how would you adapt kamen rider for the usa?
 

since we had kamen rider black rx and ryuki adaptations,my question is how would you adapt kamen rider for the usa?

I'd bring over Blade and keep the overall plot but make Chalice female.

Why would Chalice be female? The Hearts motif? Diversity in the cast? You think the Hajime/Amane relationship dynamic would be cuter if the genders were reversed?

the way i see it you got 5 key points:

series

character

focus

changes

story

What about adapting KR into Canada instead?

doesn't matter i guess

Easy, I'd just subtitle it.

doesn't matter i guess

I presume that this question is being asked that Chalice's characteristics get brought over rather then be a different character. We need more diversity in Rider. As much as I like female side characters, Blade was an all around sausage fest both on the good and bad side. And Hajime would be the best character become female because at the end of the show, because he's the best Rider that's not Kenzaki. Since main Riders are never going to become female, you have the choice between Angsty Mutski, Brooding yet caring Tachibana and Loner but becomes sensitive Hajime.

Plus, we never really see loner females in toku. They're always played as either comedic characters, love interests or the "heart" of a team.

For some reason, Toei and Acting agenecies and japan does not want to put out their toku legally in the west for some reason. They'll be happy that collectors (a small minority of an already small fanbase) import and buy toys. But to sell DVDs and blu-rays of the series, which a majority of fans will buy? LOL nope. Gotta do all of this shady and illegal stuff just to watch a tv show from one of the biggest superhero franchises in Japan.

would you choose the showa hesei or neo hesei era?

I think the pathos at the core of the ending would work much better for an American audience if the relationship between Blade and Chalice more resembled a conventional romance than an epic BFF-ship.

This is a good reason to want a gender swap.

This is not a good reason to want a gender swap.

Having a female just for the sake of having a female rider isn't a good reason. It feels like, and I know I've said this before, going down a list checking off boxes. It feels forced, like you're doing it just to do it. Don't make a point of having a female character, if the character is written well and happens to be female..yeah, go for it. Don't do it just to do it.

Anyways, I still think Fourze would be a really really good season to bring over. A lot of great toy opportunities, it's a really fun season, kids would dig the space motif, the high school setting, just a lot of things about it would work really really well.

Wizard is ripe for adaptation, I feel.

Firstly because it's probably the only Rider show which I've seen actually focus on the action - like I see a lot of people suggest things like Fourze or OOO but with their focus on plot and character there isn't a lot of usable footage per episode, especially in comparison to sentai - but also not to mention with Wizard, even if you rework the story from the ground up Urban Fantasy is something much more westernised than a lot of toku shows usually are, so it's easily translatable as well.

How would they adapt KR OOO?

Something with a little spiderman. "With great power, comes great responsibility!."

Id think both Fourze and kabuto would be great too. Mabey even Den-O. I do like the low buget ports rather than the route taken with PR in last few years. If they do it again make it more along the lines of Dragon knight's feel and cinematography. Low budget is not bad...

Great things do come from limitations.

I think Kiva could work well. Sure, it wasn't overflowing with Riders, but the suits looked good and there was plenty of footage.
I'm not sure how they'll handle the dual time line story, but they don't have to keep Otoya as a womanizer if they feel it wouldn't be appropriate to the kids (Or not make it so blatant).

Man they should do a Beetleborgs style story with Kiva, it would actually make sense this time.

kamen rider ooo was pretty good but what would you rename the combos and kamen rider birth

Have Kamen Rider Kabuto follow a similar pattern to Tiger and Bunny.
But have Kabuto be the renegade veteran and Gatack the overachieving noob of justice.

that might sound awesome but would you change the names of gatack thebee drake and sasword?

Personally, I would attempt to bring Fourze over, the basic plot about a charismatic teenager wanting to make friends with everyone while saving the world before teatime would work well in American households, especially to the Ben 10 and Generator Rex generations, learning the values of teamwork and trust and friendship with the KR Club and an eventually friendly rivalry with Meteor, and also peaking a renewed interest in Space and Science with the general theme of the series.

