What books would you like to see made into an anime?

burrofootball40 · Post by **burrofootball40** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:48 am

Tormentor wrote:Im Westen Nichts Neues (now my own translation)

-> Nothing new in the west by Erich Maria Remarque

This is a book about a guy called Paul Bäumer who goes to World War I, together with his class. During the war more and more of his friends die. The whole book is very dark, there are sentences like:"We see humans live whose skulls are gone" or "A sergeant made it back here carrying his guts hanging out of his stomach."

WOuld be a nice anti-war anime.

All Quiet on the Western Front. Awesome book by a German WW1 vet. A nice read to go with it is To the Last Man, by Jeff Saharra.

bobbarker31 · Post by **bobbarker31** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:33 pm

Dune and its sequals would be an excellent series of books to be seen made into an anime. We already see the Baron Harkonnen in the previews on Hellsing.

Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" series would be brilliant too.

KingSchwill · Post by **KingSchwill** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:50 am

Jelly_Beanz wrote:Farenheit 451 because I think it would interesting. The burning of books in a dystopian society.

and you are 16? Come back when you've grown up junior the whole pretesticular descension thing is tiring. If I had a dollar for every kid that ever told me how deep this and 1984 are, I'ld have a much bigger crack habit

yuppa · Post by **yuppa** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:53 am

i d like to see..requium for a dream. And directed by the people who did lain. Or Jacobs ladder would be a good one to make in to a anime.

burrofootball40 · Post by **burrofootball40** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:28 am

KingSchwill wrote:
Jelly_Beanz wrote:Farenheit 451 because I think it would interesting. The burning of books in a dystopian society.
and you are 16? Come back when you've grown up junior the whole pretesticular descension thing is tiring. If I had a dollar for every kid that ever told me how deep this and 1984 are, I'ld have a much bigger crack habit

I'm 17, and I think 1984 and F451 are rediculously overrated books.

bobbarker31 · Post by **bobbarker31** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:36 am

burrofootball40 wrote:
KingSchwill wrote:
Jelly_Beanz wrote:Farenheit 451 because I think it would interesting. The burning of books in a dystopian society.
and you are 16? Come back when you've grown up junior the whole pretesticular descension thing is tiring. If I had a dollar for every kid that ever told me how deep this and 1984 are, I'ld have a much bigger crack habit
I'm 17, and I think 1984 and F451 are rediculously overrated books.

That is because you and others did not grow up with the spector of Nazism and Communism. These books were not just abstract discussions but insights into what was considered very real threats. Today we view these books the same way we would view Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Since our food is very safe these days, we don't think about the imact the book had on our society.

littlekohitsuji · Post by **littlekohitsuji** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:57 pm

...and now back to your regularly scheduled thread.

Another interesting one could be "Soylent Green."

"It's made out of people! PEOPLE!"

Super Shanko · Post by **Super Shanko** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:02 pm

Hell, Frankenstein would probably make something worth wild. its something i ever seen before.

yuppa · Post by **yuppa** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:54 pm

littlekohitsuji wrote:...and now back to your regularly scheduled thread.

Another interesting one could be "Soylent Green."

"It's made out of people! PEOPLE!"

Imagin the guy from full metal alchemist saying that phrase.^^

KingSchwill · Post by **KingSchwill** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:08 pm

bobbarker31 wrote: That is because you and others did not grow up with the spector of Nazism and Communism. These books were not just abstract discussions but insights into what was considered very real threats. Today we view these books the same way we would view Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Since our food is very safe these days, we don't think about the imact the book had on our society.

Yes I did grow up thinking that shit could have been destroyed before I woke up. I just think the way they've been over used and borrowed from has robbed them of any influence they once had. If you think todays food is safe go read "Fastfood Nation," that'll give you some impression on how little things have changed.
BTW the Jungle would be an amzing anime. I can just see the killing floor now.