Let's play a guessing game! :-D

[ladyofthethread]

My fabric didn’t get here Saturday as I was hoping. Finishing the dress shouldn’t take too long but I hope it gets here today so that I’m not sewing really last minute. :-/ Since I don’t have my main fabric yet, I sewed together my lining and made a petticoat to wear under the dress over the weekend. Also experimented a bit with folding kanzashi petals. Not completely sure if I got it right or not.


And since I haven’t done any memes for a while, here’s one copied from viewpoints.

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

I included some musicals, too, since there are a lot that I like. And for fun, I wrote a few of my own descriptions in the same vein for things that weren’t listed on that site. :-D

1) A young pirate proposes to his girlfriend. She swiftly turns into a statue.

2) America visits Japan. America leaves. America comes back, followed by several European countries demanding trade, diplomatic relations, treaty ports, and extraterritoriality. In song!

3) A poor girl is forced to pretend she's a boy and hang out with obnoxiously rich bishonen as punishment for destroying private property. Ouran (Guessed by anodracs)

4) She's a spooky story-loving high school girl! He's a paranormal investigator! Together, they fight crime go hunting for spirits! Ghost Hunt (Guessed by furubariceball)

5) A Swedish lawyer and a pea-brained dragoon fight over a middle-aged actress. Meanwhile, the lawyer’s wife falls in love with her stepson, who is studying to be a priest, and they run away together.

6) A girl enrolls in a mysterious academy where fencing is practically a way of life and everyone has issues. Revolutionary Girl Utena (Guessed by cutewishes)

7) Spunky Japanese acrobat gets put through hell in order to make it big with American knockoff of Cirque du Soleil. Kaleido Star (Guessed by cutewishes)

8) Woman time travels and bakes cakes for dinosaurs to save her wedding.

9) Elderly former showgirls have a reunion at their theatre the night before it’s demolished for a parking lot.

10) Girl suffers a bad case of amnesia. She and her friends must travel to regain her memories, while dealing with more moles than a Whack-A-Mole factory. Mind screw ensues. Tsubasa Chronicle (Guessed by fleur_eternelle)

11) Teenage girl pokes her nose into other people's business. (Hint: She’s been at it for 80 years!) Nancy Drew (Guessed by stillvisions)

12) Like Law and Order, only the bad guys can throw fire around and crush you with their minds. Witch Hunter Robin (Guessed by loudnbothered)

13) Various fairytales get Crisis Crossover'd with each other. The main conflict ends halfway through, at which point Happily Ever After begins to get deconstructed. Violently. Into the Woods (Guessed by gallifreybebe)

14) Mysterious bishonen runs evil pet shop with poor customer service and no return policy. Petshop of Horrors (Guessed by anodracs)

15) You take over the old family farm, hang with the locals, and get married. That's about it. Harvest Moon (Guessed by stillvisions)

16) A boy and his butler solve murders and sometimes commit them. Sometimes there are zombies and often there is incest.

17) Dr. Frank 'N Furter, Doc Brown, and a bunch of other blackmail victims run around a big house looking for a murderer and debating simple mathematics. Clue (Guessed by anodracs)

18) Investment Fraud: The Musical The Producers (Guessed by stillvisions)

19) A man who randomly transforms into his sister tries to prevent the French Revolution. He is resisted by zombies, catholic rune magic and lethal poetry. Meanwhile, Japanese writers fail French history to a truly spectacular degree. Le Chevalier D'eon (Guessed by gallifreybebe)

20) The Cold War boils down to a Jerkass facing an adulterer over a really old board game. The adulterer falls for the jerkass's manager. Chess (Guessed by gallifreybebe)

Comments

[cutewishes.livejournal.com]

6) Revolutionary Girl Utena
7) Kaleido Star (this one was so easy lol)

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[anodracs.livejournal.com]

3. Ouran Host Club 14. Petshop of Horrors (of course!) 17. Clue

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Yes, all 3 of those are right.

[stillvisions.livejournal.com]

6) Revolutionary girl Utena?
7) Kaleido Star
11) Nancy Drew
14) Pet Shop of horrors
15 - Harvest moon?
17 - Clue
18) The Producers

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Yep, you got all of them!

[gallifreybebe.livejournal.com]

13 is Into the Woods! :D

19 is Le Chevalier D'eon

20 is...Chess? I haven't seen/heard too much from that musical, but I know the basic premise.

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Yep, you got all 3. There have been a lot of versions of Chess although the events in the description happen in all of them. Although there are things I like about the others, my favorite recording overall is the Broadway one.

[skdarkdragon.livejournal.com]

That meme looks fun! I think I'll do it, too. :) I unfortunately can't figure out any of yours. @_@

Good luck finishing the dress!

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

Yeah, it was amusing reading through the descriptions on that site. XD Although a little annoying that you had to highlight to read the titles.

[doorknocker-dog.livejournal.com]

4) Spiral
16) Kuroshitsuji

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

I got both of those off the site and they're actually for other series. ^_^;; 16 is older than Kuroshitsuji although they seem to have a bunch of similarities.

Hmm... Spiral is also about hunting spirits? Didn't know that. I'd heard of the title before but don't really know anything about the series.

[fleur-eternelle.livejournal.com]

10 is Tsubasa Chronicles?

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Yep!

[loudnbothered.livejournal.com]

12) Witch Hunter Robin?

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Correct. That seemed to be a tough one since it's a bit vague.

[furubariceball.livejournal.com]

...Iiiis number 4 Ghost Hunt? XDD I really want to say Kuroshitsuji for number 16, but it's probably not XDD;

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Yep, 4 is Ghost Hunt! I was starting to think no one would get that one! XD; And nope, 16 is not Kuroshitsuji. It's an older series that has quite a few similar elements but doesn't seem to be as known.