What if Doctor Who was in anime?

[Njr Scrawl]

If Doctor Who had been a Japanese creation, perhaps his creator would have been Osamu Tezuka.

However, what do you think he might be like if an anime character, but with a TARDIS, time travel, sidekicks & sonic screwdriver etc?

And what anime series would the Doctor's involvement in, be made more interesting? Can be comic, serious, tragic, magic, but not hentai.

[Herufaiya]

[ QUOTE ]
Wrath of the Njr said:
If Doctor Who had been a Japanese creation, perhaps his creator would have been Osamu Tezuka.

However, what do you think he might be like if an anime character, but with a TARDIS, time travel, sidekicks & sonic screwdriver etc?

And what anime series would the Doctor's involvement in, be made more interesting? Can be comic, serious, tragic, magic, but not hentai.

[/ QUOTE ]

I imagine, were the Doctor involved in anime affairs of time and the like, he would function akin to DC Comics' Metron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metron_%28comics%29), observing time itself, as while the Doctor can be proactive, his events outside of the series sometimes take on a watchmen appeal, though, as far as proactivity goes he'd be libel to pop up in Misaki Chronicles, and around at events centered in series like SaiKano, Eva, RahXephon, and so forth, perhaps trying to prevent the various global cataclysmic events, were he transgressing further dimensional barriers. Were that true, he'd be everywhere, having wacky adventures and facing dark forces, though pinning him down in a realm where he has so little association makes theories very open-ended...

[itsuka]

Yes, let's develop our own Dr. Who and try to sell it to a Japanese network. Here are the pitches!

Dr. Who, the Harem anime - The doctor would collect lots of big breasted female companions. At first they would go on adventures together, but soon the female companions take over the series and the plot starts revolving around their attempts to seduce the Doctor and have him for themselves. The Doctor of course never favours one above the other and is reduced to a clueless idiot in the middle of it all.

Dr. Who, the Magical Girl show - This is the setup of something like Inspector Gadget. The Doctor has a young female companion and preferably an intelligent pet animal around. He is the gadget guy who thinks he is running the show, but every time they get into danger, his young companion transforms into Magical Time Girl to save his ass.

Dr. Who, the Big Robot Show - This runs along the line of Big O. The Doctor is a stylish gentleman who is running around in the Galaxy with for instance his butler and his (robot?) girl companion. Once every episode, in times of trouble, the Tardis transforms into a giant Time Robot and bashes the bad guys!

Dr. Who, the bishonen adventure show - Here, all the Doctor's companions are male and goodlooking, are good at fighting and have adventures. Probably they're on their way to the end of the universe, to slay some evil villain, but since they'll never arrive there in the numerous seasons of this show, it hardly matters. While they bicker and tease a bit amongst themselves, none of these gorgeous guys ever pair up together, leaving the fangirls desperate for more kissing and bodily action, and spurring a big line of frustrated fan fiction.

Dr. Who the Mystical Boy Detective Show - Because of a time accident, the Doctor suddenly finds himself in the body of a 10 year old. Stuck in Tokyo, he solves weird things that are going on to pass the time, while collecting clueless companions who have no idea that he's really a time lord.

Dr. Who the Bounty Hunter show This sleazy Doctor, always broke, is an intergalactic bounty hunter who fights crime for money (to repair his Tardis and to eat mostly). He collects a set of equally sleazy companions, who bicker all the time, but with a jazzy sound track by Yoko Kanon it will be utterly cool.

So, which one will they pick up...? Any more pitches we can give them?

[Elendil]

[ QUOTE ]
Itsuka said:
Yes, let's develop our own Dr. Who and try to sell it to a Japanese network. Here are the pitches!

Dr. Who, the Harem anime - The doctor would collect lots of big breasted female companions. At first they would go on adventures together, but soon the female companions take over the series and the plot starts revolving around their attempts to seduce the Doctor and have him for themselves. The Doctor of course never favours one above the other and is reduced to a clueless idiot in the middle of it all.

Dr. Who, the Magical Girl show - This is the setup of something like Inspector Gadget. The Doctor has a young female companion and preferably an intelligent pet animal around. He is the gadget guy who thinks he is running the show, but every time they get into danger, his young companion transforms into Magical Time Girl to save his ass.

