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Fans may react badly should a remaster or remake fail to do justice to the source material.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The original Bleach anime ran from 2004 to 2012 across 16 seasons but never caught up to the manga source material.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Needless to say, there’s a lot going on in Butler’s busy, occasionally dizzying script, though compressing the approximately 550-page source material was surely no easy task.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
A major challenge of adaptation is to capture the spirit of the source material without being a copy of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
This was primary source material, research papers based on direct experimental data, involved theoretical constructions utilizing a complex vocabulary and containing a wealth of original ideas—and he was breaking his head on it.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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