Why is capeshit easier to adapt than anime or vidya?

Is it b/c comics are closer to literature than the other two mediums?

Anime/Manga is mostly about Japanese culture and their humor and writing fucking sucks because it's so different to us. Same with a lot of Japanese games.

Comics are about America and Americans doing American things.

Because video games are carried primarily on gameplay and movies are usually cash grabs. And anime is cringeworthy shit that only autists like.

Is it true Japanese humor consists mostly on puns and slapstick?

I guy I know who speaks Japanese says they love their puns.

Most of the DBZ cast of characters are literally pun names like Radish and Vegetable - and yeah, a lot of that shows comedy is slapstick.

Hell, even this moment in Akira has a classic slapstick when the kid is punched and spits out blood.

>comics are closer to literature
Jesus christ you dipshit retard how do you manage to breath.
A comic is a visual medium. It is a story board. You can adapt it into film because it's half way there already.
Video games are good because of player agency and gameplay, both things that dont exist in passive forms of entertainment like film. The story is an afterthought.
Anime can be adapted to film, but there are things you can do with animation that you can't do practically, and the things generally considered "quality anime" it uses this ability to do the impossible to its advantage. I mean black swan and inception are both loose adaptations of/inspired by Satoshi Kon movies.

Manga is a story board as well

Can Americans not read right to left?

Sure you can, ichi the killer was a chinese picture book and got turned into a pretty great movie.
I think it is more about a niche interest in the west. Plus the comic code has been a thing in the US for a long time making sure a lot of capeshit is pretty tame. Most people in america dont have a lot of exposure to non super hero related comics either so the two get conflated. Even fewer people know about japanese comic books as anything besides a thing creepy guys in procedural tv shows reads. And since they cont have that code or comic book ghetto, the shit gets pretty edgy and intense, using the medium of the comic to tell the story.

Because comic books were well written in the first place. Well at least some were.

Probably because of how unrealistic anime characters are, and the setting and story they have.

Whenever an anime or manga character is translated into a movie they look like a stupid cosplay, their hair always looks stupid and their costumes are goofy.

If you decided to make them more realistic they don't resemble the character.

Death Note was immune to this and they still fucked it up.

It's this, hollywood's been crippled by writers strikes multiple times and now they're just not using original scripts to avoid that dependence. Comics are pre-written and not entirely garbage.

Look at the Japanese version of it, L looks ridiculous.

>they're just not using original scripts to avoid that dependence.
Oh it shows Hollywood, it shows. Maybe you should try skimping on the marketing budget a tad to give writers the tiniest sliver of the pie. They're not unimportant in the process.

It was alright I guess. I didn't hate it, and honestly it wasn't super hard to take the movie on its own terms, it was pretty slick looking despite the obviously cheap production.
I could autistically sperg out about the retarded dumbed down rules, and how dumb the characters are compared to the manga, but it doesn't really matter since it is its own thing. I really fucking hate the dumbed down rules though.

So how long until this gets adapted?

>closer to literature

Some of those disney comics were way better than they had any right to be.

anime and videogames are way more of a niche cultural thing than comic books. maybe that will change in coming generations as kids have lame ass parents who grew up watching DBZ or whatever and are nostalgic about it into adulthood.

I think we've got a safe bubble from video game movies since the massive flops of the last decade. The anime problem is just fuck japan.

A comic book is basically already a shot list

Good video games are already ripped off of American movies

In their eyes comics have basically done half the work already.

The hardest part of adaptions making sure the general audience understands it completely.
So when you try to adapt something that's originally in a different language, typically has some panels that are impossible to replicate with a camera, and often deals with subject matter that wasn't made to be appealing to most people.
You're forced to changed many things, at the expense of the tiny amount of actual fans of the manga compared to the very large amount of people that have only heard about it once or twice.

I think it's a cultural thing, westerners understand the western cultural tropes of western comic books, but don't know what the fuck is going on with japanese cultural tropes with a magic 9000 year old 5 year old witch who falls in love with a suicidal autistic man and they fight Jesus Christ together

>magic 9000 year old 5 year old witch
We all jerked off to kirsten dunst in interview with the vampire. It's not a strictly cultural thing. A lolita complex is a thing, some cultures repress it, some express it, and most oscillate between the two extremes over time.

Not the loli shit, thats understandable. Everything fucking else about japan is just insanity and lies.

Maybe it has to do with the fact that anime/cartoons and games are already "motion media" and there is no point in adapting them to another form of motion media (film and TV).

Comics are static media, like novels and picture books, so adapting them to motion makes sense.

Games are hard to translate to movies, as gameplay itself isn't something you can just film, it's something you need to experience.

Aren't there interactive movies? Maybe vidya movies where the audience has an effect on the plot can work. It'd be just like playing the game, but on a big-ass screen with dozens of others in the same room.

Even good cinematic games like Max Payne? They clearly could've made a truly great movie from the Max Payne source material, but it's like they decided to fuck it up on purpose.

Comics have always been a bit more grounded in realism in terms of the visuals. So you can make a live action wolverine or iron man without it looking silly.

Anime is much more flashy and unrealistic. You can't make a live action Goku or Gundam without it either diverging greatly from the source material or looking ridiculous.

Television and film are passive experiences. Even the most avant guarde meta kino-of-all-kino doesn't require any more of you than "keeping eyes open" and "don't die for an hour or two" to absorb and enjoy.
A book makes you turn pages, but the story is all laid out.
Vidya is all a out player agency. Any story should just be context for the player to inform them of the world and the decisions they can take.
The story is just an extra.
When you get too story heavy it stops being a game and starts being a "cinematic experience" or "visual novels" neither of which are "games."

Because video games are not "art". They can be artistic to be sure, but games are objective, binary. There is always a winner, there is always a loser. Any vidya adaptation is nothing more than a projection unto familiar characters and settings.

The fun part of games is actually the immersion.

Also a lot of the games with better stories are good stories because they're long and deep. You could make a Deus Ex movie, but you could never nail the storyline or level design that makes the game what it is.

Its like people saying they should just make the Arkham games into movies for Batman. Which wouldn't work either because one of the strengths of Arkham was how they mixed story with gameplay.

Anime is made by Japanese for Japanese, 50 year old Jewish businessmen cannot understand it, and even if they did, they would assume others wouldn't and try to make it into a generic American movie.
Japs do the same stuff, look at Japanese Spider-Man.

Not true. Japanese humor is actually hilarious.

Video games are fun because the gameplay. The story heavy ones are usually just really shitty movies if you remove the gameplay aspect.

Because it's creatively bankrupt

its mostly puns though, words written in two different ways that have multiple meanings. It doesn't translate at all.

>It doesn't translate at all.
It's funny because that's mostly because the borrowed writing from the chinese, despite their languages being llinguistically different.
In chinese the same "sound" represent a minimum of four possible words depending on how the vowels are stressed in monosylabic binary word-chunks.
Japanese and korean are phonetic based and are better expressed with some kind of alphabet.

Well written chinese works for multiple different chinese dialects too right? Got all sorts of fuckery going on.