ITT: Books that should get an anime
moiraine best girl
>>110433652
>Wheel of Time
no, just, no
Ghibli could probably do a movie on this.
I would love for it to happen. Some of my favorite books
and it would be glorious
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie kind of reminded me of FMA
>nobody said Lolita yet
You disappoint me /a/.
>>110434072
Sabriel would be good
>>110433032
Sword & Citadel's cover reminds me of Zodd.
Neuromancer.
I mean just get a good director and get I.G. to do it. It'll make itself.
>>110433032
Book of the New Sun is basically unanimateable. I really have no idea how you would manage to capture Severian's first-person viewpoint and all the interesting interpretation and analysis that viewpoint subsequently demands of the reader in a visual form.
Kafka on the shore animated bySHAFT
>>110433032
Notes from underground
Dorian Gray
ITT: Everyone picks their favorite books
I actually kind of agree with, OP though.
>>110434213
Also, this too. But I think a rendition that's more pertinent to Japan's current cultural climate as opposed to a direct adaptation would be better.
To be honest, just movies or something would be fine too
>>110433032
Oh, and finnegans wake.
>>110434649
He is just a lucky bastard with too many edges.
I still like him though.
Kushiel series
Mars trilogy
Outlander series
Xanth series
>>110433032
>>110434804
>“You told me about Piaton. Why can’t he speak?”>“He can’t get his breath, poor fellow,” Typhon said. Now I saw that he had an erection, which he nursed with one hand. “As I told you, I control all the voluntary functions—I will control the involuntary ones too, soon. So although poor Piaton can still move his tongue and shape his lips, he is like a musician who fingers the keys of a horn he cannot blow. When you’ve had enough of that snow, tell me, and I’ll show you where you can get something to eat.”
>I filled my mouth again and swallowed. “This is enough. Yes, I am very hungry.”
>>110433652
>Aes Sedai
>best anything
Also I don't know if an anime could pull it off and how many episodes would be needed
>>110434029
i cried like a bitch whenKestrel died
It has something for anyone on /a/
>>110434827
>xanth
it would be the king of all ecchi
also the MC is canonically obtuse as shit, doesn't even realize his own power.
fuck it's absolutely perfect
>>110435097
It was made to be an anime.
And it willnever never NEVER HAPPEN
>>110434957
Well you could cover the entire plot of Crossroad of Twilight in one OVA
>>110435137
>Xanth cartoon
>brought over to Japan
>they are as lost with the puns as we are with Gintama
>>110435097
>We'll never see the wood nymph animated
>you will never rub your dick against her hollow back
>she will never look at you and say, "wood yew share my bed until I'm knot board anymore...?"
I want to see a anime about how the world is run by the true powers no action no drama just pure and simple bureaucracy
![roseoftheprophet[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/f9pl0t8.jpg "roseoftheprophet[1].jpg")
>MC is a trap
>tsundere main girl who gets with the secondary MC
>based Auda Ibn Jad
>mai waifu Asrial
>Fedj and Pukah generating the laughs
>innuendo all the time
>when there's no innuendo someone is getting stabbed
Because we need more SoLs that don't take place in Japan.
I have a shit load of these /lit/ charts, but I'll just share the most important one.
And this because Pollya cute
>>110433652
>not Wheel of Tsundere
>>110433652
The filler writes itself!
>>110433032
Looks cool as shit what's it about
>>110435541
>SF
Don't bother, I bet it's shit.
>>110434649
Severian's "first-person viewpoint" is mostly about tits & ass, so basically the only two things anime does right.
>>110435363
The dark tower series, for that matter.
>MC is an absolute Gary Stu
Japan would love it.
>>110433652
All that spanking.
>>110433652
>moiraine best girl
Certainly better than the winners.
>>110435664
meh Avienda and Min were ok.Egwene worst girl and worst person
slice of life
>>110435423
There is a Starship Troopers anime.
>>110435020
loli?
>>110434282
Imagine all the reaction pics that could be made from Wit.
