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1. Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:39:49 JST Moon
   who is asking for live-action versions of anime?
   
   I'm not questioning people are asking for it. I want to know where they live.
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   • Token (coin@asimon.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:50:49 JST Token

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     • feld
     @feld @Moon Where are this "boardrooms" located.
   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:50:50 JST feld

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     In boardrooms
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:52:26 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Moon Generally not me, because the west usually do really bad things with adaptation where they barely even adapt it
     
     One Piece is the rare one where they actually went ahead and did the Japanese thing of actually dressing up the actors as they should, no matter how ridiculous the character looks
     
     Also instead of taking the work and doing whatever the fuck they want with it, because the PESKY source material is in the way, this time they took the material and adapted it and changed things without throwing the source out of the window
     
     The result? It's fantastic, for once
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 03:02:23 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Moon
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 03:16:08 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @guizzy @Moon
     
     >Gunnm
     
     The thing about Alita is that it followed the OVA extremely closely. It probably helped that it's a seinen and doesn't have too much of these anime quirks in them
   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 03:16:09 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @Moon When you're not yourself very saavy to the medium this is probably how the thinking goes: "We need stories people like to make movies out of. Writing original stories is risky as people might not like them. People into anime/manga tell me this is a good story and lots of people like it, but also lots of people wouldn't read/watch it because it's manga/anime, it seems a slam dunk that you can adapt this into a movie and have a success."
     
     The part where that fails is that often manga/anime is highly idiosyncratic, more than most other media. Fans care very deeply about the idiosyncraties and will consider removing or altering them watering down, but people who wouldn't watch an anime find these idiosyncraties at best confusing and sometimes outright repulsive. You can try to please both but usually the result is you turn both off (GITS live action movie).
     
     There have been some successes though. I think Gunnm and All You Need Is Kill's adaptations were fairly well received.