Adapt an American Version of Garo
 

Similar to Kickback's Kamen Rider discussion, you are charged with coming up with an American Garo. You must:

- Use 60% of the Original Source Footage
- Adapt it to fit an American Audience
- Remember Garo is geared towards Adults for a Reason

Because it's geared towards adults you'll be pitching your idea to a table of four major networks. You choose which network you want to pitch to, and gear your pitch towards them accordingly.

- Adult Swim
- IFC
- Showtime
- FX (Have you seen American Horror Story? Seriously.)

So... Pitch Away!

It doesn't need adapting. We are adults. We can read subtitles and/or bare a dub (especially if it's done by a good dub company, like Ocean Group).

Slap some subtitles on it and blur out the nipples if it's going to air on basic cable, the end. Anything more - even a dub - would be a travesty.

How to adapt Garo for a US audience:
Step 1-Look at your source material
Step 2-Give up

The lot of you are killjoys.

Sub it. Garo is perfection that shouldn't be sullied with an adaptation.

Besides...

Impossible without making it complete mess or hiring an all-asian cast, at which point you may as well be subbing it. Have you watched Garo? The majority of the fight sequences are completely untransformed with the armour appearing for like 3-5 minutes per episode.

Yeah Garo would be near impossible to adapt. And it's FAR too dark for our typical understanding of how American adaptations work. If anything I could see it getting dubbed and play on some late night program block like Adult Swim/Toonami.

I have to agree with everyone else. Garo is something best suited to DVDs, not wide broadcast.

It's just not going to work on US airwaves and most certainly not with the limits placed by Sentai. Sorry dude, Garo needs to be free of edits like that.

wait aim it a teens and get the people who worked on small vile ot adapt it and then it might work

Yeah, American parent groups will have no problem with a teen show about a dude in armor fighting a twenty-story topless woman. :rolleyes

ok have a cut verstion for TV and uncut verstion for DVD and Blu ray

need full name and like to this please

It's Garo. The show we're talking about in this thread.

I would tend to agree, however, I believe that this is a show that would be perfect for Syfy. There is little to no blood. You don't need 60% of the source material just the footage of the armored fights. There would be no attempt to make Garo America, but instead an entirely new show that uses the armor. A few ideas have come to mind for me and I am working my way through a script right now. Fact is the graphics fit a typical Syfy network show same with the blood spray that occurs. As for any nudity, well in all honesty you can edit that out. And the nudity isn't needed. I can also see this show on Chiller, but fact is it would reach a bigger audience on Syfy a network that is typically on the most basic of cable packages. If it were to be pitched to say, Turner Broadcasting (Adult Swim), FX (Fox), HBO, Starz, etc. I believe there would be an effort to make it more gory or for that matter make it too comedic which would in the end ruin the show.