Japanese people don't care that the actress is not Japanese. The original creators don't care that the actress is not Japanese. Does no one else see the terrible irony that the people complaining loudest about Scarlett Johansson being cast in this role are mostly privileged white people?

I'd be curious if these same people complained about Tom Cruise being the lead in Edge of Tomorrow or Justin Chatwin playing Goku in the 2009 Dragonball movie. And I'd be more curious to hear what Asian box office star should have been cast in these roles to attract the audiences these movies needed to recoup their production costs.

Sure, Mr. and Ms. educated liberal-progressive might go to see these movies even if they are cast with relatively unknown Asian actors but would that be enough to justify production of the movie in the first place?

This movie is an ADAPTATION. Adaptations are not supposed to be literal translations of the source material. What would be the point in that? I don't think a lot of people who watched the Lord of the Rings films, for instance, could have stomached being bombarded for minutes at a time with bad poetry by Tom Bombadil.

They made the right decision on this film. In this case, people who know nothing about anime are going to show up for this movie just to watch Johansson kick ass. And if they like it a lot they are going to be interested in learning more about the original source material, in which case they'll obtain a lot more Japanese cultural knowledge than they would if some "Asian-looking" person had been cast in the role in the first place.

Whether this movie will actually be any good or not... it's really impossible to tell from this trailer.

The trick when writing for powerful characters is to focus the on the supporting casts struggles, which is what this show does.

This show is also purely about fighting, even moreso than, say, Dragonball Z. The bonus is the hilarious sense of humor which for itself is almost worth watching.

If you check out the artists original art, this show is about the same as a full-production of Axe-Cop.

HELL yeah! I love this series.

Quality kids programming that's on par with the likes of Thundercats or Dragonball Z.

You know, empowering/inspiring shit.

dragonball is great! and so is Z. GT is pure vomit.

reminds me of dragonball z

Dragonball almost made me not post it.

Torchlight yes. Diablo, yes. Old Republic & Guild Wars, maybe. Skyrim, yes. Duke, maybe. Dues Ex, maybe (the cinematic is almost enough). H of MM 6. we'll see. Diablo is my highest.

>> ^EMPIRE:

Yeah right... Top 5 most anticipated games of 2011 if you only care about RPG's.
There's such a lack of obvious games it's mind boggling. Where's Portal 2 (i know it already came out, but it came out in 2011), where's LA NOIRE, where's Skyrim, where's Rage, where's Mass Effect 3, where's Duke Nukem Forever (i know... but it still counts), etc...


1. Upcoming games, so no Portal 2.
2. Mass Effect 3 is slated for 2012.
3. Rage and Duke Nukem Forever don't look all that fun to me, but I hope they prove me wrong. Also, Duke Nukem Forever could potentially slip into 2021.
4. Skyrim and L.A. Noire... I totally agree with you on.
5. I have very low expectations for Star Wars: The Old Republic. I wanted it to kick ass, but everything I've seen tells me it ain't gonna happen.
6. Dragonball Z Online??? How the fuck did that get on here?
7. Torchlight was fine, but how anyone could consider a sequel among the top 5 on this list is beyond me.
8. Any finally... NO FUCKING DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION?!? Madness!

[EDIT] Ohhhh this isn't put out by Game Trailers, it's some doofus' personal list. Fuck that. Here's mine.

1. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
2. L.A. Noire
3. Guild Wars 2
4. Skyrim (reluctantly... looks awesome but the Elder Scrolls series has been a gigantic disappointment for me up to this point, aside from being beautiful environment simulators)
5. This one is tough... but I'm going to give it to Heroes of Might & Magic VI

the only japanese anything in this video is dragonball online. all others are pretty much western-style rpgs, except the characters' faces in Guild Wars 2.

I think that judging Cartoon Network on its Adult Swim block isn't really fair. I believe that the most creative work airs then, even if I dislike much of it.

The tendency to simply show cartoons all day and hope that it's good enough is what I find disappointing. Groovies were aired during the normal day when I first saw them, and they really broke up the regularly scheduled toons. I saw Rolling because I was channel surfing and heard a song that I really liked. For the next few months I'd stop at Cartoon Network for a few minutes, hoping I'd see more like it. It was a fresh way to show cartoons, and I wish they would do more of that instead of showing Dragonball and Star Wars cartoons back to back.

Dragonball?! Not sure that really fits into the Elder Scrolls universe.

THE CLIPS:
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Babylon A.D.
Knowing
Sherlock Holmes
Death Race
The Uninvited
Max Payne
Fast & Furious
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Midnight Meat Train
Quarantine
2012
Ninja Assassin
Twilight Saga: New Moon
Whiteout
The Final Destination
Daybreakers
Race to Witch Mounta More..in
Moon
Inglourious Basterds
The Box
Obsessed
Friday the 13th
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Watchmen
Dragonball
The Spirit
Carriers
Bangkok Dangerous
District 9
Surrogates
The Book of Eli
Mirrors
The Happening
Wanted
(some Russian title)
Sorority Row
Fighting
The Road
Angels & Demons
Jennifer's Body
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Pineapple Express
The Last House on the Left
The Haunting in Connecticut
Shutter Island

THE MUSIC:

AudioMachine - Akkadian Empire
Groove Addicts - Zero Hour
Audio Network - Mars
AudioMachine - Lachrimae (VadoskiN DNB mix)
Wild Rumpus Music - Blame It on the Falling Sky 2.0
John Murphy - The Last House On The Left SCORE

oh..i totally agree.
thats why i made the reference of maybe where robo-tech got its inspiration.
then i saw ghost in the shell...BOOM..mind blown.
star blazers was the show that got me to appreciate a japanese way of story telling.
though sometimes its TOO much,my boys had me watching DBZ,not bad..i liked it,but jeez..sometimes they would just drag a plot to death where i am yelling at the tv C"MOOOOOON.

haha, I can not stand Dragonball.. well I mean, it's not horrid in and of itself, it's just not for me. I was contracting for this one company once and this young couple where talking to each other. The guy was going on about getting his girl into Dragonball, trying to sell her on it and I could tell she wasn't looking forward to the experience. "How many episodes are there?", she asked at one point and I just remember thinking, "You have NOOO idea.". He had the complete collection >.<
And I do remember reading once loooong time ago that Star Wars was one of the biggest influence for the original Macros saga, namely the dog fighting space battles. Could very well be that Starblazers was too with it's continues story arc. I kinda get the impression though there where lots of other such anime's at the time that we never saw. Robotech is three independent cartoons from the same studio brought together and rewritten for the Robotech storyline after all.

I'm not a big anime head, I just try and catch the good ones. Right now I'm looking into Gantz, and Cowboy Beebop easily ranks as my favorite.

I watched just enough Dragonball Z back in the day to know that a movie trailer with no Vegeta is a herald of unmitigated disaster ahead

rofl =D

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Did you just steal Kotakus headline for this?
http://kotaku.com/5106241/dragonball-movie-trailer-is-a-new-kind-of-stupid