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Kind of wondering if Fena is getting any views on Crunchyroll proper.

Watch as that happens and then we do get the Yakuza series with the entire cast Netflix got for He-Man. I’d laugh.

Bye bye Family Guy.

Then what, Netflix gets a celebrity dub for their adaptation of a series based on Yakuza? They bring back Mark Hamill as Majima?

https://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/en-us/explore/panels/panel-information.html?gtID=747896&panel-name=Shenmue-Continuing-the-Legacy-Virtual-Screening Here’s hoping for a non-crappy dub.

Considering they have the big LA movie and the Hathaway trilogy, most likely.

Stretching has traditionally been VERY hard to make convincing. And that's the biggest thing, front and center. The fact that the live-action adaptation I have the most confidence in right now is the live-action version of Saint Seiya shows how much I trust a lot of these studios. At least they confirmed the choreography is going to be from the same team that did Shang-Chi, so even if the acting sucks, the fights will look really, really good.

Persona 5 Royal. Started with the free vanilla version but was compelled to upgrade due to a sale.

If it doesn't, Netflix will probably swoop it up first chance they get given the ratings the first season did for them.

It was the eyes. That and Alita never had major market penetration here, James Cameron just thought the OVA was cool. He could have watched the 90s JoJo OVA and we would have seen that. Most of the people who saw Alita liked it, but a combination of the Fox buyout and a disappointment of a box office opposite Captain Marvel means the sequel will never be made (and I bought the Blu-Ray hoping it would). As much as I ragged on One Piece, it and Bebop have that major penetration (hell, Netflix gave OP a second life in the US), so them doing well would potentially be that Superman: The Movie moment or that Batman moment for manga/anime adaptations. (It may be arguably unfair to compare anime/manga adaptations to that scene from Superman which is considered an iconic moment in modern cinema, not just superhero films, but that’s my point all over). So naturally everyone involved keeps shooting themselves in the feet with shotguns. Because we can’t have nice things anymore. And hoping writers just shut their damn mouths is too much to ask.

Giant Robo had two dubs, the old VHS era dub and a proper dub that was done specifically for the DVD release.

The next arc is about sex workers.

Nothing will be censored in the manga to anime translation.

"Guy opts to not kill goose that lays golden eggs and instead keep taking golden eggs." Still -

Years after getting Family Guy was proof that Adult Swim had made it, it's now going away forever.

My fascination with these live-action adaptations doesn't take into account quality or lack thereof, but let's face it - We used up most, if not all the good comic books already. Superman movies will never tackle Braniac, Marvel has burned through so many classic stories they're using stuff like Master of Kung Fu and Shuma Gorath, (and this coming from someone who liked the Shang-Chi movie), and The Boys and Invincible are huge hits for Amazon. The barrel is starting to run empty, so manga is the next logical step. And well, someone has to be first. There have been some good ones even if they don't really count (Edge of Tomorrow changed a lot from the original light novel/manga but it was still a well-told movie with Tom Cruise dying a lot, the Alice in Borderland show is way better than the OVA, and the Kenshin films are genuinely good cinema), but we're still waiting for the manga/anime equivalent of Tim Burton's Batman or Blade. That film or show that is good on its own merits, and makes people forget the abortive attempts prior. Some day, we're going to get the manga equivalent of one of those movie scenes from comic book adaptations that makes people go "They get it." And it doesn't have to be one type of scene, it's just something that says "I get these characters, and this is how they look if they're flesh and blood." Case in point - I don't know if One Piece or Bebop will "get it", but eventually, someone will. Eventually.

The first movie does, but the second movie ends up going off the rails and the two have nothing in common at the end.

It’s Oda’s fault. No, seriously. He was the one pushing this and he specifically sought out Hollywood because he felt they would have a bigger budget.

I’m going to be weirded out when an episode ends with “Real” music. Anime having actual music already feels weird, and then you have One Piece with 900+ episodes of similar melodies and motifs, getting something like this -

It’s just that there are so many shitty superhero films and no one flipped their shit when Spider-Man got a movie. I remember, I saw it opening night in middle school. I still remember everyone laughing out loud when JK Simmons first appeared as Jameson.

I think you’re jumping the gun on trying to declare the series a failure.

Schumacher did the same actually. https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/entertainment/joel-schumacher-batman-robin/index.html

Considering every time someone so much as mentions one of these live action adaptations and dares change a fabric of clothing, the film gets mentioned, a few.

Bat nipples vs teen loser Goku. Am I wrong?

Naturally the responses are sheer unbridled terror. Sometime next year if I'm still around New York, there's going to be an ad for that on the big Madison Square Garden TV's that the building used to advertise stuff (and wish folks well, like when Bret Hart was recovering from surgery). And I'm not sure how I'm going to deal with that.