AnimeTwineowa Viewing Schedule
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soc_puppetI've got enough fake anime for two viewing rooms now! I just need to organize everything.
Viewing Room One
Friday at Noon: Wanbon-Chan Goes To School - A slice-of-life anime about a puppy starting preschool in an anthropomorphic world. One of the most popular characters is Tarou, a wheely dog; another is Naoko, a cat who's pretending to be a dog to go to puppy school. The three of them and their other school friends deal with things like a first day, meeting new people and making friends, playing games at recess, cleaning up after yourself, and foods you don't like at lunch.
Friday Afternoon: Crave - The story of Chiharu, a vampire who was adopted by humans and has no idea she's not also human. A series of super weird coincidences has kept the discovery from happening until she's in ninth grade, when she begins craving blood. She becomes aware of other supernatural creatures while she discovers her own nature. All of her friends team up to make sure she gets however much blood she needs on a regular basis (which, at least while she's still young, isn't too much yet).
Friday Evening: Sunset Eyes - Hikari has been cursed with a devilish appearance (horns, wings, tail, red-gray skin) and skin that burns anyone who touches her; the curse can only be reversed when someone who loves her with all their heart looks into her eyes at sunset. After meeting Hikari, Nadeshiko vows to fall in love with her and break the curse. After all, the curse doesn't say anything about Hikari having to love the person back, and there are a lot worse things to Nadeshiko's way of thinking than people thinking she likes girls "like that"—and one of those is being cursed never to touch your real true love, right?
Friday Night: ohayo gozaimasu, it’s early - A school comedy about Kei (written with the character for "firefly"), a tenth grader who is always too tired for morning classes, but struggles to be at school anyway. Stories range from typical school stories trying to involve a kid who's either half or entirely asleep most of the time (and yet somehow still gets good grades!), to his classmates trying to figure out why he keeps missing so much sleep, and how they can help (every time they try to find out it's something different, and all of their efforts so far have failed; it's doubtful Kei has noticed them trying in the first place).
Saturday Early Morning: The Life and Times of a Background Character - Yamada Kenichi is a young adult who has a million part-time jobs and is continually witness to major scenes from everyone else's stories. From the meet-cutes at the coffee shop, to the superpower-granting mix-ups at the lab, and even that one time the villain had an epiphany and a change of heart, Kenichi has a constant, unwitting, and even unwilling hand in them.
Saturday Morning: Help! I'm In Love With The Villainess! - Rika Yue ends up being reborn as the heroine of an otome game; worse, it's one she's never played before! While she saw plenty of advertisements for it ("Star Heart! The sci-fi otome romance of the 24th century!"), and her friends talked about it all the time, it never really caught her interest—except for Hitomi, the game's main rival character! Rika scrapes together all of her secondhand knowledge of the game to duck the advances of the male love interests and focus on her true goal: Winning the heart of Hitomi, who's even more stunning in person!
Saturday at Noon: All The Worlds Are Other To Me: Why Can't I Just Be The Heroine? - Nicknamed WorldsOther by the fandom, this is a high fantasy anime based on a series of light novels. The heroine of the story is the sorceress Bremby. She's lived under the threat of the Demon King's hordes for years, but the temples promise that one day the Chosen One will be summoned from another world to set things right. Well, the day is here, and there seem to be at least four 'chosen ones', all of whom claim to be from other worlds. Unfortunately, rather then setting out to accomplish the task they were summoned for in the first place and defeating the Demon King, all four of them seem to be more interested in arguing about the details of the prophecy and finding love in the local population. Fine; if their absurd powers are going to waste, maybe Bremby can save the world herself...
Saturday Afternoon: Ghost Girlfriend - When high school boy Yoshida Mamoru moves into a house in a new neighborhood, he quickly learns that it's haunted by the ghost of a teenage girl! On top of that, Tsubomi has an absolutely enormous crush on him, to which Mamoru remains oblivious. The twist? Due to some supernatural shenanigans, her ghost status is subject to special rules: If someone falls in love with her and truly loves her to the point where they confess their feelings and mean it, she'll get to restart her life as a human—but only if they confess first! Tsubomi is constantly fighting to keep her hopes from getting too far up, and has also resolved not to tell Mamoru any of the details in case he would feel pressured into trying to develop feelings for her. Meanwhile, absolutely everyone else is trying hardcore to matchmake them.
