ITT: novels that would make good anime
Picrelated, next SAO right there
Not a novel, but I'd be up for 1:1 retelling of the Odysseywith all the characters replaced by lolis
Wheel of Time
Foundation
To Kill a Mockingbirdwith script by Enokido and directed by Ikuhara
Ready Player 1.
Not sure how well all the 80s references would translate though.
Ulysses
>>124941977
>SAO
>good anime
Pick one
Moby-Dick
Little, Big
Anything by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Zorya Polunochnaya is best girl.
>>124942640
Little, Big, yes. Moby-Dick, not so sure. Translating that to anime seems a bit tricky.
>>124942709
Yeah. Melville's prose in Moby-Dick is prodigious. It wouldn't really translate well to anime, but I'd like to see a decent attempt.
>>124942632
All of the "next" SAOs have actually been decent to good shows, you just don't see the metapost for what it is
Not a novel or even literature
but I'd watch the Blackwell series adaption
The Prince of Nothing by Madhouse with Konaka on script
Snow Country, can't think of any good staff
Yuasa's adaptation of some of Yoko Tawada's stuff
Not a novel, but I'd love to see Glengarry Glen Ross with a cast of cute little girls.
The cutest imouto ever.
Hyperion Cantos
Just imagine all that shit for a moment
Book of the New Sun
Gods of Pegana
Everything Diana Wynne Jones ever wrote
>>124941977
Between Snow Crash, which you posted, and Armor, I honestly think Dune would make a good anime. It's a good medium to portray such a outlandish setting.
The Forever War. I'm kinda surprised it isn't already a thing.
But everybody is a cute girl.
>>124942065
This x10000000
LoGH-scale adaption of Malazan when
>>124942612
directly of course
>Neal StephensonCLANG
Grimms fairy tales
moe 1984.
>>124942401
Do you really want tons of threads calling Penelope a cuck?
>>124943260
Korlat best girl
>>124943390
great idea
Where my Windrunner bros at?
Adapted in ~200 episodes and nobody would have any idea whats going on.
Honestly I would watch it but I doubt the idea is marketable.
>>124943453
That particle should be を, not に. Go study, motherfucker.
>>124943527
learn your newspeak, fag
>>124943452
Toc best guy
>>124943435
>MC is a manwhore, DROPPED
>How did we go from Rider of Red to THIS? What the fuck happened?
>people getting mad over millennia-old spoilers
>filthy secondaries, go read the original Greek
This would be the anime of the century.
Winnie the pooh
>>124943656
Anomander Rake
>>124943499
I took out a book on quaternion theory from the library and still had no idea what was going on there.
>>124943452
Korlat a shit
Apsalar best girl
>>124943722
I doubt the mathbabble was supposed to make REAL sense, just sounding vaguely believable.
But on the other hand a lot of the other seemingly random events, characters or customs were based on real things so maybe I'm just 2stupid.
It would supply us with shitposting material for the next thirty years.
>>124943811
...but what would Here Comes Everybody look like?
>>124941977
Dude, Log Horizon was the next SAO. AND it surpassed SAO in every possible way, making it look like shit.
>>124943811
fucking fund it
>>124943794
He actually knows his shit pretty well, so I'm sure the actual math parts check out. Whether it's relevant is more debatable, but I wouldn't rule it out, because a lot of the math shit in GR definitely was (even if I still don't get what Riemann had to do with anything).
Stop reminding me about my mile long book list
This whole series is pretty much a goddamn anime already. I could see it being fun.
>>124943754
>edgy as shit
>mary sue
>written like the worst anime character
Fuck her, Jesus Christ I loathed her and Crokus so much
obligatory
>>124943910
Your high school literature teacher here.
Read more or I'll tell your parents.
Dresden Files
Hyperion
Accelerando
>>124943994
But will there be lolis?
>>124943754
Apsalar is fucking Coldsteel. Korlat a best, Apt a second best. Surly a shit.
