Arg...

[telophase]

...have a small migraine. Not up to doing much right now.

Except maybe HITTING RELOAD ON THE AUTOSHOUJO GENERATOR A FEW HUNDRED MORE TIMES.



Akihabara Fragrance <- The sweet, sweet smell* of OBSESSION and DESPERATION
Recipe for Fashion MANIA
Bitter Butterfly Dreams
Heartbeat and Airship
University of Tea
Crazy Crazy Girl Panic
Fragrant Singing Apocalypse
Sword of World-Class Gods <- Heaven forfend we have substandard gods.
Another Starry Matsuri
Sword of Magical Chef
Tonight Tea Death God
Genius World-Class Friend
Shinigami Vagabond King
Number Three Teacup Dance
Go! Fight! Marshmallow Wedding
Death God's Dream Shinigami
California Candy Revolution
I Remember Mechanical Monogatari
Hot Alchemical Boutique
Student Magician Whispers
Farewell Winter Snow





* for values that mean "not sweet at all, but sweaty gym socks and worse".

Comments

[lnhammer]

Another Starry Matsuri would be a Tanabata story, of course.

Go! Fight! Marshmallow Wedding is in the wrong place -- it's actually hentai of the big-breasted fixation variety.

---L.

[ailelie]

University of Tea
Technically the University of Transmogrification, Enchantment, and Alchemy, but Tea is so much easier to say. Besides, with the required insane professors and life-threatening classes, most students just hang out in the union anyway and drink, well, tea. Heroine gets a job at the University, hoping to learn a little magic on the side, but ends up falling headfirst into the world tea (the sort with leaves and strainers and bags) while also dealing with students and a young, but already crotchety Alchemist's Assistant who is absolutely impossible to please. (He is, of course, the Love Interest. Also, her knowledge of obscure and magical teas ends up being helpful to his research, much to their mutual surprise).

[telophase]

I'd totally read that.

maybe i don't know

[ailelie]

[Insert Name Here] heard the dreaded words while she was in the middle of pouring a cup of [Rare Tea] for the second of three ritual pourings.

"Watch this." She looked up in horror as one first year student began showing a new trans-spell to his friends.

This would be fine, except that she had just served them Chameleon's Delight only minutes before. The magic and the ingredients in the tea-- "No!" she shouted, but she was too late.

The magic rushed up. When the sparkles cleared, a small lizard sat where the student had been. She sighed. "[Other Worker], we've got another presto-chango."

"Again?" [Other Worker] stalked out of the back room, her/his nostrils still smoking from whatever dragon or brimstone tea s/he'd been drinking, and followed [Insert Name Here]'s gaze to the table.

[INH] returned the cup of tea to her pot and poured it for the third and final time, the temperature now perfect and leaves beautifully steeped.

"Does that happen often?" [Customer] asked.

[INH] nodded. "Every semester, about two and a half weeks after the new students arrive."

"Two and a half weeks?"

"That's when Professor [Someone] teaches that spell."

[Other Character] returned to the counter. The students all repaired and embarrassed behind him/her. "I hate [Someone]."

[INH] grinned. "Just wait until the enchantment students start coming in next week."

[OC] groaned and returned to the back room.

"Next week?" the customer prompted.

[INH] slipped a face-down bill in front of the customer. "Why don't you drop by and find out?" she suggested. "Enjoy your tea."

[lnhammer]

Bitter Butterfly Dreams is a shoujo sports manga, track-and-field variety, or at least it starts out that way until the heroine blows out her knee losing in the nationals and the rest of the volume is spent in rehab. With, of course, a boy who's even more bitter about never being able to run again than she is.

---L.

[lnhammer]

Heartbeat and Airship is a shoujo ripoff of Last Exile with just enough serial numbers filed off to avoid a lawsuit.

---L.

[lnhammer]

Sword of Magical Chef is the manga adaptation of a long-running series of wuxia novels published in Hong Kong in the 40s and 50s. It's about a wandering swordsman (who else?) who makes a living between adventures as a cook for various inns. Episodic as hell, of course, but entertaining. The sidekick is annoyingly craven and generally just plain annoying, but the intermittent love interest is both cute and strong in her own right. Unfortunately, the anime (done by Toei in the early 90s) was low-budget even for the time and plays up the sidekick under the impression his schtick is funny. The manga itself is pretty good, though -- enough that I want to track down the original novels, even though they haven't been translated into English that I can tell.

[madspark.livejournal.com]

'Genius World-Class Friend ' -- reminds me of Barry Ween: Boy Genius

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

You do realize that the only possible outcome here is that the AutoShoujo Title Generator gets hooked up to the Cool Bits Story Generator, right?

E.G.:

Shinigami Vagabond King
It starts in a graveyard, with a political firebrand. The antagonist is a shapechanger and not motivated because they believe it has to be, and the plot involves elements like a funeral and finally losing control.

Heartbeat and Airship
This story begins as it ends, with a fighter pilot. In an alternate dimension, a well-dressed man in a position of power and a coward who finds courage struggle against the odds and encounter two allies in a fight who know each other's moves, references to the Classics, and a person who lives in a circus who is motivated because all the streams flow in that direction. The text contains true love that doesn't make it any better.

Number Three Teacup Dance
The story begins in Heian Japan, when a drug addict and a polite, good-mannered man brought to his breaking point meet because of blurring the line between good and evil. It contains Gothic novel aesthetics. The antagonist is motivated because they only want to dance.

University of Tea
It begins with a mutant in a library. This person meets a clairvoyant and together they encounter odd-couple friendships and finally losing control. The story winds up in a dark alley and features a deadly competition. The overall narrative concerns not fitting in, and is not motivated to bring joy into the world.

I Remember Mechanical Monogatari
This story begins as it ends, with a mute person. In a quiet and dusty museum, a boy disguised as a girl and an erudite criminal struggle against the odds and encounter non-Western musical paradigms, moonlight on snow, and a cynical religious practitioner with a secretly soft heart who has hair cropped so short it feels like velvet or plush. The text contains lots of subtext.

Farewell Winter Snow
Your story begins with thunderstorms in autumn. In turn-of-the-century Europe there is a deceptively skinny man who has antiquarian knowledge. The protagonist experiences things like family that holds together come hell or high water and the night sky in winter. It finally ends with a dramatic death scene.

Student Magician Whispers
The story begins in a shadowy forest, when a scholar and a carny meet because of inept bureaucracy. It takes place on the edge of evil. The antagonist is not motivated to atone for past misdeeds.

Tonight Tea Death God
The text starts as a drag queen encounters learning to use new weapons while in Meiji Japan. The overall narrative contains themes and imagery of blood and the motivation behind the major plot events is: to find one's self.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing* I would give one million internet dollars to someone who wrote a story created that way. XD