[Cannibal Clown]

Well, I can familiarise myself with this thread I guess.

I just started writing up a story for a future anime that I would like to be made some day. And I've already got all nine major characters drawn, and I think that they are real cool and unique looking, and I'm trying to make it so that the story doesn't drag on, and I've already got deep personalities and development for each of my characters.

I'm trying to make it the anime that I feel would be perfect.

For me an anime needs many diverse and deep characters. Ones that one could familiarise themselves with, no matter who it is. Characters need to have a history of some sort that slowly involves itself with the story, and a personality that makes that person, and the others around him/her stand out.

I feel that the art and animation should be very well done, and always have the characters moving.
(I hate it when animators cheet and draw one picture, and have thge voices in the background go on for like three minutes!)

I also feel that the story should be very unpredictable, but still make sence in the end, like most of the great RPG's out there.

Music and atmospheric sound that gives depth to the show, like what Reid said about the crickets in Evangelion.

And good voices are necessary for a good anime, along with realistic diologe. This is one of the things I hated about Gundam wing. The terrible diologe and voices ruined the show!

And along with strong drama, you need comedy, and with some sort of passion or love in a story, a good fight is needed.

Usually, for me, someone has to die, a mojor character in the story that is, and you can't just have one guy who is unstoppable, or only one hero. You need a mixture of every character with some sort of scene to call their own.

But one of the flaws about DBZ is that everyone is a hero, and that makes the characters to similar. But they still keep Goku and Vegeta at the top, which in the end, I fealt was well thought out.

And a small detail that I feel should be included is the use of names. They have to fit the character, and not be corney. Like calling someone killer isn't cool.
In the story I'm making, I made sure that none of the characters had real names. (Avan, Tallis, Depp, Sofmore, Depp, Shueisha, Leirelle, Vaden, and two other characters which I haven't come up with names for yet.

And I feel that previous events in the show should be addresses in the later parts of the show.

That's the best part of DBZ's story, even at the end of the series, they still return to events that happened in Dragon Ball. And in Evangelion, you have to watch the whole thing like 20 times just to get every detail in the show to be able to make scense of it in the end!

That's all I can say at the time. If anything else pops up in this little space inside my head I call a brain, then I'll post it. But that's all for now.