ITT: Write an Anime Plot

The main cast is a bunch of little kids at an orphanage during a war. Their town is overrun by the enemy army and the adults are all raped or killed. Most of the kids escape into the forest. They struggle to survive, and although they manage for a while, things get a lot tougher once winter rolls around and they all begin to starve. The last surviving kids find their way back to civilization, but the war is still going on and their country is occupied. They continue to have nightmares about their experiences for the rest of their lives.

>>156986270
This sounds like suffering for the sake of suffering, without much meaning beyond misery porn.

>tfw wrote a novel
>tfw realized it was isekai
>tfw it would be considered 'suffering wank' isekai

>>156986552
Of course there's meaning. The moral of the story is, overcoming the immediate obstacles you face as an individual won't necessarily solve anything in the grand scheme of things, and the wheel of history just keeps on turning and doesn't notice if it grinds you to a pulp.

Traditional medieval setting, with two warring factions in the same state.
Texts found in ancient ruins indicated the existence of a device, known as "the rift".
The first faction believes that the rift can bring the end and must be destroyed.
The second faction believes instead that the rift can save the world.

Faction 1 operates under the banner of the security force.
Faction 2 hides under the guise of a rebellion, holding control to a large slum area.
The increasing frequency of small earthquakes is making some citizens anxious.

MC is an outgoing, passionate young man who wants to help others as he earns a living.
MC joins faction 1 as a city guard, working to provide safety and maintain justice.
MC meets girl A, a manager responsible for directing patrol duties.
Through eavesdropping on conversations, MC starts to question the true agenda of faction 1.

In one battle with the rebellion, MC gets abducted and sent to the faction 2 camp.
After some persuasion, MC is convinced that faction 2 can save the world, and promptly converts to them.
MC meets boy B, a plain-spoken young man experienced in combat.
Meanwhile, a large earthquake decimates a small town, signs of civil unrest rises.

During another incident, MC catches girl A, who was holding a knife to his throat.
MC thereby discovers that girl A and boy B are siblings.
Years ago, Girl A was caught stealing food, and saved by faction 1 from death.
She was then trained to be an assassin; the manager position was part of the cover.
Boy B was instead found by faction 2, they have been contacting in secret ever since.

cont.

>>156986829
Faction 1 also discovers the relationship between girl A and boy B.
A series of earthquakes and floods occur, many protests, some joins the rebellion.
Faction 1 decides to use girl A as scapegoat, spreading rumours that she has orchestrated all of this.
Soon, the people want girl A's head on a plate.
Girl A is convicted and publicly executed, faction 2 forces stopped MC and boy B from interfering.

Shaken by the death of his sister, boy B leaves the camp alone.
MC questions if the people deserves to be helped, but decides that the world is still worth saving.
Independently, both MC and boy B finds out the location of the rift, and how to use it.
Additionally, boy B also finds the true nature of the rift.

The rift does not destroy or save the world.
According to the many-worlds interpretation, there are an infinite number of worlds of possibilities.
The rift transfers the consciousness of its user to a world of the user's choosing.
Knowing this, boy B travels to where the rift is, hoping that he can stop MC from using it.
This world is already approaching the end.

Boy B and MC arrives at the same time.
MC wants to use the rift to save the world, boy B knows that's not what it is for.
Swords clash, MC is confused about why boy B is fighting him, tells boy B that he can bring girl A back.
Boy B considers telling MC the truth, but decides not to.

MC defeats boy B, leaving him severely wounded.
Activating the device, MC's mind is transported to a world where the rift never existed.
Looking over MC's lifeless body, boy B chooses to stay as the world ends.
In the other world, MC meets up with other girl A and other boy B, now happy and at peace.

>>156984595
Gag manga about a zoologist on a field trip through Australia.

Generic harem but the mc fucks all of the girls and rapes the main antagonist until he becomes a good guy and everyone lives happily ever after.

>>156986796
Even Texhnolyze managed to make eternal suffering a bit deeper than that. At any rate, you could still use a story to bridge your beginning and ending.

>>156986869
This sounds interesting. The ending you've charted out is nice, certainly bittersweet. I feel that the war elements haven't earned their place yet, though. They're not really the heart of the story; that's the rift and what it does.

>>156986907
I did a pitch for a fantasy version of this a bit ago:

In order to compile a comprehensive compendium of every species of monster known to man, dwarf, and elf etc., the Teratozoological Society has dispatched its researchers to every corner of the globe. Some assignments promise glory, like writing the entry for the Great Wyrm of the North; others offer the thrill of an adventure, like studying the orcish hordes on the frontier; there's even the possibility of relaxing in the tropics getting to know the greater sunlit beach nymphs.

But, as victims of the byzantine intrigues of academia, Carol and Melvin were not assigned any of these. Not even close. Carol and Melvin got the shitty monsters.

Follow the adventures of our perpetually disgruntled Monster Manual writers as they wade through the trash gnomes, reverse-centaurs, and dire koalas of the world. Thrill at their intense taxonomic debates about whether frogbears are properly amphibians or mammals. Marvel at the exotic locales to which they travel, and the locals who belittle them. Weep at their nonexistent paths to tenure and social lives, laid low by their inability to sympathize even with each other.

