Question of the Week: A New Introduction!

Hollywood easily has the potential to make a great anime/manga movie as long as they stay true to the source material and don't make up stuff like Goku going to school in Dragonball Evolution.

no, just no.

I personally think it happened already with Speed Racer, but that is a stretch with being an adaptation of an adaptation.

But yeah, it's always possible, just not so much when Hollywood panders to the lowest common denominator. They don't have to stay line by line to the original series. Hollywood's success with comic-book movies prove that. The main problem tends to come with dumbing down the material and trying to pander to that Hollywood thinks should be the target audience (like DBE).

Of course, anime fans are a small audience, so if Hollywood is going to adapt an anime or manga, it's not for us. Despite that, the attempt should be made to make works that they will like as well as the mainstream, and we fans have to remember not to rage over some changes. I had to get used to organic webshooters, so I can get used to Keanu Reeves as long as he doesn't suck, a call I won't make without seeing a trailer.

Nope.... Fans are too picky.... Even if it's good fans won't like it!

 A good story, with strong characters first, money later.
 
...a fact most film & tv producers have long since forgotten, if they ever knew it at all.
 
Are good anime/manga adaptations Possible?  Yes.
 
Historically, tho?  Fail, fail, fail.

 

I look at it like this.  When anime was first being Dub in the United States 99% of it was crap.  Years later it started getting better and now it to the point that some eng dubs are even better (Ghost In the Shell , Cowboy Bebop, Hellsing and Monster.) than their Japanese counter parts.
 
I feel the same way with live action verison of anime in Hollywood.  We are going to go though some bad live action anime at first, but over I think they are going to get better.  The only thing is that if Hollywood welling to stay with it long enough get to that point.
 
Another problem is what anime can do things over live action and  it also dosen't look good when they try to do in live action realm.    Here some examples.

Of course these problem also happen when Hollywood try to live action a cartoon movie or show.  I just hope it works out.  With 1212 Entertainment being made their might be a chance.

 

For Hollywood to make a good anime or manga adaptation wouldn't really be a difficult task for them. They could do it with ease however it seems they are more concentrated in the money rather than the progression of the movies. They should also gather actual information from the manga or anime they would make a movie from to properly have the knowledge needed to write an interesting story instead of making things up that really only worsen the movie. Dragon Ball Evolution being an example, Goku goes to school, he actually curses, his personality is quite different etc. Piccolo wasn't even green, Master Roshi only had a brief moment for his perversion which was never again seen in the movie and was not bald nor did he wear his trademark sun glasses.  
 
Hollywood's problem is that they try to add far too much of their own ideas to whatever they are making an adaptation of and end up overshadowing the original concepts and making their ideas shine and this only worsens the movie, they should find a good balance between their ideas and the things actually in whatever they are adapting and not removing most of them to make room for their insane ideas.  
 
They have the potential but some seem determined enough to use it.

I think we have already seen this in the Changing form of superhero movies. The movies that s

tayed close to the actual stories, instead of messing with the characters, settings etc (spiderman, Batman, Ironman) tend to be extremely popular. when hollywood tries To make it "more relatable to The general public" *cough* Superman's Bastard Son *cough* They generally Become abominations.