What would you adapt?

[Watashiwa]

So. Let's say that you enter a contest with your favorite animation studio and take first place.

Congratulations, you are now the creative director for their next project.

Subject? ANYTHING YOU WANT--except, it has to be based on a license.

So yes, you could join up with Sunrise and make a new Gundam series, or re-do GUndam Wing--or you could join Gainax and make a Mechwarrior anime, or a Warhammer 40K series, or join Production I.G. and make a Kingdom Hearts series.

Whatever.

So, the challenge: what do you want to adapt, and why? What scenes would you pay attention to in particular, and what would be ignored?

How long would your series be? What characters would you focus on?

tl;dr: You make an anime based on anything you want. What do you do with it?
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My series: Persona 3. Production studio... Gainax, probably. Get the guys who did the anime cutscenes in the original game to do the art, and beg Shoji Megurro to do some custom work for the anime... yeah, it would be awesome.

I'm thinking a 27-episode series, with half the episodes set in Tartarus and the other half in the real world, dealing with the crazy stuff that Strega was up to and Minato's twisted love life.

Okay, maybe not that last bit, but I do see Strega acting as villains MUCH earlier in an anime adaptation. The main problem I had with Persona 3 was how long it took to get past the first layer of plot (Oh noes! Shadows want to destroy the world! Oh wait, that's not ri--Wait! Yes it is! etc. etc. etc.), so giving the enemy a human face earlier on would be a nice touch.

Now that I think about it, most of P3's awesome came in the last third of the game...

Anyway, important scenes would of course include:

-The numbered Shadow battles,

-Strega,

-Character scenes like Aigis joining, Junpei being found by Akihiko (which happened off-screen in P3), Shinji's dealing with the Devil and maybe some S. Link stuff; the cultural festival,

-Chidori and Junpei,

-EXECUTION!!! :snigger:

-Pharos

-Minato using ZA WARUDO--er, the Universe Persona

And FES. Oh yes, that could be insanely fun. You know how Haruhi was out of order? Imagine that, but the individual scenes are out of order. So we go from Akihiko meeting Mitsuru to a scene with the Abyss of Time to the MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAT!!! to a character flashback and so on. I love Groundhog Day scenarios.

Use the last three episodes for that, (so P3=24, FES=3) and there could be a ridiculously cool anime.

Okay; what do you fans want to make?

 

[Shaderic]

Twewy.
21 days, plus another day makes twenty two episodes.
Plus an epilogue, and Beat-reaper episode, you got all the stuff you need for an awesome 24 episode series.

If not that, I enjoyed FFTA. Mock me if you will, but that was the first real strategy game I really played, and I enjoyed the theme. Sure, I'd need to tweak it a bit, you know, give Marche a bit more motivation to ge the world back the way it was, make up/ give backstory to clan Nutsy, change the name to anything but clan Nutsy, that sort of thing.

And if I had the ability to go totaly original?
Mwahahahaha. :evil2:
I would create 'Shadows of Elysium'. This is my original idea, so if you see it published, you saw them it here first!

Shadows Of Elysium is what happens in my head when you watch .Hack and play FFTA at the same time.

Six years before the plot-ball gets rolling, Maelstrom inc., a small videogame company, starts placing adds for their first big game, called 'Elysium'. They even manage to get the backing of a large company to help provide them with funding to hire the besy and brightest. Maelstrom was held together by the CEO, who was a master negotiator and a very charismatic person. He got the startup money, kept the bigger egos in check, and was ... well you get the idea.

Now, Elysium used some awesome, borderline revolutionary, code in it's construction. this plays a factor later. Now, while setting up the servers for testing, there were some odd brownouts, but nothing too serious. And quite a few staplers went missing too. (I've actually got this part written out. The 'Great Stapler War' is an amusing side-story I couldn't resist.) Nothing really eventful happened until they started actually running the ... whatever testing occurs before beta. A lot of employees volunteered to try it out, along with the CEO himself. So, right inside Maelstrom HQ, 40% percent of the testers disapeared for no apparent reason.

In the ensuing law-suits, Maelstrom is ripped apart. And without the CEO to hold it together, it stays that way. But, for Elysium, this is not the end. It actually is seized by a japanese entertainment company, where it becomes a popular anime.

Six years later, two friends happen upon an old box, that happens to contain a 'beta-version' of a game for an anime that they both really enjoy...

