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Post by Ninja Relaxer on Feb 11, 2021 17:05:57 GMT -5
If you could do a crossover between Sasuke and any other TV show, what would it be?
Personally, I'd go with Iron Chef, another one of my favorite shows out of Japan. It would basically be Sasuke with the addition of a Cooking Stage, where contestants would engage in a timed culinary battle against the Grand Champion of their choice (Morimoto, Yuuji, Nagano, or Akiyama). The food would be judged by the TBS announcers and (of course) Box Girl, who would react to every dish with exaggerated levels of fascination and surprise.
They could call the show Iron Sasuke. What do you think?
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Post by Kane-Not-Kosugi on Feb 11, 2021 20:43:24 GMT -5
MTV's The Challenge. Up the ante on the social aspect because the players have FAT egos. Allow eliminations to be completing a tough task instead of a 1v1, similar to beating a SASUKE course. If they fail, their talk blows up in their face LOL
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Post by azn on Feb 12, 2021 13:49:41 GMT -5
Fear Factor, might be a bit extreme but at least you got Joe Rogan announcing the challenges between stages.
I feel it would be formatted kind of similar to how VIKING used to have it's Brain Ship Stage (memory stage) between it's first marine stage and it's second adventure stage, just a little more insane.
I mean a couple weeks ago we were discussing a secret fifth stage, maybe this could be the one
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Feb 13, 2021 13:46:46 GMT -5
I thought about this a bit, and even though it's super locally obscure, for me, there's only one answer: CBBC Raven!
SASUKE x brilliant Scottish Fantasy gameshow, what is not to love??
We transplant the full SASUKE course into a Scottish adventure park, all forests and rivers and castle ruins. The stage timers serve a dual purpose where if you're too slow, the demon (extra in a hooded monk robe) following you around the course catches up and vanishes you in a flash of mid-2000's TV budget CGI. Pull a Shingo and course out? You also vanish in a flash of mid-2000s CGI!
James McKenzie and Aisha Toussaint can be there in full Raven costume doing the commentary and after-course interviews, and making pithy remarks when competitors mess up. They could even sound off the start of each run with the absolute classic line, "Let the challenge... begin!"
If you wanted to get some of that VIKING Parley vibe, classic wit challenges like Riddle Bridge or Dwarf Mine could be upgraded for adults and slotted into the course easily enough, and the wide variety of water obstacles in the catalogue would surely make Inui happy xD
The original elimination challenge, Way of the Warrior, has the same clear rate (4 people in history) as the SASUKE final stage, so the shows are even equivalent in difficulty - it's a perfect match! BBC, TBS, commission this already!
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Post by tns8597 on Feb 13, 2021 14:27:42 GMT -5
ArbuthnotBlob this is actually genius.
I used to view Raven as how I view Sasuke now when I was 9-10 years old so this really resonates with me. I used to want to be one of those kids who had loads of lives and rings going into the final episodes, in the same way that I train for the 3rd stage now.
I remember re-watching Raven with a few uni friends when I was 18 and I realized how hilarious it was with the dramatization and the CGI, more so laughing at how seriously I took the show back in the day; I faked being ill for an after-school swimming class so I could watch Raven, as an example. I think combining those effects and the mystical backstory with Sasuke-related obstacles and stage structures would make for a compelling watch to say the least. Also watching interviews with 9/10-year-olds is definitely much more comical now than it was when I was of a similar age. The f***ing Demons as well omg!
One thing though: The Way of the Warrior and the Final Stage aren't direct comparables because as I remember the former was forced upon the competitor who was doing the worst (i.e. had the fewest lives and rings); if they failed they'd be eliminated but if they succeeded they'd go straight to the final round (if I remember correctly?). It was a punishment for poor performance that returned a reward if the competitor redeemed themself (I wonder if anyone did badly on purpose just so they could be granted a chance to reap that reward, then again we are talking about 10 year olds so not sure if they thought that far ahead).
