A woman in her 40s uncovers repressed memories of being a Sailor Moon-style magical girl superhero as a teenager in the 90s. As the world is once again threatened by her old enemies, she has to rediscover her powers while navigating a mid-life crisis.
I like the idea that sailor moon powers are like fairly odd parents god parents where you lose access and forget you had it after you're not a kid anymore
Guy keeps getting isekai'd into different worlds and failing to contend with the differences. It's like Quantum Leap except he gets hit by a truck at the end of each episode
Anime set in a world where one form of competitive game is like 80+% of pop culture, like Duel Monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Beyblades in Beyblade, racing in Initial D, etc. Chosen one underdog prophecies, rivals turned allies, high stakes matches with millions and/or the fate of the world depending on the outcome of the game, etc.
Except the game this world revolves around is high stakes tic tac toe.
Played 100% straight. Well animated sakuga shots of the protagonist drawing an X, with dramatic music and flashbacks to their childhood, etc.
No-one ever questions the fact that the fate of the world is hinging on high stakes tic-tac-toe. The protagonist goes from an impoverished amateur street tic-tac-toe player to becoming the national champion, defeating Old Testament demons, a megalomaniac billionaire, a fascist dictator, Lovecraftian horrors and rogue AIs throughout the seasons, saving the world multiple times. Through winning tic-tac-toe.
Dune should have been made into an anime in the style of Hunter x Hunter, lots of internal monologues, lots of narration over heavily time dilated moments, great world building and excellent moments of action combined with plans within plans
that shit would slap SO HARD
Also its REALLY queer Dune this time, Leto II is nonbinary, Duncan is trans, etc
sports anime that follows two gay athletes who are dating but play on different teams in the same league. As both teams make it through the season and into the playoffs, the show explores their changing feelings as the competition puts it under pressure, culminating where they face each other in the championship
the show doesn't focus on the games themselves, but on their day-to-day lives
Standard fantasy trash but all the monsters and dungeons are so big that the characters have to ride giant mechas to do it. There's a mech wearing a wizard hat that casts spells.
I go to a physical therapist/chiropractor on a weekly basis and his voodoo witch doctor magic makes my back feel better so I will continue to go to him
Future steampunk dystopia. About 50 years before the people overthrow the ruling class through force.
Story starts with gauge foreshadowing about how life is like a prison.
Story of protagonist disadvantaged by the system, but trying his best to get by and make it inside the existing system. Protagonist ultimately fails and is hospitalized when they act out against the system. When the protagonist wakes up inside a medical room, they aren't in a hospital, they aren't even the protagonist anymore it's actually the antagonist. The protagonist is dead and the antagonist was "sent to prison" for the crime. But prison doesn't exist in the future, instead the guilty are sentenced to live out the victims life.
Circle back the beginning foreshadowing about being in prison.
Protagonist gets isekaied, but it turns out their whole life was just a deep simulation they went into. They wake up in a far futuristic spaceship where millions of people are living. Now they have to readjust to life. Could be a Sci fi slice of life with a touch of existentialism.