>>110435645
Book 3 fucking when?
Devi best girl
>>110435573
>calling the best genre shit
>2014
Wait wasn't I on /a/ a few seconds ago?
>>110435711
I think you got the one thing that's missing.
>>110435748
>implying it wont suck
book 2 was terrible
>>110435756
>SF best genre
>not graphic novel
>>110435698
Confirmed masterpiece.
Tao Lin is a living legend.
>>110435695
>Egwene worst girl and worst personThat would be any Black Ajah, female Chosen or Elaida.She is still awful though.
>>110435756
thats not political thriller
>>110435823
Tao Lin pls go.
>>110435821
>>>/co/
>Implying graphic novel is even a real thing
>>110434694
Dunno, Kafka to mee makes me think ofYuasa
>>110435821
This is like saying
>romance best genre
>not movies
>>110435871
>implying manga is not a graphic novel
>>110435790
I'm a loli, so how can I read this book when I can't self insert? DROPPED
>>110435895
It's acomic.They're all comics/manga.
>>110435897
>not self inserting as the book itself
I bet you self insert yourself as a character in an anime and not the media player
>>110433032
The main character is fucking an underage cute blond, Japan would be all over this shit.
>>110435918
yes they are
>>110435943
Don't forget the MC's fujoshi appeal potential; he does spend 95% of the books not wearing a shirt, after all.
>>110435868
>implying
>>110433032
Snow Crash.
Leviathan Wakes would make some pretty good anime. Its paced reasonably well enough to have a coherent 24 episode run, the downside is that they'd probably CGI it.
>>110433032
That would be... i don't even know how to describe that feeling
who /lit/ here?
>>110435868
Here, more proof of his writing talent
A genius in the making
>>110436233
Every few months. I prefer fantasy and SF to psychology.
>>110435835
>Black Ajah
ButVerinis a far better person than Egwene
>>110436289
>implying fantasy and SF aren't /lit/
you've clearly never been there
>>110436299
>I have desktop notifications enabled
>Spoiler does nothing to prevent spoiling
It simply confirms my suspicions.
>reading
>>110434694
That. Actually might not be that bad.
Actually no, it'd be shit.
>>110436340
You should read something from Tao Lin
>>110436256
By the Division 420 of Ghibli.
>>110436256
too deep for me
50 shades of grey
it will be full with greatmoanactions
>>110436677
by KyoAni?
>There will never be an Abarat film duology covering the first two books animated by MADHOUSE and directed by Satoshi Kon
;_;
>>110436736
Kyo-ani just lost his way.
Maybe madhouse
>>110436677
>nips moaning
>>110436677
>touted as being romance with BDSM
>read it out of curiosity
>the most hardcore thing in there is spanking and a buttplug
>gives tons of misinformation about BDSM in general including safewords, etc
Huge disappointment 0/10 doujins on sadpanda have done it ten times better
>>110434282
Love those books. Most of Sanderson's work could be easily moved to anime adaption, love how he makes the magic systems
>>110436899
What else can you expect from a Twilight fan fiction story?
>>110436332
Which book are you reading at the moment?She was confirmed black Ajah in the Great HuntShe straight out lied
>>110437042
Just finished The Fires of Heaven.FUUUUUUUUUG
>>110437023
doujins are also sometimes fanfiction, sometimes off of completely shit animu/mango, and yet they still manage to handle it better most of the time.
Also, my post only covered the BDSM details, not the characters or actions of said people.
It's fucking awful all around.
Prose, characters, dialogue, internal monologue, everything.
Everything is horrible.
>>110434029
I'm surprised there isn't a western movie for this yet.
>>110435695
Min was okay. Avienda was meh.
Before I start swearing at you, though, first: what do you think of Mat?
>>110436677
>That book is qutie tame in its representation of BDSM and its more harsher fetishes.
>A day on the darkest recesses of the net will make you learn more then this book could ever provide.
Well they have to start somewhere small I suppose.
