I think I'd want to have the people behind the DC comics cartoons, like Batman: TAS do the Animorphs cartoon. They seem to know how to stay true to the source material.
Agreed-ish, Batman was very good, I personally dislike comic book super heroes (Aside from the X-Men . . . eXcalibur roocks btw) but Batman: TAS was practically an addiction for me as a kid and it resulted in Batman being the only super hero I can say I like without any reservation (Apart from
some X-Men). It was easy for me to enjoy because unlike Super Man who wins by being so OP he makes Death Knights look like kittens Batman wins with a large (kind of OP but not Super Man OP) arsenal of neat gadgets and with strategy and I distinctly recal developing a crush on Harley Quinn as a kid which only added to the show's quality--but I digress it was also a very good show visually, not at all like Transformers Animated (yeah I still hate it, try and stop me
) and Animorphs drawn in that style with that level of smooth movement and character loyalty would be totally cool.
Now for the "ish" part . . . see I just don't think that kind of animation is around anymore, which is sad . . . nay, depressing . . . maybe if I close my eyes and wish really, really hard . . . just seems like most cartoons today aim themselves at kids or adults and the adult shows are just kids shows with profanity, the kids shows are usually mind draining (I know I'm not supposed to think SpongeBob is genius, but when I see it and shows like it actually making my little brothers
dumber . . . ) or pointless slapstick, the days when we had shows like Batman or others which both kids and adults could enjoy are gone, I'm waiting for more than one show to be
on the air that proves me wrong, but hey, maybe someday Animorphs will get its chance to be such a show.
However, I think anime is a terrible idea as a design for Animorphs. Anime is way too distinctive, the drawings are very similar and would cast Animorphs simply as another anime story, taking away from what it really was. Anime's cool, but its also a turn off, esp when I see the similarities b.w Naruto, Bleach, ect...
Well not everyone likes anime, not everyone likes cartoons or live action shows either, there's just no medium that would make every fan happy because we're all individuals with our own opinions because Visser One listened to Tom and not me so the Andalites won . . . look, I've said too much.
Anyway I'm not trying to start an argument because I agree with some of what you say, but everyone has their own taste, Bleach in general and the Naruto anime aren't to mine personally, but that aside I'd like to defend the other animes out there by pointing out that Naruto and Bleach are similar because they're made by the same people much like TFA and Teen Titans, they shouldn't be used to judge the medium in general, I also suspect that their respective writers are fairly lazy, I mean Naruto's creator has admitted to "borrowing" from other animes and mangas. There
are animes out there that don't strictly follow the Big Eyes Small Mouths rule of animation, though I agree a few too many do that's just their style.
But I share the worry that a lot of what Animorphs is would be "lost in translation" so to speak, but from a visual standpoint north american animation isn't impressing me thus I continue to back the anime idea. Nick clings to Spongebob like a a floatation device (which he isn't, he lives at the bottom of the sea, not the top) Cartoon Network has variety but is lazier still in their animation quality, Disney seems to have kind of stopped existing in any real way at some point (but they're Disney so they'll be back someday . . . maybe tomorrow?) I think WB did too . . . maybe the time is right for a new studio or network to come on the air and light a fire under Nick and CW with goold old fasioned competition.
Not going to happen of course. I'm sad now :'(