154 | Day o7 → A photo that makes you happy
ALSO A tv tropes meme BECAUSE I SAID SO and because I'm procrastinating working on an essay and stuff, sigh.
Pick 20 NO FUCK YOU i am going to do 25 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds, and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
10 anime/manga, 1 TV, 3 games, 4 movies, 2 books, and 5 that have both books and movies. Man, I am a massive weeaboo or something.
1. In The Future, there's no crime, poverty, war, disease or old age, and everyone gets to have lots and lots of sex. But the Noble Savage says it's bad. Two other people, who are among the smartest people on earth, go on a quest to stop being happy. BRAVE NEW WORLD ; pana
2. A class goes on a field trip; most don't make it back. BATTLE ROYALE ; pana
3. Middle-aged WASP finds meaning in life through "Murder, Mayhem, and Soap". Lots of soap. FIGHT CLUB ; pana
4. Man tries to get some money while humiliating his ex's current affair.
5. A cute female Frankensteins Monster makes like Black Jack. Scarring imagery ensues. FRANKEN FRAN ; reversepedo
6. A boy falsely convicted of stealing a pair of tennis shoes is sent to a summer camp where they do nothing but dig holes all day long. HOLES ; pana
7. Amnesiac with shitload of money tries to figure out exactly who was phone. Johnnies ensue. EDEN OF THE EAST / HIGASHI NO EDEN ; kirschwassers
8. A band of misfits barely make a living off dead people. KUROSAGI CORPSE DELIVERY SERVICE ; reversepedo
9. Deadpan Snarker and Cloud Cuckoolander battle the forces of darkness. Contrary to what the title would have you believe, the title character does not die at the end. JOHN DIES AT THE END ; pana
10. Young man fights in the Second World War, goes home, gets married, is abducted by aliens, goes home, dies. Not necessarily in that order. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE ; gyllespi
11. Disaffected hipsters take on the military by surfing while an epic love story develops between a fourteen year old boy and the mother of three children.
12. A shameless anime otaku wins a Laser Blade in an online auction, and uses it to carve his way up the leaderboard of an assassins' guild. NO MORE HEROES ; reversepedo
13. A trigger-happy botanist and an elderly sanitation worker fall in love. Then they rescue some fat people from a steering wheel.
14. A loving mother writes letters to her son. A blind French (maybe) guy dies. A tattoo artist has a lot of sex and does a lot of drugs while editing the Frenchman's book, which is about a non-movie about a house with a growing interior. Then he dies. Maybe. Not necessarily in that order, and creepy as hell. HOUSE OF LEAVES ; belucre
15. Large corporations have taken over the government, Blood Sports are used as punishments, and humans nearly go extinct from famine and drought. It's a comedy.
16. A man adopts his aunt.
17. 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.
18. A young boy bleeds profusely in a never-ending quest for candy. DEADMAN WONDERLAND ; pana
19. As God, you command dancing eyeballs with weapons to war with drum beats.
20. Young girl moves to a new town and spends her days doing nothing with three sisters and a really big guy - and it's hilarious. YOTSUBA&! ; kirschwassers
21. The weird life and misadventures of a drunk who owns a bookshop, his Cloudcuckoolander assistant / punching bag and their best (and only) friend. BLACK BOOKS ; gyllespi
22. Fifteen messed-up children play a fun game with Humongous Mecha. Neon Genesis Evangelion is happy and optimistic by comparison. BOKURANO ; kirschwassers
23. A number of people aboard a train find they have conflicting interests. An old man looks for friends he shared a drink with a long time ago. BACCANO! ; kirschwassers
24. Two slackers discover that the dead have risen and decide to go to the pub. SHAUN OF THE DEAD ; reversepedo
25. A game where you escort amorphous blobs to the exit. Not only those asexually reproducing blobs can't fight on their own, but they'll almost never stop singing with blue people. After that you'll get several Ear Worms.