MC is a high schooler who gets transported to another world to prevent its takeover by the dark lord. As a harem gathers around him, he rides around saving people with his powers and being a champion of true love, hard work, and friendship. After a few episodes he wakes up from his dream. It's years later. The dark lord took over after all, but he introduced a variety of positive socioeconomic developments to the nations he conquered and hugely improved the lives of the common people. As a result, the heroes lost popular support and surrendered. The dark lord paid them off to live peacefully in his modernized society. The MC dated every girl in his harem but eventually they all got real jobs and left him. He spends the rest of the show hanging out with his old rival at the pub, getting drunk and licking the floor.

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>>156984595
Average boring cowardly straight man protagonist has a doppelgänger that's Nippon's badest badass.
The show starts with how the craziest yakooza gang in the universe recruits the protag by mistake (thinking it's the other dude).

Craziness ensues.

Plots are over-the-top action together with SoL that circles around how the gang tries to take over the Tokyo underworld, fighting against other Yakuza gangs, po-po, aliens, you name it. (combine Black Lagoon, Saint's Row 2, Azumanga Daioh)
At the beginning the protagonist has a hard time coming to terms with his new life, but eventually gets used to it, and turns into a huge badass himself. There will be a twist to it, but I just wanted to draw some cool characters so I haven't thought it through fully.

Pic related. But I got bored after 3/4th and never bothered finishing it. Like how all characters were supposed to have qt animu girls tattooed all over their bodies in a classic Yakuza style.

>>156987030
Thanks for the critique, I do agree that the war setting feels a bit weak, definitely need to elaborate on that front more.

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An otaku NEET gets a knock on his door from a mysterious woman. He refuses to answer it, for he is only a few days away from becoming a wizard and fears that she may try to seduce him. She goes to great lengths to get him to open the door, such as sending him a fake lottery notice, digging a tunnel, and impersonating Nabeshin.

>>156987449
Those are some fucking awesome character designs anon
That bulge though

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Slice of Death/1001 Things to Do in [INSERT CITY HERE] When You're Dead
>Chuuni Ordinary High School Student gets hit by Truck-kun
>"Huh, maybe I'm going to an isekai world!"
>Nope, he's barred from the afterlife and forced to remain as a ghost until he actually accomplishes something with his un-life
>Now that he can't really indulge his vices, he has to socialize with other ghosts, accomplish things for other people, and contend with overzealous ghostbusters
>Mandatory ghost hand-holding, cuddling, and dicking

I'm not really sure if it should stay as a slice-of-life or if I should also plan out some arcs.

>>156984595
In the grim darkness of the 40th millennium, there is only war. When suddenly lolis

>>156987673
T-thanks!
And, yeah I know... Should have made it bigger.

>>156988131
>suddenly lolis
Too bad its no-harem hard mode.

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>>156987600
>Weird Science for Otakus
We have a winner.

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>Complete fucking dork decides he hates humanity and wants to upload himself into a computer, then launch himself into space
>He succeeds, his body dies in the process
>Floating through space he manages to find a world with life, about fifteen years away
>Life is simple, primitive culture that barely managed to build it's first cities, lifeforms are recognizably inhuman but still bipedal tool users, almost cute dumbo-esq things
>He decides he doesn't want it to go the way humanity would, and sets course to intervene

meanwhile, back on Earth
>dork's body dies as the upload completes
>instead of waking up seeing the world through the lens of a robotic eye cam, he finds himself in a dark room surrounded by flames and polished stone
>Angry voices boom out of the darkness, one reveals itself to be Thoth, accompanied by the other gods of the Underworld
>Tells the dork he fucked up and risks upsetting the natural order of another planet, they don't want to intervene so they're sending his soul into some poor child's body
>Has to plan out and manage to kill a highly intelligent but predictable version of himself within 15 years from birth to manhood, likely dying trying in the process. Failure results in Set will be allowed by Thoth to cause destruction in wake of the balance being tipped too far towards good.

>>156988720
I'd watch it, but if he uploaded a copy, then why did he die in the first place?

>>156989506
The soul died with the body, the electro-chemical patterns of the brain got copied successfully though.

The story starts with what looks like an archetypal JRPG/fantasy party of four marching through what seems to the last stretch of the big, bad godly villain's lair. During the final encounter, our main character, who's essentially the party's mage willingly sacrifices his life so that the main hero can deal the killing blow and save the world. The world is saved, but the now group of 3 are upset that they lost their mage and return home with their heads low and eventually live happily ever after.

Timeskip five years later, and our main character mage inexplicably wakes up alone in the now abandoned ruins of the lair, without a scratch, or even any sign of decay on his body. Ecstatic to be alive, he rushes out of the lair back to the surface only to find out that things are no where near as perfect as he envisioned them.

Through some sick twist of fate, our MC learns that the hero who led his party was sentenced to death and executed almost immediately after returning to town after their triumphant victory, and that one of the party members has been imprisoned for life, while the qt cat girl healer ran off and hasn't been seen since. To make matters worse, some townsfolk recognize our MC, and being certain he was dead they deem him an unholy abomination and a bounty is placed on his head, though our MC is smart enough to put together that it isn't that whoever put the bounty on his head thinks he's an abomination, but just wants to get him out of the way.

He teams up with his party leader's imouto to discover the truth as to why this is happening, who the villain they killed at the beginning truly was, a long-lasting corruption in the politics of the kingdom, and why and how our MC was inexplicably revived.

To add on top of this, he starts to gain the memories and some mannerisms of the villain from the beginning, which slowly pieces together a side of the story the MC was unaware of.

"I don't want to be the main character of my own romantic high school action adventure drama!"

