9 Answers2025-07-25
A Holy Grail War, "Fate"-style, with the characters of the Bible instead of legendary heroes: Solomon, David, Samson, Deborah, Moses, Mary Magdalene... and their corresponding Noble Phantasms. That would be so cool as a fanfiction. And I'm pretty sure someone already wrote it. Adaptations of the Bible in anime are hardly ever found in official industry output, and are mostly restricted to the realm of fan works and doujinshi.
But from within the world of anime and manga, these characters are constantly being reinvented for high school dramas, fantastical battles, or even romance comedies. They might not be directly connected to the original material, yet they are immediately recognizable by fans worldwide. In such Settings, the work can be rewritten entirely from scratch, while, at the same time, retaining the ‘spirit’ of their originals. Moreover, such creative interpretations are produced not within any framework of commercialized mass media but rather by fans themselves in their free time. They are completely ‘unofficial’ but at the same time extremely imaginative. Such creations often are far more popular and plentiful than their officially licenced counterparts.
11 Answers2025-05-27
I actually got into number theory because of a comment made in an episode of ‘The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya’ regarding the concept of ‘closed timelike curves’ and how they could be used to commit the ultimate crime. It was a throw away comment and after looking up the concept, I went down a rabbit hole of learning about physics and math, and the rest is history. Anime doesn’t need to teach the math in order to inspire curiosity in the subject. The best adaptation is one that makes you pause the anime and go google Fourier transform after a character casually mentioned it in the context of the story.
10 Answers2025-07-31
Honestly, I'm so done with this trope right now. It was sort of fun in a younger, more naive time for me, but now I just see it as lazy character development and writing. I want to read romances where there is conflict for reasons other than a male protagonist trying to mark the female love interest as his. Most of the anime adaptations of these types of stories just reuse the same images of scowling close-ups of the male lead and shots of wind blowing through his hair. It would be awesome to read an adaptation of a romance where the male lead was supporting and hilarious in his attempts to be possessive. A real rom-com where the male lead is secure and the comedy comes from elsewhere would be amazing. The jealous male love interest as a sign of passion and depth is a tired script that needs to retire.
3 Answers2025-07-20
Yes, there is no ‘ASOIAF’ anime yet but I believe that it could be an amazing adaptation of the ASOIAF universe. It could help fix a few issues with the live-action show, like a faster paced ending and it would be able to include a lot of the lore from the books that they left out.
These are just a few possible examples of how the adaptation could look: Madhouse’s dark and realistic take on Arya’s training with the Faceless Men, Kyoto Animation’s warm take on young Bran’s adventures. Yuki Kajiura’s gorgeous score could really add to scenes like Jon Snow’s return from the dead, or despairing Catelyn in the $$additionalquotes** ##Music of ASOIAF quote
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Also, there is the inner monologues of the characters. There is nothing better than anime to portray these kinds of scenes. It would be great to see a series of ‘Death Note’ like mind games that Littlefinger plays. For now, we have to settle for series such as ‘Record of Lodoss War’ and ‘The Twelve Kingdoms’ that have similar high fantasy settings. But I am sure that ASOIAF anime would be amazing if they were to blend the depth of material written by George R.R. Martin with the creative freedom that anime has.
11 Answers2025-07-19
Most references to missing books of the Bible are couched in terms that suggest that at some point in history the church either censored the Bible or even corrupted it. While this is how many people understand the situation of the so-called Apocryphal books (the so-called deuterocanonical books) not all scholars understand the situation in the same way. The KJV translators worked from a canon that had been previously established, even if that establishment was long and contentious in the early centuries of the church. When the KJV translators were picking and choosing what books to include in their translation they worked from a defined list of twenty-seven New Testament books as determined by the 16th-century Protestant reformers. The Apocryphal books, those considered to be outside of the canon, were the object of suspicion for centuries before the KJV was translated. Jerome even had reservations about including some of them in the Vulgate. In the end, the KJV is merely a snapshot in time of the on-going discussion of the early Christian church regarding the boundaries of Scripture. There was no stealing of books in the dead of night, only a long publicly-debated process of the church working out its theological convictions.
9 Answers2026-07-29
Don't know of any movies, but El Shaddai is a videogame based on it. Great cell-shaded visuals. The combat is decent, but nothing on the level of Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry. It's pretty interesting as games go. It's on 360 and PS3. You'll probably find it pretty cheap. As always with videogames, check out gameplay footage to see if it's something worth your money.
9 Answers2025-07-28
It’s sort of mainstream to touch on these topics as well. I mean, Nicolas Cage was in “Knowing” which revealed the mysterious figures from the first part of the movie to be angelic and trying to cause an apocalyptic type of reset. The end of the movie where a massive solar flare burns up the Earth, and the special children are taken to Heaven to start over in “Eden” was pretty cool, and super religious. It seemed to follow the book of Revelation rather closely, just with a bunch of different Sci-Fi elements thrown in. Another really good example of a spiritual theme in a really good movie is “The Book of Eli”. It takes place in a world that was devastated by war that was brought on by conflicts over religion. It follows a man and his book in a long spanning journey through a post-apocalyptic world, similar to “The Road”. But it has a really spiritual undertone as the book that they are trying to save is strongly implied to be the last Bible on Earth. The movie takes the form of a post-apocalyptic western in order to explore the topic of preserving faith and knowledge in the new world.
8 Answers2025-08-08
I see a number of comments below are mistakenly saying the 1611 KJV contained 80 books. It actually contained the 39 books of the Old Testament, 27 books of the New Testament and the 15 books of the Apocrypha (usually printed in a separate section). As was mentioned above, some of the Apocryphal books are counted as one book in some traditions (1 & 2 Esdras, for example) while in others they are listed separately (Baruch includes the Letter of Jeremiah, for example). The 15 books of the 1611 KJV’s Apocrypha are: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Additions to the Esther book, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah, The Prayer of Azariah, Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasseh, 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees. This totals 81 books. So while it is often said that the KJV contained 80 books, technically this is not correct.
3 Answers2025-05-29
I had completely forgotten about ‘Armipotent’ – it really is screaming to be a manhwa. The hand-to-hand combat scenes are nicely laid out as you’d read them in a storybook, with the protagonist using a range of clever tactics to outsmart his foes using the environment around him and sudden boosts in power. It’s a complex game to translate into a video adaptation, though – with such intricate system mechanics at its heart it would likely confuse casual viewers, and thus put off many producers.
For now, fans of Armipotent can enjoy the recently released manhwa of Trash of the Count’s Family (although it’s strictly more of a story than a tactical simulation, it’s very pretty and a great insight into the writer’s take on similar themes). How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom is also a great way for anime-only fans to experience similar themes of warfare and gradual increase in power. The main difference, of course, is that it focuses more on strategy on a larger scale rather than personal combat. We’ll be watching out for whether any Korean studios start hiring in military consultants for their war stories – that’s generally the first sign that a complex war-story is going to get an adaptation.
7 Answers2025-04-27
Just wanted to mention “The Hiding Place”. This novel by Corrie ten Boom and her daughter is an amazing autobiographical work of a family’s efforts to hide Jews in Holland during WWII and their subsequent sojourn in a concentration camp and their experience of and response to their faith through all of it. The movie made of this novel in the 1970s is also excellent – a powerful, straightforward, amazing movie of great virtue.
The movie captures well the hardships Corrie endured and her many moments of peace and inspiration including the little trouble-making fleas in the barracks where she was being held. A great adaptation of a book of incredible true events of extreme hardship and radical faith and an excellent film for those of younger years or those that can’t get into books!