https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaJqVGaCek


Let's go to Guy and find out!

social justice? i dun get. i have watched both takeshis castle and MXC and neither seem offensive or nothing.

Originally posted by salamander:

social justice? i dun get. i have watched both takeshis castle and MXC and neither seem offensive or nothing.

I feel like some of the team names wouldn't pass or Guy's jokes (cause hes a feisty guy teehee) but otherwise a nice wholesome show.

The North American version is Marvel x Capcom?

I've heard the opposite from youtubers who live in Japan. Today Japanese TV is either anime or very safe and happy live action shows. Japanese culture is super polite and they all try to smile and stay super-positive on TV. It's all fake and over-exaggerated happiness.

Takeshi's Castle was a rare exception to this rule from an older time of Japanese MSM where the rules were a little more lax.

I also loved MXC and loved watching it back in the 2000's when it aired on cable TV in the USA. The challenges were fun to begin with, but the deliberately bad voice-overs made it even more funny.

Recently there's a push to censor anime too. However viewers in both Japan and USA are pushing back. Hopefully we continue to get fan service and gratuitous violence in this one last haven of mass media that doesn't suck.

Originally posted by Sarge the one man wolf pack.:

Originally posted by salamander:

social justice? i dun get. i have watched both takeshis castle and MXC and neither seem offensive or nothing.

I feel like some of the team names wouldn't pass or Guy's jokes (cause hes a feisty guy teehee) but otherwise a nice wholesome show.

ehh, maybe. but the humour even back then seemed pretty mild on the scale of offensiveness. i cannot imagine a modern remake would need too much tweaking

https://youtu.be/mtnVU4BU39E

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

I've heard the opposite from youtubers who live in Japan. Today Japanese TV is either anime or very safe and happy live action shows. Japanese culture is super polite and they all try to smile and stay super-positive on TV. It's all fake and over-exaggerated happiness.

Takeshi's Castle was a rare exception to this rule from an older time of Japanese MSM where the rules were a little more lax.

I also loved MXC and loved watching it back in the 2000's when it aired on cable TV in the USA. The challenges were fun to begin with, but the deliberately bad voice-overs made it even more funny.

Recently there's a push to censor anime too. However viewers in both Japan and USA are pushing back. Hopefully we continue to get fan service and gratuitous violence in this one last haven of mass media that doesn't suck.

I'm all for japan pushing it to counter their "happy tv" thing... I just don't think they'll be able to re-create the experience globally.

Originally posted by kingjames488:

they can't possibly what with all the social justice now... it wouldn't work!

The funny thing is that MXC was already very respectful of the source material and their Japanese culture, going with a "laughing with them" approach. So it was woke before woke was a thing.

Save for a few LGBT jokes, this remake can work today.

Originally posted by Final Kat:

Originally posted by kingjames488:

they can't possibly what with all the social justice now... it wouldn't work!

The funny thing is that MXC was already very respectful of the source material and their Japanese culture, going with a "laughing with them" approach. So it was woke before woke was a thing.

Save for a few LGBT jokes, this remake can work today.

I didn't notice it directly disrespecting japanese culture and that's not what I was saying.

the jokes in MXC were mostly sexual in nature and that wouldn't be allowed now.

idk how they'd make it funny while staying true to that without doing that.

No winners this time!

Originally posted by kingjames488:

Originally posted by Final Kat:

The funny thing is that MXC was already very respectful of the source material and their Japanese culture, going with a "laughing with them" approach. So it was woke before woke was a thing.

Save for a few LGBT jokes, this remake can work today.

I didn't notice it directly disrespecting japanese culture and that's not what I was saying.

the jokes in MXC were mostly sexual in nature and that wouldn't be allowed now.

idk how they'd make it funny while staying true to that without doing that.

Sexual jokes aren't politically incorrect; if anything, they're still the norm in modern-day comedy. Amy Schumer built her entire career off of them. It wasn't a good career, but that's because she's just not funny.

MXC can absolutely work today.

Originally posted by Final Kat:

Originally posted by kingjames488:

I didn't notice it directly disrespecting japanese culture and that's not what I was saying.

the jokes in MXC were mostly sexual in nature and that wouldn't be allowed now.

idk how they'd make it funny while staying true to that without doing that.

Sexual jokes aren't politically incorrect; if anything, they're still the norm in modern-day comedy. Amy Schumer built her entire career off of them. It wasn't a good career, but that's because she's just not funny.

MXC can absolutely work today.

I'll have to see it exist without being cancelled :S