Black Butler Movie’s Crossdressing Lead Ayame Goriki
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 6, 2013 10:02 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Announcements, Crossdressing, Kuroshitsuji, Movies, Square Enix
Black Butler looks to be the latest title to receive a controversial and (to some at least) inexplicable live action adaptation, with the movie version casting the titular butler’s boy master as a crossdressing girl – Ayame Goriki, a move unlikely to please the show’s fujoshi fans.
Goriki’s boyish looks seem to have led to director Shinzo Matsuhashi to cast for the part (original to the movie) of Shiori, who was raised as young master Kiyoharu for the usual implausible reasons of corporate dynasty.
He says she was the first person he thought of casting as the boy: “Goriki was the first person who came to mind with her strong pupils, boyish looks and short hair, I thought she was perfect for the role of a girl burdened with the fate of living as a boy by this perverted world.”
She comments that “I’ve heard a lot of opinions about the difference between the original and the movie, and I think we’ll be able to inject a lot of human emotion into the story with the adaptation.”
Sebastian Michaelis is to be played by 28-year-old Hiro Mizushima, his first movie role in some years.
Both the considerable liberties the movie is taking with the manga original (it is also set in 2020 Asia rather than London) and its casting decisions have already been the subject of much criticism, although the director is “confident they strengthen the essence of the original.”
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Wow, they're setting it in Asia AND pissing off the target audience? It's like reverse whitewashing and the worst of Hollywood has finally come to Japan!
The director is trying to make it as close to what fans would like to see in a Bishōnen more creepy but a cross dressing girl playing a boy to make it less weird.
Anyways, the fans must come realize that there's a reason why their bishounen male dreamboats are also considered to be "girly guys", hehe. Closeted homos the lot of them, just like the otakus who like lolis who look like little boys.
GAAAAAYYYY!!~~
Oh wait.
This sounds more interesting than the original premise, to be honest.
You missed the part where 2ch hates Goriki.
Is she not "pure" like aya?
sie muss nur diese EIER beschützen.
dieses wortspiel aus aya und eier gehört verboten.
eier = genitalien.
es gibt von mir keinen schutz für aya.
für meine eier jedoch schon.... sorry.
wenn ihr wirklich schutz für aya anstatt eier wollt dann bitte erstmal
ach ja ich rezitiere: "ich will mein geld zurück!"
eier sind auch die dinger die HENnen legen.
nur eier sagen halt soviele deutschsprachige für genitalien dass es da durch aus verwechslungsprobleme geben könnte .... so unter umständen wenn ihr versteht.
auf welcher seite bist NUN DU?
auf unserer oder auf deiner seite? loner?
hast du noch seiten oder bist du schon ein buch?
break ya neck break ya neck break ja neck ... lets game.... lets game ... lets game... lets game... neck break.. neck break... neck break..... to - game.
your aftermath please
YOU CANT? YOU LOOSE
02 crucify
grendel
prescription medicide
yours first. looser.
gone lost.
japan + me = no go.
me + kimono = like.
you? dare ga.
atari...... bake.... mono.......
please.
Godwin's Law in 3, 2, 1...
und sorry für reply an jemanden dens nichts angeht !
Well, 2ch hates a lot of things, anyway.
You mean there is something 2ch doesn't hate?
2d lolis?
nobody hate 2d lolis
'nobody hate 2d lolis'
WHO IS THAT "NOBODY" GUY, I AM GONNA KICK HIS BAWLS.
@04:52 - does that mean you're from 2ch? and you don't like 2D lolis?! then color me very surprised...
Damn, I wanted a boy in girls clothes (for science)
sorry for stoopid comment...............................................................................................
can forgive u there (bro)
2ch has shit taste? That's hardly news.
I hate Black Butler but I like this news. Take that, fujoshi losers. Their tears must be delicious.
Their misery-flavored tears sustain me.
05 dream
grendel
prescription medicide
I don't know, we fujoshi are kinda used to having crappy adaptations of our favourite manga/novels; plus nothing can be that bad after Princess Princess Live Action.
Jeez, what the hell do otaku guys have against fujoshi anyways? Shouldn't you folk be getting along?
My primary objection to fujoshi is that they have sex with people other than me.
If they were having sex with me, I would find something else to call them.
They have sex?
These women are enjoying the same hobbies the otaku are except with swapped genders. I think it's self hatred coupled with misogyny, they think women shouldn't have the right to be as 'dirty' as they are. It's the only explanation.
I don't see the problem. I would expect him to be played by a girl.
At least its not by hollywood..
For a moment there, i read it as "At least its not bollywood."
are you kidding I would seriously pay to see bollywood adaptations of anime, it'd be hilarious.
I'm Indian, and you strike fear into my heart.
That would be legendary
j movies arent any better. look at gantz and casshern.....
I thought the Casshern movie was awesome...
Well the origanal voice actor was a girl, so its not that far of a stretch. As long as she does the role well.
Oh, the guy who played Kamen Rider Kabuto.
At least it's a girl playing girl that is crossdressing as a boy, so it's not as weird as a girl playing a male character.
captain kirk ... your message has been received!
This seems more like casting for a theatrical performance then a live-action film. :P
Seems to be endemic of the movie industry. If something's popular = we must change it! To make it "better"!
They they're surprised when it fails.
Hollywood calls it "re-imagining". It sounds so much better than "heretical travesty".