/lit/ - Literature

>>14925746
Pic related could only be adapted as either a cartoon or a live-action movie made forty years ago.

What was the name of the super long book about some magical girls or something written by a reclusive, crazy old man?

>>14925746
>lolita
bruh......

>>14925761
Based

>>14925788
Imagine the lolicon seethe. Seriusly it woud be a decent deconstruction, could be interesting to see the reaction

>>14925746
Finnegans Wake.

>>14925788
it's the overly obsessive anti-loli crowd who have always been seething over lolita, for like 60 years

>>14925746
The Iliad and Blood Meridian

>>14925832
Lolita isn't really about pedophilia, though.
I wouldn't trust a Japanese studio to get it right. They'd either adapt the book as a sex comedy or completely change the plot, themes, and setting to make HH an otaku instead of a pseudointellectual. It would be a fucking embarrassment either way, imagine the reaction from clickbait journalists.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The stream of consciousness can be adapted into weird psychedelic moments

>>14925767
The Story of the Vivian Girls by Henry Darger. To further the anime comparison, his illustrations often depicted said magical girls naked with dicks.

>>14925951
truly a man ahead of his time

>>14925746
might have too much inner monologue, but i would love to see Taipei by Tao Lin. there's a movie of it tho, but neither lead actors seem like they fit the role.

>>14925761
All of the imagery in this book felt like some shift between live action and cartoon, almost like some horrible nightmarish version of james and the giant peach or osmosis jones or something lol.

>>14925849
just say "women"

>>14925761
Pynchon is weirdly perfect for anime. He has said before that his books are supposed to be like mad cap adult comic books.
And, yeah, Dune would also be perfect. Half of that book is characters performing hyper-aware 4D chess mind games in their interior monologues.

pic rel because the japanese can actually make it enjoyable

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>>14925897
otaku are the japanese equivalent to western pseuds

>>14925923
can this even be adapted?

>>14926011
Whats it about?

>>14925746
Anime films are, in my experience, superior to serialized animes, which tend to be cheap shlock. Bely's Petersburg might work well as a feature-length animated film, as a lot of the more psychedelic and out-there descriptions could be depicted through an artist's pen much more easily than a cinematographer's lens.

>>14926847
and here we have one of those retards who can't shut the hell up about angel egg or some Ghibli drivel.

Also pic related

>>14926727
Why are you asking if it can be adapted? The question is if it WERE adapted would you feel obligated to watch it. All of Joyce's ouvre should fit in to this category, even that kid's story about the devil and the bridge and the cat. You could not tear your eyes away from an adaptation of Ulysses or Finnegans Wake!

>>14925746
Blood Meridian

>>14926861
Nice strawman, I haven't watched angel egg. Ghibli films are usually pretty cool though.

>>14925746
Notre Dame de Paris.

>>14926938
this nigga bald lmfao

>>14925746
They made an anime adaptation of Faust. It's called Madoka Magica

>>14927026
Rebellion*

>>14925746
Well we're already halfway there on Emma. I've seen a shoujo manga version of that before at a local comic book chain.

There was also an anime adaptation of Alice in Wonderland in the 80s called Fushigi no Kuni no Alice. Adapting classic western literature into anime was huge in Japan in the 70s and 80s.

Also to answer OP's question, The Witches of Karres. It's even Miyazkki approved, he drew the cover for the Japanese translation!

>>14927039
I've noticed that adopting Alice in Wonderland into a one-off episode/chapter has been a trend in manga/anime.

>>14927070
Oh yeah, Carroll was ahead of his time. Had Alice in Wonderland debuted as an anime, I think it would have a similarly large following. It ticks off all the "otaku" boxes:
-isekai
-cute (young) girl protagonist
-funny animal sidekick
-mildly surreal fantasy
The only thing missing is fanservice!

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich as an anime film

Blood Meridian as an anime or an HBO mini series

Mein Kampf as a mini series flashing between Hitler's experiences in WW1, his time in Vienna, and culminating with the rally shown in Triumph of the Will, interspersed with text from the book as an inner monologue/animated sequences

Candide as a mini series

>>14925746
>The Odyssey
>MC or central character less than 30 years old

Anyway, most epic poetry would probably work out well. In particular, I think Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered has a couple of scenes, like the trip to centre of the Earth, that would genuinely work better animated than as live action. Then again, the overt Christianity might be an issue, but this is all hypothetical anyway and it's not like it would be the first anime to have Christian symbolism in it. Just the first one for the symbolism to mean something.

>>14925746
Lots of drama and crazy shit.

>>14926847
this is true in general, but not always: tatami galaxy was quite good. i find that the less "episodes" there are, the higher chance of it being great

>>14926870
its hard to imagine any adaptation of FD that retains much of what makes it enjoyable in the first place (rhyme scheme, multiple ambiguous interpretations of a single sentence/word, wrydply liike thhhis)

>Why are you asking if it can be adapted?
ulysses and several scenes of FW are already adapted by some artists that aren't super well-known. does that make you automatically want to watch all of them and rave about them?

>>14926727
i didn't finish it (as in: i barely read any of it), but taipei felt like a YA novel for mid20s-early30s. it had the vibe of being magic-realism despite the entire thing being very "normal". from what i felt its mostly about mundane social dynamics that a YA might feel (feeling bored at a party, doing drugs with friends), but its handled quite delicately with a lot of acuity in observation.

its mostly a love story from what i've heard. i haven't really watched welcome to the NHK either, but if they could do that well then i can fathom taipei being done well too

I'd love to see an anime adaptation of Plato's dialogues. If they're not anime enough, just gender-bend Socrates' interlocutors and make a harem or something while keeping the dialogue.

Obviously Book of the New Sun.

>>14927162
i would be very interested to see an anime interpretation of the works of aleister crowley featuring anime cuties

>>14927162
>If they're not anime enough, just gender-bend Socrates' interlocutors and make a harem or something while keeping the dialogue.

No need to do that, it's already fujoshi bait.