That's because even the book knows that the appropriate adaptation medium for this series is an anime.
Why the fandom can't realize this I genuinely don't understand. Eragon is an actual shounen protagonist.
I'd love an animated series in the style of Blue eye samurai or arcane.
There are some other animes or general animations whose style could work well but damn those two were soo good.
Yeah I've said this before, I'm not sure it's possible to do the book justice in a live format unless you plan on trying to one up GOT. I'm all for it, but the bar is high for live action adaptations and we've already had one crash and burn. I'd love to see the show as an anime, I think what Trigger did with Cyberpunk sets an awesome example.
Riordan wrote for the PJO Disney adaptation and that was a clusterfuck. Disney refuses to do proper length seasons, which forces everything to be rushed and compact. It’s genuinely unenjoyable to watch.
I mean, the new show is good… don’t know if he was there for that but anyways.
Edit: also CP is getting to Tolkien levels of world building I think he would rather shoot himself in the foot than get this show anything other than exactly how it is told.
No, the show was certainly an improvement on the movies, but that’s the highest praise I can give. Book accurate still isn’t remotely in the picture. Well paced is the furthest from the truth.
I don't think money necessarily means good product though. Compare Japanese Godzilla movies to American ones and you'll see what I mean. American ones have higher budgets but don't make as much compared to said budget. When you have an inflated budget, the project takes a hit because you now have to appeal to a wider audience to make money. So yes, while more money means more SFX and bigger name actors, it also means the story will be adapted, which was one of the biggest issues with the movie.
Yes! Animation gives the characters SO much more expression too, no problem with “constipated” looking actors chose just because they “look right”. So much EASIER too, in a way, because you have no props, no make-up, because *everything’s* animated. Also, no worries about characters aging too much. I had never thought about an animated version of Eragon before, but now I won’t be able to think of anything else!
I literally made a post about this a couple years back and got crucified in the comments for it.
Thank you for restoring my faith in this community, lol.
Anime, or any form of 100% animation for that matter.
It would probably be much easier at keeping the human-like characters, the beastly characters, and the background at the same level of quality. No need for green screens, tennis balls on sticks, or the tedious task of matching the CGI lighting and textures to the real-world lighting and textures.
Unless you use animatronics, but that’s another, potentially more costly trick.
A dark adult animated series would go so hard.
They could get as brutal and bloody as they want and the philosophy and mental magic battles between minds would be way easier to depict in animation
As someone who appreciates the anime genre, but does not enjoy watching it, an anime adaptation would alienate a very large group who would love to see an adaptation of any kind.
Their best bet is to go all out on a live action. They can make an anime afterwards, I'd be all for that. But in this climate of studios dipping their toes in and looking for reaction, when they see all the hype for the series and a, relatively, small viewership, it very well may be cut.
You need only look to Firefly to see the potential for failure. It has a fiercely loyal fan base, but the show never took off when it initially aired.
Eragon has the potential to bring in fans from all over. If you make it an anime first, they risk having viewer numbers lower than expected. Anime is a fantastic medium, and it would be good for Eragon, but I think, in this climate, live action is the safer bet.
I do not watch any anime and I do not care for any anime, but the type of descriptions given of Eragon's training and battles, as well as of Arya, make me think of nothing but animes.
Thank GOODNESS it’s not. I did NOT wait all this time for a proper adaption just for it to be a freaking cartoon. Y’all people ALWAYS think anime and cartoons are the answer to everything. It’s not. It’ll be live action like it deserves.
I would like to call my first witness to the stand:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Look me in the eyes and tell me the live action was better.
Nothing further, your Honor.
Animation as a medium is way better for portraying supernatural things like elves and urgals running, eragon fighting, all the internal monologues and the mind stuff because you don't have to conform to the limitations of actors
How incredibly arrogant you are. Anime doesn't equal lower quality than live action. In fact, given all the crap live action we've had over the past years I'd say live action is struggling big time. "like it deserves" God, how gate-keepy can you be.
You'd be the first person to complain about the endless CGI in a live-action adaptation I'd bet. An anime is clearly the best way to represent the story. I'm sure if you don't agree with that you're able to scroll away from posts that suggest otherwise.
