Why Live-Action Naruto is Destined To Fail
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- With the great success of the One Piece live-action series, the question is: Could a Naruto live-action show work? There would be many challenges for this hypothetical Naruto live-action. Making things look good such as the outfits and world. Using good cgi for jutsus. And cast the proper actors for the roles.
We will be talking about how to adapt Naruto into live-action. Let's use the One Piece live-action series as a comparison to how they could create a live-action Naruto using the same formula.
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Would you watch a Naruto Live-Action series?
Yes.
Dpense who make it
It depends
No.
No, the animation is part of the charm
An Naruto adaptation westernizing the series for the western audience is literally what Boruto is
Cowboy lookin Boruto
Boruto is peak
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@@LeDaddyJamesThe3rdit’s true 😂
@@kevinlezo1046 peak trash
How to adapt Naruto into live action: Don’t
One Word: Plot Holessss! Oh s-it, that's 2 words
Naruto's hair being yellow instead of blonde like Tsunade, Ino and Bee is a problem. Lee's massive circular gollum eyes are a problem. Everybody excluding the Kumogakure residents being vaguely Japanese/East Asian but also kinda White so they're all vaguely somewhere on the whasian scale with facial structures falling somewhere in one category(Shikamaru, all of the Uchiha, Guy, Gaara, Tenten, Hinata)/the other (Minato, Kakashi, Deidara, Nagato)/or both (Minato, Kakashi, Deidara, Nagato, Naruto, Sakura, Temari), sometimes changing between scenes is gonna be hard to translate to live action; plus the Kumogakure ninja being either black, blasian, or blwhasian, it's just gonna be really weird to get each of the characters to look right.
Naruto SFX wise would just be too expensive. Almost everything the ninja's do is a special effect.
@@rascoehunter3608 Not to mention either having an insane makeup budget to give everybody their unique hair & eye colors, or spending all the extra time to do it in CG. Just having them on screen chilling & eating ramen is already expensive asf lmao. And I haven't even gotten to the dojutsu yet.
@@MarioTheLiopleurodon
It’s rather simple?
Get Asians to play most of the hidden leaf and other villages like the hidden cloud can have black and white people 🤷
Step 1:
Removed Kaguya entirely
It would be interesting if they altered the ending closer to what Kishimoto may originally wanted,with either Obito or Madara as the Final villain and actually seeing Naruto become the Hokage and his marriage instead of that Boruto pilot that was the last manga chapter.
@ShatteredGlass916 Agreed or if you want to have her, set her up better and not within the final arc with a horrendous exposition dump.
@@justinarzola4584this right here I want Madara to be the final boss
no
@@Avarn388 honestly, Kaguya fits better as Boruto's final boss.
If Naruto ended with Madara as it's highest ceiling, then we can comfortably get introduced with Outsutsuki as the new villains in Boruto. Maybe have Kaguya pissed that somehow a human tapped into the power of Jyuubi/ Ten Tails despite it supposedly sealed and tucked away safely
Something that also helped one piece, is that the directors, producers and actors read one piece and where actually fans of it.
True. Especially the actors
People, that doesn't matter one bit.
People should understand that the only reason the series got to where it is, is because of Oda..
Oda didn't give the rights to his series away, he has complete control over everything...
The series happens as he see fit. The directors can't even put one fart in the cut without asking Oda for permission. That's why the series was great and had success.
Remember, the series should've launched 2 months earlier than it did, but Oda didn't like some things and probably reshoots and edits happened..
They gave a100m budget initially, so they were expecting about 12.5 mill per episode..They reached almost 18 mil per episode...
I am not saying that the director or the cast is trying to push this show into politics and signaling, but someone from above...and with Oda in charge these things can't happen.
My point is, if you want the show to have success, do what Oda did.. Have complete control over it..Don't let them change the material as they see fit..
@@Stefan0v1 The directors, producers and especially the actors reading one piece and being fans of it, is definitely one of the major reasons of its success. It doesn't lie all on Oda, a huge majority yes, but not all of it.
@@Stefan0v1Sometimes that is not the case, Sometimes what a author wants to show on the show/Movie would not translate well to live action
@@intextor763No , he actors were not fans..Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji were not fans.. Only Nami's actress was..
The directors were too, but what's to say they didn't like Cowboy Beebop?XD
It's the same studio..and that failed hard due to politics.
I hope they allow kishimoto change and improve and fix the story allow him to aid the arc like he wanted
Especially the last arc. Lol
@@scorpionor9865 thats not his fault just like kubo kishimoto had to rush his ending because of shinsuei just as kubo had to rush bleach for the same reason. Still, the only difference is that kubo can now change his ending while kishimoto has to stick with the desision he made. Now he is doing boruto so hes most likely never changing or doing anything with naruto so i hope they change some things with the show.
Kishimoto wont do shit..just like how he aint do shit with how shit boruto are
@@izayiahwilson-f4k Not really, he watsed too much screen time on Uchiha, there are many unnecessary events were setup but didn't pay off. He changed the direction of the story to become too complicated without contributing or reinforcing the world building that was already very well established in the first half.
@@scorpionor9865he original wanted to have more arc before the chunin exam but they didn't allow him to do that and they told him to end at chapter 700 and he wanted to end because he was tired it's one of the issues In the weekly manga he even missed his father ferinal his dad passed during the war arc and got married in 2003 but never got to his honeymoon until he was finished with Naruto in 2015 and got injured as well
If they made a live action I’m curious to see how the Jutsu’s would look especially things like shadow clones
Shadow Clones would be hard to do because human skin is still hard to animate in CGI.
@@younes5813Most action movies are Taijutsu. It is the Ninjutsu that will look goofy. I'm surprised that you think Naruto would look goofy even though One Piece didn't. One Piece is much more goofy than Naruto.
@@rascoehunter3608You don't need CGI for that. There are so many ways of placing multiple versions of the same actor in the same scene. That's how you have movies where one actor plays twins, and both appear at the same time on camera.
@@younes5813Eh, I've seen some fanmade live action naruto fights that didn't look too bad. The fights are possible considering a lot of it is martial arts. I can also forgive bad cgi too if they get the characters and story right; but tbh I don't have much faith there. Personally I think the biggest problems would be if they'd be able to get the casting right, and how they adapt the story plot.
@@younes5813 how would taijutsu look corny? Have you never seen a well choreographed fight in a movie before?
in naruto live action they could be 15 or even 17 yo, it really doesnt matter much. also this way, a hashirama flashback showing actual 12 yo killing each other would really hit hard.
