Obama, McCain & Clinton go anime
Posted by emperorbananaketchup on October 9, 2008
Surfing through YouTube, I was going to check for updated trailers for Yatterman, the live-action remake of a 70’s anime series about a boy & a girl’s time-traveling adventures. Accompanied by a bunch of pretty wacky-looking time machines (including Yatter-Wan, which looks like the offspring of a shotgun marriage between a dog – “wan” is the onomatopoetic equivalent of a dog’s bark in Japanese – and a fire truck) built by the boy’s time-lost father, they aim to thwart the schemes of an evil (but hot-looking) villainess and her two goofy sidekicks from obtaining a gem of unimaginable value.
From what I hear, that show’s pretty big in a number of European countries – specifically Italy.
The live-action remake is being helmed by Takashi Miike. Best known in the West for his cult shocker Ichi the Killer (yes, I do have a copy of that) and his cameo in 2005’s Hostel, Miike-san has already proven that he can do something a bit more family-friendly with 2004’s Zebraman.
Here’s that trailer I’m talking about:
Anyway, here’s a few clips of the action
“Yes, we can”….”No, you can’t”…see the Engrish phrases fly!!!
OMG…it’s Li’l Obama & Li’l Hillary!!!! Is that her dad in traditional Japanese robes – doesn’t he look like Bill Clinton?
Awwww…ain’t that sweet!!!
Meanwhile, I’ve got a message for those behind the live-action film version of Dragonball Z.
Stop.
Cease.
Fuhgeddaboudit.
If there are not going to be any Super-Saiyans or “KAMEEEHAAAMEEEHAAAAA”s in it, then it shouldn’t be called Dragonball or Dragonball Z for that matter.
Nope, it’s my inner fanboy talking.
Anyway, I’ve got a hunch this early that this will suck just as bad as the Hollywood bastardization of Speed Racer. When it comes to turning anime series to live-action, only Japanese producers and filmmakers can pull it off (though the wretched Devilman film stands as an exception, being an attempt to emulate the eye-candy approach of Hollywood filmmakers in treating comicbook/ animated properties)
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thepoop said
This is hilarious~ where did you find it? like what show is it from??
emperorbananaketchup said
It’s from Yatterman (the 2008 remake) which currently airs in Japan.