History BetterThanItSounds / AnimeAndMangaPToS

* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'']]:
** Self-proclaimed MadScientist and his [[TrueCompanions lab members]] create time paradoxes using text messages.
** Or: A delusional college student and his TrueCompanions send text messages and troll CERN.
** Or: A mad scientist grants his friends' wishes, then takes them all away.
** Or: A funny show about science nerds becomes notably not funny.
** Or: A college student accidentally creates a time machine, comes to deeply regret it.

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/RingingBell'']]: [[SweetSheep Sheep]] [[Franchise/StarWars Anakin]] pulls a FaceHeelTurn as an attempt at revenge.

* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'']]: [[Series/{{House}} House, Wilson,]] and [[Literature/{{Baccano}} the Rail Tracer]] take on an army of vampires, no one really wins. Everyone's hair is extremely silly.

** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'']]: Clone gets the CloningBlues and wants revenge on the world. He stops after nearly killing somebody.

** [[spoiler:''Anime/PokemonMewtwoStrikesBackEvolution'']]: Clone gets the CloningBlues and decides to end the world. He stops when a kid [[HeroicSacrifice throws himself into the line of fire and dies.]]

* [[spoiler:''Manga/SoulHunter'']]: An evil fox seduces the emperor of China, lazy guy with a bunny hat is sent to stop her along with his flying hippo.

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/RingingBell'']]: [[SweetSheep Sheep]] WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} pulls a FaceHeelTurn as an attempt at revenge.

Or: A group of animals have adventures with a clingy, rich kid that has some serious issues to work out.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'']]: Four otakus become legendary heroes, and the one without an actual weapon is treated like shit just for showing up.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/TheSacredBlacksmith'']]: KatanasAreJustBetter: The Anime
* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil'']]: Nihilistic, atheist salaryman is pushed into a running train by one of the employees he fired, and gets reincarnated into a sadistic warlord loli in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Philosophical and metaphysical arguments ensue.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'']]: Myth/JapaneseMythology "reimagined" by a [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs drugged-out]], incestuous {{hikikomori}}.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'']]: Girl was chucked off a cliff by her parents because they didn't want to deal with her sweet sixteen.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'']]: An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent becomes the servant of a [[{{Tsundere}} hot-headed]] demon hunter after a monster [[RetGone erases him and his friends from existence]].

* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'']]: [[Series/{{House}} House, Wilson,]] and [[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} the Rail Tracer]] take on an army of vampires, no one really wins. Everyone's hair is extremely silly.
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'']]: A series that pokes fun at [[PoliticalOvercorrectness at censorship]], by having [[ManicPixieDreamGirl a pervy girl in a bedsheet draft a generic guy]] to co-found an ero terrorist group called "SOX," to rebel against the oppressive Japanese government.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'']]: UnluckyEverydude gets exiled to an island to live with a dozen or so inhabitants that all attach themselves to him in borderline-illegal ways.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'']]: [[FieryRedhead Hot-headed sorceress/thief]] teams up with [[IdiotHero empty-headed swordsman]] to fight evil.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'']]: A harem series, where the fate of two worlds depends on our [[ChivalrousPervert pervy protagonist]], who unwittingly makes a contract with [[FieryRedhead a redheaded]] {{shinigami}}.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/StarshipOperators'']]: Reality TV meets Embedded Reporting... [-IN SPACE!-]

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'']]: A girl agrees to marry an emperor in order to get him to rule his country properly.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'']]:

** ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' without the subtext.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'']]: A girl buries dead people.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'']]: A well-renown genius tries to keep his small, fragile world from coming to a brutal end, much to the displeasure of its other inhabitants.

* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'']]: KindheartedCatLover receives a IdiotSavant girlfriend.

** [[spoiler: ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'']]; You got ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' in my ''Manga/SaintSeiya''!
** [[spoiler: ''Manga/SaintSeiyaSaintiaSho'']]; You got ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' in my ''Manga/SaintSeiya''!