>MC knows that he's the MC
>Lives with his eccentric father (who tries to free MC from the curse of being a main character) and his younger sister
>MC doesn't want to be the main character, and has trained extensively in order to spot any tropes.
>Mysterious new transfer student? Never interact with them, ever.
>Friends want to go peep on girls? Stay far away as possible
>Popular Ojou-sama wants the D? Politely reject her, then casually ignore her attempts at romance
>Giant monster attacking the city, and MC is selected to pilot a giant mecha? Fuck that, the military can handle it.
>Sister tries to seduce him? Call a therapist
>Plots begin getting even more out of whack, with demons taking over and MC switching bodies with an antelope
>Still manages to find a way back to normal.
>Eventually the planet starts ripping apart
>Huge cracks appearing in the sky
>MC has no clue what's going on, is teleported to the center of the Universe
>A loli is there, a representation of the Universe itself
>Universe-tan explains that by denying his role as a main character, MC has led to the destruction of this universe
>Without a defined role, the universe is splitting apart cause it can't decide whether its a world with demons or robots or a high school drama
>Universe-tan states that the only way to fix everything is to kill MC, as that will allow a new Main character to be chosen.
>MC refuses to die
>Universe-tan and MC fight
>Eventually MC accepts that he's the Main Character, but that 'THIS IS THE END OF MY SERIES!'
>Taps into his main character powers, destroys Universe-tan and everything goes back to normal
>Cuts to MC ten years later, married to a normal wife, working a normal job, normal children, but happy as can be.

> cuts back to the center of the Universe, with Universe-tan standing over the corpse of MC. Universe-tan shakes her head and walks away

>>156990474
Haven't you heard? Someone wrote a shitty fanfic about Keit-Ai, so no one can post the copypasta now.

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One day people begin hearing the voices of the dead. They tell the world that god and heaven is real and that upon death no soul is judged to be unworthy. That's when the suicides started. First the religious fanatics, then those who heard those long lost, then those with nothing to lose. It's no trick: some of the recent suicide victims even come back as voices. There's just no downside to leave the struggle of life and join your ancestors above.

Our MC is a middle school teacher. And although he's heard his late wife, he's not budging. Unfortunately, the fate of his students is often outside of his control. He couldn't stop the school shooters. He couldn't stop the students from jumping off the second floor. He couldn't stop crazed parents who would take their children home one day only to never return. But damn it, as his classes begin to dwindle in size, he's going to try.


SIDE NOTE: MC's mentality would not be rare but would likely be the minority as many people seek the joy of heaven. I'd like to examine how society falls apart or perhaps sticks together in some places as people just keep disappearing. I want to look at the reactions of various leaders as well. Most importantly is the reactions of his students as they seek guidance outside of their loved ones. They would be the main focus of the show, with each person's motivations for staying alive or succumbing. How they deal with a dead parent or dead parents, how bullying evolves, how the law against murder stops being enforced. No idea how to end it, as usual.

>>156990659
That actually sounds like it could be amazing, regardless of if it was played as a dark comedy or straight up philisophical

>>156984595
A barren wasteland post-apocalyptic setting, where the main character is on the hunt for a valuable resource that can no longer be created with current technology, only maintained and preserved: Glasses.

>>156990956
You know glasses actually aren't that hard to make. While modern versions are very refined, as long as glass blowing is something people can do, you can make simple-enough devices for clearing up vision.

>>156991087
To be honest, I didn't, I was just thinking about what would be hard to come by in a post-apocalyptic situation the other day at the eye doctor.

>>156990956
In a post-apocalyptic setting, MC has superpowers because the artifact he carries is the last of its kind: A bible.

>MC is caught in a Groundhog Day style time loop repeating the same few weeks of high school
>can't kill himself or leave town or the loop just restarts
>resigns himself to enjoying it and starts romancing everything that moves
>always breaks up with them on the last day of the loop so he can have closure when they don't remember anything they did together
>eventually dates literally every girl in his school

>new transfer student shows up on the first day of the next loop
>MC freaks out
>decides to date her too because what else is left to do in this stupid world
>sweeps her off her feet
>shows her the world
>cooks her breakfast
>takes her virginity
>dumps her on the last day of the loop and breaks her heart

>loop restarts
>transfer student sits in her usual seat and doesn't get introduced
>MC thinks this is weird but what else is new
>they bump into each other a couple times
>she's visibly upset with him
>she confronts him after school and throws a fit
>she remembers the previous loop but doesn't realize they're in a loop
>MC tells her everything

>she desperately tries to escape the loop but never can
>they go through hundreds of loops together and make each other's lives hell
>drink and fuck and kill themselves all the time because nobody else remembers anything and it's lonely and they can't cope
>finally resigning herself to being a timeloop immortal she goes off and does whatever she likes to fill her time
>having gotten bored of fucking and violence and taboo breaking as well MC follows her around to do what she does

>under her direction they spend hundreds of years gaining all the knowledge and experience the world has to offer a week at a time
>through a coincidental confluence of events, transfer student realizes what happened to bring her into MCs loop
>she gets him to do this trick again and sure enough a new person is sucked into the loop
>transfer student posits that if MC were to suck everyone on earth into the timeloop that it would be fixed

>>156991809
cont
>MC sets about repeating his trick to bring new people
>requires him to dedicate his entire week repeating rote tasks
>he needs to repeat these tasks billions of times, no one else can do it for him

>as new people come in and start being dicks like he and transfer student once was, they routinely ruin a weeks effort
>transfer student supports him by forming protection militias for his task, creating a police state
>MC does the task millions of times, filling his timeloop universe with a city worth of people
>he's losing his mind, despite the protection force, he loses weeks from basic mistakes

