Pitch Wish List

General Info

Time: 22 minute

Genre: Dramedy,  Anime-inspired

Age: 6-11 or YA - “Family Friendly”/Four Quadrant (think animated movie audience)

General Tone/Age/Genre Comps: The Dragon Prince, Avatar TLA, Tangled the Series, Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld

Pitch Format

• Keep it more vague (un-named characters without overly specific personalities, less details)

• ✅ Example: "Girl explores Candy Land and comes across a bunch of kooky characters, then learns the truth about being overly sweet."

• ❌ Poor Example: "Vanellope Von Schweetz is an annoying brat who explores Sugar Rush Candy Land to find her mentor, a wacky, violent Bunny, named Choca Latte, and meets a nerdy sentient peppermint candy who team up to take down the sweetest King in the land, King Candy."

THINGS TO INCLUDE

• Asian characters and/or setting

• Diversity

• As they say: “Let’s make the audience cry, laugh, and cry laughing.”

• Heart!!

• Emotionally deep

• Serial story that has set up for a larger arc/story (not a sitcom/episodic)

• Ensemble cast

Do Not Pitch

• Extreme Violence/Gore

• Heavy Action/Fight Scenes

• Anything PG-13+/NSFW

Saira's Pitch Wish List

4P 2024 - 2025

Feel free to pitch something not listed here, this is just a huge list to hopefully help inspire, in no particular order

From the EP (Saira)

Some Themes & Shows I Like

• Classic Barbie Movies! (Three Musketeers, Prince & Pauper, 12 Dancing Princesses, Island Princess)

• Fairytales/Royalty & Court Intrigue (Tangled the Series, Sofia the First)

• Mythology (American Born Chinese, Percy Jackson)

• "Magic" Girls (Winx Club, WITCH, Totally Spies)

• Mysteries (The Apothecary Diaries, Professor Layton, The After Party, Only Murders in the Building)

• Complex/Morally Grey POVs (Wicked, Minions/Despicable Me, Nimona)

• Travelling (The Backyardigans, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Carmen Sandiego)

• School/Workplace (Skylanders Academy, Monsters at Work, Supernatural Academy, Boss Baby)

• Slice of Life (Ouran HSHC, Never Have I Ever, Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures, Maid Sama)

• Crafting & Skills (Dr. Stone, Ascendance of a Bookworm)

• Fashion Industry/Big City Living (Emily in Paris, The Bold Type, The Carrie Diaries)

• Period Dramas (Bridgerton, My Lady Jane, The Great)

• Entertainment Industry (Oshi No Ko, Skip Beat)

• Archaeology/Jungles/History/Museums (Lara Croft, Jumanji, Jungle Cruise)

• Competitions (Amazing Race, Big Brother, Survivor, The Mole, Blue Lock, Haikyuu, Food Wars)

Other things I like not listed above

• Twists

• Retellings

• Gender Bent Retellings

• Food

• Games & Puzzles

• Non-Contemporary, Non-American settings (aka: things set in a different time or place)

• Music/Musical Numbers

• Puns/Word Play

Avoid Pitching

• Aliens

• Space

• Typical “Sci Fi”/Futuristic Stuff

  • Cyber/Tech 

• Horror/Creepy/Gothic

• Clowns

• Wild Wild West/Americana

• Talking Animals / Lots of Animals

• Something too serious/depressing

• Things too complex to board/design for at this scope/resource level (ie: lots of creatures, vehicles, crowds, etc.)

Initial Ideas

• "The Globe Theater" - Shakespearan acting troupe, but global (and not necc. set in England) where people come from all over the world to join/perform/impress patrons, and they do musicals.

  • Girl trying to audition for the troupe/learning about the other auditionees/current members

  • Mysterious troupe that grants wishes/miracles, but is also a lot more sinister than it appears

  • "Let Me Entertain You" "Court Jester" "Court of Miracles"

  • Waiting in the Wings

• Villain forced to pretend to be a hero

  • Walking through a food market in Asian land, chaos in their wake, smiling.

• Gender Bent Medusa Retelling (It's a guy with a basilisk that's turning people to stone!)

• The 12 Labors of Hera C. Lee

• Vintage/Classic “Murder” (probably shouldn’t be murder) Mystery (Ex: Sherlock/Professor Layton/Agatha Christie/Mystery of Edwin Drood/Enola Holmes)

  • Luxury Train Scene

  • Colonial "East India Company" Setting

• Seasons - As factions (like Tinkerbell, but not) - "War of the Seasons"

• Shops in a small town/quaint village - interactions between the regular customers and shopkeepers

• Little Mermaid/Once on this Island Retelling

  • Poor Orphan boy, fascinated by "new world" inventions, made fun of by his "sisters," sees a princess/noble/new world girl and saves her/falls in love 

  • Loses his voice

  • How to give this a TV show engine though?

• Food Wars but with Crafting

• Pirates/On the Seas! Mysterious Island

• A Spy / Expert Disguiser / Cosplayer 

• Witches / Astrology / Tarot

• Something with generational trauma

• "Make something like Bao" - My Mom

From the Producer (Alice)

Some Themes & Shows I Like

• Fantasy Crews (Frieren, Vox Machina/D&D, Log Horizon)

• Grounded characters in Fun Settings (Frieren, Mob Psycho 100, Hinamatsuri)

• Slice of Life (Skip & Loafer)

• Strong worldbuilding (Log Horizon, Vox Machina/Critical Role/D&D)

• Adaptations of mythology (Huluwa/Calabash Brothers, Journey to the West)