Warner Bros. Announces Live-Action Film Based on Anime and Manga

>>141962766
This was announced a while ago.

>>141962766

Animeshit will be the next Capeshit, TBBT will survive another ten years pleasing what's popular at the moment by making anime references nonstop.

>>141962766

its a Japan production

the studio is fucking irrelevant
UNIVERSAL produces half the anime this season

this is an AOT type live action movie

Where is this being filmed? Japan or Hollywood?

>>141963548
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRVZuxmjqMM
It still hurts so badly

This will just feed the anime industry.

Even if the FMA movie(s) blow ass, the money they will generate just helps further our passion.

So if all the white characters are Japanese in this, what's Scar going to be? What about the fake-Chinese people?

>>141964598
Not if it's being made in America, I don't think. Whatever retard actually goes to the theater and funds the GiTS movie, the money isn't going to Production I.G.

Jap live action adaptions aren't newsworthy

>>141964434
Italy

>>141964694

Will draw attention to the industry in some way, I think.

>>141964792
It's probably going to get a very limited western theatrical run, just like every anime film that gets shown here.

Like a one or two theater per city deal, two week run tops.

>>141963548
>Animeshit will be the next Capeshit

I hope not

the whole point of anime is that it's animated

At least no one will complain about casting a white person as the main.

he's indisputably German though half-Persian in the manga

I'm pretty hyped. Animekino will replace capeshit.

>all japanese cast
>95% of the characters are western

this is what happens when studios listen to SJWs

>>141965232
Yeah, the mc is called EDWARD ELRIC, that's a white name if I ever heard one, at least the first part

>>141965146
And the whole point of comic books is that it's drawn, but Disney made capeshit work somehow.

>>141965232
>japanese film team choosing Japanese actors to speak in japanese and further their careers in japan
Yeah why do they do this shit. Makes no sense!

>>141962766
They're probably gonna white wash the thing and cast white actors. Typical Hollywood

>>141965344
you get that Amestris is parallel Europe right, and Ling is from their Asia?

>>141965426
You get all the homunculus are Asian

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>>141962766
Nothing is safe. Not even anime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEXurYaIHao

This is how the west will kill anime.Movie adaptations. Soon the west will start nagging to the nips for them to appeal to the west and the nips would only bow and agree to their every demand because the west will nuke them if they didn't.

>>141966589

Right now we're at the tip of the iceberg for the anime industry to meet its end, if Anime and Manga live action movies are a hit with the western audiences they might start listening to what they want, with the 2020 Olympics coming up they might either cave in completely or just tell them to fuck right off again but either way I feel like these live action attempts are to basically flood the industry with SJW ideology like with how the American comic industry, television and movies and gaming industry have fallen too.

>>141966929

To further back up my point look at what has happened to modern comics when adaptations of them started to get popular with stuff like the MCU, the companies and writers began listening to fans of the movies who never picked up a comic in their life trying to get them into reading the source material but it didn't work, now they are worse than ever and they've alienated both parties they wanted to make money from, long time fans who have been reading for years and people who complained about said source material which they never read because they wanted to add in progressive shit all the time in favour of trying to actually tell a decent story.

>>141963548
Will the TBBT nerds ditch their girlfriends and get waifu pillows?

>>141966929
Is there any industry that still remains pure? Untainted by the madness of SJWs?

This is being done by the Japanese, the same thing that happened to Runoni Kenshin, Gantz, SnK, Kuroshitsuji, et al will happen: jackshit. I don't get why you dumbasses make such a fuss about this, the movie will fade into obscurity just like every single other Japanese live action adaptation.

>>141967109
Visual Novels?

>>141967130
Adapted by nips =/= Adapted by the west

>>141967264
No shit. That's my point. This particular project is being adapted by the Japanese.

>>141967257
>>141967109

I was just thinking that, maybe some manga too I reckon.

>>141967302
>>141967257
In other words, we've lost.

>>141962766
>nips characters
>cast white people
>white characters
>cast nips

>>141967276
So? GitS is adapted by hollywood. And more will be adapted in the future.

>>141967317
We can still assimilate them by using the salami slicing tactics. Small dose of ecchi here, little sister there, and soon the SJW will defend the right of 2D women to express themselves.

Capeshit is fun. This might be too.

The SJW bogeyman sure is a ridiculous concept that people like to parade around.

It's a Japanese production dumbfucks, it's going to shake up the world about as much as the Snk movie did.

