From Eroica With Love Musical And Why I Don't Trust Adaptations Of 1970s Shoujo Manga

From Eroica with Love Musical and why I don't trust adaptations of 1970s shoujo manga

Unlike some of its contemporaries which have reached famed accolades and mainstream commercial success, From Eroica with Love seems to have remained a beloved cult classic. It has evaded anime, live-action, or stage adaptation since its serialization began in 1976. That is until now.

When it was announced that From Eroica with Love will be receiving a musical adaptation, I – and several others – were immediately skeptical. Not only are the characters and comedy of Eroica extremely difficult to adapt with real humans, there is also a very specific aesthetic that the adaptation must abide to. This aesthetic combines the style of 1970s shōjo manga, and the contemporary rock scene, along with classic James Bond films. That alone should prove enough of a challenge, but characters are also extremely vibrant and vivid in personality, which usually demonstrates in subtle and/or comedic moments.

And this was actually not the first time that the thought of a musical of From Eroica with Love has crossed my mind. I had casually talked to a friend or two that if Eroica were to be adapted, I think it could work as a musical, if it could utilize the very theatrical and dramatic language of the stage to portray the characters, the style, and the energy of the original. So, did this production succeed in doing so? Well, I wrote a 10,000-word essay that attempts to dive into the topic, which will be split into parts, just so we could get to the bottom of this. Oh and also, it’s Dorian’s birthday.

Happy birthday Dorian Red Gloria - part-time menace, full-time FASHION ICON!!!

Link to each respective parts of this rant essay:

Part I: I want my chaotic characters back

Dorian Red Gloria, Earl of Gloria, Codename: Eroica

Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, Major, Codename: Iron Klaus

The Case of the Missing Caesar Gabriel and the Character Assassination of Tyrian Persimmon

Part II: WTF is with this lack of energy bro?

Section 1: The tank scene was the only one they did right

Section 2: I should not be sleepy or bored watching Eroica

Part III: Wanna talk about media-mix?

Death Note is stylistically modern but if it were ever to be told like a classic epic musical I want Light Yagami to be introduced like Frollo in Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Like fr

"Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin

And he saw corruption everywhere except WITHIN"

Then when Ryuk's about to unalive him

"And for one time in his life of power and control

Frollo felt a twinge of fear for his immortal soul"

That's Light Yagami in 4 short lines.

Another picture of the BAT-family!!! Bruce will make them all fit under his wings if it’s the last thing he does.

Let the 🎂🎂🎂 begin 🥳🥳🥳

it's the first day of near's birthday party! today's prompts are:

toy | strategy | the star

please tag your gifts with #nearsbday or mention @nearsbday in your post! if you are posting to archiveofourown, you can add your gift to the collection.

as a reminder, there are a few rules for party guests which can be found right here. for more information on how to participate, you can visit this page or read through the submission guide.

alt text: graphic in shades of blue. a banner at the top reads "august 17: day 1." there are three boxes on the left side of the image, which read in order: toy, strategy, the star. at the bottom lefthand corner, there is a piece of text that reads: tag gifts with #nearsbday or mention @/nearsbday in your post! on the righthand side of the image is a blue-toned manga cap of near from death note. he is laying on his stomach and playing with an action figure.

I can't get over the fact that Near carved a likeness puppet for everyone except Kira even when he figured out it had to be Light

Near really did see Light simply as another fucked-in-the-head serial killer

@nearsbday : DAY 1 - "TOY"

He likes re-telling the story to them every once and a while.

@whyamihereat4am

How could you leave this in the tag???

In addition to that, Mello might come up with something like Mycrazy McFucker

Matt will simply refer to the culprit as The Unaliver

(I still can't figure out what Near will call him ... he can either be extremely creative and sassy or extremely low effort as a method for psychological war fare - Light isn't worth the time he'd spend coming up with a nickname)

Death Note AU where everything is the same except instead of Kira, the culprit is referred to as "Murderer McMurderFace"

I know L was itching to do it