What non-Japanese literary classic would you like to see as an anime?

Postby **Arnobius** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:28 pm

meboeck wrote:Most Jules Verne novels would probably make awesome animes.

Already done (in an abused sense of the term): Nadia- Secret of Blue Water

Postby **Debitt** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:31 pm

I haven't read the book myself, but I believe Laputa: Castle in the Sky was very very losely based upon a part of Gulliver's Travels. <_<; I only say this because I talk to my sophomore year English teacher a lot and she said they watched it in her class after finishing the book. Of course, this was also the class where we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail after reading various and asundry works based on Arthurian legend, sooooo....

Barring all the possibly strange things that could be done with works such as Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, I would be interested to see some of Shakespeare's plays adapted, if only very loosely.

Postby **Puritan** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:15 pm

Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. It would probably stink as a movie (If you've read the books, you know they're very episodic), but an Anime could deal with the episodic nature and (if done right) make a really good show.

Plus the book rocks, it's one of the best Sci-Fi books ever, maybe even THE best.

Postby **Android raptor** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:26 pm

Hmmm, this is odd, but some of Poe's stories would make good anime, I think...

Postby **JezusBoy** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:10 pm

oh oh oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone heard of the Ender's Game series? That would be an awsome movie and an anime! Anyone agree?

ps-It's a sci-fi.

Postby **Puguni** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:17 pm

Cold Mountain...I know they already made a movie, but I haven't seen it yet...so I thought an anime would be cool. ^_^

Postby **soul alive** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:01 pm

Ender's Game might prove to be a very interesting anime. *ponders*

Postby **Debitt** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:26 pm

JezusBoy wrote:oh oh oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone heard of the Ender's Game series? That would be an awsome movie and an anime! Anyone agree?

ps-It's a sci-fi.

I actually think they're working on a live-action Ender's Game.

Postby **Puritan** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:28 am

What? Live action? That would be....interesting. Don't get me wrong, I loved the books, but I think it would be creepy to see eight to ten year olds playing the characters in the books. I hope they increase their ages a bit, because there would just be something wrong with kids acting like the kids in Ender's Game. But if they do that and make a good, serious movie, I would love to see it.

Postby **bigsleepj** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:43 am

Android raptor wrote:Hmmm, this is odd, but some of Poe's stories would make good anime, I think...

Hmmm - yes! The Fall of the House of Usher would make an excellent anime. And his seldom read story "The X-ing of a Paragraph" would make an excellent comedy as well.

Postby **Maledicte** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:52 pm

The Phantom of the Opera would make an excellent anime or manga, I think.

Postby **mitsuki lover** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:24 pm

Beowulf or The Song of Hiawatha or perhaps Evangeline.

Postby **Myoti** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:56 pm

What exactly IS Ender's Game?

Anyways, I'd like to see The Giver as an anime. Coolness!

Yes please. The most I've seen was a play (that stunk...).

If only to see how it would be possible, C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy...

Yes yes yes!! Still haven't read the third...

And Beowulf, as MLover stated.

Sure, this has been a movie, but... the doujinishi stuff or whatever has made me wonder what a Harry Potter anime would be like.

Oh, and the Godzilla/Gojira series. I keep thinking how much better they could make it as an anime (and yes, I know of the old cartoon version...).
[Wait, that's Japanese... >_> ]

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:59 pm

Ben-Hur, but only if they did it right, which they probrably wouldn't.

My Writing.com Portfolio · Postby **EricTheFred** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:11 pm

I vote for Beowulf too. I would like to add the whole of Nordic Mythology as a good basis, as well. I also second the motion for the Space Trilogy, except that I shudder to think of how much fanservice they would get out of Perelandra. I think The Screwtape Letters has potential, too.
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian series, but again, the fanservice problem (Barsoomian women just aren't into clothing, IIRC.)
Other votes:
Hiawatha, Horatio Hornblower, or perhaps its science fiction clone Honor Harrington. (All H's for no reason I know of.)
Sci-Fi votes:
Anne McCaffry's Pern LeGuin's Earthsea and the James P. Hogan
Giants books.

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:13 pm

Cold Mountain would have a really bad time with fanservice methinks.

My Writing.com Portfolio · Postby **EricTheFred** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:21 pm

I have one more... not a "literary classic" pre se, but a tailor-made anime series:
James White's "Sector General" series. This would be horribly goofed up as a live-action, but as an animation, it would be great.

MAL · Postby **Kaori** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:29 pm

EricTheFred wrote:Anne McCaffry's Pern LeGuin's Earthsea and the James P. Hogan
Giants books.

There's actually already a movie based on Earthsea in progress:

http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=28490

Postby **The Last Bard** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:37 pm

Earthsee will be awesome! (I hope) It's going to be done by Gibli Studios! (Correct me if I'm wrong)

But if I could see one book to anime done just as I'd like it, I would have to say Robinson Crusoe. ONLY if it was done right.
I've always enjoyed Robinson Crusoe.

Postby **Puguni** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:50 pm

Shao Feng-Li wrote:Cold Mountain would have a really bad time with fanservice methinks.

Yeah. =_=; One of the few unpleasant parallels to the Odyessy. Strike that then.

To compensate, Tale of Two Cities wouldn't be bad either. :|

Postby **Sennin** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:33 am

I'd say Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott would make an interesting anime. There are many interesting characters and plenty of action.

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