The fact that all of the switches have some basis in the science and engineering of space exploration and travel means that they could include the tiniest hint of edutainment outside of the series itself.

that actually sounds pretty awesome

I think any of the Neo-Heisei Riders minus Gaim would be good choices. Then Kabuto, Den-O and probably Blade.

i agree but den-o might be tricky to do

We need Fonzy Kisaragi.

I would love to see that.

I'd bring over Gaim, it would be glorious.

Other than Kabuto probably.

thats true

As for character types I would do the following

Kabuto - Aloof veteran agent who gets the job done.

Gatack - Rookie agent considered a nuisance for his inexperience but for some reason is acknowledged by Kabuto.

Thebee - Kabuto's rival who has it all except for a trophy for defeating Kabuto yet respects him so much that he will come to his aid if needed.

Drake - FPS addict who only fights when he wants to.

Sasword - A quiet and loyal man who lives and dies by bushido.

Kickhopper Punchhopper - Agents who have a grudge against Kabuto because they were not picked as Kabuto.

Ketaros Heracles Caucasus - Kabuto variants based off of Kabuto's data.

Dark Kabuto - Enigmatic Kabuto clone who goes berzerk when face to face with Kabuto

Going from what we seen from Gaim so far, I think it can work for a US series. The show has enough gimmicks to support a big toy line in the US.

gaim could work,but you have to work out some stuff

For example: Don't kill Pinecones.

Or they could do venting again. They kinda dropped the ball at the end - but by all regards Ryuki did too - but it was an interesting way to allow people to die in a kids TV show and could be used in a similar way again.

I would imagine when ToQqer gets adapted into a Power Rangers season that they might try to use the crossover footage unless they bump into legal reasons.

To be honest, in order to adapt say Gaim for the Western market one would have to rewrite an awful lot.

In my experience, Kamen Rider often relies on the out of suit footage for story. More so than SS does at least. Then again that could also be see as a burden lifted. You could take a whole load of suit footage out of context and plug it into any story you wished. Especially when you realise that so much of Gaim is based on reused and recoloured monster costumes.

The whole thing is ripe with possibility yes, but at the moment I see the Rider franchise as something few companies would touch. Too much history, too many people to upset, not enough money to work with in relation to the lower ratio of footage to stuff they'd have to film...

For some reason power rangers just worked, lord knows how. Not a lot of stuff by Saban has fared quite so well. And who knows if anyone else would want to compete with them.

That is often why I think Kamen Rider never really took off and why some of the most often picked series for adaptation from fans are some of the worst.

Just think about OOO, probably the most voted series for adaptation from fans, now really think about HOW MUCH you can actually use. Even ignoring how little action that show had comparatively to sentai, Ankh is integral to the mythos and is basically entirely unusable and that isn't mentioning that every transformation in that show is done in real time.

Your average sentai episode provides about 80% usable footage, I'd say your average Rider episode has about thirty percent, AT BEST. Shows like Fourze for example, is set in a JAPANESE high school, you'd probably have to reshoot way more than seventy percent of that, I'm sure. That is why I think sentai worked and Rider never did.

It also makes sense of why they picked Ryuki, the more Riders = the more footage they have to use, it just makes sense even if you think about the tone, or theme or whatever else. If any show is to be adapted at all, I'm guessing it'll be Kabuto as it has the next most amount of Riders other than Gaim.

At present I think any company thinking of adapting KR would be better served waiting a few years to see what is released. As the franchise goes, the only usable footage being in a show from too many years ago doesn't bode well for the look of the thing. SD and HD don't mesh well after all.

Gaim is recent enough that it wouldn't look so far out of place, but Kabuto? I'm not so sure. In theory I agree with you though.

Didn't Dragon Knight come out like eight years after Ryuki? We're at about the perfect time for a Kabuto adaptation then!