Live action adaptations of manga are always barely faithful garbage, more so than just by the constraints of the medium but by the complete lack of care put in beyond rushing it out to strike while the iron is hot.
There is a reason why the Death Note movie got as big as it did, because it was one of the few that was actually worth watching.
The original article is more informative. Don't know if she was surprised but it sounds like she was under stress from actively and publicly fighting the TV producers - with them fighting back - rather than accepting the changes like most authors might. But I guess she most likely had depression or other issues leading up to this, along with a serving of typical Japanese shame.
But I guess she most likely had depression or other issues leading up to this
Maybe tangent to the discussion, but from my interactions with the Japanese, there's been an increase in depressed or mental women committing suicide. Something that was typical of their men is becoming sex-neutral. Although it's possible a woman doing it carries more shock, and thus news about it spreads farther, it still speaks volumes about the current state of their society
I read that one too, and its what inspired me to say it like I did.
She thought she could just "agree" her way into having creative control of faithfulness, in an industry that never even comes close to that. Especially as a basic low totem pole mangaka without any of the clout to demand such a thing.
It comes across more like someone who got a big ego thinking they had "made it" with their "baby" and then got smacked back into the reality of them just being a replaceable cog in the machine.
It doesn't make any of what they did right, but I'm not going to shed a tear over some whiny woman trying to act like a big shot, throwing everyone involved in the project under the bus to save her own skin, then pretending "oh no I didn't mean you should attack them when I said it was their fault while you were attacking me!"
Like I said, it happens to basically every series that gets flash in the pan popular. Almost all of them end up trash. She decided to take it personally and then ate the consequence of that.
I never actually saw it myself, I just remember the discussion at the time being surprise that it was good. Which must be true because I know it did spawn basically its own universe with a lot of sequels.
Personally, I'm a fan of the cut anime ending which wraps up the story with L's death and skips all of the second season.
Though the most recent manga, where Donald Trump gets ahold of the Death Note himself and puts it into storage to prevent anyone from using its power and saving the world is pretty hilarious. And yes that happened.
I remember it cause i watched the L spin off movie which supposedly took place after the events of the main death note movie. So it wasn't a faithful adaptation either
Right, none of them are really faithful in the slightest. But its even rarer that its even above the level of garbage to be worth watching regardless, which was what I meant up there.
I'm honestly surprised that she was surprised.
Live action adaptations of manga are always barely faithful garbage, more so than just by the constraints of the medium but by the complete lack of care put in beyond rushing it out to strike while the iron is hot.
There is a reason why the Death Note movie got as big as it did, because it was one of the few that was actually worth watching.
The original article is more informative. Don't know if she was surprised but it sounds like she was under stress from actively and publicly fighting the TV producers - with them fighting back - rather than accepting the changes like most authors might. But I guess she most likely had depression or other issues leading up to this, along with a serving of typical Japanese shame.
Maybe tangent to the discussion, but from my interactions with the Japanese, there's been an increase in depressed or mental women committing suicide. Something that was typical of their men is becoming sex-neutral. Although it's possible a woman doing it carries more shock, and thus news about it spreads farther, it still speaks volumes about the current state of their society
I read that one too, and its what inspired me to say it like I did.
She thought she could just "agree" her way into having creative control of faithfulness, in an industry that never even comes close to that. Especially as a basic low totem pole mangaka without any of the clout to demand such a thing.
It comes across more like someone who got a big ego thinking they had "made it" with their "baby" and then got smacked back into the reality of them just being a replaceable cog in the machine.
It doesn't make any of what they did right, but I'm not going to shed a tear over some whiny woman trying to act like a big shot, throwing everyone involved in the project under the bus to save her own skin, then pretending "oh no I didn't mean you should attack them when I said it was their fault while you were attacking me!"
Like I said, it happens to basically every series that gets flash in the pan popular. Almost all of them end up trash. She decided to take it personally and then ate the consequence of that.
Didnt it change the manga ending by having L survive?
I never actually saw it myself, I just remember the discussion at the time being surprise that it was good. Which must be true because I know it did spawn basically its own universe with a lot of sequels.
Personally, I'm a fan of the cut anime ending which wraps up the story with L's death and skips all of the second season.
Though the most recent manga, where Donald Trump gets ahold of the Death Note himself and puts it into storage to prevent anyone from using its power and saving the world is pretty hilarious. And yes that happened.
I remember it cause i watched the L spin off movie which supposedly took place after the events of the main death note movie. So it wasn't a faithful adaptation either
Right, none of them are really faithful in the slightest. But its even rarer that its even above the level of garbage to be worth watching regardless, which was what I meant up there.