Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight Japanese DVD Box 1 & 2 Unboxings

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00:00All right, hi people, it's Chase here and I'm here to do unboxings for you guys today of

00:05something special and unexpected, the Kamen Rider Dragonite Japanese DVD releases. I think there's

00:13only like one other, maybe a couple, at most unboxings of these things. So basically, if you

00:20don't know, back in 2008, Adnis Entertainment licensed Kamen Rider Ryuki and decided to adapt

00:33it into an American tokusatsu adaptation along the lines of Power Rangers. This had been attempted

00:41back in the 90s with Saban adapting Kamen Rider Black RX and also licensing footage from, I think,

00:48a couple of the 90s movies to use in it and spliced it in really poorly. And that show

00:56bit the dust. You may remember the Kamen Rider Black RX suit with the character, I think Dex

01:04is his name, appearing in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. That show failed spectacularly because

01:10it was so bad. And as well, Shinomori Crow, apparently the people there are so ashamed of it, they

01:17don't want it released anywhere. So yeah, so I'm assuming they're withholding the license

01:23to that show from being ever released again. So yeah, and I don't blame them from what I

01:29know of the show. So yeah. But Dragonite was the second attempt to have an American adaptation

01:35of Kamen Rider in the West. And yeah, it aired on CW4 Kids back in, from 2000, late 2008 to

01:45late 2009, I think. Um, and yeah, it did not take off over here in the West, unfortunately.

01:57Uh, from, although I think it did okay in terms of ratings and whatever. And the people making the

02:03show really liked it, or liked what they were making. And even the folks at 4Kids that

02:09controlled the block liked the show and they kept it going for as long as they could. Um,

02:14but the last couple of episodes did not air on US TV specifically because, um, mainly from

02:21what I've read, uh, just that's how scheduling worked with 4Kids on CW. They, um, kept shows

02:28going until, like, uh, December, um, of each year. And or started new shows in December of

02:37each year. It's weird. But yeah. Um, you may remember also the Kamen Rider Ryuki Blu-ray

02:44I did an unboxing of a couple years ago when that came out through Shout Factory. Um, the

02:50reason why Dragonite doesn't have a US DVD release is apparently, from what I understand, um, licensing

02:58issues, I think, with the people at, uh, Adnes Entertainment. Adnes Entertainment is, I guess,

03:02defunct. But there are people that worked there that, like, are causing it not to be licensed

03:10and everything. But yeah. So the show, and it's really weird with that, um, the show has

03:17had DVD releases in other countries, mainly Japan and then, uh, Germany and a few other places,

03:24I believe. Although Germany stopped after two volumes, um, of, I believe, the first 10

03:32episodes. But Japan really liked it. So they released these two DVD sets. Um, so yeah.

03:38Actually not. I think they released, like, volumes of, like, one or two discs. I think up

03:43to 10 volumes. So probably just one disc each. And then they collected them in these two bigger

03:47volumes. So yeah. And I bought these from Mandarake because I had a, an, an email alert

03:55thing set up for whenever one of the Mandarakes in Japan got, um, stock of them. So yeah. These

04:03are Region 2 DVDs because, well, Japan. Um, but yeah. Um, and the cool thing is they have

04:12the English audio. They do have the Japanese dub on them. For some reason, those subtitles,

04:16I don't understand that. Um, at the very least, subtitles for the English version, which I

04:21imagine would probably just be mostly the same script as the dub. But yeah, it's, it's

04:27really, really odd. I can understand, um, not including subtitles for the, for the deaf

04:34and hearing impaired when the audio is only the language that you, that the majority of

04:40your country speaks. But I, I just don't understand why you wouldn't include subtitles for the English

04:47version. It's really weird. But yeah. But Toei's gonna Toei. So yeah. But yeah. So here

04:55we go. We got the front of this here. I believe I used most of these, uh, pictures of the characters

05:03on the individual volumes and then collected them on here. I could be wrong though. Just

05:08from what I've seen of the individual volumes, you got the Kamen Rider Dragon Knight logo, which

05:12something I find interesting is the fact that it's the Kamen Rider Ryuki logo just translated

05:18into English. I believe Dragon Knight is a, uh, translation of Ryuki. You can see it's the

05:25same background dragon. It's a very similar font to the Japanese, very similar colors as well.