Saturday Evening: Fantasy Hero Mech - When war threatens, the denizens of the world of Sylvania come together to summon the hero who was prophesied to come in their hour of greatest need; meanwhile, Takeshi is just a low-ranking grunt in the Unified Space Forces, working to repair a hyperspace transport gate. Right when he flips the switch to test it out, he and his repair mech are sucked through it into Sylvania, where the people on the other side of the gate assume he has arrived to save them.
Saturday Night: Clockwork Under City Lights - An OVA adapted from a webcomic. The interconnected stories of a dozen tiny magically-powered, steampunk-ish self-aware constructs created in the shape of large insects, miniature forest animals, non-humanoid mythological creatures, and so forth, set loose in a big and bustling city somewhere on a world just to the left of our own; life can be beyond interesting as well as startlingly mundane when you're a metal and stained glass griffin the size of a teacup.
Sunday Early Morning: Guardian Treasures - When Earth is threatened by alien forces, Japan’s Three Treasures rise again in the form of giant mechs: three high school boys, Ryuu, Heiji, and Touya, are chosen by the mechs as pilots to defend Earth. With help from engineering and folklore student Asuka, they will work together to drive off the invaders and protect the world. But there’s a dark secret about the invaders that could threaten to tear apart the bonds they’ve formed, and endanger Earth in the process...
Sunday Morning: Please Don't Tell My Mom I Flunked My Magical Girl Academy Entrance Exams - It's the year 21XX, and being a Magical Girl is now a viable career option. Unfortunately, despite her own significant magical powers, Arika Izumi is much more interested in being an accountant or a programmer. Her relief when she learns that the experts at Mahou Gakuen, the most prestigious magical girl academy in the area, think she wouldn't be a good fit for the program is short-lived; when she arrives home after learning the results, she sees that her mother has not only already assumed she would pass, but told all of her own friends that Arika would be attending Mahou Gakuen. Luckily, Arika got accepted to a different high school that's not very far from Mahou Gakuen; with the help of her new friends in the Drama Club, and a little programming magic, Arika is set to fake the heck out of being a Mahou Gakuen student.
Sunday at Noon: Nobunaga and the Warring States - A Hetalia-esque historical cartoon featuring Oda Nobunaga and other historical figures, as well as the personified States. Nobunaga has to constantly break up petty squabbles between the States. He is accompanied by his constant companion, fan favorite Piyo the nightingale, who is usually found perched on his shoulder or head. He is still waiting for her to sing.
Sunday Afternoon: Tech Wizard - Garret Smelter has an absurdly good reputation for repairing spells and magical devices. His secret? He's been using mundane methods the entire time, but no one he's told believes him! Told from the POV of Hans, Garret's new apprentice, as Garret and his his "familiar" (a well-trained but mundane ferret named Lefty) go about the work of keeping the city of Archdale running on actual engineering.
And that's Room One! Current summaries are tentatively final, though I'm welcome to concrit and will likely be going over them another time or two before putting them in the game.
Here's what I've got so far for Room Two:
Gull - Swept Away: After nine-year-old Katsuo's puppy is saved from a frozen-over pond by a practicing curling team, he and his friends Hiraku and Minato become obsessed with the sport. When they reach high school, a teacher from Canada arrives, and they finally have an advisor for their curling club. Unfortunately, they're one club member short. Katsuo sets his sights on Hajime, the younger brother of the boy who saved Katsuo's puppy. The problem? Hajime is completely uninterested in curling!
(The puppy is the club's mascot.)
Me: His Majesty's Guard; harem anime. Ordinary Japanese high school student Genta learns that he's actually the heir to a vaguely European-ish country. Since the previous ruler was assassinated, Genta has been assigned a full team of highly trained guards, each specializing in a different weapon and/or fighting style, and each head-over-heels for Genta. His Majesty's Guard has gained a fair amount of attention for one of Genta's guards being a male character (Thomas), even if they are not expected to be the endgame ship.
Me: Heartbeat Rhythm Magic - Koharu is practicing with a hoop for rhythmic gymnastics club when suddenly, a strange monster made of stadium seating attacks the gym! Koharu is then found by a small, pink, hamster-like creature that tells her she is to be the leader of a team of magical girls who use the tools and skills of rhythmic gymnastics to defeat monsters and keep the evil Judge Malice from throwing off the rhythm of the world and using the power of hearts beating out of sync to take over the universe. Together with her teammates Natsuki, Akiko, and Fuyumi, Koharu will overthrow Judge Malice and restore the world's rhythm!
