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What anime would you like to see a high quality remake of?

My choice would Love Hina. I love the manga. Part of that is because I read it when I was struggling with what I wanted to do in life and I really found Keitaro to be a kindred spirit in some was. His drive to get into school spoke to me at a time when I had flamed out at my initial college and Wasn't sure what to do with my life. In many ways I really understood Keitaro, minus the harem of course.

The anime has always been disappointing to me. I own it, but only because I loved the manga so much. In fact they are the old Bandai single DVD releases that I picked up used. I would love a more manga faithful version. I would even settle for a manga faithful adaption of several of Ken Akamatsu other works.

First: Key the Metal Idol This was the title I had in mind when I started writing the topic. It's one of my favorite shows of all time, and while I don't think the animation is bad, I'd love to see it with the high-budget treatment. Other than the animation improvements I don't think I'd change a thing.

Why remake it in the first place if there is nothing to fix? Stuff should be remade if they can improve on the original or do something new and different with it. Otherwise, it will be pointless. That's why most movie remakes suck since they are pointless.

Spawn29 wrote:

Why remake it in the first place if there is nothing to fix? Stuff should be remade if they can improve on the original or do something new and different with it. Otherwise, it will be pointless. That's why most movie remakes suck since they are pointless.

Just because something "isn't bad" doesn't mean it cannot be improved upon. If a show is great despite mediocre animation quality imagine how much better that same show would be with 10/10 quality instead.

The problem is that a remake always changes the other characteristics of it: the dialogue, the direction, the pacing, which influences overall quality. So if you remake a classic then it will tend to be much worse (because by definition a classic is better than 99% of the existing stuff).

Fist of the North Star: With how popular JoJo had gotten in recent years, it wouldn't be too hard to imagine a modern version of FOTNS. It could properly adapt the manga and actually finish the story, unlike the original anime. They could rewrite some of the plot holes that were caused by the manga being written as it went along. If it's exclusive to Netflix like Devilman Crybaby, we can even get the brutal violence left intact.