I guess figuratively you could say Yuuji and to a lesser extent Ryo went through the Way of the Warrior and succeeded (i.e. he was on the verge of retiring but then rekindled his passion for the show through an insane redemption). I wouldn't say anything similar could be implemented for Sasuke given that it's purely man vs. course and competitors are never really ranked against one another; also the basic formula works so well that I cherish how it's remained untouched over 20+ years. I mean ANW extrapolated massively on the formula and look where that ended up; bs safety passes and mega walls etc. that are just so cheesy.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Feb 13, 2021 15:27:35 GMT -5
ArbuthnotBlob this is actually genius. I used to view Raven as how I view Sasuke now when I was 9-10 years old so this really resonates with me. I used to want to be one of those kids who had loads of lives and rings going into the final episodes, in the same way that I train for the 3rd stage now. I remember re-watching Raven with a few uni friends when I was 18 and I realized how hilarious it was with the dramatization and the CGI, more so laughing at how seriously I took the show back in the day; I faked being ill for an after-school swimming class so I could watch Raven, as an example. I think combining those effects and the mystical backstory with Sasuke-related obstacles and stage structures would make for a compelling watch to say the least. Also watching interviews with 9/10-year-olds is definitely much more comical now than it was when I was of a similar age. The f***ing Demons as well omg! One thing though: The Way of the Warrior and the Final Stage aren't direct comparables because as I remember the former was forced upon the competitor who was doing the worst (i.e. had the fewest lives and rings); if they failed they'd be eliminated but if they succeeded they'd go straight to the final round (if I remember correctly?). It was a punishment for poor performance that returned a reward if the competitor redeemed themself (I wonder if anyone did badly on purpose just so they could be granted a chance to reap that reward, then again we are talking about 10 year olds so not sure if they thought that far ahead). I guess figuratively you could say Yuuji and to a lesser extent Ryo went through the Way of the Warrior and succeeded (i.e. he was on the verge of retiring but then rekindled his passion for the show through an insane redemption). I wouldn't say anything similar could be implemented for Sasuke given that it's purely man vs. course and competitors are never really ranked against one another; also the basic formula works so well that I cherish how it's remained untouched over 20+ years. I mean ANW extrapolated massively on the formula and look where that ended up; bs safety passes and mega walls etc. that are just so cheesy. I'm glad you like it xD Raven was also absolutely my gateway drug into obstacle shows and SASUKE, I watched the early seasons religiously as a kid, no matter how cheesy they got! The second I realised you could equate timing out with being caught by a demon I knew this crossover needed to exist, at least in this thread xD WotW was forced on the lowest-placed warrior at the end of each day, and it didn't even transport you to the final, it just allowed you to stay in where you otherwise wouldn't have! Although I think most of the warriors who cleared it either went on to win or came very close, anyway. So yes, it's not a parallel to the Final Stage, but it was the only place in Raven (bar literally dropping to 0 lives, which I think happened like, once) where a Warrior could be eliminated entirely, SASUKE style. I only brought it up for the clear rate comparison, it wouldn't work at all in a SASUKE tournament (not least because it's designed for kids), and I agree, I wouldn't want it to be utilised as a safety-pass style thing either! But doing a SASUKE course with the Raven set dressing and atmosphere, demons and cheesy CGI, and letting James McKenzie unleash the full force of his after-challenge snark? I'd love to see it. |
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Post by Ninja Relaxer on Feb 13, 2021 15:36:52 GMT -5
I'd never heard of Raven before. That was cute. I loved the sharp-blade sound effect on the swinging axes, as if they're really going to scissor a kid in half on TV.
Watching Nagano or Urushihara run that course would be hilarious. As would watching Sasuke competitors disappear in a puff of blue CGI as soon as they touch the water, while the announcer solemnly intones that they have been consumed by the spirits of Mount Midoriyama.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Feb 13, 2021 15:57:28 GMT -5
I'd never heard of Raven before. That was cute. I loved the sharp-blade sound effect on the swinging axes, as if they're really going to scissor a kid in half on TV. Watching Nagano or Urushihara run that course would be hilarious. As would watching Sasuke competitors disappear in a puff of blue CGI as soon as they touch the water, while the announcer solemnly intones that they have been consumed by the spirits of Mount Midoriyama. It was a BBC children's show between 2002-2010, with a revival in 2017, so if you weren't in the UK at that time, your chances of having seen it are basically nil! I don't believe it was ever subbed or optioned anywhere else, which is honestly a bit of a shame. They loved their hammy sounds: big scare chords, slicing sounds, treasure chimes, the works. Lots of great examples even within the first 30 seconds of this: While I don't think the SASUKE competitors would have a lot of trouble with WotW, I do feel like a surprising number would go out on the shields (everyone always failed the shields...) it's just like a more vicious fishbone! I was just thinking before I saw your comment that the one disadvantage is that if you win, there can't be anyone there to cheer for you because they've all been vaporised, which is rather sad xD I would however, love for the announcer to solemnly intone that those who fail have been consumed by the spirits of Mount Midoriyama, you got the vibe in one! |
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Post by tns8597 on Feb 13, 2021 16:10:47 GMT -5
Thanks, now I'm literally watching that entire final week loooool. I think I actually vividly remember that kid with the glasses having 8-9 lives throughout the entire first week of heats (you start with 9 lives so that's actually pretty impressive), and imagining myself dominating like he was.
And I'm so glad you brought up the shields; the shields on the WOTW for me were like the equivalent of the Cliffhanger. Even if someone failed the course, if they managed to get past the shields they got a thumbs up from me in terms of respect because everyone would fail those.
And r/e the CGI, just imagine that the narrative was something like 'this pit of water is cursed; if you so much as touch the water, you are immediately consumed by the dark magic that brews beneath the boggy murk', then Inui magically teleports you back to the sidelines where you're told to go home as you've been eliminated from Sasukaven.
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Post by wrestlingfan55 on Feb 16, 2021 14:25:52 GMT -5
Sasuke Does 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
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Post by tns8597 on Feb 16, 2021 15:30:01 GMT -5
Sasuke Does 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Funny fact about 8/10 cats and countdown. Susie Dent is my neighbour. Not even kidding. Haha |
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Post by wrestlingfan55 on Feb 16, 2021 15:46:34 GMT -5
Sasuke Does 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Funny fact about 8/10 cats and countdown. Susie Dent is my neighbour. Not even kidding. Haha Wow. Your neighbour is a national treasure. |
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Feb 16, 2021 19:05:30 GMT -5
Sasuke Does 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Do you actually want to torture Nagano more than the time he was on Viking 2 and had to get through the numbers round after the first stage? |
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Post by ChiBiJKT48 on Feb 18, 2021 4:00:05 GMT -5
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire! Lets test the knowledge of SASUKE from the competitors *sorry, Nagano, but we had to torture your brain more, the obstacles clearly stood almost no chance to beat you*!
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