Me: City Heist - Based loosely on a dream I had. A recently released movie. The gem powering the technology of the village where Adorina lives has broken; the townsfolk can keep the town running for a time with human power alone, but this cannot be maintained for more than a few months. The only place to get replacement gems is the Eternal City, but the city's ruler guards them fiercely and charges outrageous amounts for replacements. Knowing her town can never afford the cost of a new gem, Adorina recruits retired master thief Antono, fighting and arms expert Rubena, and recently fired city guards Luksa and Johano to help her steal not only the gem she needs to help her village live on, but the technology to create new gems—just as Eternal City's ruler once stole it from Adorina's grandmother.
Me: Alien Lifeswap - One day out of the blue, a space alien abducts ordinary teenage boy Noboru and takes his place in order to study humans and help make a decision about whether they should be introduced to the wider galactic alliance. The show follows both the alien in its attempts to pass as Noboru, and Noboru in a special not-quite-classroom with aliens from at least four other species who are undergoing basically the same trial, plus a teacher from the species that is taking the his place. Shenanigans ensue.
Me: Rue 63rd - The story starts when Rokuro (whose name means "sixth son") and Sango (whose name means "third child") meet and commisserate that the other has the life that they want for themselves. Deciding to swap places, the "boy" (now going by Kuroko) and "girl" (now called Hanzo) slowly discover that part of the reason their new lives feel so right is because they are, in fact, transgender. The two of them need to navigate not only their new school lives as a gender they'd never thought they'd be yet are coming to realize is right, but also their home lives and interactions with each other, as they come to terms with their gender identities and what they want for the future.
Me: Where Is My Master? - A very fanservicey title about a dog named Pochiko who saves the life of a witch and is turned into a busty young woman as a reward. Pochiko is delighted, but her human master, Akihiko, is a lot more conflicted—especially because Pochiko still acts so much like a dog! Despite Akihiko trying his best to set her up with her own life as a human, Pochiko is determined to stay by Akihiko's side through thick and thin.
Dale and me: Isekai Bus Tour - Aiko is walking home from school one day when a bus comes barreling down the street right at her! Convinced that these are her last minutes alive, Aiko is astonished when, in a huge burst of light, the tour bus vanishes. Meanwhile, Youta and Miyu have been working together for years to get their new Akihabara tour bus up and running, and have just started their first tour! A combination of a horribly annoying passenger and a newspaper getting caught on the windshield has Youta losing control of the bus; right when he's about to hit a teenage girl, the entire bus is transported to another world—one that a passenger recognizes! The main storyline follows Youta and Miyu, with their mysterious new skills of Bus Driver and Tour Guide, as they hop from world to world with a full passenger list, hoping each new portal Miyu directs them to will be the one to bring them all back home. The post-episode clips, meanwhile, follow Aiko as she investigates the mysterious "hit-and-run" bus, leading to wilder and wilder conspiracy theories as she goes.
Gullwhacker: Bolt Turners In The Sky - A century and a half ago, the world fell to a disaster known only as the Hungry Earth. No longer able to survive on the planet's surface, humanity fled to the skies. There, people live out their lives on city-fleets of assorted air vehicles - dirigibles, single-engine planes, helicarriers, and more. The series focuses on the Bolt Turners: a group of technicians who travel from vessel to vessel, fixing mechanical issues to keep the fleet flying. With art reminiscent of Studio Ghibli and a full cast of interesting, well-developed characters, the anime has fans hooked across the globe.
East: A Sprinkle of Love - A romantic comedy about a young engineering woman named Yuki who enters a baking competition with no grand prize besides the title of Best Baker. She meets the other competitors and gets along except for that one grumpy young man named Ken. Due to a misunderstanding, they get off on the wrong foot, but during the course of the competition they get to know each other better. It's not long before these feelings turn to love, but at the end of the competition nears and they are the only two left standing, can their love survive the heat?
The biggest turning point is when Ken ruins his icing and has to make from scratch and Yuki comes over to help.
Me: Hanako's School Days - A school drama about a fat girl named Hanako and her experiences in junior high and high school. A very sympathetic look at a fat girl character, who has been given a cute character design, and how she deals with the bullying and microaggressions she faces in everyday life.
