What toku to be adapted in english?
 

If a toku was to be adapted in english whether in America or Canada, which toku(s) would you want the most to be?

And how would you plot it along with the characters and themes?

Since VR Troopers was adapted from some Metal Hero series' & Beetleborgs.... how about........

ex.
- Chou Seishin Series: Gransazers, Justirisers & Sazer X
- Madan Senki Ryukendo
- Tomica Hero: Rescue Force & Rescue Fire
- Ultraman: Tiga, Nexus
- GARO - as a drama series for young adults. Like (The Vampire Diaries, Grimm, Once Upon a Time & Teen Wolf)

Tiga actually got a US dub in the early 2000s. 4Kids did it, so you know it was quality. :rolleyes

You've never seen Garo, have you?

I've seen Garo, but I just an adapted GARO for an audience of teenagers & adults (young & old)! But NO nudity!

And what of the Chou Seishin series?

No offense, but I personally would rather watch MMPR on Realplayer than water down GARO like that. A dub on Adult Swim? That I would not mind.

On a side note, I would like to see Rescue Force.

AS would edit it. They find amazing ways to ruin almost anything, and if I could afford Bleach DVD's I wouldn't watch the damn block at all. Enough with Family Guy and American Dad. I used to love his shows but I've had about all of Seth McFarlane as I can take.

What I would enjoy is IFC or Sundance Channel (Who don't edit things for content) getting a hold of Garo and showing the whole series. Garo, or even Kamen Rider. Start that from the beginning and dub every episode from every series.

I'm pretty sure Adult Swim would not just edit it, but make it a joke dub. Kouga would probably be some kind of Weed Knight who uses his bong sword to battle the farting Poopbutts.

You can't really bring Garo over like any other kind of tokusatsu. The armor scenes in the average episode are too short to create much workable footage. It would end up like all those scenes in Masked Rider where you can clearly see Tetsuo Kurata or ZO.

Honestly, if Garo ever came to the US I'd want it to be subbed, not dubbed. I like your IFC or Sundance idea, because I know those stations would probably do that.

They've done it before with movies, I don't see them changing it for Garo. Let's hope they follow our advice :lol

Remember when Toonami brought over Tenchi and actively advertised it as an action series?
I wonder if they'd bring over Garo with that kind of bait and switch.

They will have to rewrite GARO completely in their own language for localization.
Chop suey clip show won't work because it is a show heavily based on supplementaries. Unless they are going to translate and release all the books it will be hopeless to introduce the world as a whole. Standalone series is meaningless.

Rescue Heroes on the other hand may work because it is more on the product driven template show.
Chouseishin series will be on the cult toku section. Not everybody can take it after watching all the Toei format shows.

I say if it was the team behind smallville or the Spartacus TV show. Spartacus team would work due to how the made the show for late night tv and some mild nutity I think it could work just the right team needs it

I'd like to see Ultraman adapted.

It was once. ... It didn't end well.

It should be given another shot.

Oh, and bring Armor Hero over :lol

Though for what we got...

Eh? It wasn't good per say, but it was that terrible 70's dubbing that we laugh at now especially since the Speed Racer team was behind it.

So it's at least fun to mock for its obvious crappiness at least.

My mistake. I forgot how they bastardized Crayon Shinchan over at AS.
But still, I prefer watching MMPR on Realplayer than censored GARO.

That isn't true at all. Garo may have plenty of its mythos written in books and whatever, but all of the series are both enjoyable and understandable without them. I haven't read a single bit of expanded Garo fiction and love and understand all three series that have aired so far.

The books are SUPPLEMENTARY, not integral.

I would love for them to try again. I just want them to try harder this time, is all.

i want see jiban and janmespon in usa

Get some of the people who worked on Syber Squad to do it!

Can Saban adapt the Chouseishin series differently from VR Troopers & Beetleborgs?

Now Syber Squad was excellent! But then Gridman had awesome designs, which helped.

If it is only the first series I can agree on what you have said.
If it is going to be the rest of the series then I will say no.
Garo stories were written based on the bit and pieces of information taken from the supplementaries. Without those there will be thousands of "why" coming from the viewers. Unless there are additional information given on screen to cover up all the holes nobody will understand why things are being thrown in without warning or explaination.

There's a mild problem with the Garo discussion.
>Adaptation
>Not translation

If Garo was brought over, things would change. Stories altered, characters added and removed.

Uhh, I understood Makai Senki and The One Who Shines in the Darkness just fine? And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here who did.

Ditto. The show has been really good about giving us enough to understand what we need to in order to follow it. The supplementary stuff probably fills in things around the edges really nicely, but I've never felt like I had no idea what was going on.

This whole conversation about Ultraman is weird because it seems to run with more than one assumption as to what series is being discussed. We've gotten Ultraman series several times in the US. Gosei is talking about the original, while I think Sentai is discussing Tiga.

The original Ultraman received an English dub in the sixties (as were several unreleased episodes of Ultra Q by the same group). Ultraseven has been dubbed into English twice, once for the Hawaiian market and later for the more well-known 90s TNT Ultra 7 series. Ultraman: Towards the Future wasn't really an adaptation as it was a series specifically made for the Western market, but it's worth noting, as was Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero despite never actually airing in the US. The last Ultraman adaptation was Tiga, which first aired as a terrible 4Kids dub and then received a fully-subbed release on DVD.

Tsuburaya has never wanted Ultraman to receive the Power Rangers style of adaptation. They were okay with it for Gridman and Syber Squad was actually more successful than the original, but they have always wanted Ultraman characters to receive greater care than that, thus the creation of Great/Powered and the filming methods introduced in Ultra Galaxy that were supposed to aid in supplementing new actors around the existing footage (sadly, no one bit). The garbage Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters series was actually supposed to be an adaptation of the Ultraman-tied series Andro Melos, but Tsuburaya pulled out when they found what they were in for, and the zero-budget looking series is the result.

Keitai Sousakan 7 could work

Tomica Hero: Rescue Force & Rescue Fire

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