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davenejo
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I'm an anime fan and writing my final paper at Harvard about the potential to convert fantasy/sci-fi books into Anime.
I'd really appreciate your feedback if you have a moment, please see the survey here: http://www.kwiksurveys.com?s=HNKEHI_b8ee63a4 Thanks, look forward to the comments! |
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wanderlustking
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I think anything by Neil Gaiman would have a lot of potential. His YA and children's books would make awesome Miyazaki fare, and his more mature work would have been the perfect playground for someone like Satoshi Kon (RIP). I think Sandman has so much potential. Its a comic, so the animators would have a good place to start as far as the art direction goes; but since Gaiman has worked with so many different artists over the course of the series, the art has shifted so drastically, leaving them with a lot of room to get creative.
Brandon Sanderson wrote a trilogy of books called Mistborn that I think would make a fantastic anime (or live action, I don't care; just so more people are introduced to it). It has one of the most interesting magic systems I've seen in a long time, and is very well written. Good characters, fast paced and compelling story; but best of all is the authors understanding of how feelings of love and respect work, and their effects in battle and politics. I've mentioned this before, but I think Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series would be amazing on a big screen. The monsters and the world of death were so vivid in my mind as I read these books to my daughter. I would love to see what a studio like Bones or Gainax could do with the gorgeous settings and characters that these books present. I've also been holding on to the hope that Miyazaki might make another splendid movie based on Diana Wynne Jones' Castle series. I adored his vision of Howl's Moving Castle, and would love to see what he could do with the rest of the series. That's all I've got for now, but I may think of more later. This is an interesting subject, and I'm surprised more people aren't commenting. Last edited by wanderlustking on Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:30 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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dtm42
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Maybe you should read this thread: animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=28418 |
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DragonSlave49
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Don't mean to troll, but I don't really think most sci-fi or fantasy can be successfully turned into Anime or Manga. I also think that it shouldn't.
The medium through which art is conveyed is really inseparable from the content. Many things will be lost when you move from one medium to another. There are also things which need to be filled in. I think that Manga is best when it is original and written by the author. Anime can be well adapted from manga but even this is often a big sacrifice from the ideas and emotions that the manga conveys. However, a fantasy book has something that is lacking from manga - the total train of thought of the characters. A good fantasy novel has more thinking than action. When objects are described, they can be described relationally, whereas a drawing is always a literal description and inherently non-psychological. Furthermore, Manga is capable of expressing many different characters thinking responses to events more easily and effortlessly than a novel can. Manga presents an objective view of events that forces the point of view to be external. External points of view never really exist in novels, even when told from the 3rd person. The way a story is told in Manga is different than in novels, and to adapt one to the other is to be left with the truncation of the one when it is squeezed into the other. You end up with the worst of both worlds. One thing that might be good would be a very fresh, nonlinear sort of "tales from X" that takes parts of a fantasy world and expands on relationships or characters, maybe retelling events contained in the original works. However, I think that it is better to allow an author total creativity than to confine them to an already popular series, or to pick the series based on its popularity. That is, essentially, a risk reducing strategy, but in practice it is a recipe for mediocrity. |
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wanderlustking
Posts: 449 Location: Bozeman, Montana |
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I'm sorry, but your post is just so...wrong.You mention that manga forces the point of view to be external (that's not true, but I'll humor you for a second), in general terms that called a restriction; usually when a medium doesn't allow you to do something, we don't praise it. Restrictions are just what they sound like, they don't let you do certain things, they are bad. Are you trying to say that its a good thing that its almost impossible (but not impossible. People said the same thing about film; but look at movies like The Sixth Sense, they did a pretty good job of it) to present an unreliable narrator in manga?
As for the external/internal thing, you'd have to do a better job of defining the terms before I even start on that topic. Do you mean that the image the reader sees is outside the character's minds? What are you trying to say? |
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Eivion
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I actually just finished reading the final book in the series a few days ago. Seems like it would work better in a live format than it would as anime though. |
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wanderlustking
Posts: 449 Location: Bozeman, Montana |
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I'm not so sure. I think the action would be hard to do in live action. It just wouldn't look right. Same reason the Spider Man movies never sat well with me.
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Megiddo
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Wow, I really have not read hardly any of the fantasy/sci-fi series listed there.
That said, I think a Mouse Guard anime would be pretty sweet ^^ |
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wanderlustking
Posts: 449 Location: Bozeman, Montana |
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I haven't read any of the comics, but I've played a few campaigns of the Role Playing Game. It was pretty cool, I wonder what the anime would be like...Redwall the Animated Series was kind of a disapointment for me, so maybe this could help get that bad taste out of my mouth.
You should read some of those though. Garth Nix and Neil Gaiman are both fantastic ways to spend time with children and teens. If you have a hard time relating to youngsters, they might help. Brandon Sanderson is just awesome. |
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naninanino
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Most perhaps, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't or couldn't be done. My favorite show "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" is a sci-fi and based on a novel. The reason it works is because it actually has a novelistic approach to tell the story: narration, clear cut transitions and full dialogue. One of my most liked novels, "Shogun" by James Clavell, might work as an anime. Given that the samurai stories in anime usually have surprisingly weak stories, it could be at least a critically acclaimed success as a more serious story with intelligent twists. |
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zatheus
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I think Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series could be interesting as an anime. Or Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time series. In anime I think it could keep close to the story where as a movie it would be cutting and changing it to just have something distant to the original. Well Dragonriders could probably be turned into a movie since each book can stand alone. Both series have numerous characters and a rich enough storyline.
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7995 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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I agree with McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series as well. Most of them were great reds. |
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poilk92
 Posts: 433 Location: Long Beach California |
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Almost any sci fi or fantasy stuff would be great. Maybe the best part of anime from a production point of view is how cheap special effects are compared to live action. It is much easier to make an anime about giant battles in space or dragons than a live action show or movie
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Dessa
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I'm taking the survey, and I'm wondering why Earthsea is on the list, when it already has been made into an anime?
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Zin5ki
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I wish to inquire into a small matter.
I primarily watch anime by playing DVDs on my computer. In question 7, the option closest to this in is "TV". For all intents and purposes, should I select this despite its limited accuracy? I have watched a few of my discs on a television system, though never on a regular basis. |
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