| Oz would have made an amazing anime. |
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| Courage the Cowardly Dog, though with a darker plot (or, well, an actual plot) and less humor. |
Legend-Thriller said: How about a serious anime version of Ed Edd n Eddy with story driven plot with your normal comedy and love interest, now that would be awesome This is an absolutely terrible idea, I'm ashamed to have read it. I think an anime of Fringe where there is less filler and the plot doesn't just around could be good. Kinda like Steins;gate in a way. |
| Danny Phantom!!!!!! |
| SPARTACUS ^.^ would make a great psychological / action drama ! the style would of-course have to change in order for it to go into anime, but think along the lines of requiem for the phantom *pretty similar idea* *spartacus screenshot under spoiler* :P |
| teen titans .. :D |
| none, cartoons should remain cartoons, live action TV shows should remain live action TV shows, and anime should remain anime. If the show was good don't fix what ain't broke and if the show was bad let it die. |
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| Would love to see Jeopardy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy_%28BBC_TV_series%29 |
| Glee :D |
| SPONGEBOBBBBBB. LOLOLOLOL >:33 |
| Kick buttowski! |
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| Since everyone says action/comedy I'll go for something more romantic! Once Upon A Time! If done right, it could be soo nice :D |
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| it would be Avatar the Legend of Aang.. epic story |
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| I agree with Ben 10 absolutely. |
| A hero will sacrifice the one he loves to save the world. A villain will sacrifice the world for the one he loves. I'll take the villain. |
| Avatar and Ben 10 indeed. |
| Supernatural. Oh, wait... |
| 「レミ咲が今日のティータイム。」- RemiSaku ga kyou no tea time! |
| Firefly, Short lived on TV, but not in my heart. Very good show and i believe perfect for an anime. |
CaptMalone said: Firefly, Short lived on TV, but not in my heart. Very good show and i believe perfect for an anime. Hmmm... yea, it could be a cowboy bebop. Dollhouse would be alright (with the appropriate modifications). Maybe Twin Peaks, but the background would have to be Japanese. |
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| The first requirement: No gay tights like 99% of Marvel and DC's comics :P |
| End Zionazism |
| The thing is that alot of western cartoons are almost like anime. Just take a look at Last Airbender, the 2011 Thundercats or even stuff like Young Justice or Ultimate Spider-Man. As for Live Action-sources...what about Sherlock. Not the Robert Downey Jr. Movies, but the awesome BBC-Series with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Something like that. Of course it would be a lot like a darker, more adult version of Detective Conan, but that mustn't mean a bad thing. If you think about it you could almost turn every tv show into an anime...if done right. A Game of Thrones-Anime could be epic for example. Or a adaptation of Spartacus which would be all gritty and bloody. And as Eratik said Twin Peaks would be a great idea. The Weirdness and the great characters alone would make a animated version work. |
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| Game of Thrones would probably be pretty good. |
| I dislike liars <img src="http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg580/Matt_Alvarez/Araragikunlied-2-1-1.png" /> |
messedup said: The thing is that alot of western cartoons are almost like anime. Just take a look at Last Airbender, the 2011 Thundercats or even stuff like Young Justice or Ultimate Spider-Man. None of those shows are anything like anime. |
Kirikizan said: messedup said: The thing is that alot of western cartoons are almost like anime. Just take a look at Last Airbender, the 2011 Thundercats or even stuff like Young Justice or Ultimate Spider-Man. None of those shows are anything like anime. Wow...that's so wrong I don't even need to explain why... |
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messedup said: Wow...that's so wrong I don't even need to explain why... That's not how it works, I'm afraid. You can't make baseless claims without reasons to support it. None of those shows exhibit any characteristics you find in Japanese culture or in the medium of anime. They're all generic American action cartoons. Two of which are American superheroes, which is as basic as you can get. |
Kirikizan said: messedup said: Wow...that's so wrong I don't even need to explain why... That's not how it works, I'm afraid. You can't make baseless claims without reasons to support it. None of those shows exhibit any characteristics you find in Japanese culture or in the medium of anime. They're all generic American action cartoons. Two of which are American superheroes, which is as basic as you can get. I'm not talking about any elements that are taken out of japanese culture etc...I was mostly talking about the style of animation or the designs of the characters etc. Thinking about it Young Justice might not be right, but the rest is just so obvious. Last Airbender: The whole character designs almost scream out anime. The whole setting of the show is more eastern than western (even if rather chinese than japanese). It's really what would come out if americans produce something similar to japanese animations. Then we got Thundercats 2011 where the character designs look like something a japanese furry-fanatic would come up with. Not to mention that the whole animation on this show is indeed done by the japanese animation studio Studio 4C. Ultimate Spider-Man might be a little more harder to explain, but I mostly think about how the funny scenes were done in which the time stops and Spidey has his little monologues about things and he is mostly shown in a unshapely design like you see in most anime, where the whole shape of body changes etc. If this part doesn't make much sense I'm sorry for my bad english. Ultimately I must say, that of course there is still a big difference between those western interpretations and the real japanese animations. All I wanted to say is that if you compare the way western cartoons were done in the 80s or 90s with the way many of them are done today you really see, that they try to at least imitate some of the more eastern style. |
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All I wanted to say is that if you compare the way western cartoons were done in the 80s or 90s with the way many of them are done today you really see, that they try to at least imitate some of the more eastern style. And I think a lot of the current action oriented Western cartoons of today look a lot like the Western cartoons of the 80s and 90s, which is to say very muscular, low detailed eyes, with a very straight out of the comic book feel(not manga). When I see these kinds of shows I think Max Fleischer and not Osamu Tezuka. But then again, I don't think having an Eastern setting or having the grunt work outsourced to Asians qualify as having anime style. |
