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Darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#101: Jun 7th 2013 at 9:27:37 AM

You know, I could see that happening.

In a similar vane, Tamora Pierce's books could make a good shoujo, especially Alana or Dane's books. Alana has the love triangle and will or won't they going on, and Dane has a student/teacher romance that would be easier for Japanese audiences to swallow.

Circle of Magic would also make a good kids series with some adult bits happening in the background that gets more noticeable if they adapt the second series.

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#102: Jun 7th 2013 at 12:58:13 PM

I've said this elsewhere, but Studio Gainax adapting an entry in The Oregon Files would make my year.

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#104: Jun 8th 2013 at 3:18:52 PM

  • Warrior Cats: The scope of the series means that you'd have to go for an anime if you really wanted to cover it all. I could see a 13 episode season for each book happening. My suggestion mostly comes from how inexplicably Shonen the whole series feels, albeit with the female and male characters almost completely equal.
  • I want to say Mistborn, because everything needs more Mistborn, but because I don't think Mistborn would work as an anime, I will instead default to a hilariously skewed Narnia anime. It would be so worth it.

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#105: Jun 8th 2013 at 4:25:24 PM

I think Mistborn would work really well as an anime.

I was thinking that The Queens Thief series might work well, as the protagonist is your Kenshin/Vash type- an amazing warrior who doesn't like to fight and puts on a front of Obfuscating Stupidity. And I'd love to see one of his fights on screen in which he takes out several assassins, doing a Bare-Handed Blade Block with one hand and gutting them with his other hand, which is a Hook Hand.

One factor that probably makes it difficult to adapt is that the protagonist has said hook hand because his love interest ordered his other hand chopped off (it makes sense in context), and they get together after that. That would probably be the most extreme example of tsundere ever.

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shiro_okami Since: Apr, 2010
#106: Jun 10th 2013 at 3:16:37 PM

The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid would be interesting, (although not "English.").

Possibly with mechas.

Second this! The Iliad could be awesome with mechas.

C0mraid from Here and there Since: Aug, 2010
#107: Jun 11th 2013 at 2:40:22 PM

Cement Garden

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#108: Jun 11th 2013 at 4:35:18 PM

[up]The Ian Mc Ewan book? I saw the film of that a few years ago. You may be on to something there.

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#109: Jun 12th 2013 at 9:47:54 AM

[up][up] I could definitely see one of the artsier directors in the field doing justice to that one. It could be unbelievably creepy.

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Darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#110: Jun 12th 2013 at 12:55:11 PM

Carmila? Of course, we'd need some good ol' adaptation expansion, but I could see it making a decent dark yuri.

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#111: Jun 12th 2013 at 5:44:43 PM

Anything Michael Ende or Neil Gaiman ever wrote. Momo especially.

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Muzozavr Since: Jan, 2001
#112: Jun 13th 2013 at 3:16:51 AM

Not an English book, but Lem's "Solaris" as an OVA by Production IG, just for kicks to see another version. I mean, there's the 1968 TV film (actually really damn good, my favorite adaptation), the 1972 Tarkovsky film (HATRED and not due to slow pacing, either) and the 2002 version by Soderbergh that I have yet to see, what about an animated one?

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Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#113: Jun 13th 2013 at 4:27:47 AM

[up]Speaking of Stanislaw Lem, the Cyberiad would make an amazing anime.

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#114: Jun 13th 2013 at 7:09:16 AM

Mistborn. It's already got world-threatening villains, crazy kung fu fights and a magi system that would blend right in in a Shonen.

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Darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#115: Jun 13th 2013 at 10:50:39 AM

The Graveyard Book would make a nice film or 6 episode series.

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#116: Oct 28th 2013 at 10:25:34 AM

Agreeing with the above troper, Tamora Pierce's books would be pretty perfect. particularly the Tortall books, because of the magical Gift being a color for each person... that seems like it'd fit well.

Oh my gosh. I want an anime of Kel's years in the Yamani Islands- her learning to use the naginata, befriending Shinkokami and Yukime, her mother defending the swords from pirates, bandit attacks, maybe a little political stuff, Kel talking about the Lioness and her dreams of knight-hood.... I want this more than anything right now. ugh.

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Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#117: Oct 28th 2013 at 1:26:10 PM

Blood Meridian. Not the usual subject matter one associates with anime, but it's the one medium that could really capture the book's hallucinatory atmosphere, delicate balance of gritty realism & gnostic mysticism, and off-the-freaking-scales gore and atrocity.

edited 28th Oct '13 1:26:22 PM by Jhimmibhob

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