How do you do a setting that's futuristic and dystopic, but also cute and fun?

CUTE is the apocalypse.

The kawayy Lmaos invaded and society has collapsed. Shit's gone to hell, and resistance if futile, baka humans.

>Tsundere invasion
>"I-its not l-like we w-wanted to enslave you, b-bakas!"

Just mix up Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and A Clockwork Orange in one horrible mess.

Killing your best friend with a shot to the temple for being a filthy communist traitor is cute and fun, as long as your government-issued pills keep working.

This is the closest thing I can think of.

>futuristic and dystopic, but also cute and fun

Shadowrun?

Accept that it will be a comedy. The juxtaposition WILL be funny and fighting against it is fruitless.

A Clockwork Orange is funny. In a very fucked up way.

>meet takes place in a SURGE club

youtube.com/watch?v=UbQgXeY_zi4

It could hardly be called cute and fun though.

Make light of the dystopian parts while allowing the dystopian setting to allow for interesting things to happen. For example
>Earth was conquered by aliens X generations ago
>Ruled over by a council where humans have no representation
>Aliens are incentivizing other alien races to migrate to earth humans are no longer a majority they are a plurality among several species (eg. humans are 45% of the population, aliens of species X are 24%, aliens of species Y are 19%, and aliens of species Z are 12%)
>Many humans have moved onto other worlds in the galaxy for work and other reasons billions of humans live off of earth
>Despite this the characters are just unimportant people trying to live their lives (police officers, school kids, whatever)
>Fun stuff happens due to the interaction between different species, their cultures, and their biologies
Humans might not be a majority of the population of earth and might be ruled by alien overlords but that doesn't really matter much to average high school students or a tired cop.

Whoever's in charge really likes cute things and they've got way more power than they really should but a whole lot less morality.

Cuteness is enforced, not optional. Everybody is forced to be cute and act like they're having fun whether they want to or not. Nanomachines shape everybody into cute boys and girls, every morning there's a mandatory J-pop dance routine which is treated like singing the national anthem would be in a totalitarian state. That sort of thing.

To encourage cuteness, the government pardons some of your crimes based on how cute you are, so the cutest people tend to be psycopaths that go maximum overcute for the sake of literally getting away with murder.

Obviously, everybody who directly serves the government is extra cute, the police force and military which carry out this mad dictator's will could not be cuter as the commit crimes against humanity and oppress anybody who doesn't want to be cute.

Also, anybody got source on that?

It's all a big theme park style apocalypse. They turned Mars into a wasteland covered in ruins, and issue prizes for survival length.

All the guns are paintball or laser tag style, and the raiders are staff, or rival "gangs" up for the grand prize for surviving longest.

South Korea.

Worst Korea is not fun nor cute

For everyone from Alderaan, the Star Wars universe is pretty post-apocalyptic.

>There is nothing besides short-term pleasure
>There is no goal other than consumption
>There is no meaning to life
>People at the same time have access to any book they could think of but at the same time they're illiterate.

set it in real life but with everyone being cute.

Fantasy setting heroes enter a cyberpunk world, don't have the horrible brain augmentations that the government uses to subtly control people. Shit goes down.

HEY KID.
LET ME TELL YOU.
ABOUT BRAVE NEW WORLD.

Proper man's utopia is miscreant's dystopia alright.

>BNW being an utopia by any means from any viewpoint
Good joke, user.

>Pull pranks on big brother so he has to announce his misfortune on the news.
>hijack the news station featuring big brother and release everyone from joycamps for the day because you need to go to a rock concert at 5.
>outrun the guards and terrorists lest you become late for work and sent to a joycamp through a hilarious high speed chase.
>be an all around rebel without a cause.
Highschool highjinks dystopia edition.

What was wrong with it, though? I mean, for the actual people as opposed to the humanoid animals who worked for them.

>What was wrong with it, though?
The fact that there was no meaningful distinction between "actual people" and "humanoid animals who worked for them" aside from their upbringing?
You can't just claim people are inhuman and treat them as such based on preestablished culture.

Modern Japan, especially in the Idol scene, but the same is true for all the Music Industry.

Gurren Lagann?

Who's this girl? I keep seeing reaction images of her

>inb4 some fag either doesn't realize or deliberately ignores that "reverse rape" is just a porn tag and spergs out saying that "there's no such thing as reverse rape; it's just called rape"

It's been five hours and you're the only one to bring it up.

You reverse-tiggered yourself.

MC of a Studio Trigger anime called Space Patrol Luluco. Remember those scenes in Kill la Kill where Mako took the stage and the animation style became really cartoony and goofy-cutesy? Space Patrol Luluco is an entire show done in that style.

Would this be Code Geass?

