Twilight written by Rumiko Takahashi.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!^ I'd pay money to see that kind of ridiculous Adaptation Decay applied to Twilight. It would probably be much better than the original book.
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Not even getting into that particular bit of blatant bias, I will note that the use of the term "Hollywood" is likely inaccurate, as most things dealing with animation do not actually focus there.
In particular, as I said before, there isn't much precedent for this sort of thing in the opposite direction (that is, a Japanese story or piece of literature being adapted into a new English medium), unless you count translations, which I don't because they're not the same thing.
edited 26th Dec '10 6:20:26 PM by KnownUnknown
I'd like to see the Phillip Marlowe novels get a treatment similar to Gankutsuou with The Count Of Monte Cristo where they put it in a fantastic setting and make Marlowe a... I dunno a vulcan or something.
"Everyone wants an answer, don't they?... I hate things with answers." — Grant Morrison^ I'd like to see a Warbreaker adaptation myself, if only because Siri inexplicably looks like a Miyazaki heroine in my head.
Also, it would be done by Studio BONES (or Ghibli, due to aforementioned Miyazaki heroine thing), because if your going to adapt a story about color, you better make it really fucking pretty.
edited 30th Dec '10 11:30:14 PM by Sparkysharps
Note that I am a kawaii-and-uguu-using-weeaboo. There
I meant a general trend of japanese taking western concepts and not butchering them too badly, but point taken as I don't know of many american-made shows that were directly converted into japanese as opposed to concepts and trends borrowed (E.g. Heroman, Panty and Stocking). And I'm too sleepy to think too well ;_;
edited 31st Dec '10 1:33:12 AM by BalloonFleet
WHASSUP....... ....with lolis!The idea that the Japanese can't shit up an English work is hilarious. Have you seen the Magic The Gathering Brothers War manga? They got Urza and Mishra switched up and turned into bishounen! The two main characters!
As for a good book-to-anime adaptation? Probably not the Dresden Files. A lot of the humor from the books comes from English pop cultural references, and the books are very American in terms of feel. Despite the geographical errors in the first few novels, Chicago is still a necessary element. A Japanese adaptation would have to preserve the tone along with the action, and unless it's filled with Woolseyisms with the source material to appeal to the Japanese, I doubt there's any chance of success of capturing the original tone.
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Yeah, but Black Lagoon was translated one way; a supposed Dresden Files anime would have to be Woolseyed from English to Japanese and back to English.
The only way I could see that happening is with very clever translators who can match the tone of the original for the Japanese adaptation and translators who have access to and are willing to read the original books for the Japanese to English translation.
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Actually the point I was making that a lot of the US pop-culture references in Black Lagoon aren't from the translation, they're in the original Japanese. Obviously you wouldn't be able to include all the references that Harry drops on a routine basis but it probably wouldn't be too hard to get a good selection that would work for both English speaking and Japanese audiences and maintain Harry's pop culture credentials.
The real question is, who do you get to voice Harry. I'm inclined to think Tomokazu Sugita or Takehito Koyasu
Seconding this. Barker's already an artist; have you seen the illustrated edition of Abarat (or are all the editions illustrated)? It's amazing. Hard to animate, of course, but if the anime industry can produce something like Mononoke, then I don't see why it'd be impossible to distill Barker's style down into something easier to work with.
An animated Abarat would be great, but even more than that, I'd like to see an animated Weaveworld.
The Great Gatsby — the voice acting would be awesome
The Old Man And The Sea — directed by Mamoru Oshii
Don Quixote — directed by Satoshi Kon
Call Of The Wild — by Studio BONES
Dune — by the people who did the anime series for Toward The Terra, done as a full 26-episode anime series, plus an additional 13 episodes for each of the sequel books.

Mought as well make it Western Animation and have Barker hisself on board.