With Cowboy Bebop freshly released and One Piece still on the horizon, live-action adaptations of anime are a big topic of conversation at the moment. In all the excitement and the overwhelming cynicism, some of the stranger and more interesting entries in the genre slip between the cracks and go unnoticed. One of the countless missteps of the average anime adaptation is taking a beloved source material's good name and slapping it on an unrelated and often terrible film. Perhaps a very different piece of cinema could be created by adapting a lesser-known anime classic, perhaps one that often doesn't get its time in the sun.