Movie idea:
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:35 pm
An American Otaku in Tokyo
There would be really be two characters. One is a 40 something guy who grew up with (and grew out of) Ultraman and Speed Racer and stuff. He was married with kids, but his family died in a train wreck along with a bunch of other people.
The other is his younger friend who is a full-on Otaku in his thirties who was married, but whose wife also died on the train. The otaku is firmly established in his geek ways, much to the distress of his straight laced long-time friend. As an effort to ease his troubled mind over the disaster, he decides he needs to make an otaku pilgrimage to Akiba. And, of course, he wants to drag his normal friend along with him.
I've got more to it, but what do people think of the concept so far? I want to see a mostly serious movie about Otaku that doesn't elevate them to some higher life form and doesn't treat them like dangerous scum, as the media (Japan and the US) can't even seem to get a balanced look on the whole thing. I think Lucky Star did a pretty good job with balance, but I wanted to see a non-Japanese take on it, as well as dealing with the fact that... Guess what? Beneath the cosplay, and beyond the wall-scrolls and figurines, they're real people.
Any thoughts?
There would be really be two characters. One is a 40 something guy who grew up with (and grew out of) Ultraman and Speed Racer and stuff. He was married with kids, but his family died in a train wreck along with a bunch of other people.
The other is his younger friend who is a full-on Otaku in his thirties who was married, but whose wife also died on the train. The otaku is firmly established in his geek ways, much to the distress of his straight laced long-time friend. As an effort to ease his troubled mind over the disaster, he decides he needs to make an otaku pilgrimage to Akiba. And, of course, he wants to drag his normal friend along with him.
I've got more to it, but what do people think of the concept so far? I want to see a mostly serious movie about Otaku that doesn't elevate them to some higher life form and doesn't treat them like dangerous scum, as the media (Japan and the US) can't even seem to get a balanced look on the whole thing. I think Lucky Star did a pretty good job with balance, but I wanted to see a non-Japanese take on it, as well as dealing with the fact that... Guess what? Beneath the cosplay, and beyond the wall-scrolls and figurines, they're real people.
Any thoughts?