Mangas and Live-actions

Welcome back, everyone! Another day, another post

We've talked about manga a lot! Obviously, since it's this blog's subject, but I thought that we could go ahead and see the impact of mangas on other media, more precisely movies and series adaptations.


With how popular manga and anime grew to be, it was clear that studios would try and get the rights to make adaptations of them, some of the biggest names had Live adaptations as they're called: Dragon Ball Z, Attack On Titans, Death Note, Alita battle angel were all turned into movies including real actors.
 
The main problem with them is how hard it is to describe this fantastic world full of strange things happening in the real world, often looking strange or straight-up disturbing
The characters of the movie Alita battle angel on the top and the anime on the bottom. 

So most of the time, manga and anime fans tend to hate these adaptations, they usually don't respect the original plot and decide to go for their own or even delete characters or change their personality/stories.

The most hated live-action movie out there is probably Dragon Ball Evolution. 


It's basically everything that can go wrong with a live adaptation, characters that are totally different from their manga equivalents, a story that doesn't even try to look like the original one, inventions of useless characters, and terrible special effects, that's how this movie became one of the most hated by the manga/anime community. It's actually pretty casual for live-actions to be any good, making the entire community scared to even see the announcement of one of these movies. A One piece live-action movie has been shown and everyone is scared of what they might do, some believing in it and hoping that they won't massacre yet another franchise...

You may ask yourself, "but is there any good live actions out there ?" and to that, I say "Of course !" Live actions haven't only created atrocities and actually did some really good movies! For example, The Jojo's bizarre adventure part 4 live-action was pretty good! I enjoyed the slight changes they gave to make them work in live-action form while keeping the over the top design of the characters

Some movies are also big hits, like the pretty well-known movie "Battle Royal" but in terms of popularity, two Netflix series take the crown, the first one is Alice in Borderland, where characters have to survive some killing games. It did pretty well and will even get a second season!
 The idea of people surviving killing games to survive..sounds familiar, of course, it is! Everyone was talking about it for a while, yes I'm talking about Squid Game.
What if I told you that the hit series took inspiration from a manga Taking some of the games that were in the manga and even borrowing the idea of people with debts participating in those games; the manga that I'm talking about is Kaiji!
Kaiji on the left, the manga that got ideas borrowed, and some even saying plagiarized by Squid Game...



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