Dr. Who, the Big Robot Show - This runs along the line of Big O. The Doctor is a stylish gentleman who is running around in the Galaxy with for instance his butler and his (robot?) girl companion. Once every episode, in times of trouble, the Tardis transforms into a giant Time Robot and bashes the bad guys!

Dr. Who, the bishonen adventure show - Here, all the Doctor's companions are male and goodlooking, are good at fighting and have adventures. Probably they're on their way to the end of the universe, to slay some evil villain, but since they'll never arrive there in the numerous seasons of this show, it hardly matters. While they bicker and tease a bit amongst themselves, none of these gorgeous guys ever pair up together, leaving the fangirls desperate for more kissing and bodily action, and spurring a big line of frustrated fan fiction.

Dr. Who the Mystical Boy Detective Show - Because of a time accident, the Doctor suddenly finds himself in the body of a 10 year old. Stuck in Tokyo, he solves weird things that are going on to pass the time, while collecting clueless companions who have no idea that he's really a time lord.

Dr. Who the Bounty Hunter show This sleazy Doctor, always broke, is an intergalactic bounty hunter who fights crime for money (to repair his Tardis and to eat mostly). He collects a set of equally sleazy companions, who bicker all the time, but with a jazzy sound track by Yoko Kanon it will be utterly cool.

So, which one will they pick up...? Any more pitches we can give them?

[/ QUOTE ]

Those are genius! /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

I think the Dr. Who the Big Robot Show and the Bounty Hunter show have real potential. /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

[Puppet Master]

What the hell is Doctor Who?

[Pelianth]

[ QUOTE ]
Puppet Master said:
What the hell is Doctor Who?

[/ QUOTE ]
The longest running science fiction TV series in existence.

[Vicserr]

[ QUOTE ]
Pelianth said:
[ QUOTE ]
Puppet Master said:
What the hell is Doctor Who?

[/ QUOTE ]
The longest running science fiction TV series in existence.

[/ QUOTE ]

Wiki article about The Dr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_who)

[Puppet Master]

[ QUOTE ]
Vicserr said:
[ QUOTE ]
Pelianth said:
[ QUOTE ]
Puppet Master said:
What the hell is Doctor Who?

[/ QUOTE ]
The longest running science fiction TV series in existence.

[/ QUOTE ]

Wiki article about The Dr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_who)

[/ QUOTE ]

Damn that's a long article too much to read /images/graemlins/stunned0.gif Basically what I got from what I read is he's apart of some alien race that can travel through time and space.

[VonEtrigan]

More than type, what if different studios made Dr. Who?
GAINAX - The doctor travels through time and space, engaging in wacky hijinks and accompanied by his well-endowed female companion, who for some reason loses most of her costume every episode. K-9 is, for some reason, infatuated with that same companion, and usually the cause of the missing costume. All goes well until the Daleks invade, drive the companion insane, and the Doctor destroys the universe in a fit of angst.

[monkeebiz]

[ QUOTE ]
Itsuka said:
Dr. Who, the Harem anime - soon the female companions take over the series and the plot starts revolving around their attempts to seduce the Doctor and have him for themselves.

[/ QUOTE ]

Heh, I think we have that now. A few weeks ago we had <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'> Rose and Sarah Jane fighting over him </span> and two weeks back <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'> Madame de Pompadour was snogging him.</span>

[ QUOTE ]
Itsuka said:
Dr. Who, the bishonen adventure show - Here, all the Doctor's companions are male and goodlooking, are good at fighting and have adventures. Probably they're on their way to the end of the universe, to slay some evil villain, but since they'll never arrive there in the numerous seasons of this show, it hardly matters. While they bicker and tease a bit amongst themselves, none of these gorgeous guys ever pair up together, leaving the fangirls desperate for more kissing and bodily action, and spurring a big line of frustrated fan fiction.

[/ QUOTE ]

Sign me up for that one! /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

[Kellory]

All I know is that I'd pay money to help produce a Dr. Who anime with Ace in it. I can only imagine the amount of mischief, mayhem, and general destruction they could get into if it were animated.