>>141967505
That's because it is actually something to be considered as something deadly to Anime.

>>141963548
Fuck white people.

It's JApanese so there is a 0.01% chance it won't blow

>>141967605
Evil whitey.

>>141967505
Maybe because it's actually a legitimate concern?
It's already happened to movies and video games.

>>141965417
the characters are white. lol

>>141965417
Their pretty much German. Anyone who denies that is a retard

>>141968224
So was Attack on Titan, and all actors were Japanese in the live-action movie.

>>141968281
Wouldn't it be yellow washing then?

>>141968335
Nah, that sounds like something reddit would say.

>>141967800
Except most movies and games are catered towards Euro/North American tastes, which is where SJWs have the most sway. Japan meanwhile, is completely disconnected from the western political scene, and the percentage of revenue which come from outside of Japan is minuscule compared to what's inside.

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He acts Ed.

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>>141962766

But where are they going to find a 4'11 manlet to play edward?

More importantly, where are they going to find a 7 foot tall person in japan to play Al?

please be brotherhood please be brotherhood please be brotherhood

>>141967109
Pretty much anime.

>>141968817
>But where are they going to find a 4'11 manlet to play edward?
japan, where everyone's a manlet.

the whole cast will be japanese, this is made for a japanese audience and has nothing to do with hollywood.

>>141968827
Please kill yourself.

>>141968870
lmao like the original was actually good or anything

kys

>all japanese cast

I fucking hate this ricewashing shit

>>141968756

https://bakabt.me/browse.php?cat=6

there are 11 billion live-action anime movies, i wish people would understand...

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>>141968927
>gook cast

it will never capture the charm of the characters

>>141962766
I actually think a live action based on the 2003 anime would be better than brotherhood.

>>141968974
Could any cast hope to?

ATTN YOU FUCKING NIGERS

THIS IS NOT HOLLYWOOD! SO STOP SCREAMING ABOUT 'DA JOOS' OR 'MUH SJW'

THIS IS LIKE THE RUROKEN MOVIE OR THE PREVIOUS DEATH NOTE MOVIES OR CROWS

IT IS NOT FUCKING HOLLYWOOD
IT IS NOT FUCKING RICEWASHING
AND IT IS NOT GOING TO BE GOOD IN ANY MEASURE

JUST STOP

STOP

>>141968989
A cast from Hollywood could.

You forget that America is a cinema powerhouse with massive funding, a long with an extremely diverse professional pool to draw from.

Japan has relied on animation specifically because they lacked the capability to do so feasibly. While perhaps a cast decided by hollywood board members may not get details down 100%, it would probably be better than a bunch of scrawny japanese kids who all look feminine and have crappy wigs

>>141963738
>its a Japan production
That's even worse. Japs are fucking horrible at live action. If an anime had to be adapted, I'd much rather it be a western production.

Has anyone here actually watched the live action they did for Haganai? There was a minor storm over how ugly (and old) the actresses were but did anyone end up watching it?

Also there was that travesty for Hoozuki-san Chi no Aneki. We never did get that anime.

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Well it's excellent news for fans of the 2003 anime, they'll finally have something in the FMA franchise they can point to as worse and be correct. For everyone else it's just the series being dragged through the mud.

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>>141969225
>There are people who ACTUALLY prefer 2003

>>141969225
>>141969263

>2003
>edgy religious bullshit
>philosophical lecturing
>characters are meh

versus

>brotherhood
>soundtrack fits much better
>excellent fight scenes
>actual decent clashing of world viewpoints
>characters are excellent

List for live action adaptations by Japan

>Okay tier
Rurouni Kenshin (first movie)
Crows Zero
Death Note
I Am a Hero
Parasyte
Gantz
Fourze

>Complete and utter shit tier
Everything else

>Why does it even exist tier
Attack on Eotens

>>141969312
>this is what he considers a valid critique
I don't prefer either, but you're a really stupid idiot.

>>141969339
>Complete and utter shit tier
>Everything

Fixed it for you.

>>141969358
I remember a good part of 2003 revolving around atheistic beliefs, despite fucking philosopher stones being literally POWERED BY SOULS


I really liked ling vs. wrath, greed talking with Ed, kimbley against pride, kimbley against the other military people

it was actually well developed and not cringey

>>141969312
It bamboozles to me to hear that some people only ever watched the 2003 anime.

