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Toonami |JunJul16| You Thought It Was Dragon Ball Super, But It Was ME, DIO!
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Doctor Decimate
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Ridiculous whitewashing aside, Adam Wingard is a damn good director and this Death Note movie stands a better chance than Ghost in the Shell with Rupert Sanders or Akira with (maybe) Justin Lin
I don't know anything about Death Note or this movie or anything at all really, but I suppose it depends how much the production team acknowledge it as an adaptation of the original source. Does it fall more towards the <direct adaptation> side of the spectrum or more generally <a take based on> the IP. Like, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with taking a source material and putting your own spin on it. People are free to criticize it in any way, but that doesn't mean it's sacrilege or something.
I've never seem Death Note before, so I don't know how closely knit being in Japan is to the story. I don't have a problem with westernizing ghost in the shell all that much, but Akira would've been way worse if set in America (one of the big thematic elements was the fear of the government essentially making another mass destruction weapon, which Japan was the only country to get a nuke dropped on them during war)
Yep. I look forward to the neckbeards flipping out L is a black guy though. I suspect 1-2 perms on GAF when the trailer comes out.
Isn't Chronicle heavily inspired by Akira?
Yeah, I'm okay with L. Still, I can't wait until Black Panther comes out. Waves of "can't relate" galore.
Imperial Bishop
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It should be noted that everything went wrong with Fantastic Four so sharing a script writer isn't completely terrible.
Convention season has begun!
Ahem, it's RA-SHI-DOO!!!
Doctor Decimate
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See, Ghost in the Shell at least has the kind-of-but-not-all-that-solid argument of "well Scarlett Johansson is a big star who can guarantee an audience and justify the required budget"
Death Note is a much lower budget movie starring the kid from The Naked Brothers Band. There's not an excuse here for refusing to go with an Asian lead for a manga adaptation, even if they do transplant it to America. Like, if they're not even casting Asian leads for adaptations of material that originated in Japan, it's basically just not happening at all.
At least it looks like this Lone Wolf and Cub thing could do it if it actually gets off the ground.
Death Note is a much lower budget movie starring the kid from The Naked Brothers Band. There's not an excuse here for refusing to go with an Asian lead for a manga adaptation, even if they do transplant it to America. Like, if they're not even casting Asian leads for adaptations of material that originated in Japan, it's basically just not happening at all.
At least it looks like this Lone Wolf and Cub thing could do it if it actually gets off the ground.
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Anyone at AX and is there a GAF AX thread up?
BassForever
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I find it interesting the Netflix death note film cast a black guy in the role of L but people are too busy crying white washing on Light Turner. An Americanized Deathnote could work really well if the script and acting are good. Besides we had a live action DN movie with Asian actors in the lead why not try something different with the US version?
gamerguy2002
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So apparently Digimon Tri is getting a dub, rumor has it that Johnny Yong Bosh is playing TK.
Not sure how I feel about that...
Not sure how I feel about that...
If that happens, I'm blaming you.
gamerguy2002
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Jeez thats gonna be a major downer if they can only get 1 voice back and its a digimon that jobbed half the time.
At least get Agumon and Tai back together if anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdCEja1hWAo
Man, that and Toonami Panal would actually get me to want to go to AX this year.
Man, that and Toonami Panal would actually get me to want to go to AX this year.
ASSauLTxMasTER
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Toonami AX Panel today. If their Facebook post is still accurate, we'll get to see it next week?
Doctor Decimate
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So because they cast a black dude as the villain means it's above criticism? There isn't a minority quota that they filled so they automatically get a pass forever on everything else, especially when the representation of Asians as leads in an American movie is in the toilet. This was a prime opportunity that they didn't take, so why should that not be criticized?
I also don't feel I should have to explain what's wrong with the argument of "well you can watch the foreign language Death Note movie if you wanna see Asians"
BassForever
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Doctor Decimate
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The question was if the Toonami panel was going to have a live stream.
SPACE KNIGHT DEMARCO ‏@Clarknova1 1h1 hour ago
SPACE KNIGHT DEMARCO Retweeted Jeremy Poursine
Nope. But we will be filming it, and our experiences at the con, and that will be next week's Toonami Pre-Flight ep!
SPACE KNIGHT DEMARCO ‏@Clarknova1 1h1 hour ago
SPACE KNIGHT DEMARCO Retweeted Jeremy Poursine
Nope. But we will be filming it, and our experiences at the con, and that will be next week's Toonami Pre-Flight ep!
SparksterMeta0
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It wasn't cancelled. The anime already ended.
SigmasonicX
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He already knew that, he was mocking the people who always ask this at Toonami panels.
ASSauLTxMasTER
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There IS a Pre-Flight today, I see. More than likely no "Sneak Peek" due to AX.
If it wasn't cancelled we would be knee deep in Nazi Quincies!
Because when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back to you.
Hellwarden
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I watched the new Berserk anime today.
The abyss stared back.
The poorly rendered CG abyss.
Hellwarden
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I can't wait to start Zero Time Dilemma, but I'm also nervous about it.
Because how do you even end that series? How do you land that plane?
Because how do you even end that series? How do you land that plane?
Not really a spoiler unless you want no impressions on the game going into it
You don't :/
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