Alex and Socchan: DCLXVI: Margaret the witch has found a mysterious egg and a piece of ancient parchment with instructions for a ritual to hatch it, but no other information. Incredibly curious, Margaret decides to perform the ritual and see what’s inside. Just then, the angel Tenshi and the demon Koakuma show up to try and stop her; according to them, the egg actually contains a beast that will devour the world! Unfortunately, they're too late; the ritual has completed, and the egg hatches into a tiny golden dragon-like creature with a crimson mane. Knowing that they'll be punished if they go back with this bad news, Tenshi and Koakuma decide to team up with Margaret and raise it; maybe if they do everything right, it won't want to devour the world after all! It worked in that one British book/radio play/TV miniseries, after all... Lots of yuri subtext/moments.
Alex: Bridge Over Dragon Run - A slice-of-life/drama with a fantasy twist. Seventh grader Sachie is having a rough time in middle school; none of her friends from grade school are going to the same school she is, and a number of the girls she does go to school with have chosen her as a target for bullying. She's retrieving her school bag from where some of the girls have thrown it into a creek when she comes across a large egg. The egg hatches when Sachie touches it, and a small dragon topples out, instantly bonding with her. Knowing instinctively that the tiny creature is now her responsibility, Sachie takes it home and attempts to hide it from her mother and younger brother, with decidedly mixed results.
Alex and me: Inherit the Flame - A critically acclaimed movie, heavy with symbolism and artistically stunning. 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 call their hearts back from the cauldron and return home.
There's still a lot for me to do with editing and cleaning up the stuff in Room Two, as well as moving one of the titles to Room One, but I wanted to get it all in one place before I tackled that. Order isn't finalized (it'll be pretty arbitrary anyway). Names are in there so I remember who to properly credit in the game credits.
Edit: Here's a link to the demo for anyone who missed it.
Edit 2: Lots of editing has been done! I've only got three or four titles that need more tweaking left to go.
I also ended up having two extra titles in the lineup, so I took two out. (Sweepers, one of mine about the chimney sweeper kids, and Praying Mantis, one of Alex's, because I was having too much trouble trying to re-summarize it 😓)
Viewing Room One
Friday at Noon: Wanbon-Chan Goes To School - A slice-of-life anime about a puppy starting preschool in an anthropomorphic world. One of the most popular characters is Tarou, a wheely dog; another is Naoko, a cat who's pretending to be a dog to go to puppy school. The three of them and their other school friends deal with things like a first day, meeting new people and making friends, playing games at recess, cleaning up after yourself, and foods you don't like at lunch.
Friday Afternoon: Crave - The story of Chiharu, a vampire who was adopted by humans and has no idea she's not also human. A series of super weird coincidences has kept the discovery from happening until she's in ninth grade, when she begins craving blood. She becomes aware of other supernatural creatures while she discovers her own nature. All of her friends team up to make sure she gets however much blood she needs on a regular basis (which, at least while she's still young, isn't too much yet).
Friday Evening: Sunset Eyes - Hikari has been cursed with a devilish appearance (horns, wings, tail, red-gray skin) and skin that burns anyone who touches her; the curse can only be reversed when someone who loves her with all their heart looks into her eyes at sunset. After meeting Hikari, Nadeshiko vows to fall in love with her and break the curse. After all, the curse doesn't say anything about Hikari having to love the person back, and there are a lot worse things to Nadeshiko's way of thinking than people thinking she likes girls "like that"—and one of those is being cursed never to touch your real true love, right?
Friday Night: ohayo gozaimasu, it’s early - A school comedy about Kei (written with the character for "firefly"), a tenth grader who is always too tired for morning classes, but struggles to be at school anyway. Stories range from typical school stories trying to involve a kid who's either half or entirely asleep most of the time (and yet somehow still gets good grades!), to his classmates trying to figure out why he keeps missing so much sleep, and how they can help (every time they try to find out it's something different, and all of their efforts so far have failed; it's doubtful Kei has noticed them trying in the first place).
Saturday Early Morning: The Life and Times of a Background Character - Yamada Kenichi is a young adult who has a million part-time jobs and is continually witness to major scenes from everyone else's stories. From the meet-cutes at the coffee shop, to the superpower-granting mix-ups at the lab, and even that one time the villain had an epiphany and a change of heart, Kenichi has a constant, unwitting, and even unwilling hand in them.
