#live adaptation

I assumed the person only thought of shonen genre like One Piece, Dragonball, Gintama, Bleach, Naruto, Rurouni Kenshin and the likes. But doesn't realize that's just one category out of the many.

More than half of Japanese dramas made since the 90s from comedy, romance, crime, school, thrillers to slice of life are actually based on manga or anime, that doesn't revolve around "superpowers".

Such as Alice in Borderland, City Hunter, Great Teacher Onizuka, Gokusen, The Way of the Househusband, Hakozume, Full Time Wife Escapist, The Makanai, Chihayafuru, Hana Kimi, and the likes.

While the Hollywood adaptation of Dragonball, Death Note, Bet (Kakegurui) are....questionable, but the Japanese adaptation are actually great so far.

I think what the person meant is, leave the live adaptations to the Japanese. They made it, so it's only natural that they made the adaptations as well to retain the spirits and vibes of the original.

Kiki's Delivery Service (2014)

Overview

Koshiba Fuka stars as a young aspiring witch, Kiki, who must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft, in a new and unfamiliar town, together with her cat, Jiji.

Like every teenager, she's excited for a new life of independence, away from her parents and the joys of starting her own delivery business, but life is not always smooth sailing.

She discovers the good and bad. Running a business is not as easy as she hoped, and there are people fearing and distrusting her because she's a witch makes it all the more difficult.

Thoughts

It's a live adaptation of Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service, with the same main characters and premise, but with some changes for the sake of story-telling and "realism" in struggling through life.

While the original anime is always superior in every way, this live movie is quite enjoyable, mostly due to Koshiba Fuka's acting as Kiki.

If you're hoping that it'll be a carbon copy of the anime, scene for scene, from beginning to the end, you're going to be disappointed.

But if you're willing to accept that it's more of an inspiration of the anime rather than an adaptation, you'll still enjoy it as its healing.

Mei Nagano

Takeru Satoh

Riisa Naka

Koji Yamamoto

Kyoko Fukada

Sadawo Abe

Mana Ashida

There are 37 trillion cells in the human body. Red blood cells that carry oxygen, white blood cells that fight bacteria, and other cells work tirelessly day and night to protect your health and life.

Here’s who I would cast in a live adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein:

David Dastmalchian as Robert Walton

Mohammed Hashim as Victor Frankenstein

Stephen Graham as Alphonse Frankenstein

Yetide Badaki as Caroline Beaufort

Elle Fanning as Elizabeth Lavenza

Bjorgvin Arnarson as Ernest Frankenstein

Elisha Williams as William Frankenstein

Dylan Minnette as Henry Clerval

Rachel Zegler as Justine Moritz

Lee Pace as Frankenstein’s Monster

Tara Emed as Safie

Liam Neeson as DeLacey

Simon London as Felix

Domhnall Gleeson as Mr. Kirwin

Excuse me, let me just have this moment to savor PJO's trailer like:

Damn.

I'm sorry in advance for the person I'll become when December 20 comes.... like I've been waiting for this!!

I mean Percabeth...

Then Annabeth.. (girl really got her vibeeees... but where is the caaap?!)

My triooooo

ALSO... the camphalf blood shirts!!!!!!

So yes... I'm seated already for this

7.5/10

I liked it, I knew going in that there were going to be changes from the original bc otherwise it would be boring and some things just can’t be translated to live action. there were some decisions I really liked and made me a bit teary eyed and there were some I didn’t fully understand and/or liked. Some changes they did make was the order of events, Coby stand of with Alvida, Buggy’s influence on events and Coco village knowing why Nami worked for Arlong.

One decision I really loved was the Garp subplot with Coby and Helemeppo (funny now that I think about it I don’t think they ever say helemeppos name??). If it was somebody who hadn’t seen the show before the Garp being Luffy’s grandpa reveal would have been amazing, so well done!

The script was good the majority of the time but sometimes it felt a bit stiff in the wording or it felt a bit out of place but I just might be really picky with line delivery.

Idk if anyone else had problems with the sound while watching? Almost always the background music or ambiance was louder than the dialogue and I couldn’t hear what they were saying even if I tried to adjust the volume.