I feel like I heard a report that it's performing very well, though not top-tier like either of the ones mentioned above. Like, safely in the "Lost In Space reboot" zone of being well-received enough and performing well enough that it'll probably get at least a couple more seasons to wrap up the story it's setting up.
That wouldn't surprise me. It's easy to forget, but a vast majority of the audience for a lot of shows just quietly watches and enjoys them without doing any clear engagement on social media. And Netflix benefits from that a lot. Another Life isn't good from most perspectives but it did well enough, somehow, to get a season 2.
And if you're not familiar with the anime, the live action show is a quirky sci-fi series with an interesting tone that's pretty easy to watch, so it's not that surprising that a lot of people are watching it.
It also helps that it's one of the ones Netflix actually bothered to do any significant level of advertisement for. People know this one exists and it doesn't quite resemble anything else out right now, so it got some attention.
Annnnnnnd it's gone. The show's been canned after one measly season.
Uh...yay? Good thing the OG anime series is on Netflix, right?
Looks like the show got Screwed by the Network.
He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.Let's be honest here, live-action adaptation of animated show are almost always bad. It always seem condescending to me when Hollywood take an animated property and try to make it live-action with darker elements, like they are saying "We gonna make this a real show and improve on it."
E.T technically is a Isekai movieI haven't finished the show yet, on episode 8, but this news does seem to imply they took a big financial gamble and didn't get the response they were hoping for. The uphill battle trying to stand next to one of the most iconic and multi-national appealing animes every created was not in their favor either.
There are some isolated moments of the show I really like, but I feel it suffers from bloat that makes the end product just not as slick as they want it to be. Julia and Vicious have a passable subplot in principle, but it's not strong enough to endure 10 minutes of every episode.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.Damn I have no love for the show (didn't get past the trailer) but canned after 21 days? Netflix did a lot of advertising and press releases before the show started (more than most shows on their platform get tbh) so I thought they had confidence in it. I know the reaction from anime fans was weak to say the least but this also means the general audience didn't have much love for it too (or wasn't high enough to justify their initial investment)
Cowboys vs SamuraiI think the elephant in the room in this case would be the strange and bizarre admiration the Japanese have for Hollywood, and especially the love/hate relationship they have with Americans.
Even if we leave aside the economic reasons, I, who live in Mexico, a country that also has the same love-hate relationship with the U.S., for more than obvious reasons, find it more than bizarre that the Japanese are more than willing to let the Americans trample on their works, as in this case.
Would it be a reverse version of wanting to be great in America, even if it means that their dignity and their works are trampled all over?
And I say this because, unlike the Japanese, Mexican media owners have no interest or desire for Hollywood to make movies based on Mexican franchises, precisely for that reason.
And the same goes for other countries or authors, who do not want Hollywood to make bad remakes of their movies, as it happened with the American attempt to remake Metro 2033, where the author of the novel clearly rejected the Americanization of the novel's story, and preferred not to allow a movie than to have his story altered by Hollywood.
Edited by luisedgarf on Dec 9th 2021 at 11:25:05 AM

Not sure if season 2 is locked I don't think the show is doing hot like Arcane or Squid Game.
Edited by Mizerous on Dec 6th 2021 at 11:11:29 AM
Just Makima.