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Anime production house ADV recently released "Sin," adapted from the video game of the same name. Their upcoming release of "Lady Death," based on the comic, has ushered in a whole new kind of anime, one for which American companies helm operations. With the seemingly endless possibilities, animation houses must be scouring narrative banks searching for their next big anime production. To aid them in that endeavor, Akadot offers ...


The Top Ten Titles that should be Adapted into Anime


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10: "The David Hasselhoff Canon"
The anime market is opening up in Germany...

9: Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"
To add even more philosophical introspection to those profoundly Japanese endings.

8: "Friends"
To make the cast more realistic.

7: "The Autobiography of Malcom X"
Just to get more black people involved in anime production, damn it.

6: "Penthouse Forum the Complete Letters"
Big audience for that one...

5: "'N Sync vs. Backstreet Boys: Dance Dance Revolution, the Final Showdown"
The bad boys of the good girls' dreams duke it out at the local arcade.

4: "The Bush/Gore Debates"
No problem squeezing believable motion into 17 frames per second.

3: "Heart of Darkness"
To help all the high school kids who have to get through it anyway.

2: "Little Red Riding Hood"
"Oh, grandmother, what big eyes you have" would be an endearing trait.

1: "Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus"
If it's not going to make sense anyway, why not pack it with the ambiguity of bishonen, lesbian warriors and awkward teenage pubescence. Yee-haw.
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