Don't mind me, just over here feeling sad that Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Monster hasn't been realized since news about the possibility broke sometime around 2013
he'd bring so much to the story. Tragedy, alienation, children in the aftermath of war, human cruelty, unconditional kindness, fairytales, intimate moments of tension, joy.
HBO dropped the ball, they FAILED SO BADLY HERE
This story is so entirely in his wheelhouse, it'd probably have set the bar for anime adaptations. UGH.
I am not at all in camp "every good anime needs an adaptation" because I think the medium does so much for it's stories, it's hard to capture in live action. There are a lot of stage plays that would never adapt well to film. Some stories belong to the medium they were created for!
But Monster is a story that's, for the most part, very straightforward in setting and spectacle. the true pleasure of the story unfolds in the human drama.
This means it would translate so much more naturally compared stories that depend a lot on incredible visual spectacles and magic. And for GUILLERMO DEL TORO of all people, this would be so natural to guide into existence.
Because there is that fairytale undercurrent to the story, that level of Beyond Belief that tugs at the edges of the plot, surfacing the character's inner lives as they deal with physical and mental trauma.
I'm sorry! I didn't mean to write this much! I'm passionate! About this story!

