Dragonball: In Live Action?!

Apparently the rumors where true. Dragonball is going live action.

Okay I’ve seen the first Death Note movie in Live Action and it was pretty good. I wouldn’t have cared if the live action movie sucked or not. But I grew up watching Dragonball Z (I didn’t watch Dragonball until I was 13). I remember how I would run home after school just to catch it on Toonami (and Sailor Moon). This show stole my childhood. I could have been playing outside getting some exercise or studying for my future. Instead I was inside watching Goku go head to head against Freeza. Watching Gohan training to be a Super Saiyan. I even felt sympathy for Android #18 when she was absorb by Cell and how Kuririn was in love with her. So you can understand how attached I am to this anime right? If anyone was to ask me what I can remember the most from my childhood is television. Every show I watched, every fad I was into (pogs, pokemon, digimon, gameboy color, fresh prince, spice girls, hell even Britney Spears was my idol) I was into it. Dragonball Z was just a good portion of it.

Just so we’re clear the movie isn’t based on Dragonball Z but on Dragonball the first anime. DBZ is the sequel and Dragonball GT is the third series (but I think it sucked).Now that we got that covered let’s move on to the actors.So it worries me that Justin Chatwin (Weeds, War of the Worlds, The Invisible) is playing Goku and James Marsters (Smallville, P.S. I love You) is playing Piccolo. Emmy Rossum(Phantom of the Opera) will be playing Bulma, but I’m not so worried about her. I think she would look cute with blue hair and hopefully nail Bulma’s personality. Jamie Chung will play Chi-Chi Goku’s future wife and future mother of Gohan and Goten. I can’t really form an opinion of her acting skills since i have never seen her act in any of her guest appearances on television shows (Veronica Mars, Days of our Lives, CSI:NY) but she is from the Real World. I never watched the Real World (I don’t enjoy reality shows) but she must be good if she’s landing acting jobs (even if they are small roles).

It’s not that I have a problem with Chatwin and Marsters playing the two main characters in the movie it’s just well…I was expecting the movie to be in Japanese and played by Asian actors. I only assumed since it was an anime that Japanese studios would handle making the movie and the U.S. would be lucky to have it subbed and released on DVD. Well I was wrong and in August (if they don’t change the date) when I watch the movie I’ll give a full review.

I’ll let you form your own opinion on these actors and the outcome of this movie.In the mean time I’m going to take a nap, just knowing that Dragonball is being made into live action is giving me a headache.

Enjoy this fan made video. And just pretend you know Japanese.

Peace

Josie

P.S. Links: Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Dragonball movie wiki, Dragonball movie IMDB

 

Pokemon is Hentai and Pikachu is related to Winnie the Pooh

Well according to this it is. Enjoy.

xoxo

Josie

 

The Big O Returns!!

In case you didn’t know I’m an anime junkie. Oh yes my life revolves around anime to the point where I don’t leave my house Saturday nights just so I can watch both runs of Adultswim’s action block. Well with the new lineup (and hopefully it will last!)

11PM – Bleach [New Episodes begin March 1st]
11.5PM – Death Note
12AM – FullMetal Alchemist
12.5AM – Blood+ [Ends March 22nd]

1AM – Samurai Champloo
1.5AM – Big O
—-REpeat
5AM – InuYasha
5.5AM – Astro Boy

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Of course I’m very excited to see this great show return to the airwaves and am surprised by [as] new lineup. Here’s a summary from Wikipedia.

Forty years prior to the events of the series, disaster struck.^[2] The world was turned into a vast desert wasteland and the survivors were left without memories. The story takes place in Paradigm City, a corporate police state run by the Paradigm Corporation.^[3] The town is recognized for its geodesic domes, a giant structure that houses the richer citizens and segregates the poor to living outside the domes.

The Big O deals with the nature of memories. A memory is a record stored in the brain of an organism, but in Paradigm City memories can mean so much more.^[4] “Memories” (メモリー, Memorī^?) embody the lost knowledge of its residents, and can take the form of records from before the Event,^[5] forgotten artifacts from the previous era or manifest themselves as recollection, hallucinations and recurring dreams.^[6]

The first half of the series is episodic. Each Act revolves around different citizens of Paradigm dealing with the resurgence of lost Memories and how they manage to go on living without knowledge of what did or did not happen. The final episodes introduce elements that come into play during season two like the existence of people outside of Paradigm City, the nature of the Cataclysm that destroyed the world and the “Power of God wielded by the hand of man.”

The second season takes an arc-based approach. Instead of self-contained stories like in season one, season two features a continuous storyline. This season makes Alex Rosewater, CEO of the Paradigm Corporation, a direct antagonist to The Negotiator and introduces The Union, agents of a foreign power working within Paradigm.

The animation is fantastic also. Lita Ford gives this a big “Tail up”. Don’t miss out on it. Also just for the purpose of nostalgia here’s the original Adultswim promos.