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To open the discussion, I have not watched the Ajin anime on Netflix, but by coincidence I stumbled on the live-action adaption a while ago and watched it without really knowing what I was getting myself into.

To make a long story short there are half-humans (Ajin) who not only have the ability to automatically come back to life after death, an ability they can also use to regrow damaged body parts as their bodies are completely restored upon resurrection, but they also have these shadow-like avatars living within them, that they sometimes summon to fight on their behalf. Like, two Ajins can fight each other hand-to-hand while their avatars fight too.

The main character was after a near-death experience experimented on to turn him into an Ajin, and the badguy then tries to recruit him (I think), but when main guy realizes that bad guy is well... a bad guy, things go ugly.

Eventually the government also get involved, seeing them both as dangerous, and we then follow all three parties to see who comes out on top.

From what I understand the movie wasn't particularly well recieved, and while I can't speak for the sourcematerial I thought it was a fun and exciting action movie, loving the whole concept of "getting completey healed at ANY time during battle", seeing how broken of an ability that is, and how they use that to their advantage.

I seem to remember one scene where one of the Ajin gets captured and, knowing they can't kill him, they handicap him but make sure not to make him accidentally die from bloodloss, or they know he'll regrow everything and come back even more dangerous.

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And here's a bonus I don't know how many know about, which is very faithful to the sourcematerial:

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I have to be very careful with my phone credit these days (already at the limit and won't get paid for a few days) so I won't look for it... but a studio adapted the game SiN to anime, and it was very gruesome and disturbing.
 
To open the discussion, I have not watched the Ajin anime on Netflix, but by coincidence I stumbled on the live-action adaption a while ago and watched it without really knowing what I was getting myself into.

To make a long story short there are half-humans (Ajin) who not only have the ability to automatically come back to life after death, an ability they can also use to regrow damaged body parts as their bodies are completely restored upon resurrection, but they also have these shadow-like avatars living within them, that they sometimes summon to fight on their behalf. Like, two Ajins can fight each other hand-to-hand while their avatars fight too.

The main character was after a near-death experience experimented on to turn him into an Ajin, and the badguy then tries to recruit him (I think), but when main guy realizes that bad guy is well... a bad guy, things go ugly.

Eventually the government also get involved, seeing them both as dangerous, and we then follow all three parties to see who comes out on top.

From what I understand the movie wasn't particularly well recieved, and while I can't speak for the sourcematerial I thought it was a fun and exciting action movie, loving the whole concept of "getting completey healed at ANY time during battle", seeing how broken of an ability that is, and how they use that to their advantage.

I seem to remember one scene where one of the Ajin gets captured and, knowing they can't kill him, they handicap him but make sure not to make him accidentally die from bloodloss, or they know he'll regrow everything and come back even more dangerous.

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And here's a bonus I don't know how many know about, which is very faithful to the sourcematerial:

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i watched some of the ace attorney movie. it is pretty accurate to the first game. they made a few changes but mostly for the medium format. red white has his testimony combined with april may's, the thrid case is skipped but is used to show off edgeworth very briefly. probably the best example of adapting a game to the movie format.
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I have to be very careful with my phone credit these days (already at the limit and won't get paid for a few days) so I won't look for it... but a studio adapted the game SiN to anime, and it was very gruesome and disturbing.
i saw Ben the Sage's review of that on Anime Abandon. it was also plagued with redundancy with one of the characters replacing another for no real reason other than a shower scene which i'm starting to think was some sort of mandate or possible law that required that to be a thing.
 
I remember watching not to long ago the Japanese Death Note live action
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They took some liberties with the story but it was pretty good and I loved the PS2 Ryuk.
Yeah the Japanese Death Note film were at least faithful to the manga. Until recently I didn't know there was a fourth movie back in 2016 too.

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Yeah the Japanese Death Note film were at least faithful to the manga. Until recently I didn't know there was a fourth movie back in 2016 too.

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japan makes lots of stuff that we never hear about. there was a dot hack movie that reused the ps2 assets to recreate the whoe trilogy games, there was a 2 part parasite live action movie, 2 attack on titan movies. a second cutie honey movie. they get lots of stuff.
 
japan makes lots of stuff that we never hear about. there was a dot hack movie that reused the ps2 assets to recreate the whoe trilogy games, there was a 2 part parasite live action movie, 2 attack on titan movies. a second cutie honey movie. they get lots of stuff.
I remember the attack on titan one 😅, they erased Levi from the story and replaced him with Man
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My favorite character from the manga!
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no, guess i could have worded that better
Also don't worry about that 😉
 
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I remember the attack on titan one 😅, they erased Levi from the story and replaced him with Man
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My favorite character from the manga!
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Also don't worry about that 😉
that might mean something if i knew anything about the series. i saw bits of it on adult swim, but when they revealed that people could turn into the titans, i lost complete interest. all i know nowadays is that people over on deviantart like to draw the chick with black hair, [i think her hair is black] with a huge ass and tight pants.
 
