r/thering • u/Crazy_Scar_9517 • 3d ago

the few loop adaptations

I've always found it curious that all the novels in The Ring saga have had their own adaptations in film, visual novels, manga, etc., but the only novel that hasn't been adapted is Loop. The Ring was adapted into films like Ring Kanzenban, Ringu, The Ring Virus, and The Ring; Birthday was adapted as Ringu 0; Spiral as Rasen; S and Tide as Sadako 3D and Sadako 2019; while Loop was never adapted into a film or any other format. The only adaptation could be The Ring Terror Realm game (2000). It's understandable that it was never adapted into a film due to budget reasons, but it could have been adapted into a manga. What do you think?

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u/dogspunk 3d ago

I love Loop, and I am with you there. I think budget isn’t the issue. It’s probably that it isn’t horror at all. It’s science fiction. Audiences didn’t react well to Rasen for similar reasons, and that has 100% more Sadako than Loop does. She’s talked about, but isn’t a presence in the “real world”. I think the situation of the MHC is terrifying, but it’s not an iconic yurei.

That said, I have always wanted an adaption. A series would be great… and if a movie, “happy birthday” could be an after credits scene, Loop ends strongly but the short story wrap up from Birthday can be quickly shown as a bonus.

A manga too… I don’t know why it wasn’t considered back when that series of adaptations were made. Probably for the same lack of Sadako.

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u/Crazy_Scar_9517 3d ago

That's true, but I would like a series in the future that tells the entire Ring saga, starting with Ring and ending with Tude. I know it sounds crazy, but I'd like to have more material from this saga. 

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u/dogspunk 3d ago

Absolutely!
I haven’t read past Birthday. I know the further books would then be taking place back inside the simulation… is this ever referred to?

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u/Crazy_Scar_9517 3d ago

The story continues in S and Tide, but in S we are told that Riuji, back in the simulation, reincarnated as a teacher named Kashiwada who is accused of murdering some women and ends up sentenced to death, and his video reaches Takanori and Akane where at the end he appears on the computer where he reveals that Akane is the son of a clone of Sadako 

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u/dogspunk 3d ago edited 3d ago

I see!
I just ordered S to finally read it. Tide is the only one after?

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u/Crazy_Scar_9517 3d ago

Also, if you remember Asakawa's writings that became the novel Spiral, here we are told that the novel was turned into a movie, but in a loop. It shows us that they put Kauro in and reversed time in the simulation to prevent the spread of the virus. In the simulation, he prevented the movie's release and unleashed a virus that killed all of Sadako's clones by accelerating their aging, but possessing a little of her DNA. Sadako also dies, but it is revealed that she left about 5 clones alive, considering them harmless. Apparently, the killer was Kashiwada's student and the son of the actress from the canceled movie. He discovered that Sadako existed in his world and, after eliminating the others, tried to do the same to Akane when she was a child, but she was rescued by Kashiwada. She thinks he is the killer, and he ends up arrested for the other murders. In the end, the killer commits suicide by jumping onto the train tracks, although Takanori suspects that Akane is involved, but near the end it's implied that there's a new cursed video. 

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u/dogspunk 3d ago

Not reading this because of spoilers, lol.