Live-action versions of animes – especially the Westernized kind – are tough to pull off, and the reason why goes beyond the dreaded “whitewashing”. Rather, there’s a huge cultural barrier to overcome; anime series and TV shows are very, very Japanese, with a sensibility all their own that’s very hard to translate for a different audience (most of the time, anyway). Anime does things that mainstream Hollywood wouldn’t dare, especially not in this era of sanitized PG-13 blockbusters – they wouldn’t want to alienate teenagers and their wallets, after all. Not to mention that there are some things that can only look good in animation; Dragonball: Evolution is a sad reminder of this. After trying (and mostly failing) to open Western eyes to the wonders...
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- 8/30/2017
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