AniCity (series)

AniCity is a fan-made series centered around a wide variety of cartoon and anime characters from practically all over. It revolves around the story of the titular AniCity, revolving around the misadventures of several of its strange citizens that inhabit the city walls and the world - or rather, worlds - that surrounds it.

## Season 1

Season 1 revolves around introducing all the major elements in the city and introducing the grand majority of the main cast. The first half of the season is mainly built off of team-ups between two members of the main cast to help establish their individual dynamics & relationships with each other. The second half has them then encountering the masked vigilante Zero & forging alliances with him, eventually leading to all six would-be heroes forming their own secret "hero team". In addition, between these events, the series also follows the exploits of three young-but-already-renowned heroes and their anthropoid friends in their dreams of making music together.

## Season 2

While Season 2 is mostly the same as the seasons turns to Summer, but with it brings two new important changes. The first is the arrival of Star Saber, an ancient Autobot swordsman that was frozen for thousands of years, now reawakened in the modern day. The other is Raditz: the proud alien warrior now finds himself stranded on a backwater planet. There are also several episodes where one or more heroes team up with whole teams of cartoon heroes.

## Season 3

Season 3 of the series is easily the start of many things for the series going forward. What starts out as a "simple" field trip to the planet Cybertron becomes a quest that holds the fate of the Earth itself in the balance, with the main cast being appointed by the Grand Council to find various ancient artifacts so they don't fall into evil hands and stop an alien invasion led by an alien sorcerer named Skeletor. This season is mainly to act as a turning point for the series as a whole, as the tone of the series shifts a little more away from episodic, mostly superhero-like adventures to more a serialized-form of storytelling & darker tone, with the cast facing a lot more peril.

## Season 4

The halloween season is fast approaching the city. But even several months after their adventure the previous season, the gang has been dealing with their quest rather differently: some are feeling more vigorous than ever, while others are... left with more complex feelings, even contemplating on their place in the world given how large and crazy they've seen the rest of the world is. More importantly though, some of the more mysterious circumstances around the city and the mastermind behind them finally come into light, and it has something to do with one of the mayor's old buddies.

## Notes

This series is mainly meant to be a literal mixture of characters and story elements of western cartoons and Anime - meaning its meant to be a mixture of the superhero-like adventures & light-hearted character interactions seen in "cartoons" with the darker tone & serialized storytelling of Anime. While the anime featured mainly consists of the titles that are the most well-known in the western world - or at the very least the ones that were featured on Toonami & Adult Swim, the cartoons featured mainly center around the catalogues of Nickelodeon's Nicktoons, Cartoon Network, and Saturday Morning Cartoons from the 80's and 90's.

The series is made up of 65 episodes - thirteen episodes spanning five seasons. This is actually meant to be a combination of the twelve/thirteen-episode anime and sixty-five-episode cartoon rules as another way to show the blending of the two mediums.

This series was inspired by Cartoon Network's CN City, taking the idea presented there of different types of characters from different animated media interacting with each other and expands upon it. This gives the story a style that acts as a cross between slice-of-life and superhero/action shows, something akin to a cross between Hey Arnold! and DC Comics (or the old Spiderman-inspired superhero story). The DC Comics influence mainly comes from series like the Fleischer Superman cartoons, Batman the Brave and the Bold, and of course the DC Animated Universe (who's depictions of the heroes even serve as the main template for this version of the Justice League). Brave and the Bold in particular has actually inspired two major elements in the series.

* Episodes in the first season revolve around at least two members of the main cast - usually one cartoon character and one anime character - teaming up or facing off. This is mainly to act as a way to help establish a bond between all the main cast before they become a full-fledged team at the end of the season.
* Taking influence from Brave and the Bold, many episodes either have prologues telling an important piece of backstory for the characters or world or are a cold open with their own small escapades not related to the remainder of the episode. A few of these are meant to be a bit more light-hearted and even comedic than the episode their paired with so as to alleviate some of the tension. This also helps to showcase a villain or villains that don't quite have the staying power for a full episode.