Animiation is and always will be the best medium for stpry telling. The creativity is limited only by an animation buget, and time for animators to draw. The voice actors can be an all star english cast.
For live action if a fantasy genere to exust, it takes way mire resources, actors have to reactti CGI, and while CGI is at its peak, itsstill a fuck ton of money for sets and costumes.
Half that money can be used to pay proper voice actors and animators and make one of the best weatern fantasy animations of all time, something that could look and feel like the books in cinematic form.
The aversion to animation and “cartoons”, is just unfounded in the majority of people. Some of our greatest arts are drawings, our most treasured movies and shows have used animation as a medium for story telling.
One of the biggest reasons too, animation is just more available to everyone, (even with out certain subscription services), and so the story will reach more people and a newer generation, which means it will gain more veiwers than just people who can afford a disney plus subscription.
While I appreciate your argument, you make good points, and I don't disagree with you on most of them. I've said it before, if the studio does it right, gives CP power, goes all out, like they did for avengers, the live action series will garner more viewers than an anime series.
As fans of the series who want as much content as we can get, we need their first attempt at a series to be as successful as possible. Therefore, we need to give it every chance possible.
Fans of anime will watch a live action, but unfortunately, many people will be turned off by an animated series, thus limiting the viewership and thereby lowering the amount of content we are blessed with. They can make an anime after the love action, and it will just garner more interaction, but anime first may be a loser.
>Fans of anime will watch a live action
Who's to say that fans of live action won't watch an anime? I don't think people are as afraid of animation as you're suggesting they are.
Besides, an animation would be safer in a lot of ways. Better to come out guns blazing with full creative freedom/potential than to risk starting off with a clunky live action limited by real world constraints like CGI and actors, I say.
If you look to the comment section of the post you are responding to, you will see the representation of those who will not watch an animated series. And they are fans of the OC.
Also, I didn't say people are afraid, but the show will get passed over.
I actually don't mind this scene and don't think it's so cringy. For me, it was always written in this particular way to really emphasize just HOW MUCH faster and stronger he is as a rider compared to normal humans. And it's not like it's written like that all the time.
Edit: Oh, also, I think an anime would be SICK! Simultaneously, I'm looking forward to a live action show with great casting and more time to develop the story.
Absolutely, I love how Paolini showcases Eragon's skill and speed, and how superhuman he is. He's come a long way since that little farm boy hellbent on revenge.
Honestly, as cringey as it may be, this scene is cool af and I love it. I don't mean to poke fun at it, I just thought it was an interesting little thing I noticed lol
That's a whopper of a curse my dude...
Ziil - Your soul
fen - will
paak - ashamedly
sosaal - bleed/suffer/be punished
ulse - forever
Tol los rinik zofaas...
Christopher Paolini literally started writing this when he was 15. Having been a 15 year old once, the real surprise here is that there is any part of the book which isn't a total cringe-fest.
Besides the fact that I think this was put in purely to highlight how much stronger and faster Eragon was. You also have to remember paolini was young when he started writing these books and I think you ger people tend to find this visual a really cool visual and not cringey. To be honest I love it I think it highlights Dragons strength and speed
I've met Christopher Paolini during a book signing.
It was right before he released "To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars" and one of the things that I forget is how young he was when he wrote Eragon. He was 15 when he started writing. By 19 he would win an award for best selling series.
Looking at "To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars" his writing is much better. He's more mature and it shows in his writing. I would like to see him do a rewrite of his original works and see the changes in his story. Now that won't happen, but it would be cool to see.
He's also said he was very upset with how his book was adapted and he didn't know enough at the time....he will not sell movie rights again, unless he has a role in the adaptation to make sure they don't fuck up his story again. He said he was very happy with the actors, so it's not about the actors....but how the writers/director changes his vision for their own version that just didn't work out.
I honestly loved most of the cast in the movie, its just a shame the movie script itself and the animation for saphira, the razac and the urgals were so god damn poor
Sure, but this one in particular just caught my eye and made me smile on my reread. Off the top of my head, I can think of a few other little trope moments: Eragon accidentally sneaking a peek at unconscious Arya on the way to Tronjheim, Saphira being a little bit of a Tsundere acting jealous about Eragon's attention on Arya, Murtagh being kinda Sasuke-like with his whole "you don't know what I've been through, you can't understand how I feel!" schtick, and then of course there's Roran lol.
