Boku no Mario
In recent years I played Persona 3 and Persona 4and loved them, but I have yet to see their anime adaptations. I hear great things about them (aside from the Goldenseries) but just need the time to sit down and check them out. Likewise, Ace Attorneyhas an anime based on the first two games in the series and I want to get to that at some point given how engrossing those stories are.
Final Fantasy XVhas the Brotherhoodanime which takes place before the main game, and Final Fantasy VII: Last Orderwas set during certain flashback events featured in that title. I’ve yet to get started on all the FFXVbusiness, but I enjoyed Last Orderback in the day.
The big hitters are Pokémonand Yo-kai Watch, the latter more so in Japan, whose anime have taken on their own unique characters and stories based on the lore and premise of the games they are based on. If your favorite game got the anime treatment, would you prefer it to be a unique story based in universe like Pokémon, a prequel or sequel, a side-story of events that happen off-screen during the game, or a retelling of the game’s story beat-for-beat?
AnimeAnime surveyed 1475 Japanese gamerson what games or series they’d like to see get an anime adaptation. The top 10 results are thus:
- Kingdom Hearts
- The Legend of Zelda
- Steins;Gate 0
- Ib
- Metal Gear Solid
- Chrono Trigger
- Final Fantasy X
- Okami
- Final Fantasy VI
- Ai☆Chu
What’s that? The American-madeThe Legend of Zelda andSuper Mario Bros. Super Show!exist? Well excuse me princess, but do you still consider it “anime” if it’s not made in Japan? The Japanese do, where the word “anime” refers to any form of animated show or movie whether its 2D, 3D, Japanese, American, French, North Korean, or what have you.
There was a Japanese-made Mario anime film titledSuper Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! which you can watch the entirety of on YouTube, and Sonichas gotten a number of shows from both America and Japan. Sonic Boomis doing surprisingly well and you may be shocked by its quality given the lackluster performance of its video game titles. However, considering how laugh-out-loud bad those Marioand Zeldashows were (not to mention the Super Mario Bros. movie)I don’t think Nintendo is eager to try again anytime soon.
Looking at Ibreminds me of Yume Nikki, an older horror indie game. There’s a manga but taking an animated ride through that hell might be the most mind-bending experience since Serial Experiments Lain.
“What games do you want to see animated?” Survery. Kingdom Hearts is No. 1 [AnimeAnime]