All the cool kids are doing it
Pick 20 comic books/anime and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
...okay so there are some films and books in here too.
1. 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. cyberdemolition
2. A one-year-old baby trains a kid to be a Mafia boss while shooting him in the head. hamburger & thelovemafia & cleartempest
4. A Massive Multiplayer Crossover featuring characters from Fairy Tales and folklore, who are forced out of their homelands by a ruthless dictator and take refuge in New York City. myreasoninlife
5. A depressed workaholic stages an elaborate suicide. His family doesn't really care.
6. A group of really screwed-up losers investigate a murder whilst a big blue naked man contemplates the nature of time and space. Then a giant Space Squid kills most of New York. cleartempest & thelovemafia
7. A spaced-out but shy waitress plays matchmaker with her friends, whilst an old man who can never leave his apartment tries to set her up with a weird guy who works in a porn shop. cleartempest & thelovemafia
8. A fat, clumsy geek becomes The Chosen One and must defeat a Bad Ass prison escapee who has issues with his adopted father. shadows_in_mind & thelovemafia
9. Writer falls in love while singing anachronistic songs - on a LOT of absinthe. thelovemafia
10. During the Spanish Civil War, a bookish girl with a psychotic army officer for an adoptive father completes three tasks so she can get killed and be reincarnated again as the fairy princess she was in a past life. Oh, and they're the scariest fairies ever. cleartempest & thelovemafia
11. A group of men (united by wearing womens clothing), including a Rabbi plot to take down Richard Lewis, whilst parodying everything they can. crasherwake
12. A boy with a misleading name tries to solve peoples' problems using a Sharpie and a hammer. Cast includes a green amnesiac, a neurotic vampire, a masochistic med-school dropout, a pervy sharkboy, and a walking grandfather clock. hamburger & thelovemafia
13. LOL Aspergers.
14. A series about a really old man who spends his lifetime convincing young hot girls to join him inside a (flying, time traveling) phone box. He is routinely harassed by tin men, giant nazi pepperpots and one of his college buddies. hamburger & cleartempest & thelovemafia
15. Three young orphans, including a baby, go through a series of abusive and/or ineffectual guardians, while being stalked by their arsonist cousin, their mother's first boyfriend, and a secret fire department. crasherwake & thelovemafia
16. Shakespearean characters discover gravity and play a game of tennis with questions. They die, but you already knew that. cleartempest
17. Vampire Nazis decide to reenact World War II, and the Catholic Church decides to give the Crusades another go. Dracula objects sternly. Most of the cast are expies of hentai characters. bunny_phobic & myreasoninlife
18. A soap opera wrapped in High School Musical- but it works. crasherwake & litzplosion
19. Three men and four hundred extras travel through space in their futuristic living room/model UN club, going where no man has gone before. litzplosion
20. Teen Genius narrates the life of his severely screwed-up family through his own eyes. crasherwake & litzplosion & thelovemafia
...okay so there are some films and books in here too.
1. 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. cyberdemolition
2. A one-year-old baby trains a kid to be a Mafia boss while shooting him in the head. hamburger & thelovemafia & cleartempest
4. A Massive Multiplayer Crossover featuring characters from Fairy Tales and folklore, who are forced out of their homelands by a ruthless dictator and take refuge in New York City. myreasoninlife
5. A depressed workaholic stages an elaborate suicide. His family doesn't really care.
6. A group of really screwed-up losers investigate a murder whilst a big blue naked man contemplates the nature of time and space. Then a giant Space Squid kills most of New York. cleartempest & thelovemafia
7. A spaced-out but shy waitress plays matchmaker with her friends, whilst an old man who can never leave his apartment tries to set her up with a weird guy who works in a porn shop. cleartempest & thelovemafia
8. A fat, clumsy geek becomes The Chosen One and must defeat a Bad Ass prison escapee who has issues with his adopted father. shadows_in_mind & thelovemafia
9. Writer falls in love while singing anachronistic songs - on a LOT of absinthe. thelovemafia
10. During the Spanish Civil War, a bookish girl with a psychotic army officer for an adoptive father completes three tasks so she can get killed and be reincarnated again as the fairy princess she was in a past life. Oh, and they're the scariest fairies ever. cleartempest & thelovemafia
11. A group of men (united by wearing womens clothing), including a Rabbi plot to take down Richard Lewis, whilst parodying everything they can. crasherwake
12. A boy with a misleading name tries to solve peoples' problems using a Sharpie and a hammer. Cast includes a green amnesiac, a neurotic vampire, a masochistic med-school dropout, a pervy sharkboy, and a walking grandfather clock. hamburger & thelovemafia
13. LOL Aspergers.
14. A series about a really old man who spends his lifetime convincing young hot girls to join him inside a (flying, time traveling) phone box. He is routinely harassed by tin men, giant nazi pepperpots and one of his college buddies. hamburger & cleartempest & thelovemafia
15. Three young orphans, including a baby, go through a series of abusive and/or ineffectual guardians, while being stalked by their arsonist cousin, their mother's first boyfriend, and a secret fire department. crasherwake & thelovemafia
16. Shakespearean characters discover gravity and play a game of tennis with questions. They die, but you already knew that. cleartempest
17. Vampire Nazis decide to reenact World War II, and the Catholic Church decides to give the Crusades another go. Dracula objects sternly. Most of the cast are expies of hentai characters. bunny_phobic & myreasoninlife
18. A soap opera wrapped in High School Musical- but it works. crasherwake & litzplosion
19. Three men and four hundred extras travel through space in their futuristic living room/model UN club, going where no man has gone before. litzplosion
20. Teen Genius narrates the life of his severely screwed-up family through his own eyes. crasherwake & litzplosion & thelovemafia