Ok, so keeping up with my tag posts hasn’t exactly been going as fast as I’d like but I haven’t given up. Especially with such great tags as Make it Anime. I’ve seen this one going around and it’s always an interesting read, if a little frustrating since I really want to see all those non existent animes now.
Case and point: Average Joe’s post on the subject which really has a ton of fascinating suggestions I would never have thought of myself. You should go give it a read now:
Especially if you happen to own an animation studio. These are all great suggestions! I personally want to live in a world that’s almost entirely made out of anime myself so I am relishing the idea of doing my own post on this tag. But first there are some rules. And here they are:
- Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog post.
Thank you so much Joe – this is going to be fun!
- Choose 1 Book, Movie and TV show of your choice that you think could work as an anime. (A series of books or movies is allowed e.g. Lord of the Rings, Hunger Games)
- If you want to pick more than 1 from each section that’s fine. Or if you can’t think of one for a specific category that’s fine also.
- Explain why you think your choices could work as an anime. Maybe the advent of animation would enhance it, maybe the different anime genres could help expand and improve the story. Just go crazy with it.
- Link back to the original post so I can read people’s suggestions, I’d love to read everyone’s ideas.
I’m so sorry, I don’t know what the original post is…Can anyone tell me? I’ll add it
- Include Make it Anime in your tags so everyone including myself can find them all easily.
- Nominate around 5-10 bloggers.
Now that we know what we’re doing – let’s get started!
Movie
The 5th Element
I mean it’s basically already anime. Like honestly, there’s little to no adaptation needed here. Even the character designs can stay as is. The way I see it, aside from anime, the other thing you can never have enough of is the 5th element!
In fact, if you want to put in a bit of extra work, how about we expand this to a full series. 12 5th element episode that go into a bit more world building, lore, background and details on each of the movie’s acts. I can’t be the only one who wants to see this!
Book
The Master and Margarita
I love this book so much. It’s nice black humor with some romance and a lot of surreal elements that would look spectacular in animated form. Personally, I see the team that did ACCA-13 as the perfect choice for this type of project. This is an older book that unfortunately is gradually being forgotten. I would love for a new generation to discover this wry little story, full of history and dry wit. I also encourage you fully to read the book if you haven’t and imagine it as anime. You’ll see, I’m so right about this one!
TV show, pretty much 99% of what I watch is anime so I’m going to switch this one out to:
Visual Novel
Lamento
I once wrote an entire post on Visual Novels I’d like to see adapted to anime,
But the one I always go back to is Lamento. You can easily strip out the entire romantic storylines and be left with a very solid epic high fantasy complete with stunning visuals and catboys. I mean c’mon. The fact that this hasn’t happened yet is a travesty. Someone make this. Please!
Maid Cafes
I have once been to a maid café. The experience was fairly disappointing and sort of cringe worthy to me. Also the food sucked. Obviously I wasn’t the target audience because there were quite a few other customers that seem to be having a wonderful time but I couldn’t help but find it lacking. I think it would be better if Maid Cafes were also magical isekai that would transport directly into an anime universe. The waitresses would all be spunky and full of purpose. The food would be huge, probably omurice, and I would feel comfortable and at home because of the familiarity. And if there are any shy and meek waitresses, they would blush adorably on cue. This is making me sound like a jerk… Oh there would be cats as well.
Yokai
I think there should be Yokai and they should talk to me. I also think that if I want to share my life with a non-human, I would like it guaranteed that it would outlive me. These seem like reasonable demands.
Metabolisms
Now I would never presume to impose anything on YOUR body but I would very much like for my metabolism to be anime like. I want to be able to eat and drink unreasonably on a regular basis and remain almost uncomfortably thin with unprobable assets and completely jiggle free form. This would be ok for me.
So what do you think? Should we make those things anime? I say yay
Now you let me know what else should be anime! I think I might be the last person to do this tag but I’m going to try to nominate people that might have fun with it:
Fun comments!
Wow! The Master and Margarita would be an awesome anime!!! *_*
Right!!??!!. Thank you!
