The students are seventeen in this film, but the age difference (three years older than in the anime) doesn’t play a big factor in the story, and it may have just been an arbitrary choice to depict kids dating at the end of high school rather than middle school. Kaori’s illness is not a long drawn out affair this time, with the audience’s first glimpse of it coming only after she misses the Gala. In this condensed format, Kousei still performs as Kaori’s accompanist for her competition as well as at the Gala event hosted by the music hall, but only joins one competition as a solo pianist as opposed to the three seen in the anime. When Kaori is sidelined by illness later on, Kousei boldly joins a piano competition with the hope that they can play a duet together again. As Kousei realizes his growing feelings for Kaori, he must balance his admiration for her with the belief that she likes his best friend, Watari. Persuaded to become her accompanist after attending her recital, Kousei once again experiences the breakdowns that initially forced him out of competitive piano after his mother’s death. Similar to the anime series, the Your Lie in April film follows former piano prodigy Kousei Arima as he is lured back to the piano by a fun loving, unconventional violinist, Kaori Miyazono. As I will be discussing this film in its capacity as an adaptation, the rest of this post will contain heavy spoilers for the film and and anime series. Discussing where the film took liberties with the source material and examining these differences can help determine how fans of the series may receive the film, and how well it works as a standalone piece. I aim to answer this question by taking a look at Takehiko Shinjō’s Your Lie in April live action adaptation, as this film does somewhat follow the strategy pointed out in Karandi’s article. This begs the question: does deviating from the source, while keeping enough to tell a complete story, make for a good adaptation, or even a good film? I’m mostly inclined to agree, as a film’s run time hardly leaves enough room to develop everything that an anime series does. In a post from 100 Word Anime, Karandi discussed how these films can set themselves apart from their source by not trying too hard to stick to the original material and characters, instead retaining a close focus on key narrative elements. It’s not every day that you get something like the 2017 Death Note, but that’s slightly cheating since it was an American made film to begin with and distributed by an American company. For the topic of this post, we had to actually order a DVD from Japan to watch it.īut perhaps because of the Death Note film, there’s been a lot of discussion lately on what makes a good adaptation, live action or otherwise. A quick look through the list reveals some pull off the adaptation better than others, with most looking like smaller budget works (curiously, just like anime) that may not appeal to a widespread audience, let alone outside of Japan.Įven if these live anime adaptations did manage to appeal to foreign audiences, many are not easily found outside Japan. MyAnimeList actually has a featured article that points out 50 of them with a trailer for each one. With the topic of live action adaptations of anime fresh on everyone’s mind, thanks to the recent release of Death Note on Netflix, it seems a good a time as any to look at another film that retells one of my favorite stories.Īs large a part of pop culture as anime and manga are in Japan, it’s hardly surprising to see many of them adapted into live action film.
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