What novels would you like to see turned into anime?
Hunger Games
No idea how it would work though
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>>116116513
I wonder if Dan Simmons knows that his books have appeared in some Chinese cartoon.
Twilight
>rosencrantz is retard moe
>guildenstern is tsundere
>copious amount of autism
>homolust
As long as they don't use the designs from the Japanese printing of the novel.
None.
I don't want any popular studio like SHAFT, Kyoani, Trigger or whatever to make it because they would ruin it with shitty jokes and poorly placed fanservice.
/a/ would eat it up, though.
Some faggots here are calling Amagi Brilliant Park AOTY because it has a bunch of hot girls.
bible
Neuromancer
or Snow Crash
>>116116680
The Amano designs would be cool.
>>116116725
>because it has a lack of competition
ftfy
>>116116577
I doubt he'd give a fuck. He's probably too busy fapping to John Keats anyways
>>116116620
Fuck that, Hamlet itself would be great. Ophelia is my waifu.
Shai'hulud.
>>116116755
I didn't know these existed. I don't think they are true to the book, but Amano's stuff is always gorgeous. I hope that man lives forever.
>>116116407
I want Dune by Frank Herbert and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell got animated
Mediocre novel that I really wanted to see become anime is "The things they carried" By Tim O'brien
Also Space marine.
I would love a series about these books
The old testament
Infinite Jest
Forever war could make a decent series, for the first book anyhow.
>>116117000
I've wanted to read this series for a while, but damn I already have so much to read and haven't gotten around to it.
>>116116728
I'd rather have the gospel according to Biff done.
>>116116987
>"The things they carried" By Tim O'brien
...That a fact?
I want to see a Dune adaptation in the style of Five Star Stories.
One major thing is getting Paul's character right. The low budget Sci-Fi series really fucked him up in my eyes by making him so rash and angry when the book had him very cold and detached in the beginning. The Lynch movie actually had a great cast and great sets, it just tried to condense the story in dumb ways and the changes to what the "weirding way" is was dumb.
The time of getting an actual good Dune anime adaptation is past though IMO. the old super detailed cel based animation style of the late 80s and early 90s would have been perfect for it, as would the format of an OVA series like LOGH or even a shorter OVA series like Arslan.
>>116116592
All shoujo anime are like that, why would you want to watch same stuff?
The Abhorsen trilogy and the His Dark Materials trilogy.
Any novel written by this motherfucker.
>>116117122
Yes Yuuji, it's a fact and I actually like this depressing novel by veterans.
>>116116407
>Frank Herbert
Santaroga Barrier as film would be better.
>>116116680
>Gene Wofle
Wizard Knight would be better.
>>116117106
I love the series, my only problem with it is that all other fantasy books seem very mediocre after reading them.
A lot of good books probably couldn't survive an adaptation. Books like "Anvil of Stars" and "Blood Music" would probably be better as live-action or anime.
>>116116407
The Forever War.
>>116117000
First one was a mess but everybody says the second one is great so I'm giving the series another try.
I'm all for it.Beast Rabban is my husbando
This book has been sitting on my shelf since 2010 and I've never bothered to fucking read it.
But it looks interesting.
>>116116407
I would love to see an anime based on any of these Heinlein books,Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I'd also love to see pretty much anything by Vonnegut, especially Slaughterhouse and Breakfast of Champions. Asimov's Foundation and Empire would be cool as well, I'd love to see that magnificent bastard Bel Riose.
>>116116407
Brave New World.
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>>116117660
Sorry anon, you seemed to have said the wrong Harkonnen name there.
Lovecraft series (Not some ecchi shit like Nyaruko san w)
Dune
>>116117735
Is it about cute dragon girls doing cute things?
Do Visual Novels count?
Because this:
https://vndb.org/v11857
>>116117814
Nyarko san is not ecchi
The Fountainhead
>>116117817
>The year is 1914 and Europe, armed with futuristic machines and biotechnology, is on the precipice of war. Prince Aleksandar is fleeing for his life, having discovered that his parents have been assassinated and he is now a target for the Clanker Powers, a group determined to take over the globe with their mechanical machinery. When he meets Deryn Sharpe, an orphan girl who has disguised herself as a boy so she can to join the British Air Service, they form an uneasy, but necessary, alliance. But the pair will soon discover that their emerging friendship will dramatically change their lives - and the entire course of the Great World War...