>transfer student meanwhile has become like a dictator of the immortals who each week takeover the world
>uprisings take place but her prior experience and knowledge of all things makes her an unstoppable ubermensch
>at a billion transfers, MC is too tired to go on, he wants to stop
>the majority of immortals also wants MC to stop and have formed a resistance to stop him
>the resistance fear that every new transfer brings them closer to mortality
>transfer student desperately wants mortality back so she can get closure to her life
>she convinces MC that he wants the same, if only because he's tired of living

>except for the occasional break week when the resistance manages to screw up a goal, MC repeats himself infinitely
>he repeats himself perfectly again this week
>cities burn, children cry and transfer student reigns supreme as ends every week
>the loop doesnt restart
>his final attempt was a waste, MC had already successfully transferred everyone, even children in the womb

>timeskip 190 years into the future
>transfer student is an old woman now but thanks to thousands of years of science in the timeloop she can expect to live healthy for even longer
>she serves as the most prominent elder in a futurist-utopian society birthed in the aftermath of the timeloop
>she visits the grave of MC who committed sudoku the day he realized the timeloop had ended

This is most likely shit, but it's a concept I've been thinking about.

>Humanity and a large amount of other lifeforms flee underground due to an oncoming apocalypse scenario.
>Many generations later, the main two MCs are born as twins, and they gain an interest of the outside world.
>They promise to get to the surface, in a "legal" way or not, based on stories they've read.
>They manage to get to the surface, but everything seems normal, no smog or brimstone filled desert like they imagined.
>They start to argue with each other, one thinking it was all a conspiracy, while the other thinks the world might have just went back to normal.
>Cue the "antagonist", an somewhat decayed android.
>They slowly start to figure out he was the reason behind the armageddon rumors, all a part of a plan to keep the world from changing, like the technological singularity.
>The android is actually decaying over the many years its been alive, and it's judgement and "humanity" has been slipping, to the point where he wonders if what he is doing is the best course of action.
>The twins start out on a small journey learning of the inevitability of the end, and even the androids efforts are wasted. As well as their own.
>The end is coming near, so they just do what they can for the rest of their lives, and try to enjoy what little time they have left, and also to teach the android to accept it.

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I've been reincarnated as a lucky bedpan that can heal any illness, but instead of being used by a cute girl, I'm a drinking vessel for the Goblin King?!?!

>>156992225
Seems like a mishmash of several generic plots, notably the whole underground thing is a spitting image of The City of Ember. What's the philosophical that you're striving for?

>>156991809
>>156991873
You took my concept in an interesting direction, anon...

MC lives in a fantasy world with game mechanics. One day a great evil spreads across the land and he attempts to pull together an adventuring party to defeat the new demon lord. They fail spectacularly. To his horror, he realizes that some higher being is controlling his major decisions, but the "player" is really bad at RPGs.

>>156993404
you needed a conclusion so i just ran with everything you set forth until it hit a conclusion.

>>156993252
More just learning to accept what can't be changed, and possibly something for an idea of people having a hard time coming to terms with whats ahead. Though this is just a bare bones version really

While browsing his favourite Mongolian basketweaving forum, anon happens upon a thread telling him to save anime. Responding to the call, anon makes a machine that allows him to enter currently airing anime.
From there, anon goes around anime worlds trying to usurp cliches.
For example:
>"Kyousuke-kun, I-"
>FIREWORKS
>"Eh, nadatte!?"
>anon suddenly appears
>(she said) "I LOVE YOU (no homo)!"
>comedic misunderstandings ensue

Anon is so obsessed with diverting cliches that he becomes a dense harem MC.

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>>156984595
"There's no way I've reincarnated in a fantasy world as toothpaste, and what's my mom doing here!?!?"

Atsumane kun is your ordinary everyday japanese high school student, he doesn't attend school and has ESP. He lives with his single mother who works two jobs and has a policy of always being cheerful and trying to cheer her son up at all times. One day while at home he's practicing moving things around with his mind when he gets upset at how autistic he is and focuses really hard on pressuring his bathroom mirror, accidentally creating a rift to another world. He starts yelling as it drags him and some bathroom stuff in and his mother jumps to try to rescue him.

They arrive in the fantasy world in a barn, and there's the whole 'where are you atsumane?' and his mom starts crying but then he uses his esp to move himself (the toothpaste) and he will be a completely silent protagonist from not on, although the mother talks to him often. After being in the world for a while, the king's brother has just died and they as suspicious otherworlders are rounded up. What follows is a murder mystery where Atsumane uses his esp to try to clue his mother onto things, and her cheerful nature slowly gets tested and frayed as she misses her son. There's an episode where toothpastekun is accidentally thrown out, and the mother suspiciously goes and begs the king to help find it. She ends up saying it's just a memento of her son, and the King sends all his soldiers to find him. Each episode there is a different person who lives in the castle that the mother toothpaste and King clear of guilt by finding out the secret for why they weren't where they were supposed to be on that day etc. The whole time this is happening, the king starts to get the hots for ocasan, and when it's revealed that the king's brother omitted suicide, they comfort each other and get married and the toothpaste was just a toothpaste all along.

>Deconstruction of the mother-reincarnated-item- trope

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>>156984595

Phantasm, is a land that has always existed in mystery and never really understood by its own inhabitants. The history of the land dates back to the rise of its empire made by the Emperor who united its many different lands and people together, protecting it from various evils who challenged their power, until become a tyrant to keep order in society.