>>124943995
It's your principal here
Browsing while at work is not allowed
RIP ;_;
>>124943994
that would make for an inconsequential anime. seriously, 80% of the show would be internal monologue to more or less still frames of a shape-less, plain, little girl.
>>124943994
Taking this out of written form is the worst idea imaginable.
>>124943260
I'd prefer a partial adaptation with tighter focus. My biggest gripe with the series was that it felt like Erikson wanted to show off the entire setting he had come up with and shove every cool idea and character concept he had ever had into the story while he was at it. It was still pretty great, but I don't think complete adaptation would appeal to me that much. Adaptation of Deadhouse Gates would be pretty neat, though.
>>124944089
I'm sad now. Raising Steam was pretty good. And apparently there'll be one more Tiffany book released post mortem.
>>124944109
So Bakemonogatari?
>>124941977
hell yeah op, Neuromancer too, or hell the whole sprawl trilogy would be rad as balls
more "high tech...low life" anime, GitS and Ergo Proxy are nice, but I wanna see cowboys jack in and fuck up mega japanese corps
>>124944185
>>124943260
That looks pretty boss.
Is the series good in terms of plot?
>>124944185
Oh, god, Shinbo directing Lolita would be a catastrophe.
I'd like a "Lights Out in Wonderland" OVA
Alternatively, the Illiad or the like.
>>124943474
Right here.
>>124944213
If you like epic fantasy, yes. It's sort of a mess in terms of the amount of shit that happens, but it's enjoyable. The first book is like a crash course on how NOT to do worldbuilding, though, so beware.
>>124944185
essentially - with 100% less applicable references.
>>124944279
The opposite
I loved how it just dropped me in the middle of everything, explained jack shit and forced me to deduce everything from in between the lines myself
>>124944213
>Is the series good in terms of plot?
I'd say that individual books are mostly pretty good in terms of plot, but the series as a whole lacks coherence, or whatever the right word is. Like >>124944279 says, there's a fuckload of stuff going on, and I think the series would have worked better if the author had focused on some more narrow aspect of these going-ons. It is definitely worth a read as it is, though.
>>124943390
that shit was wrought with surprise factor bullshit for the public of a hundred years ago. it would be lackluster at best.
Animal Farm
2666 with lolis
Wait, fuck, I made it even more depressing.
>>124944208
GitS is good, but Ergo Proxy sucks balls. The time to make those awesomely detailed dystopias has come and gone, my friend. Not only has the cultural moment passed, but the people who made those works so great don't even work in the industry anymore!
>>124944357
I was fine with that for most of the book, but when that Jhag (I think it was a Jhag? I can't really remember) got unsealed and the Azath started happening, I really needed someone to explain what the fuck was the deal here.
>>124944208
Devil Summoner anime when
Every thread until they adapt it
>Swann's Way
/thread
>>124943015
>>124944016
KyoAni knows.
SHAFT or Ufotable doing anything by China Mieville.
>>124944630
>not steppenwolf
The japs love androgyny and inner conflicts
>>124944711
>>124943015
>>124944016
that feel when wb is making a film atm, and that would never happen because of it.
:'(
>>124941977
>Brooding stoic MC every woman falls for. Oh and he's oddly skilled with a magic sword.
>Fantasy world
>Grimdark
>Misunderstandings!
>Incest!
>Incest marriage and pregnancy
How is it not an anime. This shit was made for otaku.
>>124944670
>/thread
>on your own post
You're retarded for wanting that, anyway. It's too prose-heavy. There's no one who could replicate the feel of it in anime form.
John Galt is played by Sugita.
Thoughts?
>>124944789
no one...
yet.
>>124944810
Already an anime yo.
EVERY ADAPTATION BELOW THIS POST WILL HAVE THE ENTIRE CHARACTER ROSTER REPLACED WITH LOLIS
>No Brave New World
It would be great. Like an otaku who wakes up and realizes how bad everything is.A story of real life.
The Cement Garden.
