Getting into Kamen Rider series, I have a few questions.

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Getting into Kamen Rider series, I have a few questions.

Postby pikmintaro » Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:27 pm

Ok this is going to take a little, but I want to tell my story.
So when I was young I used to watch this show called Power Rangers a lot, pretty much every day I would do my homework and then watch it, after a few seasons I lost interest and stopped watching it but for awhile I was completely obsessed, although not as much as I am with Godzilla which is a part of my soul since I was two...

Anyways last year I decided to check in on it again, because I heard the Japanese series was like a different series altogether, and while looking into it I found KAMEN RIDER (The original series.), and I thought "Hey this looks really interesting." so I started looking for if I could buy it on DVD anywhere (With english subtitles at the very least...) and I couldn't find anything, so I started watching it on Youtube, and I really REALLY enjoyed it (Well not every single episode, but it's very entertaining.) the only problem was that they've only translated around to episode 41, so not wanting to watch any of the other Kamen Rider series just in case missing the story from the first series meant missing something extremely important, I stopped for awhile...
Then in December I got tired of waiting and started looking into Kamen Rider again, I watched the rest of what had been translated, and I was salivating for more, I looked at the other Rider shows, originally I wanted to watch them in order from Showa through Heisei, but I decided to watch the Heisei ones that looked the most interesting to me first, so I started with Fourze, and finished watching all of its episodes in under a week because I enjoyed it so much, then I moved on to Wizard which was the next most interesting looking one to me... I finished watching the episodes for it, and although I didn't like it as much as Fourze I still found it to be a lot of fun to watch, and I've caught up on Gaim to.

So now I want to go back and start watching the Showa series in order before moving on to the Heisei ones, I looked all over to find DVDs for it (Since I want to watch them legally if I can, and since Ultraman, and UltraSeven came out with english subtitled dvds.) and all I could find was a boxset of Kamen Rider V3 on a website called "Generation Kikaida" I gleefully ordered it and am currently watching through the episodes (I'm up to episode 20 now.) anyways now I can get onto my questions.

#1: Are there any other Kamen Rider series on DVD with english subtitles? and if so where can I buy them?
#2: Where do people normally watch the ones that aren't on DVD? I found the series on Youtube, but they are a bit hard to find, is there a certain website that everybody uses?
#3: I'm also interested in the Sentai series (The ones that were made into Power Rangers) so have any of those been released on DVD in the US? and if not I have the same question on which website I could watch them on (Depending on if they are translated.)

I know it's going to take awhile to watch all these series, but I'm really enjoying them, and I can watch quite a few episodes each day after work, thanks for any help! :mrgreen:
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Re: Getting into Kamen Rider series, I have a few questions.

Postby Shonokin » Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:06 am

There's unfortunately not a lot of R1 DVDs of Kamen Rider. Outside of Hawaii's V3 set, there might be some legit DVDs with Eng subs or dubs from Malaysia. Other folks can answer that. Just a reminder for you and anyone that answers, to keep in mind our strict policy prohibiting talking about digital and DVD bootlegs.
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Re: Getting into Kamen Rider series, I have a few questions.

Postby tbeasley » Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:16 am

This doesn't have much to do with Region 1 releases but I felt it was worth posting -
http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2013 ... itle-list/
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