Not Another Live-Action
We read a while back that they’re making a live-action adaptation of the hit anime movie “Your Name” by Makoto Shinkai, and all we can think is “Hollywood why are you doing this to us?” Why mess with a good thing? We’re seriously getting sick and tired of Hollywood taking something phenomenal and deciding to remake it just so they can put their own spin on it. One could almost assume that this is happening because Your Name is now officially the highest-grossing anime film worldwide, having beaten out Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away who’s held the record since 2001. We hope for the sake of the fans that the studio’s motives are driven by more than just the prospect of the monetary gain, because we’d hate to be stuck with another Dragonball Evolution. We also hope that they understand that just because something does extremely well elsewhere that it does not mean that that success will carry over to here. There’s so many cultural and psychological aspects that determ