I would be utterly unable to get rid of my erection.
>>124944834
been meaning to read this... :/
It would be something
it's perfect!
>>124944871
Gormenghast. Loli Gormenghast could actually be great. Like a non-terrible Nyaruko-san.
>>124941977
>good anime
>SAO
1Q84
The Box Man
Slaughter-House 5
>>124944871
>Not doing that already.
>Not reading all of The Space Odyssey books with everyone as lolis.
>>124944909
It would be hell of show if Madhouse animated it.
>>124941977
This would be a very dark but enjoyable fantasy.
Would make an amazing 1 cour. I just hope its seriousness isn't turned into some magical girl BS.
>>124944846
Anon, I can't think of a single person, living or dead, I would trust to adapt that to any form of television/film. It's all in the sentences. That really doesn't translate well to a visual medium.
It'd be like a shittier version of SAO.
>>124943554
Underrated
>>124944919
I could go for some cute little Mexicanclonelolis.
>>124941977
The great gatsby would probably make for an ok NTR story.
>>124944493
>2666 with lolis
The Part About the Murders would actually make me puke.
>>124944909
See ep. 25-26 of eva
This would work fantastically well actually
These threads are not nearly as good as the vidya ones.
I'm gonna say Hard Times to be a little different this time. Dickens' characters are pretty moe to begin with.
>>124942065
This would be really awesome. But I guess there would be a lot of fatefags ruining everything.
>>124945258
Heard that this was getting a comic sequel. No idea how that's going to turn out.
>>124945258
>book
fucking retard
>>124945357
dude
>>124945357
Oh man, you done fucked up.
>tfw barely read anything other than the required books during school
Are any of the books ITT good for scrubs? And how's Lolita? the premise sounds fucking fantastic.
>>124945522
its not necessarily what you would expect.
It'll probably turn out like Welcome to the NHK and Yahari Oregairu combined.
>>124945553
isnt there a manga adaption?
>>124945414
>>124945453
just as teitoku
>>124945584
news to me. is it any good?
By Shinbo@SHAFT of course.
>>124945522
Lolita is all about the prose, at least for me. The fact that Nabokov was ESL is an embarrassment to all but like five English speakers who've ever lived. So you'll like it if pretty sentences are your thing, and you probably won't otherwise.
If you prefer genre fiction or stuff to "literary," English-course-type stuff, Malazan and The Prince of Nothing have both been mentioned and are pretty good.
>>124945522
Nabokov's prose is something else
>>124945669
Just because something is about words, words, words doesn't mean Shinbo is a good choice, guys. The whole obsessive neurosis thing, for one, doesn't strike me as his cup of tea at all. I would not want this.
>>124944472
underrated post.
Metamorphosis maybe? Anything by Kafka would be pretty cool
Hyperion would be pretty cool I think.
Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker, and The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
>>124943452
I'm pretty sure Sgt. Hellian is best girl. Or Samar Dev.
>>124945727
There isn't a single show that wouldn't have been better done by Shinbo@SHAFT.
Fight me faggot.
IT, for loli sex.
>>124945788
That would be very good actually
The Man in the High Castle, because Japan loves retconning WWII.
>>124944497
We still get stuff like Psycho Pass which (regardless of how you feel about the execution) kind of came out of the same vein. I don't think it's fair to say that we will never see this stuff again.
>>124945788
A Country Doctor was made into a 20 mins anime movie, it is pretty interesting.
>>124945882
I can't imagine reading that book as a Japanese honestly. It seems too dependent on the reader having an American perspective to get the most out of it.
>>124944112
Except that, Nabokov was explicitly fine with this (though you aren't wrong).
>>124945882
>Canada is independant
Everything from Julio Verne would do a pretty fun anime.
>>124944765
They would have a smash hit with Demian because it has homolust and milf worship.
>>124945882
>Italian Empire
>>124945946
You could say the same of all the Japanese anime that are based on the perspective of them getting fucked in WW2. We manage it okay.
