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BodaciousSpacePirate
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I initially voted for CLAMP in the "favorite manga creator" poll, because in general I've been pleased by everything they've written, and because of how many shelves in my collection are devoted to just their works. Once I noticed that you could vote for up to three authors, I also added Eiji Masuda. I buy around 5 manga volumes a month, and Actually, I Am... is the title I look forward to the most. I love everything about that series.
My third pick went to Naoki Urasawa because of how tremendously impressed I was by his ability to pull everything together and give Billy Bat a satisfying and coherent ending. That one is going to stick with me for a while. |
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Zin5ki
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Hither twice. The English-language dub of Gankutsuou was largely adequate, but the role of the Count was granted a mesmerising baritone that suited the character exquisitely. Many important scenes were carried by his vocal presence alone. |
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AiddonValentine
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The funny thing about Gankutsuou is that if anything it's a dismantling of the original novel. When you get down to it Dumas' original work has a gigantic, glaring flaw: it can easily be viewed as revenge porn. Switching the view point over to Albert was a brilliant move as it really goes to show just how monstrous the Count has become and how his actions are way more evil than what his old friends did to him. It's one of those instances where the adaptation might in fact surpass the source material
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Hypeathon
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I wonder how many anime people who've seen the show at one point became aware of the fact Star Driver is a reinterpretation of The Little Prince?
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Gina Szanboti
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I believe that should be Hark twice. 
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Beansprout Midget
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Oh man, I'm in the last third of that show and that just hit me now. Thank you sir for blowing my mind today. As for favorite manga creator, Horikoshi and Hiromu Arakawa are easily on my top three list. I didn't do three, as my third author isn't even on the list I believe (Katsura Hoshino). |
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Beatdigga
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It might be a bit new for this list, but the old pulp Lensman novels were butchered into an 80's anime that assumes the story is "Star Wars + Green Lantern" when it was both the codifier for many of those Tropes, and did things very differently.
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Hypeathon
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I should note that I've never read The Little Prince novel, nor have I seen any other adaptations of it (though that animated movie on Netflix has made me curious). I actually didn't find out about Star Driver alluding to the novel until a few months ago, after I saw GhostLightning's blog article. Just a heads up, depending on which episode you are in the anime, that blog might spoil a few things so proceed with caution. Between this factoid and having spent the past year-in-a-half learning about where the director and writer for the show have come from in the industry and watching the various projects they and their colleagues have worked on (believe it or not, Viz Media licensing Sailor Moon was what sparked me doing this), I'm hoping to revisit Star Driver with a more in-depth perspective this time. |
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peno
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That's why you can add your own name to the box the end of the poll. I decided to add Miyuki Abe, because she has two of the best Shounen-Ai manga I ever read. Other than that, I chose Goushou Aoyama, because of Conan and Akira Toriyama, even though I never read any of his mangas (shame, I know) but I definitely love DB and Dr. Slump anime adaptations, which wouldn't be possible without his mangas 
As for the list, as shameful as it is, I only saw Romeo x Juliet and Gankutsuo. I never finished the first one, but Gankutsuo I really loved. The story was great, setting interesting and graphical look quite unique. While not the best anime I saw, it's definitely something I could recommend without a hesitation. |
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EricJ2
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From what I remember reading in Animag at the time (geezer alert! ), Nadia WAS originally planned as a straight 20,000 Leagues update, and Prof. Arronax, his assistant, and the goofy Kirk Douglas sailor were going to be the main characters, as in Verne.
Don't worry, they're still in the show--Nadia and Jean end up meeting them in one episode, when the two are first having dinner on Nemo's sub, before they disappear from the series completely. Also, while it's not literature...just what EXACTLY does Osamu Tezuka's "Metropolis" even remotely have to do with Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film, except that Tezuka sort of remembered that there was a girl robot in it and the city gets destroyed at some point? |
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belvadeer
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Is it wrong that I like Sherlock Hound as my favorite interpretation of the famous fictional detective? <XD
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EricJ2
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So what if Doyle's version didn't drive a little steampunk jalopy? 
(Or only fought Moriarty once?) |
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ninjamitsuki
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Once the anime adaptation comes out, Code Realize would certainly belong on that list.
Voted Nightow on the poll. Last edited by ninjamitsuki on Sun Aug 28, 2016 6:43 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Alan45
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Gina Szanboti wrote:
The title of the Othello manga by Satomi Ikezawa is a reference to the game of the same name. The main character flips between two personalities as quickly as the game flips the two sided playing pieces. I can't answer for the other as I haven't seen it. The encyclopedia picture does have a black and white checkered background though. |
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gwdone
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I would say The Empire of Corpses would be a good one for the list. Rebecca Silverman wrote a great review of that anime here on ANN recently.
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