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animeruler37



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:35 pm Reply with quote
This could be quite interesting. Let your voice be heard. Hey trust me these ain't just for the discussion, People actually look at these.

So saying this, What would you have for a storyline for an anime? It don't have to be a page long, just quick storyline.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:46 pm Reply with quote
What about you? If you're going to start a thread, you have to participate in it, otherwise it's idle spam.
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animeruler37



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:56 pm Reply with quote
Yeah true ok, I guess i can start out by saying that, here it goes:

This guy that does everyday boring stuff, slacker and he don't really do anything but talk like he's all that and so laid back. But later he finds out that this new guy starts to come around and he was looking for the person i was talking about.

Well anyways basically a fantasy storyline kind of thing that is with this power he has in becoming a god and takes on evil enemies. Well anyways it finds out his power was from his father inheriting to him. His father passed away when he was a little child.

Kung-fu style moves to bring out the most of this anime and little bit comedy to throw in there.

this would make a Cowboy Bebop laid back, stylish kind of anime.
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Obaa-chan



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:08 pm Reply with quote
You know, some say there's only one story line ever:
The hero wants something, he/she goes out to get it, and succeeds or fails.

Personally, though I think the story is very important, it's often the 'how' that counts, and not the one line summary...
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animeruler37



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:11 pm Reply with quote
Yeah your right, but of course to my storyline. There would be more than that. It does take a lot of time to think and write about a fully-fledged storyline so.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:12 pm Reply with quote
Title is "BBS Woes."

Basically Intanetto Diibehto is an ordinary boy. One day he encounters kami-sama who tells him to participate in a game, and he has no choice to participate or else his entire house will be overrun by spam and will cease to function. Turns out many kids have to undergo the same fate as poor Intanetto-kun, including protagonists Foramu Disukashon, Fansabbu Aagumento, and a mysterious masked man named 'BS". Kami-sama starts the game, and he utters a very ridiculous statement. "I know this is ridiculous," he says, "but if you don't manage to disprove this I will call all of you despicable ignorant conceted arrogant trolls. Prepare yourself!" And the kids uttered in unison, "anything but being called a despicable ignorant conceted arrogant troll!!!!! Please have mercy on us!!!" But Kami-sama did not have mercy so he started the game, the first statement being "Naruto is a deep profound mature anime that is more mature than any anime geared toward an older audience."

Unforunately that statement was impossible to disprove so the kids all dropped dead. Not so much because they did not want to be called despicable ignorant conceted arrogant trolls (that too), but because they got so offended by the very nature of the statement that they could not take it anymore.

The end.

I find this to be a very deep mature and profound anime with deep mature and profound themes!
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animeruler37



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:19 pm Reply with quote
Yeah frentymon, your creation sounds similar to Hikaru No Go, also sounds like an intersting title. As i was saying, it isn't just the storyline. You need to also create designs, which trust me it takes a long time to develop just one if your not so good at it.

But Frentymon, your's would a kind of a drama kind of suspence which a lot people like i guess in anime.
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Wolverine Princess



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:19 pm Reply with quote
Not quite the same thing as coming up with an original story myself, but my dream anime would be an adaptation of My Balls from KyoAni. Or Ghibli, just because putting the two together would have a very interesting although probably utter crap result. (I just tried looking it up here, I can't seriously believe My Balls hasn't been added to the manga encyclopedia yet. It's truly the greatest masterpiece ever to bless mankind.)
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animeruler37



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:21 pm Reply with quote
You know i haven't seen that, and very suprised that ANN didn't add it to the list, lol. but yeah your creation sounds cool
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Wolverine Princess



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:38 pm Reply with quote
animeruler37 wrote:
Yeah frentymon, your creation sounds similar to Hikaru No Go, also sounds like an intersting title. As i was saying, it isn't just the storyline. You need to also create designs, which trust me it takes a long time to develop just one if your not so good at it.

But Frentymon, your's would a kind of a drama kind of suspence which a lot people like i guess in anime.

His "story" is actually a parody of the discussion that went on in this thread.
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Shonen Bat



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:54 pm Reply with quote
Sorry I've been gone for so long.

Anyway, I have two ideas for animes I'd like to share.

First : Dragon Kids

Kenta and his little brother, Sasuke are two kids growing up by themselves in Tokyo, Japan. Kenta, the older brother, is eight and Sasuke, the younger brother, is seven. Anyways, one day after a soccer game at their school, the two brothers take a detour home and come across an abandoned shrine. Inside this shrine, they discover a portal to another world. Being the curious little kids they are, they go through this portal and find themselves in another world(DragonWorld). However, there's more to this new world than meets the eye as the two brothers have a mysterious connection to it.

My next idea: Fox Boy

Titus is a boy who was born to a female kitsune and a male human. However what's strange about Titus is that although he is the son of a kitsune, he was born with only one tail. Unfortunately that's all I've come up with for the story so far. I just came up with Titus not long ago and that's all I have for the story for now. I'll add more eventually.
In the mean time, here are some drawings I did of two of my chracters http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49916858
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49932438
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animeruler37



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:59 pm Reply with quote
Hey, very nice! It seems as though you have your storylines and pictures are all planned out. I have a tip though, I would keep trying on the pictures to make them look as best as possible. Very good idea there.
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Murasakisuishou



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:17 pm Reply with quote
I'm trying to turn this idea into a book, but it's not going too great so far...I keep seeing it animated in my mind, though, so I thought I'd post.

The year is nearly 5000 AD, and mankind is recovering from the latest in a succession of brutal wars over the few remaining resources left on the planet. The fighting was halted by a new government which rose from the crisis to manage the relationships of all the former countries. Although autonomy was promised, the new government has grown steadily more harsh in dealing with conflicts between nations and indeed in everyday life. And so, one group, the Sensaka Revolution, has risen to overthrow the government and restore justice to the world. Their key weapon is the knowledge stored in a massive underground database.

