![]() ![]() I’m surprised that not many people have picked up on it as they treated Sky High like the slighted obscure movie when it wasn’t a box office flop. Even then, MHA had a different twist since it takes place in a world where most of the population has superpowers (or quirks if we use the terminology in that paracosm) which isn’t like the aforementioned examples. You’ve had several comics, multiple animated series, and live-action films that existed before Mickey Mouse bought the house that Stan Lee built. X-MEN! Have you heard of it? Sure, Disney has owned that franchise since the Marvel buy-out, but they had nothing to do with its invention. There’s this one superhero faction that is headquartered on a school campus, and it’s literally founded by a professor. However, a painfully obvious and famous example involves an academic setting with superheroes, even if it was more prevalent with specific sub-units of this team. You also have Hero High, a cartoon debuting in 1981. Why are people treating this like Sky High invented that trope when other things predate it? There’s a book called PS238 that involved kids at a superhero school was released in 2002. Let’s start with the first point: Superhero school backdrops have existed for longer than Sky High! With that said, I find this hypocrisy to be blatant and just laughable. ![]() Same with Sky High because I wasn’t going to go into this blind, so I read what the movie was like. Also, I am neither a fan of Sky High nor MHA since I have never watched a whole episode of that Shonen Jump series (this may shock the aniblogger community) although I have read multiple reviews and synopses to know what it’s about. Before I really go at it on my soapbox, I will have to preface this by saying that not all Disney fans act on what I saw or the examples that are on this post, so don’t accuse me of painting everyone with the same brush. I will agree that I share the frustration of both Disney and MHA fans for complaining about Netflix and the House of Mouse remaking everything, so I have no issue with their respective grievances, albeit for different reasons. I get they were calling him the “original Deku” of sorts, and I understand that Sky High does predate the MHA franchise by 9 years (Disney’s film was released in 2005, while the debut issue of the manga came out in 2014). Will eventually develops his own superpowers, and Disney fans were stabbing MHA for ripping it off. The main character is Will, who is the son of a superhero couple who doesn’t have any powers and has to fit into an environment where other students are stronger or have immense abilities. The concept of this movie involves a superhero school where teenagers learn how to cultivate their powers. I heard of that movie before but never saw it, although I do know what it’s about. That backlash got so intense that a specific mid-00s live-action superhero movie Disney made trended worldwide because there were accusations of that anime ripping it off.Īs you can obviously tell, it was none other than Sky High. ![]() There were MHA fans who didn’t want this to happen which didn’t surprise me, but there was a massive backlash from Disney fans on the interwebs (mainly Twitter). Then came the news about the mega-popular My Hero Academia going live-action through that streaming site. They don’t need to be riddled with CGI and stunt doubles to pull something like that off. They’re also going to give Yu Yu Hakusho and One Piece the live-action treatment, which other people and I don’t want to see. We had Bleach, the American remake of Death Note, and recently Cowboy Bebop, to name a few. For starters, Netflix going aboard the live-action anime remake train is getting frustrating. I usually don’t type articles outside of my film reviews or my Top 7 lists, but when I found out about the news about another anime getting the live-action treatment and seeing the reaction online, I just HAD to talk about it. ![]()
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