The Emperor was opposed by his two greatest students, the Archmages and a Knight who managed to seal him away. The two Archmages took over governing the land and the Empire that was built was divided into different kingdoms with their own dynasties and representatives in the Empire. The Knight who assisted them, became land of Phantom's new protector.

A golden age was brought forth and this continued on until the Knight and Archmages faded into legend...

Millennium have passed and the two largest kingdoms in the Empire: Old Iron Kingdom and the League of Dragons are at war with each other in order to promote their respective heirs as the successor to the Empire's dynasty after the previous one picked by the Archmages passed away.

The legendary Knight awakens from a deep slumber due to the fighting in the land and finds themselves in a brand new world as they are drawn into the fighting of the Iron-Dragon War, encountering new types of magic and enemies that they never seen before (As they didn't exist in his time.), which excites him as he will be able to die in the glory of combat.

The only thing that made the Knight one of the strongest person in his day was that: He was very good at killing things + he had a accelerated healing factor which made him survive some of the most fatal strikes.

Behind this war is a cult dedicated to the revival of the Emperor and restoration of the Old Empire.

>>156994384
Keep working on presentation. Coherency is king in these threads.

Speaking of which, Editor we miss you!

MC comes from a future where everyone can use extrasensory perception (ESP). He is supposed to have an arranged marriage with his childhood friend but he doesn't want to. So he finds a time machine and comes to the present. He starts to live a mostly normal life as a professional dancer. However, one day a girl falls from the sky and MC saves her. She reveals that she's an alien who escaped from her home planet because evil aliens are trying to destroy the galaxy and MC's planet is next. Now MC must protect his planet from those aliens. Said aliens use dancing as a way of fighting, so MC decides to combine his dancing skills with his ESP powers in order to surpass them. Meanwhile, he and alien girl start to live together and try to fit into local society.

>>156984595
The princess of a fantasy kingdom is hit by a run away cart and wakes up in the modern world. She's fascinated by the tall buildings and bright lights. An idol manager spots her and asks her to audition. With nothing better to do, she agrees. Thus the legend of the Idol Princess begins.

“Errant Medley”

A disgraced knight vows to redeem herself by retrieving the mythical Golden Apples to cure the sickly prince. Almost a decade of literally fruitless questing ensues before she finally acquires the apples, only for a new problem to present itself: how the hell is she going to get home? But fortunately for her—or perhaps not—she soon meets a traveling relic peddler with a cart who offers to take her all the way back to her kingdom in exchange for one of the apples. She agrees, and the long journey home begins. But between the knight’s careless altruism, the relic peddler’s machinations, and the various needy strangers they meet along the road, will there be any apples left for the prince?

The story is told as an episodic adventure series with occasional episodes that advance the overall arc of the story, dealing with the knight and the relic peddler’s respective pasts. If possible, it would draw heavily from a musical style incongruous with the medieval setting. As the two travel, two additional characters join the group: the ghost of a martyr whose relics the peddler is carrying around for mysterious reasons, and a headstrong young man who appoints himself the knight’s squire. The stock of magical apples is a constant point of conflict, as are the inherent conflicts in the team’s personalities. The final act deals with the knight’s return home and the events that transpire there, with a more bitter than sweet conclusion.

>>156990659
That's some hype shit right there. Good job anon.

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An aspiring stage and street magician attempts to perform his master's signature trick and accidentally sends himself to a fantasy world where "magic is REAL" and spells and sorcery are commonplace. With only his wits and a literal bag of tricks at his disposal, our muggle MC must duel other actual wizards and mages while finding a way to return home.

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>>156996611
>more bitter than sweet
>apples

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>>156990659
>No idea how to end it, as usual.
cancellation is the only way.

>>156984595
Code Geass without mechas, more somber tone, less flashy terrorism and more high school day to day shit.

Wow, that was easy.

>>156998249
I hadn't even realized the joke; nice catch. My real goal here was to write a plot in the style of Watanabe.

>>156986270
shallow suffering wankery
3/10

>>156986829
not bad, though the machine's function itself makes it so the conflicts of the story means nothing if the world could never be saved and utilizing it doesn't change anything.
6/10

>>156986907
could be good
5/10
>>156987030
now this is how you market something
6/10

>>156986955
literally just watch hentai lol
0/10

>>156987369
could be interesting SoL with the right story but the way you presented it is just more boring misery porn
4/10

>>156987449
i'd watch the fuck outta this
8/10

>>156987600
could be good
6/10

>>156987855
literally kobato without the dog
if its OC, 6/10 if you actually ripped off the plot idea, 0/10

>>156988720
could work, would give it three episodes to impress me
6/10

>>156989695
this is way too similar to a plot that some guy posted in a previous thread

>>156990422
this was good up until the surprise tweest ending
4/10

>>156990474
(you)

>>156990659
damn this is dank
8/10

>>156991809
I liked this last t >>156991873
oh, you ruined it. interesting but I'm getting really tired of these apocalyptic twists
5/10

>>156992225
>more nihilistic hamfisting
YAWN
this was decent up until the unapologetic "you must accept that you can't do anything" bullshit
4/10

>>156993613
meta but uninteresting at it's core
5/10

>>156994936
i'd give it a shot
6/10

>>156995363
jesus fucking christ
6/10

>>156996144
as much as I like petty dynastic struggles, I'm not seeing anything original that's supposed to draw me in. I'd watch it but it sounds horribly generic.
5/10

>>156996365
wow I'm really liking this new macross series, is it coming next season?
5/10

>>156996493
nice, but i'd rather just watch idolm@ster if it's just going to end up being that generic
4/10

>>156996611
good presentation, i'd watch.
7/10

>>156997843
as fun as this sounds, street magic is terribly shallow or incredibly staged. any antics the MC tries to do would need bullshittery to achieve something
5/10

>>156987449
this would be like if hitman reborn wasn't shit

>>156998636
>I'm getting really tired of these apocalyptic twists
no idea what you're referring to but it's not a twist, it's a progression... and it ends in a utopia so its literally the opposite.