>No Xing crew
>No Briggs crew
>No Bradley vs half of the minor characters in the series and a tank
>Less Barry the Chopper
>Kimbley is shit in 2003
>Whiny kid replaces Pride

The list goes on, why anyone in their right mind would like 2003 is beyond me.

>>141969456
>whiny kid replaces pride

pride is single handedly the best shota evil monster ever

>>141969456
It's probably because for a long time, FMA 2003 was everyone's 'favorite anime ever!', most top 10 lists you'd find online would list it as #1

A) no original material
B) good budget for the fights and CGI transmutations this will be enough to make the movie bearable

>>141968817
Al will be CG

>>141963548
>Animeshit will be the next Capeshit
nah video games arext

>>141963548
>Animeshit will be the next Capeshit
NO, PLEASE NO. I don't want to have to deal with peoples shit taste in real life as well.

Holy fuck will this turn out bad. Nips can't do bearable CGI and I'm sure the action won't be coreographed well. Either the japs make it shitty overall, or America will pick it up in a few years and butcher this thing. Either way, this adaptation won't be good.

>>141962766
looks like the korean director of old boy will be adapting genocidal organ live action
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-02-04/tracking-board-oldboy-chan-wook-park-to-direct-genocidal-organ-film/.98236

truly we are in the age of AnimeKino

>Implying a Hollywood FMA would even be bad.
It's primary characters are Caucasian, the main three of whom are blondes, it fits Hollywood storytelling conventions and is very Normie's friendly.

How would they even fuck it up?

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All these autistic nip dick sucking in this thread.

When it comes to live action the chances of it being shit is much much higher with nips doing it. I am hero live action sucked as i expected.

FMA would suit with an western adaption considering none of these characters are even Japanese and atleast would have much higher budget.

>>141963548
Ha unlikely, it will flop and do ok in Japan.
Anime is not mainstream and never will be, it is not even mainstream in Japan it baffles me that people think it is on the same level as video games and super heros.

>>141975387
>>>/pol/ dumb fucking crossboarder

This is a normalfag friendly series but there are a few ways they can fuck this up
>CG Al
>Ed is not short
>They age them from when they failed their summon or present day
>Have Ed get with Winry at the of the movie
Mainly the last 3.

>>141962766
They would need at least 3 movies

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Yes because live actions movies always do well, yes Dragon Ball a live action of the most popular Anime series in the world was critically acclaimed.


Anime is doomed!

>>141967505
I might get shit for this but go on kikebook and look up "give captain America a boyfriend" and tell me the sjw monster isn't at least half true.

>One of my friends sends me a link to some bullshit site about this.
>Site says its great that they're using Asian actors after GiTS and Dr Strange used white actors for Asian roles.
>It even mentions FMA is set in Germany.

Liberals, not even once.

You know a Tokyo ghoul live action would be pretty neat if done my the same niggas who handled all you need is kill.

The Kagune would look cool with their CG scenes.

>>141975539
>Le crossbars meme xddd
What are you on about, dumbfuck?
I know it's not Hollywood, I'm saying it'd be fine even if it was.

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>>141975387
>all white cast
>normie friendly

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"No white people will star in the ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ movie, and that’s a beautiful thing"

>“The cast is entirely Japanese, but the setting is Europe. However, their race and nationality isn’t expressed in a specific form.”
>Others, like writer Julian Abagond, argue that non-Japanese people see “white” anime characters as white because of their own deep-seated media biases.
“If I draw a stick figure, most Americans will assume that it is a white man. Because to them that is the Default Human Being,” Abagond explains in a blog post for The Society Pages. “For them to think it is a woman I have to add a dress or long hair; for Asian, I have to add slanted eyes; for black, I add kinky hair or brown skin. Etc. The Other has to be marked. If there are no stereotyped markings of otherness, then white is assumed.”

When will this SJW stupidity stop...

http://fusion.net/story/306067/fullmetal-alchemist-japanese-cast/

A western live adaptation would probably work for FMA. Since almost all the characters are all germanic.

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>>141963548
>hey Sheldon we downloaded the new Fate anime, want to watch
>How could you Leonard? Streaming services are the only way to legally view Japanese animation and to suggest otherwise is horribly irresponsible
>Oh, right
>laugh track

>>141975586
>the most popular Anime series in the world
You're full of shit.

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does anyone else extremely hard just by watching Envy suffer?

