Has there ever actually been a decent live action anime/manga adaption of a /a/ series?
Does the USA just ruin every Japanese franchise it gets a hold of?
Edge of Tomorrow was good with the original ending.
With the ending they ran with it was just okay. I'd say it's decent.
Live action Guyver: The Bio Boosted Armour was pretty decent. Plus it has Mark Hamill.
Most things come out as shit though.
>>139014908
This.
GiTS will be shit.
Oh, and...
>implying Japan doesn't ruin their own franchises with their live action movies and tv series.
Did you catch the trailer for Terra Formars?
>>139014863
All you have to do is make this man the MC and the movie will be good.
>>139014863
Is that really what they did with his hair lol
I think many anons like the Rurouni Kenshin movies.
>>139014863
Old Boy.
The only good live action I've ever seen for a manga was Old Boy's, and that was a Korean movie.
Edge of Tomorrow was okay, but far too clearly Americanised and the the ending took away all the impact from AYNIK's original ending.
The only way I can see a live action working well would be on a work that takes place on a Western setting, but even in that case I would have my doubts, since the way the Japanese like writing things and characters, and the way they consider things cool is different from the American way.
If I had to think of an example, though not anime but a video game, would be Devil May Cry. The original story was fun as hell, but as soon as it was handed over to Westerners (Brits in this case) the story sucked balls, precisely because they tried making it cool in as Western fashion, which took away all the charm from the original story.
There are a few stories I can see working with Americans on the helm - as long as they don't decide to add plenty of edge to them, as it seems to be the norm these days - like Cowboy Bebop and Baccano.
>>139015085
did you read the ch.0 of terra formars? bec the live action is that chapter and its pretty neat actually
Tokyo Tribe was great
>>139014863
Unless you're a shoujofag, not really. Majority of nip and Hollywood adaptations are awful.
>>139015377
All you need is kill original ending was corny and the romance in that with rita was written so childishly.
Oldboy was better than the manga it was based on.
>>139015377
>Bebop and Baccano
>not Monster
Monster was literally made for Del Toro to adapt for live action
>>139014863
Edge of Tomorrow was a GREAT adaptation, some people may not like the original ending but I still think it is a great as an adaptation from a japanese media.
I think there are a lot of material to be adapted without problems, since the superheroes fad seems to be entering its end with the terrible reception of BvS I could see Hollywood starting to adapt random japanese manga/novels because fuck creating an original movie.
>Peach hip girl and shark skin man
>volcano high
>ichi the killer
>speed racer
There are quite a few good to great ones.
>>139015537
Romance in Edge of Tomorrow wasn't any better, don't kid yourself, it was just Americanised.
The ending in Edge of Tomorrow was your regular Hollywood, Tom Cruise film ending. At least the one in AYNIK had some impact, but Americans would never have the heroine/love interest dying.
>>139015661
Monster is amazing, I forgot about that one.
Though, considering this is Holliywood, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried changing the story to make space for Holocaust remembrance. Not trying to go /pol/ on this, but I wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened.
>>139015761
>speed racer
>>139015809
>he didn't like speed racer
>>139015809
I know rite?
Fantastic movie!
>>139015377
There was this Western manga that featured a 7-feet tall native American on a quest to avenge his massacred tribe by hunting down the platoon of soldiers responsible. On his side are: the local whore, a Japanese laundry worker, his pet wolf, a US agent posing as a drunken preacher, and a rogue US army colonel.
I would love to see Taratino adapt it, but I don't think there's that many tall actors that can fit that role. Liam Neeson's tall but he's too old.
BnHA
>>139015809
It wasfun
>>139016014
>girlfriend becomes antagonist
>antagonist becomes best friend
>best friend becomes girlfriend
That movie had no right to be good at all, but it was surprisingly entertaining
I kinda liked the Detroit Metal City movie.
>>139016014
>>139016133
>That movie had no right to be good at all, but it was surprisingly entertaining
Pretty much what everyone thought of it. It was pretty fun.
>>139015809
>He didn't like Speed Racer
>>139015809
Speed Racer was the tits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEh1fT1IH14
Was decent till the last game. Fuck them for fucking over MC´s waifu.
>>139015280
Ebin meme
>>139016359
I hated speed racer until the scene where john goodman's belly and a capuchin monkey fights ninjas.
Then I finally understood.
I loved the shit out of the rest of the movie.
>>139014863
Edge of tomorrow and speed racer
>>139014863
Most of those shoujo live action dramas have good reception
I think berserk is begging for a live action HBO series. One of the few manga that can work as a western adaptation.
>>139014863
Edge of Tomorrow was better than the source material.