Saturday Morning: Help! I'm In Love With The Villainess! - Rika Yue ends up being reborn as the heroine of an otome game; worse, it's one she's never played before! While she saw plenty of advertisements for it ("Star Heart! The sci-fi otome romance of the 24th century!"), and her friends talked about it all the time, it never really caught her interest—except for Hitomi, the game's main rival character! Rika scrapes together all of her secondhand knowledge of the game to duck the advances of the male love interests and focus on her true goal: Winning the heart of Hitomi, who's even more stunning in person!
Saturday at Noon: All The Worlds Are Other To Me: Why Can't I Just Be The Heroine? - Nicknamed WorldsOther by the fandom, this is a high fantasy anime based on a series of light novels. The heroine of the story is the sorceress Bremby. She's lived under the threat of the Demon King's hordes for years, but the temples promise that one day the Chosen One will be summoned from another world to set things right. Well, the day is here, and there seem to be at least four 'chosen ones', all of whom claim to be from other worlds. Unfortunately, rather then setting out to accomplish the task they were summoned for in the first place and defeating the Demon King, all four of them seem to be more interested in arguing about the details of the prophecy and finding love in the local population. Fine; if their absurd powers are going to waste, maybe Bremby can save the world herself...
Saturday Afternoon: Ghost Girlfriend - When high school boy Yoshida Mamoru moves into a house in a new neighborhood, he quickly learns that it's haunted by the ghost of a teenage girl! On top of that, Tsubomi has an absolutely enormous crush on him, to which Mamoru remains oblivious. The twist? Due to some supernatural shenanigans, her ghost status is subject to special rules: If someone falls in love with her and truly loves her to the point where they confess their feelings and mean it, she'll get to restart her life as a human—but only if they confess first! Tsubomi is constantly fighting to keep her hopes from getting too far up, and has also resolved not to tell Mamoru any of the details in case he would feel pressured into trying to develop feelings for her. Meanwhile, absolutely everyone else is trying hardcore to matchmake them.
Saturday Evening: Fantasy Hero Mech - When war threatens, the denizens of the world of Sylvania come together to summon the hero who was prophesied to come in their hour of greatest need; meanwhile, Takeshi is just a low-ranking grunt in the Unified Space Forces, working to repair a hyperspace transport gate. Right when he flips the switch to test it out, he and his repair mech are sucked through it into Sylvania, where the people on the other side of the gate assume he has arrived to save them.
Saturday Night: Clockwork Under City Lights - An OVA adapted from a webcomic. The interconnected stories of a dozen tiny magically-powered, steampunk-ish self-aware constructs created in the shape of large insects, miniature forest animals, non-humanoid mythological creatures, and so forth, set loose in a big and bustling city somewhere on a world just to the left of our own; life can be beyond interesting as well as startlingly mundane when you're a metal and stained glass griffin the size of a teacup.
Sunday Early Morning: Guardian Treasures - When Earth is threatened by alien forces, Japan’s Three Treasures rise again in the form of giant mechs: three high school boys, Ryuu, Heiji, and Touya, are chosen by the mechs as pilots to defend Earth. With help from engineering and folklore student Asuka, they will work together to drive off the invaders and protect the world. But there’s a dark secret about the invaders that could threaten to tear apart the bonds they’ve formed, and endanger Earth in the process...
Sunday Morning: Please Don't Tell My Mom I Flunked My Magical Girl Academy Entrance Exams - It's the year 21XX, and being a Magical Girl is now a viable career option. Unfortunately, despite her own significant magical powers, Arika Izumi is much more interested in being an accountant or a programmer. Her relief when she learns that the experts at Mahou Gakuen, the most prestigious magical girl academy in the area, think she wouldn't be a good fit for the program is short-lived; when she arrives home after learning the results, she sees that her mother has not only already assumed she would pass, but told all of her own friends that Arika would be attending Mahou Gakuen. Luckily, Arika got accepted to a different high school that's not very far from Mahou Gakuen; with the help of her new friends in the Drama Club, and a little programming magic, Arika is set to fake the heck out of being a Mahou Gakuen student.