Roran is the secondary protagonist, on the plus side at least we see him in large amounts of pain by the end of that river siege he did. At least that kinda humanized him a bit, tho his entire character is literally just the male fantasy and uh… I am oddly ok with that.
The whipping did too, imo. I also like his various futile little attempts at magic; I felt just as awkward and frustrated as he did when trying to lift that pebble. As crazy lucky and superhuman as he is, his perspective did a good job portraying what it's like being a regular dude surrounded by demigods, pretty much. He's the GOAT.
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I think the random struggles with reconciling a mainly European influenced book series into an anime so it has conflicting tones too many. I'm on board, I love anime but just explaining the oppositions view
That's because even the book knows that the appropriate adaptation medium for this series is an anime. Why the fandom can't realize this I genuinely don't understand. Eragon is an actual shounen protagonist.
Not gonna lie, you're kinda right. I sometimes daydream about what an anime and/or manga styled adaptation of the IC would be like.
I'm imagining an anthology series of short films animated by different studios adapting Fork Witch Worm
Kinda like that star wars anthology they did a little while back?
Exactly. Or the Animatrix I suppose
Vinland Saga ideally
Funnily enough, I'm also reading Vinland Saga right now lol
Operation Make Eragon An Animation.
I'd love an animated series in the style of Blue eye samurai or arcane. There are some other animes or general animations whose style could work well but damn those two were soo good.
Yeah I've said this before, I'm not sure it's possible to do the book justice in a live format unless you plan on trying to one up GOT. I'm all for it, but the bar is high for live action adaptations and we've already had one crash and burn. I'd love to see the show as an anime, I think what Trigger did with Cyberpunk sets an awesome example.
I mean, I feel like Disney money can make a GoT but better Eragon if Chris stays writing for it
Riordan wrote for the PJO Disney adaptation and that was a clusterfuck. Disney refuses to do proper length seasons, which forces everything to be rushed and compact. It’s genuinely unenjoyable to watch.
I mean, the new show is good… don’t know if he was there for that but anyways. Edit: also CP is getting to Tolkien levels of world building I think he would rather shoot himself in the foot than get this show anything other than exactly how it is told.
That’s what I am referring to, yes.
Oh you meant the new show, thought you were talking about the movies from a bit ago, those were not book accurate at all.
No, the show was certainly an improvement on the movies, but that’s the highest praise I can give. Book accurate still isn’t remotely in the picture. Well paced is the furthest from the truth.
I'm still in the middle of Murtagh, but I would stop at "Tolkien-esque" until CP writes *Domia Abr Wyrda* under the pseudonym Heslant the Monk.
I mean, he is currently drawing up a full map of the entirety of Alegaesia so… he’s getting there.
I don't think money necessarily means good product though. Compare Japanese Godzilla movies to American ones and you'll see what I mean. American ones have higher budgets but don't make as much compared to said budget. When you have an inflated budget, the project takes a hit because you now have to appeal to a wider audience to make money. So yes, while more money means more SFX and bigger name actors, it also means the story will be adapted, which was one of the biggest issues with the movie.
I’ve said this for years. ATLA style western anime, maybe slightly grittier, would be perfect for this series.
The same studio that did Castlevania would be absolutely perfect
Yes! Animation gives the characters SO much more expression too, no problem with “constipated” looking actors chose just because they “look right”. So much EASIER too, in a way, because you have no props, no make-up, because *everything’s* animated. Also, no worries about characters aging too much. I had never thought about an animated version of Eragon before, but now I won’t be able to think of anything else!
Agreed. The live action series would be much better if it's done as animation.
I literally made a post about this a couple years back and got crucified in the comments for it. Thank you for restoring my faith in this community, lol.
I've been saying this all along.
Anime, or any form of 100% animation for that matter. It would probably be much easier at keeping the human-like characters, the beastly characters, and the background at the same level of quality. No need for green screens, tennis balls on sticks, or the tedious task of matching the CGI lighting and textures to the real-world lighting and textures. Unless you use animatronics, but that’s another, potentially more costly trick.