Deryn sounds like she'd be a qt
>>116117930
She is (third from the left).
I feel like this is something that could be made fairly easily
I would kill 3 kittens to get an adaptation of this.
>>116118012
An adaptation wouldn't do it justice.
>Read a book
>Imagine everything as anime
>mfw only shitty light novels get adapted today
>>116118088
A man can dream anon, a man can dream.
>>116117000
I'd simply love to see that series done like Bahamut, visually. I want my animated Quick Ben and Sapper Squads blowing shit to bits.
As for novels I'd like to see done, Zelazny's stuff comes to mind. Lord of Light would make for glorious material, with an inspired director behind it. And his Amber Chronicles would work well too, Corwin's half at least.
A faithful, unabridged adaption of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Edge Chronicles, maybe? They're already halfway there anyway.
And most of Brandon Sanderson's books would be perfect as anime.
>>116116407
I'm all for it if they do at least the first 3 books.
Japan would be all over that incest.
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th books in the Ender"s Game series.
Each should get 2 full cours.
Ender"s Game itself can either be ignored, or come as a prequel after.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Confessions of a Crap Artist
>>116118236
I actually just bought a big compilation of Zelazny's Amber stuff. I've never read anything by him, but I've heard good things. I didn't realize that the Amber Chronicles book I bought was all 10 volumes and comes out to like 1300 pages though, going to take forever to read through all of it.
The Night's Dawn trilogy would be great but it would have to be 4 cour at the very minimum to be worth a damn.
Come to think of it I think it actually has a few more named characters than even LoGH.
The Al Capone arc at New California would be fantastic to see animated.
>>116116407
A bit off topic, I recently started with the first novel and enjoy it a lot. Which other books in the series are a good read?
The Japs tend to have a thing for LeGuin, I'm surprised more of her stuff hasn't been adapted yet.
>>116117735
I really enjoyed the series and the art was pretty cool as well.
Even though we didn't see much ground combat in the novels Steampunk and Dieselpunk mechs fighting Biopunk fabricated creatures very cool to see.
The Chronicles of Amber, though it would be difficult to pull off well
>>116117151
Live-action Dune movies will always portray Paul as too old and too tall. An anime might, maybe, probably not but it would be good to give it a try, do a half-decent job of adapting the first book. There's no way Leto II ever gets a good adaptation.
>>116117521
The Forever War is getting a live-action film soon.
Temple of the Golden Pavillion
>>116118538
This fucking novel right here is what corrupt the old Japan that later making Lolicon as normal acceptable stuff there.
>>116118410
And giving it some more thought they'd have to get the rights for The Judas Kiss and/or My Apocalypse for Dexter Quinn's theme song. They're both perfect, though I don't know how they'd handle the first satanic rape ritual scene. It's pretty brutal but actually vital to the plot.
Anyway it would probably be the most expensive anime ever made.
>>116118538
I could've fucking swore that did get an adaptation with a different name. Maybe I'm just full of shit.
Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings. Feel free to skip the rain wild chronicles though.
Martian chronicles done as a robot carnival like short compilation with each segment from a different classic animation house. Would be awsome, even the inevitable kyoani section.
>>116117000
Nah, it'd be pretty bad. Erikson's books are a perfect example of a story that's good only on pages. Put it to the screen and it becomes (more of a) snorefest. Sanderson's books might work though.
>>116117748
>I would love to see an anime based on any of these Heinlein books
>Starship Troopers
But, Anon, that was made years ago...
>>116118579
actually, it was more this one than anything
and thank god it did
loli master race
Moorcock's Elric books would be great to see animated, especially if they went with something like the art style that was in his comics run with First Comics, that artwork was great.
>>116118684
I think emotional allomancy wouldn't translate well to the screen though.
>>116118428
I wouldn't recommend reading anything past the first book (the original Dune). If you do read the sequels, stick to the ones written by Frank Herbert, and not the ones written by his son
The Road, with script byUrobuchijust kidding, it'll probably be terrible
>>116118390
I know the compilation you're talking about. At first it seems overwhelming, but his style is easy to get into and you'll burn through it in no time. A real shame Zelazny died before he could finish the whole epic. The 2 main story arcs that we got are pretty self contained, but there was more to come from what I've read.
