i think for maximum enjoyment it’s probably correct to watch the live action with low expectations, and then the anime, having been invested enough to see more long-form stories.
You’re right that something is off with the pacing, I’m sure these actors can be good but here it doesn’t seem to work.
And the anime gave such an “effortlessly cool” impression that even if the dialogue here isn’t that bad in itself, it’s so far from being that that it feels shocking.
Anyway I can only second the recommendation to watch the anime instead.
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That’s incorrect, there’s another clip going around on Twitter with this character…
It looks pretty cringey as well, but this was a character that was always going to be difficult to make work in live action so hard to blame them.
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The 10 LA episodes range from 45 to 60 minutes. Way too much time to waste on a mediocre at best live action adaptation of the actual thing.
What Hollywood needs to do is take something not particularly great and modify that. That way the modifications have a chance to improve it. Taking something that’s already excellent and changing it is a guaranteed disappointment. It’s why Miyazaki has rejected live adaptations of his creations.
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But their business model is to find something popular and milk its built in fan base to the last drop. Its more challenging to find things with an exploitable fan base when that thing sucks.
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Foundation finale last night. Star Trek Discovery S4 premiere. Good time for Sci-Fi heads.
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They did the same thing with death note 4 years ago and ho boy did that suck. We’re set for there being a Netflix americanization of a beloved anime every few years forever now and they will all be trash. I’m not even an anime guy, I’ve watched the first season of attack on titan and death note and that’s it for the last decade.
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Add one punch man to that list and you’re clear to clock out, but not one minute before
I did see season one of that as well. I’ll watch stuff on streaming services basically but won’t go out of my way to download stuff online or pay for crunchyroll or whatever.
I guess I also watched Evangelion when it came to Netflix and FMA Brotherhood.
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And Pui Pui Molcar, right? Right?
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You’ll need BitTorrent for it, but the final Evangelion movie (Thrice Upon A Time) is extremely good. It’s the exact ending I’d want and I was super grateful after the previous movie was a bit of a dud.
EDIT: TIL it’s on Amazon Prime.
Finished ep 1 of the new Bebop. My hot take is that John Cho just doesn’t have the right charisma for this role. He’s not a bad actor but he doesn’t have that rogueish energy that Spike should have. The Jet Black guy is great OTOH, love it whenever he’s on the screen.
Making the show a full hour was a terrible decision, too many things are drawn out, too many things are over-explained. Stuff that the original only hinted at or revealed slowly is spelled out for you. Makes me appreciate more how the storytelling worked in the original.
On the plus side, they brought back Yoko Kanno to do original music for the soundtrack! You must listen to this at high volume and pay attention to the music, it’s fantastic.
I’m told Ed will appear later on, so I’m satisfied with that. No way to do the character properly without crazy stuntwork, but I hope they give it a fair shot.
I know, right? We didn’t need them to explain to us (twice!) why Jet needs money. Everybody needs money, you don’t need to give your bounty hunter character a special motivation for why he needs money.
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The daughter thing comes up again in episode 3. I assume she will appear at some point.
Watched all 3 eps of Wheel of Time. Know nothing about the story. I liked it. It’s not great. I liked The Witcher comparison I saw.
Will keep watching and annoyed it’s not all released at once. It’s not that good.
I’m curious to hear from people who watched live-action Bebop without first seeing the original.
I’ll watch the new one and cannot remember anything about the original anymore because it’s been so long!
Ditto.
It had been ages since I had seen the anime but I remembered more than enough.
Anyway up to episode 7 in the live action
Radical Ed gets a name drop in episode 6. Ed is referred to as “he” in the live action but is a girl in the anime. An odd change I suppose. Faye is a lesbian (or at least bi) in the live action version which so far makes no sense beyond titillating a few with an implied sex scene with some female mechanic.
I’m beginning to get annoyed with Julia and Vicious. What made them so appealing was that most of their impact on the show was in subtext. They were mostly shown in flashbacks and revelations came very slowly. From most of the anime, they were largely unknown. In the live action, everything is spelled out to the point where it almost insults the intelligence of the viewer.
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In the anime the characters are sometimes confused about Ed’s gender, so who knows what it means.
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Did anyone actually understand the third season of Dark? Lol it’s still a really cool show but I have no idea wtf is going on through s3e5.