05:32This is more of an orange versus red, but yeah. Um, so they usually, they basically just use the

05:38same PNG of the dragon behind the text. Yeah. And this is DVD box one. I'm assuming that's

05:44translated into Japanese for that. DVD video, Toei video sale only. It's very interesting when we

05:50have that. So yeah. So then we have the spine here. You got, uh, Dragon Knight and Onyx. I don't know.

05:59I haven't actually, I've seen the first episode of the show, but I have not watched past that. I did

06:04watch a retrospective and I rewatched it recently, but I can't remember. The Void Knight? I can't,

06:09I can't remember. Um, but yeah. And you have all the characters here on the front, like I said,

06:15in front of the city, which I think is supposed to be the mirror world city. Yeah. So yeah.

06:22That's fine. You have the logo of these two right here and you have Kit Taylor, main character. Well,

06:29one of the main characters, but yeah, DVD box. I think that's Toei's logo. And then the back,

06:35which very interesting. I'm assuming this is just a synopsis and maybe some catch or taglines for the

06:40show or quotes from the show, but written in Japanese. Yeah. And then you have the disc and

06:47episode lists on the back that lists the Japanese titles of the episodes, which I just assume are

06:52translations of the, um, the U S titles or the English titles. Then you have some screenshots from

06:57the episodes and, you know, this is 2009 Shinomori Productions Inc. That's the company that mainly

07:05controls the, uh, Kamen Rider stuff and produces the shows with Toei. So yeah. Uh, Adnis Entertainment Co.

07:13and everything. So yeah. So this was originally 29,000 yen. Damn. Um, oh, this I think is with,

07:24um, tax. So yeah. Color 10.6. I don't know what that means. Maybe that's gigabytes. Um,

07:35no, that wouldn't make sense. Uh, 464 minutes. Uh, so 69 sites. It was produced in widescreen. So

07:42it was Ryuki. So yeah. So they just matched the, uh, aspect ratio of the American footage to the

07:48Japanese footage and it's region two. So yeah. So inside you got the discs. This is a big five disc

07:57case. They didn't really need to use this specific case. I don't know why they did.

08:02Cause there were like thinner, uh, five disc, uh, DVD cases that they could have used.

08:08So yeah. So then we have this little booklet sort of, it's more of a pamphlet that is the,

08:15uh, disc and episode lists that have the, uh, plot synopses for every episode, as well as the

08:23Japanese and the American names or Japanese and English versions of the American, of the names.

08:29You have the, uh, I think writer and director of each episode or maybe it's writer and director.

08:36I'm not sure which order it is, but yeah, we have Steve, Steve Wang, uh, involved in Michael

08:42Wang involved in this because they were the showrunners and main producers. So yeah. So

08:50then there's a disc thing, like warning, just don't scratch the disc and everything. Then

08:56we have an insert for Toei DVD and Blu-ray 2010, uh, four to six, which I just, I think just

09:02means like, was it like April to June. So yeah. So this is what was coming out in 2010,

09:08an advertisement for the Kamen Rider double and decade movie that was coming out in theaters,

09:15I think, or just Blu-ray. Um, so yeah, so these are just other things that were hitting home video

09:21at the time. Um, so yeah, you have a Kamen Rider decade movie, director's cover version, uh, a

09:30Kamen Rider double special event thing, uh, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, uh, Ghost Sager. Um,

09:40this is volume one of the Blu-rays. I think I don't, I think this is probably the entire series

09:45because it says 6,090 yen. Then a thing for, I think a Shinkenger movie. Yeah. It says V cinema.

