I had some fun with the #ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly variant of the #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly hashtag yesterday (I’m not certain but I may even have started that variant).
Since many of these amused me I’m going to archive my entries here for future reference. Enjoy (and see how many you can guess)!
The #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly is amusing me (even if I'm not getting most of them) so I'm going to take a stab at ##ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
Conscripted child soldiers fight for their lives and perform an assisted suicide in order to go home. #ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
(It's actually MUCH better than it sounds…) (also quite an old title)—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly A reincarnated general fights aliens as a batshit crazy brilliant schoolgirl.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly An average guy becomes an astronaut to avoid being drafted into the infantry.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Snow White and the Seven Pretty Boys.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Aztec gods are reincarnated in Japan and fight with swords. There is angst.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly School kids facing racism reenact a human sacrifice to unify their community.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly A ghost nags a boy until he cries. Then he and his friends are nice to her.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly "It's NOT OUR FAULT"—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Kid thinks war is cool. Learns better, ends with Heroic BSOD.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Chihaya Gunzou and his harem of anthropomorphic moe battleships.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Girl wants to become the best at competitive snap poetry.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Girl goes looking for her deadbeat dad. Becomes an astronaut instead.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Girl inherits a reverse harem along with the duty to keep Evil Sealed In A Can.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Girl discovers Utopia is a Dystopia, then gets subverted into the power structures as a woman.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Newbie player becomes Munchkin Paladin. Dice can be heard rattling in the background.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Boy rides soul train so he can become a cyborg. Changes his mind and destroys the factory. There are pirates.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Everyone dies. Oh the embarrassment. Then they get reincarnated. Everyone dies. Oh the embarrassment. Everyone …—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Kid comes to town. Stays three days. Does stuff. Leaves town. Has a talking motorbike.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Amazing Grace on a trumpet saves what little is left of the world. For a little while at least.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Ballerinas, motorbikes, and mechas oh my! Plus nasty politics.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Man adopts his orphaned aunt and gives up smoking and his career to look after her.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly To stave off defeat the Shinsengumi recruit Zombies. And a cute girl. It ends badly.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly A Tsundere Oni falls in love with a Kitsune. Eventually. He's arguably a creepy stalker anyway.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Boy whose brother married his crush has to deal with high school dormitory filled with lunatics.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
Re last #ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly: I wanted to add that the brother is an asshole who gloats about it but there wasn't room. :)—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Magical dog grants girl from breaking family three wishes.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Novice bounty hunter fights monster and takes several levels in bad ass—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly A love triangle between a bad girl, a clingy girl, and a reluctant psychic. His sisters and the cat cause trouble.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Like Not Even A Jelly Donut but with actual sympathetic characters you can care for. :)—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Japanese filmmakers struggle with the zeitgeist and the darkness in Japanese history.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly A charming romantic anthology created by editing out the main character. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly How to eat fried shrimp in powered armour with chopsticks. Someone gives an experimental tank to a psychopath.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Nice boy keeps the secret that the ditzy rich girl is an otaku. Romance and hilarity ensues, not that they notice.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly The charming story of two siblings starving to death as narrated by the brother's ghost.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly A squad of nutters makes a surprisingly effective police unit with giant robots.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Greek mythology, bioroids, and post-apocalyptic police work in powered armour.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly A fake boyfriend saves the internet with advanced mathematics and her awesome family.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly A walking fish zombie apocalypse powered by farts.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Amnesiac girls struggle to resolve the unfinished business in their souls and fly over a wall.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly To steal from @angriest: the gloriously pretty movie where you have to sit and watch something explode for an hour.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly An alien messes with a bunch of kids in a series of increasingly nasty ways starting with random body swaps.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly Medieval mercantilism: the anime.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly The intelligent version of Not Even A Jelly Donut (there are two answers to this…)—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly An all female police unit fights demons in a Blade Runner esque Neo Tokyo built on a gigantic magic circle.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014
#ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly A fortune telling athlete gets swept into a war with pretty boys who have mecha that fight with swords.—
The Pirate King (@arcadiagt5) September 06, 2014