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Emerje
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Nope, understood you just fine. This isn't One Piece being hacked apart and sanitized for children, this is an entirely different process. They aren't stripping anything away, they aren't even leaving the essentials. They're starting over from the ground up, only borrowing costumes and some stock footage. I can see you clearly don't get it. Hell, Bandai doesn't even bring over the figures from Japan anymore, rather making entirely new ones for the PR market.
Just calling it a bastardization makes it clear that you consider it an inferior product, as does the tone of your writing. And you're assuming the worst for something we have no information on. Like I said before, I'm hoping they go a different rout from their previous shows and make it very Japan centric since that stuff is big right now. If they don't, oh well, kids won't care.
I hear myself just fine. Dragon Knight didn't make references to Japanese mythology and everyone recognises Japanese dragons as dragons so that's a moot point.
Um, I think the posts in this topic or the fact that we're even having this conversation proves that adults watch Power Rangers, too.  But Japan is a very different culture where it's a little more acceptable for adults to watch anime and tokusatsu, it has less to do with whether or not a show is actually designed for a wider audience.
Do they really need to? Do the Japanese versions really need to? Even a lot of adult programing won't deal with this "realistically", why should a children's' show? But characters have been killed in Power Rangers shows before (not just monsters) and there have been romantic slants placed on character relationships since MMPR so I don't really see what you're driving at.
Teens and adults watching these shows in America wouldn't amount to enough to pay for the advertising, let alone the broadcast. The target audience for these shows all over the world is children and that's where the money is. Anime, which has a broader appeal (despite still being unable to get over the "cartoon" stigma, but they're close) has yet to have a major successful broadcast with subtitles, but you think a 100% kid targeted Super Sentai show can? Let's be realistic here.
For teens and adults, yes, but we aren't talking about a teens or adults show, we're talking about a show with a 12 and under target demographic even in Japan. Show me a five year old that can follow subtitles, that's part of the demographic that's making money for these shows, not the handful of adults. And I won't take your "Sub vs Dub" bait, I find them both to be equally flawed to the point that I don't think it even matters. Emerje |
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StudioToledo
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Once you find out what you're missing, you never look back again. Saban is and will always be a monster! To add it more technically, Haim Saban kinda got started really early in the 70's when the first anime greats such as Grendizer showed up in France as his company was involved in producing the songs that were seen in that show (rendered as "Goldorak" in the French release). He would later produce music for DIC and several other studios like Filmation and Ruby-Spears in the 80's prior to setting up his own production firm to handle importing and producing original work.
In other words, sucks to be poor! 
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