live-action versions of anime

[greg]

Ah yes, GTO. I forgot about that one! The TV series was decent. They toned the character down and made him lose from time to time, to make it realistic. They drama-fied it a bit. The movie was a bit of a letdown. It seems that the new GTO series has Onizuka more closely resembling his anime/manga counterpart, but I've been told it's not so good.

[whitesnake]

Initial D movie got an official U.S. release on dvd from Tai Seng.

Jackie Chan only made one City Hunter movie. The best part was a fight between Jackie and Gary Daniels as characters from the Streetfighter game, with Jackie as Chun Li and Gary Daniels as Ken. Since this was from Hong Kong producer Wong Jing, the movie was silly (but fun). A South Korean live action City Hunter tv series was broadcast in Asia in 2011.

Someone brought a copy of the live action Paradise Kiss movie to one of my anime shows last year. Since I'd never read the manga or seen any of the anime, I had no reason to be disappointed by it.

[usamimi]

Someone brought a copy of the live action Paradise Kiss movie to one of my anime shows last year. Since I'd never read the manga or seen any of the anime, I had no reason to be disappointed by it.

Yeah, if you've never read/watched the series, then it wouldn't be a big deal...but if you know the original story, it gets kinda ruined, sadly.

Ah, I thought there was more than one City Hunter movie, my mistake. Maybe I was thinking of one of Jackie's other movies...

[Animusubi]

Oh man, I love the Jackie Chan City Hunter movie! The Street Fighter parody alone makes it worth watching!

[Heero]

I actually enjoyed the Ranma 1/2 J-drama for what it was.

I'm honestly a little surprised by that. I thought the live-action was TERRIBLE, mostly because I feel like the leaned more to making it a typical j-drama "based" on the Ranma core. The martial arts is pretty much non-existent, the (Takahashi) comedic touch is gone and the transformation aspect (whether due to budget constraints or just laziness) is pretty pathetic. (I say that because based on the LA Sailor Moon and any of the recent Sentai/Kamen Rider shows, they COULD have done much better) I also find it bizarre that, considering the VAST and amazing cast Ranma has, they made up a NEW "villian" character?!? But yeah, I avoided it because I know I'm usually not into these, watched it just recently and really was pretty bored by about 1/3rd of the way in.

I watched the Maison movie a ways back, honestly I don't remember it at all but I also never read/watched Maison. My wife was really into the LA Gokusen tv show, I caught a few random episodes, it wasn't bad, but again, I wasn't into the anime/manga for it. (amusingly, my wife likes the live action show MUCH more than the anime specifically because they added a random dog mascot/narrator to the anime, she hates that dog. Think GTO but with Onizuka being female and the show EVERYTHING ELSE is basically the same, but in the anime there's an anthropomorphic dog that walks on two legs, wears clothes and mentally narrates the action)

[greg]

There were a few messages from yesterday or so that I had posted as well as Heero and Usamimi that somehow were deleted. I did not delete these, and neither did Daniel. I am a total spaz, but I think I would have remembered clicking the X on so many messages. Weird, huh?

[Animusubi]

I actually enjoyed the Ranma 1/2 J-drama for what it was.

I'm honestly a little surprised by that. I thought the live-action was TERRIBLE, mostly because I feel like the leaned more to making it a typical j-drama "based" on the Ranma core. The martial arts is pretty much non-existent, the (Takahashi) comedic touch is gone and the transformation aspect (whether due to budget constraints or just laziness) is pretty pathetic. (I say that because based on the LA Sailor Moon and any of the recent Sentai/Kamen Rider shows, they COULD have done much better) I also find it bizarre that, considering the VAST and amazing cast Ranma has, they made up a NEW "villian" character?!? But yeah, I avoided it because I know I'm usually not into these, watched it just recently and really was pretty bored by about 1/3rd of the way in.

I went into it not expecting ANYTHING about it to be good or bad. I just wanted to watch it with an open mind.

I liked Dr. Tofu having a bigger role, and the audience getting to see him in action, as it's mentioned several times he's a very powerful martial artist. Nabiki working as a hostess made sense, and while I didn't mind it for the drama, there were other things that bothered me about her. There certainly are quite a bit more things I DID NOT like about the drama. I feel like they should have just started with the story from when Akane's hair was already cut, especially because Ryoga didn't do it. The actor who played Ranma male was a pretty bad choice, he had little to no chemistry with the actress who played Akane, and I was annoyed by him most of the time. All the actors lacked personality and felt a bit dead alot of the time. And yes, a made up drag queen villain? Really?

I was kind of bored with it also, but I stuck with it, and ended up liking it for the most part. Just overall, I don't have a problem with it. To me it was entertaining, only because I need more Ranma...I'll take just about anything. It was just, interesting to me to see how they did it. I feel like if it were a Korean made drama it would've been better, haha! I tend to feel J-dramas lack...personality.

[usamimi]

I wondered why they made an entirely new villain as well...you'd think that doing the first story arc with Kuno (and possibly Ryouga) would've been enough for a drama plot, but I guess they thought they had to make it new and exciting or people wouldn't watch it?

[_D_]

Almost forgot about the Guyver movies they made. The first one was okay in a way. Never watched any of the others. Comments?

[davemerrill]

I remember watching the first Guyver movie and what I took away from it is that Mark Hamill's character would have been great in a hypothetical syndicated TV series from the 1990s called 'Cincinnati Heat'. As I recall we spent most of the movie talking about what this TV show would have been like, making up funny episode titles, etc. So I can't say the film held my attention.