World ends, groups of people are sent back to the beginning of time with their bodies and memories intact. They either become “observers” or “historians” (placeholder name), able to either observe the changing landscapes of the world (similar to the God of the New Testament) or change the outcome of the world (similar to mythological gods or the God of the Old Testament). The show follows both an observer and a historian throughout the entire history of this new Earth. Other notes: observers are able to influence the world, but not directly. They can “descend” to Earth and attempt to cause the lifeforms (protozoan all the way to highest evolved life) to change the world on their own. Historians can also influence others to shape the world, but prefer to do it themselves. Both observers and historians are immortal, unaging, and unable to be seen unless they want to be. Though the observers and historians are not opposing factions, the two main characters have slightly different ideal visions of the world (neither good nor bad: there’s no real “protagonist” or “antagonist” in the series).

>>156986270
Sounds pointless and would only work if it's very, very well done so you won't notice how pointless it is.

>>156986829
>>156986869
Incredible generic with potential two season wonder. I'd probably watch it if the first episodes were well made.

>>156986907
>>156987030
Pretty cute idea. Not something I'd be interested in initially but definitely sounds original and interesting.

>>156987855
Could be interesting. Also why make it either or, short 2-3 episode arcs would do.

>>156989695
Mhmm not bad but seems to lack "that special something".

>>156990422
Could be fun if you find the right tone for the narration.

>>156990659
Potentially great but could also be too preachy and cringe-y shit.

>>156991809
I liked it till the 4th paragraph, afterwards it sounds rather tedious.

>>156992225
Pretty generic but could be an entertaining one season series or just a movie.

>>156995363
Bizarre enough to work.

>>156996144
So what kind of characters? Otherwise it's hard to care about it all.

>>156996611
Unless you manage to make the knight boring, I'd love to watch it.

>>156997843
I like it. At least the concept, making decent anime out of it sounds tricky.

>>156999097
I don't quite see the point. What are the stakes? You can't just create their role without a purpose. Their attempts at changing the outcome of events sounds more like wish fulfillment unless you had some greater philosophical question.

A student has the power of persuasion. He's basically able to get anyone in his presence to do whatever he wants. With that great power comes responsibility and he's learned to be subtle about his influence, using it here and there, building his status, establishing rules with who he influences, slowly revolving the whole school around him.

One day a transfer student comes in. She's immediately received with great fanfare and the whole class applauds at her introduction. All expect MC. It's obvious to both what they are. Now it's a battle. Will they coexist, or can there only be one?


Side note: The plot can take itself in a million directions. Ultimately, I think that the two can never truly coexist, but I want to spend the show seeing them try. I want to explore what their individual rules are, how the subtle background manipulator clashes with the overt attention grabber. How both play endless mind games over social groups and "who's influencing who." An epic game of love and hate, of the meaning true loyalty and sincerity. See how they try to elevate themselves in power struggles (school president election arc, anyone?). See how far they get by themselves, let the viewer decide if the characters are actually using their powers or if they're just being themselves.

I'd try to prop up the girl as this badass unstoppable schemer, only for the perspective to switch and we see her as exhausted as MC. I'd set up a scene where MC fails to prevent a close friend's suicide, with transfer girl hugging him in the end despite their bitter rivalry. I want to see a truce and relationship form between them as they learn that they don't have to fight. But in the end an uncontrollable force causes them to come at odds, leading to an epic escalation arc where people form outside the school get involved, from police to government and then military. There'd be a huge buildup, I have no idea how to end this.

A knight(MC) battling on the frontline against a monster invasion is forcefully called back to the kingdoms capital. From there the king and nobles had summoned someone from an other world, this person will be a 'hero' and will save the kingdom. The MC task is to protect the hero on his journey to defeat the demon king.

The story follow the perspective of the knight as he accompanies the hero. Watching as the hero is given the silver-spoon treatment with everything. The tragic tale of how a man put blood, sweat, and tears to raise in the ranks forced to watch as someone who never once held a weapon given everything on a silver-platter.

>>157000386
Further elaboration: MC would be some school sports hotshot thanks to his powers and his favorite thing to do is to go around solving the problems of others that he stumbles upon like its natural (but it's not). He keeps several of his closest peers uninfluenced in an act of honesty, and I would examine their thoughts of MC's behavior as the show goes on. I would also show him keeping his parents normal. His greatest fear is becoming irrelevant to those around him.

The girl is all about bravado. She sees her gift as something to be flaunted, something distinct that gives everyone a good time. While her way of doing things is initially seen as cocky and arrogant, it also allows her to better utilize her abilities, having her constantly cream the MC on her thoughts alone. Her biggest fear is being alone; this stems from her mother's suicide, which she believes she may have caused.