>>139015350
The first was good but the Kyoto arc was ruined because it was painfully obvious they were on the Toei sets and couldn't really set anything on fire
>>139016555
>>139016974
Wait EoT was based on a manga? Mustve missed it, which one?
You wouldnt have thought it either, it seemed so americanized.
>>139017085
Look up "All You Need Is Kill".
>>139017085
They just made the MC American instead of Japanese and changed the ending a bit
>>139015809
The speed race movie was a corny adaptation of the corny original cartoon
wheres the problem
>>139015350
Rurouni Kenshin movies were great. Also had some of the funnest sword fights I've seen in live-action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZh1h6dtvUc
>>139017085
>It seemed so americanized
I watched it without knowing it was based on a light novel, and my first thought when he reset the first time was "this is such a japanese plot".
Lo and behold.
>>139016014
JUST
>>139017616
WILD
>>139014863
Speed racer? thats the only one done by americans i can think of. There have been several good ones done by the nips
>mfw they'll ruin GITS now
>>139014995
2nd one was better.
>>139016133
My only critic is the uncreative way in how the powers are ranked
>flying bricks are cool
>matter state manipulation is shit
It's like the writer never opened a comic.
>>139017014
the first one was MUCH better as a finished product, but the fights in 2/3 were better i think
>>139014995
The sequel was a lot better, and I'm still surprised that the first movie pre-dates the live action TMNT movies. Use to think TMNT inspired whoever to make the movies so they could ride the popularity wave.
>>139015085
Japan is hit and miss with it's live action adaptations. Some are bad (See AoT) but some are really good (See the Death Note movies, the Kaiji series, most seasonal drama that are adaptations of smaller manga like Hammer Session etc).
>>139017559
I knew when the girl walked into battle with a giant sword for no reason
>>139015053
>>139017713
Under the Skin was pretty good. Gives me hope.
ADA KODA SODA!
>>139016942
>live action Berserk
But who'd play who? Most of the guy's I'm thinking about playing Guts are too old now.Mostly Henry Rollins.
Those murder mystery series (ie Kindaichi) tends to be pretty good, they do a good job at putting the mood
>>139017890
>Scarlet Johanson as Motoko Kusanagi
>Pilou Asbaek as Batou
>hope
>>139018138
Depends on the scriptwriter. Scarlet Johanson has been in good things before. Some have been pretty bad, but there is reason to not hate it immediately.
>>139018201
Wait, after checking the writers and director, this will probably be a disaster.
>>139018138
My bad.
>>139018003
Guts' not a young man anyway.
Mickey Rourke?
>>139018277
No, cast John Cena.
>>139014863
Thanks for reminding me.
>>139018003
>tfw Dark Tower has a black man cast for Roland
Polite sage for off-topic. Fuck Hollywood.
Nodame cantabile when?
>>139018138
Scarlet can just read the script, The Major isn't a particularly emotive character
All I honestly care about is whether Togusa is still Japanese
Or in the movie, they did make it out to be based on SAC but I'm not hopeful
>>139018260
>Writters:
>Jonathan Herman
>All this guy's writen before is Straight Outta Compton
>Straight
>Outta
>Compton
>>139014863
I actually went to the theater to see this shit. Thanks.
>>139014863
>No a single mention of Speed Racer
I have to wonder why we need a live-action GITS when we've already had a superb one in 1999.
>>139018003
Unfortunately the casting pool of 6'3" muscle bound actors consists almost entirely of pro wrestlers.
The Rock might have been able to do it back before he was twice Guts' age.
>>139018389
Everyone who went to see that had a seizure and died on scene. I was the only survivor.
>>139015280
Tom Cruise would have made a great Light if he was in his prime again. Handsome, talented enough to be believable as an evil mastermind without going full Jesse "autism=smart" Eisenberg and the perfect man to display the breakdown at the end without making it feel as lame as it did in the anime.
>>139014863
I liked GTO and Cromartie
>>139018404
It's Dave's time to shine. He has the voice and the physique to make it work.
>>139018349
A script written by some dude who wrote a movie about ghettos.I bet we'll get a black Togusa.
>>139017864
They had axes in the original.
>>139018362
>Directed by Rupert Sanders
>Snow White and the Huntsman
It gets much worse.
>Zac Efron as Light
>Robert Pattinson as L
>Robin Williams as Light's father
Hollywood missed its best chance to make a successful manga live action.
>>139018698
Hopefully you are joking
>>139015768
>wasn't any better
It was less shit. Which makes it better.
...Gantz...don't forget Gantz... (i try 2)
>>139017559
>this is such a japanese plot
Groundhog Day is japanese?
