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Hollywood has an embarrassingly poor track record when it comes to adapting anime properties for the silver screen. And if the negative reaction to Ghost in the Shell is anything to go by, that’s not likely to change anytime soon. Hollywood hasn’t abandoned their attempts to find the right approach to anime remakes, but some of the stuff is just too weird for western sensibilities…
Prison School | 0:20
No Game No Life | 1:01
Sekkou Boys | 1:59
Elfen Lied | 2:39
Kinnikuman | 3:22
Mysterious Girlfriend X | 4:10
Akikan! | 4:54
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What other twisted anime series/films do you think should've made this list?
Wait isn’t kinnikuman actually ultimate muscle ? Or is it an adaptation
I Know a anime that didn't do well as a Hollywood Movie……….. Dragon Ball.
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Half of animes you included are Beyond hollywood because they are made by people with a brain , not explosion fanatics like most americans !
Twisted? Anime in general is too good for Hollywood. Does anyone even watch the Japanese films that occasionally show in cinemas?!
Midori days would be too strange
tf i hae seen all this anime
Please Hollywood just stay away from anime and manga in general. You just don't get either. I was not a gigantic fan of SOA (first half of season one was good the second half though…) but why the hell are they making a RL US version of it? No need at all. They already butchered DEATH NOTE, Ghost in the Shell and Fist of the North Star. I have read somewhere Battleangel Alita is next. Why oh why….
Boku no Pico :v
Really? No game no life is too much for Hollywood? Yoooooo lol smh that anime is awesome
If even the Japanese can't make a decent live-action anime adaption, Then what makes Hollywood think that they can do the exact same thing.
What about that one anime where guy's right hand turns into a girl?
I need a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann live action movie!!!
lol…where is berserk ?
Hollywood shouldn't touch Elfen Lied with a 50ft pole the series is too great to be whitewashed
While I agree that translating Prison School into a Hollywood movie would be damn near impossible… it's not as graphic as you're implying it to being. Plus, you made one mistake with that commentary: saying it has elements of Fifty Shades of Grey. There's no way someone with a quarter of a brain would make that kind of comparison. Fifty Shades is among the worst written books of all time, and every copy should be burned and deleted from existence. Prison School is nowhere near Fifty Shades; it's further off the reservation.
How is "too much violence" a reason. Movies nowadays have plenty of violence
"Thats all we can say" "We cant really say what happens" wtf then you have no reasoning
Kinnikiman looks like the show ultimate muscle
Elfen lied oh my what an anime…..
So what about Ultimate Muscle? It's the 2002 series that follows kinikumans son. It aired on fox kids in the U.S. and was actually pretty popular.
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I would totally see elfen lied as a movie/series in hollywood
Plz no more live action
of course Hollywood kikes won't touch anything with white saviors.
Why the hate for Ghost in the Shell? After watching the Arise Episodes i think the movie was good. I even watched the original anime movie again afterwards and it still leaves me more confused than the new movie. Some people should just not be overwhelmed by nostalgia everytime something from their childhood gets renewed.
But most people also just joined the "whitewashing" bandwagon of hate. In a world where everybody claims to be "open minded" there are a lot of people with prejudice.
You should watch the live action of attack on titan, that was horrible to watch.
Lets see if Alita will make a breaktrough. Im still not sure why she is the only one with big eyes in the movie but i will still give it a chance.
Death Note was too twisted for Hollywood as well. Should have never been compressed into a movie. A whole bunch of good stuff was left out that made the plot more solid and the characters more developed.They chopped it all up just to fit into a movie time frame. They tried to ride on the unprecedented situation of "being able to kill someone by writing their name down in a book" and totally left out all the mind games Light and L played against each other, as well as the awesome deaths that came with them. If they were going to murica-washit, they should have just at least made a netflix series instead.
Boku no Pico
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Elfen lied is perfect for a netflix miniseries
All these animes are so mild…. Come on
Prison school best anime of all time
My question is why does Hollywood try so desperatly to adapt anime series into live action movies ? Leave them alone and adapt your own cartoon series !
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I lost faith in Hollywood when they did the dragon dall movie
You know what else would definitely never 100% make it to hollywood? kodomo no jikan. Look it up and you'll know why :p
I am all for it that japanese content never arrives to americunt, ever, it's literally two separate worlds, plus look at anime, the only surviving art form of our era, showing us every possibility…
Hollywood understood that 100 bad movies will produce the same revenue as 1 great expensive one, but at a fraction of the costs! Nothing is controversial for Hollywood if they can make money out of it. They simply care more about the money than the art!
That ending pun, caused me physical pain.
I hope you're ashamed.
Edger Wright & Stephen Chow, because these 2 will openly embrace the absurd. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is something that would have done very well in Asia cinema, yet it wasn't even allow to come. Hollywood studio exec has not understanding of the cultural difference.
Everyday we stray further from God's Light
I don’t want to be that guy but the title should “ popular anime that ARE to twisted for Hollywood”
Aren't all anime?
How come when you make an American live action adaptation of a anime/manga why is white washing a problem should we start complaining about Japanese movies staring only Japanese people or every media outlet in Asia only staring Asian people