>>110433032
Would watch.
>>110435645
I get a hardon every time I think about the broken wreck that he will become
>>110435645
Oh god, Auri in anime form? That'd be the death of me. My body could never be prepared for such a moe being. I almost died from moe while just reading the book.
...I no longer remember anything about this novel besides Auri. Not sure what this says about its quality.
>>110437700
Auri is a great character. Aside from that, the book has good prose, and not much else. Now if only there was a way to combine Sanderson's ideas and Rothfuss' prose, than we would have a legendary fantasy series
>>110437280
>Before I start swearing at you, though, first: what do you think of Mat?
One of my favourites.I'm no bloody hero
But what do you think of Nirnaeve?
>>110437280
Avienda was nice because of "muh Ji'e'toh"
>>110435573
>Gene Wolfe
>Bad
Look at him! Look at him and laugh!
Anyone Half a King yet
>>110437883
She was pretty good, but I enjoyed Egwene more.
That being said, I can kind of see what you mean. Only Egwene suffered from negative character development. She was at its best between 6 and 11... but eh, she was such a best girl that I don't mind too much the three parts of book 12.
Anyway, to make it a full circle. Leaving Egwene aside, Moareine was the best girl.
Movie adaption
It would be very interesting to see a Japanese entity make an adaptation of Shogun.
I think it might have some of the vibes that Sword of the Stranger gave off in Blackthorn's view on Japanese feudal society.
The question is who would animate it? I think Urobuchi would be the only one with the balls to make it true to source.
>>110438148
How would they do all the languages.
>>110437998
Nah Tuon is best girl or Setalle Anan.I just despise the Aes Sedai attitude
>>110435943
also incest
>>110438202
At least they get better as a whole.
By the way, Tuon always felt pretty aies sedaiish to me, exactly in attitude. It made everything so much funnier and full of irony. I appreciate my irony.
Not to bring /v/ in here but seriously, get CD Project Red to throw some money towards it.
>Yenn is Tsun as fuck
>Ciri is fucking kawaii as fuck
Geralt just killing shit, its be great. This or sword of Destiny.
Nobody has mentioned any Pratchet yet.
I think this novel was practically written to become an anime.
>>110438732Entire novel about cute military girls disguised as boys
I swear the entire military in that book is female. Except for that one officer.
>>110435943
My understanding is that the translation is even relatively popular in Japan: popular for moden English sci-fi stuff anyway.
>>110433032
Personally I think Wolfe's Wizard-Knight would do much better as a series, or even PEACE as a film.
>>110435821
Graphic novel would be a medium, not a genre.
>>110439226
>translation is even relatively popular in Japan
What? Oh man. If they did an anime I hope to go THAT wouldn't be the design they used.
>>110438417
>shouting the names of signs + fabulastic lsd background powerups
>Geralt being dense about every second woman he meets wanting his D
>Nilfgaardian emperor is final big bad in a mech
>>110435423
I liked quite a lot The Dying of Light and Wild Cards.
Deepest lore.
The Forever War
Dune
Mistborn(I have the first book but haven't read it yet but it sounds like it would make decent anime material)
Dark Tower
Gormenghast
Vineland by Pynchon(it's the only one of his works i've read but I think it could make a decent transition to anime)
I Am A Cat
His Dark Materials
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel(by Brain's Base)
Catch 22(directed by Leiji)
Paradise Lost(as a 110 episode short anime with a run time of 2 minutes each with it being read out by Wakamoto)
Dracula(I know we already have Jojo which is considered the Japanese equivalent but it would be fun to see)
Franz Kafka's other work besides A Country Doctor( I would love to see In the Penal Colony, The Castle, The Trial and A Hunger Artist done in a similar style to how A Country Doctor was animated)
The Odyssey
I Am Legend
H.P Lovecraft's short stories(Whispers in the Dark and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward please)
>>110439660
I should mention that this recently caught my eye while browsing Bakabt. Pretty surprised to see Mishima in there but I think The Sailor Who Fell From Grace would make a great anime film.
http://bakabt.me/150765-seishun-anime-zenshu-animated-classics-of-japanese-literature-medgirl.html
>>110435423
>No Joan Slonczewski.
