Episode 201 – Pitch Me Anime

Do you have a really good idea for an anime?  Do you not get how the studios in Japan seem to come up with the same old thing year after year?  Us too!  We take a page out of reality TV from the show Shark Tank as the Addicts pitch anime to each other and pass or fail.

Mitsugi –

1) Title: Dainihon no tami ni wareware yarou! (For the sake of the Great Japan, let’s DO IT!)

Genre: Comedy

Episode Number: 12

Description: A person who tries to raise Japan’s birthrate by getting people to ****. Or explore why the problem exists in the first place. Where does the cold japanese attitude that relationships and sex are just “troublesome” stem from?

2) Title:  NAN DE?! okachan-san sugu Umarenaide kure! (Oka-uma) (WHY?! Little Baby please don’t be born so soon!)

Genre: Comedy

Episode number: 12

Description: An anime about a man with a pregnant wife. Shows the process of child raising and getting ready for a kid. Also, doting on the wife (eg get her strange foods at 3am, etc…)

3) Title: Moe-chan mou ninki janai! Kutabare! (Moe is no longer popular, so DIE!)

Genre: Action

Episode Number: 12

Description: Anime that is about moe no longer being popular and the tv station makes moe girls brutally kill each other to fight over the last time slot devoted to moe shows.

Kimiko –

1) Title: A Bottle of Wine for Your Trouble

Genre: Slice of Life/Drama

Episode Number: 12

Description: About a girl who gets sent to live with her distant aunt in Italy after her parents die in a car crash.  The aunt lives and works on a vineyard.  Main themes: Life in Italy, the inner workings of a vineyard/making wine, struggling with the death of a loved one.

2)Title: If You Could Go Back

Genre: Fantasy/Comedy/Action

Episode Number: 26

Description: Time travel anime! Two groups of time travelers: The Winders (who are born with the ability and use it to alter events in the past) and The Agents (who have devices to help them travel and whose job it is to stop the Winders by any means necessary).  The main theme: Agents are trying to prevent major events from being changed to keep the betterment of mankind intact.  Winders are trying to change it for the same reason.  A perfect opportunity to look at the concept of antagonists based on perspective and opinion.

3)Title: Shooting With Your Eyes Closed

Genre: Drama/Romance/Sci-Fi

Episode Number: 12

Description: An anime that focuses on two major themes not often hit on well or at all: gay romance (as exactly that, just romance and realism, not yaoi or shonanai), and a realistic interpretation of the emotional and physical aspects of war despite the science fiction concept.

Kram –

1)Title: Kaze no Uta wo Kike (Hear the Wind Sing)

Genre: Drama

Episode Number: 3

Description: An OVA based on Haruki Murakami’s first novel about an unnamed protagonist in a post-collegiate slump. Examines the contrast between transient relationships and real friendship through a series of loosely-related vignettes.

2) Title: Ore wa Sonna ni Kowai Gaijin ja Nai (I am not that scary of a foreigner…)

Genre: Comedy/Slice-of-life

Episode Number: 12

Description: The life and times of an English-speaking foreigner trying to make his way through daily life in the Land of the Rising Sun. Trouble is, he’s kind of big and scary (but not really)!

3) Title: Chi to Hagane (Blood and Steel)

Genre: Science Fiction/Drama

Episode Number: 12

Description: The story of a group of  four childhood friends who spent their formative years watching mecha shows and building plastic models. They have now graduated from the four top universities for robotics and engineering in the world, and are reuniting in Japan to fulfill a lifelong dream and a promise to each other: to build Japan’s first fully-operational mecha for its self-defense force.

Chiaki –

1)  Title: Ouza no Geemu

Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance

Episode Number: 12 (with potential extension)

Description: Riding on the popularity of the Game of Throne’s franchise this anime adaptation would bring the western fantasy novels to Japan in a way that can resonate with the market and successfully tell the story without the need of a high live-action budget.  The anime would focus on the perspective of just one character for the first twelve episodes, namely Ned Stark, and follow up until (spoiler alert) death.  Following seasons could follow other characters, or split half and half, such as Danerys or Rob Stark and his campaign.

2)  Title: Kekkon ni Nayami ga Aru (The problem with marriage is…)

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Slice of Life

Episode Number: 12

Description: Mikoto is a successful business woman with everything put together.  She lives the perfect model life of a Japanese woman.  She can cook, she cleans, she works full time and still has the opportunity to volunteer at all community events.  Her only problem is: she has yet to find a husband.  It isn’t that she isn’t willing to look, and she’s tried.  But marriage comes with its own expectations and Mikoto isn’t sure if she wants to meet them.

3) Title: Meiji

Title: Meiji

Genre: Historical, Drama

Episode Number: 12

Description: Follow the young Emperor Meiji, Mutsuhito, as he rises to power at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.  It is a time of change and industrialization in Japan, people are forced to adapt but change is scary and not all are pleased.  See it through a lens of his personal life as he navigates through becoming emperor, his classes and education, mistakes, and management of business and pleasure.