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Via several people: Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/TV shows and put their summaries from Better than it sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1. Three Funny Animals of indeterminate species live in a refurbished water storage device and spend their time driving people insane, making fun of their writers, and breaking the Fourth Wall at every given opportunity. Also features shorts of mobster pigeons, a jack-of-all-trades giant chicken, and a Genre Savvy retired actor.
2. A pizza delivery boy goes on a one-way trip to the future, where he meets and befriends a physically deformed orphan and an alcohol-fueled criminal. They all quit their jobs to work for the delivery boy's senile nephew.
3. Amnesiac with shitload of money tries to figure out exactly who was phone. Johnnies ensue.
4. A heavily tattooed kung-fu Dalai Lama, his Eskimo pals, a blind Chinese loli of mass destruction and some animals that don't exist (but should) take on an army of arsonists who wear giant shoulderpads.
5. In A World where not-terribly-nice people can kill you with their minds, a fat guy, a talking cat, an emotionless girl and a man with a bulletproof jacket take on odd jobs every two episodes.
6. Good-natured college kid wishes that he could find a girl, finds God instead.
7. A salaryman quits his job to run errands for and with unstable foreigners who frequently try to kill him. He still dresses like a salaryman, though.
8. A bunch of nerds sit around in a room writing pornography and talking about formulaic harem anime.
9. A poor girl is forced to pretend she's a boy and hang out with obnoxiously rich Bishonen as punishment for destroying private property.
10. An effeminate boy sells his soul for a highly skilled butler.
11. Humanity battles aliens with Transforming Mecha, The Power Of Love and/or The Power Of Rock and Lots and Lots of Missiles.
12. Two bishounen wage war against each other for 110 episodes.
13. A math teacher convinces her class she's a fan of yakuza films.
14. Kids play while wearing glasses. This often causes major problems across the city and has the potential to be life-threatening.
15. A big guy with an unfortunate tattoo tries to get therapy for the girlfriend who hates him after his pretty-haired, ex-best friend sells out the world for a makeover and a spiffy new Batman outfit
16. A girl falls in love with a man who once bought her a book.
17. A pair of fast-flying couriers get dragged into a war against their will.
18. Scientist makes his dead son the best robot in the world.
19. An immature computer geek gains possession of a giant steel samurai, and uses it to fight off Space Nazis.
20. What if Lupin the Third kidnapped adopted an 11-year-old rich girl?
bonus:
21. A boy who can talk to microbes attends an elite agricultural university.
22. On her first day of school, a girl falls in love with a drug addict who grabs her on the bus.
23. Moving is Serious Business. A one night stand nearly dooms the world. Giant robots dance the monkey.
24. Garbage collectors IN SPACE!.
25. A Japanese company can't build a rocket capable of lifting a full grown man into space, so they use a teenage girl instead.
26. Jesus and Buddha celebrate their divine bromance by moving to Japan and renting an apartment together.
27. A cold war between a sentai hero and his nemesis takes place in a small town. The town takes the nemesis' side.
28. A drone Dragon and a fiery Tiger neurotically fight to understand their purpose relying on breast enhancement, fine dining, life between vending machines and crystal chards as their map. Oh and Santa is a dejected teddy bear. Awesome!
29. A guy who eats vampires acts like a complete idiot while occasionally eating vampires and making a scythe out of his blood. Nanomachines started it.
30. A World War II-era battleship is equipped with a really powerful gun and sent off into space to fight alien invaders.
1. Three Funny Animals of indeterminate species live in a refurbished water storage device and spend their time driving people insane, making fun of their writers, and breaking the Fourth Wall at every given opportunity. Also features shorts of mobster pigeons, a jack-of-all-trades giant chicken, and a Genre Savvy retired actor.
2. A pizza delivery boy goes on a one-way trip to the future, where he meets and befriends a physically deformed orphan and an alcohol-fueled criminal. They all quit their jobs to work for the delivery boy's senile nephew.
