What American comics would you like to see turned into anime?

[populuxe]

I was just rereading some of my Those Annoying Post Bros and Savage Henry comics by Matt Howarth from the late-80s/early-90s and thinking how cool they would be as an anime series. The two titles were nearly interchangeable, employing the same cast, but focusing on their titular characters for each title. If there was some way to work in some of Howarth's Konny and Czu and Keif Llama as well, it would be perfect. Who wouldn't want to see a story about a rock band that included both Cthulhu and Klaus Schultz of Tangerine Dream?

Are there any comics you folks would love to see turned into anime? They don't have to be American, necessarily, but non-Japanese comics.

[Dicrel Seijin]

Gold Digger by Fred Perry, out of Antarctic Press. Gina Diggers is buxom, blonde, and brilliant (so much so, that the scientific community refuses to acknowledge her inventions). As an archeologist, she is now tracking down the Nomad Artificers. That search spans two universes and a handful of pocket dimensions and involves everyone from evil child geniuses to barbarian grandmothers (now there's a phrase I bet you haven't read before). Considering the end of the series seems also to be the end of the universe, it is one hell of a ride.

Girl Genius by Phil & Kaja Foglio, out of Airship. Agatha Heterodyne is buxom, blonde, and brilliant (Gee, do we see a trend here? /images/graemlins/devil.gif ). She is trying to make her way through an alternate Earth, one with Sparks (think Mad Scientists). Victorian-era dresses, giant mechanicals, the King of Real Cats, robotic wasps, blimp armadas, tampering with God's domain... yep, good times.

[populuxe]

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Kousaka Makoto said:
Girl Genius by Phil & Kaja Foglio

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I love Phil and Kaja Foglio's comics. Girl Genius is, well, genius. I was also thinking Buck Godot would be a lot of fun as an anime. I would love to see the Japanese try to translate all of Phil's beautifully horrible puns.

[SmoothTex]

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Mike Dungan said:
I was just rereading some of my Those Annoying Post Bros and Savage Henry comics by Matt Howarth from the late-80s/early-90s and thinking how cool they would be as an anime series. The two titles were nearly interchangeable, employing the same cast, but focusing on their titular characters for each title. If there was some way to work in some of Howarth's Konny and Czu and Keif Llama as well, it would be perfect. Who wouldn't want to see a story about a rock band that included both Cthulhu and Klaus Schultz of Tangerine Dream?

Are there any comics you folks would love to see turned into anime? They don't have to be American, necessarily, but non-Japanese comics.

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I'm not much of a comics guy anymore so I don't know too much about what's out there now but I'd like to see Watchmen made into an anime. I think the anime medium is the only other medium besides the original which could come close to doing it justice.

Y The Last Man would make a great anime that I'd love to see.
The Walking Dead would be great to see also. We need a zombie survival anime.
Miracleman is already completed and it would make a totally brutal anime!

Guess I'm showing my "Alan Moore" colors huh?

[Njr Scrawl]

Strangers in Paradise

Only 9 more issues left /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif

[fantasydewdrop]

Ghastly's Ghastly Comic is a Canadian webcomic that would be amusing to see animated, soley because it's so demented. It's drawn in a manga-esque style already, so it'd only be proper to have it animated as an anime. Besides, where else would you get a story with hentai elements and tentacle monsters animated? Disney's not gonna do it. ... It's already got a theme song.

Dragon Mango. It's another webcomic, but it's pretty fun and has the best hippogryphs ever. It's already got a few animated parts, actually....

Sandman, maybe? Lots of people seem to like that one. I lost my vol 1 so I haven't read it yet other than the Death at Death's Door sidestory. Death is cool though.

I don't keep up with many American comics, so I don't know what all's out there. Do we have to limmit this to just comics? I can think of a few novels I'd like to see anime of.

Hmmmm....... Mine when I finally draw them! /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif Most of my ideas would work best animated, anyways.

