| Graphic novels which would have great anime adaptations imo would be Carboard, Bones and Lastman. Novels would be: Percy Jackson, Genesis, Wardstone Chronicles and Artemis Fowl. Sometimes I wish every country had their own "anime" productions to adapt all the great novels and comics they make like Japan adapts a lot of its manga and light novels. |
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| Either The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo or The False Princess by Eilis O'Neal would be awesome to see in the form of anime. I used to read these two books a lot! I could totally see Junichi Sato directing an adaptation of Despereaux, considering his work on fairy-tale-inspired anime, such as Princess Tutu and Prétear. |
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| The Demon Cycle series by Peter V. Brett. I like the world building in that series, and it has very balanced magic(?) system. The main MC Arlen is like a regular badass anime protag too haha |
| - The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) - Mistborn (Brandon Sanderson) - Skyward (Brandon Sanderon) - Eragon (Christopher Paolini) - Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan) |
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| the hike by Drew Magary. Picked it up randomly in a book store and it's one of my top three books of all time, incredibly well written with a lot of great attention to detail. I think it would work as an anime because a lot of what happens is very surreal and imaginative as the plot sees a man walking down a path in the woods and encountering various supernatural phenomenon I'm not going to go into further detail because it's something that would get really ruined by spoilers. Definitely check it out if you have the chance |
| i'm just curious about what these serial manufacturers of shitty manga adaptations would do with a long and tedious book like kafka's the castle, all insanely descriptive, confusing, did i mention fucking huge already? not that many pages but it took me ages to finish. honestly nevermind, i'd hate them to butcher such an awesome and unique book. |
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| i think 50 shades of grey would be perfect as an anime |
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edelgord said: Haruki Murakami's books for the sake that I could comment on his people profile. Many aspects of the setting of Haibane Renmei are deliberately similar to Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. You could give it a try if you haven't watched it yet. When I was reading One hundred years of Solitude everything that was happening in the story in my minds eye translated into a kind of psychedelic cartoon. Its visual style was not really that of a typical anime but anyway it would be great to watch it as a unique josei. |
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| The Skulduggery Pleasent series, holy smokes those books were my life when I was in primary. It has great scenes and the action parts are really good, would dream to see an anime adaptation of the series. |
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| I'm not sure it would work as an anime, but my name is a reference to Catch-22. Easily my favourite book ever. Absurdist comedy mixed with in with great mesages about war (the absurdism of war) and told in really creative original style which I've never seen emulated. I think something based on that might make for an interesting anime. I'll tell what would make for an absoutely stellar anime though: The Red Rising Trilogy. OMG that would make a killer anime. |
| “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Aggregate scoring is bad for the anime fandom |
| There's a sci-fi novel I got as a gift in high school called Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future, and aside from being a very fun and engaging novel, it could be a triumphant recapturing of the spirit of the legendary Space Western Trilogy of 1998. Give that shit to Studio Bones and get Shinichirou Watanabe on board, maybe even bring back Yoko Kanno and Tsuneo Imahori, and it would be the coveted Cowboy Bebop spiritual successor people have been clamoring for for 20 years now. |
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| A Song of Fire and Ice series, if only to see the direwolves in their true size/significance (because the TV show screwed them over) Harry Potter would also be cool as a series with multiple seasons rather than several movies |
| I honestly think Artemis Fowl would be better as an anime. The movie trailer looks like they fucked it up (honestly, they lost their chance to not have Asa Butterfield play Artemis. Like the dude would have been perfect), and I'm not feeling too psyched about it. If there was a multi-cour series covering each book, it could easily be top-tier. |
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| So many! There are a lot of kids books I read that would make the cutest anime series! XD |
| A treasure the color of the rainbow, the color of happiness |
| The wheel of time by Robert Jordan I wanna finish that monster ,,But im to lazy to read it all because it gets so slow sometime and i give up =P But i have read half of it and love the rich world the magic a crazy dragon ,, But the books get a bit to much after a while ,, So i would love a tv show or anime about those fantasy books Or David Eddings The Belgariad The Malloreon The Elenium and The Tamuli,, I love those books and some kind of adaptions would be very interesting!! Moiraine Damodred was one of the first strong females characters I come across as a child ,, And I really like her, She Is beautiful strong wise brave and one of my first waifus ever =P To see this in anime would be a dream coming true for me!!  |
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| theres this pretty good book called "piercing" and I think it would be amazing as a serious, dark anime. |
| Any adaptation of A song of ice and fire after george is done with dream, so I can finally stop having nightmares of GoT s08. I'd also love an adaptation of Aghata christie's and then there were none, and some more sherlock holmes too Xstasy said: The Odyssey by Homer There is an 80s adaptation called Ulysses 31 though they made it a scifi but it's still pretty good. It's also quite special since it was a collaboration between a french and japanese staff https://myanimelist.net/anime/2331/Uchuu_Densetsu_Ulysses_31 |
| Captain Underpants. The writing and character development in that series is CRIMINALLY underrated. It will probably never become an anime, due to the threat of Captain Underpants becoming the greatest waifu of all time. |
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yxckson said: Captain Underpants. The writing and character development in that series is CRIMINALLY underrated. It will probably never become an anime, due to the threat of Captain Underpants becoming the greatest waifu of all time. I don't personally see that much potential in this as anime material, but hey if it actually happens, I might legit give it a watch. And Captain Underpants being the best waifu? uhhhhhh... Professor Poopypants says hi |
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| Eragon. But honestly after that disaster of a movie, I don't have much hope that a adaption of any kind will be good, I feel like it's the kind of story thats only good as a novel. |
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| Lord of the Rings would be a pretty epic anime imo |
| You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become irrelevant. |
| Hamlet (though it's a play, but whatever) The Bible (Old Testament) A Song of Ice and Fire The Iliad Wuthering Heights Harry Potter Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Lord of the Flies The Picture of Dorian Gray 1984 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Flowers for Algernon Fight Club The Road |
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Shizuka-Suz said: konkelo said: The great Gatsby and Pride and prejudice. I would generally dig adaptation of realism novel. I had a quick check of your anime list and I couldn't see if you have seen Emma? If not, I think that might be your jam, it has a very Austeny vibe to it. Oh I haven't watched it, forgot that it even exist. I have few manga volumes and read them when I was really young, at that time it didn't interest me. I should try again after so many years. |
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| Ender's game would be actually sick. Wouldn't have as many restrictions as the horrible live action version had. |
| Definitely The Silmarillion. Imagine how epic that shit would be if done well by a good studio. |
| Never Let Me Go Roadside Picnic The Lunar Trilogy The Owl in Daylight (PKD unfinished novel) I can only think of these because they have the potential to capture that melancholic/ethereal feeling of science fiction deconstructed into grounded realism, like Texhnolyze does with the underground city before moving to the surface which is just like "real life". Admittedly when I say Roadside picnic I mean more along the lines of Tarkovsky's Stalker but I prefer the book title. |
| Brandson Sanderson's Cosmere. I can see it be done live-action, but honestly, the actual magic, action, aesthetic style would be less effective than it would be in an anime. People flying with swords and spears, singing magic, and jumping through mists would look amazing through animation, I think. Also, colour, would look really great animated. (Technically, the rest of Spice & Wolf is apart of the Light-Novel, if that counts. :P |
| "You know you've reached peak quality when a doujin is better than the actual source series." (Eg. To LOVE-Ru) Just to list a couple of biases. Likes: A good story, characters, writing, romance, a good plot twist or something that breaks expectations (In a good way), 'backstory' and justice. Dislikes: Bad romance, too much fanservice, the harem genre, yuri, yaoi, and bad writing. |
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