Board Thread:Movies/@comment-5536445-20151103002058/@comment-5536445-20190418192756

The manga is more popular than the Japanese movie here in the States. If they adapt the latter over the source material, not only will it be more confusing but it'll probably be called a bad adaptation.

The quality of the Japanese movie is debatable, but I see where you're coming from, and there are things from the movie that actually made it into the manga. But the movie just isn't popular enough in America to be used as its basis.