So /a/ is mostly reading cheap fantasy novels?
Can't say I'm surprised.
>>116118538
this guy gets it.
>>116118699
But still Lolita is what introduces Loli to japs
>The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a 37-to-38-year-old literature professor called Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores.
>>116116407
Dune was so shit.
Paul is a mary sue and his mother is an insufferable bitch. The sand niggers were just savages.
>Muh muad'dib
fuck off.
>>116117521
>the first one was a mess
yeah it's a fucking mess, struggling to stay motivated to read it.
Worm.
>>116118772
>cheap fantasy novels would make great anime
>therefore /a/ only reads cheap fantasy novels
>>116118798
Keep in mind, Erikson does not do drafts when he writes these books.
>>116118804
lord of the rings is the most boring series i have ever read.
>>116118791
You haven't seen Mary Sues till God-Emperor of Dune.
Holy shit Leto II is a fucking monster, literally.
>>116118851
Then why is every fantasy anime the japs make total crap about being trapped in a computer game?
>>116118772
I can't see any other kind of book being able to be good as an anime.
>>116118684
If you go with Sanderson, I think his Stormlight saga will work better as an animu. Power armors, slumbering superpowers and wisp like waifus. It's practically screaming "Japan, take me and animate me!".
>>116118791
You're an idiot. The Fremen are savages, that's the whole fucking point. Paul fails in the end because he can't keep them from chimping out, he dies shortly after becoming Emperor, Jessica is one of the most competent individuals in the book. Paul's own son ends up accomplishing what Paul feared most.
>>116118312
I think Ender's Game/Shadow would work better as anime but I'd love to see Jane animated.
>>116118524
Yeah, having a child actor who isn't cringeworthy is very hard, especially for a role like Paul. Still, they didn't need to make him so whiny in the Sci-Fi miniseries. I like Kyle MacLachlan a lot so I didn't mind him as Paul at all.
>>116118870
Don't worry, there's always SAO for all your fantasy needs.
>>116118791
Spacing Guild Internet Defense Force, please go.
>>116118919
Yeah, he's a fan of anime IIRC
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The Belgariad/Malloreon, any David Eddings series.
>>116118538
This.
>>116118609
>I could've fucking swore that did get an adaptation with a different name.
I don't know any other Lolita adaptions than the two movies, both of which had middle-aged Lolita, the first suffering from James Mason being old and creepy instead of old-worldly and Peter Sellers being Peter Sellers - and the second, with a perfect cast being directed by the guy who gave the world Indecent Proposal and Flashdance.
Not a novel, but I think this would make a fantastic anime adaptation.
>>116118952
>>116119011
I personally liked his earlier works better.
>>116118922
I think he was parodying what /a/ would be like if Dune was an anime.
By the way, completely ridiculous idea. I see no reason to do it at all.
>>116118772
>cheap
As if I'd want to wast my time on pretentious bullshit. I read for fun, anon, not to prove myself as some sort of intellectual.
>>116118222
To make a proper adaptation, any studio (including hollywood) would need a gorillion dollars for it to do it any sort of justice.
>>116119048
Fuck I'm an asshole. Pic is what I forgot.
>>116118952
but anon
i don't like fantasyit's because i'm not autistic
LOTR is boring.
>>116118804
Jesus fuck, you nerds got the most expensive adaption in fucking history and it's still not enough. Give it a rest already.
If there's something as a Holy trinity of shit writers, it gotta be Tolkien, Lovecraft and Arthur C. Clarke.
>>116119148
literally kill yourself
>>116118787
http://a.pomf.se/w4a2w.pdf
have a history of lolicon in japan
>>116119097
A lot of anime could be considered fantasy. What are you even doing here if you don't like it?
Don't tell me you only watch SOL/harem shit.
I'm fucking serious.And I want both Bloom and Dedalus as cute lolis.
>>116116407
Not really /a/ related, but does Dune ever get good? I heard a lot of good things about it, and I've always liked reading sci-fi and fantasy, but I had to drop the first Dune book less than a quarter of the way through because I couldn't stand the horribly over the top way the author describes every single fucking interaction, and just how FUCKING INCREDIBLE his stupid shitty MC is.
