Make an Anime you like sound as dull as possible.

Contrabardus

Well-Known Member
#1
What the title says.

Take a show you like, and write a short description that makes it sound as dull as possible while still leaving enough information to make the show identifiable.

For example:

Teenage girls play with toy guns after school. One of them is a sociopath, but everyone likes her anyway.

or

Man stops playing piano, meets a girl, and starts playing again.

or

Little girl time travels to stop her friend from accepting jewelry.

or

Teen has his health severely deteriorate and almost dies from playing MMO games.

or

Young man discovers his life has an auto save feature.

EDIT:

It's been pointed out that not everyone has seen every anime, so there needs to be a way to identify what a series is.

One of two ways we can handle that, either people can guess and OP either confirms or denies, or spoiler tags with the show titles.

Examples:

OP: Girl goes to school because her dad dies, and every other woman in her family is a huge bitch. Then some uncultured peasants adopt her, and she likes them a lot.

Someone else:
Girl goes to school because her dad dies, and every other woman in her family is a huge bitch. Then some uncultured peasants adopt her, and she likes them a lot..
Kill La Kill!

OP: Correct.

or...

Incredibly dense male attends a magic high school that condones violence between students under certain circumstances in the form of battles that he happens to have an unusually subdued advantage in. On his first day there he walks in on a tsundere girl getting dressed who happens to be the school 'princess' and one of the strongest people in the school as well. He ends up fighting her over it and wins. For some reason all the girls he talks to on a regular basis are both hot and thotting on him even though he's not particularly attractive because he said something encouraging to them once. Because no one else ever says nice things to hot girls apparently.

Who are you kidding? You know you've seen this goddamn show before.

Either way works. On the one hand the guessing game might be more fun, on the other hand, spoiler tags with the show title are more convenient.

Pick the one you like and go with that. We'll let the thread decide assuming it lasts that long.
 
#2
Bald Guy in a jumpsuit punches people and doesn't lose.
Childrens Cardgames.
4 girls in highschool.
Another show with just girls in highschool.
Little girl with pigtails does little girl stuff.
Yet another show with girls but this time in elementary.
Broke guy becomes a butler.
 

Lord Raa

Exporter of Juice Tins
#3
Perpetually broke quartet struggle to make ends meet doing a job they're not really all that good at.
 

The Ero-Sennin

The Eyes of Heaven
Staff member
#4
A Mary Sue prince tries to avenge his mother's death.
 

Oni_Rinku

Knower of Stuff
#6
A boy plays a video game, people die all around him.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
#7
It would probably be helpful, to list the anime with the description... as not all people have seen all anime series.
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
#9
Girl with gender identity issues goes to private school, pisses off popular kids by standing up for quiet shy girl.
 

KurokamiDG

Well-Known Member
#10
Guy starts writing in a stolen diary, and develops a god complex.
 

Hoki

Well-Known Member
#12
I can't really describe this any other way: Girls riding tanks

Girl makes friends using pink lasers

a guy from a simple diner enters cooking school

a bunch of high school students playing with animated plastic models

bald man in a cape becomes a superhero, nobody notices

teenagers fight over discount microwavable food at convenience stores

angsty teenagers pilot giant robots with the souls of their mothers

guy with hypnotic powers becomes batman, starts a rebellion against evil empire

anthropomorphic personification of canned drinks fight for superiority
 

MastaofBitches

Well-Known Member
#13
A rabbit brings three teens to a new world to play games.
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
#14
Boy Band members pilot giant robots, fight against evil empire's forces led by former teen pop idol who hides his face behind Halloween mask.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
#15
A rabbit brings three teens to a new world to play games.
In a outcry familiar to Bugs Bunny... Kill the rabbit.



Hmmm... doubt these are any good, but here are a few I thought up

- Geek otaku mechanic, with muscle bound boss, and a really accommodating general.

- Geeky creepy overbearing scientist, a sickly mother, a sweet girl, mind controlled puppets

- Down on luck businessman, with worst luck in world, with a boat out of history

- Girl snobs, poor terrorists, down on luck policeman

- Weird police, explosive situations, lots of pollution, and with cool how to guides

- Ordinary students, one way vacations, wars, wind up toys, and full of bugs

- Flunky bike rider, snotty girls, constant job changes

- Aliens, supernatural telephones, and poor showing of parental representation

- Daily mass destruction of house as a wake up, lots of girls, crazy situations

- As my father used to say... 'the one with the girl in it'

- Allergic reactions, hidden empires

- Allergies and a house of lies

- Guns, and strong willed women whom would not give a guy the time of day

- Blimps in space.

- The gods have forsaken him

- A boy with his motor scooter and a bokken attend a school, gets to ride trains, fly helo's, and jump buildings

- Unusual bathhouse and dimensional conjunctions

- His life is a endless fight with insanity and taught by the inhumane and an unrequited love

- Misunderstood by his own family, uncaring he charges them
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
#16
Woman with ADHD joins doomsday cult, rooms with alien woman, plans to eat dog if money runs low.
 

Contrabardus

Well-Known Member
#17
Hoki said:
angsty teenagers pilot giant robots with the souls of their mothers
They aren't robots, but giant clones in bondage armor.
Also, only one of them has the soul of their mom in their robot.
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
#18
Contrabardus said:
Hoki said:
angsty teenagers pilot giant robots with the souls of their mothers
They aren't robots, but giant clones in bondage armor.
Also, only one of them has the soul of their mom in their robot.
Wasn't it implied during the Mass Eva battle that Kyoko's soul was in Unit-02?
 

Contrabardus

Well-Known Member
#19
da_fox2279 said:
Contrabardus said:
Hoki said:
angsty teenagers pilot giant robots with the souls of their mothers
They aren't robots, but giant clones in bondage armor.
Also, only one of them has the soul of their mom in their robot.
Wasn't it implied during the Mass Eva battle that Kyoko's soul was in Unit-02?
I always thought that was just Auska's mind breaking. Wiki doesn't agree with that though.

Her mother committed suicide, where as Shinji's mom was absorbed by Unit 01 the same way he almost was. There really isn't any reason for Kyoko to be in there and it doesn't make a lot of sense if she is. Though, admittedly making sense is not something Evangelion cares a whole lot about towards the end.

It's kind of random that she is though. I mean, there's an actual plausible reason why Yui is inside Unit 01. They actually go out of their way to explain it. Auska's mom is just added on out of nowhere and kind of make all that exposition about how Yui ended up how she did kind of pointless.

I think Wiki might be wrong about this because it makes more sense if it was just Auska's mental breakdown rather than her mother being in there. It makes a huge segment of exposition in the show pretty pointless if she is just inside Unit 02 out of nowhere.
 

raedric

Well-Known Member
#20
-Guys scream monosyllabic-ally for a long time before they fight
-Child teaches an english class and sneezes a lot
-Male mercenary with one eye angsts about the world while killing it
 

Lord Raa

Exporter of Juice Tins
#21
Homeless girl gets wrapped up in rich family's drama.
 

Hoki

Well-Known Member
#23
pervert gets killed by demon girlfriend, gets reincarnated as a demon and gets more girlfriends

clueless dude can pilot women-only war machine, gets a harem

rock band saves universe using giant mecha speaker planes

emo teen girl time travels to prevent friend from making a wish

delinquent becomes ghost samurai to fight monsters

rubber man who can't swim wants to be the pirate king
 

Lord Raa

Exporter of Juice Tins
#24
Widower struggles to complete his life's work.
 
#25
Central character bores the universe to death by existing.
 
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