Actually, this is pretty great news! It’s a huge opportunity for portfolio expansion; Instead of borrowed assets and designs, they’ll need to coordinate and create entirely new content, which will in itself be tremendously refreshing as the various creative minds involved discuss and build. It will become its own…

It’s a bigger challenge when you have that language gap, though, between directors and actors. It would be monstrously more difficult and frustrating to all parties involved to work over that gap when a film or game is already mountains of stress.

The problem I hope they don’t make for it is the tendency to try…

I usually feel like it’s a mistake to adapt any anime or manga into live-action. The biggest problem with this sort of thing is that the exaggeration and personality that goes into animated work (both in speech patterns and behavior) simply does not translate into actual, physical human body language and speech—but…