[kupoartist]

just like my tastes, mine would be all over the place, and chances are, no-one would understand it! I actually came up with the outline of a story not so long ago, with some typically crazy thinking... lets just say, that in my pretty short experience of Anime (nearing a pitiful 3 months...), I ended up stealing a bit of just about every series I've watched a little of

Anyways, just a quick outline: It'd be a sort of Shoujo / Shounen cross-over Anime, centered around the idea that there are two worlds. A digital and a real world. (Yes, I warned you that I'd be ripping ideas left right and centre!), with the Real world being more realistic, and focused on telling a story about peoples relationships, whilst the virtual world is all about the impossibly cool, a place for misfits to socialise and play real virtual games against each other... this would be the real Shounen anime realm, with lots of fighting and stuff.

The series would centre on a female main character, a misfit in her first year at one of her country's best universities. The university has been developing a special neural network and this is where the linkup to the virtual world comes from. Initially it seems like a normal school network, albeit in an extremely high-tech way: but the very nature of people's representation - i.e. You are what you truely believe yourself to be - and certain other goings on, clearly detach this world from the other.

I'd allow a pretty big ammount of characters - a core set from each world, and whole load of interesting supporting characters. Technically, for every character in the virtual world, there would be one in the real world... but to make things interesting, the real world peoples may be hard / never or even Impossible to find (they may be AIs, or - somehow - real people who don't exist in the real world. Like cyber-ghosts...)

At some point, it becomes necessary for the character to find out just who those in the digital world really are, raising the question - which is the more "virtual" world? the world in which we are what we are born as, or the world in which we choose who we want to be? Of course, the ultimate conclusion would be for the character to align the two worlds, and relationship sets for herself and everybody. Because ultimatly, either world can be about what a person chooses to be.

Or something . I'm undecided about the drawing style... I think it would be potentially interesting to have two entirely different styles... A sort of realistic look for the "real" world (no magically deforming heads or features ^_^), but something altogether more stylised for the virtual world (allowing those things). Making that fit together though, would likely be difficult, and would prevent the series from being able to confuse the audience as to which world they were viewing....

I'm not sure about how many episodes could be written on that subject... Though theres a main story thread there, there could always be episodes in the middle to flesh the series out, all about exploration of the "Virtual" world. Technically, the ammount of gametypes or whatever that could be covered are virtually unlimited... I'd say about 20 would give enough scope to explore a few off the thread scenarios, without loosing the plot completely.

Anyways, i'll shut up now