With Western franchises like Star Wars, Blade Runner, Scott Pilgrim, and LoTR nowadays getting anime which one do you hope gets one next?

What is your criteria for franchise ? Some IPs are naturally bigger than others.

I really wish Red Sonja, Power Girl, Wonder Woman, Vampirella, Xena, Darna, Taarna, Aeon Flux, Cavewoman, Dejah Thoris, Shanna/Sheena would gt an anime but i'm happy Witchblade got one.

@tchitchouan Anything that originates from the West no matter how huge or small. For sure I agree about Witchblade. Deltora Quest also comes to my mind as another one that got an anime.

@minzera Well by that definition here's a list of western franchises i want animated.

Axa
Falka
Lorna
Magik
Darna
Taarna
Druuna
Starfire
Hellwitch
Purgatori
Draculina
Aeon Flux
Red Sonja
Power Girl
Vampirella
Witchblade
Cavewoman
Dejah Thoris
Bikini Cowboy
Power Princess
Jungle Fantasy
Ghita of Alizarr
Wonder Woman
Shanna/Sheena
Aspen Matthews
Jungle Girl/Queen
Witch Eternity Comics
Lady Death/Demon/Hel
Witch of the Black Rose

@tchitchouan A great selection, we need to contact someone from Japan and get this to happen! It might kick-start a new Ecchi era.

The Witcher, because Cyberpunk Edgerunners has been a success already.

@Zarutaku

Consdering we already have two Witcher animations, one of them was pretty good, I doN't see the point of getting it in anime form, especially when most Western IPs in anime form were a letdown so far.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners is an exception, not the norm, and honestly I wouldn't rate it any higher than 6, but that's just me.

Warhammer 40k pretty much has content that would easily outstrip One Piece in length.

So sure, why not that one? Honestly, I don't know how many studios or creatives I would trust in the anime industry, to do a work like that. 40k works off horror and grim realities, how are you going to sell that to Japanese otaku? Maybe if you make a hot inquisitor or sisters of battle the MCs IDK. Amazon is going all in on it, and I bet it's going to be live action, which you an do, that said, anything big in that universe would benefit from animation. Owlcat has been capturing the tone well, in their trailers for their RPGs, and that is kinda what I would like to see.

Also lots of Western fantasy books, Mistborn, Wheel of Time, even the current books I am reading like the Powder Mage Trilogy. I mean even romantasy books would better than a lot of these isekai titles. Currently, reading His Orc Charioteer Bride, which I would take over a lot of those isekai LN adaptions.

This would kind of be cheating as it's a property adapting an adaptation of a Japanese franchise, but I think an anime series based off the Boom Studios Power Rangers comics would go really hard since those books really expanded on the cast of the 90's Live action series and has recently created their own new all star team of some of the best characters across the 30 year legacy of power. It isn't like Japan is completely unfamiliar with the Power Rangers either since MMPR (including both movies), Turbo (including the movie), In Space, Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed Rescue, SPD, Mystic Force, Samurai, and Dino Force Brave (the Korean sequel to "Power Ranger Dino Force" a dub of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger) have all been dubbed into Japanese, with Power Rangers SPD's dub being directly mentioned in Episode 2 of Akibaranger. The Western side of the Power Rangers brand has been pretty much in a state of limbo when it comes to Television, so even if it's something like an anime based off of the comics that would greatly help revive the brand as it desperately needs something new and the comics have plenty of storylines for animators to draw from that wouldn't really be possible in a live action setting.

Clarissa Explains It All would be my vote.

More Lovecraft. It's a shame H. P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories this is the only adaptation on MAL and as far as I've found only "major" one.

And anyways Gou Tanabe has already adapted a lot of stuff into great manga and I'd love to see actual anime based on those. The manga has the style down already and the source material has been around forever.

Could even be modern style adaptations like Colour out of Space with Nicholas Cage. That was a fun movie and an okay adaptation for the modern times.

@Nysse I got an interesting work for you if you are into Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos. The Visual Novel Demonbane is Gen Urobuchi's first take on the mythos, his second being the visual novel Saya no Uta. Demonbane even has an anime adaptation, although not very good. There is also a fun 2010s romcom which was a parody take on the mythos where the Gods are cute anime girls. https://myanimelist.net/anime/11785/Haiyore_Nyaruko-san

More Lovecraft. It's a shame H. P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories this is the only adaptation on MAL and as far as I've found only "major" one.

And anyways Gou Tanabe has already adapted a lot of stuff into great manga and I'd love to see actual anime based on those. The manga has the style down already and the source material has been around forever.

Could even be modern style adaptations like Colour out of Space with Nicholas Cage. That was a fun movie and an okay adaptation for the modern times.

You might get what you want after all. It's donghua but I think it's close enough.

There's also this



And you could watch In Vaulted Halls Entombed episode of Love,Death and Robots if you haven't already.

@JoeChip Cool. Might check these out as well

Batman: Europa

Batman, Telltale Series and Enemy Within

Batman Arkham

Alien/Predator, Stone and Fire

Batman Cacophonia

Invader Zim

@Absurdo_N
If Japan wants to adapt something Brazilian

"Paz Guerreira, O Caminho das Dezesseis Pétalas" by Talal Husseini

When I read this book I thought it would definitely be better as an audiovisual or video game adaptation, but the book is very good.

BioShock anime would be great as well.

More Lovecraft. It's a shame H. P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories this is the only adaptation on MAL and as far as I've found only "major" one.

And anyways Gou Tanabe has already adapted a lot of stuff into great manga and I'd love to see actual anime based on those. The manga has the style down already and the source material has been around forever.

Could even be modern style adaptations like Colour out of Space with Nicholas Cage. That was a fun movie and an okay adaptation for the modern times.

@tchitchouan Anything that originates from the West no matter how huge or small. For sure I agree about Witchblade. Deltora Quest also comes to my mind as another one that got an anime.

I'll be bold and say a Twin Peaks anime, so I can add Laura Palmer to my favorite characters here on MAL and David Lynch to my favorite people list (credited as original creator)

@Atromentina

It doesn't make sense to adapt Twin Peaks into anime in the first place.

I think a James Bond anime would be pretty good.

I'd also like to see an anime like those cheesy 80's pervert comedies. Like Last American Virgin and Porky's

I wanna see a Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder anime