I guess what I'm trying to ask is if the writing style changes over time, or if it's not worth bothering if I felt like gagging when reading it.
>>116119148
You're taste is bad and you should feel bad.
>>116118696
wow, didn't know about this. I'll have to give it a watch. Can't be any worse than Verhoeven's garbage, Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine.
>>116118797
This guy gets it
Cain is so moe
>>116119234
is "Ulysses" the Evangelion of /lit/?
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Yasutaka Tsutsui.
Abarat or The Thief of Always would make good madhouse anime. I could see Yuasa directing them.
>>116118596
God no. How would you even watch that without falling asleep?
>>116119243
>I guess what I'm trying to ask is if the writing style changes over time
Nope.
I thought it was a fairly mediocre book.
>>116119148
12/10 Kyo-Ani style troll
>>116116513
I don't think Hyperion is going to work in an animated / real-action medium.
If anyone didn't read the series - even if you don't usually read books - go and read it. you'll thank me later.
Discworld. I don't care what one, maybe the 1st and 2nd novels, or maybe some of the witch ones.
>>116119097
>>116119148
Terrible posts. You would fit right in at /lit/ though.
>>116119310
That's weird then, because it's obviously highly critically acclaimed and popular. But when you have characters literally falling out of their fucking chairs every page because Paully Stue made some stupid observation it makes me want to chuck it in the trash.
>>116119378
Its one of those fantastic when it came out deals.
>>116119066
>I read for fun, anon, not to prove myself as some sort of intellectual.
I read for fun too which is why I don't stick to genre stuff. I like scifi/fantasy too but you're just a dumbass
>>116118772
Surely they are not /lit/-core
but people like what they like and /a/ always loved fantasy and sci-fi
>Not reading for pleasure
>Not also reading books with "literary merit"
>Not enjoying books in all their facets
>>116119243
>>116119310
>>116119378
>>116119401
Damn, /a/'s full of mentally retarded children. Who would have guessed?
>>116119264
It would make a good OVA.
Magician. The entire Riftwar Saga is great and most of the stuff after that too, but I think just that first book would make for a really nice 2 cour fantasy series.
>>116119203
Alright. You got me. I don't dislike fantasy. Just bad fantasy.
and shounen.
>>116119449
>enjoying shit
>>116119283
By making Settembrini and Naphta lolis and giving the whole thing a harem-esque vibe.
>>116119485
>not enjoying shit
>>116119259
Ulysses makes Evangelion seem unconceited and clear.And that's saying a lot
>>116119283
It would be Haibane Renmei 2.0, anon. Iyashikei as fuck.
Also, if we're talking about Big German Books, how about this one?
>>116119461
Yet you can't put up one reason why this book is so good.
>>116118772
To be fair, it doesn't make much sense to adapt something that isn't cheap into an anime.
>>116119066
dubs for truth
>>116119539
Why not Törleß for some homolust?
>>116119428
and what sci-fi/fantasy do you like?
keep in mind merely liking any of them tend to get you insulted in most literary circles.
>>116119461
>Damn, /a/'s full of mentally retarded children. Who would have guessed?
I'm open to discussion on whether or not I should pick Dune back up. I get there's a reason why so many people like it, I'm just having a hard time seeing it. I also can appreciate that the world is probably great once you get into it, but I can't get over the way characters interactions are so forced and over the top. It just feels awkward and unnatural (again, at least for the first 1/4 of the first book.)
>>116119401
That doesn't really make sense to me, since I like a lot of classic sci fi novels, and found them to be better written than this.
>>116119310
>>116119378
>>116119243
Dune is incredible. Absolutely incredible. But if you don't like completely ridiculous cheesy sci-fi don't read it. It really does get almost pulp. However, the sheer scale of the story and the universe portrayed, all of the different characters and motivations and factions - it is an extremely well put together and somehow convincing universe. Not to mention it works as a cheesy pulp space opera, or if you want to be pretentious, look at it as some sort of commentary on the environment and not only humanity's impact on it but the environment's impact on people. I could go on. It is great.
