- Adaptational Attractiveness: Played with across all the newly-introduced characters, which makes sense considering the more realistic aesthetics of the film:
- Almost all characters affiliated with the Kyoto Oniwabanshu are about as accurate to their anime counterparts. Played with Aoshi Shinomori: apart from not having his freakish subordinates, he is nonetheless close enough to his anime counterpart down to the bangs (which is admittedly unusual). His trench-coat, however, is designed more functionally and is often worn closed.
- The trope is pretty much subverted with Shishio, who goes from a reasonably-attractive man with basically blackened skin in the anime, while Tatsuya Fujiwara is made up as realistically as possible to convey the horrifying burns a man like him should have.
- Yumi goes from a bombshell poster girl for the Impossibly-Low Neckline to a foxy woman with an-off-the-shoulder neckline, which is far more plausible and more classy.
- The Juppongatana as a whole is a mixed bag:
- Seta Sōjirō, Sawagejō Chō (beyond trading a red flamboyant kimono to a more sensible white long-coat) Sadojima Hōji and Uonuma Usui were pretty much accurate to their anime portrayals.
- Kariwa Henya seems to be simply a normal man with a tengu-inspired outfit, instead of being tengu-like in physique.
- Honjō Kamatari appears to have been cast as a woman and not as an androgynous male, and have disposed of the big scythe altogether.
- Yūkyūzan Anji's outfit and skillset is pretty much accurate, but he lacks the Colossus-like physique he has in the source material.
- Iwanbō appears to be an actual man of sumo wrestler proportions, in contrast to his blob-like inhuman nature in the manga/anime.
- Saizuchi appears as a normal if elderly man wielding a naginata and kusarigama, and is even capable of combat on his own.
- Fuji, whose gigantic proportions are impossibly out-of-context for the film series, has been reduced to a white-haired imposing man with a big naginata, which seems to harken Musashibo Benkei
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I pulled this because they're by and large not commenting on attractiveness, but rather just whether they're different or not.
Pretty much only Shishio and Iwanbo seem like examples as-written.
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How would you recommend changes? Change the focus from the accurate reproductions to those with changes solely?
Well, no. Change the focus to what's different or the same to differences in attractiveness.
Adaptational Attractiveness isn't just "Adaptation Change In Appearance," it's about the tendencies for those that adapt a work to have characters wind up prettier in adaptations.
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Only ones I have is that the page needs indexing and crosswicking.
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Shishio's sword has changed, at least from the anime version. Only about 1/4 is serrated edge, the rest is regular katana blade. How would that be classified?