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04-07-2020, 12:19 AM | #1 |
WONDER RIDER
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Hello everyone. It's your resident Gashat freak.
Between hours of studying, playing Mario Kart 8 and generally just being bored of quarantine, I turned my attention to what is possibly one of the most popular and made-fun-of genres in the Japanese otaku industry: the isekai genre. After hours of diving into isekai series (spoilers: you read one you can pretty much guess what will happen to most other series), I had an epiphany: Why on earth does tokusatsu not have an isekai series? I mean, we already have everything else: mecha, monsters, horror, superheroes, romance, etc. So what do you guys think? How would an isekai series work within the tokusatsu genre? |
04-07-2020, 12:47 AM | #2 |
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Does Ryuki count?
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04-07-2020, 01:32 AM | #3 |
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I imagine it would work exactly like Garo Versus Road.
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04-07-2020, 02:11 AM | #4 |
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I think the big challenge to a toku isekai would be the costume and locations. Like, for something in the real world (or close enough to it), you can just dress the characters in actual clothes and film in real places, but the further removed from that you get, the more you have to spend on creating fantasy costumes and either building fantasy sets or finding locations that look like the fantasy world (or probably a mix of both).
It's definitely still possible, but because isekai is so oversaturated right now and has such a stigma of being derivative wish-fulfillment trash, I can understand why toku producers would be reluctant to sink time, money and work into a series that could easily flop. |
04-07-2020, 02:17 AM | #5 |
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Oh, but it's still a cool idea to think about! I don't mean to discourage anyone, I was just trying to answer the "why hasn't this happened yet?" question.
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04-07-2020, 05:05 AM | #6 |
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1.)A person (usually a guy) gets reincarnated by being summoned or hit by a truck. They are usually reincarnated into some sort of fantasy medieval Europe-esque world with Japanese elements in it. 2.)Told they are destined to fight an evil demon king or something. Or they go on a quest or adventure and along the way create modern-day items that will wow the pants off people around them. 3.)Get awesome powers. Sometimes its too awesome and they become too OP. 4.)Form a harem or pseudo-harem (this happens way too often) 5.)Get discriminated by rich assholes only to screw them over later. 5.)The story never ends. Until it actually ends. Although there have been clever twists, I do believe the isekai genre for the most part (not as a whole, there are redeeming series) is still wasted potential. Actually, part of my reason of taking up a writing course in university is to try and virtually reinvent the isekai genre. Makes sense. Japan has some tough-ass filming license laws. |
04-07-2020, 06:14 AM | #7 |
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My question is are we dropping a tokusatsu hero into a new world or are we just dropping our normal everyday protagonist into a tokusatsu world and seeing them react?
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04-07-2020, 06:21 AM | #8 |
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04-07-2020, 06:34 AM | #9 |
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Having a Kamen Rider or the like in a fantasy setting would be interesting especially if it was a Showa era cyborg instead of the person who happens to have the belt. Might worth it just to see a dragon get Rider Kicked.
Or go the other way, drop in protag, make them the primary rider and then go for a reconstruction of certain Kamen Rider trends. |
04-07-2020, 07:04 AM | #10 |
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Toei would probably be so hyped if you gave them an excuse to film an entire series on the Edo set.
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