The first book, that is. I love most of the preceding books actually written by Frank Herbert but they get even more absurd and I can't really begin to imagine any deeper meaning in them. Still love them, though.
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I wish someone would sub the WMT adaptation Tom Sawyer.
>>116119605
I didn't like his writing style.
>>116119584
The Persian Boy would make for a good homo anime, and /a/ already has a boner for Alexander the Great
>>116119148
Hang yourself
Not as an anime, but I'd fucking love to see Suzuki Nakaba do a manga adaption of The 3 Musketeers and The Man In The Iron Mask in his current style from NnT. D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, moe Claudette, Richelieu looking like old Helbram and all of this in his over the top style. It would be such a perfect fit.
A lot of people here harp on LNs, but cheap fantasy is the same kind of shit.
Which I don't mind, by the way.
>>116119605
Thanks for the detailed response. Maybe I'll try picking it up again once I'm through my book list and see if I'm able to get into it more the second time around. I don't mind cheesy really, in fact, knowing that might make me able to bear how some of the characters act if I go into it knowing that's a thing.
>>116119428
Cheap fantasy = "genre stuff"? What the fuck does that even mean, anon?
>>116117282
>Santaroga Barrier
Make it a thriller like Higurashi, good stuff.
>Piers Anthony
Battle Circle, 3cour
>>116119752
genre stuff refers to genre fiction.
>>116119543
Sure I can. It was the first and remains one of the best science fiction books centered around ecology. The pacing of the book is good, Herbert does an excellent job of bringing the society of the Fremen, Dune overall, and the power struggle between the Emperor, the Landsraad, the Spacing Guild, and the Bene Gesserit (and later the Tleilax) to life. The characters aren't all archetypes (or at least they weren't when they were written), and the ones that were archetypes, such as Paul, didn't magically change from young adults into superhero God Emperors overnight. The future universe being devoid of AI and instead reliant on human brains was also unique.
Snow Crash. Stick Hideaki Anno on it.
>>116119376
This, but the Death novels to be specific, would be a great comedy, and probably the only case where the dub would be better
>Went to /lit/ a while ago to find some book recommendation charts
>Check out the threads
>80% is hardcore fedora-tipping
Why is Sci-fi always so hated?
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>>116119539
>It would be Haibane Renmei 2.0, anon. Iyashikei as fuck.
Harboiled Wonderland be HR 0.5
>>116119824
Cause of autists and muh science doesn't work that way i assume
>>116119824
Is it really though? I haven't noticed
>>116119536
It's a pretty straightforward story, though. Loser cruises Dublin while his wife is screwing some other guy.
It's the ever changing and clashing styles that make it complicated. And the thousands of cultural references.
I'd love to see Yuasa doing some Mindgame-magic to it. 18 episodes, one for every chapter. Would be glorious.
>>116118791
Sure, Paul Atreides is a Mary Sue, what with his ability to access all of his ancestral memories instead of just the female ones, but I'm not going to hold that against the author because Paul lived miserably and died horribly.
>>116118874
Again, I can forgive the author because Leto II's life was boring, miserable, and he refused to save himself from death.
>>116118922
>Savages
They are a group of people that lived in the wilds of a death-world for millennia and they were marginalized by every planetary ruler they had until the most recent one turned out to be their prophesied savior. They aren't savages, but trying to prevent a group like that from conquering after millennia of oppression would be fucking impossible. And Paul didn't fear the rule of the golden tyrant coming to pass, he feared BECOMING the golden tyrant because it would mean misery and boredom for thousands of years. He viewed it as a fate worse than death, but a role that was likely necessary for the survival of the human race.
>>116118967
lawl
>>116119596
>>116119605
I never thought of it as cheesy. Elaborate? And the character interactions aren't forced at all.
>>116119662
That's fine, plenty of people don't like older writing styles. Herbert does say "x within x within x" too many times.
>>116119819
That's not even the problem. /lit/ is an alright board sometimes, but all of the shitty philosophy threads and shitposting really ruin things. It's really hard to actually have threads about ANYTHING without someone chiming in with "start with the Greeks" or other meme tier posts.
>>116119886
[sarcasm]
An anime adaptation of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld with Reiko Okano's art style would be really cool, same with the Ray Bradbury stories Hagio Moto adapted.
