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@TheFireForce - Hold on a sec—anime like Noir might be translatable to a live-action format

@TheFireForce -

I love Robotech and Gundam…and I’m afraid of how they both might get effed up.

@TheFireForce - I’m mostly with you but I think more grounded anime (I wanna see Black Lagoon done) and ones not as stylistic and out there have potential but they keep getting the WRONG PEOPLE behind it.

@TheFireForce - What began as a short reply, ended up as a long rant. I apologize beforehand, but I think it will serve as good open letter to the fandom.
I get where you're coming from buddy, I felt about the same for a while. But personally my stance on the subject has changed quite a bit in recent times.
In general, I think that if there's a great story out there that a niche group of people are enjoying, then it's a great idea to try bringing it to a larger audience.
I love the Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings movies, but you'll never catch me with a book in my hand even if my life depended on it. It's just not my thing. But I'll forever be grateful to the group of people that decided to take the risk and try to make those books into movies.
Now I here ya, Lord of the Rings isn't anime, it's much more adaptable. Anime is very unique. It's got very peculiar and weird quirks and exaggerations. But to me those things are never essential or intrinsically tied to the essence of most manga/anime story.
I believe that there is a way to take all of that stuff out and still end up with a good story. It may substantially deviate from the source material in it's tone and vibe, but we'll still remain with a good story worth telling.
And at the end of the day, I wish they try and fail rather than succumb to the angry mob and not try at all. Now sure I'd rather they invest their resources into original ideas, but it's still their money they're putting at risk, and reviews are in place to protect my own.
So yes. Cowboy Bebop failed unfortunately. But I bet that lessons are learned from it, and what's to come can only be better, even marginally. But eventually, I believe we'll get there.

@TheFireForce - abs that’s where I’m with you. Part of me would like to see these things brought to life but as you said the animes are such great art on their own. You can’t compete with perfection though.

Rurouni Kenshin is that one that gives me hope and that desire to see more anime adaptations attempted.

@TheFireForce - Yeah I can understand how that can be an issue to the audience. Those expectations however are our issue as fans, and something I think we should detach ourselves from as much as possible. I don't think we can uphold the filmmakers to what we think an adaptation should be, only to what it can be. And ultimately it can be a good story, and that's all it needs to be, no matter how different it is from what has been established in the source material.
Besides, comic books have engrained certain looks and vibes in our brains, but we've had countless successful adpatations from them. And to say that because LOTR had the freedom of just being abstract text would mean that the next Amazon series does not have that freedom since it's following the audio-visual identity firmly set by the movies. I don't think is fair. Even if the visual idneity of the Manga is set by the original authors themselves, I don't think it's enough of a restriction, especially seeing many authors give their blessings to these live action projects in the first place you know what I mean?
I'm not saying it's wrong to think the way you do, but perhaps we can empty our minds of expectations for a second, both filmmakers and fans alike, to respectively create a project for its own merits and judge it accordingly.

@TheFireForce - Very true my friend. I'd like to state a well-recieved adaptation that has drastically veered off of the source material, but nothing comes to mind right now. All in all, I don't think it's impossible, and I have great faith that it's gonna happen some day.
In any case, a series is always a safer bet than a movie when adapting a serialized anime. I mean what were they thinking when adapting Attack on Titan as a movie?

@SonOfAGif - I take it you never saw this movie

@FlixMentallo21 - yeah I could see that

@BlackBeltJones - The scripts were basically rewrites of the original, it was the cheap, awkward production that was the problem.

@WaffeX - people never talk about Lagoon enough. I just mentioned it below.

The character work is amazing. Mr Chang

@WaffeX - Oooh I like the way you think! I'd prefer if HBO Max or Amazon did it, though. Netflix lost all my confidence after that god awful Death Note movie.

@RorMachine - I feel like people put a lot of pressure on this one because Netflix had put so much effort into the production. They got actors that were great for the roles and production design that seemed in line with the anime. But you could tell that the show never wanted to fully embrace its anime roots, only make references to them.

After stuff like Avengers Infinity War and Alita Battle Angel, people know that the talent, technology, and demand definitely exists to make a great live-action anime, but this one just wasn't the right mix. That, and this very connected era in filmmaking has left no room for mediocrity. Everything has to be really great or really terrible to be accepted.