PICTURED: Cover for Volume One of a compilation of Moomin comics.
The Moomins (Swedish: Mumintroll) are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland. They are a family of white, round fairy tale characters with large snouts that make them resemble the hippopotamus. However, despite this resemblance, the Moomin family are trolls. The family live in their house in Moominvalley, though in the past, their temporary residences have included a lighthouse and a theatre. They have had many adventures along with their various friends.
In all, nine books were released in the series, together with five picture books and a comic strip being released between 1945 and 1993.
The Moomins have since been the basis for numerous television series, films and even two theme parks: one called Moomin World in Naantali, Finland, and another Akebono Children's Forest Park in Hannō, Saitama, Japan.
In a letter to Paul Ariste, an Estonian linguist, Jansson wrote in 1973 that she had created an artificial word which expresses something soft. She came up with an ad hoc Swedish word mumintrollet, because, in her opinion, the consonant sound of m in particular conveys a sensation of softness. As an artist, Jansson gave the Moomins a shape that also expresses softness, as opposed to flabbiness.
Characters
The Moomin stories concern several eccentric and oddly-shaped characters, some of whom are related to each other. The central family consists of Moominpappa, Moominmamma and Moomintroll.
Other characters, such as Hemulens, Sniff, the Snork Maiden, Snufkin and Little My are accepted into or attach themselves to the family group from time to time, generally living separate lives in the surrounding Moominvalley, where the series is set. It is in this fictional valley, that the Moomin family decides to live at the end of The Moomins and the Great Flood.
Critics have interpreted various Moomin characters as being inspired by real people, especially members of the author's family, and Tove Jansson spoke in interviews about the backgrounds of, and possible models for, her characters. The first two books about the Moomins were published in 1945 and 1946 respectively, and deal with natural disasters; they were influenced by the upheavals of war and Jansson's depression during the war years.
Fun facts
Atos Wirtanen, basis for Snufkin and temporary fiance of Tove, was an avowed socialist politician.
Tuulikki Pietilä, basis for Too-Ticky, lived with Tove Jansson for much of her life in the Torvoo archipelago, and the two are universally considered to have been a lesbian couple.
Disney has made multiple attempts to acquire the Moomins franchise, but thankfully all such offers have been declined.
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Why did they make the new Cowboy Bebop? It looks ao fucking bad. It was already a show....just upscale it to 4k or something if you need to sell more. This looks like someone made a Kill Bill-era Tarantino knock-off for their student film.
It really does look awful. It looks like they're making every decision wrong, like they're simultaneously deviating too much from the original in some ways and not deviating enough in others. There are some artistic choices that work in animation that just don't work as well in live action.
My hope is that the trailer is just for hype and that it won't match the real thing. Fat chance, probably.
We're in the DMT deathdreams of modern civilization so all we can do is rehash previous cultural memories in weird ways.
That said I'll still probably watch that garbage
I don't think it looks that bad, it would work ok if it was an original show IMO. The biggest problem I got with the trailer is that you wouldn't know that this is a sci-fi space advanture show at all. The world building in the series was extremely important, a lot of detail was put on the environment, the ships, the equipment etc. The imagine of this "western sci-fi" is not just the story and characters but also extremely visual, you get this sense of capitalism went off the deep end and we got exactly 1850 society in 2500 or whatever but the visual presentation is key when you see broken or old equipment, run down cities etc that is very important.
And there is nothing of that in the trailer. It is focused on the 3 main characters only. So it is tough to judge whether they'll get that visual presentation right and if they don't there is zero chance it will work.
My prediction is it will be an extremely average show that is ok if you don't associate it with the actual anime.
Some anime real life adaptations worked well so far, I think specialy the Gintama movies are fun, certainly no worse than your average American superhero bullshit movie, turn your brain off and enjoy these actors in cosplay doing comedy stuff.
My approach to live action anime remakes is just to view it through the lens of seeing actors I like cosplay as characters I like and watch them do over the top reenactments of the scenes. To be fair, this mostly applies to Japanese live action adaptations where they're really just trying to see more merch and copies of the original medium as opposed to American remakes that are boneheaded and unenjoyable. Because when you're not trying to tap into "fun" or "faithful", that's where things go wrong.
wow, that trailer really didn't feel like cowboy bebop at all
So at best it is like when a musician covers a song. Like, imagine if you would we got multiple directors to do it. Picture a world in which Wes Anderson got to direct. Or, I dunno who could have the most interesting take. That was probably the idea when the project started. However as capitalism ruins everything, we get a show that just has to check the boxes for " sounds cool enough to get people to click on it and just good enough to keep people from clicking away"