Sunday at Noon: Nobunaga and the Warring States - A Hetalia-esque historical cartoon featuring Oda Nobunaga and other historical figures, as well as the personified States. Nobunaga has to constantly break up petty squabbles between the States. He is accompanied by his constant companion, fan favorite Piyo the nightingale, who is usually found perched on his shoulder or head. He is still waiting for her to sing.
Sunday Afternoon: Tech Wizard - Garret Smelter has an absurdly good reputation for repairing spells and magical devices. His secret? He's been using mundane methods the entire time, but no one he's told believes him! Told from the POV of Hans, Garret's new apprentice, as Garret and his his "familiar" (a well-trained but mundane ferret named Lefty) go about the work of keeping the city of Archdale running on actual engineering.
And that's Room One! Current summaries are tentatively final, though I'm welcome to concrit and will likely be going over them another time or two before putting them in the game.
Here's what I've got so far for Room Two:
Gull - Swept Away: After nine-year-old Katsuo's puppy is saved from a frozen-over pond by a practicing curling team, he and his friends Hiraku and Minato become obsessed with the sport. When they reach high school, a teacher from Canada arrives, and they finally have an advisor for their curling club. Unfortunately, they're one club member short. Katsuo sets his sights on Hajime, the younger brother of the boy who saved Katsuo's puppy. The problem? Hajime is completely uninterested in curling!
(The puppy is the club's mascot.)
Me: His Majesty's Guard; harem anime. Ordinary Japanese high school student Genta learns that he's actually the heir to a vaguely European-ish country. Since the previous ruler was assassinated, Genta has been assigned a full team of highly trained guards, each specializing in a different weapon and/or fighting style, and each head-over-heels for Genta. His Majesty's Guard has gained a fair amount of attention for one of Genta's guards being a male character (Thomas), even if they are not expected to be the endgame ship.
Me: Heartbeat Rhythm Magic - Koharu is practicing with a hoop for rhythmic gymnastics club when suddenly, a strange monster made of stadium seating attacks the gym! Koharu is then found by a small, pink, hamster-like creature that tells her she is to be the leader of a team of magical girls who use the tools and skills of rhythmic gymnastics to defeat monsters and keep the evil Judge Malice from throwing off the rhythm of the world and using the power of hearts beating out of sync to take over the universe. Together with her teammates Natsuki, Akiko, and Fuyumi, Koharu will overthrow Judge Malice and restore the world's rhythm!
Me: City Heist - Based loosely on a dream I had. A recently released movie. The gem powering the technology of the village where Adorina lives has broken; the townsfolk can keep the town running for a time with human power alone, but this cannot be maintained for more than a few months. The only place to get replacement gems is the Eternal City, but the city's ruler guards them fiercely and charges outrageous amounts for replacements. Knowing her town can never afford the cost of a new gem, Adorina recruits retired master thief Antono, fighting and arms expert Rubena, and recently fired city guards Luksa and Johano to help her steal not only the gem she needs to help her village live on, but the technology to create new gems—just as Eternal City's ruler once stole it from Adorina's grandmother.
Me: Alien Lifeswap - One day out of the blue, a space alien abducts ordinary teenage boy Noboru and takes his place in order to study humans and help make a decision about whether they should be introduced to the wider galactic alliance. The show follows both the alien in its attempts to pass as Noboru, and Noboru in a special not-quite-classroom with aliens from at least four other species who are undergoing basically the same trial, plus a teacher from the species that is taking the his place. Shenanigans ensue.
Me: Rue 63rd - The story starts when Rokuro (whose name means "sixth son") and Sango (whose name means "third child") meet and commisserate that the other has the life that they want for themselves. Deciding to swap places, the "boy" (now going by Kuroko) and "girl" (now called Hanzo) slowly discover that part of the reason their new lives feel so right is because they are, in fact, transgender. The two of them need to navigate not only their new school lives as a gender they'd never thought they'd be yet are coming to realize is right, but also their home lives and interactions with each other, as they come to terms with their gender identities and what they want for the future.
Me: Where Is My Master? - A very fanservicey title about a dog named Pochiko who saves the life of a witch and is turned into a busty young woman as a reward. Pochiko is delighted, but her human master, Akihiko, is a lot more conflicted—especially because Pochiko still acts so much like a dog! Despite Akihiko trying his best to set her up with her own life as a human, Pochiko is determined to stay by Akihiko's side through thick and thin.
