Better Than It Sounds/Anime and Manga A-C: Difference between revisions

The Japanese know a thing or two about making odd-sounding ideas work. After all, they make ''real'' [[They Fight Crime|odd ideas]] work [[Widget Series|all the time]].

 

 

* {{spoiler|''[[07-Ghost]]''}}: An amnesiac royal gets mixed up with dead bishie bishops after bad dreams make him flee a military academy and his best friend turns into a developmentally delayed mascot character.

* {{spoiler|''[[Sazan Eyes|3x3 Eyes]]''}}: Immortal dies repeatedly in increasingly bloody, hilarious ways.

* {{spoiler|''[[666 Satan]]'' (manga)}} : A kid with [[Mismatched Eyes|odd eyes]] and hair wants to [[Take Over the World]] armed only with a [[Improbable Weapon User|boomerang]] and [[Satan]].

** Alternative: Some people are part-animal, and others aren't, and many of the ones who aren't part-animal want to either kill or become ones who are, and most of the ones who are part-animal don't want to be.

* {{spoiler|[[A Letter to Momo]]}}: A 13 year old girl moves home after her dad dies. She is haunted by three Yokai whose sole purpose is to spy on her and steal her stuff.

** {{spoiler|''[[Akira]]'' (manga)}}: [[Ax Crazy|An angry teenager]] [[The Evil Empire|takes advantage of]] [[Tyke Bomb|a little boy]], who eventually [[Gainax Ending|expresses his displeasure]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Akumetsu]]''}}: Masked vigilante rains punishment down on corrupt government officials and business executives by repeatedly exploding his own head.

* {{spoiler|''[[Amagami]]''}}: [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] in a [[Dating Sim]]: [[Animated Adaptation|The Anime.]]

* {{spoiler|''[[Ame-iro Kouchakan Kandan]]''}}: [[Girls Love|A schoolgirl gets a job at a teahouse to be close to the shop owner.]] [[WAFF]] and [[Squee]] ensue.

** In the first episode, he dies 102 times. Then he shoots a defenseless girl so his friends can steal food.

** Haruhi hates the afterlife and dragoons people at her school into doing something about it.

* {{spoiler|''Animal Yokochou''}}: A [[Parental Abandonment|frequently neglected]] five-year-old girl has [[No Fourth Wall|fourth wall-breaking]] adventures with her neighbors from another dimension.

* {{spoiler|''[[Ano Natsu de Matteru]]''}}: [[Love Dodecahedron|Dodecahedron]] of [[All Love Is Unrequited|unrequited love]] interrupted by [[Intimate Healing]] from a hot [[Human Alien]].

* ''{{spoiler|[[Another]]}}'': [[Ordinary High School Student]] [[Boy Meets Girl|meets girl]]. People die.

* {{spoiler|''[[Azumanga Daioh]]''}}: No real plot, just Japanese schoolgirls hanging out.

** Or: Rich 10 year old genius and her friends go through their average lives.

* {{spoiler|''[[B Gata H Kei]]''}}: Virgin tries to get laid. She's not very good at it.

* {{spoiler|''[[B't X]]''}}: [[Expy|A guy takes a break]] [[Saint Seiya|from protecting Athena]] to fly around in a desert on a mechanical pony. Lots of people disapprove.

* {{spoiler|''[[Binbou Shimai Monogatari]]''}}: Two underage sisters live together in a run-down apartment and have to get by on their own. They love each other [[Squee|a lot]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Birdy the Mighty]]''}}: A policewoman with [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] from space meets [[Ordinary High School Student]] and does [[Fusion Dance]] with him. [[They Fight Crime]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]''}}: A [[Technical Pacifist]] tries to stay out of a war between two groups of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]]. The Anime adds a subplot where he talks of the less sympathetic Extremist group's leader entirely in death threats for half the series.

** Alternatively: He's a former assassin with [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]. He's a former cop that can see into the future. She's a defused [[Tyke Bomb]] that can shape-shift. [[They Fight Crime]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Black Jack]]''}}: A [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]] man and his [[Artificial Human|Frankensteinian creation]] charge astronomical sums of money to cut people open.

* {{spoiler|''[[Black Lagoon]]''}}: A salary-man quits his job to run errands for and with unstable foreigners who frequently try to kill him. He still dresses like a salary-man, though.

** For the TV series: Schoolgirl angst spawns a parallel dimension of nonstop violence. The [[There Are No Therapists|therapist]] approves.

* {{spoiler|''[[Blade of the Immortal]]''}}: A swordsman with internal parasites gets hired by a plucky orphan to kill "bad people."

* {{spoiler|''[[Burst Angel]]''}}: Four <s>pairs of breasts</s> female bounty hunters (and [[The One Guy|a guy who cooks for them]]) [[We Help the Helpless|defend the defenseless]] in a [[Crapsack World]] [[Author Tract|brought on by the abolition of gun control]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Busou Renkin]]''}}: Two boys go on life support and try to kill each other.

* {{spoiler|''[[Candy Boy]]''}}: A pair of fraternal [[Twincest|twin sisters]] [[Girls Love|really like each other]]. [[Slice of Life|Stuff happens]].

* {{spoiler|''[[C the Money And Soul of Possibility]]''}}: Ordinary college student plays financial card games. It's more awesome than it sounds.

* {{spoiler|''[[Casshern Sins]]''}}: A [[Bishonen]] android [[Walking the Earth|walks the earth]]... [[After the End|what's left of it]].

* {{spoiler|''[[The Cat Returns]]''}}: A girl rescues a cat and is rewarded by nearly being forced to marry him. She's eventually rescued by a magic lawn ornament, a talking crow, and a fat guy.

* {{spoiler|''[[Change 123]]''}}: A girl with three fathers struggles with mental illness and finds two possible boyfriends.

** Alternatively: Boy finds and befriends girl with four personalities. Boy falls for the only one that isn't a martial artist. Other personalities are fine with this. [[Teen Genius]] tries to fuse girl's personalities with her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]. The [[Law of Conservation of Detail]] is upheld obsessively.

* {{spoiler|''[[CLAMP School Detectives]]''}}: An [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] solves mysteries in its spare time.

** Who wears short shorts? They wear short shorts.

** Or: A pair of high school students meet a ghost who hands out carvings of echinoderms; they decide to help.

** Season 2: Nothing goes right for the delinquent. Ever. Once his life is thoroughly obliterated, a junk robot in a different world makes everything better.