Japanese Anime goes to Hollywood
 

These days, many Hollywood animes or movies are made based on existing Japanese animes.

In these seriese of TV show, NHK followes two stories.

1) Astoro boy (Japanese old animation) in CG animation movie
Japanese production fight with Hollywood to keep the original character design while Hollywood tend to change it to the American market.

2) Japanese company makes new anime toward Hollywood market
A Japanese animation production try to release Amarican taste anime in US utilizing famous american actor(Sumuel Jackson) and actress(Lucy Liu).

In these movies, all narrations are in Japanese but they have many interviews in English. You can enjoy 40% of these movies without understanding Japanese language.

1/6 over view
YouTube - 日本アニメ vs ハリウッド　part 1/6

2/6 Japanese Kawaii astroboy vs. American adult astroboy
YouTube - 日本アニメ vs ハリウッド　part 2/6

3/6 Difference between American(24fps) and Japanese(small frame rate) animation
YouTube - 日本アニメ vs ハリウッド　part 3/6

4/6 Japanese anime company aiming Hollywood
YouTube - 日本アニメ vs ハリウッド　part 4/6

5/6 make animation to the voice action
YouTube - 日本アニメ vs ハリウッド　part 5/6

6/6 mutual understanding of Japanese and Hollywood
YouTube - 日本アニメ vs ハリウッド　part 6/6

EDIT: As the poster does not allow the movies embedded, replace with the links

As embedded movies are not allowed for these movies, I replaced then with links.

Sorry for no checking.

Wow Hollywood is taking a lot things from various countries and making them into movies. I hope they don't ruin Astoro boy because they all ready ruined Dragon Ball.

Well the good thing a Japanese company is making it. As always Hollywood wants to make changes. They should just leave it as the orginal anime/manga.

Thanks for the links.:D

They ruined Dragonball...just saying.

And they are going to ruin Cowboy Bebop...

they aslo ruined the grudge, the ring and dark water as well !

Hollywood, most overrated vendor for entertainment that modern civilization created.

I don't think it is good for the whole anime scene.

They didn't get the message from Dragon Ball, did they?

Hollywood = corruptness itself

Sometimes I wish the creators of these animes would just pull a Sailor Moon and take away the licensing rights.

That's what a lot of people wish right now. There should be another Hollywood strike for the sake of preserving the anime scene.

Anyway, I'm not surprised from Hollywood, the General Motors of the entertainment world.

To play Devil's advocate, even if these movies suck (in fan's eyes) what they do is bring a title to a whole new audience. For some people Dragonball: Evolution will be their first exposure to Dragonball, and that will make them say "I want to see more" or "I want to see the original series". That is why even crappy movies are green-lighted: Exposure. Nine times out of ten the source will be more entertaining than the Hollywood remake, but what it does is funnel people to Japanese media, which is a good thing. That means titles will not stop being published mid-story and mid-series.

Look at the bright side.

And for those of you that think it is cool to like something no one else does, and hates these movies for exposing your secret fandom to the masses, get over it.

Since Astro Boy is a CG animation and not a live action movie I have my doubt's that it's going to fail like other Hollywood remakes, infact I give my thumbs up to it.

It's not that I mind at all that they are making the movies. But can't they write scripts that are atleast okay? And choose better actors. Yes, it probably makes it more popular in the long run, but Hollywoods imagination is gone. Can't they atleast get someone in anime to write the scripts?

is there any rumours concerning Naoki Urasawa's Monster to be film?

I hate Hollywood!!!!! There gunna mess up Robotech (Macross Japanese version and the best version) and I heard there gunna do King of Fighters as well. Sad times to live in..

America should just stop messing up animes and mangas. FOREVER!!

The only way to keep with the ideal is for those anime companies to do what Marvel had to do, make thier own hollywood studio.

Look at Spiderman 1 and 2 or Iron Man..those were good because they stayed true to the original character. Lord of the Rings was very good as well because it too tried to stay with in the story's guidlines.

Hollywood tends to gloss over the idea that its the characters and thier story that matter and not all the fancy explosions. With out the heart, all you have are exsplosions, I can watch those when the History channle has a special on volcanos.

I was told a couple of months ago that an american director will be making a live action film of ghost in the shell that should be done by the mid year of 2010. I had this stuck in my mind for awhile now but never came around to ask, if this is true what do you all think of it?

To the above...

Let me google that for you

Lulz.

Now, for the sake of everyone else...

Yes, there apparently have been talks about a live-action GitS, and the company Dreamworks is apparently planning to do it.

Honestly, I don't think they'll do to bad. They did do Transformers, after all, and I don't know a single person who hates that movie.

As for Hollywood doing anime movies as a whole...

I REALLY wish they would stop. I mean, live-action may draw in bigger audiences and everything, but when the only thing that IS drawing in audiences is big booms and bigger boobs, that's not going to lead to an interest in anime.

It's actually rather counter-productive, because many of the people that go to those movies and haven't seen the original expect the original to be more like the movie, so they dislike the original.

There are a few exceptions, but all I can say is that if they ever do Fullmetal Alchemist, Air Gear, or a few others, I will purchase a plane ticket to Hollywood specifically for the purpose of kicking the entire cast and crews ass if they screw it up.

EDIT: Oh god... Transformers WAS mostly big booms and bigger boobs... Well, I don't know what to say now...

Eh thanks. When it comes to live action of course it will look good if the main characters arnt human (transformers) but when it comes to ones with humans (dbz) they mainly do suck. Not from my opinion just by what i see i agree with some that say hollywood should leave anime alone and level it to the experts.

Well, a movie that flew completely under MY radar is apparently in theaters on July 10th.

A live-action Blood: The Last Vampire movie. From the preview I saw, it doesn't look to bad. Looks like it sticks pretty close to the original animated movie.

Who knows, though... I'm going to watch it no matter.

I might do that too. If they tried to do it after Blood+, it probably wouldn't come out good.