SAO getting live action American TV adaptation

[Zontar]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-08-02/sword-art-online-gets-live-action-american-tv-series/.104938

Spoiler: My initial reaction

So it seems SAO has somehow managed to get enough popularity to warrant a live action television adaptation in the US. I'd say I'm not surprised, but I sort of am. While SAO was big in 2012, being that year's big anime of the year that consumed the community, it wasn't until AoT the next year that things reached critical mass within the community (a community that I'm still shocked is large enough for that to even happen). SAO isn't a particularly interesting story when one get's right down to it, everything that makes it work not only has been done better, but this year alone has 2 series that have done just that at both extremes (Konosuba and Re:Zero, both of which deserve an adaptation more based both on quality and potential for a good series).

The only good thing about this is that there's basically no way the show will be a faithful adaptation of the series, meaning that unlike the anime there's an actual chance of it being good.

 

[FalloutJack]

Personal opinions of the anime aside, I can't think of any live-action adaptations of an anime that has ever been any good.

 

[Saelune]

Personal opinions of the anime aside, I can't think of any live-action adaptations of an anime hat has ever been any good.

Let alone one about a video game.

 

[FalloutJack]

Personal opinions of the anime aside, I can't think of any live-action adaptations of an anime hat has ever been any good.

Let alone one about a video game.

Well, no, that's wrong. This subject is borrowed from one that did fairly well in its franchise.

 

[Saelune]

Personal opinions of the anime aside, I can't think of any live-action adaptations of an anime hat has ever been any good.

Let alone one about a video game.

Well, no, that's wrong. This subject is borrowed from one that did fairly well in its franchise.

Well, isn't the setting/plot of SAO being trapped in an MMO? Not like Warcraft which is based on a game, but an anime that is literally set in a video game world.

 

[Erttheking]

You know from what I've seen of Sword Art Online (Which is next to nothing so feel free to correct me) it feels like the climax to season 2 was trying really really hard to be Berserk without any of the teeth. I mean REALLY. A guy known as the Black Swordsman is trapped in an unfriendly world pinned down and forces to watch as the effeminate villian tries to rape his girlfriend? Yeahhhhhhh.

Yet despite this, SAO keeps getting love while Berserk gets a crap anime and constant hiatuses.

There's no justice in the world

 

[FalloutJack]

Personal opinions of the anime aside, I can't think of any live-action adaptations of an anime hat has ever been any good.

Let alone one about a video game.

Well, no, that's wrong. This subject is borrowed from one that did fairly well in its franchise.

Well, isn't the setting/plot of SAO being trapped in an MMO? Not like Warcraft which is based on a game, but an anime that is literally set in a video game world.

The first thing that everybody should be thinking immediately upon watching Sword Art Online or Log Horizon (or even Overlord) is "This reminds me of Dot-Hack.". It's not precisely the same, but the idea behind it is that everything is centered around the world within a video game, and possibly being trapped within it. How well any show after Dot-Hack does after that is a case og milege varying, but there's nothing wrong with the concept. However, live-action adaptations of anime do notoriously poorly.

 

[Zontar]

It's not precisely the same, but the idea behind it is that everything is centered around the world within a video game, and possibly being trapped within it.

And the original SAO short written for a short story competition just happened to be written at the same time as Dot-Hack was airing as well. No connection, no sir.

 

[FalloutJack]

It's not precisely the same, but the idea behind it is that everything is centered around the world within a video game, and possibly being trapped within it.

And the original SAO short written for a short story competition just happened to be written at the same time as Dot-Hack was airing as well. No connection, no sir.

Really? You've gotta show me this. Why'd it take so long to actually do anything with? I was sure it was inspired by Dot-Hack. Too much of a coincidence, you see.

 

[Saelune]

Personal opinions of the anime aside, I can't think of any live-action adaptations of an anime hat has ever been any good.

Let alone one about a video game.

Well, no, that's wrong. This subject is borrowed from one that did fairly well in its franchise.

Well, isn't the setting/plot of SAO being trapped in an MMO? Not like Warcraft which is based on a game, but an anime that is literally set in a video game world.

