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[derpyrider]

Adi Shankar planning R-rated Power Rangers cartoon

Originally this was going to be a reply to a post on Rangerboard under my Riderkid name but as I kept writing, I realized this would work better as an actual article. Be prepared. I get brutal. also thanks to  DukeNukem 2417 for the original post I replied to.

Part of me just wanted that little toad to fade into obscurity with Dragonball Evolution and the rash of Anime live action movie in the mid 2000s but it seems he's back... again...

I love what you wrote BTW. It's actually what I would have wrote to say why this guys is completely insane! The problem with getting something 'Dark' and 'Adult' and anything like that is that you can't without weighing the risks.

With a series like Power Rangers in America, the risk isn't worth the reward. In Japan, merchandise at least is good enough that a risk for a 13 episode series was good for Kamen Rider Amazons and it did well enough that merchandise was commissioned, sold, made a profit, led to them bringing the series to Amazon over here and greenlighting a second season.

Power Rangers relies on merchandise and even if he got the series on Netflix or Hulu, It's gonna be an SFX nightmare without the budget to back it up. Shows like Amazons and the Netflix Marvel shows don't have heavy effects budgets and are well written enough and marketable enough that they made money back fast either through merchandise rights, Bandai's work with Toei, Amazon's Prime service or Netflix's service plans.

With an R rating, this would tank toy sales. It's now a year after the release of Batman V Superman and my local stores can't give the toys away. the prices on them keep lowering and lowering to the point that figures are 3 dollars and vehicles are getting removed for Kong Skull Island Merchandise.

R ratings are basically death sentences to some toys and an R rating to a toy line that's basically always been a Hard G bordering PG for over 20 years would basically be a death sentence.

The way Shankar is saying it, he plans on this being some sort of animated series and although that sounds like a way to make it cheaper, does that sound like a good idea?

Think about TV series like Spaceballs, Allen Gregory and more that decided to go animated. They went with the cheapest, sloppiest animation studios they could get away with and it showed. Cheap stilted animation, horrible flash animation, uncanny valley doll eyes. Stuff of nightmares.

And now onto part... What am I on? 3? 8? 4? Let’s say 4. On where Mr. Shankar will cut corners.

Voice acting.

Now obviously he won’t get the original cast from the first season seeing as some have left the industry, 1 would kick his ass and another is dead but in this day and age that isn’t a problem. Quality voice actors are available that can sound like the originals. 

Now, take what I just said about the animation and post it here.

All you are probably asking why I’m so negative about this? Why am I being so rude to a guy I’ve never met? Why I would get this riled up? 

This son of a bitch is in charge of Castlevania. He shoud be focusing on Castlevania right now. Not something he has no right talking about.

[derpyrider]

The nightmare begins.

Also the RE7 review is delayed a week or so. I’m working on something to go with it.

[tsurayu]

Geimaku's Newest Writer!

Yep! You're looking at him - newest writer for Geimaku. I'm anxious to get started. X3

As much as I enjoy the gaming news blog site I work with now - GDiNews - the site is geared a bit too much towards general gaming, a bit too broad for my liking. I think I will enjoy working with a community of like-minded individuals related to the Asian games market (e.g. Japan, South Korea). 

It's funny really, I took journalism classes in high school out of a necessity to take an English credit course alongside my Speech class requirement for Academic Honors, and I didn't really pay a lot of attention in the class or went out of my way to study. However, looking back, I wish I had. I didn't realize at the time that journalism was something I would enjoy. 

So here is to hoping Geimaku is a step in the right direction. And who knows, perhaps video game journalism might take me down a career path as opposed to only a hobby. It's not everyday a person gets to make their hobby a career, I might as well at least leave myself open to the idea. :3