That's a little sad.
>>110439637
Relevant
http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/101031132
>no His Dark Materials
Come on, it's got everything you fuckers love: a loli MC and overt atheism. But honestly I think all the crazy shit that happens in those books would probably be best adapted through animation, daemon transformations especially.
>>110438301
Her PoVs in Knife of dreams were perfect.
How she disregarded Ta'veren and such as childish superstition while immediatly listening to her omens
>>110437700
>>110439775
>Heathens getting BTFO
Glorious, shame I missed that thread, I remember there being this one good Bible cartoon and can't remember the name.
>>110439807
Will Parry is too gar for the animu crowd to handle.
>>110435341
>mai waifu Asrial
Good taste
Despair best girl.
>>110435698
I've heard he's autistic.
After reading some excerpts of his work ... he's not. He's just a fucking hipster with 0 writing skill.
>>110440224
>despair
>not delight
Damn, son. What a shit taste.
>>110433032
Got you OP
>>110434282
>Wanting an anime of a book series with 2/10 books released
Have you learned nothing of manga adaptations?
>>110440246
Delight was loli shit until she became Delirium.
Despair is basically Tomoko with transcendental powers.
Updated for the modern age.Not much need to change.
>>110440285
I've always felt that the Dresden Files should be an animated series. It seems like it would fit the universe well.
>>110440285
It would be like Rental Magica.
Except you know, not shit.
>>110440306
Delight and delirium aren't that different between them. Plus
>despair:uh muh brother Destruction. where are you. uh, so Dream and Delirium saw him, uhmm, wish I went too
>delirium: hey, motherfucking Dream, let's look for Destruction!
>dream: why?
>delirium: why not?
>dream: but I got this duties and...
>delirium: oh, shut up and let's go *grabs Dream's hand and adventure ensues
Despair is literally shit.
>>110440285
I would settle for a non-shitty comic adaptation.
>>110440484
Replace the protagonist with a 25+ something NEET and you got the next Welcome to the NHK.
>>110434757
Hyperion would make a pretty trippy anime. I'd dig it.
>>110440379
Could work, if it adapted three books per cour, or about 4 episodes per book. The series seems to have a climax every three books or so anyway.
I need this.
It's cheesy enough to work as an anime and I'm sure the fujoshi will love all the bara-service.
>>110440762
Oops
>>110440771
Goes to shit after the first book.
>>110441048
For me it went to shit after kelsier died, still read the second one though... Barely
>>110440803
Nah man, Ciaphas Cain is the clear choice for a 40k anime.
>>110436797
Late, but this.
Holy shit this
Suicide fuel.
>ctrl+f
>0 results for "Discworld"
Why.
Captain Vimes is best character.
>>110438732
>>110443229
Are you blind?
Also, a Patlabor-esque City Watch anime would be pretty enjoyable.
>>110443251
That actually would be the best path to take it along.
I'd watch this.
Asimov's Foundation
Throw it to PA Works
>>110439637
That could actually be pretty cool
I want an adaptation of The Outsiders with these types of jap delinquents
>>110435301
MaoYuu?
>>110438188
>Let's speak Japanese from now on
![2713-1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/s1oN8Vk.jpg "2713-1[1].jpg")
I want a localized pic related
The black company series
What is the "Evangelion" of literature?
>>110438051
Does this count?
>>110443906
It would be an inferior GitS.
Garth Nix.
>>110444834
The bible.
>>110445065
A bunch of rich fucks kill each other and fuck off.
What a timeless story.
>>110445065
>>110444081
Are you 14?
>>110434957
For reference book 1 was a 35 issure comic book series. They never did the books as far as I know.
>>110445103
>>110445115
a book about the failures of the american dream
since the east is so fascinated over the west's american dream an anime about it seems like a great way to teach them its downsides.
