Not written until September 2022.
Let’s take a look at a strongly urban ‘Youth Halloween’ themed wizardry show featuring Bastian Steel, a popular Indonesian music star/soap actor of the same name. Along with a couple of Teen Pop Dramas (and teen pop films like Germany’s doubly infamous Daniel: Die Zauberer), it has a light novel friendly name which may embarrass the names of many popular trendsetters to the hilt.
Created by Serena Luna, a schlock tv maven (albeit little known in Anglophone Minority World countries like Australia), it is a ‘so bad it’s entertaining’ show named ‘Bastian Steel is not an ordinary guy’, aka Bastian Steel Bukan Cowok Biasa! It never just rode on the coattails of both the Harry Potter books and films, it was also a profitable daily show by SineMart, which has made a lot of (otherwise fairly intelligent) rural youths into watching it for slightly over a whole month in 2014.
There are other things which partially explain this (38 episode long) daily mess of a show. Like any other popular Sinetron out there, its producers are very budget conscious, but have slapped their visual effects artists with a super strict overtime related deadline. Not to mention that was both a merchandise driven show with national trendsetters and an advert for the Disneyfied version of Halloween in Indonesia.
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