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| The Walking Dead could be a god-tier anime. |
| Now that I think about it, I would watch a Star Trek anime. |
Last Airbender: The whole character designs almost scream out anime. The whole setting of the show is more eastern than western (even if rather chinese than japanese). It's really what would come out if americans produce something similar to japanese animations. Simply having a show set in an Asian world doesn't mean much, especially since the major problem with Avatar was they got pretty much everything about that world wrong, from mixing up Japanese and Chinese traditions to mispronouncing the names. The characters themselves act very American, not Asian. They're purely American archetypes and develop as you would expect from American archetypes. If the Asian setting was so important, then shows like Fullmetal Alchemist wouldn't be much like anime, but it is. Because despite the western setting, the writing in Fullmetal Alchemist is still very mcuh Asian. A good example is the sibling duo of Katara and Sokka. They quarrel and argue a lot, with usually the brother, Sokka in this case, being humbled and put in his place, which is a very common dynamic of siblings in American cartoons. Siblings in anime tend to be much more closely tied, as there is a much bigger importance of family in general in Asian culture; especially of elders. Most sibling dynamics in anime tend to be very close with very little outright pointless quarreling; any quarreling is usually a major plot focus; such as if one of the siblings is evil working for the villain, or it's a drama about their relationship. But even in those instances, you can see the bonds they share which i something you never find in Western cartoons. For an example of the first, the recent chapters of Naruto, as well as their fight a couple hundred chapters back, especially shows that even if Sasuke and Itachi are enemies, they're still brothers. For the second, Kirino and Kyousuke in Oreimo. Kyousuke grins and bears his sister's attitude because she's his sister and he will do anything for her. This is especially a very common trope in shounen anime, such as Jounouchi and Shizuka in Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters, Luffy and Ace in One Piece, Sasuke and Itachi in Naruto, Yoh and Hao in Shaman King, Edward and Alphonse in Fullmetal Alchemist, and so forth. It's where the whole onii-chan/onee-san dynamic comes from, and I can't think of many western siblings who I could see using those words or share that kind of bond. Helga and Olga in Hey Arnold, Bart and Lisa from The Simpsons, Meg and Chris from Family Guy, and etcetera are all too different and not very close. Toph is another good example. Little girls in American cartoons tend to be very loud. annoying, and brash, which is what Toph was like. If they're a little sister, their sole purpose seems to be making their older siblings lives a living hell: see pretty much every sitcom on American television from Drake and Josh to Roseanne. Contrary, little girls in anime tend to be portrayed as either very cute and innocent, or if it's a more otaku anime, tsundere, and sexualized. Toph is more in line with Blitzy from the 80s cartoon Botsmaster, or Sari from Transformers Animated: annoying, loud, somewhat tomboyish, and always looking for trouble; a very western exeuction of little girls. You can see it in Thundercats as well: Lion-O, Tigra, Cheetara and all them embody very clear American archetypes and portrayals than they would if it was an anime. There's so many examples you could list of Western sensibilties and writing in these shows. Any attempt at copying an art style isn't going to change the basic roots that these shows are written by westerners, and simply having some generic 'anime influence' art style isn't enough to say it's 'close' to anime. This is why most anime rip-offs fail, they never dive into the actual culture or dynamics of Japanese animation; and they're always American cartoons with a bland art style. Note: As with everything, I'm sure you could name maybe one or two exceptions, but it doesn't change the fact there's clear different views on these subjects between the western and eastern cultures. The exception proves the rule, as they say. |
| Now how about asking what novels should become anime series? There are many books I can think of the would become a decent to good anime. Now far as cartoons....I don't know...how about....Scooby Doo or something like it. |
| And Zero said "Let there be rebellion for the power of the geass is hidden within all of you". |
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Rosaria9 said: Now how about asking what novels should become anime series? There are many books I can think of the would become a decent to good anime. Now far as cartoons....I don't know...how about....Scooby Doo or something like it. I was just thinking that about Codex Alera since I just started to re-listen to the audiobook recently. |
AniTurtleMay 4, 2012 6:45 PM
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| What popular TV show would you like to see as an anime? I would pick The Vampire Diaries, Revenge and The Mindy Project :) |
| None, it'll lose the feel of being a live action show, I cant imagine house or leverage being transformed into an anime, these drama productions mostly focus on expression and reality, anime production will ruin it |
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| No,just no. |
Vandalyzm said: Halfway through the first season, I'm disappointed by all the changes they had to make for live action television, and the cheap sets. If done right, the anime could visually be an improvement.Game of Thrones |
| Spartacus.. |
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fdsfgs said: Not a TV show but I feel Mistborn would make a pretty good anime. The fights already feel like something from a shounen. I agree. Also dexter, I know theres a cartoon but I don't think its very good. |
| Fringe, maybe. |
| I dunno, most TV shows are suited for that medium. It's the same with most anime. I could see Game of Thrones being an anime but probably not a good one. |
| "I’m not going there to die; I’m going to find out if I’m really alive." ~Spike Spiegel - The Real Folk Blues Pt II |
| Merged topic. I think I already posted. But I'll support Codex Alera and Mistborn trilogy (Sanderson is writing more in the Mistborn universe so there's more material down the lines). It's one of the best endings I've read for a fantasy novel. :> |
TachiiJan 19, 2013 6:37 AM
| Maybe Danny Phantom? |
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