Both utilize their knowledge of each other's rules and limits to perform a constant one-up battle; sabotage of love interests, control over close friends, abuse of secrets and fears. I think after they go too far near the halfway point and that's when the show shifts toward their romance.

The show would probably talk about the "crisis," which is the inevitable existential crisis that persuaders feel when they realize that their entire lives are fake.

Also, no they can't influence each other. That's why their greatest weapon is others.

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A hundred years after all of humanity was wiped out, a boy and a girl wake up in a bunker deep underground. The two are part of a program that is designed to have them repopulate the Earth if needed. To do this they are cryogenically frozen until they are automatically defrosted. This only happens if the system shuts down or the Earth is considered inhabitable after someone triggers the Apocalypse Alarm.
The two were considered prodigies in their time and were considered perfect candidates to rebuild civilization. However they both have secrets that may impact their survival. The boy actually replaced his twin brother because he didn't want him to waste his life doing this. Unlike his brother, he's a moron who only his brother liked. The girl on the other hand is a lesbian.
After a storm destroys their shelter's entrance they set out to explore the new world. Throughout their journey of repopulating the Earth they meet strange creatures that either trade or attack them. They learn that they're the only survivors of the human race and that everyone else involved in the project disappeared mysteriously.
The two travel around the world, searching for clues about what happen. Through old records and writings they slowly come closer to the truth: climate change is real.

>>156984595
Macho men doing macho things

>>156994936
Sounds promising, I'd watch the first episode at least

Harem in Battle High School where everyone is a stock archetype and MC wins by friendship. The Real Hard Mode is thinking outside the box aka break all the conditions.

>>157001709
Watch InouBattle, it's actually pretty good

>>156984595
A weird kind of Isekai series where a guy, instead of transported himself into another world, he instead took possession of a lost prince who, during the battle that dooms his realm, falls down a cliff and was missing for 20 years. The prince woke up with the MC's conscious and starts wandering who is this prince, where is he and what happened.

>MC is an otaku NEET loser
>he is obsessed with this one battle harem show
>he likes this one girl who he dubs as the best girl
>and he absolutely despises this one girl who he calls the worst
>he shitposts about how much he hates her on 2ch all day
>one day he somehow wakes up in this shows universe with a academy invite in his hand
>it's the first episode
>knowing the show inside out, he makes it to the battle academy to enroll
>to his horror, everybody in the harem ignores/hates him since they all wants the harem MC's dick
>everybody except the worst girl

>>157001964
I would watch this, seems really cool
8/10

The voice of fire
Monster girls are invading our world in massive numbers, bringing only chaos. Vigilante groups styled after Crusaders and fantasy paladins and clerics form due to lack of government response, seeking to purge the monster girls from the world in reprisal.

Our MC is a young blond man was preshred by a friend to join his local group known as the World Guard 404. Despite his outward appearance as loyal, skilled guardsman, his secret is that he dosen't like fighting

Meanwhile, a family of cute tanuki girls try crazy scams each week to make money. When they backfire, the tanuki retreat back to the forest to come up with a new scam. However, the youngest one has regrets about following her sisters' lifestyle because she has a crush on MC, though she doesn't have the courage to reveal her love due to his public persona.

However a female paladin who has been tasked with hunting down traitors has already proposed marriage to the MC. He is also under threat from a magical ogre queen who was exiled to this new world. The pages of the ogre queen's spellbook have been scattered, leaving her weakened. She vows collect the magic pages and recruit local monsters to restore her kingdom.

DEAS VULT girl wins

"Speed Square"

Our MC is a girl who has no interest in making friends in her new class. She is very rude, narcissistic, and also flat-chested. As a result, she often ends up breaking people's cherished possessions.

She stores damaged objects all throughout her home. These pieces of damaged furniture and other items scare her, emitting a strange aura due to their damages. She can see this aura due to the teachings of of her grandparents. They taught her that each piece of furniture and housewares should be respected. Though she desires to repair these items, she has no skills or tools.

One day, she hears a loud hammering and the whirring of power tools coming from her neighbor's backyard. When she goes to look, she sees her classmates cutting wood and building furniture. Inspired by their skills (and big boobs) she asks the other girls if they could give her guidance in the art of furniture repair.

Every day she learns the ins and outs of DIY construction and repair, and uses these skills to restore her possessions, healing the objects' auras, and as her skills grow so too does her chest.

>MC has the power to rewind time 24 hours (or is stuck in a groundhog day loop, doesn't really matter)
>at first he uses it for heroic or boring shit but gradually realizes more of his capabilities
>starts goofing off, then rewinding when deadlines approach
>then starts insulting people, then rewinding so they don't remember it
>then breaking shit
>then beating people up
>eventually he's an impulsive sociopath and complete monster who has stopped seeing his peers as people
>one day he kills someone for the first time
>powers immediately shut off
>everything he's done so far that day is now cemented as reality
>series is actually about him trying to get away with murder and keep his life together

>>157000386
>>157000762
I like most of it a lot but the setting. If they can influence other people so easy keeping it limited to school sounds too childish to make it enjoyable in the long run. The second issue I got with this is urgency, they both have to act pretty silly to cause any conflict and given their powers, most of the stuff sounds too easy to solve. Third is not a biggie but I feel like her "fear of loneliness" is too common and cliche.

I'd either limit their power a lot or scale up the conflict sooner with all the government and military coming into the play at start of the second act and not the near end.

