My Cruel, Cruel Subconscious....
La version française est par là.
When I went to the movies with my mother last night, in the lobby I came across a billing with Neku, Shiki, Beat and Rhyme sitting together and looking anxious.
Once I had (mostly) recovered from the initial shock and ensuing giddiness, I concluded that Square Enix had made a movie adaptation of The World Ends With You while I wasn't looking, and that, much like with Madoka, France was lucky enough to get a preview of the flick.
Joshua wasn't on the billing, but I took it as a good sign: the producers must have realized that there was too much material to adapt in a single movie and much more money to be made if they released it as a trilogy instead. Shibuya's skyscrapers in the background looked redder than I remembered them, but I figured the intent was to make the setting look more dramatic.
My main concern came from the French title, Le Pouvoir des 4, which literally means The Power of 4, and sounds as ridiculous in French as it does in English. I had to admit that the English title was pretty hard to translate, but if they wanted a cheesy title instead, they could have just taken the Japanese It's a Wonderful World, at least the eery billing would have made it obvious that the cheesiness was misleading. However, I reasoned, as ridiculous as it was, the French title was appropriately ironic considering what resulted of the characters' early attempts at teamwork in the game.
My mother and I went into the theatre early to look for the best seats; I moved seats every time someone taller than me blocked my view - in retrospect I really admire my mother's patience. I didn't even care about the movie I had originally come to see, I just wanted to see the TWEWY trailer. By the time the commercials ended and no trailer appeared, all I wanted to do was to bolt out of the theatre and google the movie to find as many info as the web would be willing to give.
Somehow I ended up with bits and pieces of videos showing that Pokemon and Studio Ghibli creatures made cameos. This didn't deter my excitement in any way: this movie was either going to be a ton of crap or the best thing since the internet.
Then I woke up.
My first reflex was to turn on the computer and check TWEWY's official site for information about the movie adaptation. It took me several minutes to realize that the fact that I just woke up was a pretty strong hint that said adaptation was nothing but a dream. I only came to terms with it after remembering the implication of Pokemon.
I still checked. Of course, there was nothing, and I had half a mind to write Square Enix a letter: it has almost been a year since the iOS version of TWEWY's sequel tease and Kingdom Hearts 3D's hint at a possible crossover, how much longer do we have to wait?!
There was no need to, because I know exactly how this conversation would go:
I miss you guys so much. T^T
When I went to the movies with my mother last night, in the lobby I came across a billing with Neku, Shiki, Beat and Rhyme sitting together and looking anxious.
Once I had (mostly) recovered from the initial shock and ensuing giddiness, I concluded that Square Enix had made a movie adaptation of The World Ends With You while I wasn't looking, and that, much like with Madoka, France was lucky enough to get a preview of the flick.
Joshua wasn't on the billing, but I took it as a good sign: the producers must have realized that there was too much material to adapt in a single movie and much more money to be made if they released it as a trilogy instead. Shibuya's skyscrapers in the background looked redder than I remembered them, but I figured the intent was to make the setting look more dramatic.
My main concern came from the French title, Le Pouvoir des 4, which literally means The Power of 4, and sounds as ridiculous in French as it does in English. I had to admit that the English title was pretty hard to translate, but if they wanted a cheesy title instead, they could have just taken the Japanese It's a Wonderful World, at least the eery billing would have made it obvious that the cheesiness was misleading. However, I reasoned, as ridiculous as it was, the French title was appropriately ironic considering what resulted of the characters' early attempts at teamwork in the game.
My mother and I went into the theatre early to look for the best seats; I moved seats every time someone taller than me blocked my view - in retrospect I really admire my mother's patience. I didn't even care about the movie I had originally come to see, I just wanted to see the TWEWY trailer. By the time the commercials ended and no trailer appeared, all I wanted to do was to bolt out of the theatre and google the movie to find as many info as the web would be willing to give.
Somehow I ended up with bits and pieces of videos showing that Pokemon and Studio Ghibli creatures made cameos. This didn't deter my excitement in any way: this movie was either going to be a ton of crap or the best thing since the internet.
Then I woke up.
My first reflex was to turn on the computer and check TWEWY's official site for information about the movie adaptation. It took me several minutes to realize that the fact that I just woke up was a pretty strong hint that said adaptation was nothing but a dream. I only came to terms with it after remembering the implication of Pokemon.
I still checked. Of course, there was nothing, and I had half a mind to write Square Enix a letter: it has almost been a year since the iOS version of TWEWY's sequel tease and Kingdom Hearts 3D's hint at a possible crossover, how much longer do we have to wait?!
There was no need to, because I know exactly how this conversation would go:
I miss you guys so much. T^T