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http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/02/08/terra-formars-live-action-movie-in-the-works-takashi-miike-to-direct/

Our friends over at Anime News Network recently previewed a cover of next week’s Young Jump magazine, which will announce the plans for a live-action film based on the hit sci-fi manga Terra Formars.

Although details are scant at the moment the one juicy tidbit is that Takashi Miike, arguably the most prolific director to walk the earth, has signed on.

The Terra Formars manga began in 2011 and follows the aftermath of an attempt by Earth to colonize Mars by sending up algae spreading cockroaches to produce a livable environment for humans. However, the cockroaches end up evolving into killer humanoid creatures which kind of put a cramp on us living there.

After getting wiped out the first time, Earthlings begin to send out teams of fighters enhanced with insect-like powers to exterminate the cockroaches and reclaim Mars for themselves. Much like real-life encounters with cockroaches the battles tend to be violent and messy affairs.

Considering the cockroaches look like this:

How unintentionally racist do you think the movie will be?

 

[Permanently A]

A movie? On what? The manga isn't finished and its not like the plot managed to get anywhere significant.

 

[YesNOnoNOYes]

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/02/08/terra-formars-live-action-movie-in-the-works-takashi-miike-to-direct/
Considering the cockroaches look like this:

How unintentionally racist do you think the movie will be?

uh.... that doesnt look like cockroaches.... wtf

also last pic is kind of hawt

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i kid i kid

 

[CountBlack]

happy black history month brehs

Chimera Ants > Cockroaches

 

[Duress]

happy black history month brehs

Chimera Ants > Cockroaches

...

 

[Currygan]

well, cockroaches are indeed brown/black

 

[Face it Tiger..]

cockroaches? more like amalgamation of them and black men.

are they saying we black folk are like roaches?

 

[Haly]

 

[Maintenance]

This won't end well. Put some ganguro girls as the cockroaches and avoid the conflict.

And yes, I've watched the botched anime.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

happy black history month brehs

Chimera Ants > Cockroaches

well, cockroaches are indeed brown/black

herewego.gif

 

[injurai]

how much sugar do they take in their water?

 

[Gormless Noodle]

I bet that author is pretty damn happy with all the attention this is getting. Just a little over 100 chapters and already an anime plus potentially a movie. It deserves it though, it's fucking insanely epic so far.

 

[Branduil]

This is the kind of story Terraformars is:

Terra Formars OVA

Once upon a time, mankind had a dream. A dream of conquering a dark and inhospitable country, and making it more like our own. But despite all our efforts, one thing stood in our way; repellent giant savages, more like vermin than true man, simply would not stand by and let their betters conquer their pathetic homeland for some unfathomable reason. So you see, we really had no choice but to try and kill them all. It was the moral thing to do; you might even call it the final solution.

#ANIME

 

[zeromcd73]

I bet that author is pretty damn happy with all the attention this is getting. Just a little over 100 chapters and already an anime plus potentially a movie. It deserves it though, it's fucking insanely epic so far.

Twelfth best selling manga of 2014 selling over four million copies. The author and artist are definitely very happy

 

[Gentleman Jack]

How unintentionally racist do you think the movie will be?

Unintentionally racist?

 

[Prototype Viktor]

Terry Crews is about to casted then

 

[Maintenance]

Twelfth best selling manga of 2014 selling over four million copies. The author and artist are definitely very happy

.

 

[Haly]

Unintentionally racist?

Maybe he means on top of all the intentional racism.

 

[RBK]

The pics with them holding guns are killing me.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

needs a brazzers logo

 

[plasmawave]

People who are not familiar with the manga seeing those roaches design for the first time will definitely make them question the design choice.

 

[JBourne]

Takashi Miike being involved instantly makes me interested, but that looks racist as fuck. Hopefully he's given the liberty to move away from the original art style.

 

[JDSN]

People who are not familiar with the manga seeing those roaches design for the first time will definitely make them question the design choice.

I can see why.

 

[Gormless Noodle]

Twelfth best selling manga of 2014 selling over four million copies. The author and artist are definitely very happy

Wow, those are some impressive numbers, hope they keep growing nicely. I didn't know it had a writer and an artist, I guess it's a bit of a Hokuto no Ken deal they got going on there then.

Also, with the racist stuff....you guys serious? It's supposed to be a cross between roach and caveman, the thought never once crossed my mind that they resembled black people. Especially with there ACTUALLY being black people in it that look pretty cool.

 

[Branduil]

There's a German character named Adolf in the series too.