[kimmiepooh]

Comics I would like to see turned into anime:

Since, I'm a Johji Manabe fan I'd have to go with:

Outlanders - a TV series instead of just an OAV (the comics ran for 33 issues)

Caravan Kidd

Drakuun

Then there's another one I like that I don't know if any of you have heard of it (it was published by Anarctic Press) - and it's Silbuster. /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

[Vicserr]

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KasiTL said:
Do we have to limmit this to just comics? I can think of a few novels I'd like to see anime of.


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If I could pick novels, some of the Classic Battletech novels, done in an anime in the style of MS Gundam, AT Votoms or Legend of the Galactic Heroes would kick massive amounts of A$$ /images/graemlins/stunned1.gif /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

[Bibulb]

Oh, I'm gonna be revisiting this over and over again...

First off, I'm WOEFULLY lacking in my knowledge of Howarth's stuff, but I always dug his art - while I'd love to see some of his stuff on screen, just make him primary visual designer for a show and I'd be happy.

Next, I'd like to expand on the Girl Genius and Buck Godot requests and just say ANYTHING FOGLIO. NOW, DAMNIT. What's New, Myth Adventures, xXxenophile, those previous two - ANYTHING. In fact, make it everything. Just throw loads of money at them and let 'em rip. And make sure that the Foglio's are more than in charge on character designs. (Agatha Heterodyne... "Yum" does not even begin to convey the deliciousness of that character...)

I'd really enjoy seeing Martin Wagner's Hepcats make the jump, but considering how passive-agressively he gafiated I don't think that it's a realistic option. (But it'd be SO much fun to see the animators have to deal with his hyperdetailed shading and backgrounds...)

Love and Rockets? I suspect that the Mechanics stories would be more popular with the FLCL set than the Palomar stories, but I think that they'd translate well. (Plus, as a separate matter, I'd plotz if I could see Maggie on screen. Yum.)

Star Brand would be fun - watch the chronic under-achiever with super powers deal with his life as his days tick away. (Until he makes that one teensy slip up that makes a fifteen mile deep crater where Pittsburgh used to be...) Having a fight-of-the-week show where the main character spends most of the series trying to figure out WHY he needs to train and improve rather than finding the secret dojo would be an interesting twist, IMHO.
(And, yes, I read New Universe comics when they came out. Stop laughing at me, damnit.)

Hell, Blue Monday's CRYING to be made into a series of OVAs, although the music licensing fees alone would be a screaming fright. But it'd be the greatest shonen female-centered high school romance series ever...

Considering just how deeply tied it is to the artist, as much as I'd like to see it I don't think that Groo the Wanderer is really gonna take to being worked on by another artist/writer pair. (Now if CN decided to put it on Adult Swim...)

One straight-ish superhero series that would lend itself REALLY well to the medium would be Strikeforce: Morituri, a real perkfest of a series. I think, though, that the tendency in anime to allow a story to build over a season rather than a series of unconnected episodes would be great for building relationships between the characters and the showing the growing strain of going through a damoclean process like theirs.

(And, just because I'm a jerk that way - please, no Pinis. Also, while Cerebus might be interesting, do we really need to give Dave Sim ANOTHER bully pulpit?)

[bctaris]

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Bibulb said:
Love and Rockets? I suspect that the Mechanics stories would be more popular with the FLCL set than the Palomar stories, but I think that they'd translate well. (Plus, as a separate matter, I'd plotz if I could see Maggie on screen. Yum.)

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Thing is it might only sell to the FLCL crowd. It be so hard to string together a TV/OVA series from that, the pacing is so bizarre sometimes. But yeah, I'd go for it. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

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Hell, Blue Monday's CRYING to be made into a series of OVAs, although the music licensing fees alone would be a screaming fright. But it'd be the greatest shonen female-centered high school romance series ever...

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Plus others out of that set, like Jen Van Meter's Hopeless Savages and of course the most ready-to-go and obvious title, Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim. Hell, I'd almost consider that one inevitable.

I too will have to revisit this thread a couple times since I'm away from my books for the next couple days. There are too many good ideas I can't completely recall...

