5 Manga Movies We Want to See After Akira Blows Everyone’s Mind

Click to viewJust a temporal record hop , omission and a jump away is 2009 ’s hot - action vainglorious projection screen rendering of Katsuhiro Otomo ’s Akira , but if the American adaption of the manga / gum anime phenomenon that launched a thousand otaku is a smash success , what treasured classics of Nipponese culture will Hollywood choose to to adapt next ? Below the jump , we put on our robe and cultural raider hat and pick five golden temples of skill - fable manga and anime for studios to pillage and plunder .

Super Dimension Fortress Macross : Well , yeah . freehanded tail robots are pretty much a pay , what with the success of Transformers . And while the mecha of SDMF do n’t transform into cool car or panty vending machines , they have a secluded weapon system in the struggle for fully grown money franchises : this epic tale of war between manhood and an alien race was adapted as the first section of the Robotech animated cartoon . That series , which operate in the U.S. in 1985 , give many Americans their first essential gustation of gum anime natural action filter through a sweeping storyline . As if that was n’t enough , Super Dimension Fortress Macross features a love life trigon between two military police officer and a dada god , enough twists and turn to put Battlestar Galactica to shame , and characters with bad , big hair . Like , “ hey , I could skydive onto that , ” large . Once he ’s through having his way with Watchmen , we need to see Zack Snyder take Super Dimension Fortress Macross and make it the crowing cover franchise of cheesy awesomeness most of us have been waiting for without even knowing it .

Parasyte : Hitoshi Iwaaki ’s manga is the funnily gratify marriage of Spider - Man and Invasion of the Body Snatchers : a failed attempt by an alien invader to take over the mastermind of Shinichi Izumi has left it in ascendence of his right mitt , and teen and foreign must form an uneasy alliance to head off being find out by Shinichi ’s acculturation or kill by the aliens that have infiltrated it . combine paranoia , phrenetic battle view , and meditation on what it means to be human , Parasyte takes the most painful subtext of puberty — that your body has become something strange and not quite in your control , and now you ’re an outsider as a result — and serve it up as luscious , delicious crazy . ( No marvel Del Rey ’s current adjustment is the second time the series has been brought to the USA . ) rumor abound that Jim Henson ’s studio and producer Don Murphy are already turn to fetch it to the big blind , but roll in the hay that noise : rent Peter Jackson get his hands on the fabric , and make it as a blooming bookend to his adjustment of Alice Sebold ’s The Lonely Bones ( and a loose familiar piece to his Greco-Roman Braindead ( or Dead - Alive , as it ’s have sex over here ) ) .

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FLCL : An Original Video Animation ( OVA ) from 2000 , FLCL has a destiny in common with Akira : you ’ve got people hollering and jumping off motorize two bicyclist while strange growths inject out of the forehead of pained adolescents . But whereas Akira takes Godhead Katsuhiro Otomo ’s memories of turn up during the disruptive period of sixties Japan and transmutes it into a serious sci - fi epic , FLCL stem from the jolt contemporary polish can bring to a unfrequented kid growing up in a small town , lather the story into a raving mad - eyed froth of rampage robots , crazy vespa - riding women , and bass part guitar centered fight scene . Benjamin Button , Shmenjamin Shmutton : we need to see David Fincher in full - on Fight Club mood seek to match the brio of this series ’ animated anarchy .

twentieth Century son : The pledge of scanlators worldwide and a huge hit in its native Japan , twentieth Century Boys is the most challenging work Naoki Urasawa has undertaken , sweep more than forty age , XII of fiber , and twenty - two garner volume . ( His previous piece of work , Monster , was no slouch either — a crime thriller set in Eastern Germany that reads like a hybridization between The Fugitive and Silence of the Lambs , Monster ran for six years and was garner in eighteen volumes . ) While twentieth Century Boys takes its name from a T. Rex song , its hook shot seems like a Stephen King novel on steroid : a group of former friends in the ’ 90s judge to figure out the tie-in between a destructive rage drawing card and their forgotten childhood illusion . Meanwhen , in 2014 , a young woman endeavor to figure out what happened to them . While Lar von Trier has the chop to keep so many characters and so many story moving along , he lacks the lovingness and heart Urasawa brings to his characters . Let Best of Youth ’s Marco Tullio Giordana give it a shot — his five time of day epic from 2003 covers a likewise vast swath of time .

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind : Finally , if Hollywood is crazy enough to tackle such a groundbreaking classic as Akira , why not let it seek other works of manga that’ve had an undisputable impact on the medium ? Hayao Miyazaki may rein the world of Japanese animation now , but his anime adaptation of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind , his own manga , was only capable to cover approximately the first quarter of his tale . As long as Hollywood wants to seize with teeth off more than it can chew ( for the profit to be garnered by pre - chewing stuff for the peck ) , why not have it mount a Lord of the Rings style cycles/second , covering the entire story of a princess ’s dangerous undertaking a thousand year after our mod - day refinement has destroy itself . Epic battles , environmentalism , more chance for CGI than you may shake a fistful of sticks at — they’ll rust up Nausicaä in the cineplexes , particularly if you get Alfonso Cuarón on board . Having direct such various work as Chldren of Men , Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , and Y Tu Mama Tambien , Cuarón ’s catch the right amount of razzle-dazzle - dazzle , flower child - fop humanism , and child - eyed wonder . To the extent such a affair can ( or should be ) attempt , Cuarón is the one to do it .

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