Dale and me: Isekai Bus Tour - Aiko is walking home from school one day when a bus comes barreling down the street right at her! Convinced that these are her last minutes alive, Aiko is astonished when, in a huge burst of light, the tour bus vanishes. Meanwhile, Youta and Miyu have been working together for years to get their new Akihabara tour bus up and running, and have just started their first tour! A combination of a horribly annoying passenger and a newspaper getting caught on the windshield has Youta losing control of the bus; right when he's about to hit a teenage girl, the entire bus is transported to another world—one that a passenger recognizes! The main storyline follows Youta and Miyu, with their mysterious new skills of Bus Driver and Tour Guide, as they hop from world to world with a full passenger list, hoping each new portal Miyu directs them to will be the one to bring them all back home. The post-episode clips, meanwhile, follow Aiko as she investigates the mysterious "hit-and-run" bus, leading to wilder and wilder conspiracy theories as she goes.
Gullwhacker: Bolt Turners In The Sky - A century and a half ago, the world fell to a disaster known only as the Hungry Earth. No longer able to survive on the planet's surface, humanity fled to the skies. There, people live out their lives on city-fleets of assorted air vehicles - dirigibles, single-engine planes, helicarriers, and more. The series focuses on the Bolt Turners: a group of technicians who travel from vessel to vessel, fixing mechanical issues to keep the fleet flying. With art reminiscent of Studio Ghibli and a full cast of interesting, well-developed characters, the anime has fans hooked across the globe.
East: A Sprinkle of Love - A romantic comedy about a young engineering woman named Yuki who enters a baking competition with no grand prize besides the title of Best Baker. She meets the other competitors and gets along except for that one grumpy young man named Ken. Due to a misunderstanding, they get off on the wrong foot, but during the course of the competition they get to know each other better. It's not long before these feelings turn to love, but at the end of the competition nears and they are the only two left standing, can their love survive the heat?
The biggest turning point is when Ken ruins his icing and has to make from scratch and Yuki comes over to help.
Me: Hanako's School Days - A school drama about a fat girl named Hanako and her experiences in junior high and high school. A very sympathetic look at a fat girl character, who has been given a cute character design, and how she deals with the bullying and microaggressions she faces in everyday life.
Alex and Socchan: DCLXVI: Margaret the witch has found a mysterious egg and a piece of ancient parchment with instructions for a ritual to hatch it, but no other information. Incredibly curious, Margaret decides to perform the ritual and see what’s inside. Just then, the angel Tenshi and the demon Koakuma show up to try and stop her; according to them, the egg actually contains a beast that will devour the world! Unfortunately, they're too late; the ritual has completed, and the egg hatches into a tiny golden dragon-like creature with a crimson mane. Knowing that they'll be punished if they go back with this bad news, Tenshi and Koakuma decide to team up with Margaret and raise it; maybe if they do everything right, it won't want to devour the world after all! It worked in that one British book/radio play/TV miniseries, after all... Lots of yuri subtext/moments.
Alex: Bridge Over Dragon Run - A slice-of-life/drama with a fantasy twist. Seventh grader Sachie is having a rough time in middle school; none of her friends from grade school are going to the same school she is, and a number of the girls she does go to school with have chosen her as a target for bullying. She's retrieving her school bag from where some of the girls have thrown it into a creek when she comes across a large egg. The egg hatches when Sachie touches it, and a small dragon topples out, instantly bonding with her. Knowing instinctively that the tiny creature is now her responsibility, Sachie takes it home and attempts to hide it from her mother and younger brother, with decidedly mixed results.
Alex and me: Inherit the Flame - A critically acclaimed movie, heavy with symbolism and artistically stunning. 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 call their hearts back from the cauldron and return home.
There's still a lot for me to do with editing and cleaning up the stuff in Room Two, as well as moving one of the titles to Room One, but I wanted to get it all in one place before I tackled that. Order isn't finalized (it'll be pretty arbitrary anyway). Names are in there so I remember who to properly credit in the game credits.
Edit: Here's a link to the demo for anyone who missed it.
Edit 2: Lots of editing has been done! I've only got three or four titles that need more tweaking left to go.
