Live Action Anime, Plus Interview with Stephen Graham Jones
X-Ray Vision
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Why is it so hard to get live-action adaptations of anime right? Rosie, Carmen, and Ian discuss the challenges these remakes often face, whether the genre is better suited to film or television, and finally share some of their favorite successful adaptations.
Plus an interview with Stephen Graham Jones, horror author best known for his works The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and Night of the Mannequins.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.3 | Warning, warning. |
| 0:08.4 | Today's episode, |
| 0:09.8 | make-and-day spoilers for multiple live-action anime adaptation. |
| 0:15.9 | So beware. |
| 0:17.2 | Plus, after our chat, |
| 0:18.4 | I'll be interviewing award-winning horror and comics author Stephen Graham Jones. |
| 0:46.7 | Hello, my name is Rosie Knight and welcome back to X-ray Vision, the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics and pop culture. |
| 0:52.7 | We're coming to you from IHeart Podcast where we'll be bringing you three episodes a week and news on Saturdays. |
| 0:57.3 | In today's episode, I am joined by Carmen and Ian to discuss something I'm always trying to talk about, which is anime, and in this case, the conundrum of |
| 1:03.1 | live action anime adaptations. Ian and Carmen, welcome in. How are you doing today? So good. I've got |
| 1:10.3 | my wig on. I've got my anime girl |
| 1:14.7 | makeup on. You wearing a little Sailor Moon style? I'm wearing my Sailor Moon outfit. I'm ready to do a |
| 1:21.5 | transformation. Let's do it. I am all, I mean, I'm also wearing a Junji Ito sweater, so I guess we really apparently came. |
| 1:30.6 | I've been wanting to say that as a very cute sweater you have on. |
| 1:33.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:34.2 | This is actually a Junji Ito drop dead, which is like an emo band lead singer. |
| 1:41.1 | Nice. |
| 1:41.8 | So it's even sillier. |
| 1:43.3 | Even sillier and more emo than a Junji Ito is usually, okay, let's jump in guys. |
| 1:49.9 | Ian, I want to start with you. |
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