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 get why they do it, and I certainly prefer that to completely ignoring the story and tone the way u.s. Studios do, bit it can be jarring sometimes, lol.
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 get why they do it, and I certainly prefer that to completely ignoring the story and tone the way u.s. Studios do, bit it can be jarring sometimes, lol.