My Hero Academia: Netflix Attempts Film Adaptation

Netflix is making another live-action anime adaptation, and this time, it’s adapting the well-known anime, My Hero Academia. In a statement on its website, the streaming company says filmmaker Shinsuke Sato (I Am a Hero, Kingdom) will act as the director, while Obi-Wan Kenobi producer Joby Harold is writing the script.

My Hero Academia takes place in a world where most humans are born with superpowers named quirks. The anime focuses on the once-quirkless Izuku Midoriya (or Deku). When Midoriya’s given super strength from the hero he most admires, All Might, he’s accepted into the respected UA High School for heroes-in-training. There, he gets to know other quirk-wielding students while working toward uncovering his true potential and coming face-to-face with powerful opponents.

It is yet too early to say who will play the part of Midoriya and some of the various other supporting roles, like the gravity-defying Ochaco Uraraka, the fiery Katsuki Bakugo, or the legendary hero All Might. However, as with other live-action anime adaptions, casting will make or break the adaptation.

Netflix doesn’t have the best reputation when the subject is making live-action anime adaptations; its Death Note movie and the now-canceled Cowboy Bebop series didn’t truly capture the essence of the source material. All that can be done is to hope that the streaming company can take the feedback from its previous mistakes into account before it starts working on My Hero Academia. Or any of the various other live-action anime adaptions it has prepared, including One Piece, Yu Hakusho, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and ultimately another Death Note.

My Hero Academia is planned to hit theaters in Japan and will arrive on Netflix for the rest of the world, though there’s no word on a release date.

Originally published by: The Verg