If Reborn was adapted into an Anime.....

[Dhanush D Bhatt]

Well apart from episodes dedicated to the main storyline and the personal history of the characters we could have 'filler like' episodes in which the protag finds event pokemon and catches them like running around for the teddiursa, lillipup and so on. And i think ending it at Corey's suicide will be a perfect ending to season 1. Season 2 would end at Victoria taking over apophyll (too soon for s2 ending?) and season 3 would end at the protag and radomus discovering adrienne and him realising he spent 10 years in Citae-de- arcae or whatever.

[RanenVolt]

I would keep most of them the same but this is what is different

(Character/Seiyuu)
Vero / Yuuichi Nakamura or Yuki Kaji
Victoria / Asami Imai
Shelly / Kana Hanazawa or Kana Asumi
Heather / Rie Kugimiya

Dubbing should be done by Aniplex of America. Expensive yes, worth it hell yes.

The rest I agree with LordWallace, or couldn't find someone. But we need Rie Tanaka somewhere in here.

[Knight_Teutonic]

We should make a poll in the forum to know what starter is the most popular one. I'm sure that the OP chicken would win.

[Foamy]

Sorry, I didn't catch any of that. I don't speak Weeaboo.

(In all seriousness, though, I have no idea who any of those voice actors are.)

[Knight_Teutonic]

Sorry, I didn't catch any of that. I don't speak Weeaboo.

(In all seriousness, though, I have no idea who any of those voice actors are.)

Me neither, except for Romi Park, from her work in Naruto.

[LordWallace]

Me neither, except for Romi Park, from her work in Naruto.

Later I'll edit my post to include the role(s) each Seiyuu I chose is known for, or at least the one I chose them for. Then maybe you'll recognize some of them.

[LordWallace]

Alright I haven't been very active here lately due to lack of time mainly but I'm back and am going to bump this because I've come up with a concept that may be very interesting and rather fitting for a theoretical Reborn adaptation.

Instead of choosing just one variant of the Protagonist to be in the entire anime, why not just have them all? Or at least most of them.

The anime could play out similar to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (my inspiration for this idea), where each protagonist either dies or is otherwise incapacitated for the next one to pick up where the other left off. I feel like this idea will give the chance to give each Protagonist a lot more personality rather than simply mimicking the bland and noble character of a typical Link-like mute protagonist from a videogame as well as include more Pokemon in the show.
This also gives Shade and Amethyst a larger role in the plot. Of course though this would mean having to make some changes to a few details to the plot from the original game (both small and large), as I'll elaborate below:

1. In the beginning of the plot, Ame already knows about Team Meteor and most of their intentions, and is recruiting capable and trustworthy trainers from all over the world to test them against her Reborn League before Meteor becomes active again under Lin. The train bombing is an assassination attempt on her.
The Reborn League itself becomes a disguise for Amethyst's initiative against the Meteors, this makes a lot of sense considering by the end of the playable game most of the Gym Leaders are actively fighting against them, and the few that ended up turning traitor (Corey, Blake, Terra, etc.) were likely to be valuable resources for inside information on Ame and Reborn, and scattering Gym Leaders across the region gives Amethyst a considerable tactical advantage, it doesn't make too much sense to have Gym Leaders stray so far from Reborn City if not for such a purpose. #Amethyst'sArmy

2. The protagonists are all former Champions from other regions, hence the last point about Amethyst recruiting strong trainers. The first Protagonist and the Indigo Plateau Champion (Vero), will be obliged to start over and pick a starter just like in the game, for the purposes of fairly testing him against the Reborn League to make sure he's up to snuff to fight against Team Meteor. This isn't such an absurd idea considering Cain and Victoria are both there as well to do the exact same thing and the fact that the Reborn League is miles ahead of any other region's leagues and clearly isn't designed for actual beginners. By the time Shade informs Ame of Vero's death Ame will realize that having the Champions start over probably isn't the best idea considering Meteor moved along their plans much more quickly than she had anticipated, and from that point on all subsequent Protagonists will already have a complete or close to complete team mostly from their region but within the limits of what you can catch in the actual game and they will continue to take the gym challenge where Vero left off.
Of course, this will drastically change the few personal interactions the Protagonist has with other characters in the game and a couple more minor plot details to accommodate each Protagonist's circumstances of death, but I think it's overall something that can work.

3. Before each protagonist's imminent death, Shade will appear before them to either spare his/her Pokemon from the same fate or if he/she chooses, make a bargain for all of their souls in a battle against Shade. However, for most of the Protags, their Pokemon are in no condition to fight Shade's at the time this happens, so they will choose the former option.

