Mieruko-chan - Ch. 65.6 - "Mieruko-Chan"-Movie Report Manga

[SUPER7X]

Thanks for the translation. Is the manga on hiatus right now?

No. Next chapter is planned to drop on August 15, my birthday!

 

[GruntZone360]

I will tell you this

The movie shares the same title, several characters with the same names, and the same ... uh... themes
I mean, if we go by MAL's tags: Comedy, Horror

and... that's pretty much it...

For manga you should use Mangaupdate . com and not MAL. MAL is more for anime. They don't have the same data base.

 

[undeed]

For manga you should use Mangaupdate . com and not MAL. MAL is more for anime. They don't have the same data base.

no

 

[velatic]

hana actress is gorgeous

 

[Arexty]

Honestly when I think about how many mangas which never get picked up for serialization or axed before the second volume, how few of those remaining get an anime, and even fewer a live-action it's mighty impressive how far Izumi-sensei's manga that started out a web version on SNS has come. Couldn't have been more deserved.

 

[Shinigamisama]

Now I want to watch it.
Also:

 

[megaguil]

This was adorable. Thanks for translating it!

It’s so silly how a director and producer team will just phone a mangaka or ln author and say, “we want to make a movie out of this.” And boom 4 years later it’s starting production lmao. Seems he was almost entirely uninvolved with the planning and script writing, but I hope it turns out well.

 

[Yahya200]

Hey i don't know if this manga will get the live action

 

[AerinSoronume]

Ohh a VAIO laptop, didn't knew those still exists, I'll look them up

 

[WatermelonPlease]

Author! Dont worry, i will look for you in the movie!! Thank you the hard work!!!

 

[Shtoops]

I wonder why having long black hair is important haha

For real though, I liked some of the casting, but I hate when they feel the need to include an original character that most likely will be Miko's love interest. I would be surprised if I was wrong on that and even better if he was actually some sort of ghost, an actual good twist, but from what I watched those live action adaptations, original characters are always bad and I feel bad for the original authors agreeing with that sort of thing, because it could give the wrong impression for potential new readers that Miko might have a love interest, which isn't the point of the manga.

Miko might have a love interest, which isn't the point of the manga.

Michiru is a main character and has spent like 30 chapters lusting after Miko

 

[Carn109]

Long black hair enjoyer

 

[parkourse]

congrats to izumi-sensei!

 

[VesperPie]

It's been a while so I don't remember if it's either addressed in the work, but I was thinking reading Act-Age, that an actress like Yonagi, the embodiment of Method acting and the Stanislavski etho, getting really popular would be just what Japan needs to put an end to this mainstream cringy overacting.

It's often not an issue when I watch indie Japanese movies, it's truly ingrained though in those big productions, like one for a manga adaptation for instance. Where young and upcoming actors are brought in and need to follow the standards of the industry to keep getting promising work. Hell, sometimes they're chosen because their pretty face sells even if they can't even act for shit, not even this overacted standard.

It's really not there where they and directors are free to make art, they're encouraged to make profit as safely as possible, so it sucks when the status-quo is terrible.

I'm always puzzled that despite knowing how popular anime got throughout the world, Japan only cares to cater to their domestic market, so as long as Japanese will keep making them bank, they'll have no reason to raise the level.

But from our POV as fans, it feels like we're doomed to never enjoy those live adaptations because they're always made the equivalent of the CW and its recipe (hot actresses and actors, acting ability optional, singing appreciated in case of a musical episode per season, writers need to be cringy theater kids, need to be available for 9 seasons or 5 sequels, or ready for an early axe!).

I remember when I was a kid and used to watch Mask Rider Black and other tokosatsu tv shows, the main characters will barely talk and just be broody while noticing things as part of their investigations. It was the villains with the wide smiles, the villainous laughs and cheesy dialogue. This type of cringey acting I don't mind because how how else would an actor show their villainy without laughing maniacally.
But do that with a supposedly cool protagonist in a manga/anime adaptation suddenly express their shock by stopping dead in his/her tracks with wide open mouth just standing in the middle of the frame for a whole 20 seconds. With multiple camera angles to boot. Yeah! Nope! Its like the directors are just filling dead screentime in place of acting because they completely gave up actually directing the actors.

Japan is really regressing when it comes to live-action because their domestic fans just won't let them improve and corporate are too cowardice to take risk. This is the same with their idol industry too. Too captivated to doing the same thing over and over again. On the other hand I'm sure they are seeing the ever increasing soft-power of South Korea in global entertainment. And instead of learning from it they either keep to their stale mindset or they follow the downward spiral hollywood trends.


I actually really liked watching CW shows some 15 years ago. And won't miss even one episode. Nowadays I don't even watch new shows. I can't stand any of them after duds like Wheel of Time where I've been wishing for an adaptation half my life.

Now I just stick to anime thank you very much! Or watch youtube videos where someone builds a greenhouse to breed goldfish or fix scooters in their home garage.

 

[fight2live]

wow, okay. so Izumi-sensei got the idea for this manga from his wife. if that's not relationship goals then i don't know what is

 

[Meijin]

So they're Okinawans then. If you spot a less pale dude compared to the other extras then that's probably our guy.

 

[Picks]

Ugh.
Added a character for the movie.

 

[sleazytrax]

I'm glad that the author had fun at the shoot.

 

[voliol]

A real interesting read, thank you for the translation!

 

[VINT64]

I'm glad this work is this popular. But I won't watch adaptation, of course