In film studies, "adaptation" is a process of transformation between different media that would usually have difficulty exchanging their contents without modifying the details of the originals.
The Tatami Galaxy, for instance, is one of a few successful cases to adapt literary works to animation. The recipe for success might be that director Masaaki Yuasa adapted a script which is an almost unabridged version of the original novel with character designs traced from Yusuke Nakamura's illustrations which appear on the dust jacket of the book.
10 years later, Yuasa released his new anime adaptation,
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken. Not surprisingly, when adapted from the manga to the TV anime, the world of
Eizoken becomes more perfectly represented. This is mainly because originally,
Eizouken was a manga which deals with the dreams of school girls who want to create their own original animation. While a live-action version of
Eizouken will be released this April, I’m sure it won’t surpass Yukawa's adaptation whose essential motivation was consistent with the manga itself!
