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Quick! Off the top of your head, name the best live action anime adaptation produced in Hollywood! If by this point you are not tugging your hair struggling to decide which one is less horrible and thus a “better” movie, then I would love to be you. I seriously would. It seems that no matter what they do or try to do, Hollywood will always either fall miserably short or miss the target entirely, be it video games or anime adaptations, but why?

In my personal opinion, it comes down to the fact that most anime, more often than not, have long drawn out plots that tend to be character centric; Whereas Hollywood movies tend to take the idea of a character and add it to a plot for an easy cash in. When it comes down to these adaptations, they don’t seem to care much for the source material. They probably write it off as “wacky Chinese cartoons” and that’s wrong.

It just doesn’t work

Hollywood can pull off some amazing adaptations from time to time because the people working on them seemed to care. Someone had a lot of love towards the original source of the adaptation, whether it was the general media or production staff. Whatever the case, none of this applies to anime adaptations. The art style and narrative of many an anime seem to be well fitted for a movie, at least in the fans’ minds. Then, everything seems to have been lost in translation once you come out of the theater.

Most OVA’s are either spin-offs, side stories, prequels, sequels or a re-telling of the original story. What they attempt to do is take a long plot where several things come together to string a strong story. This is nigh impossible in a period of two hours. Most anime tend to develop slowly and unravel themselves to us through colorful characters and delicate metaphors. The characters are the essence of the show and not a vehicle to drive a plot forward (in most cases that is).

There’s always a chance, though

As I mentioned earlier, Hollywood sees anime as a quick cash in. Most titles picked for an adaptation are well known and have a core set of followers that will serve to feed the grinder of publicity. A lot of the people that get a hold of the titles are in to grab as much cash as possible before word of mouth beats their movie’s earnings into the ground. Anime in itself is represented as a visual medium through which its creator tries to convey a message or just show us his vision, so it’s perfectly logical that most of the time the many adaptations that come out fail to impress. They are not inspired works that try to be a reinterpretation of the original; they are simply thrown out for the fans and the mass to indulge them with some mindless entertainment.

We can only hope that one day someone will care enough to sit down and work hard to make an anime adaptation into something more than a crappy movie that takes a similar trend to that of the original. Someone who will be inspired, and won’t only make an entirely different set of characters trapped inside a convulsed (and generally awful) plot onto which to plaster a brand name for the sake of money.

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