09:53So I'm assuming this is a direct to DVD or Blu-ray movie. And then, um, I think for Kamen Rider

10:00Dragon Knight, um, so yeah. Oh, that may be just, maybe that's the last volume because that is the

10:07same price as this for each individual volume, I think is what that is. So 5,000. Okay. That would

10:12make more sense. Yeah. For the pricing. Cause, uh, yeah. And you have, uh, DVD volume one set of,

10:21uh, Flashman. Then, uh, Wind Specter volume one on DVD, which I have the Blu-ray set for that from

10:29Discotech. That's funny. Then, uh, DVD collection of Sailor Moon, the 90s anime, I believe. Um,

10:37whatever this is, Best Selection of the Box, Volume 10. I guess just another DVD set for something.

10:44Mutant Girls Squad, whatever that is. I guess the DVD release of that. And then back to that.

10:51So just very interesting how these can be cap, time capsules of what was coming out at the time.

10:57So yeah, so you have Disc 1, Disc 2, and you can see that all these are the pictures that they use

11:02on the front, I believe. Just split up. Disc 3, Disc 4, Disc 5. And then to incentivize people to get the,

11:10uh, big box set releases, they included a 6th disc. When I said 5 discs, or disc case, I meant 6.

11:18Because I forgot about the bonus disc. Basically, um, this has, uh, this first disc

11:23has, um, interviews with, um, the Japanese dub cast, and a presentation that happened back in 2010,

11:33I think, when they dubbed and aired the show. So yeah. As I said, there are no subtitles on this,

11:42and why would there be, um, at least English subtitles? So, yeah. I don't know if, if, like,

11:51Shout Factory were to license the show, I don't know if they'd have the Japanese bonus features

11:56on them, because I don't even know if they'd feature the Japanese dub, unless if someone,

11:59or anyone, like, told them about it. But yeah. Considering it's an English-language show,

12:05I don't think they'd bother. But yeah, so here we go with box 2, final. Um, so you have all the

12:12characters on here in different poses. And then two, uh, knights right there, or, yeah,

12:19two common writers right there again. Assuming this is, uh, Dragon Knight's, like, final form.

12:25So yeah. So here we go, with the spine, and then the back. Same exact setup as the, uh, box set one

12:36release, just different pictures and different text. So, yeah. So here we go. Uh,

12:46472 minutes instead of, what is this? 464. So, yeah. Almost, or, eight more minutes. So, yeah.

12:58469, region 2. I think this means, like, this probably means, like, dual-layer DVDs. But, yeah.

13:04Um, that would make sense. So, yeah. So this has the don't-scratch-discs, basically. And we got the

13:19pamphlet for the episode and disc lists and everything. It is funny that they don't list

13:27what's on the, uh, bonus discs. But, yeah. So, yeah. Disc 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. It is weird that the font

13:38here makes this look like a 6. It is very similar to the 6 on the 6th disc. It's an 10 and the bonus disc

13:48for box two. Basically, what is on that is a more long-form, um, like, discussion video with the

13:59Japanese dub voice cast. So, yeah. So, that is basically it for this. I basically got these,

14:09because as far as I can tell, this show will have a very long time, maybe, before any U.S. distributor

14:19can license and release this over here. I don't know if that counts for streaming, because streaming

14:24wasn't a thing back in 2008 or 9, um, as far as I can tell. Um, maybe it was in its infancy with,

14:33like, Netflix and all that. Um, but, uh, who knows, really? I'm kind of surprised Toei doesn't

14:40throw it up on their Toei Tokusatsu YouTube channel and, like, region lock it outside of Japan,

14:45because, like, yeah. It's just very interesting that they didn't do that. But, yeah. So, this is

14:53pretty, or, pretty much it. So, yeah. And, again, I did do an unboxing of the Yuki Blu-ray. If you

15:01didn't, if you haven't seen that video yet. So, yeah. So, yeah. Really not much else to say. So,

15:08leave a subscription on my shit. Subscribe if you want, and I'll see you guys in the next one.

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