3. Amnesiac with shitload of money tries to figure out exactly who was phone. Johnnies ensue.
4. A heavily tattooed kung-fu Dalai Lama, his Eskimo pals, a blind Chinese loli of mass destruction and some animals that don't exist (but should) take on an army of arsonists who wear giant shoulderpads.
5. In A World where not-terribly-nice people can kill you with their minds, a fat guy, a talking cat, an emotionless girl and a man with a bulletproof jacket take on odd jobs every two episodes.
6. Good-natured college kid wishes that he could find a girl, finds God instead.
7. A salaryman quits his job to run errands for and with unstable foreigners who frequently try to kill him. He still dresses like a salaryman, though.
8. A bunch of nerds sit around in a room writing pornography and talking about formulaic harem anime.
9. A poor girl is forced to pretend she's a boy and hang out with obnoxiously rich Bishonen as punishment for destroying private property.
10. An effeminate boy sells his soul for a highly skilled butler.
11. Humanity battles aliens with Transforming Mecha, The Power Of Love and/or The Power Of Rock and Lots and Lots of Missiles.
12. Two bishounen wage war against each other for 110 episodes.
13. A math teacher convinces her class she's a fan of yakuza films.
14. Kids play while wearing glasses. This often causes major problems across the city and has the potential to be life-threatening.
15. A big guy with an unfortunate tattoo tries to get therapy for the girlfriend who hates him after his pretty-haired, ex-best friend sells out the world for a makeover and a spiffy new Batman outfit
16. A girl falls in love with a man who once bought her a book.
17. A pair of fast-flying couriers get dragged into a war against their will.
18. Scientist makes his dead son the best robot in the world.
19. An immature computer geek gains possession of a giant steel samurai, and uses it to fight off Space Nazis.
20. What if Lupin the Third kidnapped adopted an 11-year-old rich girl?
bonus:
21. A boy who can talk to microbes attends an elite agricultural university.
22. On her first day of school, a girl falls in love with a drug addict who grabs her on the bus.
23. Moving is Serious Business. A one night stand nearly dooms the world. Giant robots dance the monkey.
24. Garbage collectors IN SPACE!.
25. A Japanese company can't build a rocket capable of lifting a full grown man into space, so they use a teenage girl instead.
26. Jesus and Buddha celebrate their divine bromance by moving to Japan and renting an apartment together.
27. A cold war between a sentai hero and his nemesis takes place in a small town. The town takes the nemesis' side.
28. A drone Dragon and a fiery Tiger neurotically fight to understand their purpose relying on breast enhancement, fine dining, life between vending machines and crystal chards as their map. Oh and Santa is a dejected teddy bear. Awesome!
29. A guy who eats vampires acts like a complete idiot while occasionally eating vampires and making a scythe out of his blood. Nanomachines started it.
30. A World War II-era battleship is equipped with a really powerful gun and sent off into space to fight alien invaders.
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Date: 2010-05-19 09:51 am (UTC)From:6. Ah!Megami-sama =D?
9. Ouran
10. Kuroshotsuji
11. Macross, though I wish it was Transformers
12. Every shounen anime ever =D?
26. Saint Young Men
29. Trinity Blood
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Date: 2010-05-19 11:47 am (UTC)From:2 - Futurama
4 - Avatar
6 - Ah! My Goddess
9 - Ouran Host Club
10 - Black Butler
18 - Astroboy
Some of the others sound familiar but I can't place them. :|
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Date: 2010-05-19 12:09 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-19 02:25 pm (UTC)From:2. Futurama?
3. ...Memento maybe? I don't know.
4. Avatar, duh.
9. Ouran High School Host Club
10. Demon Diary?
11. Macross
17. Last Exile
20. Daughter of Twenty Faces
29. Trinity Blood
There's some I know but can't quite name (24, 30), and the rest I'm sure I'll feel very, very stupid about later.
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:49 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-19 03:47 pm (UTC)From:1. ANIMANIACS.
