Doesn't look that good actually. The dude seems a bit too emoish for this. Plus they look really young despite Darling and his wife being older than their 20's.
It may express what is it like to be a Gaijin when you first arrive in Japan but not after you have been here for a while.
The series goes pretty far into their life in Japan. I always saw it as more of a way to share some amusing cultural differences she encounters in her life with Tony, as well as stories of his eccentricities.
I'm not expecting much from the movie, but I am looking forward to Debito's spiteful review.
Yeah, actually, I think the manga does a really good job of showing what a cross-cultural relationship in Japan can be like. I related quite a bit to some of the things in the book. It's not so much about what it's like to be a gaijin in Japan, but rather what it's like to be in a cross-cultural relationship with a Japanese woman.
As long as it stays reasonably faithful to the original, the movie will be a good bit of PR for foreigners in Japan. It will show we're human, just like everyone else (which basically every Japanese I know already realizes, and I don't bother worrying about what complete strangers think of me. I'm not that insecure.) I think Oguri Saori did a very good job of doing that in her books.
Or at least, a far better job than if she had spent her time writing angry tirades to fast-food chains in bad Japanese.
I'm pretty incredibly skeptical. I don't think it'll translate at all...the manga allows for absurd caricatures of the characters to enhance the humor. I'm worried that they'll try to make Tony "bigger" on screen by just making him a more stereotypical odd foreign person in his mannerisms and stuff. And the books are about humorously exploring sources of misunderstanding or "oddity" - not just putting a magnifying glass on the novelty of marrying a weirdo. I dunno. I have trouble imagining the girl as seething like she is in so many panels of the manga...kinda sad that they went this route with it, honestly.
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It may express what is it like to be a Gaijin when you first arrive in Japan but not after you have been here for a while.
The series goes pretty far into their life in Japan. I always saw it as more of a way to share some amusing cultural differences she encounters in her life with Tony, as well as stories of his eccentricities.
I'm not expecting much from the movie, but I am looking forward to Debito's spiteful review.
Or at least, a far better job than if she had spent her time writing angry tirades to fast-food chains in bad Japanese.