And so begins a story of friendship, rabbit people, spirits, ninjas, airships, smart trolls, romance, mysterious stones, and laser cannons. Yes, I manage to fit all of those into the actual story. This is going to be a long anime.

Well, there's more to the story, and the future intrepid heros (not that they know that) don't have any clue about Maelstrom, much less the events surrounding the beta.

 

[Scygnus Darkhawk]

Chrono Trigger. I think you could cram everything but the sidequests into 26 episodes, easy. Maybe some of the more dramatic of those, too, like Marle's (maybe reverse it so they find out about the trial before they find out about the Rainbow Shell, TIMETRAVEL FUN!)

And of course, using the Chrono Trigger, the battle against Queen Zeal and Lavos.

And can't forget the Jobber, Dalton.

I tell you, you'd make such a huge profit off the first DVD alone. It'd be a ridiculous amount of money if you did it right through the whole series.


Also, I would pay through the nose for the anime series' mentioned in the above posts. Fecking awesome.

Also, just a mention, Ephemeral Phantasia. Because the story draws you in, despite the ARRRRRRGH!!! gameplay. Purely the story would be awesome.

 

[Watashiwa]

Dalton

:rofl: :mmm:

 

[drakensis]

Battletech would be awesome: the Warrior Trilogy getting adapted with Justin Xiang-Allard doing the whole James Bond thing, the epic conflict between the Kell Hounds and the Genyosha, all on a backdrop of the Fourth Succession War.
Thirteen episodes would probably be enough unless more plot arcs (Theodore Kurita, the Wolf Dragoons) were woven in.


Alternately, Legend of the Five Rings. The Clan War told through the eyes of a Badger Clan mercenary questing across Rokugan in company with a MILF Scorpion assassin whose son he killed years ago. She's subtly trying to kill him, he's either ridiculously lucky, aware of and evading her plots or both and no matter where they go in their pursuit of a stolen Black Scroll, trouble arises. Of course, half the people they meet think they're watching an epic romantic legend in the making.
26 episodes at least with option for another series covering War against the Lying Darkness.

Bayushi Sakuko lifts a fallen katana and drives it into the back of a goblin then drops back into hiding.
Ichiro Heiji: (pointing) It's a miracle! That samurai's sword just rose up and killed a goblin!
Goblins: mutter nervously.
Heiji: (looks around at the other fallen samurai) I wonder how many of the other swords will do the same?
Goblins flee.
Sakuko: 'That samurai's sword just rose up and killed him!'?
Heiji: I never said that no one was holding it.
Sakuko: 'It's a miracle!'?
Heiji: If you saving my life isn't a miracle, I'm not sure what else would count.

 

[Scygnus Darkhawk]

Phoenix Wright. I think you could easily squeeze in one case per episode, maybe two for the more complex cases. Done properly, it could be awesome. It's not exactly that much of a stretch :sweat2:

 

[Watashiwa]

Production I.G. and crank out the entire Eternal Sphere series.

 

[Fosfor]

Legend of Five Rings, like Drakensis, though from a slightly different perspective of a ronin drifter involved in the power struggle between the clans and triyng to remain alive and prosper somehow, involving anything from greedy magistrates, scheming Scorpion, Kitsune Mori foxes, Tengu and cryptic Dragon Clan meddling.

Roger Zelazny's "Nine Princes of Amber", along with "Guns of Avalon" and all other books of Corwin cycle. Doing it well would be hard, but if done well, it'd be awesome. Merlin books of Amber cycle also wouldn't be bad. If I wanted to stay away from already established adventures it'd probably be something involing early days of Amber princes and princess - the intrigue and political powermongering and backstabbing alone would be worth it.

Wheel of Time - but not the 'current' timeline but rather the pre-Aiel War and pre-Malkier Fall one - it just begs to be done.

 

[SoulGriever13]

Nocturne. Six 30-45minute long OVAs.

Episode one - Start off with Yuko as the viewpoint character, and interwoven slice of life scenes from her job and her interactions with Hikawa. End with a mindscrew sequence at the hospital, and the Conception.

Episode two - Naoki as the POV character. Starts as the game did, fleshes out the events directly prior to the Conception from his point of view. Hospital mindscrew sequence in the early-middle, with added Nightmare Fuel from the magatama implantation. Ends with the battle against Forneus and Naoki leaving the hospital. Yuko narrates.

