Manga to Anime 70% Approve, Manga to Movie 35% Approve
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Nov 26, 2009 22:09 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Cosplay, Hollywood, Live Action, Movies, Production Controversy
When asked in a survey whether they approved of manga to anime adaptations, some 70% approved. However, half that number, 35%, approved of the fraught process of adapting a manga to a live action movie.
The survey found that against the 68.5% of respondents who approved of manga to anime adaptations, only 35.2% approved of manga to film conversions.
Those who saw anime adaptations from manga, which some 95% reported watching in the case of their favourites, gave such reasons for their approval as “It’s possible to see the work from another angle,” “I wanted to see it animated” and “It increases the number of fans.”
Those unhappy with these adaptations made such complaints as “The voices differed to my image of them” and “A manga worldview is hard to convey through anime.”
People who approved of movie adaptations gave such reasons as “It’s possible to enjoy the casting choices,” and “It can promote a title to a wider audience.”
On the other hand, those who detested such efforts voiced such complaints as “The cast felt out of place,” “They often don’t treat the image of the original work properly” and “There’s a limit to what you can express in film.”
Concerns about the quality of live action movies adapted from anime, manga and games seem to be universal, yet their continued success seems assured…
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Live Action wins:
Nodame Cantabile (better than the anime)
Yasuko to Kenji (better than the manga)
Rookies
Holyland
Dr Koto
Team Medical Dragon
Godhand Teru
H2
Fuuma no Kojirou
and of course.....GTO (yes the anime/manga are better but the drama still rocks)
so while movies may not be good at live action manga adaptations, drama series are very good at it.
And I haven't seen the LA Yuria 100 Shiki yet but it looks awesome in a very cheesy way.
How about Gokusen? All I'm sure, I'm not going to put Detective Conan there... I mean, the kids look awkward lip syncing the original seiyuu lines instead of talking in their own voice..
And yes, Sorimachi rocks~!
Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge was also a pretty decent live-action adaptation.
Yep. They're rare, but they definitely happen.
20th Century Boys was a great movie adaptation.
20th Century Boys???
I wouldn't mind if someone make a Kodomo no Jikan movie.
Let's be realistic here, it'll never happen in a million years.
Or if it ever did, the actors would all be in their late teens.
You're right... Just like the Lolita movie. :(
NEE-SAN COME BACK!
3d beats 2d this time.
Can't blame people for not approving live action adaptions they tend to suck most the time. Although I did think the DMC movie was quite good.
20th century boys wasnt bad. then again it wasnt done by hollywood so thats probably the reason.
Can someone post the link of her gallery. I know I seen her gallery here somewhere.
live action= offense to the anime!!!
I agree with all those points.
3D girl is win, but manga ---> movie is (t3h)suck.
^^
That's a good point and most likely words to live by.
Rukia is the anti-3D Pig Disgusting.
If anyone can tell me who's the hawt cute babe on the left pic, I'll be happy enough.
Who is the 3d Rukia?
Considering how some anime to movie adaptations turned out(Dragonball Evolution for example) I'm not surprised by the low approval rate such adaptations have.
Watching your favorite characters come to life with animations is truly a gift i am grateful for.
That 3d Rukia looks niiiiiiice~~~
nice 3d pic :>
I think 35% it´s still high. With the crappy adaptations manga to live actions...
This 3D girl is a lot more sexier and kawaii than 2D version, however...
3D rukia so much better than 2D
Anything is better than 2D Rukia.
azumi was based of a manga and that was a good movie cuz azumi was hawt also max payne based off the game was alrite also death note japanese verison was good but smart people like Square enix do there movies in 3d
"death note japanese verison was good"
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I shall begin the fapping to both 2D and 3D as they are side by side now.
3d pic wins.
Those pictures up there... I'd definately say the lower part of the 2D, and the upper part of the 3D. The 2D face is so Western-"Manga"-distorted it's not even funny.
3d > 2d!!!
nice rukia image. (hot butt)
Gets 3D approval stamp. A rare prize.
First time I've thought of Rukia as a hottie.
First time I've thought of Rukia as a woman. D:
Me 2!!!!
A rare case of 3D win.
Stamped Approval on your approval stamp ;3
Everything can have it's downsides. You should probably stick with your chosen form of enjoyment for any series. I rarely read manga so it's hard for me to have problems where the voices don't match up.
Trick is to read the manga the anime was based on -after- watching the anime. The manga is usually better, so there's less chance of being disappointed.
lolol
Anyone see the leaked death note script?
You mean, the *fake* death note script.
What but I was reading it all day
it's a 120 pages long no way someone would go through all that effort
You'd be surprised how caught up fan-fiction writers can become.