 

[CrazyDogg77]

That picture with the guns killed me

 

[Char Aznable]

Another one of those japanese live action movies? Meh..it's gonna suck

 

[plasmawave]

Wow, those are some impressive numbers, hope they keep growing nicely. I didn't know it had a writer and an artist, I guess it's a bit of a Hokuto no Ken deal they got going on there then.

Also, with the racist stuff....you guys serious? It's supposed to be a cross between roach and caveman, the thought never once crossed my mind that they resembled black people. Especially with there ACTUALLY being black people in it that look pretty cool.

I know, but good luck telling that to people who don't know a thing about the manga lol.

 

[Big One]

Even though their skin are black, the cockroaches in Terraformers are far from racist. The face doesn't even look like a black person's face for one, it looks like a caveman's face aka the neanderthal archetype.

There's black people in the actual manga that look like normal people like everyone else in the manga.

 

[Toxi]

I never realized a story about humanoid cockroaches could be so unappealing.

Also, with the racist stuff....you guys serious? It's supposed to be a cross between roach and caveman, the thought never once crossed my mind that they resembled black people. Especially with there ACTUALLY being black people in it that look pretty cool.

They don't look much like cockroaches at all.

 

[Maintenance]

There's a German character named Adolf in the series too.

HUGE SPOILER AHEAD:

Spoiler

And he kills himself with a girl named Eva. What a coincidence....

 

[Chairmanchuck]

I really dont get why. Between Attack on Titan and this it seems Japan likes Gory manga? There are so many good manga to adapt but they choose this?

I remember they adapted MW by Tezuka a few years ago. That was butchered and almost a totally different story.

 

[zeromcd73]

I really enjoyed the manga despite only getting through 20 chapters or so. Need to pick it up again soon.

 

[Angelus Errare]

I never realized a story about humanoid cockroaches could be so unappealing.

They don't look much like cockroaches at all.

Or caveman.

Cavemen didn't have brush cuts either.

 

[UltraGunner]

There's a German character named Adolf in the series too.

With the other german character called Eva

Honestly even if we divorce the depiction of the roaches, this will still pretty much be Manifest Destiny: The Manga.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Also, with the racist stuff....you guys serious? It's supposed to be a cross between roach and caveman, the thought never once crossed my mind that they resembled black people. Especially with there ACTUALLY being black people in it that look pretty cool.

This is a new variation on the 'some of my best friends are black!' defense of overt racism.

 

[Richie]

How unintentionally racist do you think the movie will be?

Have we really reached the point where we're predisposed to see any black-skinned creature as problematic?

 

[Pinko Marx]

This is the kind of story Terraformars is:

Hahaha holy shit.

 

[Dai101]

Considering the cockroaches look like this:

How unintentionally racist do you think the movie will be?

Oh suuuuuuure. Totally unintentionally racist. Yeah.

 

[CrazyDogg77]

Or caveman.

Cavemen didn't have brush cuts either.

Cmon man you know Neanderthals were known for inventing the caesar

 

[fertygo]

They have black people that work as intelligent in comic too, that's actually anomaly in swarm of "unintentional-racist" thing that exist lol

btw the manga is like Attack on Titan merged with DBZ, no doubt its popular.

 

[JBourne]

This is what rap cars look like in the future.

 

[WickedLaharl]

The anime was so fucking bad that it made black bullet seem like the pinnacle of human accomplishment.

 

[……forgetit]

They have black people that work as intelligent in comic too, that's actually anomaly in swarm of "unintentional-racist" thing that exist lol

btw the manga is like Attack on Titan merged with DBZ, no doubt its popular.

I'm going to need pictures of these black characters as proof.

 

[JDSN]

Someone is about to tell people that maybe seeing racism everyone makes you racist isnt it?

 

[nailbombxx]

Racism or not, those things look creepy as fuck.

 

[Desi]

With the other german character called Eva

Honestly even if we divorce the depiction of the roaches, this will still pretty much be Manifest Destiny: The Manga.

I only watched the anime and it led me to believe that humans threw roaches and mushrooms on the planet to test it out. So the Roaches weren't even natives but placed their purposely.

Spoiler

and are just a test ground for each countries new human/animal hybrid weapons

 

[Gormless Noodle]

This is a new variation on the 'some of my best friends are black!' defense of overt racism.

Ooooooo....kaaaay then.

 

[maomaoIYP]

Don't understand the appeal of this manga. Bought the first book and wasn't impressed.

 

[wonzo]

im shocked the series that treats female genital mutilation as a punchline is racist as hell