Favorite Anime Adaptations of Video Games
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The first Persona 3 movie, Persona 3 The Movie: Spring of Birth, is fantastic (especially compared to the bad Persona 4 anime adaptation). It does a great job of condensing the events of the story and adapting them, adding elements that weren't in the original game that just make sense. They created a very fitting personality for the originally blank slate, main protagonist Makoto Yuki, which makes him have actual character development and a proper arc.
My vote goes towards this as well.
Aniplex of America will probably dub them, but we might be waiting for a while.
Mine have to be Steins;Gate, Clannad, Persona 3 movies, and Idolmaster.
The first two are pretty strong VN adaptations. Both had good budget, especially the latter. Faithful to the original and did the stories justice, imo. Persona 3's probably the only RPG adapation I truly enjoyed. It does a good job using what little time it has, and it actually transitions pretty smoothly through the story.
Idolmaster was just good fun. Did great on showing off the characters and the game's songs.
If I had to pick one, it's probably Clannad then. Some people might not like the character designs or other things, but it was a great adaptation.
The first two are pretty strong VN adaptations. Both had good budget, especially the latter. Faithful to the original and did the stories justice, imo. Persona 3's probably the only RPG adapation I truly enjoyed. It does a good job using what little time it has, and it actually transitions pretty smoothly through the story.
Idolmaster was just good fun. Did great on showing off the characters and the game's songs.
If I had to pick one, it's probably Clannad then. Some people might not like the character designs or other things, but it was a great adaptation.
Bomber Bob
Banned
P4A was super cheap
What is the title of this Kid Icarus anime? Might be right up my alley.
Always loved the Street Fighter 2 movie as well, and to a lesser degree, the Fatal Fury ones.
FlyingSaucer
Banned
I love this adaptation in spite of, or because of its flaws - fondamentally, an average writing that start very slowly but gets a lot better toward the end, try to evacuate the more morally ambiguous themes but integrates elements from the Spark manga for the fans... I'm glad this adaptation exists but I wish it had been done better.
On another genre, yes, the Street Fighter 2 movie is unreachable - if we are talking of the japanese version with the original OST ;p
Zevenberge
Member
I would have mentioned this, but isn't the game an adoption of the manga and anime?
Daria Morgendorffer
Member
I'm actually quite a fan of the Persona 4 Animation, it introduced me to the series and I thought it did a great job showing what the game is about. I understand that the P3 movie is better but I enjoyed P4A way more for what it is.
The DanganRonpa anime was actually just...ok.
The anime was rushed, VERY short, and adapted a little too much of the game mechanics from the game itself. Could have been a whole lot better if given more episodes.
It did give us this tho:
Exactly what I was thinking, DR's anime didn't even come close to doing the game justice. Trying to cram it all into 13 episodes was a very poor choice.
For best though, probably something like that Darkstalkers OVA. It was pretty cool, found myself really enjoying it.
BTHR Zero X
Member
I would like to add my Vote to
Street Fighter 2
Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV Juri
Devil May Cry
Pokémon Origins
Street Fighter 2
Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV Juri
Devil May Cry
Pokémon Origins
FlyingSaucer
Banned
The first 3DS game comes before both the manga and the anime, and it shows : it is much more coherent at developping the logic of its own universe than most of the sequels the franchise has received
There were three shorts made by different studios, but this one is Palutena's Revolting Dinner. It's pretty great.
KimonoNoNo
Member
The Virtua Fighter anime is super cheesy but a lot of fun.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
The first Persona 3 movie, Persona 3 The Movie: Spring of Birth, is fantastic (especially compared to the bad Persona 4 anime adaptation). It does a great job of condensing the events of the story and adapting them, adding elements that weren't in the original game that just make sense. They created a very fitting personality for the originally blank slate, main protagonist Makoto Yuki, which makes him have actual character development and a proper arc.
There will be four other movies (the second will have a BD/DVD release in March) for five in total, and I'm confident they'll all be great. Definitely the best anime adaptation of an Atlus game yet (which, unfortunately, could potentially not be saying much).
+1000000
Such a greta adaptation......shame we haven't even got a release here and Japan is on its 3rd film/
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
I loved Abyss, but I've never played a Tales game. Maybe that's why? I actually felt moved by parts (sucker for redemption/growth of a character).
Say, is there a ROD game? Papercraft is the bees' knees son!
KittenMaster
Member
Street Fighter 2 Victory
Take Street Fighter and just fucking make it 90's to the extreme. The show was basically a karate anime buddy cop flick and it was AWESOME
Yeah. This show has weird takes on character design and canon but it's still awesome with good fight direction.
It also treats both Charlie Nash and Chun Li's dad as proper characters in supporting roles, something unheard of pre-SF Alpha.
I'd definitely recommend it for people that have already seen the SF2 movie and are willing to shut off their brains and pretend this is a Final Fight anime instead of a 100% accurate adaptation.