There were a lot of changes to the One Piece live action you totally missed.
1) Garp/Koby plot was added with Oda's resistance for Western audiences since tv is usually done with 2 or more concurrent plots
2) A lot of scenes were moved indoors to have better quality and to use less resources.
3) It wasn't just minor characters that were cut. The order of events were changed to meet the truncated format.
4) The show was a labor of love with easter eggs everywhere. Some things that were hard to execute were cut, but where possible they did a nod to them. Even things like Ussop's nose and Sanji's eyebrows.
5) The characters were changed while retaining the heart of the characters. Luffy was a little less dumb and meat hungry and Sanji wasnt a perv. They toned down the right things to make it work.
6) While the live action didn't hit all of the emotional points of the anime it hit many of them, and most fans agree some moments may have hit harder than the original anime.
7) The live action captured a sense of adventure. The fantasy elements were well thought out in the world building they did for the live action, which differed a bit from the anime. Like in the anime deaths were msotly for flashbacks and crew walks an inconclusive line if they ever killed.
8) The action scense didn't take priority over the storytelling and the characters were not 1-dimensional. Even though Mihawk had only brief scenes and half was action, he was able to command attention. I'd love if he even got his own spinoff. His characterization was just amazing and memorable, Buggy too.
Thisss! People need to read this!
Yes, you are correct! Everyone in the op la production loved one piece, that's why It worked!
Garp and koby have extra new scenes yea i completely totally missed that
The OP adaption was cringe, and kinda rushed and stuff like Zeff eating his own foot makes no sense (I know its in the manga, but the anime adaption did it better). The soundtrack was god awful and gives a cheap "Pirates of the caribbean" knockoff and sometimes during the scenes its like the marines assumes its the "Straw Hat Pirates" when they never gave a name or showed off their sail flag (they only had a bootleg one but it was never put on the Going Merry) until the very end of the season. Also silly stuff like Zoro bending his Wado Ichimonji when he rolled due to cheap material they used on set.. people saying the OP adaption was good have smoked something, because its nothing different compared to past live action stuff and the only exception is due to high budget and decent actors that carried the whole show.
@@WieldMyWord anime only see the manga in the manga zedf eats his foot
The biggest issue with a Naruto adaptation is that they would definitely want to age-up the characters -- yes, yes, there are examples of successful media with child actors like Harry Potter and Stranger Things but none of them have their premise be children participating in bloody conflicts as essentially soldiers like with Naruto. Which is what Genin are, despite how the manga tries to frame using pre-teens as natural and acceptable. It would not realistically go over well in live action, especially in the West.
So, yeah, the producers would want to age them up to whatever age they deem violence as permissible.
I believe 12-16 episodes per season which could help develop the most important characters AND not be rushed or slowed down like in the anime. Also, more writers could help Kishimoto fix Sakura and other female characters, plot holes like the power scaling of the Hokage, and the plot twist of Black Zetsu introducing Kaguya. But that would depend on who these other writers are.
One Word: Plot Holessss! Oh s-it, that's 2 words so my comment has a Plot Hole
I wouldn't put much hope into the live action adaption fixing these issues to begin with. Netflix already had lots of controversy with how they handled Cowboy Bebop with it's choices and people who like Naruto would just want it to be adapted accurately. It's not that it can't be done, but expecting this adaption to "fix" things such as plot holes in a long running anime series from the 2000s, is really challenging. Especially with the people who write this stuff not understanding a thing about Naruto.
@@narendrakadam3894 That wouldn't work. I think more episodes like 12-16 is better for more important moments while still keeping a good pace based on the manga.
Not enough money
@@ShonenKing that studio that made the cowboy bebop are the one who made the One Piece lol...
Naruto isn’t more popular than dbz
And db evolution is fkin failed and worst, so what's your point?
The stage play Song of the Akatsuki had pretty good costuming which was a good balance between looking like the original designs while also looking like real clothes someone would wear. The bane of all live action anime designs will always be the hair which almost always looks so bad.
Since you brought up the hair, there would probably half to be significant changes to the styling to make the hair styles more achievable because well…if they try to recreate them 1 for 1 then characters like Kakashi, Sasuke, Naruto etc will look like they’re in a visual kei band.
I actually think costuming will be difficult too for the Akatsuki…it seems like every costume I’ve seen has failed to recreate the silhouette of the Akatsuki cloaks while also making them look lightweight.
@@hobbyhorse5848 fr the main problem is the naruto hair and also narutos whiskers like that is what i like about naruto as a anime I like how kishimoto makes his charatcers look foreign looking but at the same time he makes them pull it off, but as a live action its i don't know but besides team 7 everyone hair should be easy.
@@izayiahwilson-f4k I don’t necessarily think hair would even be impossible…but you either have to commit to a specific creative aesthetic or just not. The hair and clothing styles of Naruto characters ESPECIALLY part 1 draw heavily from early to late 2000s Japanese fashion and styles which itself was influential in the west as well … OPLA shows us that if you commit to a distinct aesthetic vision people will just accept it at face value. imo I would actually want a Japanese cast speaking Japanese with Hollywood production value for a LA Naruto.
@@hobbyhorse5848 For Sasuke's hair in live action, a good reference is Noctis from Final Fantasy 15; he literally just looks like a rip-off of Sasuke.
As for Naruto, I'm more concerned about the color of his hair - since it's distinctly bright yellow, not blonde like Tsunade & Ino. The yellow might not look that good in live action, but would making him just a normal blonde hurt Naruto's appearance? Minato is the *yellow* flash, not the blonde flash so I really don't know.
@@hobbyhorse5848 i never said it would be impossible i said it would be hard plus lets be honest the way naruto looks hes just better off staying as a anime character cause it would look so weird to see his whiskers in live action espicially since all i see how they would do his whiskers is by drawing them on.
Why do people always forget about Rurouni Kenshin? That live action adaptation was stellar.
It was. They somehow made the fight scenes seem realistic while also being anime-like ridiculous
My first fav live action adaptation
I don’t think those ones were Hollywood or Netflix though. They weren’t for the western market, I don’t think. Weren’t they Japanese? I know they’re on Netflix now, but I don’t think they were always.
I like Kenshin a lot. The difference between Kenshin and other superpower anime is any characters from Kenshin don't any special goofy looking superpower and most of them are just Samurai. Kenshin movies are same with the classic samurai movies. It is like comparing with Martial Art movies and Supernatural movies.