2. Futurama.
3. EDEN OF THE EAST i loved that show.
4. Avatar: The Last Airbender!
5. Darker than Black (specifically the first season).
6. Ah! Megami-sama! or Oh My Goddess!, I can never figure out which name I actually prefer.
7. BLACK LAGOON.
8. Genshiken, which I really wish I had enjoyed reading. :|
9. Ouran High School Host Club! Which I wish I'd enjoyed watching.
10. Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji.
11. SDF Macross (and sequelae)!
12. LEGEND OF GALACTIC HEROES FUCK YEAH
13. Gokusen.
14. DENNOU COIL. GODDAMN I LOVE THAT SHOW. (If it had said "goggles" this would also describe Digimon Tamers, come to think of it, but glasses means it's Coil.)
15. Berserk. And now I'm torn whether I should use my Rock/Revy icon or my Guts/Casca icon for this comment.
16. ... well there was bound to be one on this list i couldn't peg XD;
17. Last Exile, which I still need to find in a format that is both cheap enough to afford and playable on my computer, ahahahaha :|
18. Astro Boy! ... I think. This really sounds like a premise that's been reused too often to be clear.
19. ... this is ringing bells and it kills me I can't put a name to it. I HAVE SEEN TOO MANY GIANT ROBOT SHOWS.
20. Daughter of Twenty Faces! Oh man. So underrated.
... and the extras, some of which I had no clue about:
21. MOYASHIMON. Kei is my favorite sidekick ever. (Possibly because she reminds me of me.)
22. ... this one should be obvious >:E why isn't it :(
23. OVERMAN KING GAINER. Good show, completely upstaged by its opening credits.
24. Planetes! Yes!
25. ... :|
26. Saint Young Men!
27. Astro Fighter Sunred?
28. That sounds like a complete misinterpretation of Toradora!, which means it probably is.
29. Trinity Blood. Pretty manga! Completely nonsensical plot. (Was anyone actually reading it for the plot? I hope not.)
30. Space Battleship Yamato!
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Date: 2010-05-19 05:28 pm (UTC)From:4. Avatar: The Last Airbender
5. Darker Than Black
8. Genshiken
9. Ouran Host Club
10. Kuroshitsuji
16. Library Wars
20. Daughter of 20 Faces
21. Moyashimon
I *know* 3, 13, and 14 but am blanking on names.
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Date: 2010-05-19 05:48 pm (UTC)From:the rest are right, though!
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Date: 2010-05-19 05:49 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-19 05:52 pm (UTC)From:3 is also an anime, though very recent
24 is Planetes, 30 is the Yamato.
I think you probably haven't seen most of them, so I wouldn't worry too much, though you might kick yourself over #6.
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Date: 2010-05-19 06:01 pm (UTC)From:The space nazis should give away #19! It's the grandfather of the realistic giant robot shows (Gundam 0079).
22 isn't too obvious, IMO; it's Oniisama E. Unless you're a connoisseur of oldskool shoujo...
25 - Rocket Girls (I've seen like 2 episodes. It's silly.)
I sure didn't watch Trinity Blood for the plot ;)
What didn't you like about Host Club? I thought it was a lot better than it should have been from the premise. Some of the issues around queerness were kinda sketch though. (I'll unscreen this tomorrow so you can actually reply!)
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Date: 2010-05-19 08:41 pm (UTC)From:HAHAHAHA GOD. I REALLY HAVE SEEN TOO MANY GIANT ROBOT SHOWS. I was just like "but ... samurai robot ... space Nazis ... which series am I supposed to pick from this list ..." And of course, IT IS THE GLARINGLY OBVIOUS ONE that I miss.
I have a friend who's obsessed with it, but I never heard that part of the plot from her!
... I think I heard about that, but I thought the fanservice quotient was too high for my tastes. Or am I thinking of Sky Girls?
I tried to, and then I tried watching for the pretty and I couldn't do that either when the animation team was doing such a bad job of things (seriously! action scenes are not supposed to be my least favorite part of the show and more likely to make me fall asleep than the endlessly tedious politicking!), so I jumped ship and read the manga instead.
