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[Jopax]

I was thinking more along the lines of it being read as Ole by the Japanese which lead to a rather interesting mental image of a magical girl luchador anime.

[IronyOwl]

magical mineralogical moe mayhem. This show has brought not bauxite-tan into the world and is lesser for it

Land of the Lustrous is apparently about pretty rocks fighting off Buddhist kung fu artists or somesuch. Haven't actually seen it myself, though.

[Max™]

Houseki no Kuni is weird as shit if you've read the manga so far, and it's like if Steven Universe was a beautiful androgyne mystery.

[Cruxador]

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii is a pretty cute show.

3D kanojo is too, though it leans a bit in the awkward direction.

Comic girls is also cute, but in a far more usual CGDCT way; it's perhaps a bit overwrought and heavier on the yuri overtones that I usually care for, but I'm liking it anyway.

Mahou Shoujo Site is ridiculously edgy and despite trying really hard to evoke emotion, doesn't really. But it's also incredibly stylish and the first episode had some cool moments. I'm going three episode on that one.

So I think I've identified the funny meme show of the new season: Magical Girl Ore.

The name is self-explanatory.

It's kind of good, but I feel like it tries to hard. Feels more like Mahou Shoujo Nante Mouiidesukara, while I was hoping for Ore! Twintails ni Narimasu. Still worth trying out.

[Reelya]

The synopsis for this new show got me:

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (Horse Girl: Pretty Derby).

In a world very much like our own, great race horses of the past have a chance to be reborn as "horse girls"—girls with the ears and tails of horses as well as their speed and endurance. The best of these horse girls go to train at Tokyo's Tracen Academy, hopefully moving on to fame and fortune as both racers and idols.

Special Week, a high school horse girl from the countryside, has just transferred to Tracen, and she's determined to fulfill her promise to her mother to become the best horse girl in Japan. On her way to school, she takes a pit stop at the race track and instantly falls in love with Silence Suzuka's style, becoming determined to race on the same team as her.

[Jopax]

What the fuck Japan, who comes up with that shit??

[Reelya]

To be honest, coming up with this type of stuff isn't exactly rocket science.

e.g. just off the top of my head:

"Chair girls - chairs turn into living girls and go to Chair School where they train to be the best chairs possible, compete in the inter-school chairlympics, all while training to be Japan's next pop idol sensation. Sofia is one such chair girl, aspiring to adorn none other than the office of the prime minister of Japan".

It's not actually hard to come up with this stuff at this point in time. Zero "come up with that shit" effort needed. Just take some random thing from real life, turn it into a highschool setting with anthopomorphic girls, throw in a school-vs-school competition so you can rig together a plot structure with zero effort, add in "seasoning" e.g. extraneous popular elements such as they are also singing idols. While it might sound left-field if you're not familiar with mecha-musume and the whole slew of anthro-schoolgirl shows, this is actually formulaic now.

e.g. recently there was a short anime show called "Love Kome: We Love Rice" about a bunch of schoolboys who were all living embodiments of different strains of rice. The rival school was all bread related, and there was a rivalry / competition element to it, where the winners become pop idols. Basically the same formula as the horse girl one, except choose a different "thing" and the other gender. Is there really much effort "coming up" with stuff like this?

You can come up with this stuff merely by picking random nouns from the dictionary then making them anthropomorphic, then bolting on the standard plot rails: in terms of construction they're akin to those oldschool American "family" domestic sitcoms which each have their one "gimmick" to carry the show. e.g. "Alf" or "Small Wonder" or "Harry and the Hendersons" which are all of the formula "generic family + 'a secret' + nosey neighbor" (which goes right back to Bewitched and Jeannie). So for e.g. "Alf", nobody really had to come up with much of a show, they only had to come up with the gimmick then inject it into a standardized "show" container. It's similar for these types of highschool/sports-contest animes which each have their one gimmick.

[Cruxador]

In this case it's also potentially a way to get a sport audience and a not sporty at all audience together in one show.

[Magistrum]

"Bay girls - bays turn into living girls and go to Bay School where they train to be the best bays possible, compete in the inter-school baylympics, all while training to be Japan's next pop idol sensation. Sofia is one such bay girl, aspiring to one day serve all Yamato Class battleships".

Wow, it really works.

Grab a friend, flip a dictionary and ask him to stop at a random page. Boom, newest Kadokawa production!

[TamerVirus]

They make a Horse Girl anime and they're not even centaurs. Why even bother?

[Jopax]

I mean the idea is shit and not hard to come up with. I'm just interested what kind of person upon hearing it suggested goes: "Huh, let's sink a ton of money into that, it sounds like something that would sell" instead of a blank stare and a possible "What kind of shit drugs have you been taking?" question.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Apparently that horsegirl anime is paired with a mobile game in Japan. So my guess is that it's trying to ride the wave of cute girls as ships/tanks/guns that's popular in Asia at the moment. So yes. It is very much something that could sell in the current market. _{Whether it actually will is another thing but still.}

[Reelya]

I mean the idea is shit and not hard to come up with. I'm just interested what kind of person upon hearing it suggested goes: "Huh, let's sink a ton of money into that, it sounds like something that would sell" instead of a blank stare and a possible "What kind of shit drugs have you been taking?" question.

Someone who's interesting in making money. Shows get talked about precisely because they did something different. Basically, the more fucked up the better, because, hey, we're talking about this show and not the other 50 shows of the season, right? So, having some completely idiotic premise for your comedy anime immediately gets word of mouth happening.

The point being: being "reasonable" is a terrible business plan in a creative industry. e.g. if someone pitches a show concept to you and you think "that's the single stupidest idea I've ever heard", then the idea is probably actually a winner.

[TamerVirus]

That show is based off actual racehorses.
One character is Silence Suzuka ... who in realty, broke an ankle and died.
Does that mean this Horse Girl Anime is gonna become a Glue Girl Anime?

[Max™]

That show is based off actual racehorses.
One character is Silence Suzuka ... who in realty, broke an ankle and died.
Does that mean this Horse Girl Anime is gonna become a Glue Girl Anime?

>star girl trips while walking home
>everyone freezes in horror
>her friends eyes well up with tears
>old guy in a suit heads towards her
>visibly distraught but holding a gun for some reason
>cuts to the girl with a pleading look on her face
>reverse cut back to her friends flinching at the sound of a gunshot