Himitsu The Top Secret ~ Himitsu The Revelation
I just marathoned the whole 26 episodes of the anime (Himitsu the Revelation). Not sure how close the anime to the manga, but at least now I know roughly what to expect out of the movie. In short, it'll be about a team of detective called Sector Nine which job is to solve crime cases via analyzing the brain memories, to the point of actually convert those memory to visual and through that there's a hope to identify the true criminal. The subject of pondering from this franchise is everybody has a secret that they don't want to reveal, is it ethical to watch all these secrets for the name of solving crime?
The live action movie will tone down the brain part as in, instead of having the frozen brain (which means cutting the head to extract the brain at the background - you can't help but imaging that, right?, and this maybe too grotuesque for some live action viewers), we have the whole body and just the head is attached to cables for scanning. Not as convincing as the manga but, OK, I'll accept.
Maki is a very complicated and mysterious character. He doesn't talk much, except for work (analysis and ordering his team members). The manga definitely will explore A LOT of his past, etc etc because he's the main character and also the pretty one. I'm quite curious how the movie turn out with Ikuta Toma as Maki. In general, it'll look like a typical character that Toma would play (after all, some of his movie characters are those mysterious or psychotic ones too), but this time it's kind of borderline.
Akio's character is the very earnest hardworking dude who will more likely to go above and beyond to seek justice and also the very good pair for doujinshi material. Seriously, this franchise is screaming to the doujinshi out there 'make me, make me'.
And, not to mention Matsuzaka Tori is Suzuki. I'm expecting high performance from him, especially after watching him in Library Wars and Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Hi, for major angst and the clash between Suzuki and Maki. Damn he's literally everywhere.
Another tidbits, the director is Keishi Ohtomo, the same director for Kenshin trilogy and Platinum Data. I'd think this movie will be closer to Platinum Data style.
And there you go, we have 1 out so many movies to be anticipated in 2016... it's AUG 2016 release for goodness sake.
The live action movie will tone down the brain part as in, instead of having the frozen brain (which means cutting the head to extract the brain at the background - you can't help but imaging that, right?, and this maybe too grotuesque for some live action viewers), we have the whole body and just the head is attached to cables for scanning. Not as convincing as the manga but, OK, I'll accept.
Maki is a very complicated and mysterious character. He doesn't talk much, except for work (analysis and ordering his team members). The manga definitely will explore A LOT of his past, etc etc because he's the main character and also the pretty one. I'm quite curious how the movie turn out with Ikuta Toma as Maki. In general, it'll look like a typical character that Toma would play (after all, some of his movie characters are those mysterious or psychotic ones too), but this time it's kind of borderline.
Akio's character is the very earnest hardworking dude who will more likely to go above and beyond to seek justice and also the very good pair for doujinshi material. Seriously, this franchise is screaming to the doujinshi out there 'make me, make me'.
And, not to mention Matsuzaka Tori is Suzuki. I'm expecting high performance from him, especially after watching him in Library Wars and Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Hi, for major angst and the clash between Suzuki and Maki. Damn he's literally everywhere.
Another tidbits, the director is Keishi Ohtomo, the same director for Kenshin trilogy and Platinum Data. I'd think this movie will be closer to Platinum Data style.
And there you go, we have 1 out so many movies to be anticipated in 2016... it's AUG 2016 release for goodness sake.
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