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ITT Books that would make a nice anime
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Isn't there already a Sangokushi (Yokoyama) anime?
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1984, Brave New World
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Artemis Fowl
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Malazan
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The Bible with anime tropes
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A Song of Ice and Fire.

I mean it.
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Goosebumps
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>>135928067
Job suffering arc when?

I think this would be good. It would be unbelievably edgy and no one on /a/ would like it though.
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>>135926748
There is a RotTK anime, actually, the 1991 dated one. The animation and censorship are horribad, but everything else is great, especially the last 10 episodes.
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>>135926748
Shu>Wei>Wu
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Orthodox-Way-Kallistos-Ware/dp/0913836583
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>>135926748
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About 10 different RoTK anime already exist.
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>>135928067
>It's not like I'm dying for your sins, baka
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It's a short story but adapt it to contemporary Japan and it should be wonderful.
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An anime version of Death of a Salesman would be interesting.

>>135927739
Brave New World would be full of hilarious fanservice.

>>135928067
Silly Anon, we already have Eva for that ;^)
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>>135926748
>>135926748
Maybe iRobot? Would be interesting to see what they do with it.
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A Waiting for Godot SOL.
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We need more sci-fi anime
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>>135929785
By KyoAni
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Consider Phlebas and pretty much any other Iain M Banks sci fi novel would pretty much only be doable in the form of animation.
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If they did A Fire Upon the Deep, they'd have to change Pham to a Japanese, or at least Chinese.

Japanese were able to accept Yang Wenli, but the Vietnamese prince of a planet named Canberra might be a stretch for them
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>>135926748
Not even kidding.
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It would be perfect
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2666 ( Bolaño). A series of movies / OVAs seems sensible.
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>>135928549
Nigga, Wei is supreme.
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>>135928067
>jesus
>not a mary sue
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>>135933415
Jesus & Lazarus OTP.
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>>135933121
Is this a meme or are the people who keep suggesting this being sincere?
>>135932666
Weird how Trump used to look like an actual human.
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Another Starship Troopers anime.
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>>135929599
>full of hilarious fanservice
Loli x shota and orgies, nice.
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26 episodes of cute robots doing cute things, bromance, science, action and genuinely good comedy/philosophy mix. The three untranslated stories as OVAs would be great, too.
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>>135928067
>Haremshit Jacob and his four waifus
>Fujobait David and Jonatan
>Gar Samson story

I can't think of a good biblical moe SOL.
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>>135933121
Just finished reading tje part about the critics, /a/ would call it deepshit and cry about NTR. Also, what the fuck is up with Archimboldi?
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Moby Dick would be a good anime.

As long as they exaggerated the IshmaelxQueequeg and AhabxStarbuck relationships, it would be fujoshit anime of the year.
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>>135933298
Shut up Cow Cow
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>>135933597
I'd love to see how the japanese would pronounce Trurl
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>>135934946
trrruuurrruuruuu
or tuturu
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>>135933910

>Archimboldi

Keep reading.

>deepshit and NTR

The edgy sections would outweigh this.


>>135933491

Sounds fun to me. I genuinely enjoyed the books so how bad could and adaptation be? We already have a stage adaption (or part thereof).
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>>135929288
OP said nice anime, not that Ikki shit.
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>>135928067
Super Book
Flying House
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>>135933491
>Weird how Trump used to look like an actual human
yeah. now he looks like a god emperor back to /pol/ with you
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>>135936538
speaking of >god emperor

Set it in a Japanese High School

Paul is generic self-insert MC who is strangely helpful/capable
Harkonnens are tsundere love interests
Shaddam is student council pres
Fremen are loner Otaku
Bene Gesserit are pop idols

studio /a/ would make millions
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>>135926748
Movies are impossible, you'll need maybe 30 of them to cover it, and this book doesn't fit into brainless blockbuster category, but at the same time needs a huge budget to depict war. Anime would be perfect.
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Imperial Guard fanservice would be glorious.
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Journey to the West
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>>135928549
Shu is fucking terrible.
Wei forever <3
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>>135928067
>tropes
piss off
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I think Don Quotixe would make a good anime since it's basically just chunnibyo but not shit.
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>>135941524
Turn Don Quixote and Sancho into a loli.
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Reading is for fags though.
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>>135929252
>not posting the 10/10 cover
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>>135926748
Chinese Paladin animu with GOOD cgi.

Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4FUyQ8DnDA
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Metamorphoses.

It could work like just a bunch of shorts.

I envy this guy. He lived the dream.
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Forgot pic.
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>>135942645
>tfw donkey-dick loving lady animated
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It would be the perfect media, not even joking.
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>>135926748
It would be a fun ride, but I doubt Japan has much interest in the Civil Was
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>>135942645
Tiresias best girl.
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>>135933813
>>Haremshit Jacob and his four waifus
>>>>>>Implying
>Not Davi&his 1000 waifus
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>>135940790
>Imperial Guard
>Relevant
?
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One of those Chinese wuxia novels would be nice. There is a Condor Heroes anime, but it looks cheap as fuck.
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>>135927952
I can see it
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These books were so-so but I think they'd make a pretty good manga series
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>>135942942
It would take fucking forever though. That book is like three or four novels condensed into the length of one medium-length book.
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>>135928175
I just started reading that.


>>135932617
This + Fall of Hyperion would be amazing. There's a reveal at the end that might be hard to keep a surprise in a visual medium, though.
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>>135933813
>implying you wouldn't watch qt Jesus and the hijinks of his apostles
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Cthulhu Mythos
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You know you want it.
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>>135934034

Ishmael X Queequeg is my OTP.
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Harry Potter.
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>>135937540
damn nigga

wanna see how " the sleeper awakes!" scene would play out in this
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>>135927952
Shit sucks bro
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By Kyoani.
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>>135937540
Add in monster girl sandworms and I'm sold.
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>>135946805
Spoil Endymion for me.
Hyperion I didnt enjoy much but wanted to finish it, then when the shrike was killed by magic I dropped that shit completely.
And no, I dont care if it was "but she's the mother of God because she fucked a machine" bullshit. It was fucking magic. You do not bring magic into scifi, esecially at the end. I can only suspend disbelief for so much. Fuck magic.
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Stormlight Archives.

I just want to see the world animated.
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Dantes Inferno by Shaft.
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>>135940875
You mean Dragon Ball>
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>>135947186
I've always really wanted this
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>>135947692
>Dantes Inferno
Guess what anon?
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>>135927814
Can just imagine how awesome anime Mat would be
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Make it an Anime, Manga, TV show whatever idc Just have it directed by Madhouse since this book was a MASTERPIECE.
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>>135947392
>I-I don't make spice for you or anything like that
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>>135926748
The road with everyone turned into lolis.
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>>135928067
>The Ministry of Jesus-kun
Would buy the BDs
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>>135948082
Wasnt that western bullshit for the shity game?
Nah fuck their bastardized version.
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0D best D.
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>>135945508
Exactly what I was thinking.
And yes, it looks really bad.
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>>135947186
Holy fucking shit, why do I always fucking imagine Rie Kugimiya voicing Hermione?

Is it because of this bitch, pic related?
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>>135945760
Came to post this, its more or less perfect for an anime.
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>>135945508
Aside from the big names stuff like 3 kingdoms, Journey to the West, etc.
What books would you reccomend?

China seems like an underused setting for anime, games vidya and books outside of the three kingdoms.
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>>135950788
I haven't actually read any, I've just watched a couple of live action adaptations. I don't know if you're into that, but Return of the Condor Heroes 2006 is pretty good.
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If you can read moon.
It's one of the most popular novel in Japan.
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>>135952032
the drama destroyed my life.
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>>135952032
What is it?

>>135952195
Nevermind, it sounds like Punpun 2.0
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>>135952869
love story of ill fated young girl.It's based on a real event.
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>>135953036
an*
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>>135953036
It's going to have rape/murder isnt it?
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Well it sure has interesting characters and suspense.
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Imagine Captain Blicero as a moe anime girl.
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>>135954324
No, what the hell? this isn't even close to Pun Pun.
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>>135926748
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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You made me realize that Foundation Series by Asimov would be a great anime.
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>>135955191
animated by shaft
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I want an Owari no Chronicle anime, if just to experience /a/'s reaction when Shinjou's genderbending is revealed.
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James Joyce's love letters
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>>135956541

needs to be a jav instead.
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