With the perms stuff aside. I'm here to tell you why Kamen Rider shouldn't be in the popular verses page for CRTs and whatnot. The situation is similar to what Ultra Series and Lupin III is experiencing, if you just want a tldr, but here is the full explanation.
Kamen Rider is already a niche within a niche, since not many people have heard of grasshopper men in spandex fighting evil that isn't Ultraman or Power Rangers, and even they're quite a niche subject in VSBW. At this moment, I'm the only member frequently active enough to support Kamen Rider (even then, I have been quite inactive due to irl stuff and may soon have to go onto hiatus depending on my predicament) in terms of matches and crts. While Kamen Rider had slight attention when I joined and did stuff here, it hasn't been as much as the other more popular series received. Only a handful of matches has been instigated by other members; most were either my very selective and specific matchups or tourney submissions. And that's for matches and stuff. Some may have been controversial, but then again Ed's quote summarises it up for Kamen Rider as well:
In terms of controversy, the verse is about as controversial as most series on the wiki, with most of it being from people outside of the power scaling circle like the series' subreddit. On the forum, it's mostly the same, as mentioned above, not many members of this forum are familiar or even interested in the series
The main subject is supposed to be CRTs, so sorry about the tangent on matches. I know the 3 or more staff/admin vote is standard procedures for very controversial crts like tier 1 stuff, and it's understandable to scrutinize something like whether Kamen Rider Saver should be 1-A or not, but doing the same for non-controversial crts are a death sentence for us. Getting a staff to one of these crts takes a long while to do. Trying to get 3 is like trying to win a lottery. Usually the crt would just be a desert, and it doesn't go anywhere.
Case in point. Trying to increase the range of a character has already taken almost two months without any sign of staff. Imagine if this crt needs 3 admin votes to pass!
Since Kamen Rider is in Japanese, the same thing can be said for translations. Almost everything Kamen Rider related that has been posted into the official translator request thread hasn't been translated by any translator, slowing down possible crts already before they can even start. One of my series revamp crt is stuck in limbo because months worth of untranslated scans have to be drip fed for months on end, and that's assuming I get translations in a short amount of time. So even the making of crts have slowed to a massive crawl.
With how most staff/vsbw members aren't familiar/interested enough to show up for Rider-related stuff (minus matchups), trying to further limit this aspect by increasing necessary staff votes and activity is unnecessary crippling of a niche within a niche; like trying to pour cement on the legs of someone already walking on tar that is slowing them down.
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