Live Action Anime Adaptations - ft yu yu Hakusho

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The french live action City Hunter is really good movie. You can feel that the director(also main actor) really loves and understands the series and isn't ashamed of it. And only the french could adapt without changing the content (it is set on french with the french dub names, but it still gets all the character stuff right)

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Well, least it's not the Jackie Chan one, which was a huge ass mess.
 
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Can't wait for this shit show. I still haven't watched the yyh stage plays but I hear they're OK.

I want to see what they do with the scene where Yusuke beats a tranny.

Also there were pics of them filming the car crash scene floating around a few months back. I forget who they cast as Yusuke but he looked ok. Hope the others do too.
 
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What's going to happen to the alien invasion in Gantz when everyone is naked?
 
Yuuichirou Kumada said:
The only question that should be done about them all is: WHY?
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Money, as in more money than what the Japanese LA scene has and not bound to hiring talents from Johnny's to keep a healthy working relationship.

Thiletonomics said:
I want to see how badly Hollywood can fuck up Idol Anime, i.e. Love Live!, BanG Dream!, and THE iDOLM@STER.
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We call that Idol Lives, in fact the staff made an April Fool's for that where the Cast of Sunshine had a puppet show and to shill their Live Action Puppet merchandise because April Fool's in Japan is a stealth marketing campaign for future ideas. See Cube Kirby, the Fake Yakuza RPG.

Also there had been JAV adaptations of hentai and they are pretty bland.
 
How did Battle Angel Alita manage to succeed so well in the face of live action adaptations obviously not doing so well in the past?
 
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albert the programmer said:
How did Battle Angel Alita manage to succeed so well in the face of live action adaptations obviously not doing so well in the past?
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Really because the people behind it give a shit. A sign of a bad adaptation is if the people behind it have no idea what the point or what the source material is about (i.e. Adam Wingard thinking Light was just a normal kid who was corrupted by notebook and the Showrunner of Bebop ignoring the fact Bebop is in a dystopian setting). That is really the only reason I have some faith in the upcoming One Piece adaptation since the head writer actually knows the source material along with actors.

Basically live action adaptations are shit if they are put in the hands of people who don't know, don't understand, or hate the source material (which is sadly most of them).
 
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Doctor of Autism said:
Really because the people behind it give a shit. A sign of a bad adaptation is if the people behind it have no idea what the point or what the source material is about (i.e. Adam Wingard thinking Light was just a normal kid who was corrupted by notebook and the Showrunner of Bebop ignoring the fact Bebop is in a dystopian setting). That is really the only reason I have some faith in the upcoming One Piece adaptation since the head writer actually knows the source material along with actors.

Basically live action adaptations are shit if they are put in the hands of people who don't know, don't understand, or hate the source material (which is sadly most of them).
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The problem with One Piece isn’t so much the cast or the crew, but the fundamental concept. Cowboy Bebop actually does lend itself fairly well to live action, since it’s a short self-contained story that’s fairly grounded, and the gritty sci-fi setting is something that’s been done before plenty of times. With One Piece though, adapting the main story is a futile concept, and the setting and powers are inherently cartoonish. The ONLY way to do live-action One Piece though is to ignore the main plot and just do a side story ambiguously set some time during their voyage. Sort of like the questionably canon One Piece movies, except it just happens to be in live action. If they do this, there’s certainly a chance that the end product will be watchable - possibly even good.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
The problem with One Piece isn’t so much the cast or the crew, but the fundamental concept. Cowboy Bebop actually does lend itself fairly well to live action, since it’s a short self-contained story that’s fairly grounded, and the gritty sci-fi setting is something that’s been done before plenty of times. With One Piece though, adapting the main story is a futile concept, and the setting and powers are inherently cartoonish. The ONLY way to do live-action One Piece though is to ignore the main plot and just do a side story ambiguously set some time during their voyage. Sort of like the questionably canon One Piece movies, except it just happens to be in live action. If they do this, there’s certainly a chance that the end product will be watchable - possibly even good.
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Oh yeah I do agree that adapting One Piece’s story would be a stupid decision to do in live action. I don’t know what the people behind it are planning, I just have some faith it will be watchable due to behind the scenes stuff with the people involved especially how Oda seems more involved compared to other mangaka with live action productions of their creations.
 
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You know one peice live action adaptation is going to be shit. When one of the writers for it compare Kamala Harris (of all fucking people) to Luffy you know it's going to be shit.
 
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Doctor of Autism said:
.Adam Wingard thinking Light was just a normal kid who was corrupted by notebook
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I mean, he's sort off not wrong in a fashion. In both the anime/manga we see that once Light loses his memories about the notebook, he becomes a normal person who DOES wanna stop Kira, and yes, he has thoughts about killing bad people but quickly realizes this makes him sound like a fucked up individual. Heck, even near the end of the series Near says how Light allowed himself to be corrupted by the notebook's power, thus being no different than a crazed serial killer.
 
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I mean, he's sort off not wrong in a fashion. In both the anime/manga we see that once Light loses his memories about the notebook, he becomes a normal person who DOES wanna stop Kira, and yes, he has thoughts about killing bad people but quickly realizes this makes him sound like a fucked up individual. Heck, even near the end of the series Near says how Light allowed himself to be corrupted by the notebook's power, thus being no different than a crazed serial killer.
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Yeah you could argue that, however Light immediately upon grabbing the notebook for himself did declare himself to be god. And besides that with Deathflix he was pretty much a genderswapped incel Misa.
 
All live adaptations are shit, Japanese, American and whatever else.
 
Necroing this thing, Yu Yu Hakusho's out. Likely does not merit a thread of its' own.

So far not impressed, heavily abbreviated much like the Kenshin films. However I can't say there's nothing good. A couple of the fights in the first two episodes are enjoyable. Subs are better than the dubs as ever

It's also almost certainly a one and done season. Given the stuff they cram into this season I cannot see a second being viable. They ditch volumes of content, not mere chapters.
 
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Cromartie High worked pretty well in live action.
 
More like Jew Jew Hakusho. I'm just amazed they didn't make Kurama black.
 
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