it's better than it sounds.

[sexyscholar]

meme i pulled from ldesu and icanhaspancake.

Pick 20 titles from any media (movies, video games, literary works, etc.) and find their summaries on Better than it Sounds. Have your friends guess without cheating.



Anime/Manga

01. 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.
02. Guy dies trying to save a little boy from a car. Becomes a detective for the son of (a) god. Meets up with demons and lots of Ho Yay. Many Genre Shifts ensue.
03. Dead people fight other dead people but almost never to the death.
04. An overly dramatic honor student, a Perky Goth Genki Girl and a bored deity attempt to save the world by killing large quantities of the people living on it. Their sworn enemies include: a possibly autistic detective, a Teen Genius with action figure obsession and a chocolate-loving emo chick boy.
05. A man wants to marry someone, but he has no idea who. He also gets punched. A lot.

Movies

06. Batman writes a newspaper story on King Henry VII pretending to be David Bowie who had sex with Obi-Wan Kenobi and faked his own death. Later, Obi-Wan and Batman have gay sex on a roof. A preteen female fanfic writer's wet dream.
07. A musical about a slut and an asshole who get corrupted by a crossdressing mad scientist and his retinue.
08. Importer of olive oil struggles to keep with the times. It gets violent.
09. A faceless detective, an overweight loser, a Smurf colored bald guy, a chick with mommy issues and a former Hitler Youth mourn the loss of a Robert Downey Jr. look alike and wonder if they'll get screwed because of it.
10. A sadist has therapy.

Video Games

11. You get to tap buttons on what looks like a plastic toy guitar to the tune of pre-recorded rock music.
12. A prince must pick up litter in order to make up for his father's alcoholism.
13. 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.
14. A group of people are at the complete, utter mercy of a whimsical and cruel god who alternates between deleting their toilets and trapping them inside the very walls of their own homes.
15. A kid tries to save the entire multiverse by beating up monsters with a giant key. His strongest allies are a duck and a dog thing.

Television

16. A scientist with daddy issues goes on adventures with his idiot sons and his overzealous bodyguard while an army of men butterfly suits tries to kill him. Meanwhile, David Bowie commands a guild of villains.
17. A mole and a one-eyed mouse with an incredibly Cool Car fight crime.
18. A soap opera wrapped in High School Musical.
19. People stuck in a place where weird things happen and no one has any idea what's happening. Not even the producers. Also features a soap opera set in East Asia.
20. A widowed man tries to redeem a corrupt organization, but his father won't have it; meanwhile, his brother is breaking his heart and his sister is having marital problems. It's a comedy, with a heaping helping of Large Ham.

Comments

[whisperings.livejournal.com]

4 is Death Note
9 is Watchmen
12...sounds like Katamari Damacy, but I'm probably wrong
15 is Kingdom Hearts

[honey-child.livejournal.com]

06. Velvet Goldmine
09. Watchmen
11. Rock Band
14. The Sims!
15. Kingdom Hearts.

[sixpita.livejournal.com]

4 is Death Note
5 sounds like Ranma 1/2
6 is Velvet Goldmine
7 is Rocky Horror Picture Show
8 is the Godfather
9 is Watchmen
11 is Guitar Hero
12 is Katamari
14 is The Sims
15 is Kingdom Hearts
16 is Venture Brothers
17 is Danger Mouse
18 is Glee
19 is Lost

[icanhaspancake.livejournal.com]

2. YU YU HAKUSHO
3. Um, I think Bleach?
4. Death Note
11. Guitar Hero
12. Katamari Damacy
13. Final Fantasy VII
14. The Sims
15. Kingdom Hearts

[deadsies.livejournal.com]

18. Glee
19 - Lost?

[99redwaffles.livejournal.com]

2. Yu Yu Hakusho

7. Rocky Horror Picture Show

11. Guitar Hero
12. Katamari
13. Final Fantasy VII
14. Sims
15. Kingdom Hearts

18. Glee
19. Lost ?

[glancast.livejournal.com]

#10 A Clockwork Orange!!!

Frickin' disturbing!!!

[la-dissonance.livejournal.com]

The only one I know is Watchmen! WOE.

[peachsodapixie.livejournal.com]

#1 sounds like Hellsing but I'm probably wrong..
#3 sounds like Bleach...
#4 Death Note?
#6 VELVET GOLDMINE!!
#7 Rocky Horror
#8 The Godfather
#9 Watchmen
#10....I'm gonna say Clockwork Orange...
#11 Guitar Hero
#12 Katamari?
#13 FFVII
#14 SIMS!
#15 Kingdom Hearts
#16 Venture Brothers
#18 GLEE
#19 Lost?
#20 Arrested Development

[fmh.livejournal.com]

1. Blood?
2. Yo Yo Hakusho?
3. Bleach?
4. Death Note!

6. Velvet Goldmine
7. Rocky Horror
8. Godfather?
9. Watchmen
10. Mr.Frost?
11. Hmm...Hmmm...nope, sorry, drawing a blank.
12. Katamari
13. Final Fantasyyyyy...10?
14. Sims
15. Kingdom Hearts
16. Venture Bros.
17. Danger Mouse
18. Glee
19. Lost
20. Arrested Development.

Maybe I shouldn't be allowed to do the ones you post, I do got a bit of an inside angle.

[single-path.livejournal.com]

#5. Love Hina?

All the others seem to have been guessed. ^_^