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Originally Posted by henshinzero

Is there anyway to adapt Ultraman Orb-R/B in America/Canada?

With all the kaiju fights and all, it'd be nice to find a way somehow.

Plus Ultraman Tiga's dubbing? No good.

Ultraman is one of the few toku that don't get 'adapted' and only stay dub/sub.
The closest they've done is had it made abroad/co-produced abroad with an english speaking cast.

It's typically treated more like Godzilla is, where it's either dubbed or filmed abroad, but they don't do spliced together new footage with new actors in the roles. Though they did test that with Gridman once. That's about as far as that went.

There were some previous 70s films that left a bad taste in Tsuburaya's mouth on doing stuff like that. Which is why when approached in the past they let Gridman be used as a test, but otherwise wanted to maintain the integrity of what Ultraman represents by not having it adapted.

They are open to licensing it out for new characters and lore, but not a pre-existing show adapted. Like Towards the Future that was an Australian co-production, and the Hanna Barbera animated. But generally speaking they don't do "power rangers" style adaptations.

Ultraman also has a history of going to foreign markets dubbed though all the way back to its early days.

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Originally Posted by Aoi Kurenai

I believe this was Ultraman Great. (the one with Kane Kosugi) Based on rumblings I've heard from way back when, the director isn't a fan of tokusatsu and thought it was stupid.

Ultraman Great/Towards the Future was an Australian co-production. The only American one that I'm aware of was the Hanna Barbera animated one.