Crows Zero was a pretty good prequel to the manga that actually fit the canon, with some cameos from characters that were regulars in Crows. Crows Zero II, I think didn't perfectly fit in the timeline but the movie was still okay.
Not a movie, but I really enjoyed that live action Sailor Moon from 20 years ago where the talking cats were just stuffed animals.
 
Crows Zero was a pretty good prequel to the manga that actually fit the canon, with some cameos from characters that were regulars in Crows. Crows Zero II, I think didn't perfectly fit in the timeline but the movie was still okay.
Not a movie, but I really enjoyed that live action Sailor Moon from 20 years ago where the talking cats were just stuffed animals.
i found that show on the internet archive. sailor mercury was pretty cool looking turning to the dark side. one of the few times that i would root for the bad guys.
 
Rurounin Kenshin The Beginning is an almost 1:1 live action adaptation of Rurounin Kenshin Trust and Betrayal only more violent fight scenes.
 

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urk netflix bleeh.. Anyway seen a way to many live action adaptions over the year of anime and games all I can say is please don´t. 99% of the time they are bad and I mean Assassin creed movie, Mario movie, Bloodyrayne, Doom movie, Dragonball, Avatar the last air bender movie BAD.

And lets not get started on Netflix that I hate more than anything has 0 respect for source material and make up what ever shit they feel like. because they must cross of their DEI checklist.

But most of the time allot of the things that happens in anime's or games could never realistically happen in real life and often just looks stupid or dumb and crappy CGI.

When they did the new Super mario movie I honestly think they did the right thing making it animated. Or the movie would have just bombed as all the other live action movies have done.

Take Ys OVA or Ar Tonelico OVA or even Star Ocean EX or even Phantasy star the animation they would never have worked as live action. Same with that Castlevania series they did would never been good as live action.
 
But most of the time allot of the things that happens in anime's or games could never realistically happen in real life and often just looks stupid or dumb and crappy CGI.
Yeah, honestly these live action adaptations only work when its comedy stuff for me, so it actually benefits from looking dumb

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When it comes to anime adaptations there are way too many to remember, but I think japanese adaptations of games are interesting usually. There's the aforementioned Ace Attorney one that is pretty cool, but there are also two others I saw recently that come to mind:
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The Yakuza movie is a little more well known and, even though it's a bad retelling of the first game, it's an incredibly fun Yakuza movie. Really enjoyed it.
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I also found out there was a Fatal Frame movie, which should've easily been good. It's an interesting suspense movie, but it absolutely ignores the main mechanic of the games (there's literally a single photo taken of a ghost), so it's wasted potential.
 
When it comes to anime adaptations there are way too many to remember, but I think japanese adaptations of games are interesting usually. There's the aforementioned Ace Attorney one that is pretty cool, but there are also two others I saw recently that come to mind:
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The Yakuza movie is a little more well known and, even though it's a bad retelling of the first game, it's an incredibly fun Yakuza movie. Really enjoyed it.
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I also found out there was a Fatal Frame movie, which should've easily been good. It's an interesting suspense movie, but it absolutely ignores the main mechanic of the games (there's literally a single photo taken of a ghost), so it's wasted potential.
The Project Zero movie is an absolute disgrace. It feels like an independent team made a movie "in name only" and put a few references to the series just because they were fans. It feels like a fever dream.
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urk netflix bleeh.. Anyway seen a way to many live action adaptions over the year of anime and games all I can say is please don´t. 99% of the time they are bad and I mean Assassin creed movie, Mario movie, Bloodyrayne, Doom movie, Dragonball, Avatar the last air bender movie BAD.

And lets not get started on Netflix that I hate more than anything has 0 respect for source material and make up what ever shit they feel like. because they must cross of their DEI checklist.

But most of the time allot of the things that happens in anime's or games could never realistically happen in real life and often just looks stupid or dumb and crappy CGI.

When they did the new Super mario movie I honestly think they did the right thing making it animated. Or the movie would have just bombed as all the other live action movies have done.

Take Ys OVA or Ar Tonelico OVA or even Star Ocean EX or even Phantasy star the animation they would never have worked as live action. Same with that Castlevania series they did would never been good as live action.
That's why I specified "Japanese adaptions" because those are usually better than the worthless crap Netflix and Hollywood spits out.
 
