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What books would make great anime. (manga not included)
Maveric3477:
I think, without a doubt, that the Farseer Trilogy would make a brilliant anime.
Amazing series and gets far too little talk about it when ever good books come up.
cheezewhiz:
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A little off the beaten trail, but I do believe that it would make an excellent drama anime. Cool, I was hoping people would reach out this far in recommendations.
Romeo X Juliet is the only cross over into anime I found by Shakespeare, it was bought by FUNanimations. I really thought someone had done A Summer's Midnight Dream, andMacBeth. Sorry my thoughts were a little ahead of my facts.
traen:
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I saw the title and my head screamed The Silmarillion too. Especially with Production IG, though I wouldn't mind if Shinichiro Watanabe did it instead. He'd make a fun watch.
But I'd rather have it live action. Peter Jackson's epic Battle of Last Alliance scenes were pantsu-explosive enough for me to want him back, despite what he did to the LotR storyline.
As for ASIF.. HBO did Rome. 'Nuff said, I think--one of the only TV-type live actions shows that I would actually sit through and watch. That and Battlestar Galactica. Maybe.
Watchmen anime wouldn't be bad, if the movie flops, though the trailers make it look like it'll be pretty close to the original comic.
Madeleine L'engle's stuff wouldn't do so bad in an anime. Her books, especially the "Wrinkle In Time" series, are already plot-lined like a lot of animes--and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles Of Narnia.
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Oh, Shinichiro Watanabe might do a good job with Silmarillion, though I believe in Kenji Kamiyama more for anime with an epic tone. I agree that it would look impressive as live action, but I feel if it were a mini-series it would be far better than a movie. There's just too much going on, and too many stories. Peter Jackson would probably try to put a romantic tone on things again... Now if Ridley Scott were called in (remember Kingdom of Heaven Director's cut?)... or perhaps Guillermo del Toro, it might be really good.
Garth Nix's Seventh Tower would be a good shounen anime, it's got tsundere girl and pretty useless guy as lead characters already.
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As long as Ridley Scott doesn't eff it up with some convoluted ending, and they keep the armor and weapon designs from LotR. Original Tolkien's ideas were chain and scalemail armors ):
F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories could be more than enough for an episode each. They're pretty captivating and end with a wry tone.
quekmeister:
Artemis Fowl as an anime? It just came to me this morning... We have magical girls/girls with guns, evil genius, monsters, etc.
EDIT: Jun Fukuyama as Artemis!
Ridley Scott doesn't usually make bad movies, just that the studios tend to screw up the editing and publicity. Kingdom of Heaven was really a damn fine movie, if more than a little historically skewed, but 20th Century Fox (I think) cut it into a love story, in the process excising almost an hour of it.
zurukitsune:
i just realized what book series would make a kickass anime series (someone plaese tell me if it's already done). the Through the Looking Glass series. it's about the "REAL" story of Alice in Wonderland.
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