not sure if anyone will play, but this was relatively fun to write.

Jun 01, 2009 22:59

The Better Than It Sounds Meme

1. Write up misleading summaries for 10 properties.
2. Post them to your blog.
3. Have people guess.
4. Cross out those that are correctly guessed.

all anime and manga, naturally. line(s) of fic for anyone who guesses correctly -- though i think i've probably made them too obvious.

1. Ex-professional spends years ( Read more... )

fic, meme

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acanti June 1 2009, 22:47:23 UTC
8 - Naruto?
10 - hmmm Death Note?

I doubt I'll know the rest ):

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ambientlight June 2 2009, 08:45:22 UTC
8 is correct! no to 10, though it's a series i think you might like if you tried it... maybe.

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ambientlight June 2 2009, 08:54:18 UTC
i am sorry all my naruto fic is about kabuto, i have a one-track mind. D:

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Even Kabuto must concede that some things are easier to fake than others, and those which one has truly known are easiest -- which is his excuse for always having been seen as "a quiet, mature boy", "an old soul", something other than the child he should have been.

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lesstraveled June 2 2009, 01:22:57 UTC
7 - Weiss? Naruto for 8? Monster for 1?
I want to say Mushishi for 5 lol but that is probably too ~cynical~. God I am bad at this.

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ambientlight June 2 2009, 08:47:55 UTC
right on all accounts! i tried working out something about a conman/itinerant pedlar for mushishi, but it would have been too obvious.

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lesstraveled June 2 2009, 16:16:42 UTC
Ha, I wanted to say Mushishi for #3, but then I realized that you are probably more fond of Ginko than I...

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ambientlight June 2 2009, 16:38:22 UTC
...did i really say 'on all accounts'? augh so embarrassing

mushishi for #3: i sense a disturbing trend in my fandoms of choice. :O

also, looking at it now, mamoru did eventually climb to the top, so maybe that summary wasn't totally accurate.

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"You like this pretend life, don't you? The pressed shirts, the timetables, Fujimiya-sensei."

"It's our job."

Ken laughs. "You wish it was."

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Tenma usually likes having medical students around the wards; he's no more nostalgic than the next person, but when a reminder of your past meets hope for the future, well, what can one complain about? Which is why he can't say what it is about the latest batch that unnerves him. Or, no, that's dishonest: he can pin it down, at least, to that one pale-haired boy and his bright-young-thing smile, as precise as a scalpel in trained hands.

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Does he treat humans that differently from mushi? It's the sort of thing Adashino might ask, in yet another fit of exasperation, and in some way the answer is obvious: one may treat with humans, after ( ... )

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feliciter June 2 2009, 02:21:21 UTC
As obvious as a needle in a haystack hunted by a blind man with no fingers

1.Monster
2.The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
3.Matantei Loki Ragnarok
4.Ouran High School Host Club
5.Mushishi (ha)
6.Samurai Champloo
7.(Man this is diffcult - any way one squints it could be Yami no Matsuei, Weiss or Cafe Kichijouji de)
8.Naruto? Gundam Wing? a zillion other manga and anime?
9.Death Note (seems too easy for 10! But am probably wrong, a la Princess Bride)

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sunhorizon June 2 2009, 02:37:57 UTC
If 2 really is haruhi, it's a really effective misleading one! And hilarious too. "Cause great damage" and haruhi, hahaha.

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ambientlight June 2 2009, 08:50:14 UTC
you certainly got a lot of them correct, though! :D 2, 3, and 6 were wrong, though now that i look at it 3 seems a good summary of most of maloki, eheh.

agreed on ynm, but i don't think the cafe kichijouji de prospects are that bad. :p

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ambientlight June 4 2009, 12:40:17 UTC
bad crossovers ahoy ._.

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"Your son?"

It is the first sign of interest the foreign inspector has shown so far. Yagami nods. "He's helped us in several cases before. Nothing as large as this, of course, but still..." Despite himself, he can feel the faintest hint of a smile beginning to compromise his professional demeanour.

"Light Yagami. An effortlessly brilliant student. A police chief as his father. Yes, Chief Yagami, I think... I think I would like to meet your sun."

Yagami watches one pale hand twitch, fingers skittering, a spider nearing its prey.

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"Kyouyaaa," Tamaki whines, "why am I always the decoy?"

"We've been through this many times, Tiffanie. You like making small talk in high society. The twins would be too obvious. We need Mori and Honey on the frontline."

Kyouya has indeed been developing a nervous twitch, Haruhi notes. Perhaps it would be worth persuading Persia to let her leave the secretary job and rejoin the team ( ... )

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