Anime Idea Thread

Post a quick pitch for a story or concept you think an entertaining anime could be made out of. It can be for a movie or an episodic series. Images and autistic spiels are welcome.

Koe no Katachi is far better than Kimi no Shit

Don't care if you say it's generic or anything like that.
But I want an Anime/Manga that is to some degree like LOTR.

a co/m/edy. not some shitty spinoff, but some new IP. preferably with visuals similar to G-Reco but with a focus on character interaction. there are some scifi anime that did this, but no mecha ones. all we get is shiity harem bait like linebarrels or shounen shit comedy like ttgl or flcl. i want some actual jokes, part slapstick, part cultural references and smart wordplays. i know the target audience for this would be finy, but who the fuck cares.

Guy falls off fishing boat, saved by sea creatures. Taken to underwater city and gets all the fish ladies while saving Atlantis from the crustacean scourge.

So Darling in the Franxx but not shit and written by a Japanese Jerry Seinfeld?

A proper fallout-style anime with dependable early 20's survivalist waifus. Girls' Last Tour was too SoL.

Slow burning suffering filled gothic /u/ bait show about a down on her luck mage sent to be private tutor at a remote castle for an unbelievable bitch of a noble girl.

Together they go from mutual hatred and the poor tutor being bullied to grudging respect which people will use to draw fanart of them fucking

It has fancy lacy outfits, elaborate hair and Violet Evergarden tier backgrounds.

A steam-punk setting in which magic actually exists and there's a conflict between the magic faction and technologists. The main character is faced with dilemma about whether to choose technology or nature/magic.

Let me know if you guys heard this one, been working on it for a while.

A boy falls in love with a girl.

Unable to confess, he is gifted by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.

But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.

There are two alternate universe Tokyo's.

One is a mature realistic depiction of the city, well-researched to depict the good and the bad, with every character drawn to drab realistic human proportioning and always voiced as if they were having a conversation in the real world. The other Tokyo is a hyper-stylized color-vomit moeblob studio trigger place where you have wacky shonen/harem/slice-of-life trope characters running around making Kamina speeches in Final fantasy clothes and shit.

A disaster in the moeblob universe forces them to flee into the realistic universe where they mingle and occasionally face reactionary discrimination for being batshit insane from the perspective of the realistic people. MC would be a halfbreed between realistic and moeblob and have behavioral quirks of both. Not sure what the story would be. Probably a schizophrenic combo of grounded slice-of-life and Gurren Lagann style shonen progression.

How is it generic when we have never had that? Is just isekai or shit fantasy series like Grancrest that is like shit isekai.

Nadesico?

too much genre mash. its too many things at the same time and its comedy isnt particularly smart or appealing, at least not in my opinion. the show doesnt even need to have an overarching plotline. wouldnt mind an episodic approach like shimashita.

Slice of Life/Comedy anime

Our main character moves to a relatively rural japanese town/high school after his/her parents transfer there for work. The only problem is that our fully western MC has no idea how to speak Japanese. Our character is the only person in the entire cast (sans parents) who speaks English while the supporting cast has to find out creative and asinine ways of communicating with them

He/She has to bumble his/her way through high school, clumsily learning as much about japanese and the culture there all the while dealing with the shenanigans that come with being a gaijin in a rural town (Everyone stares at/flocks to them like a tourist attraction, treat them like a weird super alien, gets impressed by even the most mundane english colloqialisms they have etc).

While a concept like this probably won't do well in Japan I think the international audience could super relate to whats essentially an isekai but the fantasy world is just japan.

Bonus if the MC is an american girl voiced by Sally Amaki and she just uses her regular valley girl accent

There was genre mash? It's been over a decade since I saw it, but I only remember it being a mecha show.

I want Urobuchi to give the Madoka treatment to a Power Rangers anime, have it be so fucking dark, Rangers dying and shit.

An isekai that's not your generic mc from present day and is instead an elite SWAT/GSG9/GIGN task force member from a cyberpunk future with neat gadgets and shit that gets isekaied to a no technology world with elves, gobbos and dungeons.

Magical girl show with the focus on the villains. They're not secretly the good guys or anything, just the main characters.
They try all sorts of plans to beat the ditzy magical girl, but she's too OP.

Dramedy about a hitman promoted to the Don’s (illegitimate) daughter’s personal assistant. One night she sneaks into his car during an assignment and the unlikely pair becomes each others’ “mentors” (a bit like a “cop buddy” movie).

Episode ideas:
>Can vary, but mostly centered on completing various missions involving smuggling, gambling, drugs, etc.
>Don’s rival is in debt to him; daughter lures and (falsely) seduces him in a hotel, letting the MC have the final hit
>Daughter wants MC to find out more about her real mother; during a stakeout at a popular brothel, he meets her by chance (she doesn’t know he’s involved with her daughter) but learns that she’s unfit and wants nothing to do with her
>MC is forced to betray an old friend who killed his brother some years back and rats him out to the Don

Finale:
>Friend is revealed to have survived; he gets his revenge by hiring two bank robbers to pull an assassination attempt on MC, daughter, and the Don at a cocktail party in the mansion; daughter is shot in the arm and the MC in the chest
>Cut to one week later in the hospital; daughter “anonymously” delivers a letter to MC revealing that she redeemed herself and hopes to have more adventures after he recovers
>He also finds his friend-turned-rival’s eyeball in the envelope as a “present”

A "guy gets sucked into an mmorpg world" plot but instead of some progamer neet kid, it's a progamer neet kid's father who is completely clueless when it comes to video game concepts. When he comes back to the real world at the end, he is a pro and can finally play the game with his estranged son.

It's War and Peace adapted to anime in 100 episodes.

nadesico is literally everything. war drama, slapstick comedy, teen romance, mecha and action. it borrows from a vast amount of different genres.

So, Gaijin Kun?

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How long are they there that they don't manage to learn any Japanese? And what's the point in them even attending school if they don't?

This doesn't count cause he dropped in from an fps game.

Other than comedy aren't those all reasonably common in mecha shows anyway?

not the way the romance was played out. it wasnt your typical romantic suplot like you find in most gundam tv shows, but instead a major part of the show.

The notebook but with the guy losing memory and anime form and there is no one there to remind him of his past live but there is magic and he has everyone’s live and support and he’s kinda autistic but everyone thinks he’s a precious snowflake but it’s also a tragedy because he has flashbacks and isn’t sure if his live interest is alive or who he can trust this whole anime takes place on a non earth planet and everyone is a human except for his ai phone girl who is a 22y/o female. He find peace in his dreams which are also his destiny. Which is to find his missing love. Who is too sick to find him. He’s royalty but has to be reminded because he forgets like the girl from the notebook which keeps him humble. There’s an organization of subordinates that keep the main character in check but are also after his fortune so he has a lot on his hands. 2 seasons 24 episodes.

Has there ever been a James Bond-esque tuxedo-and-martini spy show aside from Lupin III? I imagine something like that would have excellent multi-demographic appeal.
>bishie, romantic protag for fujoshits
>fancy gadgets, cool guns, and doomsday devices for /ak/ types
>could even set it in a school for spies for the fags that won't watch anything unless it's in a school setting
It can't miss.

Like archer but anime?

An incel is sent to a camp to learn how to get a girlfriend.
His roommate is a sperg.
He gets bullied by a Chad.
In the end his roommate and Chad get together because they are homosexual and incel dates the teacher.

Maybe, but more serious. Probably closer to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. or the Mission Impossible TV show.

I think Licenced by Royalty was kind of like that. It missed.
Or Joker Game, which also missed.
PriPri isn't really that, but it's kind of the same sort of "spying" as Bond.