>>6021840>>the existence of a shit adaptation invalidates and erases the original thing!!Nobody said that.
And I'd rather have a somewhat empty room than a room full of dog poop.
>How many have they even made so far for you to come to that conclusion?Hollywood can't properly adapt any nerd license 90% of the time. Toyline movies? Typically trash. Video game movies? Almost universally despised beyond the two or three that people like ironically and Wreck It Ralph. Comic book movies are only hit-and-miss at best because Marvel went out of their way to set a precedent for quality.
Want examples of Japanese properties being butchered? Guyver. Godzilla. Dragonball, like you said. The new GitS doesn't sound too hot either. And then there's all the murrican anime movies that didn't make it out of development hell, like the Keanu Reeves Cowboy Bebop, or the Macro-, I mean, "Robotech" movie starring Tobey Maguire.
And why do you even want these properties to be "westernized"? Even if they try to be faithful, it could easily wind up looking ridiculous like Speed Racer or Goku's orange whatever-you-call-it. Otherwise? Names will be changed. Characters will be changed. Appearances will be changed. Basic, fundamental elements of the world will be changed because YOLO Fuck It I'm Rich felt like it. What do you have left? Trace elements and a property name? What do you gain from that? Toys? Nope, probably only shelfwarming movie merch, if that. New fiction? Nope, just fiction for this new thing before it burns out. Public recognition? I don't give a fuck if Jose at the deli knows what a Gundam is, and neither should you. Maybe you think you'll be more accepted in society if that weird thing you watch becomes commercialized for a few months? Well, Bazinga to you too.