It's really looks like a professional script I'd be very impressed in was just fan fiction
the guy on ANN says it's real
ANN is never wrong after all.
Well they were wrong for banning me anyway
Yeap 8D
Forgot to login
anime ftw!!!
Hell to the fucking YEAH!!!
The usual: 2D > 3D
Why can't it be 2D+3D= double win ?
admit it, Airgear would benefit enourmously in a movie, especially if all the action and ecchiness are retained...
i'm actually salivating here..
This time I personally like the 3d version better.
But I guess it's the drawers failure. Or just my pathetic, foolish, savage preferences.....Whatever Anon is always right
Agreed.
Weird, I just saw that pic as a spray on a TF2 server last night, I think...
It's more of a failure on the artist's part, imo.
All the weaboos here are clambering for the 2D ver since shes less intimidating, and they feel they can actually talk to a cartoon (that isnt fat/ugly/both)
Or they are fat ugly bastards that will never get laid.
Or they just prefer 2D.
The 3d girl in this pic is pure win.
The only 3d I'll eva approve
In this case 3D > 2D. However, the girl is likely shooped. I will enjoy the view in any case.
nice ass
almost cgi
The only 3D i'd considered fucking.
Fancervice in the movies would improve the movies a lot.
Not sucking would improve the movies a lot.
Yeah, if this does not suck, it does not suck. Captain obivous at your service !
2D fanservice > 3D fanservice
Add as much fanservice as you want to live action movies, it won't make them any better.
no no no
samuel L jackson = afro samurai
L = creepy american otaku
either way they still fap!
2d FTW!!!!!
The problem with fanservice in live action is it usually becomes the sole dimming light in a dying franchise...like Transformers. First KISS Players, and now Alice!
Then who is L? Samuel L. Jackson?
Now that I think of it, he has a L in his name...
Yeah. Bet no one can wait for Amer. Death Note with Zac Efron as Light...
He deserves it though. It will be a low budget piece of shit..
Nice ass.
I tottaly aprove making films from anime. Okey most of them will be shit and I wont watch them but some of them can be good and this is reason why they should make it along with all this shit.
I'd rather keep my anime intact and away from any sort of fagywood-like fail.
He's half-man and half-machine!
No matter how hard you try with a manga to live action movie adaption it's doomed to fail. For me the main reason they fail is because the stylish/cool/cute characters from the manga are replaced by generic actors who simply can't portray said characters as the author intended. Since it costs a lot more to make a live action production they also run into budget constraints which can make it impossible to recreate the settings and events of a manga.
Ultimately then you end up with a production that does not recreate the characters, settings or events in a satisfactory manner. I personally never watch any live action versions of anime or manga titles because they're consistently terrible and I wish they'd just stop making them.
I watched the live action version of Higurashi. It wasn't half bad.
...I didn't know Rukia even had breasts.
*scratches head*
I think this story says a lot more about the skill level in Japanese animation and voice acting in comparison to Japanese live action filmmaking than about the audience, or what what film and live action are capable of.
In other words, there's plenty of talent in Japanese voice acting etc. Japanese live action acting? The talent pool is rather poor.
either it works or it don't, most of the time you can blame the production company
oh well... gonna boycott the Hollyretard version of KoF
For once, I'm going to go with 3D; Rukia's eyes are weirdly shaped and her head isn't even round.
Nice coloring though.
I'll take one order of 3D please!
Just don't give it to Xebec (Pandora Hearts was damn good anyway) or whatever that studio was that disastrously butchered Kyo Samurai Deeper..
And whoever did Tsukihime.
Tsukihime anime? Pretty sure there was never a Tsukihime anime.
Of course there is. What planet have you been living?
It will never be the same thing. 'Cause anime is 60% filler, 30% fanservice.
Its hard to make a movie adaptation of a something something chapters manga in just two hours that is good.
I approve of that picture, that's for sure.
And I approve of GOOD adaptations. It doesn't matter to me that it's being adapted, as long as it is a good adaptation.
Yer Manga to Anime fine but Anime/Manga to fovie 9 times out of 10 epic fail. Dragonball Z live action movie....Fail.
I really thought the Death Note movie adaptation was good.
"Concerns about the quality of live action movies adapted from anime, manga and games seem to be universal, yet their continued success seems assured…"
There's a very good reason for this. As you know, 95% of world's population is idiots. And most of them doesnt care about content, they just want to watch somthing flashy, and never took part in any survey
By the way, that ass is too delicious.
dat ass
3D wins but only because drawn Rukia has always been fugly.
*high fives*