Ruronin kenshin is not power fantasy it is set in real world so it is easier to adapt
"Naruto is the Most popular Anime of all time. One Piece sold much more, ist going since 1998, gets its second Netflix Adaptation and the author is one of the ten best selling authors of all time but trust me, some people do the Naruto Run"
Laughing my ass off
Naruto anime is more popular than one piece you must taking about the manga
One Piece anime is mid
Following the original story is the key to all adaptions and keep it simple. Other most important factor is finding a cast of new actors who love the source material. Lastly I be afraid that Sakura would be a girl boss.
if its kishimoto, she might be able to rewrite her properly this time. Maybe she'll end up being like nobara or sarada. I hope she gets some background fights cuz she's pretty much useless till the timeskip
NOBARA?! Ya'll just saying anything. Nobara sucks and has been missing for 70% of the manga. Nobara is the definition of "muh girlboss" screw that@@multifandomdg1357
Naruto is not the most popular anime in the world tho , its dragon ball or pokemon
or One Piece it really depends on what its based on
Eh it depends. Here in my country Naruto is so popular it made it's way to CNN News (No joke) and EVERYONE here knows who Naruto is, like even the boomers. I think there's like an actual world map showing which anime is most popular, Naruto and DB are actually more recognizable compared to One Piece in most countries. People know Rasengan/Kamekameha, or a leaf headband/Goku hair but I bet not all will know about Gomu Gomu no bajrang gun lol.
Pokemon is no doubt the most popular and recognizable tho
i think they'd have to age the characters to like 15, otherwise they'll lose the grimyness of the series. The anime could get away with it but idk if a life action could
Stranger things style could work. Young looking actors playing vaguely tweenish-teenage kids around 12-14 (actors ~15), then in shippuden they're vaguely older-teenish like 18 (when the actors are 18 or older). It could work.
I'm just concerned with Naruto's hair; Tsunade, Ino and Bee are blonde, but Naruto's hair is different - it's bright yellow. I don't think that would translate well to live action, but I also don't know how well making him just a normal blonde would go.
Yeah. If they pick actors who look young for their age they could even cast 18-19 year olds and pretend they're younger.
Naruto will not succeed like one piece because the story is weaker and relies on the animation style and action to tell the story. One piece live action fights are not that great it just told the story and got the casting right so people wanted to see what happened and cried at the back stories. Early Naruto has some great moments but not sure if they will translate well
In case some people are already starting to complain that Naruto "should be japanese" which I've also heard lots of people say about the Live Action One Piece cast. I don't remember where, and it has been many years since I read it, but I'm sure I remember it being in an interview, or something. But basically Kishimoto stated that the characters in Naruto aren't neccesarily Japanese, and if he was to pick a place they would be from IRL then Sasuke would be Japanese, but Naruto would be Nordic, due to his blonde hair and blue eyes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, cuz admittably, is has been many years. But I'm sure I saw that somewhere.
Kishimoto actually drew photorealistic drawings of Naruto and Sasuke during one of the cover pages for one of the last 10 or so chapters in Shippuden and he depicted them both as having Japanese facial features, but Naruto still having his hair. So Naruto and Sasuke would be Japanese. The only characters that are racially different are the black cloud villagers and the darker skinned people from the waterfall village like Fu and Kakuzu
The Uchiha, Shikamaru, and a couple other characters are definitely Japanese and have East Asian features. Naruto seems to have an Asian face but blue eyes and yellow hair. The problem with a live action version is that Naruto isn't blonde.
We've seen plenty of blondes in the anime & manga: Ino, Tsunade, the Kumogakure residents, etc. Naruto and Minato have distinctly *yellow* hair, and idk if it would translate well to live action. They could just make him blonde or something, but idk how that would go over - but the same applies if they just kept the yellow hair.
it would make sense if nordic culture actually exist in naruto world but its not, everything are related to japanese culture and folklore. Everybody living and follow japanese rule, art, even food. it’s not the same with One Piece at all where every culture in our world actually references, even taco exist in One Piece. Kishimoto should show it in his manga than just talk in interview.
@@hobbyhorse5848kishimoto literally said Naruto and Sakura are white but okay.
Many people love using the kishimoto Q and A to justify the whitewashing of naruto, the thing is Naruto doesn’t really look white?
He has a Japanese face he just has yellow hair and blue eyes mainly for aesthetic reasons.
It’s the same case with sailor moon? 🤷
It’s easy to just get a asian kid to play naruto.
Considering how bad Netflix butchered Yuyu Hakusho, Cowboy bebop, Full metal alchemist and death note I don't have much faith on Naruto and the upcoming live action gundam.
How can you even cast a blonde dude like Naruto. He's the poster kid of aryan supremacy which is a no no for wokelywood 😂
Alice in Borderland was a great live action manga they released past 2 years. Would recommend to watch that one too.
THAT WAS A MANGA? I'm starting that shit today. I was hooked on the show the entire way through.
@@kennygadden676 Along with 2 spin off mini-series.
My thought is that if a Naruto live action series was made it could possibly improve upon things narratively, but it could also lose some of its meaning as well. For example I think they could flesh out Sasuke's fall to the dark side more and possibly have Obito involved earlier on. There's also the possibility that the live action series would try something different like having Naruto's generation be around 17-19 and adapt more of Shippuden while still doing certain things from part 1.
Definitely needs more Naruto-Sasuke interaction. We don't get enough in Part 1, so Naruto just seems weirdly desperate in getting Sasuke back during Shippuden. If they were closer, did more small missions together, trained together more, did more Team-7 shenanigans, etc, it would show a much closer bond than we got in the manga & anime. This would make Naruto's relentless pursuit of Sasuke make more sense and carry more weight. They can still be rivals, but with more onscreen history to make Sasuke's dissertion that much more impactful.
Other things like cleaning up retcons, having Obito involved earlier, hinting at the final Big Bads (plus fixing Madara's death if they still add Kaguya) would also be nice.
