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For 3 or more playersFun party gameGet ready for lots of laughter
Forgive me if this has ever been mentioned here before, but has anyone else played the party game Channel A? I had the pleasure of it just yesterday, and it’s just like Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity, but with anime titles. Basically, whoever’s “judging” selects two premise ideas (“bishounen” and “coming-of-age”, for example, or “political satire” and “super robots”), and then everyone else assembles the cards in their hand to create a compelling title. The twist is that you actually have to pitch a story synopsis for your anime on top of that, and as a result, it sometimes produces story ideas that I would actually love to see in real life. Here are some of my favorite ones from our sessions that I could remember (some of them are mine. Guess which ones!).
Demon Tomorrow: A cyberpunk dystopian detective thriller, wherein great advances in technology and development have been spurred by deals with demons and shinigami. In this world, your well-being and status are determined by what you are willing to sacrifice to the dark ones, be it your senses, your limbs, or even your life.
Tokyo Dolls Z: The world’s greatest composers are gathered in Tokyo when it is discovered that classical music is the only way to quell the threat of a zombie uprising.
Future Story Idols: For reasons initially unknown, the world can only be saved through the power of lesbian lovers. Prospective girls have their romantic futures prophesized in an attempt at compelling them to “pair up”, with dramatic results.
Dark Ocean: A band of samurai travel into the sunken depths of R’lyeh to put an end to Cthulhu and his starspawn once and for all, having their camaraderie and sense of honor tested by their own gradually declining sanity.
Ex-Magical Girls: Details the hilarious antics of a rehab program for delinquent magical girls who have lost their sense of justice and have chosen to abuse their powers.
Love Captain Keichii-chan: Average high-schooler Keichii stumbles upon a secret war of factions that determines the fate of the world through a males-only fighting tournament, and is recruited by one of the teams because they believe he possesses a special power. What they don’t realize is that the true power within Keichii is not battle prowess: it’s love. Yaoi ensues.
Eternal Kitty Complex: A harem anime in which the male protagonist lives in an apartment that mystically transforms any stray cats that walk in into smoking hot catgirls. The twist: at the end of the show, the boy leaves the apartment and becomes a cat himself!
Pixel Galaxy: A loner who spends all his free time at the arcade is enlisted in the military when it turns out that the alien invaders hellbent on destroying Tokyo are oddly reminiscent of classic arcade games. In one episode, he destroys legions of starfighters that are arranged in lines a la Space Invaders; in another, a holographic maze is projected onto the city through which he must navigate and avoid destruction from color-coded ghosts.
Custom Sky Diver: A high-stakes swashbuckling adventure…in the skies of a futuristic wonderland! Cloud colonies! Sky krakens! Pirates with peg legs that shoot laser beams! Fun for all the family!
Panic Ring: A coalition of gods send down a Hercules-esque messenger from the heavens to save the human race when it becomes apparent that the source of all true power in the galaxy – bananas – is not receiving its proper respect. It’s called “Panic Ring” because the gods are panicking and they’re in a circle.
Other, context-free highlights: Dynamite Bubblegum Twins, Lyrical Smile Elemental Magica, Rain Fist: Excellent Muscle, Neo Fruit Seed, Gun Sakura, Kitty Academy 120% Plus, Fullmetal Milky Boy, Sweet Monkey Witches, Giant Great Sword, Code Channel D, Fight of Fighting Fighters.
Channel A plays similar to CAH, but they are different enough that I find owning both worthwhile. Each round, the players use as many cards from their hand as they like to create a title of a new anime and pitch the synopsis. It takes away the anonymity of CAH, but hearing the ideas people come up with are hilarious.
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