It's not just the USA. Japan makes shitty live action shit all the time. I'm especially pissed off that their making alive action of I Am A Hero. Just..why? Why not just make original movie plots? It pisses me off when all they do is use crappy CGI and the cast is a bunch of pretty idols. Sometimes I wish anime would just die. At least anime in its current form. I'm sick of the cliche shit. Sick of the unrealistic fanservice every 10 seconds. Sick of the same old plots, with the same old "power of friendship" shit and series that jump the shark. I rather rewatch an older series like Spice and Wolf or NHK, than have to push through some slice of life, moe, "MC-kun, dice ski!" shit. What happened to anime?
>>139019018
Funny that this thread is up becuase this came out earlier.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-03-23/viz-media-partners-with-united-talent-agency-for-live-action-content/.100154
>Viz
>The company that only gives a shit if Naruto is somehow involved
Get ready for Live action Naruto with suburban white kids
>>139017085
I saw it and liked it too without knowing it was based on All You Need is Kill.
Then I read the manga and enjoyed it too
>>139019018
I had to make 100% sure this wasn't old pasta I had forgotten. But nope, you actually just tried to be pretentious about anime while citing Spice and Wolf as some sort of masterpiece.
>>139018938
It's not just the time resets, it's the setting. It takes place in the military during an alien invasion, where one special hero can emerge and save the day against all odds with his video game reset powers. Emily Blunt's character was a watered down western tsundere too.
Groundhog day is just better.
>>139019326
>It takes place in the military during an alien invasion, where one special hero can emerge and save the day against all odds with his video game reset powers
Sounds like most hollywood movies minus time reset
>>139019147
>>139018809
>>139018809
You're retarded.
>>139019372
It's the combination. Everything before video game reset is typical hollywood, but when combined with time resets, it adds that certain nerdy wish fulfillment to an otherwise normalfag plot.
Violence Jack
>>139019439
so it is just time reset
>>139014863
city hunter
>>139019464
You're fun.
>It's the combination
Live action is great
>>139014863
edge of tomorrow
>actually a decent movie
> tom cruise
> emily blunt
> hnng
it was lightly based off of all you need is kill
proves >>139015280's point
There's only really been three live-action American adaptations to date.
Edge of Tomorrow was amazing.
Speed Racer was "fuck you I liked it" tier at worst.
DB:E was fucking terrible.
So it's pretty much a mixed bag, which is leagues better than video game adaptations which have never produced a good film. Don't know why people associate American adaptations of anime as something bad when there have only been three and most didn't turn out too bad.
>Death Parade adaptation by David Fincher
>>139019439
>it adds that certain nerdy wish fulfillment to an otherwise normalfag plot.
because this totally isn't the case unless time reset is involved
> It takes place in the military during an alien invasion, where one special hero can emerge and save the day against all odds with his video game *insert power* powers or just a "normal" person with touma-like plot armor
that's pretty much most hollywood movie, but you are stressing how time reset is so different when it really isn't
>>139018809
I'm not joking. All of them are weebs. And by that time Efron and Pattinson were desperately trying to escape from their teen girl movies actor typical role, and Williams was trying to keep himself busy so he don't commit sudoku.
>>139019663
Because anyone who decides to have an opinion on American adaptations should a somewhat refined taste in what American cinema is actually like. Therefore, they would be fairly used to being let down and disappointed when it comes to Hollywood showing up in terms of screenplay, casting, direction etc. Anything that would get an adaptation in the first place would have to be popular enough to sell worldwide while also being able to win a domestic box office. Think back on some of the greatest American films of the past 5 years. I can only mention a handful that are worth remembering and most of them saw a very limited theater run. Why would a jew pay licensing fees to some gook just to make sure the original vision of something like Akira is adapted properly? They could just call it Teenvergent and make the exact same amount of money.
TLDR; Nothing worth adapting properly would ever make enough money for investors so it would take a miracle for the proper source material to mesh perfectfly with domestic box office. Something like Edge of Tomorrow is once in a decade type of cinema where everything fell into place.
>>139014863
>PWUH~AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH~! That was good rum!
>I'm Jack Rackham an I'm just an ordinary high school boy
>I-It's n-n-not like I want to save Nassau with you or anything! B-Baka!
A LOT of what's in anime wouldn't translate so well to a live-action medium. Jus' sayin.
>>139020012
I would watch the fuck out of a harem animu centered around Jack Rackham.
>>139018698
>muh zac efron as light
You're the type of idiotic normalfag that infests imdb. He doesn't have nearly enough acting range to pull it off, but that's ok for a moron like you, because he kind of looks the part.
Only one.