>>116116738
>Snow Crash
The Diamond Age would be better. Anathem would be GOAT-tier.
Who should do pic related; Shaft?
Genesis by CoMix studio (of Garden of Words fame)
I would watch it.
Dark Tower?
>>116119920
No, Paul definitely feared the golden tyrant coming to pass. He was too worried about oppressing humanity and didn't want the entire species to suffer in order to insure it's survival. That's why Paul's ultimately a failure and his son is the God Emperor the universe needed, not the one it deserved.
>>116116802
I won't claim to have seen ABP, but I have literally seen no discussion for that show, that hasn't been about how hot the girls are, or how much people want to bang any number of the girls.
So, I'm honestly curious, whats so great about the series outside of the fanservice?
House of Seven Gables
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>>116119587
Off the top of my head I can say Stanislaw Lem, Urusula Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut, Phillip K Dick are all pretty well respected in literary circles. If its good its good. There's not some conspiracy against genre writers most of them are just bad sorry.
>>116120040
>>116120069
Definitly Ka
>>116119931
/lit/ is just /b/ with books and I hate it in spite of my love for literature.
>>116120115
>>116120137
dem kas
>>116119930
I don't have the book anymore since I was borrowing so I can't really write a direct quote. But what bugged me was that anytime Paul was talking with people in the first few chapters, there was just way way way too much internal monologue. And you see every bodies internal monologues at once which gets tedious. But the main problem I had, was that every single thing the characters though was incredibly exaggerated. Paul would say "Oi, that's a fukin box ya gab!" and someone would spend a whole paragraph detailing how their mind was so fucking blown by the fact that this boy was so incredibly intelligent that he had made such an amazing statement.
This of course, would be fine if he actually was making profound statements, or at least making them infrequently. But it was constant. Got really fucking tiring and annoying reading about people falling out of their chairs because someone made a basic observation.
Oh, and there was another chapter where the stereotypical monstrously fat fuck bad guy was describing his evil plan, and that scene had the same problem, which excessive, overly exaggerated internal monologue coming from every character in the room.
I dunno, I didn't dig it for those reasons, but I might have gone into it expecting the wrong thing.
>>116120082
It has Gables in the title, maybe the nips will buy it based on that alone.
pretty much this.
Robinson Crusoe with Friday as a little brown girl.
The complete Franz Kafka short stories and novellas done by the same guy who did A Country Doctor.
Gormenghast by SHAFT
Dark Tower by Madhouse
Dune by Ghibli or Sunrise
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel
I Am A Cat
The Forever War by Sunrise
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Kyoani
Snowcrash
The Odyssey
Brave New World and 1984 as feature films
His Dark Materials
The Road
Lovecraft's works
I'd like to see a bunch of classical Japanese stuff like Mishima turned into anime too.
>>116117735
I read it back then and can't really remember anything about the story, but anime somehow involving Keith Thompson would be fucking amazing.
>>116118919
Stormlight Archive isn't going to be done for a decade or two though. I think he has something like ten books in mind for the series, and book two just got released not too long ago.
>>116118728
I could see it being animated as a sort of aura emanating from the Buffers/dampeners/whatever the fuck they were called. Not to mention the fact that Mistborn has some top class action scenes that would translate very well to anime, if they were given to someone who could pull it off and enough funding to do it. Like say, Ufotable.
>>116118772
Brothers Karamzov would be really good if it was directed by Satoshi Kon, though. Too bad he's dead.
>>116118012
manga adaptation came out last year.
>>116116407
would be the anime of the decade, I'll fight anyone who says otherwise
>>116120075
Never got that impression while I was reading the book, but maybe I interpreted what I read incorrectly.
>>116120253
>Something Wicked This Way Comes
>by Kyoani
No thanks.
>>116119937
I was being serious but whatever
This.
>>116120253
Dude, some of those would be terrible. 1984 as an anime? Sounds pretty awful.
Oddysey would be awesome, though.
>>116119824
/lit/ is not indicative of the feelings or the larger human population. They're more closer to an accurate representation of the reading habits of eels I think.
