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Originally Posted by Infinitevirtue

For me, I don't think Toku shows and K-dramas have the same target audience. I enjoy watching both Toku shows and K-dramas (though I haven't seen any as of late) but I do have many friends who enjoy K-dramas and none of them seem like the type that would enjoy Toku shows. For one, they probably just see them as another "Power Rangers" show which is just full of bad acting, cringy dialogue and superheroes in spandex targeted at kids. I know that's not always the case, especially for Super Sentai and Kamen Rider but it'd be hard to convince to watch it without any bias.

Did you try showing them Legend Hero? Try showing one episode from Youtube and let see how they react. If they liked Legend Hero over the Japanese toku, then maybe that's show that Toku spoken in Korean and set in South Korea could work but need maybe famous K-pop/hallyu idols in it.

I do agree maybe if South Korea can improve and make better toku show and have it market toward K-drama fanbases, it could help get K-drama fans branch out to toku shows.

I did came up with an idea of South Korea adapting Marvel's Silk into a K-drama/K-toku fusion. I want the K-drama adaptation of Silk to be reminiscent of Toei's Spider-man but with less campiness and more drama.

My other idea for South Korea to help Toku gaining a bigger audiences for K-drama fanbase: Do you recall Ultraman: Towards the Future, and Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero? Both of these were co-productions were done between Tsuburaya Productions and another country. Maybe they should do it with South Korea, I think a Korean Ultraman series could work and maybe that alone can get K-drama and K-pop fans to branch out to Toku shows.

But here's how the Korean Ultraman series should cast, I want Tsuburaya and whichever Korean company they worked with to cast one of the 2 K-pop idol from BTS. This K-pop boy group has been getting a lot of attention in the US since 2017, I think if we were to cast either V:



or Jin:



as Ultraman's human identity in the Korean adaptation. As of now, I only know V is the only one with acting experience since he has done acting in one K-drama. Casting V or Jin as Ultraman alone can attract a lot of K-pop and K-drama fans into watching Toku and that include Korea's Ultraman. BTS is the only K-pop boy group that has gotten mainstream popularity in the US, so if you want Korea's Ultraman to get the same love like any K-drama, you got to have a handsome K-pop idol from that group to play Ultraman. I know it seem like pandering to K-pop fans, but what other way can you get K-drama/K-pop fans to watch toku shows. Just like the Korean adaptation of Silk, I want the Korean Ultraman to be more serious and more dramatic then any of their Japanese counterpart. I want the episode to be tied together, not stand-alone. So that means every episode not only have a happy ending, but also at the end it lead to what will happen in the next episodes.

I also have an idea of doing a K-toku that take place during Korea's Three Kingdom era (not to be confused with China's three kingdom that inspired Romance of the Three Kingdom). Do any of you know Mystic Knight of Tir Na Nog? After watching this, and the K-drama, The Night Watchman's Journal:

If we can combine the sentai squad & format of Mystic Knights and the plot, tone, and atmosphere of The Night Watchman's Journal. Replace Irish period & mythology with Korean mythology and make it take place during pre-Joseon Korea, and remove the campiness and try to match the serious and dark atmosphere of this fantasy period drama. Yes I want a Korean Mystic knight to be like what you're seeing in the 2 video above. Serious and not a lot of campiness.

This is how you can get K-drama fans to get into Toku/K-toku. I don't know who should I cast for my proposed Korean "mystic warriors", but for my female member of the Korea's "Mystic Warriors" squad, I want Nana of After School:





I want Nana to play a Korean princess similar to Mystic Knight's Deirdre for the K-drama/K-toku of Mystic Warriors.

If South Korea can make a K-drama/K-toku fusion show like what I suggested above, then it can lead to K-drama fans branching out to Toku shows.