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INTEREST: Netflix's Live-Action Death Note Film Director Deletes Twitter After Harassment


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Mad_Scientist
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 7:14 pm Reply with quote
anddo! wrote:
How about Hollywood and Netflix stops wasting everyone's time on these pointless adaptations to prevent incidents like this?


People can and will be harassed for just about anything, any excuse of flimsy justification can be enough. So know, Hollywood and Netflix stopping anime adaptions won't prevent future incidents like this, people will just be harassed for other reasons.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:44 am Reply with quote
Apollo-kun wrote:
This whole internet trend of giving credence to both "sides" when one side is clearly in the wrong needs to stop, honestly.

True, he was clearly in the wrong for making this movie. The other side only reacted in kind and didn't do as much damage as him to anime as a whole.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:36 am Reply with quote
0nsen wrote:

True, he was clearly in the wrong for making this movie. The other side only reacted in kind and didn't do as much damage as him to anime as a whole.


You could just be a bit more honest with your criticisms instead of unnecessarily being backhanded about it.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:42 am Reply with quote
harminia wrote:
Jose Cruz wrote:
In Japan people do not worry about such stuff. The Japanese film industry has been adapting manga into movies for many decades now (Rose of Versailles had a live action movie adaptation well over 40 years ago) and people there are used to it.


to be fair, that's because it's Japanese manga being adapted to a Japanese movie.
Generally there aren't complaints when a Western (i.e. American) source is adapted to a Western movie (unless there's like some major whitewashing going on for a particular character)


The Japanese don't complain when they Koreans adapt a Japanese manga into a movie like Oldboy and the Koreans don't complain when the Japanese adapted a mahwa into an animated film.

Also, notions like "white washing" and "cultural appropriation" are present only in Anglo American culture. That is, feeling insulted because someone adapted the material by casting actors of the "wrong race" or that the "wrong race" adapted it. In other words, these are fundamentally racist notions. Now, regarding Death Note, I think that some fans might have interpreted the manga/anime as being a holy scripture and it's adaptation as heresy. In Japan I think that fans take these shounen manga titles less seriously in the first place.
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