Yeah, sadly that is true since they let the Internet and TV do the parenting for them and those kids end up going on 4chan for their political and entertainment source of info.

This is why I wish America would be more less strict on violence. People don't give kids enough credit in the west since they mostly know that death is bad and you will get in trouble if you hurt other people. Kids that I knew in Elementary School know that if you broke the law, you go to the jail. It was something that we knew since pre-school.

The violence in Dairanger could work for kids in the US, but sadly people still think that your kid will become the next Jeffrey Dahmer if your kid sees blood on TV or in a video game.

Eh, part of what makes Build's writing what it is is the social commentary, Japan's getting their first major milotary shift since WWII iirc, which would fly over the heads of American audiences. Though theoretically I think the show would do fine if all that got censored was the on screen deaths and Utsumi getting shot early on in the show. They still haven't gotten back to that now that I think about it...

You could have the adaption be written around the social commentary going on in the US. The Sky Wall in the show could be easily be used as a social satire on Trump's wall. American Toku adaption shows don't always follow the story and themes 100% from their Japanese counterpart.

And risk angry complaints from many parents? FAR too risky for a show that aims to sell toys. It CAN work but honestly I feel Kamen Rider is doomed to fail regardless in the west

Yeah, that's like if M.A.S.K. addressed the Iran/Contra conflict. Not the time or place.

Also why is it doomed to fail? It's like Daredevil or Arrow or the Flash of Jessica Jones but explicitly for kiddos.

It's already pretty niche and despite often trying to be more serious, America never got mainstream henshin heroes like this, making people assume it's kiddy. Plus, people who are already Kamen Rider fans would either complain it's not different enough or too different meaning a lose-lose there. Dragon Knight's ratings were low so that tells us there wasn't much interest, toy sales were low but from what I saw toys came out months after the show started, meaning if they were more aggressive with marketing they could maybe find a boost. I'd LOVE to be wrong though

Good point, but I still think if we did get a new American Kamen Rider show adapted from a Japanese show, I feel like Drive would work better. Kids love toy cars and you can easily adapted it as something like Masked Rider Racer. If Saban did wanted to do adapt a new Rider show, they could have easily use Drive as a member in the intergalactic TV game show in Ninja Steel. We do have Ninninger crossover footage with Drive that they could easily use.

Oh Drive could work MUCH better than Build imo but that's not the topic

Which it is. It's a kids show designed to sell juice bottles that you shove into a toy belt.
Boohoo.
Transitory period during the death of Saturday morning probably explains that.

...I just know one of these days I'll have to buck up and watch Dragon Knight.

I did find a copy of it and save it, but I can't even say I put it on the Back Burner as much as I shoved it behind the Stove.

hahahaha