** [[spoiler: ‘’Manga/SaintSeiyaSaintiaSho’’]]; You got ‘’Franchise/SailorMoon’’ in my ‘’Manga/SaintSeiya’’!

** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon ([=DiC=])]]: A strangely told abridged version of the story where everyone has [[DubNameChange different names]] and everything is funnier.

** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon R]]: Overdeveloped teenage girl becomes a superhero again, is forced into parenthood, and becomes single while battling aliens from the future. She blows up a tree, but it didn't count.
** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon S]]: Overdeveloped teenage girl gets an impractical outfit and her friends battle a MadScientist. Cousi- er A lesbian couple appears and nearly kills her.

** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon Stars]]: Overdeveloped teenage girl gets an even more impractical outfit and becomes an adoptive sister. All of her friends die again.

** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon]]: An overdeveloped girl becomes a superhero and gains powers over stock footage. She meets other girls with similar powers. They all die in the end (or not).
** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon ([=DiC=])]]: A strangely told abridged version of the story where everyone has different names and everything is funnier.
** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon R]]: Overdeveloped girl becomes a superhero again, is forced into parenthood, and becomes single while battling aliens from the future. She blows up a tree, but it didn't count.
** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon S]]: Overdeveloped girl and her friends battle a MadScientist. Cousi- er A lesbian couple appears and tests her powers.
** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon Super S]]: The daughter of the Overdeveloped girl falls in love with a horse.
** [[spoiler: Sailor Moon Stars]]: Overdeveloped girl and her friends are joined by new Gender-bending allies.

* [[spoiler:''[[Literature/{{Anpanman}} Soreike! Anpanman]]'']]: A living loaf of bread [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]] and feeds himself to the hungry. His archenemy is a germ from space.

* [[spoiler:''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'']]:
** [[Main/MedievalEuropeanFantasy Medieval Europeanesque]] [[Main/IntrepidMerchant travelling merchant]] meets wolf deity in the form of a naked 16-year-old girl... They discuss economics.
** Or: A travelling merchant finds a furry in his cart. She becomes his "trading partner", and he keeps doing his merchant thing.
** Or: A peddler and a wolf goddess run around [[{{Ruritania}} not-Europe]] discussing economics.

* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'']]: [[FieryRedhead Hot-headed sorceress/thief]] teams up with [[IdiotHero empty-headed swordsman]] to fight evil.

* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'']]: Girl seeks out methods for a good night's sleep. Millions die as a result.
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'']]: A harem series, where the fate of two worlds depends on our [[ChivalrousPervert pervy protagonist]], who unwittingly makes a contract with [[FieryRedhead a redheaded]] {{shinigami}}.

* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SoltyRei'']]: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Grumpy old man]] forms OddFriendship with RobotGirl [[IOweYouMyLife whose life he saved]].
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'']]: Speedy mammal and his friends fall for the oldest trick in the book, end up fighting mammal's EvilDoppelganger.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SonicX'']]: Illegal immigrants must stay hidden from the authorities, though they aren't very good at it. Later, they go home, only to find that they have to fight aliens that think they're doing the right thing but are really destroyers of worlds.
** Season 3: [[spoiler: The worst possible outcome of MeetTheInLaws in any form of media.]]
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'']]: A young girl joins the army so that she can learn to play the trumpet. She is assigned to a platoon situated in a Spanish-inspired town. They spend their time fixing a tank and waiting for the phone to ring.

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/TheSoulTaker'']]: The hero dies in the first scene. His little sister has multiple personality disorder, [[SelfDuplication except worse.]] There's also a guy with a toothache.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/NurseWitchKomugi'']]: Earth has to be cured of its supernatural ills by an amateur [[CosplayOtakuGirl cosplay idol]].
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/GenesisOfAquarion'']]: Robot powered by [[{{Synchronization}} orgasms]] fights [[FantasyKitchenSink every fairy]] [[AllMythsAreTrue tale ever]].
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe'']]: A bunch of zoo animals hang out in a cafe.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'']]: A [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Jean Paul Belmondo look-a-like]] teams up with scantily-clad women and travels through space to look for treasure. He often encounters an evil [[BaldOfEvil bald]] guy made of glass.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'']]: A UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era battleship is equipped with a [[WaveMotionGun really powerful gun]] and sent off [[RecycledINSPACE into]] [[SpaceIsAnOcean space]] to fight alien invaders.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'']]: The most [[Creator/StudioTrigger Trigger]] thing that [[Creator/StudioTrigger Trigger]] ever [[Creator/StudioTrigger Trigger'd]].

