America has had plenty of experience in taking amazing Japaneseanime and make horrendous adaptation of them . But for every Dragonball : Evolution , Japan has alsoborrowed one of our properties , and deconsecrate it in much the same fashion . Hereare eight American casualty in this cross - pop culture war .
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1 ) Batman : GothamKnight
Released short before TheDark Knight , this six - chapter anime anthology boasted some of the besttalent in Japan , some of the best comics writers in the U.S. , and wasmasterminded by DC animated wunderkind Bruce Timm . So why did it suck so bad?Mostly because so few of the chapter deal now with Batman . Instead , weget stories about Batman from Kid , holler about Batman from copper , and twochapters about Bruce Wayne outside of the Cowl , one a flashback to histraining , and one focus on his contrivance , and none of them are even slightly tie to each other . Only two chapters admit Batman fighting list baddie , and they ’re not intimately enough to save this boring , disjointedmess .
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2 ) Lensman
This 1984 telecasting series ground on E.E “ Doc Smith ’s Lensman scifi serial publication is n’t terrible ifyou like Star Wars . Unfortunately , the Lensman novel are almost nothing like Star Wars , except for being set in distance , and reportedly “ Doc ” was solivid at the wild adaptation that he and his land have turn down to permit anyother Lensman adjustment since . CarlMacek , the guy wire who created Robotech , brought four episodes of the TV show to America as a movie , but had to pull itbecause of licensing outlet ; now you’re able to chase it down online or on an old VHS.Just think of , do not ascertain Lensmanif you have any heart for Lensman .
3 ) Powerpuff Girls Z
The original PowerpuffGirls animated cartoon was simply animated but cleverly drop a line , truly laughable , and massively pro fille power . When Japan adapted the Cartoon connection series in2007 , they ditch all of that , and turn it into the most true - forward , mediocre witching daughter Zanzibar copal they possibly could . The female child were no longersisters or had superpower , at least until they used their charming precious stone totransform into the Powerpuff Girls ( complete with enormously longtransformation chronological sequence ( complete with gem that allow them to changeoutfits ) . These new girls are shallow , the original ’s wide cast of memorablecharacters is pretty wiped out , and the show ’s insurgent humor is replacedwith random weirdness . Honestly , PPGZwould be a great satire of magical girl gum anime series if it plain wasn’ttaking itself so seriously .
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4 ) Highlander : TheSearch for payback
A Highlander moviefrom the hombre who made Vampire Hunter Dsounds like a formula for success , yet somehow it was n’t . Somehow The Search for Vengeance was a soullessretread of both the original Highlandermovie , as yet another ancient Scotsman hunted down an malevolent immortal cocksucker whokilled his family , and Vampire Hunter D , as the protagonist wanders silently through the post - apocalyptic barren , notsaying anything and getting into menses fight scenes . Even that sounds kind ofall right , but then you watch it , and it ’s exonerated this is a soulless Johnny Cash - inwithout an troy ounce of creativity .
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5 ) Witchblade
You ’d think that an adaptation of the Image comic , about acop change by reversal underdressed superheroine thanks to a wizardly weapon , would be easilyadapted to anime — just keep the boobs and activity , and you ’re done . The Witchblade gum anime certainly kept theboobs and activeness , because the show is 50 % laughably voluptuous ladies fightingeach other . But the other half is about main role Masane judge to raiseand care for her precocious 6 - class - sure-enough nipper . prove to pair fight scenes withthis down - to - earth human play sounds like a promising melodic theme , but it ’s entirelyderailed by the primary character ’s giant boobs , and the show ’s desire to providefan service . It ’s pretty tough to worry about the predicament of this small familywhen the kid is literally careening off her female parent ’s tremendous breasts .
6 ) Dracula : Sovereignof the bedamn
This 1980 straight - to - VHS movie is based on Marvel ’s Tomb of Dracula horror comic , where“based ” in this grammatical case means “ tries to swot in years of comic storyline into a90 - minute movie create an uncomprehensible hatful . ” It begin with Draculastealing a virtuous ritual killing from Satan , having a tyke with her , getting chasedby Van Helsing ’s girl , an sure-enough man and a random warlike creative person , whoaccidentally kills his babe , but then God resurrects it as an grownup who can shootlaser beams from his eyes , and .. hoo boy . Suffice it to say , the movie endswith Dracula eating a hamburger in a New York diner . Obviously .
7 ) Starship Troopers : Invasion
In 1988 , Japan actually made a six - episode OVA series thatwas faithful to the classic Robert Heinlein novel . In 2012 , Japan made thisdirect - to - videodisk movie based on the existence create with Paul Verhoeven ’s 1997 moviesatire . Except that this CG anime motion-picture show is basically one long videogame fightscene with no tale to tell , no excitement , and no originality . Basically , ifyou love the novel or the original movie , you ’ll both equally regain nothing toenjoy in Invasion .
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- Wolverine
None of the four Marvel anime series made by Studio Madhouse will go down inhistory as great superhero entertainment , although their X - Men show may come closest . The series that does n’t add up close tomediocre in Wolverine , where theymanaged to take the Marvel superhero well suit to hang out in Japan and starin an anime series and somehow manage to fuck it up . For dispatcher , Wolverineis a slender , naïve hero with a grey mullet ; despite his muttonchops and nipper , he’snothing like the Wolverine we make love ( or the one that appeared in the X - Menanime , weirdly ) . But the plot , while taken from the comic , is renderedpaper - thin and riddled with repetitive , uninventive fight scenes .
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