do you feel toku is dumbed down and made goofy when its adapted for other countries?
 

i know a lot of people prefer to watch the shows as they originally came out in japan. i watch movies and shows from japan but the ones i've watched are just subtitled rather than having so much of the plot and culture changed for u.s. audiences like so many toku tv series. my question to people who have seen how much the shows change when they are adapted is do you feel toku is dumbed down and made goofy when its adapted for other countries?

The only adaptations I can think of are done by Saban, and even then, Sentai's for children

Hmm....I felt Super Sentai more serious than Power Rangers. I remember in Super Sentai has bloody scenes like Geki's hands injuried in Zyuranger episode 32. I don't really remember if in Power Ranger has bloody scenes as well.

yeah other then saban nothing really comes to mind except for when tsuburaya adapted grid man into super human samurai syber squad. i know sentai shows are meant for kids but can be more brutal in japan as mentioned. heroes even die over there. i sometimes wonder if they were pressured to make the shows less violent for adaptions and thought filling the gaps with more comedy was what kids over here would like. i haven't really sat and watched unadapted stuff but its something i want to do.

1: It's because violence with blood is less taboo in Japan, meaning cultural differences (SPD also changed the death penalty to just prison too iirc)
2: They DID kill some characters off in some seasons iirc

A criminals sealed in SPD Cards is really similar to Londerz Prisoner when they size become action figure scale after defeated by Timerangers.

I can only speak for America, but I would say the answer is a definitive "sometimes." There have definitely been some shows that have ratcheted up the silliness and cheese factor - I'm thinking here especially of Masked Rider and Ultraman Tiga. But there have also been shows like Time Force that kept the main plot mostly the same or RPM, where the show actually got much more morally complex and serious than its source material.

It depends on the show. I feel like the older Sentai shows did had some more serious subject matter compare to PR. Zyuranger may have been a dumb kids show in Japan, but it still had some serious themes like Death which MMPR never really did.

Also in the 80's, 90's and the early 2000's, any Japanese kid show that was dubbed or adapted in the US, had to do changes to make it more American TV friendly for the Kids Network. Like with Voltron, Robotech, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z and several others. TV shows these days in the US are a bit less strict compare to what it was 15-20 years ago if you ask me.

No the shows are just as goofy in Japan.

Honestly, the only way to answer this is if toku becomes more mainstream as most of western toku happened during the RADICAL 90's

I miss the RADICAL 90's. They were awesome.

Power Rangers, Beauty and the Beast, Sonic, Pokemon and Ghost in the Shell are doing fairly well this year despite that last one's controversy

Power Rangers is cringe-inducingly awkward at times. It's mostly the dialogue though, so I think the fact that Sentai is in Japanese helps it seem less awkward - I can't actually understand the more "cringey" lines of dialogue ("talk about lucky," "I'm getting fired up," etc.)

with power rangers ive felt that way too but i wondered if it was a bad translation or they actually intended for what they were saying to sound so corny (thinking americans/kids are that way maybe).so the dialogue is pretty cheesy in japan too? hearing you say that makes me pretty sure they just really dumb it down for kids a lot regardless of nationality. i think you nailed it when you said the dialogue is cringey. i still watch a lot of stuff from when i was younger and most of it doesnt have that affect on me. but the action is always very solid with the rangers shows and that's why i still watch them at all.