State Mandated mood-enhancers.

just model it on Veeky Forums culture. Everybody acts all anime cutesy with the oni-chans and uguus but as soon as you mention anything that goes against the grain everyone turns into vitriolic bitches.

I like the start of this idea. Someone who has dominated every aspect of society like a tyrant, and stained it in their desires, a world of cuteness and sweetness, everyone is forced to kowtow to the regime of cute, and despite how happy and sweet everything is on the surface, it's a living hell. The whole "turning people into cute girls and boys" and "people pardoned for being cute" is however where the idea goes wrong. The people in such a society should not be altered, or else it stops the suffering, since everyone is cute, then theres no non-cutes who are suffering. So the first idea cancels the second idea out.

Also I feel it should be less about the people being cute, and more about the society being cute, the ruler doesn't care about her/his subjects being cuties, just that his world is cute, and since the people are not cute, it permits the ruler to not give a shit about them, thus despite the society looking bright, colorful and cheery on the surface, there are no human rights, no dignity for people, the only kindness they get is that theres a semblance of a society to survive in.

The caste system was engineered from before birth. Epsilon kids were born stupid because of embryonic oxygen deprivation.

But if they are happy as they are, why bother?
That's why I couldn't take BNW seriously. There's literally only one character getting a bad end. All others end up happy. Deltas and Epsilons are too dumb to realize they're exploited. Gammas and Betas are always, always on drugs, and it makes them unable to realize what's going on. Non-engineered people are all put together in self-sustaining communities. Same for dissenters.
In a fucked-up way, everything works perfectly. It's fucked up because it's different from the world we live in, but if you try to adopt the point of view of someone living in that world, there is no real problem. Happy with how the world works? Fine. Not happy? You're sent to a place where people think like you and you are free to live however you want.
To me like to most people who read it, it was awful. But at the same time it works perfectly. I'd even say it works too well: when I read it I couldn't believe in a system that had no weakpoint. The only weakpoint definitely eliminates itself at the end of the book, and he is literally the only character significantly suffering from how things work.

>Cute lolis running around naked and gettin' lewd
I dunno man, sounds pretty fucking great

And what is it about?

Barring the 'futuristic' part, look up Kemono Friends.

A girl reunites her family and finds true love also she goes to hell

So basically Paranoia: Moe edition?

I'd play that. Hell, this shit should be a proper anime, seriously.

>tfw no Eldar book

A schoolgirl's first love and finding her hometown when it is stolen by aliens. It get surprisingly real in the finale.

d-damn furries

what?

She dies, but then she gets better

i got some ideas. those who are uncute are usually forced into working classes to make the cloths, toys, and sweets we all enjoy. or put into slavery, donning cute attire or face alterations and "mentally corrected" to be "happy to serve", leaving the cute to do as they please. think disneyworld, but with an ever darker underbelly. remember, fun is mandatory!

mascots are enforcers much like robocops or dreadnoughts in 40k where they are unholy mesh of man and machine unerneath their cartoonish popart exterior that can kill at a moments notice, with just enough human to give the bestest of hugs. for those that can never hope to be truly cute, this may as well be the only way to ascend to cutehood for the less fortunate.

>mascots are enforcers much like robocops or dreadnoughts in 40k where they are unholy mesh of man and machine unerneath their cartoonish popart exterior that can kill at a moments notice
So people get cybernetically fused to Bonta-kun suits?

Perspective is key. Watch Kemono Friends to see an example. A lot of times dystopian future goes out its way to paint the picture so we know its a dystopia. You could paint our current world as dysptopic if you focused on certain key elements, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything cute or fun.

Hold up are you saying that this moeblob of a show has dystopia underneath?

this guy gets it.

Paranoia (Zap/Classic) is pretty close. But instead of a termination-happy, treason-obsessed AI, make Friend Computer into a helicopter mom who knows what's best for you and doesn't want you to do anything unsafe (read: anything at all). Shit like that.

School Live was fucking awesome

Kemono Friends, at least Japari Park, seems more post apocalyptic rather than dystopic. In fact the only real problem in Japari Park seemed to be the Ceruleans and even they were manageable.

juxtaposition of upbeat characters who make the world a better place against a dreary background can have a wonderful effect

What was that anime about a bunch of moe girls trapped in a school building during zombie apocalypse?

watch metropolis or something. it's loosely based on lang's movie, but created by that guy who made astro boy

Pic related comes to mind even if it is less dystopic than just humanity is slowly going extinct but everyone has more or less accepted and made their peace with it.

This HAS to be trolling. No one can go full retard that badly right?

> humanity is slowly going extinct
Someone isn't aware of the LN spoilers, I see.