The first thing that everybody should be thinking immediately upon watching Sword Art Online or Log Horizon (or even Overlord) is "This reminds me of Dot-Hack.". It's not precisely the same, but the idea behind it is that everything is centered around the world within a video game, and possibly being trapped within it. How well any show after Dot-Hack does after that is a case og milege varying, but there's nothing wrong with the concept. However, live-action adaptations of anime do notoriously poorly.

My point was just that live-action doesn't make sense when everything should be polygonal. I'm pretty sure at best with all of SAO's future tech, it would still look very anime.

 

[FalloutJack]

Personal opinions of the anime aside, I can't think of any live-action adaptations of an anime hat has ever been any good.

Let alone one about a video game.

Well, no, that's wrong. This subject is borrowed from one that did fairly well in its franchise.

Well, isn't the setting/plot of SAO being trapped in an MMO? Not like Warcraft which is based on a game, but an anime that is literally set in a video game world.

The first thing that everybody should be thinking immediately upon watching Sword Art Online or Log Horizon (or even Overlord) is "This reminds me of Dot-Hack.". It's not precisely the same, but the idea behind it is that everything is centered around the world within a video game, and possibly being trapped within it. How well any show after Dot-Hack does after that is a case og milege varying, but there's nothing wrong with the concept. However, live-action adaptations of anime do notoriously poorly.

My point was just that live-action doesn't make sense when everything should be polygonal. I'm pretty sure at best with all of SAO's future tech, it would still look very anime.

That's a point that I share. None of this belongs in live-action. Hell, I dunno why anyone wants Attack On Titan live-action when what we REALLY want is the next season.

 

[Zontar]

Really? You've gotta show me this. Why'd it take so long to actually do anything with? I was sure it was inspired by Dot-Hack. Too much of a coincidence, you see.

The author posted it online and then didn't do much for a few years. Then he posted Accel World, which gained enough popularity to become published, and then it got enough popularity that the publishers wanted more, so he went back and redid SAO with the author STILL having never actually played an MMO.

And that is why SAO and Accel World are in the same setting and why it took years for it to get an anime adaptation (that and the fact anime adaptations come at random, some being planned as soon as a story is published, some coming out a literal lifetime later)

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

Why tho?

 

[FalloutJack]

Really? You've gotta show me this. Why'd it take so long to actually do anything with? I was sure it was inspired by Dot-Hack. Too much of a coincidence, you see.

The author posted it online and then didn't do much for a few years. Then he posted Accel World, which gained enough popularity to become published, and then it got enough popularity that the publishers wanted more, so he went back and redid SAO with the author STILL having never actually played an MMO.

And that is why SAO and Accel World are in the same setting and why it took years for it to get an anime adaptation (that and the fact anime adaptations come at random, some being planned as soon as a story is published, some coming out a literal lifetime later)

I would think that unless an author is REALLY GOOD, you don't invent an MMO whole from cloth without a little research. Kinda' surprising.

 

[Zontar]

I would think that unless an author is REALLY GOOD, you don't invent an MMO whole from cloth without a little research. Kinda' surprising.

It's the reason the setting seems so generic, and why in the opening the characters call it a ballsy move for them to make a fantasy MMO without magic when the real statement should be it's moronic since from a gameplay perspective it makes the game unplayable to some and impossibly broken for others.

I mean hell in an MMO the top player is a solo-player. A SOLO PLAYER!

Why tho?

Because money.

 

[FalloutJack]

Solo act

Let's just make the South Park joke about "How can you kill that which has no life?" and be done with it.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

Why tho?

Because money.

But when has shit like this made money?

 

[Zontar]

Solo act

Let's just make the South Park joke about "How can you kill that which has no life?" and be done with it.

True but everyone is trapped in the game equally, so there should be at least one party full of people ahead of him.

Why tho?

Because money.

But when has shit like this made money?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film_series)

 

[FalloutJack]

Snip

Oh, you mean like the one headed by the man responsible?

But I understand. Things work that way.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

There's going to be a SAO American live action adaptation... I...

Spoiler: My Response

Considering how well anime adaptations usually work... Plus that they might white wash the cast and not change names...

Spoiler: My Secondary response to that and the entire idea in general