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>>116120345
They'd make mr.dark too moe looking
>>116120186
That's not the first fourth of the book, that's the first twenty pages or so. But since I have the book right here, I checked and the first time anyone is surprised by Paul's observations is on page 10, by which time he's already made at least two if not three stupid comments that were ridiculed. He then gets credited with another brilliant observation on page 12, but if you keep reading the series it becomes clear that observation is not entirely accurate. So two instances where Paul makes people think he's a genius, one of which he isn't actually right. And they are pretty sharp observations for him to be making.
You need everyone's internal monologue otherwise you'd have no clue why they were saying what they were saying. I'd rather read people's internal monologues than have unnecessary speech by characters that had no reason to say anything.
If by page 186 you still hate it, you probably won't like it.
>>116116407
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Literally one of the best books that have entertained me in a while. Would defiantly watch with
Movies based on this or Revelations in general are shit. Anime might be the only medium that could adapt this properly.
Anime and sci-fi are kindred spirits in that they are both hated by hipsters.
>>116120363
Hmm dunno, I'd prefer a live action series (or movie) for this one. The fantasy should be low enough to pull it off.
Dalemark. I can already hear /a/ calling the first two parts fujoshit.
>>116118888
There are literally three different fantasy anime airing right now that don't take place in a computer game.
Bahamut, Chaika, and Vanandis.
>>116120253
>>116120444
Well, there was an old anime adaption of The Odyssey as a tv series called Ulysses 31, which tells the story with a pulp scifi spin.
>>116120548
Kyoani's style doesn't suit the book at all.
Without an interesting presentation the story doesn't have any value.
>>116120444
>>116120253
Odyssey sort of already exists, Ulysses 31, The Odyssey in space by TMS.
>The 31st century. Ulysses is the Captain of the spaceship Odysseus, directed by the central computer Shyrka. As a a gift for his son's Telemaque's 12th birthday, Ulysses takes him on a space journey for the first time. Telemaque is kidnapped by aliens who need a child sacrifice to their god - a giant cyclope, who is discovered to be a machine, of which the aliens, of course, are not aware. Ulysses saves his son, along with a little girl, Themis, and her older brother. As a punishment for such an intervention, the Great Gods of the mysterious Olympus punish him, freezing all Ulysses's staff, leaving him alone on the ship with Telemaque and Themis. The way back to Earth is erased from Shyrka's memory. Now Ulysses has to find the Kingdom of Hades in order to discover the way home. Ulysses's journey and adventures are parallelled to those of his ancestor, the Ancient Greek Ulysses, though "translated" into the Outer Space. The question of who actually the Olympus Gods are is raised.
>>116118798
Yea he meant it to be a screen play,the rest are proper novels and utilize the story telling medium a lot more efficiently. Favorite Fantasy series by a mile. 2nd one is good, it takes a tiny step back on the 3rd and then really hits it's stride on the 4th book.
>>116118888
Berserk isn't about that, although to be fair the anime is garbage.
>>116120571
>first 20 pages
I read up until they were about to land on the planet. There was the sword fight with his instructor and he wasn't sure if homie was trying to off him. Maybe it felt longer than it was, but yeah, in my first post I said less than 1/4 (and just got lazy and said 1/4 through in later posts).
>I'd rather read people's internal monologues than have unnecessary speech by characters that had no reason to say anything.
I see what you're saying, but to me it feels like the same thing. It's just another way to "tell, not show".
>If by page 186 you still hate it, you probably won't like it.
Alright, like I mentioned earlier, when I'm done my other books I'll try it again, but can you sort of see what I mean when I say that everyone seems to boost their reactions to things? I was using Paul's observations as an example, but I feel like it's pretty consistent throughout the chapters that I read.
Wizard Knight
ASOIAF (Game of Thrones for showfags)
Except that it would be cute girls against fat otaku during the early chapters.
>>116120719
>>116120726
Looks interesting, I'll probably give it a watch one of these days.
>>116120040
At this point my only hope for a screen adaptation is anime or an AMC or (preferably) HBC series. Will never be adapted for film because there's just too fucking much.
>>116120839
I haven't watched it, and from what I see there is only an English Dub on bakabt but I might download it just for something trashy to watch when I feel like watching garbage.
>>116120881
King himself sold the screen rights for a symbolical sum to the Lost guys.
Take that as you want.
