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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

I think Kamen Rider will do well in the US if they do a original TV show with no Japanese footage. It would need a decent size budget, but I think it can work. With Amazons plan to be release in Amazon Prime US, maybe it can boost interest in the franchise outside the US. With a original TV series in the US, they can have a bigger budget and prove that not all henshin heroes are PR rip offs.



Well Masked Rider and Dragon Knight pretty much tanked. Toei probably feels like there is not much of a market for Kamen Rider outside of Asia. With Super Sentai, it was used for Power Rangers and there was a decent market for it to be release on DVD.

I think the only other viable option to making a western Kamen Rider is filming them at the same time at the same locations so the footage would line up, at least for the action scenes. If I were to pick one series from the past few years to use the costumes/theme of it would either be Wizard or Drive. The theme of Gaim is just too weird to start out on and Ghost is too eastern with it's selection of historical figures.

As for Dragon Knight, I've never seen it but I feel it's main problem was it was just on a strange channel for a kids show. I had honestly never heard of "The CW4Kids" before I got into Kamen Rider nor had I ever seen any toys for it. It really wasn't set up to succeed.