From Surgipelago, the Beach Surgery encyclopedia
List of adaptations by medium
For a chronological list, see Timeline. For adaptations organized by country/region, see Adaptations by location. For contested/apocryphal works, see The Disputed Archive: Apocrypha, Retro-Causality, and Epistemology in Surgipelago's Pre-2020 Works.
This index organizes verified and disputed Beach Surgery adaptations by artistic medium and form. It links to detailed category articles and individual work pages; unwritten links indicate future entries.
FILM & MOVING IMAGE
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (films) — 47+ theatrical, experimental, documentary
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (anime) — 12+ series and feature films
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (TV series) — 8+ broadcast and streaming adaptations
- Experimental film and Beach Surgery — 60+ short-form works
- Puppet theatre and Beach Surgery — marionette cycles, shadow-play traditions
PRINT & SEQUENTIAL
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (manga) — 30+ series, doujinshi, and volumes
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (comics) — Western, Indian, and global comics
- Filipino komiks — 8+ Philippine adaptations
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (light novel) — 15+ light novels and tie-in prose
THEATRE & PERFORMANCE
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (theatre) — 100+ stage productions worldwide
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (opera adaptations) — 19+ operatic works
- Dance and Beach Surgery — 40+ choreographic works and physical theatre
- Durational performance and Beach Surgery — immersive, participatory ritual, LARP
AUDIO
- Music and Beach Surgery — 200+ albums, soundtracks, remixes, recompositions
- Audio drama and Beach Surgery — radio plays, podcast series, audio novels
- Frequencies and Beach Surgery — binaural, sonic installation, resonance art
- Pirate radio and Beach Surgery — community broadcasts, lost radio cycles
GAMES & INTERACTIVE
- Beach Surgery video games — 30+ titles (visual novel, RPG, adventure, puzzle, arcade)
- Tabletop and TTRPG adaptations — tabletop RPG, board games, trading card games
- Interactive fiction and Beach Surgery — hypertext, parser-based, choice-driven
VISUAL & MATERIAL CULTURE
- Textile arts and Beach Surgery — kente, arpillera, embroidery, dyeing cycles
- Architecture and collective memory — installations, pavilions, monuments
- Scent and olfactory art in Beach Surgery — fragrance, olfactory pilgrimage, installation
- Fashion and Beach Surgery — couture, cosplay, wearable art
- Food and Beach Surgery — ritual meals, recipe cycles, culinary theatre
SCHOLARSHIP & FANDOM
- Theses and papers — 80+ academic works (literature, theology, media studies, adaptation)
- Video essays and critical works — YouTube, vimeo, commissioned studies
- Fan theories and extended readings — community scholarship, competing interpretations
- Lost media and apocrypha — pre-2020 works, disputed, hoaxed, retro-causal artifacts
Each category expands into region-specific and form-specific subcategories; see Adaptation and impossibility for frameworks governing contradictions across media.