Japanese Fans Are Dragging Hollywood's Live-Action Plans For 'Your Name'
There are few phrases more controversial to anime fans than “live-action adaptation.” Over the [...]
Whitewashing
瀧が憧れる女性、奥寺先輩はスカーレット・ヨハンソンさんが射止めました。 #ハリウッド版君の名は pic.twitter.com/jRmfVnankF
— 木下利正 (@Don_Flolars) September 29, 2017
Hollywood is all too familiar with whitewashing, and anime fans know it. Over the years, otakus have critiqued western anime adaptations for totally whitewashing its leads or casts as a whole. Ghost in the Shell cowered under this controversy most recently, and Your Name could do it next if they bring in Scarlett Johansson to play another Japanese heroine.
All The Alcohol
口噛み酒はジャックダニエルです。 #ハリウッド版君の名は pic.twitter.com/7aQD1k1BHg
— 木下利正 (@Don_Flolars) September 29, 2017
Who needs traditional alcohol made in a Japanese shrine when the US can just substitue the drink for Jack Daniels? It's not like anyone will notice, right? Right??
Those Lens Flares Though
JJエイブラムス監督って、
— 日生(ひなせ) (@00hinase00) October 1, 2017
新作のジェダイを作った人でしょ?
こんな感じに作り替えないかメチャクチャ心配。
(´;ω;`) #君の名は #ハリウッド版 #実写化#JJエイブラムス #ジェダイ #監督#フォースと共に #ライトセーバー pic.twitter.com/Mq5YW7OPte
J.J. Abrams is one of Hollywood's top directors, but the visionary just can not get over his lens flares. Fans have come to expect a gratuitious amount of CGI effects and lighting tricks with Abrams' movies, and Your Name will be no different. In fact, it might end up blinding you.
Explicit Content
ハリウッド版ってこうでしょ pic.twitter.com/lr2ekvJf8T
— たなかあひる (@ahiru353) September 29, 2017
Your Name has a few naughty moments, but the film never touches into full-on XXX territory. The most explicity the anime gets is when its body-swapped leads realize they have to live with another gender's body for a set period of time. If Hollywood has anything to say, its take on Your Name will see the genderbent couple sexting and swearing in regular intervals if past adaptations are our guides.
Apocalyptic Posters
プロデュースがJ.J.エイブラムスさんと聞いて、真っ先にイメージできたハリウッド版“君の名は。”のイメージポスター。 #君の名は pic.twitter.com/wxIQGoaNBa
— ニシザワ3 (@nishizawasan) September 28, 2017
If you've seen Your Name, then you know the film isn't as lighthearted as you might think. Much of the film's gorgeous animation and colorful artwork may fool fans into thinking its a carefree romance, but it isn't. There are serious complications awaiting the film's leads by its latter-half, and Hollywood would have no problem darkening its adaptation if it meant bringing in a few more bucks.