If you could go back in time and change one thing in toku history, what would it be?

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I refer you to the title. Production-wise, fanbase-wise, whatever. Kind of a weird idea for a thread, I know, but I'm curious to see some of the responses here.

My vote goes to getting the post-production crew on Kuuga to edit the show in HD (it was shot in 1080p, but edited in a 480p letterbox), but that's just me.
 
Model the Super Hero Taisen series after the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Only the Riders that reprise their roles in person can team up with each other and appear in the series. The Kamen Riders wouldn't know that others existed before them (no yearly team ups) and then when the time is right they all come together to fight a grand evil force. Does this make sense? its a few changes but yeah
 
I refer you to the title. Production-wise, fanbase-wise, whatever. Kind of a weird idea for a thread, I know, but I'm curious to see some of the responses here.

My vote goes to getting the post-production crew on Kuuga to edit the show in HD (it was shot in 1080p, but edited in a 480p letterbox), but that's just me.

The thing is that Kuuga came in 2000, where it was 6~7 years before HD TV has become common.
Not a lot of people owned HD TV back in those day.
IIRC, Kamen Rider didn't get to air in HD til Hibiki.
Granted, I would love to have Kuuga Blu-ray set in full proper HD; unlike Ryuki and Faiz set, which was upconvert.
 
I refer you to the title. Production-wise, fanbase-wise, whatever. Kind of a weird idea for a thread, I know, but I'm curious to see some of the responses here.

My vote goes to getting the post-production crew on Kuuga to edit the show in HD (it was shot in 1080p, but edited in a 480p letterbox), but that's just me.

I would have that down to the inability of their post hardware to deliver in HD. most NLEs didn't even have HDV format support till the mid-2000s. unless your going back in time includes bringing back a Mac Pro at the minimum.

me, I would push for Tokusatsu to be marketed overseas.
 
Stop the gas attacks so that OhRanger would have gone the way it was supposed to.

Okay, just stopping the gas attacks to begin with would be a great thing without the selfish reason, but since this is a topic about Toku, it had to sound that way.
 
make Decade a movie exclusive Rider as originally proposed, or completely have his existence wiped out. if W had come straight after Kiva, which made me want to continue watching Kamen Rider every year, I might still be watching Kamen Rider today.
 
^ Disagreement. Make Decade a full season long with a continual actual story and not be rushed thru.
or have a better ending with Faiz, making Orga & Psyga also in the show. (I'm Bias with those two)
 
Ready for this one? Because this answer is going to knock your socks off. Probably one of THE best answers to this question you'll ever see...

Japan finishes their Japanese tokusatsu hero version of Spider-Man.
Immediately after, instead of losing touch, Toei and Marvel manage to work out a deal.
They bring Japanese Spider-Man over to America for Television broadcast, dubbed and mostly uncut. ***BUT!!!!*** As a backup plan (because Marvel knows how much the fans prefer Peter Parker), they also bring over Go-Ranger and the original Kamen Rider. They air that on television as well, again dubbed and mostly uncut. And these are very good quality dubs.
It reaches overnight success.
Marvel changes the way we see and think about superheroes by working with international sources and inspirations.
As a result, Marvel brings us more and more Super Sentai and Kamen Rider over the years.
Eventually, with the rise of DVDs, we get the fully uncut versions of the TV shows with a Dual Audio and Subtitles option.
Power Rangers? Masked Rider? Never happened. America, and the rest of the world, NEVER goes through the Adaption process.
The heroes of Japan become our heroes as well, we see them making crossover appearances in Marvel comics, Hollywood sometimes makes high-budget Super Sentai/Kamen Rider tribute/reboot movies on par with their current Avengers movies.
The world is a better place, and there is a lot less reasons for fansubs.
 
The thing is that Kuuga came in 2000, where it was 6~7 years before HD TV has become common.
Not a lot of people owned HD TV back in those day.

Not a lot of people had widescreen TVs back then either, that didn't stop them from editing it in widescreen (they could easily have broadcast an SD version at the time).
 
Not a lot of people had widescreen TVs back then either, that didn't stop them from editing it in widescreen (they could easily have broadcast an SD version at the time).

which they did. letterboxed in 480p as you originally said in your first post. a 16:9 frame in a 480p letterbox is still standard definition.
 

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