>>139015357
the original Old Boy, not the 2013
>>139020120
But Light is only calm or insane, any actor could pull that.
>>139014908
>Edge of Tomorrow
Might as well be considered it's own thing for as much as it diverges from the original novel.
>>139019559
Oh man, this could actually be hilarious if Sumire was a puppet.
>>139016942
How the hell will they make the blood and gore not look like shit
>>139018389
Most people can't handle the camp without dying
>>139020379
OP was searching for a decent live action no a good one.
>>139019559
Was this any good? I don't see this being a good adaptation
>>139018389
>>139015761
>>139015809
Read better
>>139020150
This is a good lesson in how to ruin a joke.
>>139019018
>I am a Hero
Maybe wait for that, I think is very good
1:1 adaptation of all Usagi Drop manga when?
>>139015809
Speed racer was great. I loved how they cut the live action and edited it together as if it was done using cells.
>>139015448
Muh nigga. Ryo should have win, he is so buff up compare to the weak monkey MC. Btw, i wanna join Nerimathufucka coz their gang song is nice.
>>139020244
actually depending on the scene and how human they wanted sumire to be she would change from puppet to an actress.
For some reason in the shower the other day I was thinking of 80's cartoons that could be turned into the next attempt at a nostalgia based action movie to introduce a new toyline. and I immediately thought about the Centurions. basically action heroes that can be equiped with various exo suit weapons. I thought it'd be especially neat with some modern practical effects (think of the jet suit men).
anyways. i'm straying off topic here. This idea also made me realize that usually they add in a female hero because of womyn and I figured this could be an excellent way to sneak the airplane boots from strike witches into a holywood movie.
Hope you enjoyed my blog.
The Initial D movie from Hong Kong.
>>139014863
I'm leaning towards this not being an /a/ topic, because it's really about the cesspit that is the Western film industry, which just happens to sometimes pilfer from the Japanese entertainment industry.
Or to answer OP's questions: no. yes.
Since they casted someone for The Laughing Man then I guess they're just going to be adapting SAC?
I don't think I've ever seen anything with Pilou Asbaek, Michael Pitt or Beat Takeshi. Are any of them decent?
>>139014995
Oh fuck I really HAVE to rewatch this. Back then I wasn't expect much from live adaptation but the costume and and effect is pretty good.
Crows Zero 1 and 2 were good, although they are prequels rather than adaptations.
This is the only acceptable answer in this thread
>>139022266
It was okay, but took things too far in the comedic direction to really be a good adaptation of City Hunter.
>>139014863
>Does the USA just ruin every Japanese franchise it gets a hold of?
Not as often as the Japanese do.
>>139022890
They literally adapted an episode out of City Hunter, but with more Jackie shenanigans
>There will never be an HBO mini series over SBR
now I'm upset
>>139014863
Ghost in the Shell
>>139019663
You forgot Kite and the Oldboy remake
>>139016014
To this day i don't understand why i liked it so much
>>139015280
As crazy as he is, Tom Cruise movies are usually pretty watchable. Edge of Tomorrow blew me away - went in with 0 expectations and left impressed.
>>139017823
Death Note movies sucked stop being a weeaboo and develop some critical thinking skills. Dramas are just people standing around talking anyone can make them seem watchable.
>>139022266
The thing is that it was more a Jackie Chan movie than a City Hunter movie.
At no point during the movie are we convinced that Jackie was playing Ryo Saeba. He was playing Jackie.
>>139016551
I was pretty surprised by how based that entire scene was desu senpai
American Death Note, screenshot this.
>>139024400
That fight scene is basically Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World two years earlier.
Seriously, Speed Racer was such an awesome movie. Shame it didn't do well with critics or audiences.
>Let's make an adaptation of Dragon Ball!
>Specifically, the part that our audience never got because they only brought over the second half.
>>139019499
This
>>139015085
Because Terra Formars was garbage source material in the first place.
Japan does better with TV shows like GTO TV Drama Live Adaption.
>>139018427
you werent, you are in hell now just like the rest
Are they still making a live action Bleach?
>>139014995
I've only seen the 2nd one which was enjoyable for David Hayter.
How were the Japanese live action movies of:
Rurouni Kenshin (played by Den-O)
Black Butler (played by Kabuto)
?
>>139014863
It really isn't fair to blame USA alone for bad anime adaptations. Japan is pretty bad at it most of the time
This any good?
>>139025055
As good as Hana Kimi
>>139018003
The actor who played The Mountain in Game of Thrones could maybe do his build justice, not sure about his face though
>>139018489
I could see him work
Redline - the motion picture starring...?
