Best Anime Adapation of a VN

Clannad no doubt. FSN was mediocre at best, and I could think of 10 ways to make it 100 times better.

Clannad is WAAY ahead of every other VN based anime. Nothing even comes close. Key's other anime are well done too but Air was a weak story IMO. I'd also mention Shuffle! as being a good anime adaption, but the Asa route made me say "bleh".

Utawarerumono would be okay if I didn't hate the game's ending already.

Best:
-Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

Worst:
-Shuffle!
-Tsukihime

I straight marathoned Shuffle! the anime for hours and I regret I actually did that. The anime changed the original so much I don't want to talk about it.

I know there are many animes out there that are based on novels (ex. Haruhi, Spice and Wolf, Toradora, Shakugan no Shana, Zero no Tsukaima, etc.).

So, what do you think is the best anime adaptation of novels?


I say Kara no Kyoukai. KnK anime films are just great (except they messed up 6th one really badly). First, they were very accurate. Second, the animation is very well done, especially the fighting scenes. Third, the soundtrack is just perfect for scenes.

I have no idea what the novels were like, but the Tytania anime series was amazing if you're into Space Opera, it was one of the best sci-fi political thrillers I've ever seen.

Clannad, Clannad After Story, Utawarerumono, Kanon was the best i saw. Air was good too but the ending was depressing.

Clannad & Clannad After Story. Well done and well-adapted to anime.

Clannad is the best one i've seen so far.

Best:

Clannad AS fo' sho'.
Shuffle - since the VN was disappointing but the director was able to improve on it.

Worst:

Tsukihime - Because it doesn't exist.
Fate/Stay Night

Utawarerumono....
If fate stay night used the unlimited blade works arc as the main story it will be a masterpiece....
Sigh.....

Tough choice between Clannad and Higurashi. The first one had a mediocre 1.5 seasons and an amazing 0.5 and the second went exactly where I didn't want it to go after the awesome first season.

they are

UBW OVA is suppsed to come out this January

by the looks of it they're not messing it up like they did with fate anime

the trailer was recently unveiled at comiket

Clannad nuff said

Well what most have said Clannad

That's really hard to say. I mean, sure there's Baka-Tsuki, which has some translations of novels, but we also have a lot of anime-based novels with no translations.

Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~

Also i got discouraged to watch Tsukihime anime because it does not exist ^3^

There's no doubt in my mind that Clannad is the best anime adaptation of a visual novel. It's just...perfect.

Well i suppose to have to agree with Clannad for the best one, 11 eyes has the proper atmosphere tho so we'll see what happens to it.

As for the worst, Tears of Tiara. They added new material in the anime, which wasn't bad but then they had to rush the story and ruin everything that was good about the visual novel. So we end up with that the only good part of anime was a part that wasn't in the visual novel.

Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~

Utawarerumono

FSN Anime just failed when they tried to merge and cram three routes into 24 episodes >_>

The UBW OVA better not fail us. A single route in, what, 1-2 hours?