{"id":12982,"date":"2008-06-26T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12982"},"modified":"2008-06-26T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T16:28:25","slug":"4kids-acquires-kamen-rider-ryuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/4kids-acquires-kamen-rider-ryuki\/","title":{"rendered":"4Kids Acquires Kamen Rider Ryuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/4kids-acquires-kamen-rider-ryuki.jpg\" alt=\"4Kids Acquires Kamen Rider Ryuki\" title=\"4Kids Acquires Kamen Rider Ryuki\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/4kids-acquires-kamen-rider-ryuki.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/4kids-acquires-kamen-rider-ryuki-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ronically, despite 4Kids Entertainment CEO Al Kahn publicly proclaiming in December 2007 that &#8220;Japan is over,&#8221; 4Kids Entertainment has secured American distribution rights to the 50 episode Japanese live action &#8220;tokusatsu&#8221; (special effects) television series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv-asahi.co.jp\/ryuki\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kamen Rider Ryuki<\/a>. The series, originally broadcast in Japan in 2002, will premier on the former Kids WB block on the CW network this winter under the loosely translated titled &#8220;Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.&#8221; The promotional image for &#8220;Kamen Rider Dragon Knight&#8221; and the fact that the series will star a character named &#8220;Kit Taylor&#8221; suggest that the series will be heavily edited and reshot to replace the original Japanese actors with original American footage.<\/p>\n<p><i>Oh yipee.  Another Mighty Morphin&#8217; Power Rangers.  I can barely contain my, let&#8217;s say, &#8220;enthusiasm.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/news\/12799.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICv2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ronically, despite 4Kids Entertainment CEO Al Kahn publicly proclaiming in December 2007 that &#8220;Japan is over,&#8221; 4Kids Entertainment has secured American distribution rights to the 50 episode Japanese live action &#8220;tokusatsu&#8221; (special effects) television series Kamen Rider Ryuki. The series, originally broadcast in Japan in 2002, will premier on the former Kids WB block on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}