Sadly, I doubt it would translate successfully to anime. It'd probably be like the animated Star Trek. Almost, but really the same thing. There's just something visceral about British shows. Perhaps its the budget. Maybe its the actors. Possibly its just the writers. But there's something different and cultural and it probably wont translate well.

But...oh to dream!

[Vicserr]

[ QUOTE ]
Puppet Master said:
[ QUOTE ]
Vicserr said:
[ QUOTE ]
Pelianth said:
[ QUOTE ]
Puppet Master said:
What the hell is Doctor Who?

[/ QUOTE ]
The longest running science fiction TV series in existence.

[/ QUOTE ]

Wiki article about The Dr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_who)

[/ QUOTE ]

Damn that's a long article too much to read /images/graemlins/stunned0.gif Basically what I got from what I read is he's apart of some alien race that can travel through time and space.

[/ QUOTE ]'

You don't expect a series with over 40 years of history, a pillar of Sci-fi to be compacted into a 50 word essay.... /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Me I'm sorry to say the only exposure I got were episodes from the Tom Baker years that were broadcasted on local tv and the Sci-fi channel many years later(Leela was one hot cavewoman), and the Peter Cushing Movies(even if they're non-canon for Dr. Who history) I should make a point of watching the current series, I keep forgetting it's on on fridays

[itsuka]

[ QUOTE ]
Vicserr said:
Me I'm sorry to say the only exposure I got were episodes from the Tom Baker years that were broadcasted on local tv and the Sci-fi channel many years later(Leela was one hot cavewoman), and the Peter Cushing Movies(even if they're non-canon for Dr. Who history) I should make a point of watching the current series, I keep forgetting it's on on fridays

[/ QUOTE ]

The latest two series with Eccleston and Tennant are even better than the Tom Baker years, which used to be for me the highlight Dr. Who. The writing of the new episodes is very good, at times brilliant, and it is no longer a children's series (well, being a children's series never stopped them from having some real nightmarish monster stuff in it in the old days, but it sort of restricted the emotional depth of some storylines). It's now prime time, award winning stuff in Britain. I'd recommend every lover of SF TV in general to have a look, even if they didn't like the old stuff. I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's been completely re-imaged in the vein of Galactica, but they sure did some great polishing on it.

[Njr Scrawl]

[ QUOTE ]
Von Etrigan said:
More than type, what if different studios made Dr. Who?
GAINAX - The doctor travels through time and space, engaging in wacky hijinks and accompanied by his well-endowed female companion, who for some reason loses most of her costume every episode. K-9 is, for some reason, infatuated with that same companion, and usually the cause of the missing costume. All goes well until the Daleks invade, drive the companion insane, and the Doctor destroys the universe in a fit of angst.

[/ QUOTE ]

Thinks...Lexx /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Njr Scrawl]

I think Blakes 7 and The Avengers might make good anime.

Starship Operators is Blakes 7-ish in some ways, &amp; The Avengers' John Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, Tara King, Purdy &amp; Gambit have already got anime counterparts in 1 show or another. Transforming British quirkiness to Japanese quirkiness is easy with sexy stereotypes /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

Going stateside The A-Team would make a good anime. For that series too, the characters' types are around in anime already.

[lilitu93]

[ QUOTE ]
Itsuka said:
The latest two series with Eccleston and Tennant are even better than the Tom Baker years, which used to be for me the highlight Dr. Who. The writing of the new episodes is very good, at times brilliant, and it is no longer a children's series (well, being a children's series never stopped them from having some real nightmarish monster stuff in it in the old days, but it sort of restricted the emotional depth of some storylines). It's now prime time, award winning stuff in Britain. I'd recommend every lover of SF TV in general to have a look, even if they didn't like the old stuff. I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's been completely re-imaged in the vein of Galactica, but they sure did some great polishing on it.

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm not sure if I'd say that the new series is even better than the older ones, but it is really good. As for being a children's show, technically it's never been one but a "family" show, i.e., aimed at all ages. The original series was actually made by a different part of the BBC than the one for making children's shows. (I can't remember the official names for each department, sorry.)