Why is the Great Gatsby so overrated?
It's not like it's bad either I just don't get the appeal of the stoy.
>>110445009
Specifically, EoE=revelations
Fahrenheit 451
>>110445178
Yeah I've never understood it either
Guy Gavriel Kay - Sarantine 1 - Sailing to Sarantium
>>110437042
Wait when did that happen. I must have missed it but I don't recall her being confirmed that early.
>>110445178
>>110445204
i went into the novel in depth when i was in school, it hit home in a lot of places.
i didn't like both movies they made about it; it came off as some romance which is really retarded as that's not the point of the story at all.
>>110433652
>Rand on the Mountain
Would make the whole series worth it.
>Why are we born again?
the tokyo zodiac murdersUmineko anime sucked, I want a proper fair play anime god damn it
>>110445204
Damn you for liking something I like.
>>110445115
Do 14 year olds even read nowadays?
>>110445525
They have to for school but I think most just sparknote it or something
>>110445486
S-Sorry anon.I love you
>>110440460
Despair gave a good speech during the wake.
Aeneid. We've got a heroic, but struggling MC, nice adventure plot, yandere Dido and a lot of fighting. Might even be some kind of battle shonen style.
>>110440771
>>110433652Gawyn dies like a little bitch.
That shit was glorious.
>>110445065
Don't listen to the Haters, I dig it.
>nick's "I'm sick of this shit" attitude would be great
>jordan is best girl
>daisy did nothing wrong
>>110445828
Why was Gawyn such a faggot and why was his brother so much better?
>>110445932
>Why was Gawyn such a faggot
Jealousy and stupidity is not a good combination.
>>110441660
>all this fantasy
It's one of my least favorite genres. I can hardly watch fantasy anime.
>>110445161
I actually heard that Death of a Salesman is absurdly popular in China. Not for the American Dream stuff, though.
>>110445876
Just watch the recent movie adaptation. It was decent.
>>110446205
You know what, I might actually do that.
>>110446205
>>110446257
i wouldn't
i disliked the movies a lot. Read the book if you wanna understand it better.
>>110433652
Egwene was worst girl. Any tiny bit of power or authority and she would get a swelled head even if someone came and humbled her (was funny when Perrin just shows her up and blows her off in dream world).
Matt was a fun character though.
>>110445932
That's because Gawyn was a spoiled brat and Galad was a man.
>>110446257
>go with friend to see adaptation in theaters
>credits roll
>friend turns to me and says "I wasn't expecting it to be so depressing."
>mfw they've never seen, read, or heard anything about The Great Gatsby, and thought it was going to have a happy ending
I could see it as an anime movie, but not as series. Not even as an OVA. It's a "sit down and watch it in one sitting" thing.
>>110446372
This is a thread about anime adaptations of books. It's assumed that we've all already read whatever we're suggesting.
Chronicles of Prydain.
That tsundere Eilonwy.
>>110446372
>Read the book
How did you get the idea that I haven't?
>>110446430
Either her or Ce'Nedra were my first tsundere.
>>110445932Because his brother did what he felt was right, rose high through the ranks on his own power, and came to uderstand that the world isn't black and white.
He meanwhile followed egwene like a lost puppy, and his big character development was accepting his girlfriend was more important than him. Then he dies like a bitch trying to sword fight a forsaken. His brother died to the same guy, but at least he managed to land a hit.
Are there even any anime adaptions of western books except Gankutsuo?
>>110446534
>Ce'Nedra
I kept telling myself that she's a spoiled princess and this is how spoiled princesses act, not that it lessened my urge to stab her through the pages.
>This thread
Take it to /lit/, this isn't anime no matter how you put it.
Tangentially related off-topic threads are the worst.
>>110446568
Yes, everything from Takarajima to Heidi.
>>110446568
Deltora quest has a anime and cirque du freak has a manga.
>>110446568
Tales of Earthsea.
