Us bookworms have a love/hate relationship with adaptations – obviously we want our favourite books on the small/big screen, but if it’s not done right… All hell breaks loose. But do we learn from those disastrous adaptations? Do we become cautious?
Nope we dream of more adaptations! Or at least I do. I spend waaaay too many hours thinking about books that would make great movies, tv shows, video games, musicals and as I will talk about in this post: anime. I might do a second part at some point in the future, but here are five books/series that I would love to see turned into anime.
๐ย Geek Girlย ๐
Geek Girl would be SUCH a cute and funny shoujo?? Harriet would on one hand be the PERFECT shoujo protagonist as sheโs clumsy and can be so oblivious about whatโs going on around her, but on the other hand sheโd be so refreshing because she is so so flawed but she realises it and grows so much throughout the books. Also cute friendships!! Cute romances!! The most adorable family!! Travelling around the world and shenanigans!! Modelling gone wrong!!ย Where is my Geek Girl anime I made myself want it so badly nowย
๐ย The Chaos Walking Trilogyย ๐
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE BADASS OPENINGS AND MELANCHOLIC ENDINGS BECAUSE I CAN. Especially the ending of season 2 a.k.a. The Ask and the Answer with (select the following text to read the spoiler)ย Todd and Viola being separated it would be so beautiful yet the ANGST. And you know those terrifying anime villain expressions, with the eyes bulging and the creepy grin (bonus points if they laugh out loud too) I could so imagine mayor Prentiss like that in an anime. The plot and themes are just perfect for an anime – it would work so well. Oh no I just thought of Manchee in anime style rip there goes my heart and soul.
Oh boy this post was not a good idea now I got ANOTHER anime I badly want and will I get it?? Most likely not
๐ย Percy Jacksonย ๐
Okay so the movies failed TERRIBLY like they probably just read the blurbs, thought ‘that sounds cool’ and went with that and now I’m left with a huge hole in my chest that needs to be filled with a good Percy Jackson adaptation and an anime?? Would be GREAT. A western cartoon would be too (like if done by the same team as Avatar). The creatures, magic and all that jazz would cost a lot of money in live action stuff to make it look good, but animated?? That would look SO good. Plus the humour would just work so well – imagine those expressions!!
๐ย The Lunar Chroniclesย ๐
Marissa Meyer’s worldbuilding would look STUNNING in an anime, imagineย the music, Thorne is basically an anime character already and just,, it works so well?? That’s all I have to say?? Because it’s been too long since I’ve read this series rip*
* I want to reread SO MANY BOOKS so badly but 1) I have plenty of unread books to read and 2) reading slump rip
๐ย Harry Potterย ๐
Listen, I love the movies, but I would love a tv show or an anime that follows the books more closely, includes scenes that weren’t that important to the plot and thus left out, develops the characters and relationships better… A tv show would be AMAZING but an anime would be fun too. I just want both to be honest. Can you imagine Draco being turned into a ferret, anime-style?? Iconic. Harry Potter is filled with so many unique characters that areย perfect for anime and all the magic would look incredible.
What do you think of my choices? Do you agree with them? Which books would you love to see turned into anime? Let me know in the comments!
OH this is such a cool post Michelle, I love it <3 I have to say, I'm not the biggest anime watcher out there, but I could totally picture The Lunar Chronicles that way, it would be soooooo cool. :D
Thank you Marie! โค Wouldn’t it? It would look absolutely stunning ahhh
Interesting choices! I’m not the biggest Anime fan but I could get behind Harry Potter Anime haha, great post :)
Harry Potter would make such a great anime! I’ve wanted one since I was a kid haha
Thank you :)
This sounds so cool! I would love to see Lunar Chronicles animed especially. Oooh some others I would like to see // Abarat series by Clive Barker in the vein of spooky COLORFUL horror lite like Soul Eater ; The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet animated like Cowboy Bebop full stop ๐ ; and Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda because omg daydream sequences and nose bleeds @ cute boys and just a rly sweet anime could come from that!! Awesome post ๐
Right?! It would look so gorgeous. Oh yes I can’t believe I didn’t think of Simon?! It would be SO CUTE and ahhh now I’m imaging that opening in the same style of Ouran adnsjgsh Thank you for blessing me with that idea
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I haven’t even read Geek Girl but I just know that would be an amazing anime from what I’ve heard of it. :D
It would! It would be the perfect shoujo and so so enjoyable :D Though I’d settle for any kind of Geek Girl adaptation haha