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PhoenixAct Since: Feb, 2011
#51: May 16th 2011 at 1:11:36 PM

I can't be the only one thinking that Black Lagoon would be ridiculouslly easy do adapt, can I? It's basically like a Tarintino movie anyway and the only completely non-american member of the main cast is Rock.

Sackett Since: Jan, 2001
#52: May 16th 2011 at 8:03:36 PM

Look, I'm not for a Race Lift and moving things around for every Hollywood adaptation of a foreign media product. Just for the ones it would make sense for.

I'll give you an example of an anime that I think would be better to keep based in Japan:

Inuyasha

edited 16th May '11 8:04:05 PM by Sackett

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#53: May 16th 2011 at 8:08:30 PM

[up] Yeah, that thing is impossible to turn it into movie, period.

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Sporkaganza I'm glasses. Since: May, 2009
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#54: May 16th 2011 at 8:09:22 PM

Why would you want to? Wouldn't you rather adapt something good?

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Noimporta Since: Jan, 2001
#55: May 16th 2011 at 8:14:30 PM

Then why all the talk about NGE?

Sporkaganza I'm glasses. Since: May, 2009
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#56: May 16th 2011 at 8:16:12 PM

OK, I have to admit that was funny.

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Thenamelesssamurai from Atlanta, Georgia Since: Nov, 2010
#57: May 16th 2011 at 8:20:16 PM

Then why all the talk about NGE?

*snerk*

On topic: I liked your idea in the first post, Spork, especially having "Fly Me to The Moon" playing in the background.

edited 16th May '11 8:36:29 PM by Thenamelesssamurai

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harkko Since: Apr, 2010
#58: May 17th 2011 at 1:40:16 AM

How is Black Lagoon Tarantino like? Maybe I missed the foot fetish scenes and dialogue scenes that last five volumes and don't advance the plot anywhere.

toalordsothe Not a Dong from Hell, Michigan Since: Oct, 2009
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#59: May 17th 2011 at 3:26:12 AM

Naruto wouldn't need a race lift no matter where it was made, it has all the races already in it.

Naruto is Aryan, All the Uchiha, Nara and Hyuuga are Japanese, A, B and D(arui) are all Black, The Senju are Middle Eastern well aside from the Second Hokage he was Albino, Gaara is Irish, Zabuza is Mexican and Sai and Orochimaru are World Of Warcraft players.

edited 17th May '11 3:29:03 AM by toalordsothe

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AirofMystery Since: Jan, 2001
#60: May 17th 2011 at 3:42:16 AM

[up]I figured Orochimaru for a Guild Wars guy, myself.

Sackett Since: Jan, 2001
#61: May 17th 2011 at 5:40:21 AM

Inu Yasha had a decent plot, decent characters, and an interesting premise.

It's main flaws were way too much repetitive filler and Status Quo Is God.

That actually increases the potential for a movie adaptation in my opinion.

edited 17th May '11 5:40:42 AM by Sackett

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#62: May 17th 2011 at 5:59:59 AM

[up] It's impossible. Period. Japan...generally sucks in making live action movies that requires extensive usages of CGI while it is absolutely untraslatable in Hollywood. Maybe if it went more lower fantasy, with kind of Mushishi feel, it's impossible. Too big budget.

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RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#63: May 17th 2011 at 11:29:48 AM

If an Inuyasha adaptation were done, I'd hope it would give the a plot a Save Both Worlds element so that the Time Travel thing feels less tacked on. It would also be a good idea to have Naraku be the one to resurrect Kikyo, and maybe explore the whole Kagome-is-Kikyo's-reincarnation aspect a little more; if nothing else, it would make interactions between Kagome and Naraku more interesting.

shiro_okami Since: Apr, 2010
#64: May 17th 2011 at 2:09:52 PM

and Sai and Orochimaru are World of Warcraft players.

This cracked me up! [lol]

Anyway, I don't think any anime series with over 30 episodes could possibly be adapted to film.

edited 17th May '11 2:10:47 PM by shiro_okami

AnOtherT An Other Troper Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#65: May 23rd 2011 at 2:20:09 AM

Ouran High School Host Club as an epic comedy about the search for identity with modern sensibilities (like GLBT themes), also i'd make it mainly a British production.

Epic as in time-scope, it should try to cover the whole manga.

ComradeClaus Archangel of Beza-Dan from Hecatomb Palace Since: Feb, 2011
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#66: May 23rd 2011 at 1:32:01 PM

How about trigun? Western Themed setting, Check. Western themed characters, check. racial suppremascist villain, check! streamilned plot easily turned into a 2 hr hollywood film, CHECK YEAH!!!

