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The Problem with Live Action Adaptations in Hollywood

July 16, 2010.Reading time 11 minutes.

First name: 安昂 Last name: Brown… Wait, what? Most of us tend to despise live action adap­ta­tions of the anime/manga and car­toons we love, most­ly because there is always some­thing wrong with them. Whether it be adap­ta­tion decay, white­wash­ing, mis­cast­ing, char­ac­ter derail­ment… you name it. Most of the live action adap­ta­tions I’ve ever hat­ed come […]

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My thoughts on psuedo-anime

June 3, 2007.Reading time 2 minutes.

A pan­el from VG Cats’s “Gold­en Locks” com­ic sums it up: Now, I know all of us are aware of the Amer­i­can shows known as “wannabe ani­me”. How­ev­er, I feel that the term “wannabe ani­me” is a slight­ly neg­a­tive term to call these pieces of ani­ma­tion, con­sid­er­ing there are very good ones like Avatar and […]

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