#animated adaptation

[joaoppereiraus]

Jucika in the Countryside - ANIMATION

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[dangermousie]

I know most of you guys can't read Russian so I want to say that this is an 18+ warning at the start of a video due to scenes of alcohol consumption because "excessive alcohol consumption harms your health."

This is a very reasonable statement except IT'S IN FRONT OF ANIMATED ADAPTATION OF HOW DARE YOU aka the story about two modern people who transmigrate into a period China setting and like (a) that is the least of their issues (b) sure if I ever transmigrate into a period novel, I will be sure to be cognizant of my liver and drink sparingly.

AHAHAHAHAHAH

[filmso2]

Scarlet

2025

[checcotheperson]

Obsessed with Alouette no Uta's depiction of Inspector Javert.

Credits to @hadleysmis, i wouldn't have been able to have ref images (oralinktolegallypurchasethemangaforthatmatter) for this mf if it weren't for them!! Still hoping i'll be able to get this manga, if y'all don't know it's a manga drawn in the "horror style" by Inuki Kanako, adaptating Les Mis through Cosette's POV.

Probably because my first proper exposure and introduction to Les Mis was Shoujo Cosette, Cosette's story is one of my favorite parts and the one i'm always the most interested to; While rare, everytime there is a particularly Cosette-centric adaptations (mostly from Japan lol) i try my earnest to get my hands on it and check it out.

With that being said, Alouette no Uta has one key difference with Shoujo Cosette, in that it's definetly not for kids. Shoujo Cosette pulled no punches in showing Cosette's horrible life while under the Thénardiers' "care", but Alouette no Uta, from what i've been able to see (which, again, big thanks for Hadleymis, i likely wouldn't even be aware of this manga's existence), goes even further and is much darker and more violent/psychologically brutal. Shoujo Cosette is a gut-punching adaptation, but it certainly didn't go to the levels Alouette no Uta does, plus there's the fact the latter has a... unique art style, to say the least. I like it!!! But it can certainly can get a while to be used to it (Gavroche'sdesignisagoodexample).

With that being said, these are exactly the reasons for why i want to check it out for myself!! It's not guaranteed it'll become one of my most liked adaptations afterwards 100%, but i think it is worth a try- Plus look at this man!!!

Gonna say, my experience with finding out about his design was very funny to me. Previously, the only image i had of Javert from this manga was the aftermath of his suicide (which, for such a dark manga, it's a really peculiar way to portray something like that..) so one of the reasons i wanted to get it for myself was too see how Javert's drawn!

Welp, in the end i didn't have to wait until i got the manga (if it happens), but... yeah when i first saw him, i was.. dissapointed, to say the least. It's not a bad design! I don't hate it!! I was just... expecting more. And idk, i'm not a fan of Javert looking so young, or being clean-shaven. But it's precisely because of how off he appears to me that i like this design!! I unironically like Javert's depiction from the 1988 animated special for the same reasons :p.

With that being said, i look forward to when i might finally get the possibility of reading this manga. Yap's over :))!

[titles-for-tangents]

Monstress: Amazon Adapting Liu & Takeda Comic as Animated Series

Amazon MGM Studios is developing an animated series adaptation of writer Marjorie Liu and artist Sana Takeda's comic book series Monstress.

HOLY FUCK GANG, IT’S HAPPENING

Majorie Liu and Sana Takeda will be executive producers (thank God), and Steven Maeda and Tiffany Greshler who worked on the recent live-action One Piece flick are on board as co-show runners.

I have…thoughts.

I think it’s going to be a different beast than the graphic novel. Even if it turns out to be an excellent adaptation to widespread acclaim, I kind of can’t picture it animated well, and this is including my massive distrust of Amazon here.

