Pretty sweet. I'm guessing this is still in production?
These guns ripping themselves apart would have been great!
Scarjo's a decent choice, but if I had it my way, I would had choice the actress that played "GoGo" in Kill Bill volume 1.
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I don't get how these are Asians:
Is it confirmed? This reminds me of when the live action DBZ was cast and it got clarified that there wasn't an assigned race for the DBZ characters despite audience outrage over their interpretation of the characters as Asian.
EDIT: Isn't anime supposed to be a nondescript spin of European and Asian appearance, often considered to use features common of white people?
I don't get how these are Asians:
Is it confirmed? This reminds me of when the live action DBZ was cast and it got clarified that there wasn't an assigned race for the DBZ characters despite audience outrage over their interpretation of the characters as Asian.
EDIT: Isn't anime supposed to be a nondescript spin of European and Asian appearance, often considered to use features common of white people?
I feel the only series that could be well translated to live action with occidental actors is Black Lagoon. And it would be awesome too.
Nope.
BERSERK.
Come on man it's pretty much a take on the middle ages. That should have been a given.
Nope.
BERSERK.
That's because you're not Asian. Why do the Simpsons look white to you?
Yeah you're right, that's why Naruto looks asian too.. oh wait.
That is so good. No one would be better.
I don't get how these are Asians:
Is it confirmed? This reminds me of when the live action DBZ was cast and it got clarified that there wasn't an assigned race for the DBZ characters despite audience outrage over their interpretation of the characters as Asian.
EDIT: Isn't anime supposed to be a nondescript spin of European and Asian appearance, often considered to use features common of white people?
As much as I love Berserk there is no way in hell anyone would dare to adapt it to live action without massive changes and censorship.
How come? Berserk doesn't have anything that HBO hasn't already done. Well, maybe demon rape scene would need adjustments.
The most recent anime I can think of were characters actually look Japanese was Flower of Evil, which got some flack for not looking like their manga more caucasian looking counterparts.
Yeah, my bad, I was thinking anime to live action. Anime had lot less rape and monsters so it could actually be turned into decent live-action show.Horse rape, demon and tentacle rape, troll rape...
Besides the special effects would have to be top tier to do the manga justice.
I have no idea why Hollywood is so insistent on white washing properties like this. They got popular in part because of their Non-American casts and locales. If you don't think you can make a GITS movie for 200 million with a East Asian Actress (are you even giving it an honest try though?) aim for a 100 or 50 million dollar budget. Name recognition + good movie should do well even if it isn't some super summer blockbuster.
Name a Asian female that can carry their own big budget film off of their name alone?
But but he's not asian! You can't hire him!
Anyways. Wonder how people will react on gaf when all the Attack on Titan characters in the live action Japanese film is played by Japanese people.
The most recent anime I can think of were characters actually look Japanese was Flower of Evil, which got some flack for not looking like their manga more caucasian looking counterparts.
Ping Pong also too which stayed true to the manga art style. Their the only one's I can think of.
I took a quick look down that list and I didn't see anyone who is Japanese. Am I right in saying you want them to sub in a "close enough" nationality?
Is this one of those "anime characters look white to me" things?
None of your pics work...
16.
Rinko Kikuchi
Actress, Pacific Rim
36.
Tao Okamoto
Actress, The Wolverine
You seriously think that characters in a majority of anime shows, which are mostly set in Japan, are caucasian? Its more like you are projecting.
Um no. They just don't look like they are Japanese. Anime looks pretty stylized to me, but the often big eyes, variety of eye colors, almost nonexistent noses, and extremely varied hair colors are just some of the things that make it unclear to me how they have a definite race other than being told they do. Otherwise it's something I'm unaware of that the nationality of anime is simply wherever it was drawn to whoever drew it. I just don't get the confirmed race thing when they don't look Japanese or even Asian to me in many cases in the film.
That's not my point DERP. But that they look/drawn white.
Japan, however, is not and never has been a European-dominated society. The Japanese are not Other within their own borders, and therefore drawn (or painted or sculpted) representations of, by and for Japanese do not, as a rule, include stereotyped racial markers. A circle with two dots for eyes and a line for a mouth is, by default, Japanese.
It should come as no surprise, then, that Japanese readers should have no trouble accepting the stylized characters in manga, with their small jaws, all but nonexistent noses, and famously enormous eyes as “Japanese.” Unless the characters are clearly identified as foreign, Japanese readers see them as Japanese, and it would never occur to most readers that they might be otherwise, regardless of whether non-Japanese observers think the characters look Japanese or not.
When non-Japanese characters appear in a manga in which most characters are Japanese, that character will be differentiated from the others with stereotyped racial markers of some kind. For example, a character of African descent may be shown with pronounced lips, frizzy hair, and shaded skin. A European character may be shown with a pronounced nose and jutting jaw.
I'm sick of the white washing too, but thinking the locale and ethnicity of the characters are somehow relevant to the overall story is preposterous.I have no idea why Hollywood is so insistent on white washing properties like this. They got popular in part because of their Non-American casts and locales. If you don't think you can make a GITS movie for 200 million with a East Asian Actress (are you even giving it an honest try though?) aim for a 100 or 50 million dollar budget. Name recognition + good movie should do well even if it isn't some super summer blockbuster.
Is Lightning Asian?
Is Lightning Asian?
You're probably just used to asian characters being marked by clear, discernible ethnic characteristics. That is because in most western art, "white" is seen as the default: lacking special characteristics. In contrast, other ethnicities are given stereotypical appearances with stereotypcial characteristics.
Now in Japanese anime, the people making it are Japanese and thus see themselves as the "default". It is the Americans and Europeans who ascribed stereotypical appearances to differentiate them. If you watch an anime series and see a tall, over-weight man with a gigantic nose, blond hair, and blue eyes, you are looking at an American. Of course, this varies a lot from artist to artist, but the trends are there.
In those three images you linked, Makoto is very definitely Japanese by anime standards, since she has dark hair and no really out-standing stereotypical features. Batou is a different matter.
To turn the question around, what features would you expect a character to have in order to be convinced that they are "asian" in animation?
Is Lightning Asian?
I'm sick of the white washing too, but thinking the locale and ethnicity of the characters are somehow relevant to the overall story is preposterous.
But then I find it confusing how features like an almost non-existent, often pointed nose, the variety of light eye colors being predominant on characters (including the film version of Makoto who they used bright blue eyes but even darker hair for), and often very light skin.
Is Lightning Asian?
Do you think Caucasians have lighter skin than Asians? I'm not sure that's true. Sounds like an assumption on your part.
And more to the point: Asian cultures have long valued light skin (and this is pre-European interaction), so to say that light skin = non-Asian is pretty silly, when light skin is a hallmark of Asian beauty standards.
This is a messy topic though ><
I don't know I was thinking about the common spectrum like:
So when paired with the other things listed that you didn't bold, it seems less clear that it is referring to the spectrum or predominant skinniness of one race. I realize they have a longtime valuing of pale skin (geisha makeup being one example), but to my knowledge it isn't a predominant feature of the population, which is more varied instead.
Now I really don't get the outrage.
Motoko Kusanagi is going to become Monica Kuskowski.
These guns ripping themselves apart would have been great!