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'']]: [[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies Everyone dies]] over the course of 39 episodes and a movie... especially in the movie. By the [[Creator/YoshiyukiTomino man]] himself.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'']]: Man who [[BlessedWithSuck hates his superpower]] travels with [[NotAllowedToGrowUp technically-prepubescent girl]]. Romance develops.

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpeedRacer'']]: Racing heavily modified cars is SeriousBusiness.
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'']]:

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpiritedAway'']]: A ten-year-old girl helps and is helped by a spa employee with partial amnesia after her parents' bad table manners nearly cause her to fade from existence.

* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SpyXFamily'']]: A superspy invents a fake family in order to investigate a prestigious member of society who's suspected of trying to start a war. Little does he know that his wife is a ProfessionalKiller and their daughter can [[{{Telepathy}} read minds]]. Cue SliceOfLife hijinks.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SquidGirl'']]: ''Manga/SgtFrog'' with a [[MoeAnthropomorphism moe-ized squid.]]

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SSSSGridman'']]: Amnesiac kid who sees funny clouds in the sky uses Franchise/{{Transformers}} technology to fight giant monsters created by a lonely girl.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/StarDriver'']]: A boy swims across ocean because he was late to school. He proceeds to become the [[ChosenOne Galactic Pretty Boy]] and pilot a [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] which fights other [[DeusSexMachina giant robots powered by libido]]. Lots of [[HotBlooded hot blood]] and faaaaaaabulousness ensues.
* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/StarshipOperators'']]: Reality TV meets Embedded Reporting... [-IN SPACE!-]
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SteamBoy'']]: A boy's father is killed for a new power source that he invented. He turns out to be not so dead. London freezes.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/SteelAngelKurumi'']]: Android in maid outfit is ''very'' overprotective of her priest-in-training master.
* [[spoiler: ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'']]:

* [[spoiler: ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'']]: A girl agrees to marry an emperor in order to get him to rule his country properly.

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/StrikeWitches'']]: Lesbians from all over the world strap airplane engines to their legs in order to fight aliens. Fans largely discuss [[{{Fanservice}} clothing choices]].

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SummerWars'']]: A computer programmer, his "girlfriend" and her extended family fight a supervirus.

* [[spoiler:''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu]]'']]: Love tetrahedron develops amidst various Twilight Zone-esque {{Negative Space Wedgie}}s. Existence hangs on the outcome.
** Or: Protagonists have to keep CanonSue entertained or she destroys the world. Again.
** Or: Protagonists attempt to prevent the wrong tropes from being realised by someone who does not know the difference.
** Or: Teenage girl thinks the universe revolves around her; turns out it really does.
** Or: Girl forms a club and bullies one of the members, none of the other members ask her to stop.
** Or: A deadpan snarker has to put up with a sociopath, an adorable girl, an emotionless girl and a boy who won't stop smiling.
** [[spoiler:''Manga/HaruhiChan'']]: Same as above, but with chibis.
*** [[spoiler:''[[Manga/HaruhiChan Nyoron Churuya-san]]'']]: One girl's quest for dairy products. With the exception of her and the resident PsychoKnifeNut, everyone is a {{Jerkass}}.
** [[spoiler:''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu]]'']]: A HighSchoolAU of... a High School SitCom, via a mis-timed [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Wonderful Life]] plot.

* [[spoiler: ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'']]: [[KillEmAll Everyone Dies]] over the course of 39 episodes and a movie... especially in the movie. By the [[Creator/YoshiyukiTomino man]] himself.

* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Sola}}'']]: "A skywatching guy with an IllGirl albino sister meets a mysterious girl being hunted by the [[BadassLongcoat Highlander]], who has connections to an ElegantGothicLolita who hangs out in garbage cans eating riceballs." (- Description taken from the show's page.)