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Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/comic books/literary works/television series and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.


1. Defeat the Sealed Evil In A Can so you can jam sharp glass into your face.

2. Wolverine hires David Bowie to build a teleporter so he can frame Batman  for murder.

3. A town in Japan is destroyed by geometry. Readers are scarred for life. Uzumaki ([livejournal.com profile] greyrook_22 )

4. A fourteen-year-old who looks like an adult plays games with gangsters on his days off. He wins. They're scarred for life. Akagi ([livejournal.com profile] hyper_airis )

5. Magicians who work for the British government regulate magic, travel to parallel universes, and die. A lot.

6. A group of alien scientists who lived on the moon are reincarnated as six Japanese teenagers and one seven year old. Drama ensues. Please Save My Earth ([livejournal.com profile] greyrook_22 )

7. During the Spanish Civil War, a bookish girl with a psychotic army officer for an adoptive father completes three tasks so she can get killed and be reincarnated again as the fairy princess she was in a past life. Oh, and they're the scariest fairies ever. Pan's Labyrinth ([livejournal.com profile] eloni )

8. Japanese teenagers go on a field trip, discuss their favorite rock-and-roll songs, and violently murder one another. Battle Royale ([livejournal.com profile] alice_candy )

9. People travel through space on the back of a giant turtle, have adventures, and discover things that we take for granted in modern society. Major characters include a perennial coward, a crabby old woman, an ape, a despotic tyrant, a recovered alcoholic middle-aged chain-smoking cop, and a 6-foot-tall dwarf. Discworld ([livejournal.com profile] greyrook_22 )

10. A traveler helps people cope with invisible magic bugs. Mushishi ([livejournal.com profile] greyrook_22 )

11. Vampire Nazis  decide to reenact World War II, and the Catholic Church decides to give the Crusades another go. Dracula objects sternly. Most of the cast are expies of hentai characters. Hellsing ([livejournal.com profile] alice_candy )

12. Three Italian history geeks set out to defraud conspiracy theorists. One of them dies of cancer because the Qabala somehow penetrates his cell walls, and the second one witnesses the third one killed by a conspiracy group they had invented over the right to take over the world with a non-existent secret plan based on a laundry list.

13. An unnamed albino with Pointy Ears, Facial Markings and a Situational Sword dredges up the guilty pasts of an inn, a ship, a mask, a stick, and a train. His Literal Split Personality then uses this to kill Japanese Cthultu.

14. A beautiful compulsive liar with the ability to regenerate manipulates men into killing her in increasingly horrible ways.

15. Your daughter gets lost in a foggy resort town, and an antiques dealer tries to convince you that she's actually her daughter. The cop and the doctor don't clarify things. Silent Hill ([livejournal.com profile] hyper_airis )

16. Teenage otaku is summoned to another world to fight evil chess pieces armed with jewelry. Marchen Awakens Romance ([livejournal.com profile] greyrook_22 )

17. Celebrity stalker is lied to by his girlfriend and a moma's boy has a temper tantrum. Side plots include racing birds, stealing motorcycles, the militant arm of Green Peace, and everyone feels bad because the Cutie  gets cut by a Ginsu knife. Final Fantasy VII ([livejournal.com profile] hyper_airis )

18. Insurance worker with multiple personality disorder takes up hypochondria and illegal bareknuckle fighting in an attempt to cure insomnia. Unwittingly becomes founder of a nationwide anarchist paramilitary force which he subsequently defeats by blowing one side of his own face off. Fight Club ([livejournal.com profile] enelya87 )

19. Two Brits are trapped in a town where puzzles are Serious Business. Professor Layton ([livejournal.com profile] greyrook_22 )

20. Adam's metaphysical soul reincarnates into a schizophrenic teenager. He fights God with kung-fu. Xenogears ([livejournal.com profile] hyper_airis )

Date: 2010-04-28 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alice-candy.livejournal.com
8. Battle Royale...? XD
11. Hellsing?

i guess that's all! ah, i'm a loser!

Date: 2010-04-28 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giethe.livejournal.com
Both are correct!!!

Date: 2010-04-28 10:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alice-candy.livejournal.com
YAY! i'm so cool! :DDD

Date: 2010-04-28 07:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eloni.livejournal.com
7. Pan's Labyrinth?

Date: 2010-04-29 03:15 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-04-28 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enelya87.livejournal.com
18 is Fight Club! Right? XD I think. That's the only I recognize though...

Date: 2010-04-28 11:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kisskissbbang.livejournal.com
Oh definitely! I wish I got to this sooner!

But that's all I know for now.

Date: 2010-04-29 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giethe.livejournal.com
You got that right~

Date: 2010-04-29 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greyrook-22.livejournal.com
3) Uzumaki? D:
6) Sailor Moon?
9) Hngh... hrgh... Discworld?
10) Mushishi
16) MAR
19) Professor Layton

Date: 2010-04-29 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giethe.livejournal.com
Correct on everything except #6.

And I was sure you've read that too. -__-

Date: 2010-04-29 03:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greyrook-22.livejournal.com
PLEASE SAVE MY EARTH!

or something like that

Date: 2010-04-29 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giethe.livejournal.com
Finally.

Date: 2010-04-29 11:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hyper-airis.livejournal.com
4. Akagi
7. FFVII

Date: 2010-04-29 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hyper-airis.livejournal.com
Oh wait lol 15's definitely Silent Hill

Date: 2010-04-29 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giethe.livejournal.com
4 is correct (Hurhurhur, I've just finished the entire series and halfway through Kaiji now)

7 is wrong (Unless you meant 17, :D)

15 is correct.

Date: 2010-04-29 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hyper-airis.livejournal.com
wait. what. I didn't type the 1 on 17? oh wait my 1's kind of defective aaaaaa. D: but yeah. that's supposed to be 17. because the side plots gave it away.

Date: 2010-04-29 11:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hyper-airis.livejournal.com
ASDFGHJK I was staring at it forever when it hit me. 20 = Xenogears.

Date: 2010-04-29 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giethe.livejournal.com
YAY~ I LOVE YOU~

Date: 2010-04-29 01:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giethe.livejournal.com
Damnit, now I really miss Xenogears.

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