meme time at 4 am! :D
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess. (Beware of TVtropes link!)
ganked from inastr8jacket
1. A man is let out of prison and is hired as chauffeur and bodyguard to a weird man who's conducting a secret war against another bunch of other weird people. The story is occasionally interrupted for history lessons or stories that are almost completely unrelated. American Gods shadings
02. You stomp in time to music and receive very corny compliments if you do well. Dance Dance Revolution (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
03. Japanese teenagers go on a field trip, discuss their favorite rock-and-roll songs, and violently murder one another. Battle Royale (kimi_no_koe & ravyn_ashling)
04. Nomadic tribes travel through the Middle East and North Africa, enduring all kinds of hardships before finally coming to the Promised Land. In the sequel, a Pretty Cool Guy tells everyone how cool it is to be nice to each other but is executed by The Empire, comes Back From The Dead, and Ascends To A Higher Plane Of Existence. In the Distant Finale of the sequel, everyone dies. This is considered to be a positive ending. The Bible (orang_smaug)
05. A pro ballplayer's hometown is blown up by a giant Space Whale. One thousand years later, he goes on a quest to beat up his father. Final Fantasy X (jibunde)
06. Protagonists have to keep Canon Sue entertained or she destroys the world. Again. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
07. Armed with a frying pan, a book on sheep diseases, and the aid of a small army of little blue men, a little girl saves her bratty brother and an Upper Class Twit from evil elves. The Wee Free Men (orange_smaug)
08. A girl falls in love with a man who once bought her a book.
09. Superweapons are given to mentally unstable children while the adults plot to destroy the world.
* Anyone who claims to understand it is a liar. Even the creator.
Movie sequel: Disturbed teenager works with his dead mother to turn humanity into goo.
* Possible alternate title: "The other ending was too dark and confusing? How's THIS?!" Neon Genesis Evangelion & The End of Evangelion (orange_smaug)
10. 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. Amélie (inastr8jacket)
11. A widower and a Cloudcuckoolander with blue skin go on a quest to rescue the widower's son, who has been captured in a watered crystal jail with tiki figures in it by a dentist who is several times their size. Finding Nemo (jibunde)
12. A kid tries to save the entire multiverse by beating up monsters with a giant key. His strongest allies are a duck and a dog thing. Kingdom Hearts (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
13. Large Ham teacher is suicidally depressed. His entire class falls for him. He's the sane one. Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
14. Now there's 25 friends, the option to use bikes, 6 karts and 6 bikes for each weight class, and 12 people and vehicles allowed on the track, and the drive is totally not relaxing anymore because your friends keep pestering you. Mario Kart Wii (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
15. History in manga form. Axis Powers Hetalia (inastr8jacket)
16. A mentally retarded man is sent to war and becomes a ping-pong player, while his lifelong crush turns to a life of sex and drugs. Forrest Gump (inastr8jacket)
17. The player takes on the role of a child in a world where kids are allowed to leave the house at 10 years of age and traverse the world, capture and force animals to fight each other causing them to mutate into grotesque monsters, and beat up the local crime syndicate. There are only four games in this series but they have been released 17 times under different names. Pokémon (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
18. Some kids go through worlds, kill God accidentally and discover they don't need Him in first place. And there's loads and loads of talking animals! Technically speaking. His Dark Materials (orange_smaug)
19. You take over the old family farm, hang with the locals, and get married. That's about it. Harvest Moon (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
20. You are tasked with guiding a bunch of retarded, suicidal rodents to safety. Lemmings (orange_smaug)
EXILE's Takahiro talking about Horikita Maki
I just saw this entry on horikita_maki and watched the embedded video. IT WAS SO, SO, SO CUTE. ♥ I know that Maki-chan is a fan of EXILE, so this made me very happy. ♥ Why don't you guys just get married
ganked from inastr8jacket
1. A man is let out of prison and is hired as chauffeur and bodyguard to a weird man who's conducting a secret war against another bunch of other weird people. The story is occasionally interrupted for history lessons or stories that are almost completely unrelated. American Gods shadings
02. You stomp in time to music and receive very corny compliments if you do well. Dance Dance Revolution (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
03. Japanese teenagers go on a field trip, discuss their favorite rock-and-roll songs, and violently murder one another. Battle Royale (kimi_no_koe & ravyn_ashling)
04. Nomadic tribes travel through the Middle East and North Africa, enduring all kinds of hardships before finally coming to the Promised Land. In the sequel, a Pretty Cool Guy tells everyone how cool it is to be nice to each other but is executed by The Empire, comes Back From The Dead, and Ascends To A Higher Plane Of Existence. In the Distant Finale of the sequel, everyone dies. This is considered to be a positive ending. The Bible (orang_smaug)
05. A pro ballplayer's hometown is blown up by a giant Space Whale. One thousand years later, he goes on a quest to beat up his father. Final Fantasy X (jibunde)
06. Protagonists have to keep Canon Sue entertained or she destroys the world. Again. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
07. Armed with a frying pan, a book on sheep diseases, and the aid of a small army of little blue men, a little girl saves her bratty brother and an Upper Class Twit from evil elves. The Wee Free Men (orange_smaug)
08. A girl falls in love with a man who once bought her a book.
09. Superweapons are given to mentally unstable children while the adults plot to destroy the world.
* Anyone who claims to understand it is a liar. Even the creator.
Movie sequel: Disturbed teenager works with his dead mother to turn humanity into goo.
* Possible alternate title: "The other ending was too dark and confusing? How's THIS?!" Neon Genesis Evangelion & The End of Evangelion (orange_smaug)
10. 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. Amélie (inastr8jacket)
11. A widower and a Cloudcuckoolander with blue skin go on a quest to rescue the widower's son, who has been captured in a watered crystal jail with tiki figures in it by a dentist who is several times their size. Finding Nemo (jibunde)
12. A kid tries to save the entire multiverse by beating up monsters with a giant key. His strongest allies are a duck and a dog thing. Kingdom Hearts (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
13. Large Ham teacher is suicidally depressed. His entire class falls for him. He's the sane one. Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
14. Now there's 25 friends, the option to use bikes, 6 karts and 6 bikes for each weight class, and 12 people and vehicles allowed on the track, and the drive is totally not relaxing anymore because your friends keep pestering you. Mario Kart Wii (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
15. History in manga form. Axis Powers Hetalia (inastr8jacket)
16. A mentally retarded man is sent to war and becomes a ping-pong player, while his lifelong crush turns to a life of sex and drugs. Forrest Gump (inastr8jacket)
17. The player takes on the role of a child in a world where kids are allowed to leave the house at 10 years of age and traverse the world, capture and force animals to fight each other causing them to mutate into grotesque monsters, and beat up the local crime syndicate. There are only four games in this series but they have been released 17 times under different names. Pokémon (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
18. Some kids go through worlds, kill God accidentally and discover they don't need Him in first place. And there's loads and loads of talking animals! Technically speaking. His Dark Materials (orange_smaug)
19. You take over the old family farm, hang with the locals, and get married. That's about it. Harvest Moon (orange_smaug & inastr8jacket)
20. You are tasked with guiding a bunch of retarded, suicidal rodents to safety. Lemmings (orange_smaug)
EXILE's Takahiro talking about Horikita Maki
I just saw this entry on horikita_maki and watched the embedded video. IT WAS SO, SO, SO CUTE. ♥ I know that Maki-chan is a fan of EXILE, so this made me very happy. ♥ Why don't you guys just get married