Why Cowboy bepop live action failed and what we can learn from it

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00:00Okay, now since this show has come out and everyone's had their laughs and their shits and their giggles over the

00:08Terrible, terrible performances and how just bad god-awful it has been

00:14I decided now let's get into the meat of this situation and

00:19Discuss why you know why this end up feeling despite the fact that it was on their big studio Netflix

00:26They had some pretty good talent for the most part, you know John Cho was a very good actor

00:33Don't know about the rest of them, but they and they had a pretty size budget right from what I've read it for like million to dollars

00:41um overall for each episode

00:43This wasn't cheap by any means like no, this is definitely not a dragon ball evolution

00:50But needless to say this begs the question

00:54Why did the cover people live-action feel okay, and there's a few things to to look at here

01:02I'll start off with looking at the

01:05The overall theme of the show and how it relates in terms of it being a you know the show being a sci-fi western mix

01:12a little bit of like

01:13Offbeat sort of like comedy in a sense. It's not there's nothing that you would expect any western made

01:20I don't know

01:22Writers and producers, right? That's the one that called B-pop and even by

01:27Japanese anime standards

01:29Kama B-pop was something different, right?

01:32It wasn't like a typical anime even at the time

01:37and

01:38That's one of the things that makes it a very interesting one to pick up for a adaptation and my netflix

01:47You know these guys who were working on it and

01:51Even the ride of the manga itself, you know the actual anime

01:56Why they should have been a bit more

01:58careful in a sense of going taking up this

02:02Now

02:04When you look at the anime, okay

02:07You're already certain that it goes a certain way there are certain flow to it and all that stuff

02:13So when you're going to

02:16Put it into live action with real people

02:18The one thing you have to understand is that

02:22Not everything in the anime translates well into live action

02:25Like in terms of acting you know the whole characters portrayed the emotion all that stuff

02:31That's a given, right? In anime there are certain things that are like played up

02:36You know for a sort of like more comedic effect or a more you know

02:40Melodramatic effect or whatever

02:42Right, that's a given

02:43But the next thing to look at is in terms of the way the anime is directed

02:48Like how the action scenes plays out

02:51And you know when they have like

02:54The combats, you know characters fighting each other and that kind of stuff

02:57That doesn't translate well into live action

03:03It's especially on a

03:07Much

03:08Um, I'll say controlled budget

03:10Um, it's not cheap by any means, right?

03:14You can see the production value when you look at the show

03:17But it's not like big budget here like in a sense of alita battle angel for example

03:22Or ghost in the shell, right?

03:24Those are two examples of live actions

03:26That can capture or recapture that sort of look that feel of the the anime

03:35That they were adapting because they have a big budget to actually you know

03:40Really spend money on resources to

03:45Like recreate all those scenes all those backgrounds those moments

03:50Very fluidly and make it very convincing

03:53This show doesn't it comes off as a parody in a sense

03:57Like if you look at this

04:00And you think okay a parodies you know normally how parodies are

04:03And then there's like parodies that have like say a lot of money thrown at them

04:08Like the back big um parodies that he make on those big music videos

04:14Right

04:15If you think of this like that it makes a lot more sense

04:18Because the way it looks look like it's making fun of the anime and all sorts of stuff

04:22Because if you try to take it seriously it can't take it seriously in the way it looks

04:26Because it feels like it's trying way too hard to copy

04:28The whole scene and these moments of the anime and the show

04:34And it falls flat because the budget the production value

04:39You know the talent on the set

04:43Can't keep up on that level

04:45You know it just feels like entry level guys who get a

04:50Lot of money to make something and decide to make a parody or something

04:54You know that's how it comes off as

04:57And this speaks to a bigger problem that i've seen among the majority of anime live actions

05:03Like when you look at the anime and the manga and all these people who

05:10Are in charge of like you know producing writing directing these live actions when they approach it

05:16They keep approaching it through the lens of trying to make it

05:21As accurate to the show

05:27And in their perspective accuracy means they're copying the backgrounds

05:32Making sure background characters or the looks and all this other stuff match

05:37You know the anime and make sure it resembles the anime so much so that

05:42They are copying and pasting scenes in the background as they're going along

05:46Adapting the show and production

05:49But it all falls flat because

05:52The main characters

05:54That the show is focused on they don't even look like the main characters on the anime

05:58And that's one the big things that these live actions are failing on

06:03You know you try to capture the feel the look the background of the um

06:07You know the manga or the anime

06:09But you can't capture the main character

06:11Because if you can capture the main character like how he looks or his personality and portray that well