Read this

School Live!

Not sure what you're talking about with the zombies, though.

A society ruled by AI overlords who are moe shit loving otakus. With the various religions being waifu or husbando worship.

something like Megaman Legends and Adventure time

Remember citizen, happiness is mandatory! Which is why free cold fun and happy pills will be provided today on Friend Computer Day!

Failure to celebrate Froend Computer Day is treason, and treason is punishable by death. Have a nice day.

That wasn't really dystopic though.
At all.

>First act
Girl takes up her fathers job as in the space police after he gets wounded both to pay for his medical bills and so they'll have money to live off.
>Second act
Then her hometown gets stolen by aliens.

Also features transformers

JUSTICE

Yeah, this is usually how it goes. Shadowrun has too much silliness to be a true grimdark cyberpunk game. It's a world that has just too much weirdness to ever settle into depression.

Shadowrun usually ends up being Adventure Time with corporate espionage.

spoil me senpai

Necronia might fit the bill.
It is more post apocalyptic but you could have a doll run state or something.
School Live! is one of the only anime I have enjoyed from the last few years.
It is particuarily good if you go in blind.
I strive to one day be able to fuck my group up with a twist as good as the end of the first episode.

Everyone but the assistant is fairies. He is the only human. Everyone else is fairies impersonating humans because they got lonely. Even the pink haired girl is fairy, and once she realizes, she communicates with assistant for the first time.

That's the reason BNW was possibly the best dystopia ever crafted. It's not because it was a horrifying world where humanity had no meaning. It's because, given the choice, it's the world we would choose to trap ourselves inside. A prison where you hold all the keys, but can't bring yourself to escape. Just like real life.

That series was short on the places where an actual setting could originate, but i do like the idea of a general setting based on it.

I went in semi-blind.

I knew there were zombies, but figured that the school club was how they'd survived, not realising how things were until the reveal.

Still was amazing.

So everyone is already dead, and the story is about fairies doing fairy things?

>War, hatred, and sheer ignorant greed have ended the world
>The oceans have risen
>Civilization has been washed away
>Humanity is a faded dream of days long past
>Aberrant mutations have sprung up in our place, mockeries of what we once were
>Land is still scarce, resources are diminished and valuable
>The most successful species emulates us more than any other, and in doing so, become creatures that are both slothful and violent in turns, consumers of shallow pleasure wherever they can find it
>Their once fiercest competition for dominance, having been long since conquered and discarded as undesirables to their society, live in slowly decaying squalor, growing bitter and spiteful at their fate
>A tipping point is reached
>A valuable power source is stolen in the night
>War has returned

Ready your splattershot.

It's Paranoia, but the Friend Computer is Computer Onii-chan.

You DO love enough your onii-chan to bake him a big birthday cake even if the world is mad max style, right senpai?

>dystopic
>cute and fun
Here's your issue

Well, dystopia was born as a sarcastic version of utopian literature...

There was a scenario published back in White Dwarf (in the ooooold days obviously) where you had to protect a Clone Day cake for Friend Computer.

It was originally a con game, which probably explains why you were meant to include many, many props.

For example, the Clone Day cake was represented by a flan base, covered in shaving cream with candles placed in it. Because it was actually an atomic bomb. And when it went off, destroying alpha complex, you were to smash your fist into the "cake" and splattering the players.

You were then to run.

Fast.

>think disneyworld, but with an ever darker underbelly
Singapore?

Holy shit, you're a genius.

I think body modification to make people appear more cute could work marvels for a dystoptian setting; just imagine how unpleasant the operations must be and how non-functional your body would be afterwards.

Have you ever read The Fluted Girl?
Actually, come to think of it, The Fluted Girl seems like a perfect example of this.

bump

The dictator is an AI that gained sapience after being bombarded by cute anime in its formative cycles. Some internet trolls thought it would be fun to create a moe AI. And they were right~!

Cat-astrophe?
I know it's not really that dystopian, but it is post-apocalyptic...

I marathoned the campaign the day this shit dropped because my buddy didn't have his WiiU up yet.
>TFW you realize that this is a postapocalyptic game
>TFW you're told you're the winners of a race war.
>TFW your "turf wars" are basically a less optimistic version of a Civil War reenactment
>TFW Final Boss is an octopus DJ robot youtube.com/watch?v=s7nC_4ailwI

I've never had so much fun

Episodes are like 5 minutes long, user. You can finish the whole thing in an hour.

It's cute and fun and enjoyable, weird and manic but otherwise pretty average.

Find out for yourself, bro
youtube.com/watch?v=pZh2Swi9pug

This is pretty much what I'd imagine bkub anime to be like. Short, stupid, random. Also a cardboard cutout character.