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I'm just wondering, which would be better: live-action or CGI for the film Pluto?

It'll be the best if they kept to the anime, but of course that won't happen.

Honestly, I'd like cgi so it could be a sequel to 2009 film. But I think it would good in live action since that's what the manga comic style was based on. It's like The Walking Dead comic they got actors that looked like the characters, that's something i'd like to see for Pluto, actors that look like Atom, Tenma and all the others. Pluto would have to be cgi though.

I agree with Androids101 in someway, would be nice for a film be in anime. Hand drawn films are dyings v.v

CGI or Anime, I think would be best. Not a lot of people are really impressed by live-action CGI combo effects anymore. (At least not me) I haven't finished reading the pluto manga yet, but I'm liking it so far and I think if it was made into an anime movie, that would be really cool. As long as they don't change too much of it, it should be alright. Overall it would be safe to keep it animated.

I'd rather it be a CGI film, almost like a spiritual successor to the Astro Boy film. I just don't think live-action would work

I think it could succeed or fail in ANY of the mediums, but live action/cgi (like Avatar) - if done at the highest level of quality - would bring in people who are attracted to that type of film (and it WOULD be spectacular, based on the story), and I think it would deliver the emotional impact of the story to the general public better than anime or manga-style, and here's why I feel that way:

Reading Pluto as a manga is something you can take at your own pace. I stopped throughout the whole series to study the drawings and expressions on the characters. My mind kind of filled in the "sound effects" and color. I don't believe a "moving manga" would have the same impact as a beautiful recreation of Urasawa's vision in cgi. And to have real people play the major roles would make the whole saga become "realer."

It's NOT a light-hearted tale, and just putting serious characters in cartoon form "lightens them" too much. Astro as "Atom" -- looking like a real little boy with extraordinary powers draws an entirely different kind of response from the viewer.

I can look at the 1960's Astro Boy and "see" him as realistic and somber as Urasawa's Atom, but most people won't. So to deliver the "punch" I think it really needs to be as "real" as possible. Time to "un-cute" Astro for those that only see his spikes and big brown eyes.

yeahhhh! take me seriously!!

But think about it, Avatar was being developed for about 10 years and that's why it was so good. So unless they've been working on Pluto for a long time, it might not turn out very good, but I do agree with you, April, it's time to un-cute Astro and make him more real.

Edit: It actually took 15 years to make the movie Avatar

"karl0s" wrote:I'd rather it be a CGI film, almost like a spiritual successor to the Astro Boy film. I just don't think live-action would work

I would like to politely disagree as the Pluto film was based on the manga, NOT the Astro Boy film. I don't think that making it the sequel would work, besides, this isn't even the same company that made that film. And the originally it was manga so it makes more sense to make it anime. However, since Americans companies don't make Anime (or for some other reason like laziness) or something we can only hope that they won't decide to make the same stuff-ups.

It probably is laziness, but if it was anime, then it probably wouldn't end up in theaters. When is the last time there's been an anime movie in theaters, because I can't recall any.

"Astro Boy8629" wrote:But think about it, Avatar was being developed for about 10 years and that's why it was so good. So unless they've been working on Pluto for a long time, it might not turn out very good, but I do agree with you, April, it's time to un-cute Astro and make him more real.

Edit: It actually took 15 years to make the movie Avatar

YOW! I'm 15 years old!!!! I'm not actually into the Avatar movie that much. It does look interesting though.