[Contest] Storytelling in anime

Propose a short story for an original anime and win premium subscriptions and a 50 USD amazon gift card!<br><br>#Why participate<br><br>- **Vote for the anime you want to see!** Who knows, maybe your vote will be the one that decides which idea gets picked up by an animation studio.<br>- **Collaborate** with other people in the comments. Even if you don't have a complete idea, share it and others might help you finish it.<br>- **Win a prize!** The three ideas with the most karma will win the following prizes:<br> - Gold: **Crunchyroll Mega Fan**, **Funimation Premium Plus Ultra**, **HIDIVE Premium**, and a **50 USD Amazon Gift Card**.<br> - Silver: **Crunchyroll Mega Fan** and **Funimation Premium Plus Ultra**.<br> - Bronze: **Crunchyroll Mega Fan**<br><br>#Some ideas to get you started<br><br>- **Military drama**: A group of Japanese soldiers are sent to Europe during ww1, and they soon discover that trench warfare is hell on earth. Which culture shocks and surprises will they experience?<br>- **Alien invasion**: Aliens invade earth in the year 2050. The story focuses on group of survivors in Tokyo.<br>- **Time Loop**: In a world where time loops are a norm and everybody is used to it, a business man finds out that he is immune and has to save humanity from extinction.<br>- **Superhero origin story**: After getting beaten up and left homeless, a high school girl finds a mysterious device that gives her super powers.<br>- **Historical drama**: The story of a Japanese immigrant in Brazil over the course of a century.<br>- **Space Opera**: Earth finds a way to join the intergalactic community and now has to play catch up with the rest of the universe. How will we avoid being colonized?<br>- **Psychological Thriller**: A Japanese diplomat in Europe is being chased by a group of well trained mercenaries. Why does his head hurt and what is happening to his mind?<br>- **Teen angst in feudal Japan**: Shonen protagonist discovers he has a talent for one of the Japanese martial arts. How does he go from being a loser teenager to one of the best warriors in the nation?<br>- **Traveling through time and discovering different cultures**: A man discovers a way to go back in time and meets himself as a child. He decides to travel though history, living through different periods of Japan and meeting his younger self in different eras.<br>- **High school in the stone age**: A Japanese man is teleported back in time and wakes up in the middle of the stone age. How does he teach those cavemen how to make wheels, spears, build houses, and take baths?<br>- **Dragon Ball in feudal Japan**, but as a **historical drama** instead of a wooden martial arts cartoon.<br><br>#What to consider<br><br>- **Length**: A season is usually 12 episodes, so consider writing an idea that has **3 arcs** of **4 episodes** each.<br>- **Episode length**: Anime episodes are much shorter than american or european tv series. There are usually 20 minutes available per episode, so cut to the chase.<br>- **Storytelling style**: Anime has a lot of tropes. While some are annoying, others make the storytelling more **actionable**, **fast-paced**, and **immersive**. It's not necessary to include fanservice, but consider writing a story that would be a good fit for the "anime style".<br>- **Culture and setting**: While being as **culturally insensitive** as possible will probably give you more karma, we are an anime chamber in an anime-dominated website. Consider writing a story set in Japan or with Japanese characters.<br><br>#Submissions<br><br>- One idea per person.<br>- Add the name and a **short blurb** of 300 characters or less so readers can decide whether to read the rest of the comment or not.<br>- Add the rest of your story as a collapsable.<br><br>Example:<br><br>Tribe: The Last Hope <br>***<br><br>The year is 2045 and we are running out of resources. Climate change has changed the weather and our leaders are corrupt. <br><br>The government has decided to build five spaceships, the tribes, that will take the last hopes for humanity to the nearest habitable planet. Which cultures, nationalities, and people should go on the journey? What skills are crucial for the survival of humanity?<br><br>The story takes place in Tokyo and focuses on the Japanese candidates that are competing for a spot in the tribes. How will they deal with the news that the earth is doomed and that only a minority will be saved? How will they react when they discover they have been chosen? How will they prepare for eternity?<br><br>The five spaceships are called:<br>- Asgard (Europe)<br>- Atlantis (North America)<br>- Shambhalla (Asia)<br>- Lemuria (South America)<br>- Eden (Africa)<br><br>There will be no cloud computing or ai in the new planet, and the spaceships only have enough fuel for a one way trip. The tribes will travel in stasis while their digital minds live in a simulated world. Once they arrive in the new planet, they will live in an arc while the planet is terraformed. After that, they will start colonizing the planet from scratch.<br><br>The journey will take 500 years, but the tribes will still be able to communicate with earth for the first 100 years of the journey. What decisions will they make when they stop receiving communications from a planet that is already gone?<br><br>And what will happen when they arrive in the new planet and discover a shocking secret: **we are not alone in this universe**.