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Post by triumshockwave on Jul 2, 2021 1:02:30 GMT -5
Just heard about this. My torrent client pulls (or I should say, pulled) these down automatically off their feed, so I don't tend to look at the TV-Nihon website. Looks like after almost 20 years, Toei finally realized exactly how it is all these foreigners are watching this stuff. And responded as you might expect.
People then began harassing the CEO on Twitter, because I'm sure he knows everything legal does, and calling it to his personal attention in the worst way possible will certainly help:
So, that's that for now at least. Since I know there are some other folks here that watch this stuff... anybody got recommendations for sources Toei hasn't nuked? I can probably find shit on Nyaa, but other than TN and O-T I don't know whose stuff is any good.
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Post by machsabre on Jul 2, 2021 14:37:36 GMT -5
What the hell is it with Toei and their horrible attitude for their non-Japanese audiences?
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Post by triumshockwave on Jul 2, 2021 15:23:36 GMT -5
Couldn’t tell you. They seem to kind of hate all their audiences to an extent, taking for example that they’ve flatly refused to do any new HD transfers of their older material like Dragonball or Sailor Moon. And the existing SD transfers kind of suck.
To an extent, if what’s the CEO said is correct, they kind of had to do this. If the fansub is interfering with or supplanting official sources, they are obligated to act. I honestly kind of expected this was coming as soon as the Toei YouTube channel and TokuSHOUTsu started being a thing.
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Post by Deinonychus on Jul 3, 2021 10:37:20 GMT -5
Huh…didn’t even know that was a thing. And here I’ve been buying Maylasian DVDs off ebay like a chump. I’m still very new at this…
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Post by Paladin on Jul 3, 2021 19:13:36 GMT -5
Toei DOES seem to be at least exploring the options of official releases. Shout! Factory picked up the license to distribute DVD & Blu-Ray of Kamen Rider Zero-One; that & Ryuki are both going up on their streaming service.
Why they can't do temp simulcast releases like Tsuburaya does with Ultraman on their Youtube channel eludes me.
honestly i've expected more crackdowns to hit Rider fandom since the Trinity incident.
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Post by triumshockwave on Jul 3, 2021 23:30:54 GMT -5
Rumor has it the same knucklehead who tweeted the producer about Zi-O Trinity is the one Shirakura is referring to who complained about the quality of the official sources. For what it's worth, you can indeed still find this stuff on Nyaa (that's nyaa.si for our resident chump ). Here's what I'm going with for now:
Over-Time is still doing Zenkaiger, they just aren't posting it on their site. Still can be found on Nyaa.
IzuSubs seems to be a guy doing pretty nice Kamen Rider Saber subs (he started with Zero-One, hence Izu). He only posts the subtitles themselves on his own site, but on Nyaa you can find episodes with them already applied.
Now, here's where it gets extra fun. Verizon has started blocking Nyaa . According to a TorrentFreak article, it's probably collateral damage from them blocking the Russian CDN used by Nyaa. This same CDN has a lot of even more sketchy shit on it, like phishing sites and crypto currency scams. Maybe Verizon will fix this, such unintentional and overly broad blocks have been reversed in the past, but for now I have to use a VPN to get to Nyaa. Fortunately, I just need to do that to get the magnet links to the torrents. After that, I don't need access to Nyaa itself to actually download due to how decentralized everything is with torrents nowadays.
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Post by Deinonychus on Jul 20, 2021 17:52:03 GMT -5
So, while I figure out how to get the site you supplied working with my iPad, I’ve gotten a few more DVDs to tide me over. Seemed the best way to find out what the deal is with that super-smooth looking Kamen Rider Skull dude is was to get a hold of the Decade/Double movie he premiered in. And after a little searching, it seemed the best way to do that was to just buy the box set of 92 different Kamen Rider movies. Rational, right?
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Post by Paladin on Jul 22, 2021 17:10:22 GMT -5
speaking of "now what" with Kamen Rider they just officially announced the newest series, Revice. www.kamen-rider-official.com/news_articles/1311should be fun times ehead, right? Except it turns out the dude playing the secondary character is kind of a huge racist.This is not going to be a fun year for discourse I think...
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Post by triumshockwave on Jul 22, 2021 21:49:14 GMT -5
Yeah... I could've done without knowing that >_<
@deino how are the subtitles on these discs you've been buying anyway? Decent, or of the "clearly not done by a fluent speaker of Japanese or English" variety?
Lastly, if you search on Nyaa for files starting with [Anon] you will find some newly released subs that have a very familiar style and correspond oddly with "Discussion threads" posted on a certain tokusatsu fansub group's site...
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Post by triumshockwave on Jul 22, 2021 21:50:42 GMT -5
So, while I figure out how to get the site you supplied working with my iPad Nyaa is an index of BitTorrent links. You'd need to use a BitTorrent client to download the files on a computer, but once you have them you could watch on your iPad if you wanted. VLC would work for that.
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