Sana Takeda’s art style is incredible, gobsmacking, and painfully rendered, where even in the places she clearly skimped on details she is still pulling off “magnificent bastard” levels of skill. Each and every panel is deliberately designed to allow you, the reader, to take in the world and the characters with “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” moments. They’re intentionally kind of static, and even the more dynamic and action-packed bits appear sort of still. Takeda’s work is easily on par with some of the most artistically beautiful manga I own, and every panel she creates is colored to boot. I mean MADLASS. Between the armor, the architecture, the colossal eldritch horrors with hundreds of writhing tentacles, I just don’t know that Amazon is going to be willing or able to really bring Takeda’s vision to life. How are her panels supposed to move when they’re supposed to be so seen? I ask this knowing full well there are great moments obviously copy-pasted to show a change in facial expression, for example. Would it actually serve the sheer scale of the visuals better to go the cell-shaded route like Abigail Larson’s Blue Samurai? Or is it going to stick to being fully 2D? I have so many questions.

I find myself cautiously optimistic. Hearing all the voice acting choices is going to be interesting; hearing the music choices to exemplify the scale of war, the deeply-rooted damage of generational trauma, the moments of aching and yearning for literally anything and anyone to be better — Monstress is not a happy story, per se, but it is an astoundingly good and interesting story. It didn’t win multiple Eisner and Hugo awards for nothing. How does one just look their monsters in the eye and treat all of this as normal? It’s not, of course, but this is what we have to work with. Can it be changed for the better? Can any of this? Kippa sure thinks so!

I suppose that’s some of the issue I have with this here: Amazon sure can afford it, but are they going to be willing to really adapt the scale of Monstress?

According to the article, Marjorie Liu already has the final scene written out but it’s currently unknown when we’ll see it in book form. That tracks and that’s okay; the omnibus volumes alone take years to publish and I will continue to wait for them with due patience (and bated breath) so I can keep buying them. There’s also no planned release date for the animated series in the article, presumably because good, quality animation takes a long time and therefore it’s going to take at least few years just to animate one season, as any seasoned anime fan knows. My partner has said it’s kind of like the Chainsaw Man series in that regard: the panels are doing some of the most batshit things you’ve ever seen and laid eyes upon so even the best adaptation possible is still by design going to be a different beast.

I don’t have an easy way to close this right now, but I wish the whole team the best of luck and will be cheering them on the entire way. I know too the adaptation will bring fresh money and sales of the book series and probably set Liu and Takeda for life if not for a long while, but I still encourage anyone reading this to pick up a copy and start reading it for themselves first. And in the meantime, I’ll be finishing reading my copy of Monstress Book 3.

[wereallcurioushere12]

Lunar Chronicles confirmed animated movie adaptation let’s goooooo!!!!!!!!

[bobauthorman]

Life and Time adaptation idea, part 1

I enjoy reading Disney Duck comics (Particularly those produced by Carl Barks and Don Rosa) and while I'm in no hurry to see it happen, I sometimes wonder how an animated adaptation of Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" would go.

Rather than trying to squeeze everything into one feature-length 'toon, perhaps a mini-series would do, like Over the Garden Wall. Each issue would be animated, (With certain elements or chapters removed) allowing them to seem like self-contained stories that would still be part of an overarching narrative.

What are these 'certain elements' I would prefer to see dismissed? Well, I think I would take away the ghosts of Castle McDuck subplot, or that whole 'Scrooge is destined to the world's richest duck'. I always found those bits a little unnecessary, to be honest.

In my adaptation (If I had the drive and resources to produce such a series), each episode would start with Scrooge in the present day (Or what maybe the 1940s, where the Barks/Rosa comics take place), and something would cause him to start talking about his past. Since these episodes are from Scrooge's perspective, that would mean scenes that he wasn't there for would be excluded, since he can't remember something he never experienced.

For example, the first episode "Last of the Clan McDuck" could start with HDL running a lemonade stand or something. As they're checking the cash box, they realize that one piece of the profits is foreign or not even money at all. This would lead Scrooge to talk about how he got his Number One Dime, which would later inspire him to go to America and seek his fortune.