Gaiman, Potter, Anime

[Brooks A. Rowlett]

No: HPFGUIDX 760

1) Gaiman probably COULD do a Harry potter adaptation - after all, he
did an English language adaptation for Princess Mononoke, part of which
actually survived into the movie.
It would certainly be dejavu for him, what with the Books of Magic and
Tim Hunter discovering he is destined to be a poiwerful magician - if he
chooses. 

2) Neil/FFA or other UK residents, what did you think of _Neverwhere_,
assuming you saw it?  That was Gaiman's writing.

3) Aside from being the push that convinced me to go ahead and get the
first Harry Potter book, it was also Vicki who introdcued me to Gaiman
and his increadible creation,  Morpheus: the Sandman, also known as
Dream - and his Sister, who is everyone's very first friend - and
everyone's last friend as well.  I am forever in Vicki's debt. :-)

4) The comics-on-paper version of Anime is called manga.  Sometimes
manga are created to tie into original anime (and such an anime show
created outright is called an OVA, for Original Video Animation); other
times it is an existing manga story is turned into an anime.

5) In some ways I think the closest Western comic to the idea of manga
is Tintin.  Is anyone else here a Tintin fan?

6) I have to disagree on the idolizing of Anime adaptations though.  The
Anime _Lensman_ was interesting, but only barely resembled the original
novels; it had somewhat more resemblance than the Beast Master movie did
to Andre Norton's _The Beast Master_ novel, but that is about the best
you can say of it.  Further it was a rather serious intellectual
property violation as it was done without permission and without
royalties to Doc Smith's surviving (at that time) daughter who had the estate.

By the way, Dee, it is just _Robot Carnival_, not _The Robot Carnival_ .
I've seen it, some parts are fun.

-Brooks