Title: HYOUKA

Anime: Live Action:

I’ve been trying to make a list of my top favorite anime, cartoons, and live action tv shows. This is not going well because every time I get a decent working list, I’ll watch something new and completely fall in love with it and it becomes a new favorite.

Alice May: “Alice Through the Looking-Glass” (1973 BBC TV film)

Here we find another rare stand-alone adaptation of Through the Looking-Glass, this time produced by the BBC. It stars 11-year-old Sarah Sutton (later known as Nyssa from Doctor Who), who at the time was the youngest actress ever to have played Alice onscreen, although Natalie Gregory andKristýna Kohoutová have surpassed her since then.

This is probably the most meticulously faithful version of Through the Looking-Glass ever filmed. Almost every episode from the book is included – only the Wood with No Names and the White Knight’s battle with the Red Knight are cut– and almost all the dialogue is straight from Carroll. All of Looking-Glass Land is blue-screened against illustrated backdrops drawn in the style of John Tenniel, and most of the costumes replicate Tenniel’s illustrations too. “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” “Jabberwocky,” “The Aged, Aged Man,” and Humpty Dumpty’s fish poem are all featured (the former three with visuals, the last without), as is the epigraph poem “A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky” at the end of the closing credits.

As a whole, I feel the same way about this Through the Looking-Glass that I do about the BBC’s 1986 Alice in Wonderlandminiseries. Both are fairly subdued in tone and not especially memorable compared to other versions, but they’re still enjoyable both for their sheer faithfulness to Carroll and for the strong performances from their actors. Sarah Sutton’s Alice is slightly wooden, but likable all the same, and Looking-Glass Land’s inhabitants are all perfectly cast.

If like me, you think Through the Looking-Glass deserves to be adapted more often, then this version is a must-see.

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Alice May: “Alice in Wonderland” (1915 silent film)

This silent Alice has an interesting history, and it’s a real shame that it only survives in an incomplete form. The original film was two hours long, and it adapted both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland andThrough the Looking-Glass: as in other early Alice adaptations, the first half seems to have adapted the first book, while the second half covered the sequel. But circa 1920, the film was rereleased in two separate hour-long installments, WonderlandandLooking-Glass. Unfortunately, all but the last reel ofLooking-Glass is lost, as is the original cut of the film that featured both parts. The very scene on the 1915 movie poster, Alice’s meeting with Humpty Dumpty, is sadly one of the lost scenes. So are the scenes in Wonderland where Alice shrinks or grows. Still, the truncated Wonderland that still exists is a charming version; we’re lucky that it survived at all.

For the most part this is a faithful adaptation. The main embellishment is an opening sequence of Alice playing in the kitchen, then going for a walk with her sister before they sit down on the riverbank, and seeing various things – the cook baking tarts, a deck of cards, a white rabbit, Dinah the cat in a tree, and a piglet in the farmyard – that influence her dream. In Wonderland, all the animal characters wear full-body suits and masks with articulated eyes and mouths, as do the Duchess, the Cook, and the Mad Hatter to make them look like Tenniel’s illustrations. While by modern standards these costumes are fairly clunky and grotesque, it’s clear that great love and care was put into creating them, and they most definitely create a fanciful atmosphere. Meanwhile, the lively, endearing Alice of 15-year-old Viola Savoy excellently holds the picture together. She and the other performers bring the story to life despite the fact that the film direction is bare-bones, with no closeups and very little editing.

Despite its incompleteness and its slightly primitive qualities, this is still an appealing Alice, which anyone who loves both the books and the genre of silent film should see.

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Alice May: “Alice Through the Looking Glass” (1966 TV musical)

Stand-alone adaptations of Through the Looking-Glass are rare, so naturally I was excited to see this star-studded TV musical from 1966. While it’s not the most faithful rendition of Carroll’s book, it’s an enjoyable little fantasy romp all the same.

This version of Alice (Judi Rolin) is invited through the mirror by the Red King (Robert Coote), who obviously isn’t asleep in this adaptation, and who is then joined by the Red Queen (Agnes Moorhead), the White King (Ricardo Montalbán), and the White Queen (Nanette Fabray) in introducing her to the topsy-turvy charms of Looking-Glass Land. Unfortunately, the kings and queens admit that they’re currently powerless, because the evil Jabberwock (not just a monster here, but a sapient, talking beast played by Jack Palance) has taken over the kingdom. But the spunky Alice urges them to fight back. Inspired, the kings and queens send her on her journey to become a queen herself, in hope that she’ll inspire all the people of Looking-Glass Land to rise up against the Jabberwock… who of course will do all he can to stop her.

Besides, this new framing device, the script also adds a scene where the witches from Snow White, Sleeping BeautyandHansel & Gretel are sent by the Jabberwock to mislead Alice, but fail because she’s too fairy tale-savvy, and a new character, Lester the Jester (Roy Castle), who helps Alice whenever she’s in need.

Obviously, this is less Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass than it is a low-budget knockoff of The Wizard of Oz withLooking-Glass trappings: Alice in place of Dorothy, the Jabberwock as the Wicked Witch of the West, and Lester the Jester as the Scarecrow. Still, its charms are worth appreciating. 20-year-old Judi Rolin is an endearing Alice with an excellent singing voice, even if her acting is over-the-top at times, and the celebrities who surround her all shine: all the ones listed above, as well as the Smothers Brothers as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and Jimmy Durante perfectly cast as Humpty Dumpty. The songs by Moose Charlap (best known for the classic 1954 musical of Peter Pan) are charming too, even if their tone is often too brassy and all-American to be Carrollian.

This is far from a definitive Looking-Glass, but it’s worth seeing.

@ariel-seagull-wings,@superkingofpriderock,@faintingheroine,@the-blue-fairie,@amalthea9

I’ve never done anything like this but I felt like I had to do this because I super love the anime and I can’t help it.

Firstly, I’ve noticed that there are major parts that were changed. From the names of the walls, some characters are missing, additional (unrelated) characters, etc.
You wouldn’t know at first which is Armin or Eren until in mentions. Most of the characters are out of place. I mean, Eren is not Eren, Mikasa is not being Mikasa. Most of the scenes are cringe-worthy. Cheesy and irrelevant. I was waiting for Levi (my love) to come out but no Levi came. I hope he’s gonna show up at the part 2. The only thing that I like about this movie is the titans are STILL scary. Not as brutal as the anime but still scary. I have read some reviews of this movie and most of them were negative. But I still told myself that I shouldn’t be biased about this movie until I watch it. But now, I understand them. I had the same feeling after watching the Live Action Film of Death Note.
For the people out there who hasn’t seen the movie, I wouldn’t tell you not to watch it but if you wanna get disappointed, go ahead.

In short, it’s too painful to watch.