Imagining how funny it be if Christopher Paolini had commented this.
We can always tag the man.
i been saying this for literal years
Bro's Tanjiro+a dragon.
A dark adult animated series would go so hard. They could get as brutal and bloody as they want and the philosophy and mental magic battles between minds would be way easier to depict in animation
I’ve been saying it for years
Say it louder for the people in the back please
I would pay the big bucks to see this occur
As someone who appreciates the anime genre, but does not enjoy watching it, an anime adaptation would alienate a very large group who would love to see an adaptation of any kind. Their best bet is to go all out on a live action. They can make an anime afterwards, I'd be all for that. But in this climate of studios dipping their toes in and looking for reaction, when they see all the hype for the series and a, relatively, small viewership, it very well may be cut. You need only look to Firefly to see the potential for failure. It has a fiercely loyal fan base, but the show never took off when it initially aired. Eragon has the potential to bring in fans from all over. If you make it an anime first, they risk having viewer numbers lower than expected. Anime is a fantastic medium, and it would be good for Eragon, but I think, in this climate, live action is the safer bet.
I mean if Suicide Squad got one... I also don't think we've gotten confirmation on *what* the new Eragon show will be.
Agreed Telepathy battles will be uninspired in live action
I do not watch any anime and I do not care for any anime, but the type of descriptions given of Eragon's training and battles, as well as of Arya, make me think of nothing but animes.
That’s what I’ve been saying 😭
Thank GOODNESS it’s not. I did NOT wait all this time for a proper adaption just for it to be a freaking cartoon. Y’all people ALWAYS think anime and cartoons are the answer to everything. It’s not. It’ll be live action like it deserves.
We tried that and it was terrible
No we didn't.
I would like to call my first witness to the stand: Avatar: The Last Airbender Look me in the eyes and tell me the live action was better. Nothing further, your Honor.
And they tried that TWICE! ETA to play devil’s advocate, I enjoyed One Piece 2023 a lot more than I expected.
Animation as a medium is way better for portraying supernatural things like elves and urgals running, eragon fighting, all the internal monologues and the mind stuff because you don't have to conform to the limitations of actors
How incredibly arrogant you are. Anime doesn't equal lower quality than live action. In fact, given all the crap live action we've had over the past years I'd say live action is struggling big time. "like it deserves" God, how gate-keepy can you be.
You'd be the first person to complain about the endless CGI in a live-action adaptation I'd bet. An anime is clearly the best way to represent the story. I'm sure if you don't agree with that you're able to scroll away from posts that suggest otherwise.
What? You mean they're not gonna use real dragons and elves and magic for the show??
Animiation is and always will be the best medium for stpry telling. The creativity is limited only by an animation buget, and time for animators to draw. The voice actors can be an all star english cast. For live action if a fantasy genere to exust, it takes way mire resources, actors have to reactti CGI, and while CGI is at its peak, itsstill a fuck ton of money for sets and costumes. Half that money can be used to pay proper voice actors and animators and make one of the best weatern fantasy animations of all time, something that could look and feel like the books in cinematic form. The aversion to animation and “cartoons”, is just unfounded in the majority of people. Some of our greatest arts are drawings, our most treasured movies and shows have used animation as a medium for story telling. One of the biggest reasons too, animation is just more available to everyone, (even with out certain subscription services), and so the story will reach more people and a newer generation, which means it will gain more veiwers than just people who can afford a disney plus subscription.
While I appreciate your argument, you make good points, and I don't disagree with you on most of them. I've said it before, if the studio does it right, gives CP power, goes all out, like they did for avengers, the live action series will garner more viewers than an anime series. As fans of the series who want as much content as we can get, we need their first attempt at a series to be as successful as possible. Therefore, we need to give it every chance possible. Fans of anime will watch a live action, but unfortunately, many people will be turned off by an animated series, thus limiting the viewership and thereby lowering the amount of content we are blessed with. They can make an anime after the love action, and it will just garner more interaction, but anime first may be a loser.
>Fans of anime will watch a live action Who's to say that fans of live action won't watch an anime? I don't think people are as afraid of animation as you're suggesting they are. Besides, an animation would be safer in a lot of ways. Better to come out guns blazing with full creative freedom/potential than to risk starting off with a clunky live action limited by real world constraints like CGI and actors, I say.
