ITT: Post the /m/ anime/comic/novel idea you'd make if you had a budget or could draw.
I've had an idea kicking around my head for a long time, for a sci-fi mecha show that touches on ideas of cultural guilt and extremism.
It's set in a distant solar system. More than 300 years ago, a fleet of human Generation Ships arrived there after a centuries long voyage. This solar system, the Anu system orbits a Sirius sized star much younger than our sun with nearly a dozen rocky worlds orbiting it, at least 3 are already Earth-like and the Earth-sized rocky moons orbiting the super-massive gas giant Osiris were suitable for terraforming.
There was just one slight flaw, the planets the Humans intended to colonize were already inhabited.
At first,humans attempted to negotiate with the native T'Karans but negotiations were cut short when an unknown party detonated a nuclear bomb inside one of the Arks, wiping out its entire population.
This could only lead to war. It turned out to be a desperate, hopeless struggle for the T'Karans against superior Human technological might. In the end, the Indigens were crushed. The few survivors were forced onto a barren patch of desert on Gaea, the third planet from Anu, referred to only as "the Reservation."
Just 50 years ago, the Reservation was occupied by the Varan Empire (Tsarist Russia in Space) after large mineral deposits were discovered there. It was brutal occupation which saw hundreds of thousands of T'Karans die of starvation, disease and appalling physical abuse. It only ended after a long, bloody rebellion an a peace deal brokered by Joint Command.
However, the rebellion's leader soon took power, declared himself "Supreme Chancellor of the T'Karan Republic" and has hardned his anti-Human rhetoric to pic-related levels.
(Continued)
In the near future a once-bustling, now debt-ravaged industrial city begins building walls to keep creditors from taking what remains, and then a larger wall is built beyond that by those outside to keep them ins
the year is now post-wall 025.
Pizza deliveries still continue in the Walled City Of Detroit. Now the deliverers face rampaging gangs, rival companies, wildcats who steal orders and money, and who knows what else.
Crafty shops use the remains of the auto industry to build powered suits to protect their drivers and their cargo.
This is the era of the Pizza Wars!
The T'Karans are kind of like pic related. They're like a cross between brown elves and catpeople. They have large, sharp canine teeth and a long, tapering, hairless tail. Biochemically however they're more similar to Horseshoe Crabs than mammals. They have blue, hemocyanin-based blood and their young, while born live, must live in fresh water for the first 3 months or so of life. (Hence why being exiled to a desert was so very, very bad for them.)
Actual story:
The setting is the Agamemnon Academy of Military Sciences run by Joint Command. JC is the mutual defense pact between the Izanagi Empire (Descendants of the Japanese Ark) and the Federal Republic of Gaea (descendants of the American ark). This setting is much more West Point or Corbulo Academy than Japanese high-school. The Characters are expected to follow military discipline.
MC is a kid from a normal family in the Izanagi Empire who was pressured into joining by his family. However he's having serious doubts about the war he's being trained for, which seems to be a war of imperialist aggression against colonists on the Osirian frontier.
Main Girl is a T'Karan girl who's one of the first T'Karans to be allowed admittance. She comes from a group of T'Karans who fled the occupation to the USG and decided to stay there rather than return to their "homeland." Her mother was an outspoken critic of the Chancellor's regime who was assassinated in a bombing when the main girl was little. She wants to prove that it is possible for Humans and T'Karans to live in peace, and what better way than to show that T'Karans are willing to fight for a multi-species Joint Command.
It wouldn't be a show because TV shows have a shitty budget/episode ratio and are too drawn-out.
A 4-part OVA adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, that sticks closely to the first manga's visual style and tone, and focuses on the most self-contained and meaningful stories without going on long tangents about philosophy. Maybe give a bit of extra backstory to some of the S9 guys.
clear-cut, action-heavy, cool-looking, fun and characterful, no involvement from Oshii, no mary sue wankery, no misguided attempts to "update it for the millenial crowd".
And cel-drawn.
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>>14411126
What you want isn't a show it's a fucking RPG campaign.
Dig out GURPS and find yourself a bunch of players.
I have no aspirations for an engaging plot. I just want a cast full of hotblooded characters put into creative action scenes using various elements such as martial arts, on-foot combat in the style of Mellowlink/Metal Gear, Power Armor, cyborgs, samurai, and of course, giant robots that transform and combine.
This is really all I ask of the anime I watch; plot is usually just a nice bonus if it's good and ignorable if it's bad. Bad mecha action though? Unforgiveable.
Any story I make will inevitably be an excuse for as much action as possible, and so it will be about some burning justice-type good guys and unapologetically evil bad guys trying to outmuscle and outscheme each other in increasingly ridiculous fashion, even though it already starts out with Moai laser cannons and a weapon called the "Searing Sunlight Crusher"
>>14411154
that's the right mindset
>>14411126
The first arc is kind of a boot camp arc where the MC and MG meet each other. The first seeds of them being a couple are planted, but it's also made clear that a romantic or sexual relationship between a human and a T'Karan would be EXTREMELY taboo.
