Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works/etc. and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1. Two teenagers investigate a really nice pair of shoes.
2. Elderly brother and sister adopt an orphan who loses her temper, lets her imagination run away with her, holds a grudge, and generally gets into trouble. Everyone is charmed.
3. A girl decides that the perfect man for her is the guy who wants to kill her. Yaoi Fangirls flood mecha fansites.
4. Young girl must travel to a magical land in order to apologize for shouting at her mother. Gets turned into a goth by singing clockwork robots.
5. A Russian woman marries a German dwarf for his money. His friends disapprove.
6. Four sisters with very different personalities grow up next door to a boy who plays the piano. One of them dies.
7. Mysterious Bishonen runs evil pet shop with poor customer service and no return policy.
8. A group of high school girls marked by their matching plastic jewelry can never quite be sure if they're all friends or not.
9. Rich kid watches his parents get shot. Decides to squander their fortune by building himself a rocket powered car and becoming a vigilante. His arch-nemesis is a drugged-up clown.
10. Bounty hunters in space barely make enough money to eat properly. The soundtrack is popular.
11. A boy is hit by a curse that should kill him, but it doesn't. Then he sets out to save the world, armed with magic and The Power Of Love.
12. Old man trying to cope with his wife's death kills their mutual childhood hero, steals his pets and vehicle.
13. A manic-depressive artist, an insane computers teacher, their girlfriends, ex-girlfriend, students, and adoptive sister subvert, parody, and deconstruct miscellaneous anime tropes. Also, magic, zombies, Humongous Mecha and Kaiju are real, and video game companies secretly employ death-squads and make pacts with Satan.
14. A bunch of Funny Animals learn a lesson about equality and playing by the rules.
15. A Card Carrying Villain tries to ruin a Romantic Comedy as it unfolds. He fails when his plot is uncovered by a dumb policeman.
16. Fairies play pranks on young people and each other, and suicide is played for laughs. Hard-working blue-collar types bust their asses to put on a show; their upper class audience responds by mocking it MST3K-style. Features hot fairy-on-donkey action!
17. Cyborg Mutie Jesus and a brain-damaged, motormouthed mercenary have morally questionable adventures that involve one of them turning into goo and the other eating him, then vomiting him back up. Hijinx ensue!
18. Japanese teenagers go on a field trip, discuss their favorite rock-and-roll songs, and violently murder one another.
19. A drug addict attempts to make the world a better place by swearing a lot and shooting people. The president is not pleased.
20. Some kids go through worlds, kill God accidentally and discover they don't need Him in first place. And there's loads and loads of talking animals! Technically speaking.
**this is actually a really poor representation of my tastes because a good 2/3 of my original list wasn't even listed on the site**
1. Two teenagers investigate a really nice pair of shoes.
2. Elderly brother and sister adopt an orphan who loses her temper, lets her imagination run away with her, holds a grudge, and generally gets into trouble. Everyone is charmed.
3. A girl decides that the perfect man for her is the guy who wants to kill her. Yaoi Fangirls flood mecha fansites.
4. Young girl must travel to a magical land in order to apologize for shouting at her mother. Gets turned into a goth by singing clockwork robots.
5. A Russian woman marries a German dwarf for his money. His friends disapprove.
6. Four sisters with very different personalities grow up next door to a boy who plays the piano. One of them dies.
7. Mysterious Bishonen runs evil pet shop with poor customer service and no return policy.
8. A group of high school girls marked by their matching plastic jewelry can never quite be sure if they're all friends or not.
9. Rich kid watches his parents get shot. Decides to squander their fortune by building himself a rocket powered car and becoming a vigilante. His arch-nemesis is a drugged-up clown.
10. Bounty hunters in space barely make enough money to eat properly. The soundtrack is popular.
11. A boy is hit by a curse that should kill him, but it doesn't. Then he sets out to save the world, armed with magic and The Power Of Love.
12. Old man trying to cope with his wife's death kills their mutual childhood hero, steals his pets and vehicle.
13. A manic-depressive artist, an insane computers teacher, their girlfriends, ex-girlfriend, students, and adoptive sister subvert, parody, and deconstruct miscellaneous anime tropes. Also, magic, zombies, Humongous Mecha and Kaiju are real, and video game companies secretly employ death-squads and make pacts with Satan.
14. A bunch of Funny Animals learn a lesson about equality and playing by the rules.
15. A Card Carrying Villain tries to ruin a Romantic Comedy as it unfolds. He fails when his plot is uncovered by a dumb policeman.
16. Fairies play pranks on young people and each other, and suicide is played for laughs. Hard-working blue-collar types bust their asses to put on a show; their upper class audience responds by mocking it MST3K-style. Features hot fairy-on-donkey action!
17. Cyborg Mutie Jesus and a brain-damaged, motormouthed mercenary have morally questionable adventures that involve one of them turning into goo and the other eating him, then vomiting him back up. Hijinx ensue!
18. Japanese teenagers go on a field trip, discuss their favorite rock-and-roll songs, and violently murder one another.
19. A drug addict attempts to make the world a better place by swearing a lot and shooting people. The president is not pleased.
20. Some kids go through worlds, kill God accidentally and discover they don't need Him in first place. And there's loads and loads of talking animals! Technically speaking.
**this is actually a really poor representation of my tastes because a good 2/3 of my original list wasn't even listed on the site**
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