>>156984595
Guy workes for a company in Tokyo as an office drone.
He develops a crush on a coworker but it doesn't work out. Things become awkward so he takes a transfer to a small town. People give him shit for being from the city but he makes friends with one girl. Towns people tease him more about it but he doesn't truly understand why. He tries to take their relationship to the next level and then her father beats the shit out of him because she was a lot younger than he thought she was.
He leaves the town and moves into a small isolated house halfway up a mountain. He works only online now and rarely sees any other people. He meets a mysterious woman occasionally but only ever just after sunset. They become friends and soon enough he tries confessing to her saying something like "I know you're a fox but would you like to make miso for me every day?" (or whatever that traditional marriage proposal is)
And she says ".... I'm not a fox and I only like you as a friend"
He walks out into the night headed further up the mountain taking only the clothes on his back a laptop and a solar pannel recharging station

The locals now say that on a quiet evening you can hear him shitposting from friendzone mountain

A student of necromancy at the local magic university is tasked with the retrieval of a rare artifact from a sprawling labyrinth beneath the town. He encounters all kinds of weird monsters, stupid puzzles, and badly designed architecture that he complains about endlessly in his salty inner monologue. Not to mention the skeletons. Thousands and thousands of mute, rambunctious skeletons, swarming all over the place, constantly flipping their shit, flirting with him one moment and trying to kill him the next, and pretty much doing everything they can to piss him off.

To reach the artifact, he must outsmart death traps and the wild beasts that roam the labyrinth. To escape with his life, he must cultivate enough power to navigate the political dynamics of the fantasy races that dwell in the lower levels. And in the end, if he wants to keep his pride, he'll have to give up his humanity.

I'm three chapters into a WN of this nonsense but I'm not in a good position to make regular updates right now

MC is a homeless dude who sleeps on a bench in the park. Episode consist solely of other park-goers telling stories or working out problems, either to MC to others. MC is largely irrelevant, sleeps through most of the stories, barely talks, and is more or less a background character.

MC is a teacher at a special needs school. He teaches a class full of literally not figuratively autistic girls. A lot of them have a crush on him, but he gently lets them down because of the age difference and the fact that they're, you know, autistic. However, one special girl in his class super cute. She also has a huge crush on him, MC realizes that her crush runs deep and she's actually legitimately in love with him. Though he tries to let her down a couple of times, she refuses to give up. In time, he slowly begins to fall in love with her as well. MC must now decide whether to risk his career and reputation to pursue his love for this autistic girl, or fall in line with societal expectations and distance himself from her breaking both their hearts in the process. It's called My Little Student Can't Be This Autistic.

>MC is a citizen in a high medieval/low fantasy setting
>MC vaguely remembers bits and pieces of past
>Witness the death of people and not sure how they became that way
>Holds some strange artifact on him at all times because he gets uneasy without it
>Works at a trading outpost in some kingdom
>Witnesses the arrival of a king
>During welcoming ceremony a hooded figure comes out of the blue
>Visions flash about with the strange artifact in hand
>Seeing his own finger pull a trigger, causing the death of native american
>MC was a cowboy in some past life
>It all makes sense
>The artifact
>It's a gun
>Out of some sense of doing what is right, he takes aim at the assassin and fires
>He kills the fucking king instead
>MC escapes in all the chaos caused by his mistake
>He own hand and weapon were the only thing seen by the kingdom's people
>Stories spread around the land of the mysterious thing that killed a member of the royal bloodline
>MC flees as a power vacuum begins to form in the place he called home
>Eventually the whole world spirals into war and panic
>Those who weren't there believe everything that's told about the assassination
>Those who were either think of the gun as a holy weapon or a tool for their own benefit
>MC only has 5 bullets left for the entire series
>Has to survive in the hell hole he created
>Many of MC allies and friends will come to understand that he is the reason their lives took a turn for the worst
>Now they have to make things right

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A slice of life set in a rural village in 1870s Japan as the nation undergoes Westernisation. There are two main characters, a middle aged yuropoor and a native loli. The man was a foreign military advisor under the British during the Boshin War, during which he performs some kind of heroic action which saves the life of the aforementioned little girl. He ends up adopting her because she's an orphan now and nobody will have her and when the war is over he is granted permission to settle in relatively far off and lowly populated region like Tohoku.

The story is about their life in a village as everyone is faced with change. The man struggles with living in the more traiditional society while the locals struggle with its modernisation and losing it entirely and the loli serves as a bridging point between the two. Most of the villagers are initially cautious of the newcomers, especially the foreigner, but the little gir's innate curiosity and outgoingess ends up endearing most of them to her and then as a result him as well. The guy builds a whiskey still and becomes drinking buddies with a laid back monk who also helps him better integrate into the local society. Tension is introduced by the difficulties brought on by westernisation as the introduction of more liberal economic policies change the price of basic commidites and the creation of factories in nearby cities puts local artisans under a lot of pressure but the benefits are also shown as an education law is implemented which sees the construction of a local school and more modern tools and luxuries find their way into the village improving production and quality of life for some. In one episode when a nearby railway is built and all of the locals get see a train for the first time and the loli rides it and has lots of fun.

It's kind of like a reverse Ikoku Meiro No Croisee.

>>157002383
Point? 2/10

>>157002592
You're a funny guy 4/10

>>157002298
Could be okay, if the MC is snarky enough

>>157002286
poorly done

>>157002197
Sounds pretty terrifying. I'd like to read about this guy becoming a better person after accepting the consequences of his actions. 7/10

>>157002150
No

>>157002116
I couldn't quite understand what is happening

>>157001916
Could be a good start, seems generic though