Yu Yu Hakusho Live Action Netflix Series (December 2023)

[Warmmedown]

Not to be confused with the 2020 live action film, which people seem to be sharing the poster of thinking it's for the Netflix series.

This is the actor

The series is being helmed by Kazutaka Sakamoto, the same executive producer behind Alice in Borderland, The Naked Director, Ride or Die, Aggretsuko, Rilkkuma and Karou, Devil Man Crybaby, and more.

Alice in Borderland was very well done, so I have hope. Plus that outfit is cool asf. Japan has cool male school uniforms.

 

[Symbiote]

Christ in hell.

 

[Papasmurf]

These fighting fantasy shows with huge energy beams don't translate to the big screen well. Bleach live action was actually somewhat well done considering the fantasy elements and the fact that the source material sucks ass 1/5 of the way through, but even that flopped because of incompetent marketing. Unless this has an Avengers tier budget it won't be anything like watching the anime.

 

[Symbiote]

I’m gonna have to sit down and watch all the abominations Netflix did just to see how bad they are.

 

[Papasmurf]

You should start with the worst and work your way up. DN American live action is a start.

 

[Warmmedown]

Bebop was apparently not awful, it stayed in the top 10 for a while. Alice in Borderland was good. Kenshin 1 was pretty mundane and disjointed (worse than Amazing Spiderman 2 levels), FMA was cheap and kinda weeby. Bleach wasn't too bad, nothing amazing but entertaining enough, stylish enough, fine pacing...definitely feels like just a typical teen action movie though.

 

[Papasmurf]

Yeah Bleach Live Action was probably better than the actual series, only problem was it was in theaters around the same time as some serious competition and a lot of people had distaste for anything that Kubo was involved with to begin with. With how it flopped in theaters I doubt we'll see a sequel unless it goes straight to Netflix and suffers from a lowered budget. Kenshin live action 1 was OK, it condensed too many mini-arcs into a single 1.8 hour feature film but Kenshin, Kaoru, Jin'e etc. were amazingly well done and somehow didn't just look like cosplays like the Death Note live action from the 2000s did, the sequels are all great other than the Trust & Betrayal one which falls flat when the animated OVA version is better in every way other than not being produced in HD/UHD. I only watched a bit of FMA but the western setting being filled with bleached blond Asian guys and gals was kind of immersion breaking and they needed a far better actress for Lust.

I still haven't subjected myself to DB Evolution or Last Airbender. Better that way, since other than making me more lenient toward pretty much every movie ever other than Ouija and Batman vs. Superman etc. I can't see a bright side

@Warmmedown Should I watch Bebop? I only watched like 3 episodes before I lost interest when I moved out of America