I think when it comes to 'live action' anime adaptations, I prefer the Japanese ones as they a lot of them know how to go serious and silly when they need to be.
The west doesn't do this but to be fair I'd say since 2012ish they've not made good adaptations in the double digits of anything. I still mourn even though I never watched it, what they did to Artemis Foul...
That's what happens when your setting is alternate universe Germany and your cast is entirely from Japan.
Both AoT and FMA have characters with either Caucasian or Asian traits for reasons of plot. Ed and Al's father is part of a golden eyed tribe that no longer exists because Hoenheim is that fucking old. Mikasa is half Asian and the only character with any Asian heritage in the entire story until like 2/3rds of the way through the whole thing and no live action adaptation would ever last that long. Meaning she's the only one that should have been vaguely Japanese in the first place.
In addition to this many of AoT's characters have Germanic names like Jaeger, Braun, and Reiss and similarly FMA has characters like King Bradley whose military title is Fuhrer. Do note that 'King` is his actual name and not any indication of social position.
Nah, I get the idea. I've seen a few eps of kakegurui and the first deathnote movie.
Honestly, japan copies the anime a little too faithfully sometimes, lol. It's not bad, it's just that some things don't translate well from anime to live action.
Nodame Cantabile's Japanese live-action literally has the characters do emoticon-faces that fly off of them, as if it were a text box in a manga. Too faithful indeed, really throws off what is supposed to be a music story with a mild romance subplot, having sweatdrop symbols or LOLs fly off the characters.
I think when it comes to 'live action' anime adaptations, I prefer the Japanese ones as they a lot of them know how to go serious and silly when they need to be.
The west doesn't do this but to be fair I'd say since 2012ish they've not made good adaptations in the double digits of anything. I still mourn even though I never watched it, what they did to Artemis Foul...
No
Fma and Attack on titan were absolutely garbage
That's what happens when your setting is alternate universe Germany and your cast is entirely from Japan.
Both AoT and FMA have characters with either Caucasian or Asian traits for reasons of plot. Ed and Al's father is part of a golden eyed tribe that no longer exists because Hoenheim is that fucking old. Mikasa is half Asian and the only character with any Asian heritage in the entire story until like 2/3rds of the way through the whole thing and no live action adaptation would ever last that long. Meaning she's the only one that should have been vaguely Japanese in the first place.
In addition to this many of AoT's characters have Germanic names like Jaeger, Braun, and Reiss and similarly FMA has characters like King Bradley whose military title is Fuhrer. Do note that 'King` is his actual name and not any indication of social position.
The whole thing was dumb.
Yeah true, you're right on those points. But they are still examples of Japanese live action adaptations that were garbage
missed that one (thankfully).
Dragonball evolution though? thaaat one raised my blood pressure a few points...
I got through 5 minutes of Dragonball evolution (was free on tv), noped out.
If you want a good example of what I mean by Japanese live action adaptations, look up ore monogatari live action
Nah, I get the idea. I've seen a few eps of kakegurui and the first deathnote movie.
Honestly, japan copies the anime a little too faithfully sometimes, lol. It's not bad, it's just that some things don't translate well from anime to live action.
Nodame Cantabile's Japanese live-action literally has the characters do emoticon-faces that fly off of them, as if it were a text box in a manga. Too faithful indeed, really throws off what is supposed to be a music story with a mild romance subplot, having sweatdrop symbols or LOLs fly off the characters.