>>141969339
How was Higurashi?

>>141975744
Dragon Ball is more than iconic in Japan, it has reached religious status.
But more impressive, Dragon Ball is also Iconic in the west.

Name another anime more popular in Japan and the west.

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Gungrave live action when?

They could change it so the alien shit never comes in to play too.

>>141975799
I could never finish this show, I liked it at the start but the monster shit was cringey.
I have never hated a character concept more than Blood war.

>>141975731
This.

It's literally the one time a white cast should be a non issue for everyone that likes the series.

>capeshit will die soon
>vidyashit isn't going to be successful since warcraft flopped

who's ready for animekino to take over the film industry?

>>141975828
Fucking this.

It was so good as 2 guys rising up the criminal world.

To bring in that retarded alien shit and Mc becomes a zombie in that fucking setting was such bullshit.


It's like every time we get some mafia or gangster like series they always have to shit the bed and pull up with bullshit halfway.

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>>141975609
Wow.

>>141975680
>Armstrong
>Scottish origins, and English name

>Elric
>English name

SJWs don't care about correct portrayal. They just want less white people. Even when the character is white.

>>141975870
Not going to happen. Remakes are flourishing and will continue to do so.

>>141975783
Pokemon. It's popular not only in US and Japan, but also elsewhere.

>>141975936
Worse yet the world has an establish eastern/asia equivalent like may from china land.

>>141975988
Pokemon as a anime is dead, only neckbeard autists watch it in the west.
Dragon ball is still remember fondly by a ton of people worldwide.

My ten year old neice watches it.

Pokemon as a franchise is bigger ill give you that but the anime is dead.

>>141975999
Yeah. I don't know what they're going to do with ishvalans either. Are they just going tan some Japanese guys.

I'd care more about this whole thing if it was being made by Hollywood, like Ghost in the Shell. But this is just being made by some studio in Japan. It's just going to be another shitty live action anime movie with cheesy effects.

>>141976032
Why does Japan keep on making those adaptations if they don't have the money to do it right?

how are they going to cram the whole story into 1 1/2 or 2 hours?
both fma and brotherhood had like 50+ episodes

>worldwide
It wasn't airing worldwide unlike Pokemon.
Also Pokemon is an ongoing series that gets with the times and gets official dubs here and there. Dragon ball is a decades old series that haven't aged well.

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>>141962766
>Anime will get the same treatment as cape shit
>AAA movies every single year
>"Diverse" actors used who completely change the ethnic make-up of the cast
>hashtags trending on twitter about breaking up the 'safe space' for misogyny of anime
>hashtags wanting to make characters gay, lesbian, trans and attack helicopters
>every anime forum flooded with people
>MAL average becomes a straight 10, up from 9.9

All is lost

>>141976125
meant to >>141976020

>>141976142
2D is still preserved, except for dubs, which no one should be watching anyway. Dubs writers are putting in their gay bullshit but again, subs not dubs

>>141976142
Why do you care?

>>141975741
Sheldon should demand dubs, like >>141976181
suggests.

>>141963548
Yes I want to see the movie industry crumble to the ground completely.

So Justin beiber as ED?

>>141976183
I like this hobby

>>141976181
We'll see, if the movies open up the west for a 90's style anime market, then the big studios could start to pander to the west more

>>141975609
thats a fine cherry youve picked sir. The vocal minority has always been just that

>>141976401
Yes, but they keep getting what they want because now they can put pressure on the publishers/developers they couldn't a decade ago.

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I can't wait for this adaptation, tbqh.

A boy (Chris Pratt) falls in love with a girl (Jennifer Lawrence).

Unable to ask her to prom, he is gifted by a random man(Morgan Freeman) with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she wants to go down on him as well.

But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to his best friend (Seth Rogan), he only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After looking on facebook, he finds out that the girl he called using his Samsung Galaxy S7 edge is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this planet at all. She is the girl's robotic alien counterpart (powered by Windows 10), who has fallen in love with the MC's own robotic alien self(Powered by Linux), who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, ACTION ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of CGI.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro.

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>>141962766
at least they won't be able to whitewash this one.

>>141963548
people these days just stopped being creative and jews just try to suck things dry until it runs out of milk.

>>141965146
doesn't stop hollywood from adapting it.

>>141976424
thats the majorities fault though. You dont blame the minority for beating the majority. the majority clearly wanted to let it happen

>>141967109
>SJWs
>>>/v/

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>>141976488
FINDS

>>141976488
That pic makes it look like a shitty techno thriller from the late 90s.

