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#854626
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Watch. the "otaku" will just be a total sheldon and just make references to all 90s anime like the normie he is.
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ninjamitsuki
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All live action American adaptations would be better if they were all musicals.
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Utsuro no Hako
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The original book has nothing to do with anime. The guy's an otaku in the broad sense of a geek with social anxiety problems who hangs out on 2chan. |
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Hellfish
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So I hear this news and my mind inmediately goes not to the why? but to the how?
1-.Because as far as I know people in the US don't give thank you gifts or gifts the way the Japanese do. 2-. Because most of the representations of an Otaku in the US I know occur mostly on webcomics made by other otaku or closely related people, not in movies, not that is indispensable for the guy to be an Otaku anyways. 3-. But I guess him being a nerd is and like #854626 I cannot help but to think they are going to represent a nerd in the line of Big Bang theory but with Dakimakuras, figures and waifus because "aren't fandom things that come from Japan weird and wacky?" 4-. Reddit parody instead of 2ch then? If any? And between the changes that are made so an audience from the US gets it, changes so it works with the new story they will probably trying to make and changes "just because" I don't really see the point... this is probably where the "why" question comes. To me it looks like to much hasle. then again in the worst case scenario, is not very expensive to make and they can proceed and sell it to tv channels everywhere for cheap and recoup an stable quantity of money indefinetely I suppose. |
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Agent355
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Wow, that came out of nowhere! This should be interesting.
Agreed! Imagine Death Note and Ghost in the Shell as musicals---EPIC! 
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ninjamitsuki
Posts: 633 Location: Anywhere (Thanks, technology) |
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Forget Hollywood live action anime.
I demand Bollywood live action anime. Give me One Piece with elaborate dance sequences. |
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Ali07
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Having read the 3 different manga adaptions that were released in English...scratching my head as to how this'll be a musical.
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RegSuzaku
Posts: 273 Location: Ikebukuro |
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They have a Death Note musical, it's by Frank Wildhorn. ...... this drama was so cute, we watched it in my college's anime club like 10 years ago... I feel old but wow, nostalgic. I'm wondering who the composers will be, though... (or will they go the Glee route and use songs that already exist? Glee had its problems.... a lot of problems... but it did a lot of interesting things with recontextualizing songs for the characters, both in meaningfull ways and snarky ways. And modern music anime actually owes quite a bit to Glee, in terms of how they work the music into the story (see Love Live - especially that Halloween episode). With a story like this, that could be done to great effect. The interesting thing about the drama is how it develops the other commenters as characters with their own lives and problems... that could be really interesting, musically. I can see them giving each one a focus episode, and having a different composer for each, maybe even? It would be really cool if they'd have the music composed by Vocaloid producers or other internet/nerd music people, to go with the internet-y concept. (Tsukiuta and Caligula are both sort of based around that idea, though Tsukiuta/Tsukipro grew into so much more than that). |
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AJ (LordNikon)
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Regular musicals on US television has never done well, yet alone an adaptation of anything. Most of ya should be grateful that you didn't have to live through Hull High or Cop Rock. I can't see how Densha Otako wil play out in the US yet alone as a musical, but I expect a gender bender PC Americanization. Densha will become Jane Doe, a paraplegic who suffers with crones saved by Tyrone, a successful trans oil tycoon from a horde of cross-dressing nazi eskimo. Music will be provided by Shania Twain, Benny Goodman's ghost and an anthropomorphic floating green martians named Gazoo. Co-production credits going to Netflix. /s Nothing good will come of this 
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Idgal
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check out "Ai to Makoto", a retro manga adapted as musical, direted by Takashi Miike! it was surreal, but I think works well giving the over acting of Japanese live actions. |
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Agent355
Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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Counterpoint: [url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Ex-Girlfriend_(TV_series)]Crazy Ex-Girlfriend[/url] a romantic comedy musical TV show, just started it's fourth (and final) season, and America needs a new musical rom-com to replace it! Meanwhile, at the movies, the musicals LA LA Land and The Greatest Showman blew up at the box office. I am so here for the American entertainment musical revolution! 
It might not be your cup o' tea, but that's OK---the whole point of having a million cable channels and streaming outlets is to give niche TV shows a chance to find their unique audiences. |
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