic anime. Additionally their re-release and new license of other popular franchises really keep them connected. Soon they will reach 25 years in the business and will make it to its 30th year. My best bet for them is to stay alive for the fans. And now that they announced the kamen movies, I’m really excited for 2022. |
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Zalis116
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So did they expect to get dissolved by the State of New York for unpaid back taxes and lose all their old licenses? Sure, they managed to reincorporate in New Jersey and find some dubious ways to survive, but even though they had some decent releases in the past, I don't trust them anymore. Due to their history of numerous DVD-R releases, Blu-Rays that don't work* (Yamibou, Juden-chan), Blu-Rays with inexplicable hardsubs (Strawberry Panic), and Blu-Rays that have worse quality than DVD and missing content (Nana 7 of 7), I don't consider them to be in the same tier as the likes of Funimation, Sentai, Discotek, and Nozomi. EDIT: should clarify that they didn't work on my Blu-Ray player; they do work on others. Still, I've never had those kinds of issues with any other company's releases. Last edited by Zalis116 on Sat Dec 11, 2021 2:08 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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NJ_
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Looks like they also have Kamen Rider World.
https://twitter.com/mediablasters1/status/1469306468465848320 Someone brought up Kamen Rider G and he said probably not due to Johnny's (SMAP's agency).
I can sympathize, there are more examples but for a recent one, I picked up the Devilman live-action Blu-ray a while back and it was missing the bonus DVD it was supposed to come with. I was lucky to still have the 2-disc DVD set since it was supposed to be that disc in the Blu-ray set. Their Zebraman Blu-ray fared better since it came with the same Extras DVD from it's 2-disc set with the only thing missing being the photo gallery that was on the main movie DVD. With Kamen Rider: The First being MB's first release of the movie in years (since the DVD was OOP for much longer than Devilman & Zebraman were), it'll be interesting to see what's included and the same goes for the other films along with Zebraman 2 which had a lot of extras in FUNi's release. |
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Errinundra
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Post removed. Hearsay aspersions on living people aren't permitted.
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