Thanks for this. Its great.
If you think that's great, have I got a game for you.
It's called... wait for it.
Anime Music Quiz
animemusicquiz.com
This is the greatest weeb game of all time. It's a web game where you can play by yourself or with friends (it's a lot of fun with friends) where the website plays just the audio of an anime song (it can be the OP, the ED, an insert song, etc) from a random point in the song, and you have ~30 seconds to guess which show just based on the music which show/movie/ova/whatever it comes from. You typically play through several songs, and whoever guesses right the most wins. It's really simple. So if you hear "♪♪Cha-la, head cha-la♪♪" and type in "Dragon Ball Z" or "DBZ" you get a point! And if you hear "♪♪Ru-Ru-Ru-Ru-Russian, Russian♪♪" and type "Space Dandy" may god have mercy on your soul. After the guessing period, the game shows you the correct answer by replaying the song with the accompanying video. (Which is entirely skippable if it's an annoying song or has questionable visuals.)
The songs that come up are all completely adjustable. So if you want a challenge, you can have AMQ throw a bunch of random songs, or only insert songs, or only songs from anime from 1950-1970, etc. Or you can play filtering via genre tags. So you can tell AMQ to only play a random selection of openings from the "Mecha" genre, or maybe only shows that fit the "sci-fi" and "western" genre tags, or maybe
exclude all shows with the "isekai" or "ecchi" tags. What I usually do though when I play, is quiz based only on shows I and/or my friends I'm playing with have seen. You can link your MyAnimeList accounts, or Anilist accounts to the game, and you can tell it to only pull shows from your lists, or say 50:50 from your lists and random other songs, etc. (I've got almost 1k entries on my MAL page, so playing with me always ends up with a diverse range of shows.)
It's a lot of fun to play with friends remotely via voice/video chat, especially in these COVID times. I bet some of you guys who hangout on the TT discord would have a blast playing it a few times. It might take a few mins to set up accounts, but once you get going it's a lot of fun. I highly recommend it. There's a whole bunch of different game modes now too, like one that's a time attack (fastest person to answer correctly gets more points than people who answer slowly) or another that's "battle royale" (all the players get dropped into a grid with anime titles scattered on the ground, and you have a set period of time to collect show names. And once the collecting period is over, the collected titles become the pool of songs. Every time you guess wrong and someone else guesses right, you lose a life. And the last one alive at the end wins.)
Even if you don't want to or can't play with friends, it's fun to play by yourself too. The website doesn't have everything, but it has a pretty broad selection of anime songs uploaded by the community. AMQ also scrapes AnimeThemes.moe as well for video mirrors. So there's plenty of old shows for you old heads out there too who don't keep up with the new seasonal stuff. I highly recommend it. At the very least, it can be a fun trip through memory lane for a while a couple of evenings. I probably should have made my own thread, but it felt pretty relevant to this thread too.