>>110446568
Agatha Christie's books.
>>110446564Pretty sure Galad survived.
>>110446568
Well, Heroman was co-produced by Stan Lee. It's not based off of a book, but it's really damn close.
*cough* Eragon *cough*
>>110446568
Several Ghibli films are.
Read this ages ago and just now realized how much it is similar to some chuuni LN.
>>110446789
>namefagging
>*actions*
>suggesting a shitty book that's basically a rip-off of Star Wars
>>110433652
I decided to reread the whole thing now that it's finally finished, almost done with TDB.Ingtar's last scene was so much better than I remembered ;_;
>>110446789
Eragon is the SOA of western fantasy.
>>110433032
>SoL about the experiences of a young scientist narrated by an old man
Might b cool
One of the classic John Le Carre books, preferably one of the really bleak ones like The Looking Glass War, with the directorial style of Jin-Roh.
>>110446869
>Star Wars
Oh, you mean that film that's basically a rip off of The Hidden Fortress?
>>110446564
Galas didn't die though. He just lost an arm and got to bang the hottest bitch on the planet.
>>110446534
>Ce'Nedra
My nigger.
The "Greatwinter" series by Sean Mcmullen has:
- Human powered trains (for train otaku).
- Small aiplanes that dogfight.
- Beautiful superhuman birdwomen.
- A sex-changing hero.
Could it be more appropriate?
Who would be his VA?
Silmarillion.
>>110446774Did he? The last I remember is him getting his arm chopped off and "everything going black" while the forsaken is standing over him, and then I don't remember him being mentioned again after that.
Also, feels like Codex of Alera would fit an anime well.
>Elemental powers that everyone has.
>"I have no powers" MC.
>Roman culture.
>Cute warrior girl tsundere reverse trap (in the beginning at least).
>Warrior wolf people.
The first book was meh but it really picked up from there.
>
1984
>inb4 kill la kill
>>110444830
This.
>It is immortality of a sort...
>>110447190
Outsuka Houchuu
>>110447212He wakes up in hospital, saved by Berelain's advisor.
The "Complete Dying Earth" stories centering on Cugel would make a fine TV series. More specifically, it would be nearly perfect source material for an '80s style fantasy/SF series. (Think "Dream Hunter Rem" as a model.)
The independent stories would make fine OAV episodes. ("I am Chun the Unavoidable")
I'd finally understand what the hell happened
>>110447304
No you wouldn't.
I can see this, a 1:30 hour movie. A clusterfuck.
>>110445750
That text on the cover is so dumb since wetboys specifically avoid the word 'target'
>>110447222
I'm honestly disappointed
![barkerclivethiefofalwayspg166[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Na0uZOV.jpg "barkerclivethiefofalwayspg166[1].jpg")
>>110446152
Abarat is great though, have you ever tried reading it? If you don't like that, The Thief of Always would also make a good one-off movie or OVA.
>>110446568
A lot, there are even manga adaptations for western book series that don't have anime, like The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and Cirque Du Freak.
Ramoth best girl
Caballo de Troya, the spic Jojo
It would be interesting to see if the series could become an anime, although there's apparently going to be a movie based on the first two books coming out next year.
>>110447291
Really? Damn, don't know how I missed that.
>>110446789
It'd probably be one of the worst animes of all time.
>kid finds a dragon egg by accident, haha just kidding he was actually chosen to be the one to save world
>he travels with the stereotypical old wizard mentor who turns out to be his father
>magic battles are entirely mental meaning nothing would happen besides two people staring at each other
>bland plot with the same over used fantasy cliches
>villain is stereotypically evil with an evil backstory until the last book where there's this hamfisted reason as to why he murdered all his peers which doesn't really make sense
>book constantly brings things up and leave them unresolved
>deus ex machina ending because the author wrote himself into a corner by making the antagonist that powerful
There were no redeeming factors to that series. Where they weren't downright awful they peaked out at mediocre.
>>110447426
Them trees, made me think of dragon dildos.