The show's treatment of sexuality basically drove me through the roof too often for me to be able to enjoy the animation and parodic elements; it also was far too prone to obeying the cliches of its genre while pretending to lampoon them instead. IT MADE ME TWITCH A LOT.
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Date: 2010-05-20 07:53 am (UTC)From:That's not exactly how I'd summarize Oniisama, though it works fairly well! In the first episode, Tomoko runs into Sainte-Juste in the bus.
Rocket Girls may have a high fanservice quotient. I've only seen an episode or two, but it wouldn't surprise me.
I haven't read the manga beyond volume 1, though I picked up the first novel for cheap, and the text is awful. I don't know if it's the translators being unable to write good English story text or if the "suddenly, X" is in the original (and I can't read Japanese.)
I can certainly see that, though it didn't bother me. Everyone has their own particular twitch points, of course, so mileage may vary. I hated Gurren Lagann because of the one gay character (also I didn't like the story. I couldn't get into it.)
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Date: 2010-05-19 12:15 pm (UTC)From:2. Futurama
3. Eden of the East
4. Avatar: The Last Airbender
5. Darker Than Black?
6. ?
7. Black Lagoon
8. Are you sure this is a show and not just real life? Oh, right - Genshiken.
9. Ouran High School Host Club
10. Black Butler
11. Macross / Robotech
12. ?
13. Gokusen
14. I would have to look up the name of this one.
15. ?
16. Library Wars?
17. ?
18. Astro Boy?
19. ?
20. I'd have to look up the name on this one too.
21. Damn, how could I have forgotten the name on this one?
22. ?
23. ?
24. Planetes?
25. Another one I'd have to look up.
26. ?
27. ?
28. Toradora?
29. ?
30. Space Battleship Yamato?
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Date: 2010-05-19 01:38 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-19 01:58 pm (UTC)From:6. ... is that anime that everyone loves with that chick with the weird face pain and I think she came out of the phone... doing this hung over was a bad choice.
9. OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB. :D
10. Kuroshitsuji.
11. I thought I knew this and then I realized I didn't... Gurren Lagann?
26. I've read and don't remember the title of, but I like it.
Yours are hard, but that's awesome! :D
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:18 pm (UTC)From:1. Animaniacs
2. uh... blanking on this one
3. That no grammar. But Eden Of The East
4. Avatar
5. Darker Than Black
6. I was about to say not a lot to go on, but.. Ah My Goddess. yes.
7. Black Lagoon
8. Genshiken
9. Ouran High Host Club
10. Kuroshitsuji (That's practically a *regular* description of the show. This premise kind of falls down with anime that don't pretend to make sense to begin with...)
11. Macross. Any Macross.
12. uhh.. is this really narrowed down sufficiently? A tiny amount of cheating suggests LoGH.
13. Gokusen
14. Dennou Coil
15. ... uh... oh, this is Berserk, isn't it
16. Library Wars? Did he buy the book?
17. Last Exile, though some other series might almost fit as well
18. Astro Boy
19. presumably Gundam, though this is also pretty damn general
20. Daughter of 20 Faces
oh god, it keeps going...
21. Moyashimon. Another standard box copy one...
22. hmmmmmm, not a lot to go on. Not sure. BDB? Was there a bus in that?
23. presumably King Gainer, though I'm not remembering the one night stand
24. Planetes
25. Rocket Girls
26. Saint Young Man.
27. Sunred, I guess?
28. Toradora
29. buh... this must be Trinity Blood
30. Yamato!
phew
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Date: 2010-05-19 02:37 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-19 04:22 pm (UTC)From:Animanics
2. A pizza delivery boy goes on a one-way trip to the future, where he meets and befriends a physically deformed orphan and an alcohol-fueled criminal. They all quit their jobs to work for the delivery boy's senile nephew.
Futurama
4. A heavily tattooed kung-fu Dalai Lama, his Eskimo pals, a blind Chinese loli of mass destruction and some animals that don't exist (but should) take on an army of arsonists who wear giant shoulderpads.
