I never saw Dragon Knight, unfortunately, although I heard good things about it.
In general, though, I think it'd be a shame if nobody at least attempts to bring Kamen Rider over to a mainstream American and European (and Antipodean, one supposes) audience again. The market likes superheroes, that much is undeniable, and Kamen Rider offers a lot of interesting storylines that can be adapted in interesting way.
So, I don't know how likely it is - or how likely it is that Adness will be given another shot at it - nor do I know how good such an adaptation would be (it depends a lot on who's doing the adapting), but I would hope someone gives it another go.
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Heh.
Just imagined a BBC Kamen Rider.
You can't tell me that wouldn't be amazing.
OK, so back in 2009 Adness did an Americanized version of Kamen Rider Ryuki called Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. Despite it was well received by the Toku fandom, it was a ratings failure, some say it's because it was broadcast on 4Kids TV and at the time Saturday Morning Kid's TV blocks were dying. Interestingly it never even came to the UK.
Then later Saban announced they aquired the rights to Kamen Rider and said they were going to do an adaptation of Kamen Rider Decade called "Power Rider" (or something like that). Power Rider never came to fruition, and they no longer have the rights to Kamen Rider (or so I heard)..
So, now that Saban has ditched the whole Power Rider thing, do you think Adness could have a second chance with Kamen Rider? Do you think they'll get Nickelodeon to air Kamen Rider Dragon Knight while they work on another Kamen Rider series so they can compete with Power Rangers?
Even though Nickelodeon probably won't give them very many timeslots because Kamen Rider isn't a Nickelodeon owned franchise?
Personally I would like to see a return of the American Kamen Rider. Sure Saban's Masked Rider was **** but Kamen Rider Dragon Knight wasn't so bad. I've not completed the series but judging from what I watched it was a million times better than Ryuki. Infact Ryuki was boring as hell. I used to get pissed off whenever something like this would happen but that was because I was a weeaboo at the time, and if you kill off your weeaboo mode and not take sides in this stupid Japan VS America game, then you can learn to appreciate a good TV show for what it is.
DISCUSS!!!!
I read BBC as something else. lol. and yeah its on dvd so you better get up on it while you can until it's released officially in 900 volumes across 900 months.
A British toku? Great and we'd get what 2 episodes a year? No thanks.
The main reason most British series are so short is because our TV production has a culture of only using a single writer (usually the series creator), and so there's only so much they can do (and only so many good ideas they have) within a given period of time. Soap Operas like Casualty do have multiple writers, so they can have multiple scripts in development at the same time, which allows them to churn much more out.The BBC does shows like Casualty, though, which airs almost 50 episodes a year, every single year, and has done for thirty-eight years.
The fact that it often prefers to put out shorter, higher quality series than is common in the US does not mean it is incapable of longer series.
Dragon Knight was okay but...saying it's better than Ryuki is a bit much.
Dragon Knight was more "trying NOT to be like Ryuki" and succeeded in that aspect. Though I wouldn't of mind a comedy episode featuring Eubulon as the Chairman of Kitchen Stadium like they did in Kabuto.