Maybe Gabriel Reese (really tall volleyball player) could play milly.

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AnOtherT An Other Troper Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#67: May 28th 2011 at 2:18:30 AM

D Grey Man could be good as an episodic look in to sources of Angst and some-such, given that it's the Big Bad's motivation to exploit such. Also I wouldn't make it so over-the-top, which may be a Adaptation Distillation or Decay.

edited 28th May '11 2:20:09 AM by AnOtherT

Ronnie Respect the Red Right Hand from Surrounded by Idiots Since: Jan, 2001
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#68: May 28th 2011 at 6:07:30 AM

1. Pick Haruhi Suzumiya

2. Write a good script, PROBABLY hybridizing from the elements of Melancholy and Sigh.

3. Cast based on acting ability (and get bawled out by fans about at least a few of the actors ending up white)

4. Get a director who understands the source material

5. Release the film, and watch it get torn apart for not being the anime/the novels.

This is why we can't have nice things.

edited 28th May '11 10:12:14 AM by Ronnie

TheDrifter Since: Mar, 2011
#69: May 28th 2011 at 10:00:11 AM

Regarding the discussion about race; I once read somewhere that say in the West if someone draws a circle and a couple of dots for the eyes and a line for the mouth, then people will just assume that the person is 'white' because that's how people are raised to believe. However in Japan people just say that the person is 'Japanese'.

So normally, for me I just assume that all the characters in a managa or anime are 'Japanese' unless it is stated otherwise or their race is pretty explicit (like for example the Raikage and Killer Bee).

Not to mention that Asians are far more diverse than what people normally think.

As for Hollywood adapting anime; well if I had any say in that process Hollywood wouldn't be adapting any anime. Personally though, I rather they are adapted in their home country. Much less baggage that way.

SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#70: May 28th 2011 at 10:14:26 AM

For Naruto (If I absolutely had to), I'd start with the Universal logo (the globe) and a voiceover:

Long, long ago, the world was very different. But then the Years of Catastrophe came...

(Explosions and fire erupt across the globe, the continents shift, the icecaps melt, and in quick time the world looks like the Naruto maps, more or less.)

Nearly all of humanity perished. But we have rebuilt, using what little knowledge remained of our previous civilizations to form a new way of living...one that perhaps our ancestors would barely recognize.

(The speaker is revealed to be the elderly Hokage, talking to a class of ninja students...we pan over the multi-ethnic crowd, but eventually settle on a loose group including Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura.)

Here in the Hidden Leaf Village, our children learn the way of the ninja so that our country is served both in times of war and of peace. To use our abilities to fight when necessary, and to help when needed.

(For this first movie, we mash together some of the early training stuff, but quickly introduce the bridge mission and hint at Orochimaru being the Big Bad.)

Signed Always Right Since: Dec, 2009
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#71: May 28th 2011 at 11:40:52 AM

Regarding the discussion about race; I once read somewhere that say in the West if someone draws a circle and a couple of dots for the eyes and a line for the mouth, then people will just assume that the person is 'white' because that's how people are raised to believe. However in Japan people just say that the person is 'Japanese'.

Did they continue on the experiment by asking them what race they think the line and dots are after giving it a name? Will they still think it's a white person if it has a indian name?

edited 28th May '11 11:41:03 AM by Signed

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TheDrifter Since: Mar, 2011
#72: May 28th 2011 at 12:58:52 PM

[up]Simple face with dots and a line, no names were given.

shiro_okami Since: Apr, 2010
#73: May 28th 2011 at 3:41:14 PM

[up][up][up] Naruto could never work as a movie, the source material is too long. Even if you did a movie for each arc, the child actors would grow up too fast.

AirofMystery Since: Jan, 2001
#74: May 28th 2011 at 8:48:03 PM

[up]You could adapt it. I have a vague plan how. All of the pre-timeskip part would be one movie, and the post-timeskip part would be two movies.

[up][up]The circle, dots and line = face test, I think, is very much relevant here. And if names are relevant, then how come people persist in saying anime characters with Japanese names are white?

edited 28th May '11 8:48:15 PM by AirofMystery

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#75: May 28th 2011 at 8:58:41 PM

Wasn't there already an Inu Yasha videogame where the protagonists are Westerner siblings who travel into the feudal world and team up with the anime protagonists? A Hollywood movie could just adapt that plot. Not like it'd be the first time a 'Westerner in Japan' movie is pulled off succesfully. The Last Samurai, anyone?


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