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If Netflix announced Plans for a beloved anime series on live broadcast, he was met with questionable and even divided fans.
Solo -Declaring – reflecting the reception of the monster hunter – is a classic fairy tale about the triumph of English. Initially, the hit -Korean web -rayman since 2016, its popularity has grown in the world after eight years was made in anime -series.
Fans love it, but it only made them skeptical of living action.
“I have never had a lot of experience with live action, and I do not see the future or their needs to exist,” says Andre Denison’s Swedish fan.
The anime has been shooting ideas for decades, but art and its fans always seemed to the boundaries of the main film studio.
Hollywood is fighting for the removal of living actions, and yet its successor – the stream at demand – seeks to earn on the genre.
Why was it so difficult to bring anime alive on the screen?
Remakes in live actions are “Hit-Miss”, says Ander Guerrera, a fan of anime based in Spain.
He is concerned that CGI for solo alignment will not be able to make justice with the original material: “Anime looks incredibly basically because of the struggle sequence, which can be difficult to repeat in live action.”
In solo alignment, there are many such points that are set in the world, where human survival depends on “hunters” – people with special abilities – the struggle and victory of magical monsters, which appear through mysterious portals or “gates”.
The possibilities of monster hunters are determined in advance and cannot change. When we meet with the protagonist who is Sven Gin-Vu, he is the most “weak weapon” of humanity but after almost death he becomes the only, capable of “growing” his abilities.
The story and the rich sequences he reflected, even the invisible favorites of fans such as Demon Slayer, and One Piece to become the most popular series in Crunchyroll, anime -broadcast for spectators outside Asia, Sony reports.
So the fans are not convinced that Netflix can deliver what they are waiting.
Those who watch the strokes in live action “will not gain the same experience,” he insists that Mr. Guerrera, who expects the result, will be “half-baked history”, where there are no key story points.
The inclusion of anime into live action is a formidable creative problem and a balancing act: on the one hand, it is a demanding fund, and on the other, an insurmountable opportunity to find a new audience.
Casting and production aside, it is very important to go to the tone correctly, says Jeff, inspecting anime on your YouTube Channel for almost 1.4 million followers.
“Things that work, sharply and aesthetically, in reinforced reality, the animation is not always translated into live actions,” he says.
“The most iconic moments of the original anime may not work in live actions, but no matter what you make, these moments should still be recognizable to fans.”
Hollywood for the first time adapted anime to live action in the 1990s, but everything went well.
The adaptation of Dragonball Evolution 2009 was so derided by fans of the four decades of a landmark franchise that the screenwriter felt forced to publicly apologize through the years.
The 2017 film, inspired by the Japanese mango and the 1995 anime -film in the shell, in the lead role of Scarlet Johansson, was secured for whitewash and bombed – its losses were reportedly exceeded $ 60 million.
However, Hollywood is determined to try again with a few big tickets.
The legendary, American production company, which stands for films such as Dune and Jurals World, will make a movie Gundam, a series of military science fiction about anime about a giant robot that began in 1979. Sydney Suini is holding final talks to shoot in it, Media reports.
Global Content Giant Lionsgate is reportedly developing Naruto, anime about a young, ninja working to become a village defender.
“Now there is practically the desire to make the perfect live action to find out what a formula is,” says Emerald King, Japanese Culture Expert at Tasmania University, Australia.
Market size may have something in common.
According to Grand View Research, which includes merchandising and music, a wider anime market, which includes merchandising and music, was estimated at about $ 34 billion, and, according to 2030, will grow more than $ 60 billion.
Usually, Netflix does not release detailed viewers, but its latest data confirm that the appetite for anime is growing.
In July said More than half of their 300 million subscribers are watching the anime, and the genre has been observed more than a billion times in 2024, which has three times in the last five years.
“Watching the anime as” for the weirdo “when I was younger,” says Paris Haggat, a 34-year-old UK fan.
She discovered anime like Doroamon and Sailor Moon at school when she had previously spent a summer vacation in Thailand.
She still watches the anime, she says, though now, “it’s more common and cool, so some people who used to bull out of me are watching it myself!”
The reviewer Jeff Tau believes that the pandemic played an important role in the “seismic shift” attitudes to the anime: “Being closed inside, people had a lot of free time and do not do much but binge.”
For some, the anime is a “refreshing alternative”, says Katie Boxl, head of the world leader at the Dentsu marketing agency. “Viewers believe that it gives an emotional complexity, a variety of genre and cultural specificity.”
Fatigue with Hollywood franchise became a factor in research.
Each of the 10 Dentsu studies said she was watching the anime because they were tired of Hollywood tropes. In the US, as many as three out of 10 people watch the anime when they want to rest from Hollywood.
So why worry with adaptation in live action when anime itself is so attractive?
The anime is so widely available, Netflix is likely to see live action as a differentiator, says Alex Cameron of Parrot Analytics. Regular observers may want to observe the original anime after broadcasting – and this is longer content and interaction, he added.
Netflix also seems to learn on past mistakes.
Six years after the universally prevailing adaptation of Death Note, his version of “One Piece” in 2023, which presents an international cast, received extensive praise.
Although there are attempts to make a live treatment, feeling more real, Dr. King says he needs a more thoughtful approach: “You can go too far, trying to be respectful and eventually exotive it.”
The acting composition and crew should “know about the manufactured product,” he adds.
For example, one Piece, in her heart, is a series of pirates. “It allows them to interpret the text in the spirit of the original. Not being a slave adaptation, it is allowed to be free,” he says.
Will the Live version of solo alignment repeat the success of one Pice?
“The overall tone of the series is comparable to a darker movie about superheroes. If the fighting is steep, and Sung Jin-Woo will get a few chances of becoming a bad episode, the fans will probably not complain too much,” Mr. Tu says.
Fans really hope because the solo alignment is headed by the Korean warehouse and crew.
“This is a good way to maintain most of the basis of history – some Hollywood casting leads to the loss of small cultural or plot nuances, and it is sometimes the basis of history,” says Archi Moya, a Zimbabwe fan.
“I am excited about living action because it will introduce much more people to the world of solo alignment.”