I can at least hope I'd enjoy it
Oct. 10th, 2013 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerI did very much enjoy the manga adaptations of the old Star Wars movies Dark Horse brought across the Pacific a number of years ago now (enough so to wish they would reissue them in thicker, non-mirrored versions, and that there would be adaptations of comparable length of the new movies done over in Japan), but I suppose I've grown aware that to wish for all your personal favourites to be presented in "anime style," or even "manga style," has a certain first resemblance to certain attitudes of overenthusiastic fans slapped with somewhat rude names.
After the small diversion of noticing some Pacific Rim fanart, though, one little bit of news caught my attention. It seems there's been a manga adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels. I do sort of flip-flop between "the licensing costs would be higher" and "maybe a manga publisher over here can squeeze in one more prestige project, and haven't those novels been read by a younger demographic in the past?" In any case, I was at least able to ponder the cover art. I assume the central figure ought to be Hari Seldon (before the "rather inconvenient paralysis" that put him in a wheelchair when he recorded his messages for the future), but I do wonder who everyone else is. That might tie into the whole sense of the novels being driven by dialogue, though, something that may have also aided in another adaptation across another ocean, radio plays from Britain.
After the small diversion of noticing some Pacific Rim fanart, though, one little bit of news caught my attention. It seems there's been a manga adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels. I do sort of flip-flop between "the licensing costs would be higher" and "maybe a manga publisher over here can squeeze in one more prestige project, and haven't those novels been read by a younger demographic in the past?" In any case, I was at least able to ponder the cover art. I assume the central figure ought to be Hari Seldon (before the "rather inconvenient paralysis" that put him in a wheelchair when he recorded his messages for the future), but I do wonder who everyone else is. That might tie into the whole sense of the novels being driven by dialogue, though, something that may have also aided in another adaptation across another ocean, radio plays from Britain.