HPANA reports:
It is expected to be announced today that an agreement between Warner Bros., JK Rowling and Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball, has been reached for the development of a Harry Potter anime TV series to air on ABC Family in the U.S. starting in the fall of 2012.
Update: Of course, people are calling April Fool’s all over this one, and a moderator at HPANA responded like so:
Whatever do you mean? *bats eyes*
This is clearly real news. We’ve never fooled around before.
So Jon, the tech-elf, wins the prize for the first to call April Fool’s here. The prize is a full hardcover set of the Harry Potter series, all the audiobooks in both the Jim Dale and Stephen Fry versions, Blue-Ray deluxe editions of all the movies, and a meeting with J.K. Rowling herself to get them all signed.
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Why Jo WHY? The movies I could cope with, the theme park I could barley stomach but this? URGH!
I don’t mind the cartoon, but why does it have to be anime-style? Urgh.
I smell April Fools ….
Movies, videogames, themeparks, children’s animations, what’s the problem?
Lots and lots of precedent here. There have been three animated versions of Tolkien’s stuff, and pretty well done, by my standards. How many different media versions of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol can we think of? At least three movies, and probably more that I don’t know about. Oliver Twist: movies, TV series, Broadway musical, children’s animated movies. David Copperfield: multiple movies, animated versions, and a magician who adopted the moniker. Ditto the works of C S Lewis, Kenneth Grahame, and Rudyard Kipling to mention the ones who first come to mind. And if you want to get really basic, anyone here remember the Illustrated Classics version of Les Miserables? Or even more basic still: would Will Shakespeare have recognized 10 Things I Hate About You as The Taming of the Shrew?
The interesting thing to me is how far Warner Brothers will go to accomodate the author’s vision in this new venture. And how much involvement Rowling will want to have. She has a decision to make, I think. She can spend the rest of her life trying to make sure the different media adaptations of her books stick close to her original vision. Or she go back to writing books.
And I smell more April Fool’s from Travis concerning the prize that Jon has now won.
At least she didn’t authorize a hentai version. Maybe a story along those lines would’ve been too recognizable as April Fools.
OMG! I can’t wait!
*cough*
I never learn.
HAHA Neither do I! Nice one guys.
Haha! April Fools…
But all joking aside, I think that a Harry Potter animated series or animated film could be spectacular if directed properly.
When the fake article mentioned the possibility of an anime, my mind jumped to the works of Hayao Miyazaki: Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, Totoro, Spirited Away, Nausicaa, Whisper of the Heart, etc. While it is true that he deviates from the original storylines and takes great artistic liberties, his films are always a joy to watch.