One of Inoue's tweets almost blew up the entire manga circle.
"Slam Dunk Master" is going to make a movie!
At first, many fans thought it was a live-action version, and they all formed a set of Xiangbei five-person lineup in their minds.
For the post-80s and post-90s, "Slam Dunk Master" truly represents their hot-blooded youth.
Just mentioning these four words can make people's blood boil.
Some viewers said:
"I wanted to use a comic book to pass my boring youth, but I didn't expect this basketball story to burn out my bloody life." 」
Whether it is emotional or exquisite, it is a fact that even after the completion of "Slam Dunk Master" for many years, it still completed the feat of issuing 100 million copies with its strength.
To commemorate this, Yuhiko Inoue also drew a furry flower path in a full-page newspaper with a pencil.
In the torrent of comics all over the world, the fans of "Slam Dunk Master" truly love this comic, they are firm and passionate, humble and simple, and always dedicate the first "god work" in their hearts to it.
Because the audience is too wide, Inoue's words stir up thousands of waves.
However, in the end, it was confirmed that "Slam Dunk Master" is not a live-action movie, but a brand new animated movie.
The animated film also weighs enough, because although "Slam Dunk Master" ends, it does not have a complete ending, and the whole story ends in a sunny look after The Return of Hanamichi's injury:
Because I'm a genius!
Can the national competition be played in the end? It's like a regret that has been haunting readers and fans.
Is the movie version a way to make up for regrets, or to create other side stories, to fix bugs, or to be a whole new story.
I'm afraid that all this will not be revealed until after the animated film is released.
However, compared to the theatrical version of the cartoon, I believe that most people, the first time they saw Inoue's Twitter, they thought that "Slam Dunk Master" was going to make a live-action movie.
(Netizen cosplay photo)
In fact, live-action manga adaptations have long occupied an important part of the Japanese cultural industry.
To take the simplest example, about 50% of the top 20 domestic movie box office in Japan every year come from the anime industry or manga adaptation.
The fact that manga or anime is made into a live-action version has long had a mature model and industrial chain in Japan.
For the live-action version of well-known comics, domestic audiences may be familiar with it, such as "Gintama";
Attack on Titan;
Fullmetal Alchemist;
There is also "Death Note", "Assassination Classroom", "Empire of One Country"... Wait a minute.
However, when most fans misread the news of "Slam Dunk Master" and thought that they wanted to shoot a live-action version, their attitude at the first time was mostly strongly opposed.
Why? Because there is an unwritten unspoken rule in the Japanese manga live-action adaptation: real people must be destroyed.
The 9.3-point Fullmetal Alchemist, the live-action version only has a pitiful 4.8 points.
The recent final season of "Attack on Titan" is almost full of points, Douban 9.8, but the live-action version is still a pitiful and embarrassing 5.1.
"Gintama" is a little higher, anime 9.6, human version 7.0, but such adaptations are still relatively successful.
We can't help but ask again: Why? You should know that whether it is the Marvel series or the DC series that are popular all over the world, they are also adapted from comics, but they are just American comics.
In fact, a little deeper investigation can answer this question.
First of all, it is the content creation ecology.
Audiences familiar with Japanese comics should know that the biggest difference between Japanese comics and American comics is that the background of most Japanese comics is often set in the alternate world, the background of the story, the ability characteristics of the characters, and the world view of the work are far from the real world.
Japanese manga creators like to use their imagination in this structure to construct a setting and worldview that belongs only to their own stories, far from realistic themes.
For example, Naruto is set in a world where ninjas and ordinary people coexist, and the so-called ninjutsu, illusion, physical arts, and immortals, including Chakra, are Kishimoto's own ideas.
And: Although dragon balls are set on the earth, through the settings of alien "Saiyans" and "Namikars", the universe in the story becomes the background of the story structure, and the characters have extraordinary combat power and destructive power.
American Comics is different. It is not difficult to see from the comic stories of Marvel and DC that most popular American comics are rooted in reality, especially the real society of the Western world.
Gotham City, the sin capital of Batman, and the real American city in Avengers.
In terms of worldview and values, heroes are no different from ordinary people, adhering to the principle of "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", they either through mutation, or through technology, or through money to achieve "superpowers", the ultimate goal is to defend the earth and human beings.
Obviously, at the level of realization of live-action movies, American comics are more suitable than Japanese comics.
Moreover, most of the characters of Japanese comics are bursting with two senses, and humor is mostly presented with exaggerated expressions and body movements, which through the artistic expression of the film, there is a sense of discomfort of form incompatibility, which increases the difficulty of japanese comics.
(Exaggerated expression in Gintama)
Second, there is the issue of industry.
Due to the extremely developed Japanese animation industry, the values conveyed by the works are very different, resulting in a single and niche fan group.
In Japan, the trend of realistic and live-action adaptation of manga is surging because no matter what work is adapted, as long as it is slightly famous, it has a huge fan base support.
In other words: as long as you go up, you can make money.
And because the original work royalties are very low ("Roman Baths" sold 5.8 billion, the original author only got 1 million original work royalties), which greatly reduced the production cost.
Without high copyrights and a large number of fans, film companies are naturally eager to change live-action films.
But the more this is the case, the more low-quality works there are, resulting in the quality of live-action films being uneven, with very few fine products.
Finally, from the audience's point of view, a comic story that makes you love, it is too difficult to achieve in the movie.
Casting is the problem. For loyal fans, the casting of live-action movies is difficult to reconcile.
Take "Slam Dunk Master" for example, the selection of the coach, the acting skills may not be good; the selection of good acting skills, the appearance may not be handsome; the selection of handsome and good acting skills, may not have traffic...
Choose a good role, blindly pursue the restoration may be the same, too innovative and personality fans will scold not that taste, how to retain the film adaptation and innovation on the basis of restoring the role, this degree is almost impossible to grasp.
Therefore, most comic movies will be summarized by various fans with the three words of "destroying the original work".
It is foreseeable that for Japanese comics, there will be more and more live-action in the future, and "Slam Dunk Master" will definitely have the day when it will be adapted by live-action.
Because as long as it is successful on a "commercial" level, no one can stop the pace of live-action adaptations of comics.
The drive created by money and capital is far greater than the bombardment of a handful of fans.
Finally, play a game with you, I have rehearsed the "Slam Dunk Master" if in the domestic live-action version of the two cast list, which one do you prefer?
Table 1: Idol Version
Sakuragi Flower Road: Wu Yifan (Lin Update)
Liu ChuanFeng: Yang Yang
Akagi Tsuyoshi: Wang Continent
Miyagi Yoshida: Lu Han
Mitsui Shou: Huang Zitao
Haruko: Zheng Shuang (Guan Xiaotong)
Table 2: Acting version
Sakuragi Flower Road: Peng Yuyan (Wu Yanzu)
Ryukawa Maple: Hu Ge
Akagi Tsuyoshi: Hu Bing
Miyagi Yoshida: Huang Xuan (Chen Kun)
Mitsui Shou: Lee Hyun
Qingzi: Zhang Zifeng
What do you think? Which one do you choose?
(Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Board: Yang Yang)