Science Fiction novels you wish to see as anime

thistledown · Post by **thistledown** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 2:49 am

Actually I just started a thread on Memories a few days ago. In short it is an anthology of three unreleated short films, the third of which is titled "Cannon Fodder." It does not go into a lot of detail really, but it follows a day in the life of one family living in this town. Every building in the town has cannons all over it, and their entire society revolves around cannons and war. Includes propaganda on the walls, the enemy which you never get to see, huge lack of individualism, and the "State of Perpetual War" that you see in 1984.

And the really cool thing, is that the camera does not cut between sceans for the entire episode.

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 10:46 am

Is Memories domestically available?

Me, I'd second Wheel of Time, even though it's fantasy not sci-fi, and I'd also vote for The Enchanted Forest Chronicles. That'd make a great comedy-fantasy anime. Although, I'm not sure Hitchhikers Guide would work, although I think there's already an animated movie or something of it.

Golden Saucer · Post by **Golden Saucer** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:01 am

Ho wabout all tiem classics, Like:

Oliver Twist

Or Hamlet?!

Chao · Post by **Chao** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 2:58 pm

Issac Asimov's Foundation series (and the second Foundation Trilogy).

Foundation was a great series (still wondering if another few sci-fi writers will get together to continue Foundation, rather than redo the past) and has lots of potential for some kind of tv series, be it anime or liveaction.

thistledown · Post by **thistledown** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:00 pm

Chaos Angel wrote:Is Memories domestically available?

I have no clue. I go fansubs, but it has been out for quite some time. It was released originaly in 95 or 96, if that helps.

KLin · Post by **KLin** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 5:08 pm

Some Tom Clancy novels would be interesting to see animated. There's not too many instances of army or special ops centered anime as one other recent thread indicated.

I think certain novels in the Shadowrun series would be interesting to see in anime form, in particular Steel Rain, Tails you Lose, and Wolf and Raven novels have a gritty action anime-like feel to them already. Wolf and Raven might make a nice series unto itself, since it's read in hard-boiled self-narrative with each chapter being a different and sometimes seemingly unrelated incident but all tying together in the end. It's got a lot of memorable characters as well, all with strong relationships with one another.

drakesyn · Post by **drakesyn** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 5:18 pm

If anybodies ever read the Vlad Taltos novels, by Steven Brust. Taht's a series that would be awsome as an anime. All nine of them are the shit. I would love to see the world of Drageria and all of Taltos' exploits in animation.

Geirr · Post by **Geirr** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 7:04 pm

Ashyukun wrote:The "Honor Harrington" series of books by David Weber. Treecats would seriously kick ass in anime... 8)

Honor Harrington would ROCK as anime!
Also, try the treecat against, say Uura from El-Hazard?

One of my other anime-friends said ADV is/has licensed 'Mutineer's Moon.'
Anbybody else heard about this?

-Geirr

pyro_256 · Post by **pyro_256** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 9:23 pm

making movies of books ends up ruining it. they can't make a movie long enough to get all important parts from a series like the wheel of time. that'd need a LONG movie for just one book to be redone. and it would shatter people's images of characters.

Rabidpanda · Post by **Rabidpanda** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 9:50 pm

Definitely Ender's Game. Nothing compares to that book, and the sequels too.

Also maybe instead of a Sci-Fi, maybe fantasy.

For that i would go with R.A. Salvatore's book from D&D. Nothing compares to medieval gore.

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