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NEWS: Twilight Director Hardwicke Hints at Anime Version

I can only imagine what kind of conversations are going on over at 4chan and Gaia.

Just because Twilight MAY have an anime doesn't mean it'll suddenly make anime a "cool" mainstream thing you'll no longer only have to yourselves, because that's the only complaint I'm really seeing here.

Although really, does Twilight have any less substance than a number of existing romance anime? It's a dumb-as-bricks love story that ignores all vampire canon, I grant you, and the writing isn't that great, but I don't think this merits the 'death to all involved'. It's just silliness.

The anime world doesn't need Twilight! This is just an excuse to capitalise on its popularity...

All the tween girls who think the vampires in Twilight are just so dreamy would stab their own family members to download this and squee in joy. You know the ones I'm talking about.

I already hate this franchise like burning. I'd rather not see any sparkly, emotionally abusive vampires and their mary sue girlfriends squirm their way into anime, thank you.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make in relaying its demographics, but my problem with it is the types of messages it delivers to young girls. It seems to all boil down to true happiness being to give up everything for your man, marry young and start squeezing out babies ASAP.

Eh, I read the entire series. It's not that bad. Mediocre would be a better description, but people like to attack things that are popular, so... whatever.

Anyways, the ENTIRE time I was reading the books I was getting shojo-manga vibes, so this doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

The_Libertarian_Otaku wrote:

The main difference between Twilight and existing romance anime: Twilight is full of crappy Mary Sue and Gary Stu characters.

And no one's ever made a romance anime with those either?

Teriyaki Terrier wrote:

Based off what I've seen (we've sold a ton of those books at my job) the demographic is teens to mid adults. To some degree a anime is going to far, but an eroge is what really would be considered going way too far for some people.

The demographic is most definitely for the female audience. And even some of them are putting on hate for the series and movie. Like my sister and mother. They don't get it at all and I'm glad they don't either. It basically is a fangirl's dream come true.

Teriyaki Terrier wrote:

I can see why females would be against this. Giving up one's ambitions and dreams just to get close to "cool" type guy? What kind of message is that sending to the demographic. It's like moe, I understand more than I did a year ago, but there are still aspects that confuse me. In modern day, I somewhat surprized the princess wanting a knight to take her away mentality hasn't faded away.

Apparently the content becomes more sexualized as the series progresses. And from what it sounds like it gets pretty graphic as well. To the point that I'm told that if they were to release more of these movies it wouldn't hold on a PG-13 level if they wanted to stay "faithful" to the novel.

I would be very, very happy if Twilight became an anime, for the simple reason that Shojo anime needs more support, marketing and love in the US.

Think about it: when was the last time you saw a Shojo anime airing on American TV? Let alone a U.S.-Japan collaboration effort similar to Afro Samurai or Witchblade?

For every Fruits Basket and Ouran that actually gets licensed and produced, there's a NANA, Love*Com, Honey and Clover, and even, yes, Vampire Knight waiting in the wings. It's about time that the "shojo manga" phenomenon (y'know, the one that taught US book sellers and comic companies that girls and women would actually buy and read graphic novels if the subjects interested them?) became a "shojo anime" phenomenon, and a Twilight anime could do just that.

An off-topic note on Harry Potter: all of you waiting for a Harry Potter anime will probably never see it, because sadly, JK Rowling is very possessive of her work and her characters, and I can't see the same woman that insisted that all the actors be British in the movie adaptations of her books greenlighting a Japanese spin-off and reinterpretation of her books. *sigh*, too bad, to, because as a HP and anime fan, it would've been nice. Oh well. "Negima?!" is close enough, right? (JK!!! )

If they are going to make an anime of it, at least make it more interesting than the original story. They had to listen to the fangirls now? Seriously T _ T (yes acting as a hater ^ _ ^)

I've never read it, and probably never will, but I always enjoyed the girls at school complaining endlessly about the movie and yet praising the book as if it were a god of some sort.

Uh, no, they don't send any real message about whether it will work or not. These comments are coming from people who already HATE the source material. Of course they aren't going to be interested in a Twilight anime.

But apparantly, there are a lot of people who don't hate Twilight. It's those people's reactions that are more important.

Say it ain't so! First, Twilight ruins the way vampires are portrayed, and now it's invading the thing I love! When willl this fad pass! Why the Japanese would want to make an anime of this,

Honestly, they could do anything they wanted with Twilight and it would make money whether it be an anime, bubblegum, or toilet paper.

The thing I tend to hear about Twilight from everyone who reads it to see what the hype is about is that it is badly written. My English professor was actually laughing when she was talking about how students in another class created a poem from parts of a book, and one of them used Twilight. She was astounded at the amount of times descriptions of his deep shimmering eyes, his murky eyes, and his deep soulful eyes appeared. In one chapter.
There was a girl I worked on a temp assignment with, when I asked her what audio book she was listening to, made me promise not to make fun of her before telling me it was Twilight.