Kappa Mikey: How would you make it work?

[Comrade Future]

In 2006, an animated series was launched under the name Kappa Mikey. Mike Simon accidentally became an actor in Tokusatsu in Japan. At the same time, America is your typical American flash sitcom, and Japan is your animeland. I didn't like the idea, but after two episodes ... poorly. Not only is the animation and direction weak, the situation is not played out in any way. They dropped most of the chips, even such banal ones as "Simon-sama", "I'm not doing this for you Ba-Baka!" How would you make this show work?

 

[gyrobot]

The problem with Kappa Mikey was it was made by out of touch execs who thinks everything is Voltron/Dragonball/Sailor Moon. Since Kappa Mikey's premise revolves around a East meets west story. I feel like the cast should have reflected stereotypes of their era as well as being stylized by it.

-Mikey needed to be tried and true western cartoon type character who could take being flattened and not being fazed by it and other feats of cartoon durability. Meanwhile his parents should represent the cartoons of their "era" depending on when they are born and the sensibilities they had (So Mikey's grandpa would have the crass drunken guy who act like he was still living the excesses of the 20's even past his prime as older Disney cartoons wasn't always kid friendly)
-Lily and Mitsuki were meant to be the Betty and Veronica types and I feel that the 90's aesthetic only really worked because all we know is sailor moon. Mitsuki could have rocked the Rumiko Takahashi style as the precursor of the shoujo heroine girls looked up facing losing revelance while Lily was very much is a design by committee style idol meant to push product and be the object of a male fanbase who supports her at all the geek expos as she feels fake like most "Moe" characters rising during era as VN adaptations were getting popular.
-Gonard would work well as a reference to the DBZ style but he still very much live in the shadow of his 80's Kenshiro style uncle who is more manly and still as relevant as he was
-guano would be more reflective of the Pokemon vs digimon craze. Wanting to be as cool as the attack dog type notDigimon and personally setting up schemes to act all cool only to backfire when he overdoes it when the notDigimon enjoys not being too popular, content with his close knit fans and friends

Really though Kappa Mikey really is one of "product of their time" cartoon that had lost relevance from it's everything tried to be anime but failed era.