cheststrongwell
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Anyone have any recommendations for manga similar to Monster?
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Holy SHIT. Guillermo Del Toro is collaborating with HBO on MONSTER manga adaptation
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monocle_wearing_hyrax
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Maybe now the anime will finally be released on dvd or blu ray.
maquiladora
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HBO + amazing manga + Del Toro + Steven Thompson?
Holy fucking shit! Amazing.
Holy fucking shit! Amazing.
Lumpy Onion
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I could see this being amazing. It's an enjoyable plot that I could totally see transferring into real actors. As long as the casting is good I would be so down. lol just remembered Lunge. Loved that thing he did with his hand.
CornBurrito
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Right. It's just a weird sentence then. My point is that, at least in my opinion, the source medium doesn't matter as much as the author suggests. Saying that this is "certainly a departure for HBO" seems appropriate to describe the ultimate product, not the source medium.
Kinda worked for Valkyrie, no?
SCULLIBUNDO
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I don't think they would do it in America. They have no problem shooting GoT in Ireland. Besides, it's such an intimate story, that they wouldn't require the same kind of large-scale casts crews and effects as some of their other shows. They could shoot in Germany.
Check out the rest of Urasawa's work. Like Pluto.
CornBurrito
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Eh. It is to be expected.
Hopefully will still be great. Maybe they could make the ending better.
MW by Tezuka.
I expect it to be kinda bad. Del Toro isn't a subtle man, and HBO isn't a subtle network. The best parts of Monster are the more subtle parts of the storyline where a lot of implied or suggested by what the characters don't know and don't directly see, which creates an ongoing tension for the series. The more dramatic parts of the series are arguably the weakest. The writer is not a terrible piece of shit at least, but I don't for a moment trust Del Toro to set a good tone for this series. The less hands on he is and the less he has to do with the direction of the show, the better. 
MW by Tezuka Osamu. Monster was actually heavily inspired by it.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure how this fits on HBO anyways. Monster doesn't have any sex or violence in it.
It's HBO not a network. I don't see why they wouldn't keep an asian guy as Tenma. The most I can see them doing is something like having him be half asian/german which could be used as a reason he came to Germany.
Hellsing321
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Either. The Anime is pretty much a perfect adaptation of the manga. Or as close as one could conceivably get.
shadyspace
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I remember the ending being a kind of cool, stand-off in a little town sort of setup that I really liked unless you guys have a problem with the final panel of
Johan escaping the hospital
CornBurrito
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The anime is kind of really long. So many episodes each 24 minutes long. Read the manga quickly.
Deified Data
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Beyond words. This is amazing.
vas_a_morir
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Eh, they do the same thing in Japan and Korea with American/UK adaptations.
I, for one, will be indignant about the lack of Germans in the film! Indignant, I tell you!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Being Asian isn't really relevant to the story, but being a recognizable foreigner sort of is.
Napalm_Frank
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Is the anime any good?
Dragoon En Regalia
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Interesting. I haven't read Monster yet, but MW was bleak even for late-period Tezuka. I'd like to see someone adapt that, if not Monster.
Actually, there is a movie version of MW, though it's very recent and, most likely, a waste of the original story
Spring-Loaded
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That's a good point
It's almost identical to the manga. They're pretty okay
Lumpy Onion
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Watching it was quite a ride. I remember seeing like five episodes a day. It was LOST level of "gotta see what happens next". Enjoyable plot and memorable characters. I say it's quite good.
Deified Data
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Wonder if the series will still take place in Germany. It was such an important aspect of the anime/manga.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
Yes.
SCULLIBUNDO
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But the anime has this wonderful, nihilistic, melancholic mood about it. Fuck it's been a long time since I watched Monster.
petethepanda
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Holy hell, awesome news.
It's a shot by shot adaptation of the manga with music and voice acting. Really boring imo. It's like watching those shot by shot film remakes with a new cast and more budget. Definitely prefer the manga many times over.
Very interesting. I could see this being cool if it ever gets off the ground. HBO drama development hasn't let much through recently. I think the only thing picked up to series over the last year and a half is True Detective. At least the pilot for The Missionary is supposed to shoot soon.
cheststrongwell
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I'll check that out.
CornBurrito
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One thing I disliked about Monster was all the bullshit psychology though. But I guess it was crucial for the story.
I never said it wasn't, but if it's between casting an Asian actor or reworking the story a bit, I fully expect HBO to do the latter. Even if HBO wanted to keep the main character Japanese or Asian, there's not really a dramatic Asian actor that's recognizable to a Western audience, and that's due to Hollywood's refusal to represent Asian actors in meaningful non-martial arts roles. Knowing how the industry works, I just don't see them keeping the adaptation faithful in that regard.
And it's not like the industry is worried about fucking with the logic of the source material. For example, Neil Gaiman refused to have his novel Anansi Boys adapted because the entity in question wanted to have the black main characters cast as white, which literally fucks with the underlying logic of the novel.
cheststrongwell
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False!
Wut.
Yes, I dont normally like anime but I really liked this.
Discotheque
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What happened to American Gods?
neil gaiman is still working on the script.
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