Best live-action movie adaptations of anime or manga

It seems that just about every other Japanese film coming out these days is based on a cartoon or comic, so it seems a good time to have a look with goo Ranking at how people rate the best live-action movie adaptations of manga and anime.

Demographics

Over the 22nd and 23rd of July 2011 1,114 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 65.4% of the sample were female, 12.3% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 28.6% in their thirties, 24.8% in their forties, 10.1% in their fifties, and 7.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

I’ve not seen any of the movies, and I’m not really sure how the list was created – Nodame Cantibile, for instance, seemed quite a popular real-life realisation of the comic, but it doesn’t feature in the list. On the other hand, I am not in the least suprised to see that My Darling is a Foriegner features nowhere on the list.

This coming weekend I have a preview ticket for Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite, which I would translate as When My Hubby Became Depressed, a film of the TV series of the manga comic. Let’s have the trailer for that:

Ranking result

Q: What do you think were good live-action movie adaptations of manga and anime? (Sample size=1,114)

Rank		Score
1	Death Note	100
2	Umizaru	89.0
3	Rookies -Graduation-	50.2
4	Nana	40.0
5	Gegege no Kitaro	30.6
6	Kaiji Jinsei Gyakuten Game	30.4
7	Gantz	29.7
8	Ping-Pong	28.7
9	Yatterman	27.8
10	Dororo	26.6
11	Detroit Metal City	24.9
12=	Touch	22.7
12=	Honey and Clover	22.7
14	Ashita no Joe	21.5
15	Kimi ni Todoke	20.6
16	Azumi	17.9
17	Satorare Tribute to a Sad Genius	17.2
18	20th Century Boys	14.4
19	Cutie Honey	14.1
20	Paradise Kiss	12.4
21	Beck	9.1
22	Kamue Gaiden	8.9
23	Love ★ Kon	8.4
24	Soranin	7.7
25	Saru Rock the Movie	6.2
26	Space Battleship Yamato	5.0
27=	Prince of Tennis	4.5
27=	Happily Ever After (Jigyaku no Uta)	4.5
27=	High School Debut	4.5
30	Dragonhead	4.3
31=	Casshern	2.9
31=	Otakus in Love (Koi no Mon)	2.9
33=	Cromartie High School THE☆MOVIE	2.4
33=	Dragonball Evolution	2.4
35	Jigoku Koshien	1.9
36	The Neighbor No. Thirteen (Rinjin No 13)	1.7
37=	Sakigake!! Otokojuku Be a Man! Samurai School	1.4
37=	Boys on the Run	1.4