Would Anyone Like To See Another Kamen Rider Series Adapted For US tv?

We haven't had a Kamen Rider T.V Series adapted for the U.S since Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight in 2009. Would anyone like to see another Kamen Rider series for U.S television? How likely do you think that will happen again?

Do I think it's likely? No.

But I would absolutely like to see another attempt at it.

That would be nice. Maybe an adaptation of Fourze since it would be easy (high school Kamen Rider).

Just don't get Adness to do it. I'm 15 episodes in Dragon Knight and it's TERRIBLE. Thankfully, Adness is dead now.

edited 27th Jun '15 6:11:59 AM by BatDan

Having watched both Ryuki and Dragon Knight, I still say the latter was rather faithful to the original. It goes it's own way eventually, but it tried harder than Masked Rider did.

Then again, it doesn't take much to be better than Masked Rider.

Dragon Knight did a few things Ryuki didn't, which I always found interesting.

But yeah, it's not perfect, but if they'd improved on what had been done there, the quality could have gone up.

I think that, outside of it's flaws, the real problem was that this was years too later. This needed to happen back during the hey-day of American Toku. Back when we had Power Rangers, VR Troopers, Big Bad Beetle Borgs, Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad, etc.

It would maybe have had more impact then. Of course, in order for that to happen, they needed to not fuck up Masked Rider, which unfortunately didn't happen.

They could try bringing over the Kabuto Dub.

I'm surprised Toei hasn't tried to push Kamen Rider to Western audiences lately thanks to the Superhero Boom.

Hell, Ant-Man looks like a Rider.

x whatever: I'm actually rather enjoying Dragon Knight, though I a) haven't gotten as far as you have, and b) haven't seen Ryuki yet.

IIRC a number of the other Heisei shows also had english dubs in the Phillippines (I know that Decade did). Kabuto's just the only one where somebody recorded every single episode and uploaded to the net.

I've been thinking the same. Fourze even solves the no female rider problem with Nadeshiko.

I always figured they could call it Kamen Rider Astro (for the Astro switches).

Meteor stays Meteor, and Nadeshiko becomes Cosmo (I've given this idea before I believe).

They can even loosely use the same location (school for potential astronauts), though they may have to beef up the characters to college age.

Hell, Fourze has a lot of footage (it's series, the first Superhero wars—which means the potential for another Power Rangers crossover, which is the only thing Masked Rider did right—both Movie wars movies, and Space is here).

Not only that, there's potential for introducing both his Neo-Heisei predecessors, and his successor if you play them off as a team similar to Dragon Knight (but perhaps more widespread, hence why they only gather that one time).

That's a lot of shows you can introduce in one go if they do it right.

If a Kamen Rider adaptation is made for the U.S should it be part of the Power Rangers universe or it's own separate continuity?

edited 28th Jun '15 1:40:13 PM by windleopard

If Saban gets the rights, then it's possible.

The MMPR Season 3 premiere tried to set them and Masked Rider in the same universe, but they said "fuck it" when the main series began.

In 2011, Saban Brands filed the trademark for "Power Rider", but it lapsed in 2014 and nothing has been done since. There was speculation that they had plans to adapt the Shinkenger & Decade crossover for PR Samurai.

While I definitely am interested in another US KR adaptation, I'm not entirely sure I'd trust Saban with it just yet.

Maybe after Nick lets them get the rest of Dino Charge out there so we can judge it.

I thought we'd established that Nick hates anything that's not Spongebob Squarepants though.

If Kamen Rider is part of the PR universe I think it owuld be important to distinguish Riders from Rangers. My idea would be that while Rangers are a force for good with evil Rangers being an aberration, Riders are more flexible in morality. They can be heroes, antiheroes or villains.