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CR85747
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Saban wasn't involved. Toon Makers and frequent Saban partner Renaissance Atlantic made that. Last edited by CR85747 on Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:15 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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H. Guderian
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The only way to fix all of the Evangelion names for a Western Audience is to keep the naval theme. If you're gonna scrap all of the Imperial navy ship names, then you'd have to put in ship names and terms of the matching nation the story is now set in. However IJN ship and class names were also geographical or meterological depending on the class. Fuyutsuki and Ayanami coming from smaller ships and relating to specific weather events, but Katsuragi and Akagi being large capital ships. Aircraft Carriers. oh the friends yet rivals in the show were competing ship classes?
You could spend a whole day just playing with the names! But what I would most miss is Shinji Ikari's name. While it is spelled as 'anchor' with the kanji, ikari is also rage. So people coming into Eva for the first time are expecting another blockbuster Super Robot show where the main character's name is could be a pun on Rage, and he becomes the most flaccid main character of the genre instead! People have no idea how much is lost when you start changing character names. I'm sure other people here can point to some of their favorite works and creators that would suffer for the changes. So Asuka Langley Souryuu is named after two aircraft carriers. Langley was the first Western Aircraft Carrier, but Souryuu was the first "Production Model" which would see most of the later IJN CVs modeled after. Funny enough, Unit-02 in the series is also the "Production Model" on which later Evangelions are based on. If you change Asuka's name you could get away with it, if you keep Langley and replace is with her successors Lexington or Saratoga, or the first "Purpose Built" CV, Ranger. I might personally pick Lexington because it alliterates with Langley. |
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BadNewsBlues
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^ Well shit I didn't know those were the gimmicks with everyone's names minus Shinji.
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Ouran High School Dropout
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New poll: whoever added Shigaraki from Kokkuri-san has a twisted sense of humor. Cool? Sure, if you count the old tanuki's habit of spoiler[impoverishing entire families...]
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Spawn29
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I wish we would have gotten Brian Yuzna's Devilman movie since it would have been better than what we got in Japan.
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Kadmos1
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While it depends on the series, I think a Hollywood live-action adaptation of an anime or manga might work better if the source material is short. For example, a 1-2 vol. manga that is not set in Japan but rather the U.S. and features American characters (as in, it's hinted they are White Americans) might work.
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fanime99
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Witch Hunter Robin would make a brilliant TV series. Don't know who they'd cast as Robin (probably have to be a new actress, given Robin is only 15 years old).
Unlike a lot of shows, this one wouldn't require a heap of robots or monsters, but it would require some special effects for the mental powers. It has a brilliant storyline that would fill a season well. |
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