They could also try to somehow make Sakura a better character
I just hope sakura gets more characterization
And delete kaguya's existence, please
Your opinion on Naruto's popularity is hilariously biased. In Japan One Piece is exponentially more popular among the target demographic. Naruto never topped its sales. And everywhere else Naruto has been long superseded by other titles. And being closest to becoming mainstream? I remember moral panic at the rise of popularity of Pokemon, it was named in the same breath with Dragon Ball and Harry Potter as the corrupter of youth. My 80 yo neighbor plays Pokemon Go on his morning walks. Naruto at large has never entered public consciousness. I know you make a living talking about Naruto and fans are still out there, but it really isn't all that. Naruto can't even really ride on a nostalgia like Dragon Ball, since the Naruto hype happened at the same time as the rise of weaboos, so Naruto has inadvertently become an icon of the cringe era in America's anime history (the behaviour of its fans didn't really help). And the live-action adaptation would just corraborate that cringe status.
I would prefer if Kishimoto was allowed to re-do the entire series in a manga or anime format to fix the giant plotholes, story inconsistency and terrible fight scaling.
Agreed lol
With the announcement of The One Piece. That might be a possibility with all the remakes coming out now.
Give him more time like a monthly manga because most of Naruto issues comes form the weekly manga because kishimoto has time limit to deliver in time and it won't effect his health and some arc like hidan arc was rushed because of the weekly manga and freedom because original he wanted to have more before the chunin exams but the editor forced him to cut down and allowing him to kill some characters like guy because the only reason he is alive because he was pupuler kishimoto is a great writer but he needs more time and freedom writing in the weekly manga is a nightmare
I think Naruto Live action will be quite hard to work for casting especially looking for young looking teens that has some Martial arts skills.
Naruto is not more popular than One Piece worldwide. I know it’s your whole schtick, but come on bro.
It is. I have seen a lot of kids with bands and kunais running around and screaming rasengan and chidori. My friend, who is not an anime guy have watched Naruto, doesn't know any other anime. My mom saw Naruto on TV, the last episodes of Sasuke retrieval ark. I told her there is a part 2 and thats were the story ends, however after she knew how much episodes, she refused and just asked what happened, the main plot points. My co-worker that doesn't watch anime knew about Itachi taking out Sasuke's eye scene and overall conflict but didn't watch much and doesn't know any other anime aside from Flying Phantom Ship.
One Piece is marginal among the majority of people. I'm sure it is popular in anime territory but regular people know about Naruto and never even heard anything about One Piece. Even live action adaptation didn't help. I can assure you that quality adaptation would bring far more people investing their time in Naruto universe than Once Piece one.
@@NameUserOf You're probably American then because I can assure you I've never seen a single kid running around making Naruto references in England
@@BubblesChika I'm from Ukraine. Going by both statistics of our TV channels and my personal observations(both in personal life as well as small anime fests before the war) Naruto and Pokemon are more popular than One Piece and Dragon Ball.
@@NameUserOf I'd say that's just a Ukraine thing. Overall, Naruto will never be as popular in Dragonball. You don't really see athletes make references to Sage Mode like they do to Super Saiyan, the Fusion dance and dragonballs
I'm sorry, but you are factually wrong about Naruto being more popular than One Piece. At one point in time (early to mid 2000's) that was true. But One Piece has since FAR surpassed Naruto in not only sales but also general interest as can be seen by Google analytics. Basically, One Piece starting surpassing Naruto in about 2018, and has only created a bigger and bigger gap between the 2 in terms of popularity! It's not even close and virtually every single metric backs me up on this one. Naruto might be more popular in YOUR social groups (both virtual and real) and the stuff Google recommends to you, but in the general sense, One Piece blows Naruto out of the water these days...
I feel like monster would be perfect for a live action adaptation, I really just want some more monster content so a live action show could be pretty cool
i agree monster is one of my fav mangas an live action remake would be fire
Same
i think the biggest thing is to take inspiration from the same real life things the creator took inspiration from. like the design of the konoha shinobi i feel could look really really damn good in live action. i dont know how they would tackle naruto yet but alvida looked good in one piece, she was intimidating AND goofy. a perfect balance.
It's how Japan looked back during Kishimoto's youth.
@@suh-guy but with lots of small additions, modern amenities in rural japan
Naruto more popular than dragon ball.
Thas funny😂
Cap one piece has been on number one for Shonen jump for over 20 years. How is naruto more popular?
I think naruto is the most popular world wide but barely now. One Piece catching up quickly to it to the point you can't definitely say it's the most popular worldwide.
Bro one piece has been the best selling manga since 2011 or 2012 . It is 2nd all time in comic book sales only behind superman which came out in thw 1930s and has had a lot of different writers over 80 plus years . One piece is 25 years old now and only getting bigger . It only seems like naurto is more world wide . Because it's a easy story to start and it was a lot of people's first anime however during the running of both series naruto never once out sold one piece.
Tbf Naruto has been over for like almost a decade now lol. I believe One Piece is a lot more popular in the East while Naruto is more popular in the west.
@@EggiRoll That's only in the USA. Everytime I see people say that Naruto is more popular, they keep showing Americans doing the Naruto run. Meanwhile, One Piece took over Naruto years ago in France, which is the second highest consumer of manga. And I've seen stuff like African people singing the opening song of One Piece with japanese fans during the 2018 football World Cup, and Olympics athletes doing iconic One Piece poses. Pretty sure all of them were from Western countries that weren't the USA.
Americans need to first understand that they don't represent the West, much less the entire world.
0:45 WHAT?!?! Have you just forgotten about Attack on Titan?!?! Because that anime is LITERALLY the anime that basically, single-handedly made anime mainstream, or at least made it okay to admit you watched/liked anime without people making fun of you anymore! You're living in a small bubble world if you legitimately believe Naruto is not only bigger than One Piece but also that Naruto is what made anime mainstream... like, nothing could be further from the truth my dude...
Aot is not even close to naruto lmao
Naruto isn't more popular than One Piece just look at the numbers alone I don't see Naruto outselling Batman and Spiderman globally 😂. It never ceases to amaze me how when I think you can't get any dumber you manage to one up yourself. Kishimoto has been in charge of Boruto for a while now and it still sucks but you still refuse to accept that
I never said the Naruto manga sold better than one piece, but overall, Naruto is a far more famous ip
He is a very stupid person tbf. Most Naruto fans are in their 30s, so his claim of Dragonball fans being too old doesn't make sense. I don't see anyone unironically making references to Naruto like they do for Dragonball either
In popular consciousness - no, One Piece is not as popular as you think it is. ESPECIALLY outside of Japan or North America. My mom, who has no idea what anime is, recognised Naruto on screen when it was still airing in Europe. One Piece never even aired in my country - Naruto did for almost a decade. You delusional fans really exaggerate the importance of your favourite show sometimes. Speaking worldwide, One Piece is an anime that all anime fans know. Naruto is the anime almost everyone, regardless of their interests, knows. Older generation refers to anime AS A WHOLE as "naruto thing" where I live. Dude, you must be deluded.