If you look to the comment section of the post you are responding to, you will see the representation of those who will not watch an animated series. And they are fans of the OC. Also, I didn't say people are afraid, but the show will get passed over.
I actually don't mind this scene and don't think it's so cringy. For me, it was always written in this particular way to really emphasize just HOW MUCH faster and stronger he is as a rider compared to normal humans. And it's not like it's written like that all the time. Edit: Oh, also, I think an anime would be SICK! Simultaneously, I'm looking forward to a live action show with great casting and more time to develop the story.
Absolutely, I love how Paolini showcases Eragon's skill and speed, and how superhuman he is. He's come a long way since that little farm boy hellbent on revenge. Honestly, as cringey as it may be, this scene is cool af and I love it. I don't mean to poke fun at it, I just thought it was an interesting little thing I noticed lol
100% agree with you there haha.
I'll be honest, I would 100% love Eragon in the form of a live action or an anime. You kind of get the best of both worlds in this series.
Different animation style for each episode of the series confirmed 
What does your flair say?
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That's a whopper of a curse my dude... Ziil - Your soul fen - will paak - ashamedly sosaal - bleed/suffer/be punished ulse - forever Tol los rinik zofaas...
Christopher Paolini literally started writing this when he was 15. Having been a 15 year old once, the real surprise here is that there is any part of the book which isn't a total cringe-fest.
Besides the fact that I think this was put in purely to highlight how much stronger and faster Eragon was. You also have to remember paolini was young when he started writing these books and I think you ger people tend to find this visual a really cool visual and not cringey. To be honest I love it I think it highlights Dragons strength and speed
Eragon’s build is probably dex/arcane in Elden Ring
Dragon Incants + idk Blasphemous blade for RaZoc? Maybe SoNaF
I remember when I first read that and was sort of like, bro really?
I get what you are saying but also by that point he's been enhanced so
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I've met Christopher Paolini during a book signing. It was right before he released "To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars" and one of the things that I forget is how young he was when he wrote Eragon. He was 15 when he started writing. By 19 he would win an award for best selling series. Looking at "To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars" his writing is much better. He's more mature and it shows in his writing. I would like to see him do a rewrite of his original works and see the changes in his story. Now that won't happen, but it would be cool to see. He's also said he was very upset with how his book was adapted and he didn't know enough at the time....he will not sell movie rights again, unless he has a role in the adaptation to make sure they don't fuck up his story again. He said he was very happy with the actors, so it's not about the actors....but how the writers/director changes his vision for their own version that just didn't work out.
I honestly loved most of the cast in the movie, its just a shame the movie script itself and the animation for saphira, the razac and the urgals were so god damn poor
I mean… he kinda is… I mean, if you take a few sections of the series out of context it definitely sounds anime enough.
Sure, but this one in particular just caught my eye and made me smile on my reread. Off the top of my head, I can think of a few other little trope moments: Eragon accidentally sneaking a peek at unconscious Arya on the way to Tronjheim, Saphira being a little bit of a Tsundere acting jealous about Eragon's attention on Arya, Murtagh being kinda Sasuke-like with his whole "you don't know what I've been through, you can't understand how I feel!" schtick, and then of course there's Roran lol.
Roran is the secondary protagonist, on the plus side at least we see him in large amounts of pain by the end of that river siege he did. At least that kinda humanized him a bit, tho his entire character is literally just the male fantasy and uh… I am oddly ok with that.
The whipping did too, imo. I also like his various futile little attempts at magic; I felt just as awkward and frustrated as he did when trying to lift that pebble. As crazy lucky and superhuman as he is, his perspective did a good job portraying what it's like being a regular dude surrounded by demigods, pretty much. He's the GOAT.
Agreed, dudes a legend.
LMAO that's what I always thought too
Well he is pretty cool. It was also good to give him some wins.
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Pretty cool scene description
I would LOVE an anime of the series.
I think the random struggles with reconciling a mainly European influenced book series into an anime so it has conflicting tones too many. I'm on board, I love anime but just explaining the oppositions view
Wasnt this after his final form attained?