Fake Anime Fan

[soc_puppet]

Backstory: Our local anime con (I say "our" because I help staff it) is going online only this year, free to anyone interested in "attending", etc. It's this weekend. I thought it might be fun to make a Twine game for folks to play as a little perk, to simulate the convention. Would anyone be interested in helping me come up with a bunch of fake anime titles and summaries? I'd love to have twelve (or even more!), though I can probably make do with as few as eight. If you contribute and I manage to put the game together, I'll be sure to include your name in the credits!

Here's some genre ideas to get us started:

School drama

School comedy

RomCom

Magical girl

Shounen fighting anime

High fantasy story (portal fantasy accepted)

Space opera story

Fanservice story (I am least excited about this one)

Sci-fi story

Supernatural story

Historical story

M/M story (can also be any genre above)

F/F story (can also be any genre above)

The latest Miyazaki film


Combining any of the above is also fine.


Edit: The demo version of the game is live! Thank you, everyone, for all of the ideas you've contributed! I'm still hoping to get enough for a second video room, though, so ideas are still very welcome. Hearts! ♥

Comments

[soc_puppet]

Trial summary for Inherit the Flame: A critically acclaimed movie, heavy with symbolism and rich with mystery. Legend says that anyone who sleeps at the foot of the mountain Cadair Idris will end up dead, mad, or a poet. Would-be poet Matthew goes to test this one night and ends up taken into another world, where his heart is removed and put in a cauldron of flame. Matthew instantly find that his skills as a poet have increased a hundred fold, and he joins a party of dozens of other artists who have come to challenge their skills over the years. As the night wears on, however, he meets Isabel, a fiddle player who misses her home, and he realizes that he, too, wants to go back to where he came from. Together the two of them put their skills to the ultimate test to wrench their hearts from the cauldron and return home.



Thoughts? Improvements? Stuff for people to be discussing in a panel about it? (Such as: Did they both make it home okay? Did they return to the same place and time, or did they end up somewhere different? The ending music strongly implies that they got to keep some of the skills they earned in the other realm, but is that true? Etc.)

[alexseanchai]

*clappy hands*

also: the same place and time they each came from, or the same place and time as each other, which is possibly a different timespace moment altogether?

[soc_puppet]

Yes good, all those Rip Van Winkle shenanigans!

As for the queer het aspect... Right now I'm planning to make a new panel about queer representation in anime for the convention, so it'll definitely come up there, but I'll try to also work it into the main panel. I'm thinking that Matthew may have looked considerably different before going through the whatever portal? Like, he was definitely somewhat less broad of shoulder before falling asleep at the mountain, and also now he has a very nice beard. And then Isabel's backstory can include romantic moments with folks of multiple genders. That sound good to you?

[alexseanchai]

*happy squeaks*

[soc_puppet]

Awesome! 😊