@@soyjoyyexactly mfs are delusional 😭💀
Short answer: no. Just how much CGI would be needed for the kaiju fights?
Many people are going find out especially with one piece it's second season when they have a lot more stuff to work with like a literal creature like chopper. The first season is already a budget as being one of the most expensive show ecer
@@milliondoller06 With Chopper, they would need to go practical effects given how important he is. It might look better than some of the hollywood CG has been. The CG in the LA was decent but also brief.
@@milliondoller06i hope they get the rock to play chopper
@@Iamstaringatursearchhistoryi want to hear the rock sing tony tony chopper now
Some cuts that would make sense for the story would be like cutting the number of sound ninja, and then making sasuke fight one of the main 3 sound ninja. I would agree that the whole chi in exams can be cut down, many fights are not necessary for how much time they take. preliminaries one episode, training, the finals, and the crush arc can be the last 3 episodes. The finals can be cut down to Naruto’s and sasuke’s fights, so it wouldn’t even be a full episode to cover, leaving 1.5-2 eps at least for the finale with gaara
Ik budget is a big concern but they *need* at least 12-16 episodes, 45min-1hour each *at a minimum.*
Funny u say Naruto is more popular than one piece.The one piece manga is actually the worlds most sold fictional story and that is without the people who read from the websites on google.Basically it would be impossible for Naruto to ever be more popular than one piece.One piece is still going meaning it is still growing a fan base but we got baruto over here doing nothing
My thinking is, if they are going to do a live action Naruto. Use the episodes outisde of the focus of Naruto to expand the worldbuilding and Konoha 11 BEFORE the Chunin Exams. Perhaps show the other teams or have mission reports be ABOUT the other teams.
That way Season 2 (IF there is a season 2) can begin with the Chunin Exams.
The anime already has so much filler. Are you asking there to be more??
Anyway. Doing that would prevent it from being about Naruto imo. Not only that but it would pad the runtime so hard
@@legoroan9866 I think it doesn't have to follow the story soo closely that it forgets about the characters. It's why I said, we might not need to see them until the Chunin Exams, but at least mention or imply the other Konoha 11 BEFORE the Chunin exams.
That's what I meant.
Isn't Naruto already getting a Live Action movie in the future? I remember seeing Naruto and MHA also being confirmed to get a live adaptation from Netflix.
If I'm not mistaken Naruto LA is being adapted by the same people that did The Witcher Blood Origin. And what we know so far Kishimoto is not involved in this production like the way Oda was with OPLA. So honestly as much I was looking forward to Naruto LA, I'm super scared cuz unlike the team that worked for OPLA Idk if they're gonna hire people that love Naruto for this project. Also the biggest issue is Kishi not being involved in this. Even with Oda's involvement OPLA was barely just a decent adaptation. And Oda had to be super strict about it. If we don't have the author working on these project than it is set for failure and so far it isn't looking too good for Naruto LA.
Let's just hope for the best and wish that a big Naruto fan will work on this project and do the series justice. But seeing what they did to OPLA as a huge One Piece fan, I would recommend yall to set your expectations super low. That way if it does end up sucking. It wouldn't feel too bad.
I ain’t reading allat
I don't know if anything got confirmed but the big 3 had been in talks for live action stuff for as long as I can remember. I think Bleach live action made by Warner Bros was in the talks since what, 2010? By some weird ass Adam Sandler team no less. We ended up getting it on Netflix in 2018.
These things are so full of bureaucracy that they take so long to make and greenlight and it's crazy.
@@LeDaddyJamesThe3rd then dont reply
@@naranciaghirga750 I ain’t reading allat
>The Witcher Cast doing Live Action Naruto
Dear God...We'll get our Monkey's Paw wish for Sakura being not useless but it will be at the Expense of Everything Else...
Lmao the fact One Piece is getting so much hype and Naruto is just producing more Boruto must be breaking Dygo's heart.
Also Alita Battle Angel was a brilliant Anime to live action
Finally every episode of the One Piece live action adapted a whole arc and was about an hour long so there is absolutely no way something like the land of waves arc wouldn't take a single episode, at best the chunnin exams would take 2 episodes but that's stretching it. Most of the chunnin exam's battles would be simplified to a montage and the focus will be on Orochimaru vs Hiruzen/Naruto vs Gaara.
I am willing to bet that if there was a live action Naruto season 1 will cover ALL of Naruto part 1 and will at the very very most will have 10 episodes.
One piece story structure in its arcs is way more different knowing la had to skip a lot of things one where your able to tell self tame arcs without setting up a lot of stuff or characters or world too much in romance dawn just mostly introducing the star hat crew
HOT TAKE, Japan should not be in charge of these live action remakes. They suck at live action. It's horrible. They have no idea how to ground the concepts. Their costume and set design and special effects are atrocious. They just can't do blockbusters well.
The WHOLE POINT of live action adaptations is to ground the characters and universe in real life. If you're not going to do that, don't bother.
It truly defeats the entire purpose when they try to be SO ACCURATE to the source material.
The same humor doesn't work, the same.melodrama doesn't work, you have to make changes.
There's good reason why film makers all around the world come to Hollywood for this kind of stuff.
They should do season 1 -land of waves arc. Season 2- first half of chunin exams- season 3- Chunin conclusion/Konaha crush.
My reasoning is that the land of waves arc would be a great first season to test viewership. The climax is KakashixZabuza and Haku, which isn’t super hard CGI. Chunin exams starts getting more expensive, so save that for season 2 to make sure you are going to get your money back
The issue is that the Land of Waves is way too short to be an entire season. I think One Piece had the right rythme in the adaptation, never too long or too short on each part of the plot, 1st season went to the point when they left the East Blue for the next part of the world. In Naruto, it would mean eps 1-2 LoW, eps 3-4 1st+2nd stage and eliminatory matches, ep 5 training for finals, 6 final matches and beginning of crush, 7 pursuit, a bit of the background fights, beginning of Orochimaru vs Hiruzen, 8 conclusion of the fights and Naruto wins against Gaara, consequences of the Konoha crush (Hiruzen's death ceremony, Naruto's will reinforced or his values shaken, Sasuke acknowledging Naruto when talking to Sakura, bird view of the damage of the crush on Konoha, then the characters walk around town and help the people rebuild) and then a teaser of s2 with Jiraiya taking Naruto out and Kisame and Itachi heading for Konoha with a few lines in an ominous ambient.
