yeah my treat brain pogs at first glance but like... what will this do that the animated version didn't? I guess the less ambiguous representation is nice? Would rather have more original stuff, though
:took-restraint: thank you for not whitewashing this Netflix. I know it took a lot of restraint.
They just have an odd relationship with race. Full metal alchemist could not have more obviously been in Europe but they got an Asian cast, then they made death note in America, which was actively detrimental. I am happy this shows some actors who look like the characters though. Unlike the last one.
Crackers in general have an "odd relationship" with race. Think about all the weirdos who chose to die on the hill that ScarJo is a legit Major Kusanagi. Or the ones who scream up and down about how "anime characters are hu-wiiiiiiite" because a character has colorful hair despite speaking only Japanese, going to school in Japan, and having a name like Takemura Jiro.
that's true. I remember someone on this site yelling at me that anime characters were white and getting super pissed when I talked about mixed-race people living in japan with blonde hair.
Yeah. "Netflix Original" is really just a marketing gimmick. It doesn't always mean they themselves actually produced it.
I think for Death Note I can certainly imagine the son of a police chief being a mass murderer out here. Disclaimer: I haven't seen the movie so I'm talking out of my ass
The big issue with Death Note wasn't even that it was set in America with a white cast...its that none of the characters acted at all like they were supposed to. Light is a bullied social outcast...which is basically the antithesis of who his character is and where his god complex comes from and makes a lot of the story completely incoherent thematically. If you changed the characters names the movie would still suck but maybe if they had leaned even more into Americanizing it and just did a completely different story with the same premise of the death note it could have at least existed on its own independantly of the Anime/Manga.
They're able to narrow down roughly where kira is both by crimes he reacts to and language he used. English is kinda the default language and American news goes everywhere, so the case would take longer
I love how they wrote a separate article for each casting choice
MAXIMUM CLICKS
George Takei as Koh the Face stealer
So George Takei stars as a liberal in the movie?
i hate to be excited for slop but i am legitimately :so-true: about danny pudi on the cast
Oh my god, the dad from Kim's Convenience as Uncle Iroh?
I'm legit interested.
What does Shyamalan have to do with Avatar? This is the first live adaptation that's ever been announced, no you cannot convince me otherwise.
Afaik the Sokka actor is a white boy pretending to be native, but maybe that was debunked. Good cast otherwise
library owl dude is in the second season for the animated series right? Maybe Azula too? Wonder if they're squeezing them into the first season or if this represents more than the first
I think Azula appears like once in season 1 during the flashback?
I heard that they created new characters for the show, so who know how much they changed it