06:19Everything else starts to fall into place

06:22And I feel like that so far is the big downside that we've been seeing

06:28That we've seen this happen in like video game movies too

06:32Don't get me wrong right this isn't just specifically anime life actions

06:35This has been happening with video game movies

06:37And for a long time it was happening for comic book movies

06:40Up until the point where they started changing it and actually treating it more as a movie

06:46And focusing on it more as a character driven stories

06:50And then you started seeing 2000s the comic book movies started making a huge turnaround

06:55All right, that's because of the fact that they said treat it more as a movie

07:00Focus more on the writing the characters and informing the background stories around them

07:05And then slowly started seeing that tampered video game movies

07:09You know like the sonic the hedgehog movie which kind of sequel

07:13Slowly the video game movies are coming around

07:16They still have a lot of ways to go though, you know

07:19Especially look at that resident evil one, but that's a whole other discussion itself

07:23But you get the point, right?

07:27That is one thing that these anime life actions have been struggling for for the longest time

07:33And it's very apparent here, you know

07:36When you look at it and the way it plays out, it just doesn't feel like it

07:42Even though they have all the stuff to make it feel like the horrible action

07:50They have the intro down to a T

07:54They copy and paste all the stuff in terms of you know

07:58Trying to be as accurate to it as possible

08:00And it still falls apart, right?

08:03Because when you look at the show and then you look at the characters

08:08And you understand the story

08:10It all falls flat when you just try to copy it and for it's look

08:13Rather than just try to focus and write it around the characters

08:18Which is exactly why the ghost initial anime failed

08:22When you look at that live action

08:24And how they tried so much to you know

08:29Replicate and realistically portray the scenes from the movie

08:34And the anime

08:36You know they tried so much to do that

08:38That they basically end up copying and piercing the anime look

08:42And it just falls flat because the writing

08:47You know the actual lore and stuff, they messed that up

08:50So you have this soulless cardboard cutout replica of the original

08:58Without all the things that actually make it special

09:01And that's one of the things that is a show that really misunderstood in my opinion

09:09When it comes to adapting the source material

09:13Because it's not just like the whole theme of the show, right?

09:16Because like there's plenty of other westerns or dramas or sci-fi shows that

09:22Sort of like themes that you can dwell in, right?

09:24But the characters, their stories, how they're portrayed

09:31You know, that is what carries the show

09:36And this show just, I feel like it then delivered

09:39Not just because of the way they cast and how they look

09:42But the way how they tried so much just to copy-paste certain things

09:48Make scenes flow a certain way

09:50You know, it just feels empty

09:54It's like, like I said, you have a gun and you shoot

09:58And you hear the bang, but you didn't see the bullet

10:02You didn't have no impact, nothing

10:05That's what this is, right?

10:06There's no impact, no flow, nothing

10:09You hear the bang, you see the flash, but there's no impact

10:15And to be honest, I don't even know if

10:19Unlike video games and comic book movies

10:22I don't know if Hollywood's going to be able to

10:25To manage to get around that, like overcome this sort of thing

10:29When it comes to making these live action animes

10:32Unlike most video games and these comic books

10:36Anime is specifically a Japanese thing, right?

10:40The medium is straight or Japan

10:42Most of the anime shows are in a certain way

10:46When it comes to culture and like certain politics

10:51Or like traditions and values

10:55Until Hulk can understand that aspect

10:58Of these enemies, like where they're coming from

11:01You know, the actual people behind them

11:05In terms of how they write out, how they approach this stuff

11:07There isn't going to be any impacts when it comes to these shows

11:13It's going to get more of the same copy-paste

11:16A load of changes here and there

11:18And way swaps and politics swap here and there

11:22You know, typical westernization stuff that falls flat empty

11:26Emotionless

11:28And soulless gas grab adaptations

11:31You're just going to keep coming and going

11:34And from the looks of it, I don't expect anything different

11:37From the one piece live action they have either

11:41Or any of the other future live actions

11:44Until you can get around that problem

11:48You're just going to expect more and more of these

11:50Kawabipop live action tips

11:53More and more disappointments

11:55But anyways, that's just my whole take on this guys

11:58Now let me know what you think in the comment section down below

12:02And what's your thoughts on it?

12:04Do you like it?

12:04Do you hate it?

12:05Do you think that it

12:07Live up to the expectations of the anime

12:09As a live action?

12:11Or do you agree with everyone else

12:13That it was very underwhelming

12:16And pointless

12:17Let me know in the comment section down below

12:19Be sure to check out my other videos

12:20And I guess I'll see you guys

12:21Later

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