Dune Would Make a Good Anime

[R. Daniel 01]

Consider it. You've got:

- sword fights
- immersive fictional society
- extreme environments and creatures
- opportunities for trippy, stretch-the-medium animation effects, thanks to all the drugs floating around
- eccentric antagonists
- general edginess and intensity
- tracts of introspection
- political maneuvering

I see the potential for a perfect marriage. Fans would cry out in anguish, no doubt, fearing that their classic would lose its legitimacy. Maybe you would fear the same? I, however, see potential. After all, we anime fans... we nerds, rather, are often a very fastidious bunch when it comes to honoring the source material.


On a related note, has there ever been an video interpretation to get Dune right? I heard the 80's miniseries was decent but I've never seen it.

Though I will add that the 80's movie has the edginess and exoticism down well. It just... well, you probably already know.

Interesting German sketches from back in the day.

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

creatures

Dune: Now with Tentacle monsters.

But seriously, it could work.

[Leonard Shelby]

I agree completely: its story looks like most of recent animés.
Maybe that could be one of the reasons why the movie hadn't a great success and the director Lynch was not satisfied of the results: those elements didn't fit enough for that years?
I watched the tv-serie too, and was not bad (but a bit boring).
Call Tomino and Anno at once!

[Yuko-san]

Need to read Dune. I never got the chance to do so. But finding a copy where I live is near to impossible.

[EyeOfPain]

Seems like there's always a copy in whatever bookstore I walk into. I haven't read it myself, but have seen both the movie and miniseries.

[Sharpshooter005]

creatures

Dune: Now with Tentacle monsters.

But seriously, it could work.

It has giant worms, you can probably tell where this would lead

[Randolf]

creatures

Dune: Now with Tentacle monsters.

But seriously, it could work.

It has giant worms, you can probably tell where this would lead

Fifty foot penises.

Still not the biggest I've seen.

[Professor Vogler]

They're called "Graboids". Get it right.

[Yuko-san]

Garboids? That sounds like a sexual disease or something just as bad.

it also reminds me of the metal worms from Vexille The Isolation of Japan. Crazy as heck metal worms eat metallic beings.

[The Final Negotiator]

SyFy (The Sci Fi Channel with a hip new name - yeah right...) took their turn at producing a Dune miniseries. It was live-action, but very anime-like, and I find that I equally appreciate Lynch's interpretation and SyFy's (although the weirding modules and weirding skill, since some didn't need a module, in the movie were awesome). However, if they made an anime, I'd check it out...

[Professor Vogler]

Garboids? That sounds like a sexual disease or something just as bad.

it also reminds me of the metal worms from Vexille The Isolation of Japan. Crazy as heck metal worms eat metallic beings.

^ Completely missing the point.

SyFy (The Sci Fi Channel with a hip new name - yeah right...) took their turn at producing a Dune miniseries. It was live-action, but very anime-like, and I find that I equally appreciate Lynch's interpretation and SyFy's (although the weirding modules and weirding skill, since some didn't need a module, in the movie were awesome). However, if they made an anime, I'd check it out...

^ I second this.... although I can only vaguely recall that miniseries. It's in a long line of other "SciFi Miniseries that [sadly] went no where".

[R. Daniel 01]

It went somewhere. It went up to God Emperor, then stopped before it got really crazy. Like God Emperor.

Wait, Children of Dune was already crazy.

The SciFi miniseries committed the crime that every depiction of Dune has committed thus far: it gave the mooks guns. WTF? The whole conceit of Dune is that certain things have progressed backwards due to progression forwards in certain other areas.