No. Yes. No.

Round 297: No, Dorkus, it's not that.

Hint: I Dreamed A Dream

Hint: This is even harder than round 216. Much harder.

Variant: Guess the anime's name, not a song.

Variant: No questions about dates will be answered.

I would like to completely prohibit calendar questions, but then you might never get it, so I'll allow them if this really turns out to be as hard as I'm hyping it to be. If this turns out to be the hardest round ever, I'll stop it as soon as it reaches 70 facts.

• The anime's name is not
  • Shitakiri Suzume
  • Suzume no Oyado
  • Coffee Break
• The anime
  • has a My Anime List page
    • where its average score is below 7
    • adventure is not listed as an applicable genre
  • has an Ani DB page
    • where it is listed as a movie
  • does not have an Anime News Network page
  • is a film
  • is not monochrome
  • was not commissioned by the Japanese government
  • does not have a tv tropes page
  • does not have a wikipedia page
  • is not drama
  • is not sci-fi
  • is not a thriller film
  • is not a mystery
  • is not a "psychological" film in the context of My Anime List
  • has supernatural elements
  • does not have more than 100 episodes
  • is not a TV series
  • is not an adaptation
  • was not made by
    • Osamu Tezuka
    • Yoji Kuri
    • Studi Ghibli
    • Studio 4°C
    • Studio Rikka
  • the main character
    • is human
    • is not male
    • does not speak
      • nothing explicitly indicates that the main character's silence is out of her control
  • no human characters speak
  • has nothing to do with ABBA
  • has been translated into English
  • is not more than 40 minutes long
  • is not 15 minutes or shorter
  • animals do not play a major role
  • is not on this list
  • is set in another world
  • is not based on a manga
  • does not use Stop Motion
  • has narration
  • was not made by Kihachirou Kawamoto
  • Sanrio is not involved in any way
• The hint
  • has nothing to do with broadway

edited 14th Aug '11 8:58:35 AM by Grain

Damn you, Grain. You've got me brute-forcing it now.

• Is it listed as a Movie on AniDB?
• Is it listed as an OVA on AniDB?
• Is it categorised under the tag, "Short Movie" on AniDB?

edited 14th Aug '11 1:18:37 AM by Pyrite

Is Sanrio involved in the anime in any way?

Is the anime 15 minutes long or shorter?

Is the anime's average score below 7 on MAL?

edited 14th Aug '11 1:35:08 AM by flygon250

Does MAL have the exact day that the film was released on record?

Does it have adventure listed as its/one of its genre(s) on its MAL entry?

Is it Coffee Break?

edited 14th Aug '11 8:03:35 AM by Pokénatic

Is it listed as a Movie on Ani DB? Yes

Is it listed as an OVA on Ani DB? No

Is it categorised under the tag, "Short Movie" on Ani DB? No, but I don't think that tag even exists.

Is Sanrio involved in the anime in any way? No

Is the anime 15 minutes long or shorter? No

Is the anime's average score below 7 on MAL? Yes

Does it have adventure listed as its/one of its genre(s) on its MAL entry? No

Is it Coffee Break? No

This is turning out to be easier than I thought, so I won't answer any questions about dates.

edited 14th Aug '11 8:57:10 AM by Grain

Changing rules mid round?! You CAD!

I was going to allow dates out of pity, but now I can clearly see that doing such would be an insult to your epic archive prowess.

/dislikes brute force efforts.

You so suck right now.

Is the film listed on MAL under its English title? A title that has English and romaji?

Is its average score on MAL less than 6?

edited 14th Aug '11 10:10:20 AM by Pokénatic

And I was just waiting until date questions were allowed.

Well then, Is the anime mentioned at all on TV Tropes? Does it have an official english translation? Is it's ranking on MAL under 5000(under as in 5001, 5002, etc)?

edited 14th Aug '11 10:53:47 AM by shark33

Is this 1001 Nights (from 1998)?

and , I wouldn't expect you two to be so easy mode.

In a stunning surprise takeover, Risu dominates round 297 in one fell swoop. How did you do it, Risu?

The anime is 1001 Nights. If you looked at it without knowing who made it, you would never think it was an anime.

edited 14th Aug '11 11:06:11 AM by Grain

& What.

This is the most epic thing that's ever happened in this game. Risu =

Mostly just picking out information that seemed important; dreams, less than 40 minutes but more than 15, movie, probably a silent film or something like Fantasia.

Whoever wants my turn can have it though. Do either of you want it?

edited 14th Aug '11 11:11:44 AM by Risu

Well I've learned one thing from this round: Never assume that when you say that the round will be hard, the anime must be really old. I thought that it was a pre-1980 film for the whole round.

That was an interesting round.

I thought it was going to be 1001 Arabian nights by Osamu Tezuka, but then I remember that he got disqualified as a candidate early on. There was another film I wanted to guess, but I couldn't remember the name of it.

OBJECTION!

On your hints list, you state that it's not an adaptation. But this is clearly an adaptation from traditional mythology and folklore! (I'm just being an ass. Don't mind me. )

Igiari!

So, does anyone want to claim this round? I usually don't claim rounds unless I actually win, but if no one else is interested I might.

I've stolen the last two or three rounds without having actually won, so I'm sure as hell not taking this one.

Motte ike! Saigo ni waracchau no wa atashi no hazu. Seeraa fuku dakara desu. Ketsuron.

edited 14th Aug '11 5:43:21 PM by Grain

Do you really have to write it in romaji? What's up with the "Motteke! Sailor Fuku" quote?

Oh, I get it now...

edited 14th Aug '11 6:02:15 PM by Pokénatic

EDIT

watashi tsuiteiku yo
donna tsurai sekai no yami no naka de sae
kitto anata wa kagayaite

edited 14th Aug '11 6:04:15 PM by Pyrite

That's not what they say. They say "KURAE!"

Also, if we're going to be rambling about in romanji... tasogare yori mo kuraki mono...

edited 14th Aug '11 6:04:31 PM by TheyCallMeTomu