fuckshitavenue:

Kamen Rider Gaim AU where Kaito

himitsusentaiblog:

There are actually several places I find sales estimates for the past and present.  One of those is news sites is The Tokusatsu Network:  http://tokusatsunetwork.com/.  It was from them that I learned the Kamen Rider series is currently the #2 franchise Bandai owns the merchandising rights to behind the juggernaut that is the Gundam brand.

I also check out certain places like Orends:Range  http://ukiyaseed.weebly.com.  That’s where I found this:

Which shows the sales figures for each of the major franchises Bandai controls. For the purposes of this English language chart, Super Sentai is labelled as Power Rangers.  You can see that the sales for Full fiscal year of 2014 (which counts the sales for Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger) were pretty good and dipped for Ressha Sentai ToQger and then fell again for Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.  This shows that while Ninninger was trying a formerly successful theme, it didn’t click with the modern audience. 

Of course, none of this happens in a vacuum and toy sales are impacted by outside forces like demographic changes and tragedies.  That’s why I also like to read Japanese news sites like Japan Today https://japantoday.com/. Yesterday they published an article showing that the number of children in Japan has fallen for the 36th year to the lowest number since records have been kept. https://japantoday.com/category/national/no.-of-children-in-japan-falls-for-36th-year-to-new-record-low. With fewer children to buy toys, today’s sales are going to markedly lower than historical sales from just 20 or 30 years ago.

So, I use the data I get from various sites and societal trends I see in the news. Oh and for historical sales news, check out various tokusatsu boards and blogs like: http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2011/02/super-sentai-and-kamen-rider-toy-sales.html which is where I found this!

And I found this on a blog called Redkun http://www.redkun.net/blog/

So, there are plenty of sources to find out there with lots of interesting data.  

tokupedia:

ryuunosenshi:

ryuunosenshi:

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Space hips of fury

reblogging this in memory of everyones favorite air hump dance. RIP space hips of fury, it was beautiful while it lasted

For those wondering what is going on, Toei got slammed by a powerful parental /grandparental advocacy group who threatened them after seeing their children imitating the hip thrust movement of the Kyuranger dance. It was removed after a certain period and is no longer part of the dance in the end credits.

Needless to say, this is the same reaction grouchy boring people had when Elvis swayed his hips back in the 50s. Sometimes companies should ignore outrage when it is this trivial.

(via tokupedia)

videogamesdensetsu:

Original illustrations for Double Dragon / ダブルドラゴン (Neo-Geo - Technos Japan - 1995)

Source:
https://twitter.com/nakanorarmen/status/718831339575742464

cyberbots:

Detail Of Heroes: Kamen Rider Ex-Aid (Maximum Gamer level 99, Hunter Action Gamer level 5, Burger Action Gamer level 4, Robot Action Gamer level 3)

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cyberbots:

Detail Of Heroes: Kamen Rider Ex-Aid (Maximum Gamer level 99, Hunter Action Gamer level 5, Burger Action Gamer level 4, Robot Action Gamer level 3)

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himitsusentaiblog:

Japanese Spiderman is a man of many attributes and a few contradictions.

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videogamesdensetsu:

Design doc for the original Street Fighter.
Source:
http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/131444