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How do you anons feel about western stuff (from books to videogames and others) getting adapted to anime?
What are your favorites if any?

It got people to read Howls moving castle.

>>283569855 (OP)
I really want a Malazan anime. Fuck, adapting a bunch of western literature would be awesome to see.
My favorite adaptations of western stuff are Gankutsuou, Cyberpunk Edgerunners and The Animatrix.

I want some dragonlance anime

>>283569855 (OP)

Percy Jackson would kick ass in anime format

>>283570188
Imagine the authors of children's fantasy greenlighting an anime adaptation of their work, then proceeding to reel in horror at the existence of the doujin industry. They would witness with their own eyes explicit images of their barely-pubescent characters getting railed in every hole. I'd love to be a fly on that wall.

Wasn't one fantasy novel getting an anime adaptation for this or next season? I just can't remember the name right now

>>283569855 (OP)
An adaptation of Confessions of a Son of the Century would be basically Eva without the mechas

>>283569855 (OP)
>How do you anons feel about western stuff (from books to videogames and others) getting adapted to anime?
It’s better than the Japanese original stuff since then you can guarantee there won’t be any weird pedo or incest shit in it.

>>283569855 (OP)
Anne of Green Gables was first adapted to anime in 1979. This isn't a new trend, underage.

I like the Narnia manga.

>>283572047
original anne of green gables was pretty good, not sure about the new remake

>>283572047
He never claimed it was.

>>283572047
This isn't even a matter of being underage, it's just a matter of being informed. Anne was one of the first English language novels translated into Japanese after the war, and multiple generations of children grew up reading it. There used to be a "Canadian World" theme park in Ashibetsu, Hokkaido, with a replica of the Green Gables home and park staff would cosplay as Anne and Gilbert. Excerpts from the books and from scripts for adaptations are used in English textbooks and exams. Canada has hundreds of thousands of Japanese tourists every year, and Prince Edward Island in particular really relies on travelers from Japan to prop up its economy. Couples fly to PEI to get married.
Couples.
From Japan.
Fly to Prince Edward Island
(halfway around the world)
To get married.
I can't actually think of a fitting analogy for an English country. There isn't any one book that's as pervasive and enduring. Maybe Harry Potter, but even that's died out and Anne is still popular 130 years after it was first published.
Anne is also the reason you have red-haired tsunderes as well as Studio Ghibli.

Western means cowboys & Indians. Stop appropriating the word.

>>283570902
>any weird pedo or incest shit in it.
What about normal pedo and incest stuff?

>>283569855 (OP)
I'm happy, as long as it's /tv/, like Animatrix. Nothing good comes out of basing your story on some mediocre Pedowood blockbuster.

>>283570040
I read it and still liked the film much more. Donated the book to a charity shop afterwards kek.

I think Takarajima is one of the best adaptations of Treasure Island period. Dezaki understood Silver's character from the book better than what I've seen come out of Hollywood.

>>283569855 (OP)
I love it when it's done right. Takarajima is also amazing.

>>283572629
>>283572749
Unfathomably based

>>283572480
>normal pedo and incest stuff
No such thing, and it’s why barely any Western fiction ever has them.

>>283573058
>barely any Western fiction ever has them.
Yet, it's in Western non-fiction quite a bit.

Masterpiece

Wish granted

>>283569855 (OP)
I plan on making an effort to watch the Deltora Quest anime.

>>283574354
Jasmine a cute

>>283569855 (OP)
Anime is like a story telling light.
If you don't want anything serious, you just wanna have fun for a while. Western shit is heavy but fat more gratifying

>>283574338
AOTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93hLB6VpQZc

I feel like Gogol's short stuff would make for a neat anthology, but nobody would fund it.
Alternatively, more Astrid Lindgren, especially Emil of Lonneberga which is my favorite.

>>283574338
>Oh yeah that happened...

I liked the Supernatural anime and their billion adaptations of Alice

>>283569855 (OP)
don't care, since everything i read will never be adapted to anime format because nobody would risk it
maybe except something like symphony of ages but i still doubt it

>>283570902
>>283572596
>waaaaa pedos
fuck off to reddit

>>283569855 (OP)
Heidi, Flanders no Inu, Marco, Ie Naki Ko ('77), Perrine and Sara are masterpieces.

