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