if you could do anime show what would it be
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Rorschach
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Coming up with ideas is easy. It's making them into an actual story and then making that story into an anime that's difficult. Also, a lot of anime is very derivative, working from the same few things: harems in the romantic comedies, giant robot armor suits in science fiction, and vampires in the horror animes, for example. A better anime series might be one that tries something completely different from all of this.
Of course, one way to get original ideas is to encourage foreign cultural input. Scryed, for instance, was like a much better version of the X-men, in that it dealt with many of the same themes, but in a much more believable way. Instead of the cliched mindlessly evil hordes of mutant-haters that were always going around trying to purge the mutants from society in the X-men, Scryed had a corrupt government that preferred exploiting alter users to killing them, much as a real government would probably be interested in exploiting people like the X-men if they did exist.
If the Japanese can do that, just think what they could do with Bible stories! Here in America, most movies made from Bible stories are animated kids' features with all of the adult stuff cut out. Where's the fun in that? I'd like to see the R-rated Japanese versions of these stories, which would include "missing episodes" such as the story of Cain and Abel, the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah, tales from Jacob's harem, King David's adultery, and, of course, a full account of the various political upheavals in the book of Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles.
At the same time, I do have some ideas I've gotten from watching anime series and thinking of how they could be done differently from the way they've been done before, or at least with some new twists. If I could have my way, here's a list of animes I'd like to see done, and which bunch would be doing them. (The titles are in English, but I imagine they would translate easily enough into Japanese.)
Possible title: Company of Four.
The anime: a romantic comedy about a nice guy who's really popular with the girls and an equally nice girl who's just as popular with the guys. By some twist of fantasy or maybe science fiction, their minds get switched into each other's bodies, and they can't get back into their own bodies for a long time. Since they both have very ordinary sexual desires, this is both very fun in the short term (for obvious reasons) and very distressing in the long term (for equally obvious reasons). They have to learn how to live each other's lives while fending off romantic pursuers. The comedy involves the couple using their experience from being the opposite sex to fend off lechers and losers, while the romantic part involves all the tangled situations they get into dealing with more genuinely kind and loving romantic interests who don't realize what has happened and why the subject of their interest is being so cold toward them. This story might also include the strange prospect of their having romantic feelings for each other, of course, since they share the same unique problem.
The people I'd pick to do this series: probably the ones who did the Ranma animes, with maybe some of the people who did Onegai Teacher.
Possible title: Metal Preacher
The anime: a horror anime--possibly even a horror hentai--featuring a series of morality tales about a kind and honest--though tragically flawed--preacher who serves as an exorcist in a city full of occult practices and demonic influences. The common thread of each of these tales is that magic and science are inherently enemies, and where the one prevails, the other must fail. Everywhere the preacher goes, he not only drives out various supernatural monsters and evil spirits, but also helps people to realize that the magic they hoped would get them ahead in life is essentially a way of trying to cheat on reality, and that cheaters will ultimately never prosper. Meanwhile, the city's scientists, who think the preacher is a fool, are always suffering from their ill-conceived attempts to combine the works of magic and science, with the preacher having to come to their rescue.
The people I'd pick to do this series: the people who did Trigun, of course, and maybe the writer from the Pet Shop of Horrors anime.
Possible title: Bad Boy
The anime: A genre mish-mash kind of anime in which a lolicon seeking prey, or "bad man" as the Japanese might put it, runs afoul of a Fairy Godmother type (an angel, perhaps) who serves as a kind of stand-in for divine justice. She disguises herself as a little girl, and when he starts "advancing" on her, she curses him, turning him into a little five-year-old version of himself and stripping him of all his worldy possessions. When he pleads for mercy, she tells him that the deed is irreversible, and he's just going to have to grow up all over again. Finding his way from the streets to an orphanage to adoption into a loving family, he starts thinking of his own unhappy first childhood and where it went wrong, and uses what he learns about his new family and himself to get his second childhood on the right track.
The people I'd pick to do this series: the writer of Detective Conan and the people who did Ayashi no Ceres (which was something of a genre mish-mash itself).
Of course, one way to get original ideas is to encourage foreign cultural input. Scryed, for instance, was like a much better version of the X-men, in that it dealt with many of the same themes, but in a much more believable way. Instead of the cliched mindlessly evil hordes of mutant-haters that were always going around trying to purge the mutants from society in the X-men, Scryed had a corrupt government that preferred exploiting alter users to killing them, much as a real government would probably be interested in exploiting people like the X-men if they did exist.
If the Japanese can do that, just think what they could do with Bible stories! Here in America, most movies made from Bible stories are animated kids' features with all of the adult stuff cut out. Where's the fun in that? I'd like to see the R-rated Japanese versions of these stories, which would include "missing episodes" such as the story of Cain and Abel, the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah, tales from Jacob's harem, King David's adultery, and, of course, a full account of the various political upheavals in the book of Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles.
At the same time, I do have some ideas I've gotten from watching anime series and thinking of how they could be done differently from the way they've been done before, or at least with some new twists. If I could have my way, here's a list of animes I'd like to see done, and which bunch would be doing them. (The titles are in English, but I imagine they would translate easily enough into Japanese.)
