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Originally Posted by Den-O

They always get the Japanese actors to dub the re-importations. Dragon Knight, Mystic Force, SPD, Samurai. Toei always gets the actors from the original version of the show to dub over the re-imported version. It's not because it's wildly popular. They just do it. They turn out to be pretty good bu re-adaptations like that rarely if ever enjoy the same kind of ratings the original show did in the same market.

And yes, in general I don't care for adaptations. I always tend to like the original version of something. And after years of being blind to Power Rangers being an adaptation when I was a kid, I grew up and found out just how poor it is in comparison to it's source.

Similarly Dragon Knight had flat boring characters, tried to work in footage from 3 different versions of Ryuki continuity (2 movies and the show) using riders who didn't all exist in the same continuity at the same time, tried to fake out character deaths (Advent Void? Really?) and didn't really have an ending so much as it just finished.

I feel like I have legitimate reasons to dislike it other than my adaptation bias

Oh from what I've read around it looked like the Japanese really liked Dragon Knight, as they have a lot of Power Rangers adaptations. It normally seems the elitists like the adaptations less than the original makers of the shows do.

Your opinion bro, but that ain't a fact, you may have found it poor but I've gone back and rewatched the Japanese versions of some of my favourite Power Rangers shows and I haven't liked them better.

I liked the Dragon Knight characters and ending and I think that given the heavy American censorship they still managed to make a mature show, that got around a lot of censorship just by calling things by different names.

Plus the continuity of a different show means very little to the continuity of the other, from what I've read Ryuki and Dragon Knight have very few similarities, I just think you're elitist.