Avatar
6. Good-natured college kid wishes that he could find a girl, finds God instead.
Haha...sounds a little like Ah! My Goddess!
8. A bunch of nerds sit around in a room writing pornography and talking about formulaic harem anime.
...if it's Genshinken, that's a weird description for it. Otherwise, no idea.
9. A poor girl is forced to pretend she's a boy and hang out with obnoxiously rich Bishonen as punishment for destroying private property.
Ouran
10. An effeminate boy sells his soul for a highly skilled butler.
Black Butler
11. Humanity battles aliens with Transforming Mecha, The Power Of Love and/or The Power Of Rock and Lots and Lots of Missiles.
Macross (all versions)
12. Two bishounen wage war against each other for 110 episodes.
Jesus, 110? And just 2 of them? huh...it isn't coming to me...
13. A math teacher convinces her class she's a fan of yakuza films.
whatzit...Go-sensei or something like that? Damn. My old-age brain in failing me...
17. A pair of fast-flying couriers get dragged into a war against their will.
Last Exile
19. An immature computer geek gains possession of a giant steel samurai, and uses it to fight off Space Nazis.
...space nazis? It sounded like Giant Robo, but that part seems questionable...haha.
20. What if Lupin the Third kidnapped adopted an 11-year-old rich girl?
Castle of Caglistro
30. A World War II-era battleship is equipped with a really powerful gun and sent off into space to fight alien invaders.
::sigh:: What anime is the yamato from again? Star Blazers, right? Geez, my memory sucks...
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Date: 2010-05-19 05:28 pm (UTC)From:The rest of them sound likely to be anime, which means I have no idea what any of them are.
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Date: 2010-05-19 05:43 pm (UTC)From:We've watched most of these in coup.
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Date: 2010-05-19 05:44 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-19 05:46 pm (UTC)From:Jem was in the first round :)
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Date: 2010-05-19 06:26 pm (UTC)From:4. Avatar: The Last Airbender
7. Black Lagoon
8. Genshiniken
9. Ouran High School Host Club
10. Black Butler
11. Macross
14. Persona 4
17. Last Exile
18. Astro Boy
fairly certain on most of these
Date: 2010-05-19 10:32 pm (UTC)From:2: Futurama
4: Avatar
5: Darker Than Black
6: Oh My Goddess?
7: Black Lagoon?
8: Genshiken (I kept wanting to type either "Gokusen" or "Gankutsuou" here)
9: Host Club
10: Kuroshitsuji
11: Various Macrosses
13: Gokusen
14: Dennou Coil?
16: Library War?
17: Last Exile
20: Daughter of Twenty Faces
21: Moyashimon
22: Brother Dear Brother?
23: King Gainer? I remember the monkey-dancing robots but nothing else.
25: was that called Rocket Girls?
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Date: 2010-05-19 10:59 pm (UTC)From:1: Animaniacs
2: Futurama
4: Avatar the Last Airbender
6: Ah my Goddess
11: Macross
17: Last Exile
18: Astro Boy
30: Space Battleship Yamato
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Date: 2010-05-19 11:06 pm (UTC)From:Dang!
We've watched most of these in coup.
Oh, I know. For the ones whose names I was blanking on I was actually starting to look at old COUp schedules online but realized that that would be cheating.
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Date: 2010-05-20 11:20 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-20 12:34 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-20 01:54 pm (UTC)From:Anyway, are you still going to AZ? I remember we were talking about possibly meeting up there.
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Date: 2010-05-20 06:09 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2010-05-20 06:12 pm (UTC)From:I'm not going to AZ anymore. I rearranged my vacation schedule, and I'm currently on the other side of the world & won't get back until mid-June. But Dragon*Con is definitely on my schedule.
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Date: 2010-05-20 07:51 pm (UTC)From:2. Futurama
4. Avatar
8.Genshiken
9.Ouran High School Host Club
10. Kuroshitsuji
11. There are way too many anime this could be. D:
14. Dennou Coil?
21. Moyashimon
29. Trinnity blood?
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Date: 2010-05-21 09:15 am (UTC)From: