What books would you like to see made into an anime?

chambeyc · Post by **chambeyc** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:51 am

ayame_sohma_fangirl wrote:Lord of The Rings (all three)

Well, if the anime was done by a japanese studio like the one which currently do "Tales of Phantasia", it would be awesome!

Harry Potter = Negima? (if we forget about girls panties...:p)

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:44 am

chambeyc wrote:Harry Potter = Negima? (if we forget about girls panties...:p)

And the age difference, the girls, the demons, the fact that Negi's already graduated, the fact that Negi is the teacher, the fact that Negi's dad isn't dead, etc..

I say make an anime for the Hitchiker's Guide. Then make the anime contradict half the books. Just so it seems like par of the series.

SummonerMai · Post by **SummonerMai** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:16 pm

.....The Vampire Chronicles ...........

DTJB · Post by **DTJB** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:43 am

Battle Royale. The novel has been adapted into just about every other form of media, why not an anime?

EmilLang1000 · Post by **EmilLang1000** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:29 pm

Computer coloring programs can't render that many pixels of red, and there isn't enough red paint in the world if they wanted to do it the hard way, either.

DTJB · Post by **DTJB** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:25 pm

Yeah, you're probably right about that one. I guess even with the technology we have, there are still limitations. I just...hey, wait a minute...

who said it had to be in color?

Deathscythe_Animated · Post by **Deathscythe_Animated** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:48 pm

Red, I like the color Red. Let's add in midshipmans hope, I don't think I've posted that one yet.

Elwin · Post by **Elwin** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:32 am

Too lazy to check all 8 pages for this book to be listed but....

I, Lucifer

If you've never heard of it, check it out its hilarious...pretty much God gives the Devil a second chance to live a normal life on Earth as a Human...you can guess how it goes...

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Tails_Prower_Fairy · Post by **Tails_Prower_Fairy** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:47 am

Harry Potter

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:04 am

Necroposted (not by me), but I missed it before. Oh, I'm so glad that people read! I could cry.

My first thought was Stephen King's The Dark Tower series - it's long, expansive (interesting locales! score one for background artists!) and has a pretty apt level of ridiculous throw-in-cool-shit bloat.

Then his self-insert and the self-insert dude from Excel Saga could have a battle royale.

The "Family" stories by Ray Bradbury (Homecoming, Uncle Einar, The Traveler, and I forget whether there are any others). Partly because I think the author would hate it and tell everyone to go to hell, which is always entertaining. But like someone mentioned upthread about Lovecraft, a lot of the effect is in the narrative voice. But then, a good director can get that on film too.

Lovecraft, for me part of it is his concept that some things are so horrible as to be beyond the grasp of the human mind. I don't think that can be captured quite the same way on film. Still, maybe some of the smaller-scale stories would work, like the Innsmouth one and now I have to stop rifling through my bookshelf to see what it's called you know which one I mean yeah okay stop.

I hated Ender's Game because I'm not a 15-year-old boy, but it is an absolutely PERFECT fit for a shounen anime. Good call.

Tad Williams' Otherland might be fun - it would have to be either entirely in CG, or animated by a rotating set of directors a la The Animatrix according to world. But it would be eighteen thousand hours long and nobody would finish the damn thing.

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What books would you like to see made into an anime?

The Vampire Chronicles by Ann Rice