>>116120881
There would need to be some kind of Stephen King cinematic universe kind of like how there is for Marvel to fill up all the other books Dark Tower is referencing so casuals wouldn't get feel left out.
Still want a proper animated series following Drizz't in his original trilogy.
>>116120799
>I hope they adapt these shitty books.
>The anime definitely won't be terrible.
Monogatari killer.
>>116120784
Sorry, I missed your earlier posts.
The universe Herbert's trying to describe needs a lot of time to get set up, because it is all relevant to the plot. It's worth the build-up. Anyway, good luck, hope it's better the second time around.
>>116120253
>A Country Doctor
Holy shit how the fuck did I not know about this. That sounds so fucking sick.
>>116121046
Do you really want a Game of Thrones anime bringing in a bunch of normalfags to ruin what we've got going on here? It was worse when Naruto and Shingeki drew in those sorts of people just imagine what A Song Of Ice and Fire anime would do.
>>116121046
>>116120784
I am not trying to be a dick, but you have literally read next to nothing. The scale of the book is absolutely massive, you haven't seen anything yet, it hasn't even started moving at that point. It is a space opera among space operas. You need all the internal monologues because with all of the massive scale and the political intrigue and whatnot. Maybe you just don't like it, that is absolutely fine because when it comes down to just liking a writing style or not it really does boil down to preference. I am just being persistent because I love Dune.
>>116121072
I only know Norwegian Wood by him.
Worst sex scenes I have read in my entire life.
>>116121099
Why are you replying to me? I said it would be terrible.
I wish all novels had pretty animu covers. I'm jealous of Japan.
>>116121099
>Do you really want a Game of Thrones anime bringing in a bunch of normalfags to ruin what we've got going on here?
Yes
Really in terms of anime adaptations, the novels I can think of that have solid adaptations are things like Treasure Island, Heidi, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Daddy-Long-Legs, Sans Famille, Les Miserables, A Dog of Flanders, Count of Montecristo, A Country Doctor. The Trapp family story anime is good but that is based on a memoir not a novel.
>>116121092
The animation is superb, its by an independent Japanese animator Koji Yamamura.
>>116120825
I honestly cannot imagine that working, but it would be bloody brilliant if it did
>ctrl-f Dresden files
>0 results
Fuck all of you.
>>116121099
Already ruined the books with the show giving away fucking plot point that haven't been written yet and making shitty changes. Anime adaptation would be absolute trash at this point.
>>116121229
Half of them are already ded
>>116120825
That wouldn't work as an anime at all.
And what's the point of telling people that the soviets are assholes nowadays?
>>116121046
Can anyone tell me what excuse hipsters have to hating "A Song of Ice and Fire?" All I've seen whenever its brought up is, "The righting is bad BLEH"
>>116121239
There is already a cartoon of it I can quite vividly remember watching when I was younger. Think it was a western production.
>>116118538
/thread
>>116121246
>ruined the books
You can't ruin dogshit.
>>116121158
Norwegian Wood is ok but it's too normal. Surrealist Murakami is best. Dance Dance Dance is my favourite book by him but you should read A Wild Sheep Chase first.
>>116121165
My mistake, I was actually meant to be quoting the guy you quoted but I messed it up. Apologies.
I believe Metropole could work if done by the same director who did A Country Doctor. It would suit his style since the author heavily ripped off Kafka but it's a good ripoff.
>>116121276
Change them for hipsters then.
>>116121283
Books are entirely written. If the writing is bad, the book is bad.
>>116121072
>>116121316
Wait so is it okay to like Murakami? I have been brainwashed from when I used to post on /lit/ (about 6 months until I couldn't take it anymore) so I am used to everybody going into maximum pretentious shitposting mode when he is mentioned.
Personally I have only read Hard Boiled Wonderland and I liked it.
>>116121283
I used to like it when I was a teenager back when it was relatively unknown and just had fanbases localized solely on the web but now that it's out into the mainstream I don't mind that it has a TV show what I dislike is that everyone who likes it has the whole "OH, I'm SUCH A NERD XD" stigma behind liking it. I would say the only good thing regarding it is the use of foreshadowing the author uses other than that they're just fun books.
>>116116407
Would be GOAT SoL anime
>>116121420
Fair enough, but tell me HOW the writing is bad.
