Great, two things I have absolutely no need of are combining.
Live-action adaptations of anime are abominations without exception
Absolutely incorrect tho.
First: Technically this is live-action adaptations of light novel
Second: There are tons of live-action from manga and light novel that are hugely popular, it's just never reach anime-centric Western audience. Like Meteor Garden, City Hunter, Nodame Cantabile, Rurouni Kenshin, Imawa no Kuni no Alice, Kimi ni Todoke, Liar Game, and so on.
The problem with japanese live-action is that they try to transpose the source material (manga or whatever) as is (dialogs, character designs, etc), but this will usually be kinda cringy.. You mentioned Alice in borderland which I watched and enjoyed, but that is because of the story, while It was just barely watchable on every other aspect for me (ofc its very opinable)
Which live-action did you watch? Most of international fans outside Asia and anime-centric casual fans only watch badly adapted live-action from shonen action manga.
Most of live-action are relatively well.
Judging manga/light novel live-action adaptation as all bad is like watching live action of cringe teen Western vampire novel then thinking all live-action adaptation from novel are all bad.
Amazon Prime Video
live-action series adaptation
Oh no. At least its not Netflix.
Most of Japanese produce Netflix live-action adaptation from manga and light novel are relatively well-received.
From Alice in Borderland, Kimi ni Todoke, City Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho, Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san, Nobushi no Gourmet, etc
Monkey's paw curled, huh
I find myself enjoying anime for the animation style alone, not once I thought about wanting it recreated into a liveaction series. But when I do try watch a live action remake, I found it to be the most disappointing, with the art direction and the animated expressions not properly being supplemented to something else from the directors. I remember seeing the live action remake of Death Note, and thought how they tried to act like anime characters outside of the anime medium, finding it to be really, really unnatural
Does anyone know of a good live-action remake? I am open to the idea, but admittedly I’ve seen pretty bad ones 😅
First, recognize that most of these are live action adapted from manga or light novel, not anime.
Once you recognize that, there are tons of manga/ranobe witch live-action adaptation, and no anime adaptation at all.
There are tons of good live-action adaptation, but mostly only with realistic settings. Shoujo, josei, and seinen media gets live-action adaptation, but not anime.
Some example of good one:
- Nodame Cantabile
- City Hunter (any version are interesting, from Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hongkong (with Jackie Chen), even French live-action adaptation)
- Alice in Borderland (had so many changes from the manga, especially for games that are too Japanese, possibly to make it easier for global audience?)
- Great Teacher Onizuka
- Gokusen
- Bloody Monday
Bonus link: MyDramaList database for every single Asian adaptation from manga: https://mydramalist.com/search?adv=titles&th=127&so=popular&or=desc&page=1
One piece live action is pretty solid imo.
The only example I can think of off the top of my head are the live action Rurouni Kenshin movies. In my opinion, they are excellent and the best way to consume the story.
I am going to ride the sea for this
Anime
This community is the place to discuss and ask questions about anime, anime news, and related topics.
Currently airing show discussion threads are created by our resident bot, rikka@ani.social. If it doesn't make a thread for an episode that you want to discuss, see the user guide on the wiki for instructions on how to ask rikka to make a thread for you to use.
Check out our wiki to find:
- Episode Discussion Thread Index
- Weekly Discussion Thread Index
- Bot User Guide
- List of shows currently monitored by the bot
Rules
More complete rules on the wiki.
- Posts must relate to anime or similar (donghua, etc.)
- Discussion threads for currently airing media must be made by the bot. If there isn't a discussion thread made for a piece of media you want to discuss, then request it via pm.
- Ensure that all series spoilers are tagged. See here for details.
- Memes should be directed toward !animemes@ani.social (or similar) instead of this community
- Do not post explicitly NSFW material. Please use your best judgement when marking lewd material as NSFW, unmarked material risks being removed.
- Please redirect discussion of piracy towards a more appropriate community
- Any clips from currently airing shows cannot include content from episodes released within the past 7 days.
- All posts and comments must adhere to the ani.social Terms of Use
- In general, keep things civil and avoid attacking other individuals.
Post Tags
Post tags are completely optional, but some recommended tags would include:
- [DISC] or [Discussion] for general discussion/question posts
- [Rec] Recommendation posts with a recommendation/review
- [Clip] a video clip post
- [News] for news and updates
- [Spoiler] for discussions with spoilery content - indicate the series that is being spoiled
Related General Communities
- !animemes@ani.social
- !anime_irl@ani.social
- !avid@ani.social - Videos
- !animewallpapers@ani.social
- !manga@ani.social
- !lightnovels@ani.social
- !anime@lemmy.eco.br (Brazil community)
- !anime_es@ani.social (Spanish language community)
- !aum@ani.social (Myanmar community)
- !otomegames@ani.social
- !visualnovels@ani.social
- Megathread of other communities on the fediverse maintained by @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Chat
Thanks to @NineSwords@ani.social for running the discord!