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Answerman - Why Hasn't Ultraman Been Given The Hollywood Treatment?

Am I the only guy who remembers that Australian-based Ultraman show from the early 90s? The SNES fighting game was based on it?

Levitz9 wrote:

. When it comes to adaptation of toku shows on TV, it's Power Rangers or bust; even the fairly solid Kamen Rider Dragon Knight didn't seem to do much

Toku has a stronger history in other parts of the world versus America. One of the main differences is other markets aired the Japanese series as opposed to making their own like America does. Only America makes their own version with footage from original series, which is pretty terrible. They also did this long before America made its own version too, so they got to see the older series pre-Zyuranger.

Power Rangers succeeded where others failed more than likely because of closemindedness. People are very quick to call things ripoffs, so there's never room for more than one show in the American market. Even if the idea calling Kamen Rider a Super Sentai ripoff is ridiculous given it predates Sentai in Japan. But all people care about is Power Rangers as it was the first one they saw so every other Toku is now a rip off of it and will be shunned. Just like all monster shows after Pokemon, or card game shows after Yu Gi Oh, despite the fact all of the shows live in harmony in Japan, they were failures in America. There's only room for one franchise per genre in America it looks like