What, in your opinion are the best anime/manga live adaptations

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>>155761861

That might make it a good drama, but a good drama doesn't necessarily make a good adaptation imho.

I liked the Korean version of City Hunter too, but its very different tonally and plot wise from the manga.

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I also really liked the 2013 Itazura na Kiss ("Mischevious Kiss") from Japan. But the male lead has such a baby face. By the time it gets to part II its just too much. He looks 12!

I'm currently watching the new Thai adaptation of the same, and really like what they did with Kinnosuke (or "King"). Like Kinnosuke was okay I guess, but I never honestly saw him as a real romantic rival. He's way too loud and stupid. But in this drama they make him way more sweet, caring and likeable. They got the same leads as in Full House (another amazing manga adaptation) to play Naoki/Tenten and Kotoko/Taliw. I'm really liking it so far. They flesh out Naoki too so his feelings and his initial coldness have some backstory to it.

Nodame Cantabile
Liar Game
GTO

Himizu
Tokyo Tribe
Aoi Honoo

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JIN is also good and its Sakamoto Ryouma is for me just the best, the actor even won awards for it. Made me fall in love with him as a historical figure I guess. And it does a good job of keeping the story of the manga together. When I read the manga I got a very sort of "disease of the day" feel. But the drama makes it into one story and as a result I got more attached to Jin's problems.

I think its actually my 2nd favorite live adaptation after the 2005 HYD. Koreans did one too but of course they really Koreanized it so everyone is a supermodel and the Japanese setting is missing. Personally I think it loses something in that.

>>155762339

Oh wait Full House is manhwa. wups

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I liked it.

>>155761982
Korean City Hunter is terrible as an adaptation and even worse as a standalone show. It's only for horny housewives

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>>155761804
IWGP

>>155761804
I've heard the Chihayafuru movies are good but I haven't seen them myself

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>>155762421
>>155762598

lol I watched part of Nodame Cantabile and Liar Game but they both seem to suffer from that Japanese drama thing where they translate over-the-top manga reactions (or hairstyles in the case of Akiyama) straight into real life actors. I can't get into it! Also what did they do to Fukunaga? Why?

The Korean Liar Game is okay but didn't add anything for me. Probably better than the Japanese one though if only because it cuts out the slapstick.

I'll have to check out the rest.

>>155762711
Touma Ikuta always play a cuck?

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I love Speed Racer.

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>>155762771

I'm a horny housefiance so. I liked the romance and the action and the characters. Kim Sang Joong in particular is amazing. Whenever I see him anywhere else, he's just the dad from City Hunter.

>>155762802

I think IWGP is actually a drama-->manga. The drama came first.

How has nobody said Ichi the Killer and Battle Royale?
Though I wouldn't really say they're the best adaptations in the strictes sense of the word, they are both still phenomenal films.

>>155763069
>I think IWGP is actually a drama-->manga. The drama came first.

Novel came first apparently. Whatever it was funny.

>>155762890
Yes

Can I just take the opportunity of a JDrama thread to ask if anyone has watched the show Hibana on Netflix? How is it.

>>155763320
it's like, indie art house but about japanese comedy... like a lowbrow/highbrow kind of contrast? I haven't finished it but it is strangely kind of calming. Reminds of me this extremely slow thai movie I watched way back

>>155763207
Battle Royale is based on a novel that later got a manga adaptation. Just saiyan. Still great

The Ichi the Killer movie is based as fuck. It was Miike as his prime

The Nodame dorama is great, although it does try to copy the slapstick and it doesn't work well in live-action. But Ueno Juri is just fantastic as Nodame, a joy to watch.

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>>155763207

Battle Royale is a novel but yes, the movie does a better job of adapting said novel than the manga does. (The manga is ass)

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I'll just throw this out there because I doubt anyone's seen it, but there's a korean movie adaptation of antique (BL) and I love it. It's hilarious and has the same characters, but korea is pretty much no homo so that bits cut out. It's more of a dramedy in the movie version

>>155763442
Oh, and Rurouni Kenshin. I only watched the first movie, but I was surprised at how good it was.

>>155763430
Yeah, adapted by the same guy who wrote the novel.

Edge of Tomorrow was great.
Don't know of the dumbass mods will delete this thread again because they're fucking stupid and dont know the rules, I hate this board's moderation so much it's so unbelievably terrible.

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Sue me

>>155763519
agreed. bonus you see t. cruise get the shit kicked out of him a lot

>>155762598
Haven't read Aoi Honoo but the adaptation is fucking comedy gold. The Himizu manga was good but the adaptation was even better since it was done by Sion Sono.

Those two are probably the best manga live adaptations that have or will ever be.

>>155762339
>that face
you just can't hire a nip actor to portray an alpha badass like Naoki

>>155762339
>They flesh out Naoki too so his feelings and his initial coldness have some backstory to it.
Dude, have you ever even read the original manga?
He's partly that way because his (hysterical)mom dressed him up as a little girl when he was a kid since she wanted a girl and got depressed when it turned out to be a boy

>>155765089
If you haven't seen Tokyo Tribe, it's also by Sion Sono. Fucking great movie. I think he's done maybe one or two more manga adaptations besides, but I haven't seen them.

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>>155765276
Himizu is based on a manga. That was really depressing, Sono made it really about the 2012 tsunami