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[fiarra]

This one is from issahime :D

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/comic books/literary works/TV shows and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
I tried to pick things that my feed might know. xD The list includes anime, webcomics, books, tv and movies.


1. A soap opera wrapped in High School Musical- but it works. Glee. guessed by silver_youko and unquietspirit

2. A reclusive, middle-aged, single industrialist invites young children to tour his business, which is operated by undocumented immigrants who live in the facility. As the tour progresses, he allows most of the children to be injured, deformed, or (possibly) killed while his employees sing songs mocking their poor moral character. He then bequeaths the entire works to the last child standing. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. guessed by... pretty much everyone.

3. Indie boy with Robot Buddy accrues harem of unattainable ladies. Comedy, drama, and coffee ensue. And when he does attain one, it's not the one you'd expect. Questionable Content. guessed by khalahd

4. In The Future, a knightly caste make use of sentient, time-traveling dragons to protect their home from rains of alien fungus. Dragonriders of Pern. guessed by khalahd

5. Children's card games are Serious Business. Yu-Gi-Oh. guessed by silver_youko and thedreademperor

6. Orphan girl travels with two conmen to visit her grandmother she doesn't remember. Anastasia. guessed by fireangel8723

7. High School girl and her two ambiguously lesbian friends save the world from the (dis)comfort of their own school. Mai HiME (lol). guessed by khalahd

8. A girl navigates a maze at the whim of a fairy rock star. Labyrinth. guessed by.. everyone again. xD

9. 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. His Dark Materials. guessed by everyone!

10. A trigger-happy botanist and an elderly sanitation worker fall in love. Then they rescue some fat people from a steering wheel. Wall-E. guessed by fireangel8723 and Carin+Adam

11. Superweapons are given to mentally unstable children while the adults plot to destroy the world. Evangelion. guessed by thedreademperor

12. Chronicles about 3000 years of history, in which most of the heroes begin their journey by getting kidnapped by a white horse.

13. A miner and a delinquent team up with an underage girl for the purpose of fighting a race war. GURREN LAGANN~. guessed by khalahd

14. A centuries-old war hero, accompanied by a cocoon and their daughter the Internet, travels to to the home of a young girl, where he marries her after discovering that trees are actually pigs. Speaker for the Dead. guessed (kinda) by Carin+Adam

15. Alien teacher marries a narcoleptic high-school student. Onegai Sensei. guessed by thedreademperor

16. A girl who has never left the family farm teams up with a blind hermit and a talking, two-headed dragon (which constant argues with itself) to save a kingdom.

17. A male Ordinary High School Student in love with King Arthur learns about mythology. Fate/Stay Night. guessed by thedreademperor

18. A cute little girl navigates a world of very confusing and complex love relationships, while collecting cards in her spare time. Cardcaptor Sakura. guessed by silver_youko and thedreademperor

19. Opinionated young woman meets snob and doesn't like him, until it turns out that she does. Pride and Prejudice. guessed by everyone.

20. Lots of Lens Flare and a time-traveling miner press the Reset Button on over 40 years of media. They kept the ham. However, some Nakamas are simply meant to be. Star Trek Reboot. guessed by Carin+Adam

Comments

Off the top of my head...

[fireangel8723.livejournal.com]

2. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
6. Anastasia, the Disney version?
8. Labyrinth
9. Um, the His Dark Materials trilogy? The first one is The Golden Compass, but I can't remember the second and third ones.
10. Wall-e
19. Pride and Prejudice?

[silver-youko.livejournal.com]

1. Glee
2. Willy Wonka - Gene Wilder version
5. Yu-gi-oh
8. Labyrinth
9. Golden Compass
18. Card Captor Sakura

I don't know most of these, but...

[unquietspirit.livejournal.com]

1. Glee
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4. Um... that one movie I can't remember the name of, haha.
8. Labyrinth
9. His Dark Materials :D
19. Pride & Prejudice... or anything else that follows that basic plot.

ETA: I just looked at the other comments and am now greatly amused by the Wall-E one. XD

[(Anonymous)]

2. Willy Wonka!! Yay!
5. Cardcaptor Sakura
8. Labyrinth!
9. His Dark Materials!
10. Wall-E?
11. A ... Akira?
13. Pitch Black, maybe.
14. One of the Ender's Game series, but I can't remember which. The one after Speaker for the Dead.
19. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, MUTHA!
20. Star Trekkkkk. You had me at lens flare.

-Carin and Adam-

[khalahd.livejournal.com]

3 - Questionable Content
4 - Drgonriders of Pern

The others I know have already been guessed. >_<
Though many others sound familiar...Hmm...

[thedreademperor.livejournal.com]

dammit you beat me >.>
5. Yu-Gi-Oh duh
7. Fruits Basket
15. Onegai Sensei
18. THAT is Cardcaptor Sakura

All the other ones I knew were already answered.

[thedreademperor.livejournal.com]

oh and DUH 17 is Fate/Stay Night xD

[khalahd.livejournal.com]

Looking again, I think I've figured out a couple more.

7 - Mai HiME?
13 - Gurren Lagann!

[starsparkle333.livejournal.com]

:DDDD

[khalahd.livejournal.com]

XD
You need to cross off the ones people get right, and say which they were! :-P

[starsparkle333.livejournal.com]

I DID

probs while you were leaving this comment. lulz.

[khalahd.livejournal.com]

Musta been. =P

[thedreademperor.livejournal.com]

11 is Eva isnt it!? xD

[starsparkle333.livejournal.com]

lmao. yes it is Eva. appropriate, no?

[thedreademperor.livejournal.com]

I stopped to think about it and it seemed suddenly obvious XD

[fresica.livejournal.com]

oh, oh, 16 IS QUEST FOR CAMELOT. XD