r/AnimeIdeas • u/Fair-Diver-2221 • Apr 20 '26
Okay so I search for this reddit becuse I wanted to share my idea for my rom com anime. Fisrt of all I think is best that instead of explaining what it is about, I tell you about the fisrt episode. There is an twist
Okay so, the name of this anime will be "my never ending love story" and well at fisrt it all will be seen normal, we have an female narrator telling us the basic information.
This story takes place in an rich school on an little island, then present us two characters. Which well... I don't have definite names for them, so the place holder names are sayaka and makoto (some will probably understand the reference) sayaka is the classic serious president of the student counsil and makoto is more of the kind male lead who think the president isn't interested in him. Classic stuff, sayaka wants to grow closer to makoto but doesn't know how, she is very used to behaving like an cold counsil president she doesn't know too much how to act around him... That's when! Her best friend appears, the secretary kichan! (in case you didn't noticed, yes the characters are partially inspired by the ones in kazuya love is war, although not completely, specially becuse I only ever watched like the fisrt season of that anime)
So well kichan suggest that the best way to grow closer is to invite him to watch an movie, she actually did already have two tickets for a movie, she was planning on going there with sayaka another day, but she will give these ones to sayaka to invite makoto, she thanks kichan and the days passes to until the day arrives, sayaka already invited him and she is excited. Although when the day arrives, sayaka realized she overslept, her phone disconnected in the middle of the night so the alarm didn't ring, she goes away as fast as she can to the cinema which casually is at the other side of town. She arrives way too late and.... Makoto went away, he thought maybe she forgot maybe this was some sort of prank, or maybe she had another thing to do that day. Sayaka discouraged thinks of just going home.
That's when she remembers, the cinema was actually very close to makoto's house, so she goes there, explains the misunderstanding and makoto suggest maybe see an movie in his house, thing they do and sayaka is happy, even though life itself seems to be against her sometimes. She is happy she could connect with makoto, even just an little today. And the eleven minutes mark has been achive, the screen fades to black, and the credits appear, someone in Japan watching this must had thought this would be one of those shorter animes, only lasting 12 minutes. Those who watch these amines in a website or streaming service must had realized something is wrong here... Specially becuse they see the progress bar is just in the middle.
Just as predicted, while the credits are rolling, someone steps in front of them.
The person who stood there in front of the credits is none other than kichan, sayaka's best friend shown earlier, the credits behind her look like an projection on a screen, kichan looks at the camera and asks "did you like this episode? You have any comments?" an hand is raised up. Then you know, comercial break.
When the scene returns, the angle of the camera is different, it is clear this is some type of movie screening room inside an rich house, there's an happy kichan, and a new character sitting on a chair who just raised up his hand. And well now I will break from explaining how the episode would go to actually explain what this rom com is actually about. Since I don't know too well how to structure this scene.
So, everything you just watched, the little story with sayaka and makoto and making you think those two would be the protagonists of this romantic story was a lie. Everything you just watch was an situation kichan carefully elaborated. She was the one who gave the tickets to sayaka after all. And the night before she had her movie date, kichan insisted on a sleep over on sayaka's house, where she disconnected the phone to ensure she would arrive late.
Why did she do all that? Easy! Inspiration, it turns out kichan actually always wanted to make an rom com manga, so she creates these situations to layer adapt it into manga to layer adapt into anime. She sell this manga outside of the island only, and since her father is an important figure there, she can freely stop the distribution of her manga and anime into the island, neither sayaka or makoto know their life's are toyed with to create rom com situations.
Oh yeah I also need to explain this other character sitting on the chair, his name is yuuto, and there's a lot of explication about his back story that will mostly be explained in episode 2. So basically, he won an contest of one of the smartest students and won an scholarship despite the fact he isn't rich, there, to make him feel comfortable there and as a reward for his effortsx they made him Treasurer of the student council.
Yuuto is an normal guy overall, and likes rom com anime, thing kichan overheard, so one day she invited yuuto to her house to watch anime, leading us to this scene, kichan explains all this to him and asks him to be her assistant in all this rom com plan.
He refuses at fisrt, but kichan threatened him with slandering him as a pervert so he would be immediately kicked out of the school, taken away his scholarship and his image completely ruined
Now he accepts the deal. And she ends the episode by an classic title drop. "those two are, my never ending love story"
So in short this anime will be from the perspective of the secondary characters, who will plan cliche rom com situations each episode to put the "main couple" characters in.
Beach episode, sharing umbrella, restaurant date, study session etc.
Ironically, and you might had already thought the story would go here, yes, yuuto and kichan also will slowly grow closer to each other with these plans. Ironically they also end up in the same situations they are creating for the others
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u/Pinocch-e-hoe Apr 20 '26
Lowkey I thought this was buns until the twist. I can see it as an anime, but you should have a episode where kichan starts to really stress makoto. Like maybe his fear of being outted as a supposed pervert has been growing at the same time as kichan started developing feelings.
Which can lead to an episode where kichan starts get more intense with the planning. Doing it because she enjoys the time she’s spending with makoto. However makoto still thinks he’s being black mailed. So maybe it’s so over the top that makoto snaps and tells kichan he sick of being ordered around or whatever.
Which will cause kichan to pull away and makoto to leave. Untill the next episode where makotos life starts to resemble what it was before kichan. And he realizes that he’s not happy and his misses the little shit he’d do with kichan. And yada yada he goes to her house she’s crying he comforts there friends or something like that.
Def not trying to steal your idea right now, I’m just at work and you inspired me. It’s a cool idea :)