Science Fiction novels you wish to see as anime

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 9:58 pm

Holy crap, is this the first thread to have been necrorevived TWICE?!

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 11:08 pm

My big wish is that NO sci-fi movie ever get turned into an anime. I would vastly prefer that the movies be American-made.

Geirr · Post by **Geirr** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 9:16 am

pyro_256 wrote: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.

R.A. Heinlein had some comments about 'the movie made from the book.' First, he made all his character descriptions sparse - if an author writes, 'tall, almost handsome but a bit too rugged-looking,' we will -ALL- have different ideas of what that character -OUGHT- to look like. Same with 'beautiful,' 'striking,' 'plain,' and 'scumbag.' So they make the movie, and a whole swath of folks go, 'Hey - he/she doesn't look like that at all!'

For anime, the voice actors will throw in ANOTHER variable: 'So-and-so shouldn't have had that Bay-area accent,' (or whatever.)

Second, it's likely that 'the good parts' will mean different parts among the whole bunch of readers, and SOMEthing will invariably get cut - like Tom Bombadil - and there goes another chunk of people who'll insist 'the book was better.'

Maybe a better question would be to think of the existing pro studios in Japan - Gainax, Sunrise, Madhouse, Gonzo, etc, and wonder what good SF stories these groups might be GOOD at animating.

'Enders Game' might be a good choice for anime, because it centers around a young boy and some serious mind-games being played on him. I can't recall much anime in which, say, all the characters are over 25 earth-years old. Maybe because most anime characters can be starship captains by age 18. But a story with at least one teen-age or younger character 'fits' anime much better than a Robert Ludlum or Clive Cussler spy-thriller. (Hey, wouldn't Gene Starwind do for Dirk Pitt?)

- Geirr

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 7:07 pm

There is no such thing as a Bay Area accent, although there is the famous Valley Girl accent. Is that what you're thinking of?

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:14 pm

the Foundation books.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:17 pm

oh, and TEK WARS!!!!!!!!

AznRAVEr1022 · Post by **AznRAVEr1022** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 12:38 am

I think Aliens could make a good anime, considering it follows a lot of the "futuristic" guidelines seen in series like armitage and gundam

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 3:13 am

the Black Monarch wrote:There is no such thing as a Bay Area accent, although there is the famous Valley Girl accent. Is that what you're thinking of?

If you've ever done any lingual studies, you would know that every region possesses a sub-accent that diverges slightly from the main accent that it branches from.

JustinCredible · Post by **JustinCredible** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 11:30 pm

The new Star Wars Eps should have been just anime... and if Luca$ was to do a STar Wars Ep 7, 8, 9... it would make sense to anime it with all the actors still alive to do the VA.

zachthegnome · Post by **zachthegnome** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 3:03 am

Early Ender and the parallels would be better animes than the ones where ender is grown up. The Anite Blake: Vampire Hunter Series would be badass. Perdido Street Station by China Mievelle would be an amazing anime series. I suggest this book to anyone who reads, I think the world Mievelle created rivals that of Tolkien, and is more original. Also, for anyone who liked the ender books, War Child by Karin Lowachee was awesome and would make a great anime.

So those would be:

Ender's Game/Shadow of the Hegemon/Ender's Shadow/Shadow Puppets(Card let me down on the last one) - Orson Scott Card

Perdido Street Station and maybe The Scar - China Mieville

Anite Blake: Vampire Hunter (only if based on one book)- Laurel K Hamilton

War Child - Karin Lowachee

Servant of the Bones - Anne Rice

American Gods or Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

there are some others I will think of as I try to sleep.