maybe that's good if we're settled into allowing adaptations. happy 4 u that you guys enjoyed it for what it was.

but maybe hollywood should just stop adapting anime and video games and just come up with more original stuff.

i know someone can say to me, well, ok, most stories come from other media, like books, etc.

but that's a) not really true and b) i'd extend into saying that yes, they should stop doing that as well. i want more movies that were originally supposed to be movies.

with anime, tasteful casting obviously being a problem forever (the only good anime adaptation casting is probably willem defoe as shinigami #1 from nflx), the fact is you can't explore ideas in a 2 hour movie that you can in a series that lasts about 12 hours. thematically it's difficult to fit all that in.

if you're doing an homage, cool. if you're doing an adaptation, why? for the fans? maybe i'm weird but i didn't exactly want another ff7 recently either. make me something new. cover the same thematic elements.

it could be im just eternally unhappy with whatever media makers do as media makers, being a consumer who's been incredibly well taken care of from many shores. but i don't enjoy the idea of anime being re-purposed into live action. that's what i meant with not going in that direction at all. i'd rather it stayed as the anime.

before anyone asks, yeah, i'm tired of comic book movies too. and i looove carol danvers and whatever, but she should have had a movie four stages ago, because now it's going to get lost in a sea of formulaic adventure stories.

whenever this happens it reminds me of another spider-man reboot, if that makes any sense.

i get that it's always good for the authors to get the money from more and more adaptations of a work, but also eventually their vision is diluted into someone elses. and i'm the kind of nerd that gets annoyed if someone goes to see the netflix death note movie and hasn't watched the original anime. the kind of nerd you wouldn't invite because i'd complain the whole time. i'll complain the whole time at the fullmetal alchemist live action movie too. i won't even get near the attack on titan live action.

anyway that's my 2c rant, i'd probably be more ok w it if major was japanese.