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.
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.
Looking forward to the anime rage when 13 year old girls don't have F cups and they collectively think it sucks for all of the wrong reasons.
Can't wait to have to avoid all the low-effort YT videos saying it's bad in the same ways every other live-action adaptation is.
Netflix anime adaptations are a philanthropic project to give shitty yters content fodder basically lol
Yeah, Mirko loses an arm and leg, and then recently lost another arm. She's a very minor character though, this isn't a major part of the plot by any stretch. There's lots of other fetishy characters that get more airtime.
I mean there's still a lot of good non-violent stuff out there.
Hope you enjoy it! It languished on my PTW list for years and I finally watched it recently—ended up tearing through all three seasons.
a character with a recurring story habit of losing limbs, getting replacements, and getting those replacements torn off
That's a character introduced in the final arc (I think it's the final anyways? I'm not sure where it's considered as dividing, maybe the second to last if it's not the final) of the manga as part of a battle that kills off a bunch of minor characters and is implied to have killed many times more unnamed characters. She's one of the few who survives, albeit with severe injuries, and she keeps fighting with prosthetics after that (although mostly off-screen IIRC) as the story moves into a weird post-apocalyptic warzone setting.
I don't think the fight itself even comes off as particularly fetishy, since it's literally the same stuff that Deku and multiple other male heroes go through repeatedly, being maimed and continuing to fight, fully expecting to die in the process. I think Mirko's the only female character who's written as matching Deku's complete disregard for his own wellbeing. The story leans hard into that self-sacrifice angle for every major fight, for both heroes and villains, and with only a few notable exceptions that involves grievous bodily harm or permanent injury.
Considering that's the only type of scene the author's really good at wringing emotion out of (and he is good at turning bog-standard brutal anime fights into intense internal conflicts) I can see why he keeps doing it multiple times per arc.
The main character of MHA has a thing where he's too powerful so he ends up busting his arms, but there's no amputation or anything. Trying to think of what you're talking about but all that comes to minds is Genos in One Punch Man and I don't think that's it. My brain isn't at 100% right now so maybe someone else can think of it.
Maybe. The Mc definitely fucks up his limbs a lot, so you may have just gotten some hyperbolic memes or something.
But there's totally plenty of amputation stuff out there too so...
Only anime I can think of with a lot of severed limbs is Elfen Lied, but they're all just teenage girls.
Yeah, I was thinking that too, but it's pretty old. I was thinking more stuff like demon slayer, bleach, and various sword related stuff. Even dbz has the occasional de-limbing.
I do remember some people getting de limbed in Demon Slayer, doesn't Nezuko lose an arm at some point and then regenerates it?
Oh, yeah! she does get sliced up quite a bit during the latest arc.
Elfen Lied maybe? There is a girl that gets replacement robot limbs after all of hers are chopped off by invisible energy hands.
Calling it an "amputation fetish" is a bit much imo. The dude def. has a thing for muscular women, but I haven't seen anything that indicates he's into amputations sexually.
If it happened to multiple similar characters I'd be more inclined to agree, but if it pretty much only happened to the one, with alot of those "amputations" being of robotic limbs (which doesn't really have the same impact as losing "real" ones imo), I don't really see it.
The superheroes have agencies and firms, one of the villains in the series starts murdering supes because most of them are only in it for the money/fame.
All Lives Matter, if you riot after decades of pogroms and institutional racism thats only because you're under the spell of a shadowy organization that hates Our Way Of Life and wants to topple society.
Not really a hot take but: Most shonen anime like this really just don't belong in live action. Debateable but: the best live action adaptations of this sort of Anime tend to do so by blending the line between live action and animation...which IMO kinda negates the point of doing so at all.
What why? They haven't even started One Piece yet with its insane budget. I thought Netflix was losing money. Why are they taking on shows that require a lot to make it look somewhat decent?
Did you know Netflix has a growing game library? They've spent a fucking mountain of money on it and less than 1% of subscribers use it.
I really don't understand how they run their business. Are the games any good?
No idea, I think they're mostly mobile games but Netflix bought a few studios for like 60 million a pop.
Oh boy, I can't wait to watch all of the take downs on why this show sucks about six months after it comes out!
