Meme: Change One Letter

[nebroadwe]

Over on rec.arts.anime.misc, the following meme has been occupying the copious (ha!) free time of various posters (including me):

* Take the title of a book, movie, or TV show (in this case, an anime or manga);
* Add, subtract, or replace one letter; and
* Write a "TV Guide" style description of the resulting work.

Which produces capsule summaries like "Reed or Die: A secret agent with musical powers has to find an old symphonic score before it can be used for evil" and "Transfarmers: More than meets the rye. In this exciting episode Husker harvests -- what else? -- corn." My contributions, of course, don't meet the exacting standard of excellence established by these previous entries, but I'm still pretty proud of them:

Bard Captor Sakura - RPG-based fantasy about a princess obssessed with traveling musicians. (Not hentai. Get your mind out of the gutter, Reverend.)

Princess Tu Fu - Gender-bending neophyte poet fights the crushing pedantry of the Critical Establishment while attempting to pass the civil service exam and dealing with an unrequited crush on literary star Li Po.

Fushigi Yuugo - A junior high school girl goes to the library to study for her modern European history exam and is mysteriously transported back in time, becoming the mascot of the First Sisak Partisan Squad in its struggle against fascism.

Y - Would-be teen messiah angsts about his place in the scheme of things as the apocalypse looms. Oh, wait ...

Anyone else want to join the fun? Please, comment away ...

Comments

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

'm not familiar with much of CLAMP's stuff--I've read a bit of xxxHOLiC and Tsubasa, seen some of the Angelic Layer anime buuut...that's about it.

I became a CLAMP fan over Card Captor Sakura, which is now getting a bit hard to find since Geneon folded up its tent. My godchildren are very disappointed: they have the first five discs or so, but that's it. So they come over to my house and watch mine all the time. Sub only, but for 7 and 6 they're remarkably adept at reading the subtitles. When they're tired and want me to "read the movie" to them, they complain if I paraphrase. I just threaten to stop reading altogether. :-)

That's partially why I started to watch it--that and a friend of mine is a fanboy of it--but I discovered to my surprise that I really like it. Then again, I love angst--I get a near Lilie-like enjoyment out of seeing fictional characters go through emotional pain. And even though I generally dislike mech shows the Evas aren't typical mechs, so...that might have a lot to do with it. ...

I've seen and really enjoyed RahXephon, which I've heard high-concepted as "NGE with an ending that makes sense". (I.e. blue-blooded aliens try to take over the world with giant singing robots, opposed by a small group of soldiers, scientists and teenagers working at occasional cross-purposes, with lots of Jungian symbolism and coming-of-age issues. And the ending does make sense, at least to me.) It's also another Studio Bones project, which means the animation is just unbelievably gorgeous.

And for the record, I've actually never read War and Peace.

Me neither. I did read Crime and Punishment, though, but only because it was assigned.

[haleysings.livejournal.com]

I became a CLAMP fan over Card Captor Sakura, which is now getting a bit hard to find since Geneon folded up its tent. My godchildren are very disappointed: they have the first five discs or so, but that's it. So they come over to my house and watch mine all the time. Sub only, but for 7 and 6 they're remarkably adept at reading the subtitles. When they're tired and want me to "read the movie" to them, they complain if I paraphrase. I just threaten to stop reading altogether. :-)

Ah, Geneon...it's really too bad they had to shut down, they had some good titles. Luckily there was a Geneon sale on RightStuf a few months before they did and me and my brother picked up a few titles...CCS wasn't one of them though, unfortunately. I haven't even seen that one yet...hopefully someone else will pick it up, it's sort of hard to imagine it not being available in the US since it's such a classic shoujo anime.
Your godchildren sound like they've come from a family that loves reading. ^^

I've seen and really enjoyed RahXephon, which I've heard high-concepted as "NGE with an ending that makes sense". ...It's also another Studio Bones project, which means the animation is just unbelievably gorgeous.

Ah, that's another one I should probably see...I've heard a lot of good things about it. (As well as the infamous ending of NGE! XD) Bones is the same studio that worked on FMA and Wolf's Rain, right? They do have a lot of great animation that comes out of that studio...

Me neither. I did read Crime and Punishment, though, but only because it was assigned.

Same thing with Dante's Inferno and Beowulf for me. ^^; Which I know is sad, considering my taste in books...I just have problems with long poems for whatever reason.