how would you like FF14 anime?

[SakuraMidori]

make a spin off of Hildibrand and that be it hahaha id watch an anime of him any day of the week
It be set in the game world maybe make others from the story pop in and out some eps and it be a comedy^^

[Gamer3427]

There's always the "hero summoned from another world" trope.

Hydaelyn summoning forth the will-be Warrior of Light from another world. That kind of thing.

In either case, I'd like the FFXIV world to be (a) reality in this hypothetical anime, not just a game. It makes the happenings in any story it might have much more impactful.

This. My opinion on it would be to mix the two, having it be SAO like in that it be a player or small group of players, (probably a single party's worth), that get summoned to the world of FFXIV, but it be a reality there rather than a video game. Then they have to adapt to actually fighting in that world, and risking death, rather than just playing a game....

[AlphaFox]

I mentioned this in another thread but I do think it would work out if they had the right group working on it. They have a LOT of material to work with and if you wanted to claim it as a Dissidia brand of Final Fantasy, you can play with the entire universe from start to end and not worry about much. Few episodes going through all the main numbered games (1-15) then going through the whole, entering dimensions of each other. Plus I wouldn't argue with more of Shantotto anyway in any form :3

[Kathyz]

should it be about player playing the actual MMO game (.hack,SAO)
or should the world be an actual world people live in (ragnarok the animation)

Should be like the first one and everytime he need to go with minfilia take and electroshock of 1000 volts for screen loading.... That should work in the second for every time they see the same monster with different name in the world.

[Ayuhra]

I wouldn't mind a retelling of the story with Derplander. It'd be odd but he's been our stand in all along. Maybe it could shed some light on things the game doesn't and flesh out characters instead of fetch questing episodes.

I want to see an animated Haurchefant, even if it's a bit redundant. Or animated Estinien mmmyes. And. And Aymeric. Imagine Aymeric in a well done anime style.

I don't think I'd want it to be about people playing the game. There's enough story within the game itself for it to be a meaningful setting.

[MaethusXion]

My vote would be either: A) Hildibrand, B) The 5 years "Post Calamity"(between 1.23 and 2.0), C) Pre-1.0 Scions/Louisoux backstory, or D) Allagan Backstory

[adn]

Based on the performance of the anime industry lately I don't think SE would be in a particularly big hurry to get back into it. Unless it's moe anime or generic shonen it's not really profitable at this point.

It might be fun as a short OVA or something but I can't see it working for a full-length series.

[Gaddes]

It would probably have a bunch of overly-annoying catgirls in it with the usual sickeningly cutesy personalities.

[Dererk]

Based on the performance of the anime industry lately I don't think SE would be in a particularly big hurry to get back into it. Unless it's moe anime or generic shonen it's not really profitable at this point.

It might be fun as a short OVA or something but I can't see it working for a full-length series.

I don't really understand why is there no good ones out lately? I don't know the whole story but since a lot of anime seams to be based off of manga. They seam to be making more anime off the monthly chapter ones im going to use Blue Exorcist as an example but since their using the monthly chapter ones they eventually catch up to where the manga is and then they go a completely different way from where the originally story is going.

Is this what's happening?

[AskaRay]

Is this what's happening?

Tons of anime every season has been based on manga, I haven't seen an increase in that.

It's anime companies having no money, so they'll take either a manga or an original screenplay and figure they can only get thirteen episodes out of it, maybe two seasons of that if it's extra popular. Also there's tons of anime every season, it's like market saturation. For every one really good show there's ten moeblob slice of lifes no one really wants to watch

No one wants to sit through a million-episode show anymore (and of course really look at the ones that are still in that format, they have been for years and years now).

Also unless I'm nuts Blue Exorcist only had twenty five episodes. I don't think they'll make a new season, either, to "catch up" with the manga.