I've never watched My Hero Macadamia Nut, but in general I can't see any artistic value or purpose to these live action adaptations, and consider them to be low-key disrespectful to animation as an art-form. They never seem to have a selling point other than "the same shit, but live action", and in this and other cases, compressing a whole series into a film's runtime, usually to the detriment of the story and characters.
I don't see how simply making something live action is supposed to be a meaningful improvement or even an interesting spin on the story, especially when they seem to be focusing on the same main character as the normal series. This always strikes me as an insult against animation, like in the way that the Psychonauts guy talked about how it always insulted him when people would say his games were good enough to be movies -- "this cartoon bullshit is good enough to be a real show / movie!"
Also the characters look hella doofy if they're live action, or they just don't look like the characters, and that always sucks.
I don’t see how simply making something live action is supposed to be a meaningful improvement or even an interesting spin on the story
That is because Netflix doesn't care, it is just more content to pad the numbers.
At least the Japanese are moderately successful with their own live action adaptations. A particular good live action I liked was Nodame Cantabille, the actors realy made it a completely different feel from the animation, and also the benefit of real live action orchestra, IIRC they got professional musicians to help.
I've never watched My Hero Macadamia Nut, but in general I can't see any artistic value or purpose to these live action adaptations, and consider them to be low-key disrespectful to animation as an art-form. They never seem to have a selling point other than "the same shit, but live action", and in this and other cases, compressing a whole series into a film's runtime, usually to the detriment of the story and characters.
I don't see how simply making something live action is supposed to be a meaningful improvement or even an interesting spin on the story, especially when they seem to be focusing on the same main character as the normal series. This always strikes me as an insult against animation, like in the way that the Psychonauts guy talked about how it always insulted him when people would say his games were good enough to be movies -- "this cartoon bullshit is good enough to be a real show / movie!"
Also the characters look hella doofy if they're live action, or they just don't look like the characters, and that always sucks.
Live action TV shows/movies adapted from animated TV shows/movies adapted from comics/books.
That is because Netflix doesn't care, it is just more content to pad the numbers.
At least the Japanese are moderately successful with their own live action adaptations. A particular good live action I liked was Nodame Cantabille, the actors realy made it a completely different feel from the animation, and also the benefit of real live action orchestra, IIRC they got professional musicians to help.