>>139014863
I really liked dragon ball the live action. I don't know why some of you friends hating live actions.. Some of them actually better than the source material. Pretty good
Umimachi Diary was good. I haven't read the manga, but the movie as a lone product was good. Directed by Koreeda, so it has a very nice aesthetic, and the acting is of that of a legit movie and not the stupid attempts at anime reaction faces and bad acting that you usually get in anime/manga adaptations.
>>139018277
Guts is a young man. He just looks twice his age.
I heard Hollywood were going to.do a beyblade live action
>tfw GitS will soon be raped by Americans
Nothing is safe.
Please let there be a live action American series of Fate/ Stay Night. My sides would be obliterated.
>>139024400
>falling snow turns into speed lines
BASED
>>139016359
I can hear that music in my head
>>139016014
>warren peace
Wait is that Caitlyn Snow as NotPoisonIvy?
Also I would destroy Jetstream
>>139017892
That OP was so fucking 80s, it was Japanese Springsteen
>>139019147
To be fair Kishimoto said that in order to get a good likeness, Naruto himself would need to be cast as a white kid.
>>139014863
does edge of tomorrow count?
>>139023478
>HBO Presents JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
FUCK I want it
>>139014863
The Japanese routinely pump out terrible live action adaptions of anime/manga though
>>139019979
>They could just call it Teenvergent and make the exact same amount of money.
They already did. chronicle was basically Akira in found footage style
And Elysyum was Gunnm (even though it seems its going foward after all)
>>139020179
The original novel reminded me of stereotypical Japanese falling over himself at the finish line.
No relay should of existed in that end scenario, what makes it ok to just have one when they are suppose to have lost their power / connection.
>>139014995
Luke Skywalker turning into a cockroach fucked me up as a kid.
>>139018576
>>139018501
>>139018349
>>139018362
Fuck. Atleast BAA could be good. Think Robert Rodriguez still has it?
>>139027452
I forgot about chronicle. That was a pretty good movie. What all this commercialized capeshit should strive to be, but never will.
One thing cinema will never be able to adapt is SoL moe though. Is there any medium besides anime that can give that special feeling when watching cute girls do cute things?
>>139025201
>Implying pic related wouldnt be a perfect casca
>>139017890
what's the deal with Under the Skin? Is it based off an anime or manga?
>>139027835
No it's based off a novel. It has nothing to do with anime or manga.
>>139014863
Many. Though all of them japanese/taiwanese TV Dramas not Hollywood movies.
For example the most recent - Nishio Ishin`s Okitegami Kyouko > Shaft shit
>>139019018
get a load of this guy
>>139015448
>>139021274
My brothers of African American descent.
Although the way Buppa and his harem died was pretty retarded
>You will never see Cowboy Beop: The Movie starring Keanu Reeves as Mr Bebop
>You will never see Evangelion: The Movie starring Robin Williams as Gendo Ikari
>You will never see Death Note: The Movie starring literally anyone but Zac Efron as Light
>>139023928
He always plays Tom Cruise in all his movies but I always end up enjoying them anyway. 90% of it is formulaic but competently written.
>>139028857
Vanilla Sky, Legend, Interview with the Vampire, and Born on the 4th of July. What not terrible ones am I missing?
>>139014863
Samurai X
Ashita no Joe (2011)
>>139016942
This. Berserk has is mostly set in medieval Europe anyway, so it already has a western feel. And the fact that its pretty dark would translate well into live adaptation. But it would be hard as fuck to make all the gore apostles, and fights not look like shit. How would you even play something like the fight between Guts and Zodd on the hill of the swords? Moving absurdly quickly with gigantic weapons would be nearly impossible to play clearly.
>>139029233
Collateral is pretty good.
>>139029979
Thanks. I'll check it out.
>>139018438
I agree. If he was like in Rain Man, he would be the perfect Light.
First Gantz movie was a solid 8/10 adaptation. The second one was meh...
If you ask me, I think they should've just forgotten the whole manga plot and team, and come up with some original idea with another team, maybe somewhere outside tokyo. We would've lost Kurono, but the movie's Kurono wasn't even that great in the first place.
Lupin III movie
>>139028805
>tfw I actually wanted to see all of these but they never came to be
Why even live
Keit-Ai Live Action.
>>139031243
You couldn't keep a straight face while writing that ?
>>139014863
Well, at least they will never make a Hollywood movie out of VN adaptations like Fate/Stay Night or Clannad. I mean, what are the odds?
At least in the live action DB Goku ended up with the best girl
>>139014863
Ironically only Americans think anime is SO HARDCORE especially goofy shit like Dragon Ball.
>>139014908
I fucking hated how they destroyed Rita's character.
There was a Higurashi one that was pretty good.
