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Have these live-action adaptations ever worked out well?

I remember some years ago when people online were genuinely excited about an Akira remake made in the US. Sounded like the worst idea of all time to me.
Akira literally cannot exist outside of Japan because the story is tied to Japan and its history so closely that removing it from that setting changes the entire meaning of the story. Some a-holes just watched the animated film, scratched their chins and said "yeah, cyberpunk is hip again and this has a following that will pay for anything related to it. Hire some underpaid loser to write a screenplay for an Americanized version of it." Then when it bombs the producers go "Oh well, I guess the source material sucked."
Maybe they will cast Samuel L Jackson as Akira.

When the goddamn Guyver from 1991 is the best Americanized live-action of a manga/anime out there... You know you should just stop making them. After all, even the Japanese live-action adaptations suck.
 

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So I just found out that they're apparently making a live-action Saint Seiya movie in Hollywood:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ne...t-look-at-comic-con-intl-in-san-diego/.187550

Pretty aghast right now XD I wonder if this is some sort of money-laundering front or "The Producers"-style tax shelter.

So the live action version of Versailles no Bara by a French guy using random English actors is ok but Saint Seiya isn't? What's the logic? lol

But yeah, I'm not for live action either. Akira has its obvious issues, but also Ghost in the Shell, Rurouni Kenshin, Hentai Kamen (ok maybe I'll wath that one)...anime itself exists outside of reality. Making it reality ruins it for me.



I had my second colleague tell me that I'm not allowed to simply piss off one day with telling anybody.
How did they KNOW? Guess I'm stuck going out for drinks my last day of work...
 

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Have these live-action adaptations ever worked out well?
Does "Dragonball Evolution" count? ::meev::
I can't think of that many actually.

So the live action version of Versailles no Bara by a French guy using random English actors is ok but Saint Seiya isn't? What's the logic? lol
I haven't actually gotten to watch "Lady Oscar" yet, but you have to admit "Romance movie in Louis XVI's France" is a bit better of a fit for live-action than fighty-blasty shounen anime.
 

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Honestly, my biggest concern with the Rose of Versailles adaptation is the fact that it's just one film. I haven't seen it, but I can imagine they had to cut out so much that it's a very different take from the original.
I haven't read the manga, but I've seen the old animated series and that was 40 episodes.

The fact that the film exists is pretty cool, though. The fact that the French actually appreciate the original manga and how it has taught people French history is very nice. There's actually an anime series based on a Finnish book and the story takes place in Finland, but here in Finland the show has never been brought over, because... I don't know?
 

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I can't think of any specific anime, but there have been a few manga that have translated well to the silver screen.

In other news, I came across this recently - https://www.endeavorrx.com/ a doctor prescribed video game treatment for ADHD. Seeing the words video game and prescription in the same sentence boggles my mind a bit.
 

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Bringing this up here because it doesn't match Malice Mizer or MdM specifically:

I was chatting with a friend who was watching French dragrace, and we wondered :
Do you think Mana is what we call a transvestite ?
I looked up the definition in a French dictionary and surprisingly (for me), the dictionary says it's men who are often gay and who wear women clothes & makeup.
I didn’t expect sexuality to be brought up, so either the dictionary needs an update or I'm misunderstanding things.
I personally never linked Mana to the words dragqueen or transvestite in my mind.
What's your opinion on this?
 

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I personally never linked Mana to the words dragqueen or transvestite in my mind.
What's your opinion on this?

I don't think stage characters count for "being a transvestite", and almost all of what we see of Mana is "in-character" as it were. If he was going around to the 7-11 dressed up in his "Bel Air" costume when all the cameras are off I'd say yes, but by all indications he wears pretty ordinary stuff when he's not on the job.
 

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So when Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey join BRICS do we still call it BRICS or BRICSSAET?
 

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Does it matter?
India and China "working together" in anything but name while Russia's defaulting is laughable, and the others are pretty much there or something.
Anyhow, they only added the S for South Africa so I don't think they'd add an A. But if they do, my vote goes for 'CRIES BATS' ::k::
 

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I found this remarkable website about rock music:
http://radiodaze.g2.xrea.com/
Not anything we concern ourselves with here, by and large, but this guy just writes and keeps writing. Lots of "band genealogies", band lists, label lists, history of rock 'n roll in major cities, etc etc.
 
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"AI upscales" always annoy me because they crowd out any actual high-res footage that might ever become available. And of course they can't really add any information that wasn't there in the original.
From what I understand it works sort of like having the computer "guess" what 1000x1000 image was most likely to have resulted in a given 100x100 image after downsampling and whatnot. It's a great technical feat if nothing else.
 

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Thanks Sanctum. Wink are still terrible everything but more clearly now.
I gave them another go and now my cat's trying to bite me from hearing them rage.
The Sakai Noriko is appreciated though,
 

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Double post cause I can't post this on my normal channels since it's about a friend.
We were at the beach and I ran over to give him something and he was like, "Why are you running like the baywatch people"
And I was like, "What, you mean on sand?"

How the heck else am I supposed to run on sand? Like this? You know what, next time I will.
https://c.tenor.com/6bss1PJaOU8AAAAC/titan-anime.gif
 

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You're giving me flashbacks to when I did junior surf life-saving we had to do sand sprints and it was awful.

In other news, Mercari recently updated their mobile app and there is so much white-space and now so many things take an extra step or two to complete. :<
 

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It's good excersize though.

We made beer as part of my friend's batchelorette party.
It turns out the different colors come from how long the barley was cooked (with it getting darker the longer it's cooked), which was pretty cool.
I was paired with someone extremely easy going, and I don't like beer, so when the guy told us to add 150 grams of whichever type of cereal we liked we decided to make antiracism beer added a bit of all of them.
Turns out the color of antiracism is something like mud.
 
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