The problem with Naruto is, the story just isn't that good. Most people gravitate towards it because of the awesome fights and because its ninjas. The land of waves has a great story, but the chuunin exam is just set up for fight after fight with really no story. That will turn a lot of casual people away from a live action because of the focus on action rather than an engaging story. Fans of Naruto and people who enjoy action will enjoy it, as long as they nail the fight scenes, but it won't have the same wide appeal that One Piece had.
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Naruto's story is way better than one piece, it actually makes sense. like bigmom falling and losing memory? lmao that is 5 years old plot twist, Naruto is for mature audience
@hrayrgrigoryan6679 So of all the different plot points you choose this one to complain about? 🤣🤣🤣 Tell me you haven't watched One Piece without telling me you haven't watched One Piece. If you want to nitpick, Big Mom losing her memory is nothing compared to Kaguya popping out of nowhere to get rid of Madara, who was the big bad that was built up over the course of literally half the series. That's one of the dumbest "plot twists" in fictional history.
@@chuckynocheese3271 I have watched one piece fully. No I can say thousand, all one piece powers are dumb make no sense. Bro you complain about Kaguya look at one piece villains 😂😂 who is good villain buggy bigmom foxy kuro cp9 when turn into a giraffe lmao it's a kids show, even Kaguya has much more depth to it that any one piece villain
@@hrayrgrigoryan6679 the more you talk, the dumber you sound. All you're complaining about is character designs for One Piece villains and trying to use that to justify that they are bad villains. Again, tell me you haven't watched One Piece without telling me you haven't watched One Piece. Or maybe you have seen it but you're too stupid to understand the story. That wouldn't surprise me either based on your dumbass arguments 🤣🤣🤣
Dragon ball is the most popular anime world wide
One piece is more famous worldwide than Naruto, I love Naruto but Naruto matches it a bit 🤏🏾
Holy crap one second there one like and the other there’s 6 likes
Rurouni Kenshin movies are the best anime to live adaptations ive seen yet.
act 1: we get intoduced to team 7, we get sasuke and narutos backstory. we have a few scenes to portray the village and the villagers and how they treat naruto do a bit of world building within the village. we also get the bell test to end act 1.
act 2: we get team 7 mision to escort the bridge builder, we get introduced to the main villian, Zabuza, then we can have them traveling and meet challanges along the way with them thinking kakashi beat zabuza and we get a training sequence to really end act 2.
act 3: the bridge fight.
basically the story could be about team work and learning about the shinobi world forcing naruto to growup out his antic ways and he can learn this from zabuza kakashi and haku and learning how to work as part of a team with sasuke and we need that rivalry to be there from the jump. with a good budget they can pull it off. you cant really do other arcs because the naruto world just gets bigger and bigger so why not start from the beginning
Perfect. And then this way, you can dedicate the entire season to the Chunin Exams. Have the big climax be Naruto vs Gaara then have Sasuke leave. And then the team rolling out to go bring back Sasuke will be your big cliffhanger for the end of S2
@@jager3090 u can’t forget search for tsunade arc but that arc is short so u can do like 2-3 episodes where Naruto is training to do the rasengan while they look for her than we can get the 3 way deadlock as like a mid season finale
Tom Holland isn't right to play Naruto Uzumaki, just compare Naruto with Peter Parker/Spiderman.
"Dragonball fans are getting old." Dude, Naruto started in 99. The anime in 02. The original Naruto demographic is in their 30s now. And DB is more of a part of the zeitgeist than Naruto. No one uses "Sage mode" or "tailed beast" in a sentence. But people will unironically drop the phrase "super saiyan' or "ultra instinct" in regular talk.
I heard neither one being actually used tho in my Country One Piece was more popular than the other 2
@@Kyonari How old are you this instance?
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@@Kyonaristop talking for your whole country dude you dont know everyone 🤣
I'm talking about the majority, not everyone@@prajwal1230
Bro I’m not even kidding my grandma watched one piece live and when she told me I literally dropped dead
Is it weird that i actually liked bleach live action? It wasnt great but the actors were having a blast lol and renjis sword tearing up the town was cool
we dont need live action, we need the anime remastered without fillers and with some scenes improved with the manga ones
imagine shippuden with good arc exploring the other jinchuriki and other villages
No it hasent Naruto has or never has been more popular then One Piece ,One piece is on the Guinness book of world records Naruto Has NOT! U speak opinions but I speak Facts ,naruto is like 600 episodes while One piece is still 1102 going strong for over 25 years! And still hasent changed like dragon ball did to DBZ of Naruto did to shippuden ! NO! One piece is still one piece and Gear 5 luffy form was so legendary it broke the internet! It was as or more greater then Goku going super sayin 1 for the first time ,That’s why they made a live action cuz of the so much skyrocketing popularity , im a naruto fam been watching it since it debuted in 2004-05 in the U.S and have watched shippuden and OG naruto 3x and can honestly say One piece is the greatest Anime of all time the story the animation the world building the foreshadowing the action the drama the suspense! One piece has it all
Go outside touch some grass its not thats serious that you have to write whike paragraph
One piece live action has major changes
Not a single arc was the same as the anime
That was the part of the success it received, it's because it didn't look like cheap Copy of the anime like what happened to cowboy bebop
It did follow the same narrative of the story & kept the same spirit of the story & the characters
But at the end of the day they added , removed & changed some of the events to fit the live action
NOTHING important was changed at all!!! I'm one of the biggest, die-hard fans of One Piece and I can assure you, there's was nothing substantive changed about it! Like there were a few changes to help condense the story, but nothing "MAJOR" as you put it. That's a huge hyperbole!
Nope. Netflix needs to stay away from Naruto.
The Anime I think Hollywood and Netflix could make a good live action:
•Monster
•Goblin Slayer
•Vinland Saga
•Mushoku Tensai
•Btooom!
its any Anime if they actually try doing it good
@@Kyonari I respect your opinion but I have to disagree.
The choreography of a netflix show will unfortunately never be as fluid and iconic as the anime counterpart due to budgets, physical acting limitation and anime taking artistic liberty(sakuga).
Then there's portrayal of emotion. Seeing as Konoha Eleven are what? 12-13yo at the start and one of the most iconic emotional scene in the franchise is the swing scene and the most iconic arcs in the franchise are the Chunin exams and Sasuke retrieval arcs, I don't think it can be done.