Possible title: Company of Four.
The anime: a romantic comedy about a nice guy who's really popular with the girls and an equally nice girl who's just as popular with the guys. By some twist of fantasy or maybe science fiction, their minds get switched into each other's bodies, and they can't get back into their own bodies for a long time. Since they both have very ordinary sexual desires, this is both very fun in the short term (for obvious reasons) and very distressing in the long term (for equally obvious reasons). They have to learn how to live each other's lives while fending off romantic pursuers. The comedy involves the couple using their experience from being the opposite sex to fend off lechers and losers, while the romantic part involves all the tangled situations they get into dealing with more genuinely kind and loving romantic interests who don't realize what has happened and why the subject of their interest is being so cold toward them. This story might also include the strange prospect of their having romantic feelings for each other, of course, since they share the same unique problem.
The people I'd pick to do this series: probably the ones who did the Ranma animes, with maybe some of the people who did Onegai Teacher.
Possible title: Metal Preacher
The anime: a horror anime--possibly even a horror hentai--featuring a series of morality tales about a kind and honest--though tragically flawed--preacher who serves as an exorcist in a city full of occult practices and demonic influences. The common thread of each of these tales is that magic and science are inherently enemies, and where the one prevails, the other must fail. Everywhere the preacher goes, he not only drives out various supernatural monsters and evil spirits, but also helps people to realize that the magic they hoped would get them ahead in life is essentially a way of trying to cheat on reality, and that cheaters will ultimately never prosper. Meanwhile, the city's scientists, who think the preacher is a fool, are always suffering from their ill-conceived attempts to combine the works of magic and science, with the preacher having to come to their rescue.
The people I'd pick to do this series: the people who did Trigun, of course, and maybe the writer from the Pet Shop of Horrors anime.
Possible title: Bad Boy
The anime: A genre mish-mash kind of anime in which a lolicon seeking prey, or "bad man" as the Japanese might put it, runs afoul of a Fairy Godmother type (an angel, perhaps) who serves as a kind of stand-in for divine justice. She disguises herself as a little girl, and when he starts "advancing" on her, she curses him, turning him into a little five-year-old version of himself and stripping him of all his worldy possessions. When he pleads for mercy, she tells him that the deed is irreversible, and he's just going to have to grow up all over again. Finding his way from the streets to an orphanage to adoption into a loving family, he starts thinking of his own unhappy first childhood and where it went wrong, and uses what he learns about his new family and himself to get his second childhood on the right track.
The people I'd pick to do this series: the writer of Detective Conan and the people who did Ayashi no Ceres (which was something of a genre mish-mash itself).
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Malificus
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you seem to like mixing stuff, please explain.Vegeta_ssj4 wrote:how about neon gensis evangelion & dbz mix
Do you want pointless eva with lots of filler episodes, DBZ and Evangelion universes put together, Or what? I need to know!
What about original ideas made from scratch (with the exeption of parodies), explained with details, etc...
By the way, I love the Bible idea, I'm actually thinking of doing a Manga (or whatever you wish to call American Manga..) of some of the matter, mybe something like all four gospels done by four different artists! That would be good... In other books, you could include some of the hebrew legends in the time between Malachi and Matthew (e.x. the great hero Judas(not from the new testament))
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Bulghod
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Why is it always the bible? honestly i think it would be really cool if someone did the Koran, or one of the Shinto books or some text from another religion.got2maskit wrote:By the way, I love the Bible idea, I'm actually thinking of doing a Manga (or whatever you wish to call American Manga..) of some of the matter, mybe something like all four gospels done by four different artists! That would be good... In other books, you could include some of the hebrew legends in the time between Malachi and Matthew (e.x. the great hero Judas(not from the new testament))
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Malificus
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Haven't read them. At least I made one non-christian reference idea...Bulghod wrote:Why is it always the bible? honestly i think it would be really cool if someone did the Koran, or one of the Shinto books or some text from another religion.got2maskit wrote:By the way, I love the Bible idea, I'm actually thinking of doing a Manga (or whatever you wish to call American Manga..) of some of the matter, mybe something like all four gospels done by four different artists! That would be good... In other books, you could include some of the hebrew legends in the time between Malachi and Matthew (e.x. the great hero Judas(not from the new testament))
but hey, I might have to take a look at them, just to see...
Really, I had started a mange using my previous idea with the invader aliens, corrupt gov't and no true evil, why have no true evil? Same reason it doesn't have pure/true good, no one could relate to them, and black and white are very rare, you need color, choices, and conflict.
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Bulghod
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heh, if you follow through on that, you should try using real conspiracy theories and corrupt gov't ploys, like the US hiring Nazi's after WWII or the flight 97 theories, or even the new thing with Nepal. would be somewhat interestin lolgot2maskit wrote: Haven't read them. At least I made one non-christian reference idea...
but hey, I might have to take a look at them, just to see...
Really, I had started a mange using my previous idea with the invader aliens, corrupt gov't and no true evil, why have no true evil? Same reason it doesn't have pure/true good, no one could relate to them, and black and white are very rare, you need color, choices, and conflict.