To open the discussion, I have not watched the Ajin anime on Netflix, but by coincidence I stumbled on the live-action adaption a while ago and watched it without really knowing what I was getting myself into.

To make a long story short there are half-humans (Ajin) who not only have the ability to automatically come back to life after death, an ability they can also use to regrow damaged body parts as their bodies are completely restored upon resurrection, but they also have these shadow-like avatars living within them, that they sometimes summon to fight on their behalf. Like, two Ajins can fight each other hand-to-hand while their avatars fight too.

The main character was after a near-death experience experimented on to turn him into an Ajin, and the badguy then tries to recruit him (I think), but when main guy realizes that bad guy is well... a bad guy, things go ugly.

Eventually the government also get involved, seeing them both as dangerous, and we then follow all three parties to see who comes out on top.

From what I understand the movie wasn't particularly well recieved, and while I can't speak for the sourcematerial I thought it was a fun and exciting action movie, loving the whole concept of "getting completey healed at ANY time during battle", seeing how broken of an ability that is, and how they use that to their advantage.

I seem to remember one scene where one of the Ajin gets captured and, knowing they can't kill him, they handicap him but make sure not to make him accidentally die from bloodloss, or they know he'll regrow everything and come back even more dangerous.

View attachment 17048

And here's a bonus I don't know how many know about, which is very faithful to the sourcematerial:

View attachment 17050
the ajin film was straight dumpster smoothie ass because it took away all the best parts of the manga to make it a generic meaningless action film. one of the best parts of the series is the fact that kei is a borderline sociopathic individual who does everything in his own self interest, yet the film removes that morally gray aspect to him and turns him into a typical siscon who does everything for his sister and human empathy. and the gamer grandpa antagonist was so cool because of his age yet they casted some young boy band ikemen and didnt emphasize his video game interest as much. you hardly get the feel that he's treating the world like a video game. one of my favorite scenes in the manga, one of his subordinants learns of the protagonist's schemes and was about to tell him but sato goes "shh... no spoilers" and goes into the fight blind, it really shows just what kind of character he is and adds a bit of tension to the ajin-rights activist group. the main narrative dynamic between the protagonist and antagonist and their apathy for other people manisfesting in different ways. the movie didn't just omit that it really had virtually no characterization scenes at all and made it a mindless action flick when the series is primarily about the characters and how they deal with immortality anyways. watching that shit felt the same as wearing a wet sock on a cold day
 
the ajin film was straight dumpster smoothie ass because it took away all the best parts of the manga to make it a generic meaningless action film. one of the best parts of the series is the fact that kei is a borderline sociopathic individual who does everything in his own self interest, yet the film removes that morally gray aspect to him and turns him into a typical siscon who does everything for his sister and human empathy. and the gamer grandpa antagonist was so cool because of his age yet they casted some young boy band ikemen and didnt emphasize his video game interest as much. you hardly get the feel that he's treating the world like a video game. one of my favorite scenes in the manga, one of his subordinants learns of the protagonist's schemes and was about to tell him but sato goes "shh... no spoilers" and goes into the fight blind, it really shows just what kind of character he is and adds a bit of tension to the ajin-rights activist group. the main narrative dynamic between the protagonist and antagonist and their apathy for other people manisfesting in different ways. the movie didn't just omit that it really had virtually no characterization scenes at all and made it a mindless action flick when the series is primarily about the characters and how they deal with immortality anyways. watching that shit felt the same as wearing a wet sock on a cold day
Interesting to see the perspective of someone who is familiar with the source material. Unfortunately that IS often what movie adaptions tend to do: remove what made the source material good, in order to make the more "generic" for the general audience to enjoy. They COULD make the movie more faithful to cater more to the fans, but then they would throw off the general audience and not sell as many tickets.

That said, as someone oblivious to the source, I want it to stay that way, as I liked what I got here, and don't wanna ruin that.

I can totally level with you though. The sheer anger and frustration I get out of your rant, is the same I have felt with various other movies that have been based of IPs dear to me. Did someone say Tomb Raider and Resident Evil?
 
I have to mention this though this is apparently more than just adaptation? I do not know I meant to watch it and have not yet.
Patlabor the anime series spanning three movies through late 80's to early 2000's had also two Live Action installments, a movie and a series, apparently part of the same continuum which sounds high risk high reward kind of move to me.
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Apparently fans have subtitled the movie but not the TV series as that still is the state of Japan TV fandom outside anime.
 

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