Japan may or may not be winning the internet, but they are winning TV.
Detective Conan.. Live Action Special 2.. oh. my. fucking. god. it's full of lol. shit.. it's MADE of lol. lol and win, with a tiny bit of fail, but fail of the sort that doesn't detract from the win while raising the lol to near genius. (incidentally, using verbs and acronyms instead of regular nouns in an otherwise sane and coherent sentence is something that I'm not sure if I should thank the internet for or not.)
the best part? Conan and Ai. Their anime VAs are dubbed over some random kids who kinda look like the anime versions, Conan much much more so than Ai (most notably, the girl has the wrong hair color, yet there is a photo shown of the adult version of Ai who looks EXACTLY like her adult form in the anime.. well, as exactly as you can get going from the anime style face shape to real human shapes).. because Japan would be pissed if it didn't properly sound like Conan, I can only assume. the kids aren't all that smooth at the timing needed for it to seem real, but they're no stiffer than any of the actors playing the adults (who are strangely not dubbed, presumably because hardcore fans don't actually give a shit about Mouri Kogoro or Agasa Hakase), so they get some credit for their willingness to fill the shoes of characters that are probably older than they are.
on another side note, i find it quite funny that if Conan aged in the anime for 11 years of real time, he'd now be a year or three older than he was before being turned into a child in the first episode. yes, I'm easily amused.
the best part? Conan and Ai. Their anime VAs are dubbed over some random kids who kinda look like the anime versions, Conan much much more so than Ai (most notably, the girl has the wrong hair color, yet there is a photo shown of the adult version of Ai who looks EXACTLY like her adult form in the anime.. well, as exactly as you can get going from the anime style face shape to real human shapes).. because Japan would be pissed if it didn't properly sound like Conan, I can only assume. the kids aren't all that smooth at the timing needed for it to seem real, but they're no stiffer than any of the actors playing the adults (who are strangely not dubbed, presumably because hardcore fans don't actually give a shit about Mouri Kogoro or Agasa Hakase), so they get some credit for their willingness to fill the shoes of characters that are probably older than they are.
on another side note, i find it quite funny that if Conan aged in the anime for 11 years of real time, he'd now be a year or three older than he was before being turned into a child in the first episode. yes, I'm easily amused.