However, the Revolution has suffered heavy losses and is desperate for new recruits. Its commanders are sent all over the world with information from the database to track down exemplary fighters. Among these recruits are Nakahashu Ywan, a talented sniper from a primitive village far to the north, Tao Mei, a half-cyborg girl with weapons implanted in her limbs, Luke, Mei's mechanic and boyfriend, Rajya Fenton, a dashing thief on the run from the law, and Halle Brevwen, a young engineer. These five team up with the rest of the Revolution, including soft-spoken commander Azuma Hidaki, the brash Mayura Vatma, lighthearted cyber genius Astral Dreamweaver, and her blind-mute assistant Matavi. Although they are all very different, they soon realize that they have a common goal; to protect the lives they hold dear.

I haven't gotten much further than that, it's still sort of rough.

Here's a picture of Mei-chan, BTW: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49548944/
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animeruler37



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:04 pm Reply with quote
This is a nice picture!!! i really think your storyline will work out great, and hey keep me updated with by sending me messages or on here. Wow, really liked to see something happen with this!
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BrothersElric



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:46 pm Reply with quote
I've actually came up with a few shonen storylines that, one day, if I can learn how to draw manga or get someone who can draw for me, I plan on trying to get published. Unfortunately, I still haven't come up with ideas for names of characters yet, but hopefully once I get a better understanding of the Japanise language I will eventually. Oh well. Here it goes:

This series is entitled Nephilum (refering to the term used for a half-human half-angel who was an abomination fathered by an actual angel)

EDIT: Yes, I know, this is WAY to long, and I apologize. I just couldn't figure out how to sum it all up in just a few lines.

The main character is a collage student who is a member of a small religion that worships the god Celestia (using the latin term for Celestial Being). It is an ancient religion that has existed since time was time, and in fact was the religion that inspired Christianity, Islam, and Hebrew, however not nearly as big and is not known by many people outside the religion. It's a religion that started when a race known as the devils, a race born when one of Celestia's angels fell from the heavens when he tried to rebel against Celestia's plan to create humankind and send them to earth. With him fell 5 other of Celestia's angels who became this rebel's followers. When they fell to earth, as punishment for their crimes against Celestia they were born as these devil creatures who can reproduce without a mate, and created the entire devil race. They became known as "The first 6," and are the 6 devil leaders who are the most powerful, terrible, and evil of the entire devil race.

Years went by as the human race multiplied to match the numbers of the devil race on earth and for that many years the two races were constantly at war over control of the earth. The war intensified so much to the point where Celestia decided to get his angel armies involved in order to save the human race. While there, 6 of his angels fathered these Nephilum abominations in their interactions with the humans, creating 6 family bloodlines to which there are modern day conections. 1 of these angels was struck by this cursing technique that one of The first 6 know, and was unable to return to the heavens because of it. This happened to him before he fathered his Nephilum child. But in the end it was him who used one of the greatest angel techniques ever created to create an alternate universe (hell) to which these devils were sent and sealed in by the 7 pentagram seals, which also work as a gateway to these alternate universe, but only for those who posses angelic powers rather than demonic powers (those the actual terms I use for what Naruto calls "Chakara.") Unfortunately this great battle took the lives of nearly the entire human race, and only a few who survived know the truth of what happened and where the first members of this religion while the rest wanderes around in ignorance. This event is identical to "The great flood of Noah."

Now jump ahead to present day. 6 members of the human race are within the Nephilum bloodlines and are in fact Nephilum themselves. These 6 are my main character and 5 other of his friends, of whom are the only friends my main character has, as he has had just that pathetic of a life. He grew up being picked on and inferior to everyone else, including his friends, and because of which he is (mostly starts out as) a dark, mysterious person with all kinds of issues. As only 3 of these 6 friends of his he actually grew up with, (actually, there is one other friend he has, but he's not a Nephilum, but he does come in latter in the series as a very important character) the others he met in late high school/collage. It is the friend he meets in collage that introduces this series, as she tries as hard as she can to find out about this mysterious person, as does the friend he met in latter high school years, who comes into play latter on in the series. It isn't until they turn 18 in which a Nephilum's powers start to awaken, and it is here that these 6 start to descovor who they are (the series starts out with him already having discovored these powers, then flashes back to when he did, and when the others did as well, then with some of the younger of the 6, they discover latter on in the series.) The main character, however, has discovered that he also possesses demonic powers as well........

Then there's the threat. First of all, it appears the devils, who can talk to anyone who goes near the pentagram symbols, have lured an army of humans into their fold by convincing them to willingly be given this cursing technique, giving them demonic powers. They formed an organization called "The Brotherhood of the Sixes (referring to the symbol of the devils, the sequence of Sixes, also known as the 666 symbol) which has branches all over the world, and each one devotes himself to a particular one of The first Six. Second of all, The Brotherhood of the Sixes are aperantly ushering in what is known as "The Day of Reckoning," in which the pentagram seals will allow the devils to pass through, and thus bring the world into chaos and war over the control of the earth once again, this time with the devils prevailing, with the newfound help of The Brotherhood of the Sixes! Thing is, they are only a few days away by the time this is found out!

But hope lies in the 6 Nephilum, who must train with the secret Vatican of this religion to learn how to use their angelic powers (the Vatican in this case is an army of those who are blessed with the powers of angels and train to learn how to use them for those who join, but since the Nephilum are actual angels, that means they could be of great use if they learn how to use their powers!) to aid the Vatican in this war against the devils and The Brotherhood of the Six.


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