Netflix is producing an animated series based on webtoon "Lookism". It's about a high-school boy who can switch between ugly and fat body and handsome and fit body. Animated by studio MIR.
Netflix is producing an animated series based on webtoon "Lookism".
>Chubby chaser and twinkgay's dream.
The animation looks very soulless and crappy, just what you'd expect from MIR.
>gets blue eyes too
God Mir really did decrease in quality after Korra you can just tell it was more real in comparison.
what's the fricking point of a show like this?
You know, I agree. The concept of webtoons is already very "animation-like", the placement of the panels is often meant to emulate a slide show type of animation. So adapting a webtoon just with some janky soulless animation and voice acting is not going to do much. But webtoons are getting shilled like no other now so it doesn't surprise me Netflix is getting into this cash grab as well.
points out how people ultimately treat hotties better than uggos, I'd suppose.
yeah but that's common sense and has been done a lot better in the past. why is he ever fat and ugly then? or is this a power he doesn't have control over?
Does it also show him becoming fat again as just because he is thin now, the original issue why he became fat in the first place should still be there? Or does he magically not want to eat anymore?
Is twitter going to scream about rape by deception?
Oh boy more Korean shit
Isn't this closer to Cinemaphile than Cinemaphile
Is it? Back when you tried to talk about webtoons on Cinemaphile they told you to come here.
Has there ever been any webtoons threads on Cinemaphile?
Yes, considering that majority of modern Western non-capeshit comics are webtoons on Tapas etc.
Cinemaphile b***hes about anything that has even the slightest western involvement. I'm surprised they let the Cyberpunk Edgerunner threads slide as much as they did
At least it's consistent.
>based on
Is it not an adaptation?
Yes
Why are so many Korean webtoons about a disgusting slob who becomes hot, or their fat self dies and they’re reborn to be attractive? But there’s never any narrative point where they learn that they were beautiful all along, or that they can’t rely on quick fixes to lose weight or become more attractive, like you might see in western media. The story is like ‘yeah they were fat ugly fricks and magically fixing themselves was the right thing to do’
Hmmm as I wrote that I remembered how common plastic surgery is in South Korea, especially for teenagers and maybe that has something to do with that.
People change. Korea just gets help from the magical surgery fairy. And then you end up with ugly kids who you can't tell if they're biological or not because they can't inherit plastic surgery.
Well the point of this webtoon particularly is that the main character discovers how the world works as he switches between two bodies, one where he's treated badly and one where he's treated well for his looks. Kind of like Cinderella because he turns back into fat slob after midnight.
South Koreans are notoriously vain to the point where a lot of them get plastic surgery to look "attractive".
It's fricking weird, the North Koreans are starving to death and the South Koreans are fricking their faces up because of societies beauty standards
North korea is a dictatorship. It's people die because the leaders want them to die.
Chad behavior
South Korea is one of the only places where "Just be white" rhetoric actually will make you a chad. They are obsessed with bleaching.
>Why are so many Korean webtoons about a disgusting slob who becomes hot, or their fat self dies and they’re reborn to be attractive? But there’s never any narrative point where they learn that they were beautiful all along, or that they can’t rely on quick fixes to lose weight or become more attractive, like you might see in western media. The story is like ‘yeah they were fat ugly fricks and magically fixing themselves was the right thing to do’
They know what kind of crap sells, think of the self insert loser that gets all the b***hes for no reason from anime. Your also on the nose, it's very normal for high schoolers to talk about getting plastic surgery, we all know their idols have done it.
I thought that was Thailand? Not surprised though.
Just coming into the thread to say I won't be watching this.
>leave animu to us
>Chinks ripped off the nutty professor
Why couldn't they picked a better movie to copy
Holy shit you're right
Well that one is also a retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but it's not quite same as there's no "evil counterpart". He also goes through diet and training so his original body becomes handsome as well but not as tall.
It's more Cinderella than Jekyl.
Korea already tried this once, and it didn't work out too well. Why are they doing it again? To be fair the movie was actually decent.
Their diversity always fall aparat when they realize most "minorities" are more consrevative than whites.
South Korea still sucks though.
This isn't even a case of being conservative rather than poorly worded since the obvious point of the fricking cartoon is "don't fatshame" Like fricking babysteps, it's a country that has more plastic surgery than
Do you think there would be twitter rage for being fatphobic; ugly shaming and beauty standards, or they would just ignore it since is a male lead, therefore, "men don't have problems"?
I'd imagine that they might be more wary that it's named after an incel talking point and rather than being fatshaming it's playing into incel's rhetoric of defeatism and bitterness.
Though I never read this, so I assume ultimately there'll probably be something said about personality accounting for SOMETHING.
It's about fatphobia so that would be vert forced outrage
the sad thing is netflix was already working on another series about a high school girl before this and it looked 100 times better but no one will ever get to see it because it got purged amongst all the other cartoon cancellations
The main character - "Ferguson"
Ferguson's friend - "Rebecca"
This is all concept art btw. The series was gonna be 3D
>The "it" girls are fat
>CGIshit
Good riddance.
I'll take worst Korea over wokeshit.
Well, at least it's cool finally seeing a real representatiok of how the IT girls of this era DRESS
Why the frick are they all fat? And one is bald??
They vary from stick thin or flabby fridgebody because they don't give a shit about exercising
They are only white or latina but it doesn't matter because they aspire to a specific mid tan skintone and bleached blonde hair that makes them all the same
Picrel is the perfect example as how they look
They also have a shit ton of drama with the "alt" girls, which are girls just as femenine and trendy but they pretend they're not
So ugly guy turns into hot guy and learns life is good, and that's all there is to the story?
Why not make it so the ugly guy can only be hot for a time or have it so every other day he switches, so his predicament is a wildcard for most people he interacts with.
>Why not make it so the ugly guy can only be hot for a time or have it so every other day he switches, so his predicament is a wildcard for most people he interacts with.
That's what happens in the webtoon actually
>Lookism
>Studio Mir
When best Korea will finally save us from worst Korea?
why are easterners allowed to make cartoons.
Westerners just make live action adaptations like Heartstopper
Didn't they make the same thing with Snow White and the feminists sent death threats to the producers ?
There was some outrage because no one knew what it actually was about as the advertising focused on "fat girl becomes hot girl" aspect.
I instantly remembered bagel girl. both being korean and having the same fricking plot is so unnerving.
This webtoon starts as bodyswap school comedy but it develops into martial arts fighting story and the guy gets another super power where he can enter into a state where he switches between consciousness and unconsciouness during fight.
>Netflix is producing
Stopped reading there.
>read manhwa
>cute male MC character is introduced who is meek, short, skinny and is bullied
>becomes buff metrosexual by chapter 3 and the story becomes a generic fight manga
Why is there so much of this?
This is gonna get one season like Clone High and then fade from obscurity, except Clone High had a huge cult following despite being released in 08.
*Into obscurity
I wonder how badly they'll botch the fights
The way they treat females in some parts of this is bound to get people complaining. But then again they’ll probably Netflix it out all the ‘problematic’ parts.
It becomes Dragonball at some point
Shame it's not Shotgun boy