They are also linked to their Mecha.
Mecha in this setting are a bit like the mecha in Titanfall or Heavy Gear. They are moderate sized about 15-20 feet at the tallest and have an onboard AI which is able to learn the pilot's moves, accept instructions and even act independent of the pilot. Over time the AI even appears to develop a "personality." A big part of the training is actually training the Learning computer in the Mecha to work as a team with the pilot.
The T'Karan Republic launch a massive surprise assault against both the Federal Republic and the Izanagi Empire. In a battle that closely parallels Oda Nobunaga's victory at Okehazama, the T'Karan forces lure Joint Command Army Group South into a mountainous region, then use a hidden cave system to emerge inside the army's defensive perimeter while Army Group South is in camp, routing them.
Desperate for reserves Joint Command calls up the Cadets of the Agamemnon Academy and presses them into service.
>>14411149
Actually the only system I've seen that could handle rapidly switching between action on foot and action in a mech ala Titanfall is Savage Worlds.
>>14411143
>no philosophical tangents
not GITS then
>>14411203
Hey come on the philosophical tangents are concentrated in the last two chapters, in Shirow's side notes and in the two plotless technobabble chapters, they aren't nearly as present as in the later material.
mc finds a gundam in the basement, then joins the war effort against the space nazis
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Law and Order Labor Affairs
I'd do the adventures of a landship whose pilots all died because seriously, war is hell. Combat now falls to the second line combatants - the infantry, the landship's arty gunners, and the engineers, most of whom were actually qualified on the machines they were designed to repair.
The story is of the landship limping back to friendly lines, escaping the enemy which killed their complement, tactical combat and keikakus aplenty, and the comfy bonds between a bunch of people forced into a role they weren't expecting to keep each other alive.
The act
I've had a few ideas bouncing around.
A Cyberpunk noir detective story, taking place in an earlyish distant future, like early 22nd century
The MC would be a homicide detective whose assigned a robotic partner. The two explore that notion that if the robots can reach a level of thinking and feeling do we treat them differently even though they're manufactured a dime a dozen, all the while trying to basically track down a Seven like serial killer who may or may not be a robot.
Haven't had a cyberpunk detective media to sink my teeth into
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Had there been a universe where Marvel wasn't being too retarded with their IP, I would have liked to have done a spinoff of the Iron Man series where Tony Stark personally funds a mission to explore the stars to pave the way for humanity's eventual spread to the stars, assuming that Marvel humanity gets its shit together.
They would explore a region that hasn't been explored by any of the other space faring races thus far. It will be about a small group of explorers, humans, inhumans, mutants, banded together in the effort to map out a space for a new home for humanity.
It'll have cool ships, mass produced Iron Man/Maiden armor types for military and civilian use, space battles, exploration, and the sea of stars in the vast ocean of space.
Think James Cook in space.
>>14411126
>This setting is much more West Point or Corbulo Academy than Japanese high-school. The Characters are expected to follow military discipline.
YEAHHHH
That would NOT fly in Japan. They have too much of a history with militarism.
I would adapt The Book of the Long Sun.
Two ideas
1) Fantasy mecha show. Bad guys go heavy on Garo/Dark Souls-esque monsters of the week so weird giants, monstrous mechs and later in the series just straight up demons, with a bit of a Zeorymer influence as well.
Heroes are three exiled knights of this evil empire who managed to steal some of the most powerful mechs (Zeorymer style) to get revengeance on their former mentor and the corrupted royal family.
It is full of giant knightly mechs, swordfights, horrible eldritch kaiju and insane enemy aces.
tldr: Escaflowne + Garo
2) Comfy as hell "dieselpunk" story about a war in a fancy European-esque empire. Think the aesthetics of FMA, Trails of Cold Steel, Valkyria Chronicles, Wings of Honneamise etc.
Tone is lighthearted most of the time but has moments where it seriouses the fuck up.
The focus characters are newly-qualified pilots of Wanzer-esque mechs in the army's first mixed-social-class unit, and there's a lot of focus on the shenanigans they get up to outside of combat. The two protagonists are a bitchy noble daughter with an ojousama laugh who learns to chill the fuck out and a gutsy, hotblooded common girl who turns out to be a skilled pilot. Purest love across class boundaries is implied, with jokes about how their male comrades fail to spot the signs.
>>14412245
yeah and they still wank it to the military like fucking crazy
>>14411079
A continuity of Turn A that is 7 years after the main event where the world are in 60s-70s era culture and things like MS and moon-earth space travel is already common, but not nearly as the space colony tech. Thinks are okay for a while until people from the outer rim (Jupiter and Saturn), that has more sophisticated tech, invading and raiding both earth and moonsphere for various reasons.
The story revolves aroundSochie dealing with gasnigger bombing her local town and family estate out of resource. And she rejoin the now earth-moon militia to push back the gasnigger from the sphere
Oh, and i take the S Gundam as inspitation of the main mecha, freshly excavated.