>>283572468
>Anne is also the reason you have red-haired tsunderes
you don't wanna know what people thought of grown up anne.
thankfully the old anime only adapted her when she was a brat and it made sense, older anne is no longer likeable.

I loved the little women anime adaptation, its sort of perfect to adapt because little women itself book itself is a deep dive a girl's mind.

>>283569855 (OP)
it's decent enough would like to see more attmpts

There will never be enough Alice in Wonderland anime adaptations. Ever.

>>283576084
Superb taste.

>>283569855 (OP)
I love Future Boy Conan, and how the author was pissed off with how the series is bright and hopeful while the books is like "There is no future, humanity is doomed" (According to him)

>>283572749
>Future Boy Conan
Oddly this was meant to adapt a completely different book called The Stars My Destination but they coulden't get the rights

>>283577917
Gankutsuou* was meant to be an adaptation of a different book

>>283577917
interesting

>>283569855 (OP)
I think there are specific things that work well in anime format and that is the proper way to adapt them. It doesn't fit everything, but if you want to emphasize either charm or fantastical action anime does that easier than live action does. Some things won't translate to anime well, but just in the same way that they don't translate to film well. Though, interestingly, a lot of the things that don't translate to film fail because the book they were based on relied heavily on narration and internal monologue, which general gets lost in film, but such a story COULD theoretically get adapted to manga successfully.

In terms of western properties getting an anime adaptation... I think that Mistborn would honestly make for a fantastic anime. The high-energy metalpushing fights would fit right into shonen battle framing with minimal effort, and thats a visual fight language that live action just doesn't have.

I also personally think it would *hilarious* to adapt wheel of time and just make is straight-up a battle harem anime.

>>283569855 (OP)
Its cool to see other cultures take on stuff when it isn't Hollywood.

>>283572629
I'm currently watching this. It's really good. Has a slow start, but everything after they get on the ship has been gold. There are some standard weird Dezaki adaptation decisions, and some things he was still ironing out as a director, but it perfectly captures the spirit of the book. A boy's show, and I mean that in the best way possible.

>>283576084
watashi wa
watashi wa
watashi wa candy

>>283569855 (OP)
Why would that be an issue

>>283577917
Huh I didn't know about that

>>283573086
>Yet, it's in Western non-fiction quite a bit.
All groomed discord or boomer weebs.

World's Masterpiece Theater are classics for a reason.
Nevermind Dezaki's stuff outside of Hakugei which was sadly cut in the middle of production, it's good stuff
>>283570160
Just play Romancing SaGa

While reading this book I was thinking that this could work as an anime. Turns out that there were plans to make an anime but nothing came of it.

I'm genuinely surprised that there haven't been more attempts to adapt a few major French and Russian novels through setting shifts into early modern Japan/the Edo period.

Clerks but in Osaka

>>283584192
A lot of those were either too long or too depressing for children.
Imagine adapting War and Peace or Anna Karenina, even with the old 50-56 episode format you'd still have to cut a shitload of stuff, imagine how many changes they'd have to make about something like Madame Bovary to not traumatize japanese kids.

>>283569855 (OP)
I don't like it 99% of the time because of IP owners and management tainting the product and making it lame as fuck. But I am all for blending west and east for things like treasure hunting space westerns or edo period cyberpunk ronin cowgirls and stuff

>>283584540
>I don't like it 99% of the time because of IP owners and management tainting the product and making it lame as fuck.
Maybe for modern shit, old anime might have taken some liberties in making some things less violent or change a couple of story bits, or just not adapting entire books, but they were hardly lame

>>283584822
that's very true, production teams had more creative freedom but i think a bit part is also that there was a different mindset then vs now. Partly I assume because they consumed higher quality media to get the creative juices flowing and had longer attention spans for layered humor and thought inspiring scenes. not everything is gold obviously but less shit in means less shit out.

>>283570040
I read Howl's Moving Castle before the anime adaptation came out and it blew my mind because it was a totally random pick from the school library.
It gave me insight into the female fantasy.