I forgot Netflix rebooted Ranma 1/2.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@octothorpe Probably depends on who directing it?

[onikaze@mastodon.social]

@octothorpe did not realize it was something they were involved with. Will have to check it out and let you know

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@CStamp despite being created by a woman and scripted by women, there’s a lot that just would NOT fly in 2024, so it’d have to be highly edited/changed around.

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@onikaze It’s… weird. I DO like the manga-inspired abstractions.

I’m just curious how much they’ll remove.

[mdhughes@appdot.net]

@octothorpe I didn't like the art changes, mostly simplification. Turned it off quickly.

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@mdhughes I noticed that. At first, I thought maybe they repurposed the original art badly upscaled and widescreened.

I have all 100+ episodes on my Plex, so, I should just rewatch. They changed the theme song

[mdhughes@appdot.net]

@octothorpe Same with the remake Urusei Yatsura. Loses all the personality of the hand-drawn art.

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@mdhughes oh! Didn’t realise they did that.

[tjw@mastodon.cc]

@octothorpe Watched that with friends some many decades ago and can't imagine the original aged well. But I can imagine a reboot that would have been trans positive. I assume that wasn't what happened.

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@tjw The scripts have been watered down, but the gist is ostensibly the same.