I also ended up having two extra titles in the lineup, so I took two out. (Sweepers, one of mine about the chimney sweeper kids, and Praying Mantis, one of Alex's, because I was having too much trouble trying to re-summarize it 😓)
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Date: 2021-02-26 05:27 am (UTC)Side note, I've already revamped the summary a bit after learning about this series, and was thinking of tweaking the title as well, just to reduce confusion (and any possibility of copyright problems) even farther. Any thoughts? My first impulse is to just throw the word "falling" in there, as in, "Help! I'm Falling In Love With The Villainess!" But you've got at least half credit on this, so I wanted to consult with you, as well.
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Date: 2021-02-26 11:53 am (UTC)One character I've always thought for it is the prince that in the game that villainess is engaged to and won't break it off, but when the person actually talks to her about it the villainess explains "The guy is a complete airhead! He'll run the country into the ground if I leave him alone. I can't break off the engagement unless I know his fiance can't handle him!" Don't know if that be a useful idea or not. XD
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Date: 2021-02-27 02:37 am (UTC)OMFG I love it 🤣 This is what I have for the episode right now: "This looks like the part where we learn Ryou's tragic backstory. The way Hitomi deals with him when he tries to use it as an excuse for being a jerk definitely makes the episode." I'm pretty sure I can wiggle that in as a second part of the episode, though.
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Date: 2021-02-26 01:43 am (UTC)Episode: A tiny gold giraffe with insect wings and its attempts to steal an orange.
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Date: 2021-02-27 12:16 am (UTC)Behind The Name has a random name generator and the name-themes preset searches, just saying
speaking of representation-in-media panels: disabled characters, fandom accessibility, racism—and those and the queer rep panel could maybe link to some resources? like I'm specifically envisioning a panel on how to not whitewash fanart, here's links (Twine can do links to outside sources from inside the game, right?) to how-tos digital artists have made on color balancing so East Asian characters have realistic skin tones in all lighting conditions and so Black ghost/zombie type characters look no less natural than the same sorts of white character and etc
(I have a feeling I just volunteered myself for digging up resources)
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Date: 2021-02-27 02:19 am (UTC)Hmm; I can definitely manage to slip in some queer resources in the queer rep panel, and probably figure out some stuff for accessibility stuff (especially linking to AnimeIowa's Accessibility Policy, which is in dire need of updating, actually), but uh. Racism in anime fandoms is... tricky to try and tackle. In the vast majority of anime and manga, we're supposed to understand that the characters are racially Japanese because the setting is Japan, "despite" the fact that we've got characters with phenotypes like Tsukino Usagi's and Aino Minako's running around. This isn't to say racism in anime and manga fandom doesn't exist, especially because Japan itself has some really deep, horrible racist roots that they still need to sort out themselves. It's also not something I'm sure I'd be the most appropriate to tackle as a white fan. Maybe I'll put out some feelers on Tumblr, see if I can find someone who'd be willing to guest write a panel or something? And then I could put some links in that.
...Oh wait, just something like a "fanart of marginalized people" panel? That sounds like something I could do. Especially with Hanako the fat character, and I can absolutely make sure that some of the other characters in various titles are obviously non-Japanese POC and/or disabled, etc.
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Date: 2021-03-16 08:22 am (UTC)I have reblogged several relevant art tutorial/guide/things recently, check #reference
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Date: 2021-06-15 04:47 am (UTC)Me: Chimney Blocks - Follows the story of two orphans who are chimney sweeps in the magic district of a manapunk university port town. The combination of magic and the residue from various experiments has given rise to magical smoke/ash creatures who make a nuisance of themselves if magicians' chimneys aren't regularly cleared. Minenhle, a Black girl, Zhong, a Chinese-coded boy, and their pigeon, Mirka, have been at this a while, but have recently been discovering newer and bigger ash monsters cropping up. Together, they're mounting an investigation to find out the cause.
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Date: 2021-06-28 04:24 am (UTC)Also someone accidentally fell in when parachuting and got convinced that the the society down there had existed for years
I remember a cutaway gag about the parachuter’s family thinking he was dead and another about someone only finding the sinkhole on a satellite land survey because the town was just a rarely visited little place behind some hills near a bunch of more popular places that people defaulted to
People were forbidden from attempting to climb the church’s steeple because it brought them too close to the outside world
Think some people in the society down there thought it was all just a sick joke put on by one of the local farmers and got a whole cult going blaming some random dude for burying the town
TW gore, animal death: At some point, someone found a "wall that bleeds", but they'd accidentally dug into a snake den.
Title by naresar: City Beneath or UnderTown