[Series] Kamen Rider Dragon Knight (this is not SABAN's shitwork!)

[Series] Kamen Rider Dragon Knight (this is not SABAN's shitwork!) (Read 1592 times)

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Pipcaptor Hatsuya

#1 June 18, 2008, 03:19:04 am

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Kamen Rider Dragon Knight is the title of the American adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki, the twelfth installment in the Kamen Rider Series. It is being brought to television by Steve and Michael Wang. The series will start in February 2009 and play through the year, with a wide-release theatrical film expected to release the following year. Adness Entertainment chose to adapt Ryuki over the other Heisei Rider shows as it has a large number of characters (Ryuki had 13 Riders in total) as well as a female Rider. It is also the first tokusatsu adaptation of a Kamen Rider series since Saban's Masked Rider, which was adapted from Kamen Rider BLACK RX. Dragon Knight is to be shown on The CW Television Network during its The CW4Kids programming block.

The backstory of the show revolves around a group of twelve called the Kamen Riders, who are the protectors of Ventara, a dimension opposite to our own. In battle against the wicked General Xaviax, the Riders were defeated and ten of them were stripped of their Advent Decks, special card decks that allow whoever wields them to transform into Kamen Riders and utilize unique weapons and powers. While searching for his missing father, the main character - Kit Taylor - finds an Advent Deck that allows him to become Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. He eventually meets Len, who serves as Kamen Rider Wing Knight, and the pair join forces after Kit learns that General Xaviax has imprisoned his father in Ventara and is using him and the other humans his monsters abduct to gain power and rebuild his homeworld. Furthermore, Xaviax begins recruiting corrupt humans to become Kamen Riders and aid him in his goal.

HEY! What the heck is this anyway? Is this the same as the original?
Okay, the original, which is Kamen Rider Ryuki, is about 13 Kamen Riders (Masked Riders) on a gruesome BATTLE ROYALE in the Mirror World (direct flipped version of our world). Whoever wins in the Rider War can have his/her wish granted!

Now in the Wang brother's adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki, they changed the Mirror world into Ventara and the role of the Kamen Riders were kinda like guardians of that dimension. The real antagonist in the original was also a Kamen Rider, in a name of Odin, whereas in this version, it was an alien called General Xaviax.

The common denominator of the two series were the usage of Advent Decks, Advent Monsters and the enemy monsters used!

COMPARISONS by Noun!?

(Kamen Rider Ryuki names and terms) = (Kamen Rider Dragon Knight names and terms)

Shinji Kido (from Kamen Rider Ryuki) = Kit Taylor
Ren Akiyama = Len
Ryuki = Dragon Knight
Knight = Wing Knight

My Nitpicks!
The Wang Brothers didn't change the way how Masked Riders were called. It turned out that they took a different way, away from SABAN's shitworks (thanks for ruining Masked Rider RX, jerkholes!). They called Masked Riders as Kamen Rider, as in they're addressed like their original Japanese name!

I watched Kamen Rider Dragon Knight one time and it turned out that yup, this American Kamen Rider rendition twisted the Kamen Rider tropes. Instead of expecting a typical Kamen Rider hero to "I'll destroy X Organization with my RIDER KICK", it turned out to be like this: "I just want to save my father, not saving the world" type.

Oh yeah, this one can be seen in YouTube!

Last Edit: June 18, 2008, 03:28:40 am by Masked Rider Hatsuya

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Mongoloid

#2 June 18, 2008, 07:20:22 am

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This won't win points for nastalgia the way Power Rangers and Ninja Turtles does.

This just looks... childish.

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HL

#3 June 18, 2008, 10:25:58 am

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This blows. I hate Kamen Rider so much. It's like Power Rangers trying to act cool, too bad Super Sentai is that already.

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yeah see, that's fucking cool. that's exactly what I would do if I had the ability to transform into a tight suit and had a talking saber and huge fucking dragon robot.

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Ralph

#4 June 18, 2008, 11:29:56 am

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I just knew it would be you who opened this topic, Hatsuya.

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Pipcaptor Hatsuya

#5 June 18, 2008, 11:38:43 am

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Quote from: handsome lamb on June 18, 2008, 10:25:58 am

This blows. I hate Kamen Rider so much. It's like Power Rangers trying to act cool, too bad Super Sentai is that already.

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yeah see, that's fucking cool. that's exactly what I would do if I had the ability to transform into a tight suit and had a talking saber and huge fucking dragon robot.

Hey, you mentioned the "talkin' saber" because each time a Kamen Rider inserts a card, their VIZORs or should I say, their weapon-guised card readers, read 'em loud and does something like summoning a large gun from nowhere!

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#6 June 18, 2008, 11:46:29 am

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yeah but they don't make japanese cheerleaders skirts fly upwards or fly on a skateboard or have gigantic Dragonzord either, so nyeh.

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Pipcaptor Hatsuya

#7 June 18, 2008, 11:54:56 am

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Also, this is the 2nd time where Americans tried to make their own rendition of Kamen Rider, and the first one was a big suck-ass where in the original (KAMEN RIDER BLACK RX), the main character didn't have a critter partner (Ferbus) with him at all!

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#8 June 18, 2008, 01:33:21 pm

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oh no! surely not!

i can see this being as shit as the original: very.

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#9 June 18, 2008, 05:17:44 pm

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Quote from: Masked Rider Hatsuya on June 18, 2008, 11:54:56 am

Also, this is the 2nd time where Americans tried to make their own rendition of Kamen Rider, and the first one was a big suck-ass where in the original (KAMEN RIDER BLACK RX), the main character didn't have a critter partner (Ferbus) with him at all!

Ohshi- I even remember watching that show, and loving it.

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#10 June 18, 2008, 05:44:37 pm

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Nice info! I haven't seen Ryuki (only Blade, Kabuto, and Den-O) but I'll probably check this out too. I got into Kamen Rider not too long ago and it can be pretty awesome.

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Ragnar

#11 June 18, 2008, 10:05:16 pm

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Quote from: handsome lamb on June 18, 2008, 10:25:58 am

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haha is that kid like the japanese bart simpson or what

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#12 June 18, 2008, 10:09:50 pm

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Quote from: Ragnar on June 18, 2008, 10:05:16 pm

haha is that kid like the japanese bart simpson or what

basically!!!

you could actually see the effects of the white ranger actually being a kid in MMPR. he would occasionally dance around like a kid while morphed, and they didn't edit this out.

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Pipcaptor Hatsuya

#13 June 19, 2008, 12:22:42 am

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Quote from: Tatsujinken on June 18, 2008, 05:44:37 pm

Nice info! I haven't seen Ryuki (only Blade, Kabuto, and Den-O) but I'll probably check this out too. I got into Kamen Rider not too long ago and it can be pretty awesome.

Ryuki came first before Blade, Kabuto and Den-O. But this one's the 1st "Heisei" (new generation) Kamen Rider ported to America ^_^.

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#14 June 19, 2008, 01:10:58 am

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Quote from: handsome lamb on June 18, 2008, 10:09:50 pm

basically!!!

you could actually see the effects of the white ranger actually being a kid in MMPR. he would occasionally dance around like a kid while morphed, and they didn't edit this out.

what

I thought that was just a commercial or something

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