[ic14]

Ghost World
Eh, the LA movie was pretty good, but it deviated from the comics a bit too much, would be nice to see a more straight animated version.

Doctor Who
No im not going mad, every month in Doctor Who magazine theres a comic - Id love to see some of the stories from that been animated, whther classic Who or New.

[Kevinroc]

Powers: Detectives investigate super hero related homicide cases.

Lucifer (spin-off of The Sandman): Story of Lucifer after giving up ruling Hell to run a bar in LA.

Fables: A world where fairy tales are real and all live together.

[populuxe]

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Bibulb said:
Also, while Cerebus might be interesting, do we really need to give Dave Sim ANOTHER bully pulpit?)

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No. No, we do not.

I second the Love and Rockets request. I think both the Mechanics and Palomar stories have a lot of potential. The 20-minutes-into-the-future feel of Mechanics would go over very well in Japan.

On slight tangent, Mister X would be a great story, especially if it was the Seth penned issues. That glorious future-retro world was stunning.

Staying on that tangent (since Ty Templeton did an issue of Mister X in between the Hernandez Brothers and Seth), Stig's Inferno would be another great one. I just don't know if Ty Templeton's humor would translate well. I fall over myself at his stuff, but I feel like I'm in the minority. One of my favorite lines from any comic is at the end of one issue when the pantless Stig asks if he can use the phone. Underneath is the caption "Next issue! Stig doesn't get to use the phone."

[Aiia]

I second Love and Rockets, Blue Monday, Hopeless Savages and add Scooter Girl as well. They all have wonderful characters and good humor enough for tranlating into animation. But I wouldn't mind if it wasn't a Japanese animation studio adapting it. Any animation of these would be welcome.

As for Strangers in Paradise, I see it as more fitting for a live action movie because of the drama. But if it was animated, I'd watch it of course. I love Katchoo.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

My anime wet dream would be if Bones or Gonzo were to make an anime version of Will Eisner's Life on Another Planet. No updating however: the whole 70's flavor is part of what I love about that particular graphic novel.

[Kabigon]

Oh I would like anime adaptations of Doug TenNapel's Creature Tech, I know there's a live action movie in the works, but it would cool as an anime; I'd also would love an Usagi Yojimbo anime. It would really would be cool to have more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles anime.

[Dicrel Seijin]

Hmm, I third (can I do that, since I brought it up in the first place?) anything Foglios, anything Alan Moore, and Sandman.

V for Vendetta would be good too, one that the writer himself would want his name associated with. /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

Death: the High Cost of Living would be a good OVA. Death becomes human for one day, the better to understand the lives she reaps.

Oh-oh, Jill Thompson's Li'l Endless--SD anthropomorpisms of the universal forces.

Ben Dunn's Ninja High School would also be a good one, but only the story arcs Dunn did.

And finally, (for now) Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. That influential work about a fifty-something Bruce Wayne deciding to put on the cape and cowl one last time. I would love to see that scene of Bats on horseback riding through Gotham, with the Sons of Batman, lit torches in hand, stretching into the dark behind him. Oh, I'm getting chills.

[AbeChinchilla]

Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny the Homocidal Maniac would make a neat MADHOUSE production.

[Darkseid]

Man, I dunno.... I've been too happy with Justice League and all the Dini/Timm/McDuffie stuff that's come before it to consider that question...

Hmmm... there's a couple Batman GN's I'd loved to see animated, in line with their original art styles if possible. Most notably The Long Halloween, The Killing Joke, and Child of Dreams.

Wouldn't mind seeing Crisis on Infinite Earths animated as well.

[itsuka]

Apart from Girl Genius, which is very much approved, I think the following two can be adapted very easily:

Neotopia by Rod Espinosa fits perfectly into the genre of fantasy adventure like Laputa.

A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran has a great shoujo with BL overtones mix. Maybe she even borrowed a bit too much from Ai no Kusabi /images/graemlins/happy.gif