Saying Naruto is more mainstream than dragon ball or Pokemon is stupid
I strongly agree. Pikachu is most recognizable character thanks to the anime and you can find many refenrences to Dragonball littered across all media. Even in a hard "hoodlum film" like Blue Story has a DBZ quote *Man was like a saiyan.* Where do you hear someone saying *he went Sage Mode* like they say he went *Super Saiyan* in relation to any athlete or celebrity going beyond in something?
Never happens.
Tom Holland as a Naruto💀 not my Spider-Man, I’m terrified
like he can play a lot of characters sure, but not fucking Naruto
agreed maybe he can be cee from naruto 🤷
Also the problem with Naruto was that he had great characters… but unlike other anime we only learn about Naruto, Sasuke and partially others
It wouldn't matter how good they make the live action production, I still would never watch it. I'll stick with the anime/manga.
Naruto doesn't need a live action adaptation,
It needs a reboot.
Please it's 100% even if it gets old as years goes by anyone that desires to watch it should watch the already made anime.
Guy seriously it's PERFECT please.
@@Lyestan and the plot holes?
@@iErthLouisand the Filler
We need 1 rules for anime maker. Only 1 reboot for 1 series.
Naruto is not the biggest anime of all time… it’s Dragon Ball Z. And again One Piece outsold Superman comics which again is second only to Batman Comics. I’m not sure where you keep getting Naruto was the biggest
Live Action just got announced
Tom Holland doesn't even watch anime...
I can't stop thinking the Live Actor that acts as Luffy looks like a Brazilian and a Mexican at the same time
this man saying naruto is bigger then dragonball and that dragonball fans are getting older? What lol dude doesn't make any sense btw dragon ball is bigger then naruto
I believe they should make each arc into a movie and combine extremely closely relate arcs into movies. Clombine the Prologue and Land of Waves, Chunin Exams and Konoha Crush. However, certain arcs need to be left as their own movies, such as Search for Tsunade and Sasuke Recovery. Hopefully they bring in Kishimoto so we see what is truly canon.
I have to disagree anime is mainstream.
the preliminaries are actually pretty easy to fix with a bit of rearranging.you start with Sasuke's match which would lead into a montage of the less important fights (Shino v Zaku, Sakura v Ino, Choji v Dosu, Tenten v Temari, etc) then when you come back for main fights, I'd have it go something like Naruto v Kiba, then Gaara v Lee and then end the preliminaries on Neji v Hinata as our cliffhanger due to Naruto vowing to beat him.
Fuck that i wanna see zaku vs shino that was one of my favourite fights
@@Cacany99 it's a great fight, I especially want to keep the bit from the manga where Zaku's arm gets blown off, but sacrifices would have to be made for the pacing. I didn't say it in my initial comment, but my favorite character in the show (Kankuro) is on the montage block.
Bro don't tell me you sleeping on yuyu hakusho and the adaptation
kishimoto has always been a movie buff of some sort. He's talked about producers in interviews. He's the one who suggested the producer for the anime i think.
willing to bet they'd mess up the plot. most of the cast n crew would have never watched a single episode in their lives.
I hope they can fix Uchiha massacre better. This event in manga made no sense, even when Kishimoto tried to add Danzo to put all the blame on him.
I think if the live action was focused on part 1, they can leave itachi’s motives vague, since it’s not important to sasuke’s character why the massacre happened, just that it did and his brother was behind it. Like, if supporting his clan drove him to madness for example.
@@Andrewwwwwww sure, If the movie is successful, obviously a sequel will be developed.
The incident of the clan massacre that should have been built by the Uchiha had indeed committed undeniable crimes. Just plotting to rebel then Konoha wanted to massacre them is not reasonable at all, not to mention that the Uchiha also produced many ninjas that brought fear to Konoha's opponents. Kishimoto was too biased towards both the Uchiha and Konoha when he wanted to make that tragedy no one else's fault but Danzo's. He wanted everyone to be good people but because of circumstances, they had to be evil. Such thinking is too naive about life. The weight of the philosophy in the story is significantly reduced because of that approach.
Tom holland. You earned my respect after no way home... You may have taken the role of Nathan Drake from my favorite video game of all time, Uncharted. But nobody, I mean nooobody takes Naruto's place in a LIVE ACTION VERSION EXCEPT FOR Maile Flanagan her self!!! For all you Tom holland fans, I'm not saying that he'd wouldn't fit the part.. It's just I hope that there's a voice actor to dub over his voice to fulfil that character. If not... with all do respect... It'll be the first Naruto Movie I may never wanna watch again. But that's my personal opinion. Sorry If I'd offended anyone, but damn XD!!!
Ps: I hope everyone has a wonderful day :)
Maile should definitely play naruto 😂
18:08 another option is to end season 1 at the end of Land of Waves arc. this would give the story more time to breathe in 8, 50+ minute episodes. we could then get a Chunin Exams/Konoha Crush season. and then a Search for Tsunade/Sasuke Retrieval season. i know this goes against the 95 chapter template set out by One Piece, so one option is to add more scenes from the prequel chapters. or extended canon "filler" scenes, such as Sasuke vs the Demon Brothers for example.
24:12 yeah i mean the child actors thing would be a huge problem. i think going for 14 year olds is a pretty good compromise. they'll (in theory) be a little more convincing in their roles, it's still young enough that it gets the message across of child soldiers but still old enough that it doesn't quite feel like a kids show. it'll still be a problem to find good enough actors at that age. but also, part of the charm of Naruto is that he does act like a kid. he's goofy, reckless, hot headed, highly emotional, etc. so, it might not be as big a problem as we think!
The Optimists: Well because One Piece Live Action Exists that means Live Action Anime is GOOD NOW!
The Historians: An Exception does not Disprove the history of this Genre both IN Japan (JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable Movie, Ouran High School Live Action, Attack on Titan's Japanese Early Live Action Movie attempt) and Stateside (Dragon Ball Evolution, Neflix's Cowboy Bebop, Netflix's Death Note etc...)
The best change they could do to the live action is the romance, because no way would that be accepted by genreal audiences, unless their twlight fans
ill start by saying this man is completely wrong Naruto is not more popular than One Piece worldwide in fact Naruto is only more popular than One Piece in the west One Piece is far more popular than Naruto worldwide its not even close so idk what this guy is smoking thinking the opposite and believe it i can bring up the numbers so dont argue.