Edited March 16, 2015 by LordWallace

[Helia]

Hmmm interesting.

I have no clue about voice actors, I like anime but not that much lol

I personally would make all 6 protagonists travel together, them all being champions from the other 6 regions is cool, but they all do start over just Cain and Victoria.

Four of them were already in Reborn on an earlier train, the last two that arrived got into the accident, one was unscratched while the other needed treatment. The one that's okay starts his journey and meets the other 4 along the way, plus the 5th one just got out of the hospital but catches up quickly.

They share event Pokemon evenly, just who would wants to have it and all have very different teams.

20 episodes per season is easily reachable, especially if things like Obsidia Park, Jasper Ward and Obsidia Ward take two episodes, maybe they have to have a rematch with a gym leader, one episode for event Pokemon Hide and Seek, the stolen Pokemon, those things.

Ash took 30 episodes between the Eterna and Veilstone Gyms in the Diamond and Pearl series, another 15 between Veilstone and Pastoria. That's easily reachable with this story too.

Those are just my 2 cents tho, do with it what you like.

Edited March 13, 2015 by Helia

[LordWallace]

Hmmm interesting.

I have no clue about voice actors, I like anime but not that much lol

I personally would make all 6 protagonists travel together, them all being champions from the other 6 regions is cool, but they all do start over just Cain and Victoria.

Four of them were already in Reborn on an earlier train, the last two that arrived got into the accident, one was unscratched while the other needed treatment. The one that's okay starts his journey and meets the other 4 along the way, plus the 5th one just got out of the hospital but catches up quickly.

They share event Pokemon evenly, just who would wants to have it and all have very different teams.

20 episodes per season is easily reachable, especially if things like Obsidia Park, Jasper Ward and Obsidia Ward take two episodes, maybe they have to have a rematch with a gym leader, one episode for event Pokemon Hide and Seek, the stolen Pokemon, those things.

Ash took 30 episodes between the Eterna and Veilstone Gyms in the Diamond and Pearl series, another 15 between Veilstone and Pastoria. That's easily reachable with this story too.

Those are just my 2 cents tho, do with it what you like.

That's also a pretty cool idea that could work considering just how disconnected the Protag seems to be with all the other characters, which I guess is inevitable since he/she is mute in the game by tradition.

I originally wanted to make each season/part a lot shorter, more like 11 or 12 episodes (earlier I discussed Corey's suicide as the end of part One) but I suppose if we take my idea we'd have to make each part a bit longer to have the new part start with a new Protag each time.

I also agree that the occasional filler or side quest episode would be really enjoyable with Reborn.

I also like the idea of the Protag losing sometimes, perhaps not against opponents that would put him in jeopardy if he loses against them (such as Terra or Shade), but I like the idea of Charlotte or Kiki blowing him back a few times before he prevails

Edited March 14, 2015 by LordWallace

[LordWallace]

Post reserved for my ideas for each protag's death:

Vero (Indigo Plateau Champ): In the case of Vero, he will probably be the Protag to last the longest given his popularity. He will defeat Shade, opening up the railroad for Charlotte, Cain and co. Instead of having Team Meteor immediately waiting for them upon opening the door Vero will arrive to join them right as Sirius, Sigmund, and an army of Meteors arrive to ambush them.
Cain, Vero and the other Gym Leaders with them do their best to fend off the Meteors and escape but are ultimately overwhelmed (Charlotte only has her Ninetales with her because she left the others at Laura's house to keep them safe from Sigmund, yeah this is pretty flimsy but honestly if Charlotte had her whole team with her she'd have no problem soloing a horde of Meteors).
However by the time their Pokemon are exhausted they are pretty close to what looks like an exit, so Cain decides to use his Nidoking to make the Railnet cave in to cut the Meteors off, but Vero points out as they're rushing to the caving exit that their own Pokemon wouldn't need much time to blast through some rubble (which they later do anyway) and that they'd still need to buy more time after that or else they would be at a massive disadvantage if they were chased out in the open. At the last second, contrary to Cain's wishes (oh yeah Cain x Vero is canon in this hehe), Vero rushes back to face the Team Meteor as part of the tunnel collapses behind the rest of the company.
Instead of trying to fight however, Vero uses the same tactic Cain used earlier of making parts of the Underground Railnet collapse (injuring some of the Meteors each time) to annoy Sigmund and Sirius and make him a priority before they can continue chasing the others, not knowing that the others were soon to come across another barrier.
After luring Sigmund and Sirius some distance away from Cain and the others, the floor beneath Vero unfortunately gives away from one of his Pokemon's attacks and he falls several meters to an abandoned basement floor of the Railnet, where he lies trapped and crippled before Shade appears before him. In no condition to battle him again, Vero requests that Shade return his Pokemon to Ame and afterwards Shade mercy kills him.
After Meteor destroys the rubble barrier Cain pulls the same stunt as in the original game to reluctantly escape by himself.

