2013-05-02, 16:05 | Link #1 |
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Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai - Live-Action Movie
Per ANN and other sources, Haganai is getting a live-action movie. The author himself is not involved in the production, and actually wrote a rather lengthy comment about it that Crunchyroll translated here. (IMO, it's an interesting read.)
Anyway, feel free to use this thread to discuss and speculate about this movie.
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2013-05-02, 17:34 | Link #2 |
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I don't know what to make of this.....
Still, I do respect Hirasaka for knowing her personality and limitations and thus deciding to not be involved with the movie. That shows just how much Hirasaka thinks about her work, and that deserves praise. |
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I don't think Haganai is anyone's first pick when it comes to live action adaptation.
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2013-05-02, 21:13 | Link #7 |
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Anyone standing in for Sena should be a gorgeous (blonde) with ample bosom, if not, there's no point in making her character live action ^^. Also, how can they pull off Maria? A loli with silver hair in nun getup doing something hilarious works in the manga & anime, but IRL?
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2013-05-02, 21:25 | Link #8 |
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Not to mention Kate.
But I have little faith in the movie producers finding a big-busted actor to play the part, because it'd be difficult to do so. If they find a young, blonde, big-busted gaijin actress who can speak fluent Japanese, then kudos to them. Usually though, this is the kind of transition which would often be lost when transforming an LN/Anime/Manga series to a live-action one. That happened with Kaoru in Nana to Kaoru. In the manga, he is short, looks like a loser, and has really big beady eyes. In the live-action, he was taller than Nana (oh for goodness sake!) and not at all loser-like, at least in appearance. Perhaps they were hard-pressed in finding a good, shorty actor during production... :/ |
2013-05-02, 21:40 | Link #10 | |
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That means no gold or silver haired lolis, and Sena would be moderate.
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2013-05-02, 21:51 | Link #11 |
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I'm fine with no silver-haired loli, but Sena not being blonde? Blonde hair is one of her defining traits. Take that away and it won't represent Sena to a degree. It's like Kenshin Himura with black hair instead of red .
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2013-05-03, 09:47 | Link #14 |
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Well, this is interesting. I think Boku wa Tomodachi has a fair amount of potential for a live-action adaptation; it's nothing as fantastical as a shounen or fantasy series (the finale of NEXT with Rika vs. Kodaka aside). Still, for the moment I'll assume that this movie will continue the tradition of live-action adaptations being charmingly terrible. I'm looking forward to it.
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2013-05-03, 23:44 | Link #16 |
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I can't believe this is getting a live-action movie. Wahahaha it so doesn't fit (I'm guessing that's the reason why they chose this project). They might put less focus on raunchy and more on healing though but then again what is Haganai without the raunchiness?
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2013-05-04, 01:25 | Link #17 |
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Well, I think it wouldn't be hard to make a reasonable live-action story about a bunch of misfits who form a club and, through trials, find friends in each other. It's basically taking the basic concept sketch and telling a different version of it for a different audience (sort of like "based on the original concept by..." as opposed to an adaptation). That's probably what I'd expect, anyway. In that regard, they could also keep the names and basic ideas of the character personalities, while doing it with more conventional Japanese actors.
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2013-05-04, 02:05 | Link #18 | |
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Still, you can’t deny that some of the core characters’ issues come partly from their physiques. For example, Kodaka’s blondish hair and “mean look” make many mistook him for a delinquent, Sena being envied by other students due to her being a knockout gorgeous girl with pretty face and great figure (and to some extent, her blonde hair). Important things like that must be brought up even in a live-action imo.
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Like I said, I think this is why the author is sort of telling people to think of it as something separate.
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