Episodes three-through-five - One episode per Reason - depending on direction, this can be done in no particular order, or even starting off with a climatic bigass battle against Samael and Yuko making like blue sparks and then going back to just after Naoki leaves the hospital to show how this came to be. Episode five ends with the Ahriman beatdown.

Episode six - Mindscrew, with the Kagutsuchi fight being less of a fight and more of the Demi-Fiend being faced with alternative Reason scenarios he needs to endure through to make sure his own decision remains. Back to Yuko's POV at the end, with the world back to normal. Several slice of life scenes as she wakes up and goes to work, initially discarding the memories of the Vortex World as nothing but a strange dream ...

-Griever

 

[Souffle]

Production I.G. and crank out the entire Eternal Sphere series.

Goddamn beat me to it, however I'll take Gainax. Infinite Episode series ala Naruto/DBZ, except with minimal filler.

I'd also take Clamp and do Valkyrie Profile. Two 26 season eps for 1 and 2.

 

[Watashiwa]

Wow. Lots of people posted recently.

Warm and fuzzy feelings all around!

Anyway, another game I'd love to adapt to an anime--Tales of Phantasia.

ToP wasn't only the first game in the Tales... series, but it actually has the most in-depth back story. The game is based on an unpublished book by Yoshiharu Gotanda (the lead programmer) called "Tale Phantasia". Of course, tons of details were removed from the game, like Dhaos' backstory, so I'd want to get my hands on the book to add some of those notes to the anime.

I figure one 45-minute episode for the game's prologue and the time travel scene, then eleven episodes for the past and eight episodes for the future for a 20 episode series.

Things to focus on-- the Valhalla War, Dhaos' Castle and the Ymir forest, gathering the summons, the ninja village (Suzu!), forging the Eternal Blade, the city of Thor, and more battles against Dhaos' minions!

 

[ar_ranma]

Anyway, another game I'd love to adapt to an anime--Tales of Phantasia.

Too late.
Well... They could have done a better job with it.

 

[Watashiwa]

Anyway, another game I'd love to adapt to an anime--Tales of Phantasia.

Too late.
Well... They could have done a better job with it.

Ugh--Tales of Phantasia: THE ANIMATION was awful.

A summary of their thought process--"Hmm. Tales of Symphonia is popular! Let's make an anime based on the first game, but take out all the backstory! Then let's excise about three fourths of the games plot points, and make the entire thing four episodes long!"

<_<

Yeah.

 

[Souffle]

I liked it. It was meant to be short, because you know, it wasn't a series, just a set of OVAs.

 

[Watashiwa]

I liked it. It was meant to be short, because you know, it wasn't a series, just a set of OVAs.

Yes, but they cut out the boat scene.

I don't care if that was just the DeJap translation, it isn't Phantasia if it doesn't have the boat scene.

 

[Souffle]

I hated that scene. It came out of nowhere and didn't fit at all.

Made for a good lemon though.

 

[Watashiwa]

I hated that scene. It came out of nowhere and didn't fit at all.

Made for a good lemon though.

...

Lemon? There are Tales of Phantasia lemons? :unsure:

Excuse me, I'm going to go look for these stories...

 

[BukkakeNoJutsu]

This probably belongs in another section, but I would adapt Isutoshi's Slut Girl as an adult comedy---like golden boy meets Discipline/Viper GTS.

:lol:

It'd be PWP with laughs and awesomeness.

 

[Watashiwa]

Just hit me--do you know what could make for an AMAZING anime, if done correctly?

Suikoden.

Any of them. (I know SIII has a manga, but it's not the same...)

I have no idea what production studio could ever hope to do a good job with this, or what voice-actors would be good to fill the main characters roles, but I DO think that the (epic) political plots of Suikoden II in particular would be amazing to see acted out.

 

[Shaderic]

While we're breaking copy-right laws to produce our anime of choice, let's branch out.
Cause, let's face it, seeing any Fosfor fic mad into an anime would be awesome on an almost un-paralleled level. I'd also like to recomend TWC (70 chapters, and STILL GOING STRONG!), but that wouldn't work too well animated. You'd lose all the internal dialogue. Which is awesome, by the way. 'Bastard Mercenary' indeed.