If you haven’t been keeping up with our Comicbook.com/Anime page in the last year or so, we can tell you with all assurances: Anime is blowing up in a big way. Japan’s animated art form has been achieving major crossover success in the west, thanks to a new crop of popular titles like Dragon Ball Super, Attack on Titan, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, and of course, the superhero/anime mashup hit, My Hero Academia.
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As anime continues its expansion into a globally-dominant lane of media content, Russian freelance artist Dmitry Grozov has created an awesome gallery of artwork, which imagines what some of the biggest movie franchises in Hollywood would look like as anime. Take a look at the results, below!
Robocop
The story of a policeman brutally shot down and brought back as a “ghost in the machine” in a cybernetic body just screams anime. You could bet in that form,ย Robocop’sย exploration of what it means for a man to become machine – and the digital world he could consciously inhabit – would be a lot cooler.ย
Alien
This image formย Alien 3 perfectly captures what the Xenomorphsย vs. Ripley conflict would look like in animeย form. With so many bizarre and cool alien concepts already filling out the animeย genre, there would be a lot that anย Alienย animeย could do with Xenomorphย concepts and Colonial Marine battles that movies never could. Especially if you went the ecchiย route (just saying…).ย
Terminator
This iconic scene fromย T2 is just one of several great images that Grozovย has created from theย Terminatorย franchise. Images of the original film perfectly capture the ’80s tone of James Cameron’s work, and Arnold Schwarzenegger looks just as awesome in animeย form as he does in the live-action film.ย
Ghostbusters
There doesn’t need to be a big sell on this one: the combination of ghostly visuals and sci-fi comedy would be perfectly fit the sometimes-out-there, sometimes-silly, mold of a great anime.ย
Jurassic Park
While the image of this scene fromย Jurassic Parkย is cool, it’s questionable if scenes like raptors opening kitchen doors and hunting human children would translate to anime. Some of thoseย Jurassic Worldย concepts would work well – and that twist inย Fallen Kingdom seems like something straight out of anime.ย
Dredd
This looks cool and all, but we have an ulterior motive for including it: This is actually something thatย needs to happen. Fans have wanted to the world ofย Dreddย to continue, and animeย could be the key.ย
Beetlejuice
Theย mind of Tim Burton meets the animeย format? Why hasn’t this happened already? If there is one Burton filmย to experiment with as an animeย series, it would definitely beย Beetlejuice. The showdown between exorcists and bio-exorcists would be awesome in the format.ย
The Fifth Element
Lucย Besson’sย Fifth Elementย was way ahead of its time as a live-action movie with major animeย flavor – it would be only fitting to see its world fully done in the format.ย
Slide 9
As stated, Schwarzenegger is somehow stillย ridiculously entertaining in animeย format, and his ’80s / 90s testosterone action flicks clearly would make for some great satirical animeย flicks.ย
Kill Bill
This one is an easy lay-up: Quentin Tarantino’sย Kill Bill vol. 1ย is already part anime, so why not a version of the film that’sย allย anime?ย
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If you like what you see here, be sure to check the full gallery of Dmitryย Grozov’sย work, HERE.
What other famous movies could you see getting an animeย adaptation? Let us know in the comments!
