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Toonami |JulAug17| Most Definitely the Work of an Enemy Stand
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RampagingSoul
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Imperial Bishop
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Holy fuck. Netflix's Death Note is a failure as an adaptation and only remotely enjoyable if you look at it as its own thing.
I had to force myself to finish it.
I had to force myself to finish it.
Only Ryuk (no surprise) and L (big surprise) were mostly fun to watch.
At times it was unrecognizable. I swear you could take
the chase scene
L was fine at first, but after Watari died he somehow became a different character. Especially the part where he was tempted to write in the page. NIiiice sequel baiting by the way
Light acts like a moron through the whole movie, and then suddenly "I'm fucking Xanatos!" None of the impact of the chess maneuvers of the manga/anime. No "I won, exactly as planned" moments.
I look forward to Geoff Thew's review.
Most likely a giant pile of garbage.
I have yet to see live-action stretching that looked good. Somehow there's four Fantastic Four movies and Reed looked terrible in all of them. Granted the first one was made on a budget of string but the ones that actually had (attempted) effort... yeesh.
YoodiHoshi
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I'm actually preferring the Hunter x Hunter 2011 dub as it stands - if only for the fact that it has a better translation than the official CR subtitles, who I don't blame since they have to translate things on a tight schedule.
And a good portion of the voices (barring Gon & Killua, who are still doing a fine job) match up better with how I imagined them to sound in the manga
first look at live-action one piece's luffy
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They did an okay job establishing that L and Watari have a very close relationship and heavily implied that he was his caretaker.
I thought it was fine that L wanted to take a more forceful approach to getting Light, but the entire five-minute chase scene through half the damn city was ridiculous. L and Light apparently have the stamina equivalent to an Olympic athlete. -__-
And they gave us that lipid ending for the possibility of a sequel? Ffs.
I thought it was fine that L wanted to take a more forceful approach to getting Light, but the entire five-minute chase scene through half the damn city was ridiculous. L and Light apparently have the stamina equivalent to an Olympic athlete. -__-
And they gave us that lipid ending for the possibility of a sequel? Ffs.
If they didn't spend most of the movie displaying Light as an easily manipulative smartass, that "twist" ending would have been less jarring. It's like halfway through the script they realized that Light is supposed to be a strategic genius on par with L and shoe-horned it in at the last minute.
YoodiHoshi
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While watching the Japanese version of Battle Tendency (while no one else can quite pull it off like Tomokazu Sugita), I and some others thought Joseph's voice was a bit too deep >_>
And Ben Diskin was probably like the only guy they were able to hire who could pull off a believable English accent.
Plus - Diskin does already voice a younger version of an Epcar character, so it checks out in a way
Dubbing JoJo into English is one tough job
Hunter x Hunter's dub is pretty much ideal, imo. If your first language is English or you don't speak Japanese, you should be watching it.
Josuke's not really going to have a catchphrase when DiU gets dubbed.
Not to mention all the name changes.
Yup, Part 4 is when the name changes are going to happen much more often. I think we've still got a few more weeks until the first major name change for Part 3, & most of them aren't really until the 2nd half.
But yeah, aside from "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY HAIR" (which is only said a few times in the entire season), there's no equivalent of "yare yare daze" to deal with, not to mention it's less episodes so hopefully it'll come out a bit faster.
Master Of Illusion
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Unlike Tokyo Ghoul, this is a totally sane thought.
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Dubbing JoJo isn't that tough. It's just that there was at least 20 years of no official English dub outside of the SDC OVA and a majority of the fan base is accustomed to hearing it in one language.
Hellwarden
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I think part of the issue was that for the longest time, Araki was not pleased with the name changes that Viz/Capcom made for the Part 3 manga & video game, so when All-Star Battle & the rise of streaming came about, Namco went straight to Araki to make sure he was okay with any name changes to ensure they keep in tone to their original reference & what not, which then lead to Crunchyroll using most of those names for consistency.
But now that we have "official" names for the US versions, dubbing shouldn't be that much of an issue now, it's just waiting for Viz to actually do it since it seems they wanted Part 3 to be a dub premiere for Toonami & probably won't release it on Blu-Ray until sometime next year.
JadedWriter
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Erica Mendes has to put in some work and they have to pick the right VA's for some very specific characters.
I legit took a break from HxH after a certain ep. It's that emotionally taxing.
BassForever
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Killua becomes Hokage
But who becomes Wizard King?
Hisoka's penis
JadedWriter
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Probably Ging and he'll be the laziest king.
/a/ shitposters when the Black Clover anime starts airing.
Eh, I don't think that's an issue. You don't have to make it Engrish to make it work.
Look at Epcar's Joseph -- those OH MY GODs and OH NOs might be not be in Engrish, but they're plenty noticable!
BassForever
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That's clearly his bankai
Another issue is that they wanted to release the Part 5 video game, but Prince's lawyers got upset over
Gold Experience.
And there's the general issue of there being no popular Jojo anime until David Pro somehow managed to pull it off. The OVAs had a mixed reaction in Japan, and the Phantom Blood movie had such a bad reaction that no full copy of it exists.
I wonder how much of an issue it is now that Prince has passed on. Will his estate be as infamously stingy as him? I do have hopes that
King Crimson
Speaking of the Phantom Blood movie, here's all the known existing material from it.
Including the movie's trailer, 16 minutes of unfinished animation with no voices and custom sounds provided by a college student as part of a project, and some stills. Including the Dio & Erina kiss, which looks really rape-y here (moreso than the manga and 2012 anime)
It's honestly astonishing how a movie this recent (only ten years old now) is now lost. No camcorder recordings or anything.
What's the first?
After the Death Note movie I think we are done with western live action manga films for a bit. Will have to wait a couple years to for the Naruto one.
Japan has a bunch of notable ones coming. Would actually watch the live action full metal alchemist if it ever gets released over here lol.
Can Platinum End end up ranking. They were doing an ok job with the main female character in that until she got regulated to stand around in the cat suit status.
Though I guess the angels are good enough characters in that to prevent it form getting to death note tier or anything.
Japan has a bunch of notable ones coming. Would actually watch the live action full metal alchemist if it ever gets released over here lol.
Can Platinum End end up ranking. They were doing an ok job with the main female character in that until she got regulated to stand around in the cat suit status.
Though I guess the angels are good enough characters in that to prevent it form getting to death note tier or anything.
Honestly Death Note didn't besides Ryuk(who is the best part) and the other shinigami You don't need much of a better and it still sucks
The issue with series like Death Note is that they're also too anime to really pull off. They got around it this time by Americanizing everything, but you still get ridiculous nonsense like with Kira's name. Imagine how much worse it would've been if they tried to maintain, say, the hairstyles?
You need a mundane or grounded series to pull off a live action manga adaptation, whether it's from Japan or from the US. Or a really good sense of how to adapt things, which uh, doesn't seem to be a thing.
You need a mundane or grounded series to pull off a live action manga adaptation, whether it's from Japan or from the US. Or a really good sense of how to adapt things, which uh, doesn't seem to be a thing.
Heh.
That's actually great casting
Wasn't there a Monster adaptation (with Del Toro working on it) floating around HBO that got canned.
That may have worked.
As long as the protagonist is a foreigner
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