Oh my god, now I want to be tagged in this at some point!
Also, The 5th Element IS basically an anime with how ridiculous, stylistic and over the top it it is in comparison to most sci-fi.
I’m surprised you haven’t done it yet
Heck,I might just do it because I want to,nobody can stop me,it’s the internet
The internet’s SOOOOOOOOO big these days! No wonder nobody can tell what’s safe anymore….. Not to be offensive to anyone but it really is hard to tell these days.
Thanks for the tag! I’ll have to see what I can do with this!
“The Master and Margarita”
You’re the second person I’ve known who’s read that book! Well, third if I count Dawnstorm (has Dawnstorm read and seen _everything_?). A coworker recommended it to me years ago, and I loved it!
And it gave me the idea for the novel I want to have turned into an anime…
And Fifth Element? There is so much to love about that movie, not the least being the soundtrack!
I’m so happy to hear other people still like the Master
Your list is so hilarious. I liked how you brought up all these random anime tropes and building movies or series of them. Hahaha!
When I say everything, i mean it!
I certainly believe that. Haha!
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Gah! So much stuff i haven’t seen/read. It all sounds really cool though. Thanks for the tag, Irina😁
Can’t wait to see what you come up with. No pressure but Ive got some really high expectations here!😜
The Master and Margarita would make an awesome anime. (Junichi Suwabe as Pontius Pilatus, please.) The Acca team could pull it off!
I’d love to see the first two Gormenghast books as anime. Made by the team of Katanagatari (or for a sombre mood by the team of House of Five Leaves).
Oh man YES. Gormenghast is so wonderfully weird. Gah..so much anime that should exist
Fun fact: I read Master and Margarita, because people who liked Gormenghast kept recommending it. That’s also why I thought of it.
Another thing I just remembered: Bungo Stray Dongs gest a third season in spring, and the Russians are coming (if the final scene of season 2 is to be trusted). One can only hope…
Interesting!!! Huge Bulgakov Catboy?
Summon Behemoth!
….. You sounded so calm and formal in the other comments and posts. Now you sound VERY excited and more like us in the way most of us speak… Not that either of them’s bad. Just noticing a comparison.
That was aimed at Irina, by the way.
I usually have a pretty casual style but it may sound weird since I’m french
Cool! French! One of my cartoony Romantic-Superhero shows is set up in Paris! Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir has some pretty interesting elements if you ask me. I really recommend it. Perhaps it could give you more ideas of what to do next. Just food for thought.
Yeah, the fifth Element would be an amazing anime. 😁. It’s just so unique and weird, but amazing!
The Master and Margarita sounds interesting, so I will put that on my long book list…
Thank you for the tag. I’ll get to this at some designated point in the future!
I await with bated breath
What’s bated breath?
I’ve always meant to read Master and Margarita but never got around to it. Should be at the top of my list for how long it’s been there.
I love that book so much
What’s Master and Margarita?
Ooh, 5th Element would work really well. I could see it maybe being adapted by the team behind Ghost in the Shell: SAC.
A good choice. Kinda bummed it doesn’t exist now
Maybe you or someone else could remake it…? Possibly make it better? Just another comment for Irina. Also food for thought.
can’t wait to try my hands on this, thanks for tagging me for this 😊😊. Also 5th Element, I remember this movie and I could so see it as an anime.
I look forward to reading it
Its done 😍
This is a great idea. I don’t got one for a movie yet, but I got a damn good book one. Hope I get tagged.
Oh man…Can I tag you now??? I’ll edit the post if you want
Sure I’ll whip up a post this week
sweet!
Just tossed mine up, enjoy!
Wow quick
This was awesome Irina. That visual novel one was a very nice choice, didn’t expect someone to bring up a visual novel, but I think it’s a great idea. There’s so many VNs that could be made into anime. Great job, I loved this one.
Thank you. It was loads of fun. Thanks again for the tag
Huh.., Average Joe, sounds like a gym in a movie I saw just this year. My Dad owns it on disc.