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06-29-2018, 04:27 PM | #11 |
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In Latin/South America, where Korean drama got popular. It led to Taiwanese dramas finding audience in that area: Politically ignored Taiwan practices soap opera diplomacy, in Spanish TV drama exports Taiwan culture, soft power to Latin America TV drama broadcast in Latin America to promote Taiwan soft power Taiwan has credited Korean dramas for helping Taiwanese dramas finding a major success in Latin/South America. So if Korean drama helped Taiwanese dramas in Latin/South America. K-drama has also helped K-drama fans being open minded to a Chinese fantasy toku show, Ice Fantasy. So both of what I listed should've helped K-drama fans discovered K-toku like Legend Hero find similar success in the US and in the west. Instead I didn't see Legend Hero finding the same success amongst western K-drama fans like it's Korean drama counterpart. Quote:
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The problem isn't that the genre isn't 'taking off' the problem is the limited adult series because monetization/merchandising is easier with kids. So we only get limited adult ones. That in turn means the content is handled less seriously since younger demographics can deal with more absurdities than older demographics.
So we need more K-toku that feels like Ice Fantasy as in more drama, but less campiness. Quote:
Amazons, Garo, and other similar more adult series have managed to get their hooks in fine as well as on the world stage. But the amount of the show types to that aren't as plentiful as they once were. Shows that could market to both could do well. Even scifi series still do well. Discovery did well enough, the 100 has been doing well enough to warrant another show like it with "The Outpost". And various other CW hero dramas are doing well. And it's because they better balance the content away from the campiness, and approach the material in more real to their world ways.
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But to suggest because one area of Asian dramas is doing well, why aren't others since they are asian material too(and some are! J-Dramas have some strong life right now too in various topics, just not the overtly campy ones get much attention right now), is kind of rather problematic in itself. The genres do well because of how they play to audiences and their content, not because an Asian country made it.
You mention J-dramas, sadly J-dramas have suffered from accessibility issues, and some J-dramas that we do have on streaming sites like Viki, and Netflix. They don't get the same type of love like their K-drama counterpart. |
06-30-2018, 11:55 AM | #12 |
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After looking at Tokusatsu show discussion section and seeing this topic. I think maybe this topic does fit better in the Toku show discussion then here. Again, I didn't know if this topic would've fit in the Toku show discussion because I would bring up Korean and Asian drama, so I didn't know if this topic would be appropriate in that section, so I wanted to play it safe. But after seeing some topics in that section, I think I should've had that topic set up on Toku show discussion.
Also, I don't know how many people out there beside me are both fans of Toku and K-drama, but I did found another person. Would like to have this person's perspective on how can Toku get the same type of global popularity like Korean TV dramas and Ice Fantasy. |
06-30-2018, 01:49 PM | #13 |
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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.
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06-30-2018, 06:06 PM | #14 |
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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.
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. |
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