One piece is also the most popular manga, but anime is more popular than manga to begin with, so honestly it’s gotta be boruto that prevented Naruto from having these opportunities. Probably the same reason Luffy joined Goku in the thanksgiving day parade and not Naruto. That being said, I did always think Naruto would at least have been the easiest to make into a live action series due to the nature of the show not having the more goofy powers of one piece, but now that one piece has succeeded so much, Naruto should be a snap, but people can certainly mess things up beyond any of our expectations, so we’ll just have to wait and see
one piece anime pacing is terrible
@@AYHAMAHMAD-w8wit certainly is, with Naruto you can at least skip the filler episodes if you want, a lot of one pieces filler is in the episodes themselves
saying naruto is bigger then one piece world wide is crazy! everyone knows one piece is globally the most watched and highest selling anime/manga of all time, the only place naruto has more sales is in the united states... good try tho. as for why naruto is doomed to fail... its only in the big three by name alone... one piece is miles ahead of the other two in the trio, and who is the other trio member which also over all peaks out naruto? Bleach... do i need to bring up that live action? so why would the weakest of the trio be able to hold up to the strongest in the trio if second strongest couldnt?
A darker, grittier live action series I think would be great, it's what the series lost as it aged. I never really thought of it before but if it was well crafted the I think could be pretty good
Naruto is purely Japanese culture so the actor must be asian no matter japan or korean.. I hope there is no tom holland, the rock or any fckin hollywood actor! No more nightmare dragon ball live action 😑
As a convention runner cosplayers do character costumes perfectly with out millions of a budget so costumes aren’t an issue it’s how it’s managed.
None of my kids, who love One Piece, were fans of the live action. The live actions follows the hour and a half movie "East Blue", not the Anime or Manga. It followed the East Blue movie pretty well, but not the Anime. They couldn't even get their costumes right, now hard is it to get Luffy's hat and shirt right? Garp is not even talked about or shown in the Anime till episode 92 and doesn't find Luffy till after Enies Lobby is over in episode 422. Boat loads of the story is wildly out of order (pun intended). It's an OK attempt, but far from what actually happened. It's like having Friza show up in season 1 for DBZ.
Bleach live action movie was pretty good imo.
There's already some awesome (semi)-pro Naruto live action to be found on TH-cam.
DBZ also has some impressive live action made and produced on TH-cam by fans, "Light of Hope" is my favorite fan-made DBZ movie.
@RogueAndroid I liked the Bleach live action but I had some serious problems with it. The general problem was that it tired to tell Subsistute Shimigami arc in one film as opposed to two films. I get why the movie cut out Kon and even with the ending(even if the ending undercuts a lot of the journey) but for me the lack of presence for Ishida, Chad and Inoue was disappointing.
That said, the one thing I will praise about that movie is the cast they picked and the fact we got shots of the Shimigami and Hollows fighting from the human perspective. Tite Kubo has had a lot of influences for Bleach, Saint Seiya being a big one, but for the designs of the Hollows and Subsitute Shimigami, he took a lot from classic J-horror. Something that the manga drifted away from as it became more battle oriented.
So I appreciated the movie leaning into that element a lot more.
Truth is Japan has been doing pretty decent to great live actions of their own stuff for a while because not only they get it, they have easy access to the creators, they also respect the source material. It's western live actions that usually do shit.
Bleach and Yu Yu Hakusho were great despite cramming a season in a less than 3h run time. FMA did fine though the costumes were low budget. Alice in Borderland was fire. Long time ago they had a couple Death Note features that the fandom was crazy about. Even Seinen like 20th Century Boys had a banging movie adaptation. They even did that kind of spin off of Shingeki no Kyojin that even though it wasn't recieved super positively, no one complained about either.
On the western side... Saint Seiya did poorly. Cowboy Bebop did poorly. Death Note did poorly. Dragon Ball did horrendous. Detective Pikachu did fine because the only thing western in it was the casting.
If Netflix Japan gets ahold of Kishimoto and has control over everything other than casting, I'm pretty sure it can be great. Otherwise... meh.
Naruto < one piece 😂 no coprasion i watched both
Naruto is NOT the most popular anime worldwide
Not anymore atleast they stopped 2017 I think but there was a time that Naruto was really popular tho
I'd rather them get a no-name new actor for this role...GIVE NEW ACTORS A CHANCE ffs.
No other live action adaptation of an anime or manga will ever work our for a western studio like One piece did. It only works because they had the creator of the IP who loves and cares for his story enough to look over their shoulder the whole time and make sure they did his story justice. That said I do think that IF someone cared about Naruto like that the first half of the series could translate really well into live action.
Nah the one piece live action was ass but its still better than others but then agains thats like saying a lump of turd is better than explosive diarrhea
I really disagree with the whiskers thing, if the whiskers look odd on live action then I wouldn't mind for them to be removed in the LA, the OPLA did something very similar with Usopp and his long nose which arguably his most iconic character trait, yet despite that the character still felt like Usopp in the LA.
It's destined to flop cause of the cast
Where can i see the cast?
This shit is so fragile to me because you know og Naruto watcher legit the first and only anime I've watched throughout my childhood and can undoubtedly say yes it's my favourite show I've witness while being alive......I don't wannnnnnnnnnt fucckkkkkkkkkiinggg Tom holland to playyyyyyy him he'lllllll ruin one of the greatest thing to ever happen to me
Following the life of child soldiers has a level of separation when its anime and manga, but watching adults beat up 12 year olds will inherently give the live action a much different tone from the original.
you seriously think naruto is the most popular anime in the world sounds kinda biased to me
it would just ruin naruto even more and make it officially midruto 😂
As great as this video is on some topics most of the stuff said in the video is not valid. There are a lot of really good child actors who could definitely act as Naruto characters considering a lot of Naruto’s fan base is younger they would probably be the most qualified for the job, CGI would also never be a problem in any of the scenes you talked about there is a technique that shows from 90’s used which utilizes the amount of space where there recording and put like nine things and the position of the scene makes it seem like a lot more this is most likely what would be done with the shadow clones. A things considered I think this would be a great concept also Dragon Ball is way more popular than Naruto.
Remember, kishimoto already bastardized Naruto and it’s called Boruto.
This is why I think they should stop at Zabuza arc. P.S. I heard they were doing a moive which is why I say jus do Zabuza arc.
Ain’t no way he said Naruto more popular then one piece and no way they said dragon ball rivals Naruto when it’s the opposite lol