>>124945683
English Sign Language?
>>124945882
>canada
>>124945788
It would probably work better than live-action.
>>124946004
Believe it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I71VX5RyGA
>>124946007
english second language friendo
>>124943656
SUFFERING
>>124946046
And how's that embarassing? Dude wrote a book, that's great.
>>124945547
But it's still more like that than people would have you believe. HH is fucking spectacular.
>>124946097
Are you an ESL too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQcBKUPm8o
What about Poe?
>everyone posting /lit/-core
protip: none of it would work in any other medium
>>124946229
your probably right, but its fun to think about
Would be brilliant.
>>124945074
It's much better than SAO.
But yeah, not very good.
>>124941977
>not REAMDE
REAMDE would be perfect as an anime
>>124946229
>A book as well known as to kill a mockingbird
>lit-core
Nani?
>>124946097
Embarrassing in that it's insanely well written with super pretty sentences, moreso than a native speaker, is what I assume he's saying.
>>124946344
Synopsis of said book:
The story, set in the present day, centers on the plight of a hostage and the ensuing efforts of family and new acquaintances, many of them associated with a fictional MMORPG, to rescue her as her various captors drag her about the globe. Topics covered range from online activities including gold farming and social networking to the criminal methods of the Russian mafia and Islamic terrorists.
>>124946408
The Game: The Book: The Anime
>>124946462
didnt want to quote, just so you know
>>124946346
I didn't mean literally everyone. Are all of you third worlders or something?
It would probably be terrible, but still.retard moe ARVN lolis when
It /lit/ the same as /a/ where they hate everything that is popular or highly rated?
>>124943390
Everyone's got a great Onii-chan!
>>124946540
That's everyone board dude. Welcome to 4chan.
>>124946540
More or less, though there are a lot less people who go around trying to start shit, so if you just want to make a thread to discuss some series that normally gets shit there they probably won't shitpost your thread as aggressively as something like a SAO thread might get here.
>>124946196
Nope. Or are you saying I should be ashamed I can't climb K2 or fly a jet?
Sweetwater, by Lawrence Yep. Google tells me this is way more obscure than my middle school self ever thought it was. No one wants to read a detailed summary pulled from my ancient memories, so basic points:
>colony on another planet
>MC lives in like the rural village version of Neo Venezia, with canals and gardens and stuff
>the population slowly fleeing to the larger city
>evil corporations
>blind imouto
>giant sea serpent
>spider-monkey aliens with magic music
>dramatic alien-salmon runs to sustain the village
>>124945030
Wonder how Aleister was in real life.
>>124946618
Eh... I'd rather Player of Games or Use of Weapons, as far as Culture stuff goes.
>>124943390
With Susumu Hirasawa as music composer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-5alqkDiA
Gap moe!
>>124946540
It depends because most books that would be considered "popular" like NYT bestsellers really are trash. So it's more like hipsters having powerlevel fights.
Instead of a black guy, maybe make the protagonist as a high school kid getting bullied. Or a young salary man. Damn japs.
>>124945944
Jesus Christ, I need to see that.
>>124946097
I'm saying the fact that the vast majority of not only native English speakers but even "canonical" English prose-writers get BTFO by a guy who grew up speaking Russian is a blow to our honor as proud Anglo warrior men.
>>124946618
Excellent answer. When I read that book I couldn't shake the feeling that it was as pulpy as most anime. Obviously there are a few things that would have to get changed around. But I think you could really make it work. The difficulty would be convincing a typical anime audience not to perceive the Idirans as irredeemable bad guys because they look like scary space monsters and the Culture as automatic saviors because they are mostly represented by a cute girl in that story.
>>124946229
Dosty and Kafka could, if you're including them in /lit/-core.
>>124943909
This, so much this
>>124946686
>rural village neo Venezia
>blind imouto
>giant sea serpent
Sign me up.
>>124946755
While we're on the topic of "books with black protagonists that could easily be switched out with different races."
