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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.

No, Netflix just probably had a lot of money to throw at Sunrise to go "Don't let Toonami air this."

Cartoon Network continues to make baffling decisions with movies I like. A holiday special with Urkel in 2021. Let that sink in for a moment.

I could have sworn DeMarco said he essentially had them in perpetuity, Can’t say I’m surprised though. An ad campaign about “the real Bebop” writes itself.

This is the same Discotek that found the original Project A-Ko workprint decades after it was considered lost and scoured the Internet and old VHS collections for obscure European dubs. If anyone could do it, it’s them.

I feel like this is just another example of anime fans being so staunch in tradition that they refuse to accept any alterations, because of how horrible the examples of alterations have been (Evolution). Most fans of comic books accept that things need to be changed for productions and even then, the changes aren't too dramatic (case in point, Doctor Strange wearing a more practical version of his comic outfit that still reflects how he looks in the comic, the various takes on Batman's armor). To have such a dramatic change in a medium that traditionally has translated incredibly poorly to live action is an immediate red flag. And that's not getting into bad faith arguments, it's just that there is no trust in doing this correctly. Hell, one of the few manga/light novel adaptations to get it right, Edge of Tomorrow (the adaptation of All You Need is Kill) changed the exo--suits from mini-mecha that surrounded the pilot into powered armor so you could see the actors (and watch Tom Cruise get killed over and over). People didn't mind because it wasn't a well-known story and it had a genuine A-list actor in Cruise. Alterations between mediums are an inevitable part of adaptations to other mediums, but manga and anime fans are, with some admitted cause, so terrified of another DB Evolution or a 1991 Guyver film that any changes are immediately proof that it sucks.

I still maintain everything I’ve heard about the movie is that it’s a worse version of Superman/Batman Public Enemies. Anyone else see that one?

I'm sort of reminded of the problem with the Ghost in the Shell movie, not Scarlett Johannsen, surprisingly enough, but the distance between the original anime and the LA movie made a lot of the visual aesthetics and plot points cliché because of decades of them drawing influence from Shell. So when that happens, you're sort of stuck in the unenviable position of telling a story people have heard plenty of times before, and wondering why they should care. Bebop is much the same. Firefly jokes abound, but the fact is, a lot of Bebop's aesthetic and character work have been put through the ringer in everything from Space Sweepers to Guardians of the Galaxy. It's not original anymore, and that means that the casual audience is going to need some hype to care. Which brings us to...weebs. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the phrase "you only have one chance to make a first impression" is an apt one. And now and forever, the first and last word on live action anime is Dragonball Evolution, or if you're feeling generous, Death Note 2017. Alice in Borderland? Never happened. Rurouni Kenshin? Didn't happen, plus the author is a perv so fuck him. With Hollywood's stellar track record (I know Kenshin and Alice are Japanese productions, even if Alice's director is apparently being hired to make the MHA film) and only two examples that are considered some of the worst movies of their respective decades (if you really wanted to be generous, there's the equally awful Fist of the North Star movie and the awful and cheesy Guyver and the less bad Guyver II: Dark Hero from the 90s), this show has zero benefit of the doubt. So even the tiniest change (Faye's outfit, which led to the usual nonsensical Twitter spats) is sacrilege and proof that the show will be shit. Which brings me back to my first question - Why? I know why in a broader sense, Netflix is scrambling to find shows to compete with the juggernaut that is Disney and their plethora of recognizable IP and they figured that mining anime was the next logical step, but all things considered, Bebop is one of the worst shows you could do this with. It's gone from being a trendsetter to something of a cliché unto itself, much like Shell.

This might explain why every big streaming service has anime on it, even if it's just a token amount from RetroCrush.