Brainstorming 2016 -- pimp your fandoms!

[drayton]

According to the Yuletide Schedule, nominations begin in a little over two weeks. What are you thinking about nominating? What are you hoping to get other participants interested in?

Use this post to drum up interest in the Yuletide-sized fandoms of your heart. Tell us what you like about them, and where we can find canon sources or primers. You may get a new convert to your tiny fandom, or remind someone of that thing they used to love but thought nobody else cared about.

This post is meant for fandom promotion/discussion only. If you have problems/questions about how Yuletide is run, you should hop over to the yuletide-admin comm on Dreamwidth or Livejournal to ask a mod.

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I've got some short anime/manga to promote! And they're the same three I requested last year, so copy/paste is go!

Fandom: Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God
Category: Anime (12 episodes + 1 bonus on the BD/DVD set)
Comments: Sunday Without God takes place in a world where people can no longer give birth or die naturally, and the only way someone can truly die is if a gravekeeper buries them. Twelve-year-old Ai is one such gravekeeper, and when her village is destroyed, she sets out on a journey to save the world and meets a number of interesting people along the way. It's very beautiful, and more hopeful than the initial premise might imply, being more more about the wishes people make and the consequences of those wishes coming true. Most of all the series is more focused on Ai helping everyone she meets, and the places she and her friends visit.
Links:
Wikipedia & TVTropes
Watch the opening here!

Crunchyroll used to have the episodes up, and may restore them soon, and The Anime Network requires a premium account. If you go for torrent/downloads, go for rips of the official subs, since the fansubs mangled a few plot-crucial lines.

Fandom: Stray Little Devil
Category: Manga (5 volumes)
Comments: Stray Little Devil is about a young girl named Pam Akumachi who gets sucked into a world were only devils and angels live, and she gets turned into a devil herself! As she tries to find a way back to her home world, she becomes friends with devils Raim and Vine and grows closer to the standoffish angel Linfa, who looks just like her best friend Rinka. Over the course of the series, she learns more about being a devil and the history of this new world. It's a lighthearted manga, and it even has canon yuri! Surprise canon f/f is the best f/f.
Links:
Wikipedia & TVTropes
A cute image of Pam and Linfa getting married!
The manga is five volumes and out-of-print, but scans are easy enough to find on most online readers.

Fandom: Venus Versus Virus
Category: Manga (8 volumes), anime (12 episodes)
Comments: Venus Versus Virus is about a middle-school girl named Sumire Takahana who gets attacked by a violent ghost but is saved by a mysterious young hunter named Lucia Nahashi. After Sumire develops strange powers of her own, she joins Lucia in hunting these ghostlike "Viruses." As Sumire grows stronger, she learns more of Lucia's past and the true nature of her powers, and there's plenty of yuri subtext too.
Links:
Wikipedia & TVTropes
Watch on Funimation's streaming site
Watch the opening here!
The manga is eight volumes and also out-of-print, but scans can be found on most online readers.