Before giving Ari the key to Bxysbyion, Cain is seen in Shade's lab mourning Vero's death.

Ari (Unova Champ): Ari will take on Gyms 5-7 including Kiki. In order to make this one work, the battle with Noel will be moved to before Sirius and Sigmund launch their attack on Laura's house. After the PULSE Abra wisks Saphira and Ari away and Saphira tames the giant Steelix, Ari will return to confornt the PULSE Abra once again. However, upon defeating the Abra in battle, it will go berserk and teleport Ari once again, this time with the intention to kill, and as a result Ari ends up at the bottom of the lake in front of Laura's house, where she nearly drowns. Nevertheless she decides to go back upon thinking about the massive peril Spinal town is now in.

Panicked at this sudden development right before Lin's arrival, ZEL, Sigmund, and Sirius desperately but reluctantly agree to help Ari bring down the PULSE Abra permanently, which they do by overloading the PULSE with Sigmund's Electivire while Sirius' Chandelure burns away at the Abra's power limiting armor, charging up for one massive teleportation that would make Abra faint for good without it's armor.

After Ari defeats the Abra a second time the last teleportation goes off, the PULSE is destroyed, and Abra faints, but Ari is the one who gets teleported.

After Lin takes down Saphira and the giant Steelix, Ari is shown soaring through the sky towards her demise after Abra launched her several miles into the air. Exclaiming that her lifelong dream was to fly without the aid of a Pokemon, she takes off her belt holding her Pokeballs and clutches them with her back towards the ground to protect them from the impact of the fall. Shade appears to collect them afterwards.

Kuro (Hoenn Champ): Kuro will take on Gyms 8-10 and will read Titania's diary. After Amaria jumps off the waterfall, both Kuro and Titania make the jump to follow her, but instead Titania decides to land inside a cavern behind the waterfall with Kuro, and safely walk down the spiral cavern to where the bottom of the waterfall is.

It's a perilous walk, filled with cliffs and drop off points, but no more dangerous than straight up jumping off the waterfall.

About halfway through, Titania will push Kuro off a cliff as Kuro manages to hold on to the ledge, in shock that Titania pushed him.

Titania steps on Kuro's hand and lets him take a lethal fall similar to Vero, either because Kuro indirectly caused Amaria to attempt suicide or because he saw Titania with the Meteor grunt earlier.

Either way Kuro falls and Shade appears to him.

Initially he appears to have died but much later on it will be revealed that Kuro took Shade's deal and won the battle, sparing him and allowing him to escape to Reborn City.

Alice (Kalos Champ): Alice will be the 4th Protagonist and will take on Gyms 11-13. Ame has not released past Gym 12 so her fate has not been decided.

Lucia (Sinnoh Champ): Will take on Gyms 14-16, Kuro will probably return as a supporting character by now.

Decibel (Reborn Champ): Decibel will see the story to the end.

Edited March 16, 2015 by LordWallace

[Helia]

fuck your story in dark.

But intense. MOAR.

[LordWallace]

fuck your story in dark.

But intense. MOAR.

Updated. And I've added everything to the OP now.

[Xiri]

So many deaths... its really dark and ominous but it sure is fitting.

[Foamy]

Later I'll edit my post to include the role(s) each Seiyuu I chose is known for, or at least the one I chose them for. Then maybe you'll recognize some of them.

I probably still won't know any of them. I don't really watch anime.

[PsychoticPudu]

The dark JoJo style one is cool and all, but I would make it kinda similar to the main anime. Like, instead of just one person against the world, they all travel together. I don't know if it would be weird, but I thought that the six protagonists could challenge the league (and maybe even complete the Pokédex) as a group. For example, Ari challenger Julia, then Vero faces Florinia, and so on until they obtain 3 badges each.

[Hiss13]

You give Julia Yukari Tamura as her VA but you don't give her heterosexual (?) life partner Flobot Nana Mizuki as her VA? I am disappointed. That is heresy.

Edited March 18, 2015 by Hiss13