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>>141976488
Netflix, make it happen.

>>141968817
>But where are they going to find a 4'11 manlet
>In Japan

They can just look out the window and grab a random guy off the street.

The hard part is going to be finding girls with actual boobs.

>>141976529
>Whitewash a show where majority of characters aren't even nip

kek

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>>141976488
ANOTHER THREAD BITES THE DUST

>>141976488
Threadly reminder that you should stop posting that because it's a thing.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/

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>>141975680
This is just what the Japanese do when they make a live-action film because they're Japanese. They're not motivated by these weird fucking ideas. Fucking retards, make me sick. Fuck the nigger that wrote that article.

>>141975562
>Have Ed get with Winry at the of the movie

He did get Winry in the end though. They have kids together.

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>>141975680
The fucking Manga has a newspaper article about BRITAIN in it, in which the people pictured look the same as the ethnic Amestris.

And pick related is the first "englishmen" visiting Japan, according to Japanese writers. Looks really fucking different to the way the Japanese usually draw Japanese characters, right?

If only we can have Tom Hardy as Armstrong and Aidan Gillen as Kimblee this movie would be goat

>>141977222
SJW don't actually care about or follow this kind of thing. They won't buy the merchandise, read the source material, or even go see the movie they're praising. They are just looking for the next thing to pat themselves on the back about.

Just look at the new ghostbusters movie. Everyone is predicting it will flop and the movies creators and SJW are already screaming that it's because of sexism and yet you don't see any of them talking about going to see it or being excited to watch it. Because they don't plan to.

>>141977308
This.

The new fantastic four movie was "progressive" because if blacked up a character, but it dropped HARD.

>>141967109
>>141966929
>implying Hollywood listens to anyone but the white males running it

You dumbasses.

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>>141977308
>>141977347
I'm a white westerner, fuck the west. Fuck the west in all its cancer. Get Trump in and have him hit the button, let the nukes fly. Let it end.

Also, why is it that whenever some article about anime gets written they have some "cultural expert" that sounds like they know nothing about the fans or the hobby to explain things for normalfags?

>>141977353
They don't have creative control, they just want money. So if the studios change a character from black to white, or make another gay, they don't give a shit along as the bottom line is good.

>>141977399
In the UK at least, they rely on foreign correspondents to do local cultural things. At least the broadsheets do, and in either case they are 30+ year old political journalists who don't give a single fuck about what anime is airing, and just google it.

>>141962766
> Condensing the whole series into a move or at most 3

This is going to be shit

>>141977347
The new FF movies was more about Fox holding onto its movie license than anything else. If they don't actively make use of it and make a new movie within a certain amount of time the rights revert to Marvel. It's why Sony rebooted the spiderman movies as well.

>>141976488
It actually feels pretty similar to The Lake House.

>>141976971
>Having the reading skills of a 2nd grader.

>>141965232
But but, the film adaption of AoT went so well right anons?

>>141977399
>there's a guy on Forbes who gets paid to write articles about Gundam

Damn it, I want his job. Where the hell do these people get such positions?

>>141977544
Iirc most articles like that are done contractually and they basically get paid per article and in depressingly small amounts.

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>>141977353
>white males running it

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>>141976488
>>141977459
>L-Ai-Ke House

A girl (Sandra Bullock) falls in love with a boy (Keanu Reeves).

Unable to confess, she is gifted with the boy's former home. Never minding the strange letters, he immediately starts an exchange with them and is overjoyed to find out that he has a crush on him as well.

But, after two years, when she recounts her confessions to the boy, he only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, she finds out that the boy she sent letters to doesn't exist in this time line at all. He is the past version of her crush, who has fallen in love with her future self, while her past self is blissfully unaware of his crush.

Hijinks ensue as they strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip each other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of PLAGIARISM.

>>141976488
It's already a meme, so you don't need to post it anymore.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keit-ai-finds-a-way/

>>141976649
hello there, seems you lost your way. let me help you with that
>https://www.tumblr.com/

>>141967109
stuff that gets made in glorious nippon, everything came from west means touched by SJWs.

>>141975637
>Pointing out that Hollywood movies like white casts and FMA is more approachable for people who go "ewwe anime is grosssss!" makes you Tumblr.
I don't understand you anymore, /a/.