Live Action

In filmmaking, video production, and other media, the term live action refers to cinematography, videography produced based on its original animated series. As it is the norm, the term is usually superfluous, but it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, as in a Pixar film, a video game or when the work is adapted from an animated cartoon, such as Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones or Josie and the Pussycats films, or The Tick television program. Use of puppets in films such as The Dark Crystal is also considered to be live action, provided that stop-motion is not used to animate them. The term is also used within the animation world to refer to non-animated characters: in a live-action/animated film such as Space Jam, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or Mary Poppins in which humans and cartoons co-exist, "live-action" characters are the "real" actors, such as Bob Hoskins and Julie Andrews, as opposed to the animated "actors", such as Roger Rabbit himself.

Live action can also mean that a film or a television show is adapted from comics. Adaptations from comics include live-action film versions of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and X-Men, DC Comics' Superman and Batman, or manga such as Death Note, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka.

Japanese

 * Movies
 * NANA / NANA 2 (2005/2006)
 * Death Note (2006)
 * From Me to You (2010)
 * Ace Attorney (2012)
 * Bunny Drop (2012)
 * Rurouni Kenshin (2012)
 * Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014)
 * Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014)
 * Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)
 * Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021)
 * My Love Story!! (2015)
 * Assassination Classroom / Assassination Classroom: Graduation (2015/2016)
 * ERASED (2016)
 * Movies (cont.)
 * Blade of the Immortal (2017)
 * Fullmetal Alchemist (2017)
 * Fullmetal Alchemist: Final Transmutation (2022)
 * Fullmetal Alchemist: Revenge Scar (2022)
 * Gintama / Gintama 2: Rules Are Meant To Be Broken (2017/2018)
 * Inuyashiki (2018)
 * BLEACH (2018)
 * Kingdom (2019)
 * From Today, It's My Turn!!: The Movie (2020)
 * Tokyo Revengers (2021)
 * The Way of the Househusband: The Movie (2022)
 * BL Metamorphosis (2022)
 * TV dramas
 * ERASED (2017) - 12 episodes of 30 min each
 * Takane & Hana (2018) - 8 episodes of 25 min each
 * From Today On, It's My Turn!! (2018) - 10 episodes of 46 min each
 * The Way of the Househusband (2020) - 10 episodes of 46 min each
 * Given (2021) - 6 episodes of 24 min each
 * Packed Up: A Police Box Woman's Counterattack (2021) - 9 episodes of 60 min each
 * Sengoku: The Great Reversal of the Leader Who Failed (2022) - special, ? min

Other

 * Movies
 * Death Note (2017)
 * Alita: Battle Angel (2019)


 * TV dramas
 * 49 Days With a Merman (2022) - Taiwan, 14 episodes of 24 min each