Thirst Quencher

A convenient device for a change is some kind of drink, often a soda, that changes the person in question. It's especially helpful when you have an image of a woman holding a can of some soda or other, like this one:



So, that's the challenge. Make a caption with this image where TG Soda, or whatever you care to call the brand responsible, is the agent of change. Whether (s)he knows it or not is up to you.

Comparison Change

The challenge for this one is twofold: First, I would like this caption to focus as much as you can manage on the change itself. Don't completely leave out the situation and whatnot, but try to spend more energy and text space on the change. Second, try to use as many metaphors and similes within the change's description as you can.


Why? Well,I know that sometimes it's hard to come up with a change description that doesn't sound exactly like all the others. It's part of why I take so long to make captions, though admittedly a very small part. Anyway, this is hopefully some helpful practice to help out with that.

Simple Challenge 6

Adventurers

There is a fair number of captions that take place in some sort of old fantasy setting, and often they just don't do much with it. So, here's a challenge:


We have a pair on some kind of adventure in a fantasy world of some sort. Let's say one or both of them was originally male. For the caption, try to tell about more than the change itself; try to tell a little bit about these people and their adventure. I'm not asking for an entire story, but at least dabble a bit in what they quest for, and why.

As for the cause of the change, you're free to use some of the more cliche things like the girdles of gender or magic springs, but it would probably be more impressive if you came up with something more original.


(I don't really consider this a group since it's only two...)

Whatcha Lookin' At?

Take a look at this quite captionable image:


She's looking up at something. It would be an overly easy caption, I think, for that something to be a guy she's now attracted to and/or a person who was responsible for changing her. So instead, make up something really bizarre or hilariously weird for her to be looking up at.

(It can be what changed her if you need it to be, as long as it's still something ludicrous or strange enough to stare up at.)

Awkward Levels Critical!

Okay, take a look at this picture:


Already a little awkward, right? Take the assumption that the girl pictured used to be male, and it becomes more awkward. Your challenge is to, by events described in your caption, make things even more awkward! See if you can break the awkwardness meter!

(You're free to make up whatever you like about the male pictured and their prior/present relationship)

Other Challenge Blogs

Hey, this post isn't a challenge because I'd like to announce something. I've decided to add something over on the right side of the posting area: A list of links to other people's anime caption challenge blogs. As far as I'm concerned we are not in competition, so I'm perfectly happy to point to other such things from here. So far there's only one there, but if you've made a challenge blog of some sort please comment on this post with a link to it, and I'll be glad to add it to the list!

I encourage anyone who's into captioning to at least have a look at these links.

More challenges coming from me later this month, probably.

Simple Challenge 5

Some captionable images are of a girl just standing there. Others have some nonverbal communication in place. This is one of the latter.

Simple Challenge 4

I've had this image for a while. Still really like it but could never really come up with any good captions for it. So, can you?

F2M

This is one I've been meaning to do for awhile. The picture:



The challenge: This time, assume the guy in this picture was once a girl. The girl's original form I leave to your discretion. The only special rule for this challenge aside from that is, make this not a direct body swap.

Take Your Time

Captions about changes that take place over a longer period of time are fairly rare, at least as far as I can tell. It's too bad, since it's actually a rather intriguing concept. So...today's challenge:



Use this image, and suppose the change took place over at least a week.

Normal Springs

Alright, another group challenge. Here's the image:



Now then, the challenge: Write a caption about one, or two, or three, or all four of them. Suppose the hot springs you're seeing here are completely normal. No magic rooms, no magic water, no magic doorways or towels or whatever. Also, as usual, suppose each of these four girls was male at some point, and changed by something at least a few minutes before coming to the spa (or whatever the establishment is).

Optimally they will have been changed at different times, and/or by different things, but that's more a recommendation than a requirement for this challenge.

Simple Challenge 3

Just another simple challenge.

Trigonometry

I've got a bit of an unusual challenge today. It arises directly from a detail of the following image:



Seems like a fairly regular picture of a catgirl, right? But look very closely at the bottom-left corner area. The open book, specifically. It's a trig book! There are a couple of triangles, and if you zoom in enough you can even see the laws of cosine and sine written in there.

So, the challenge for this image is to relate your caption's story to that book in some significant way. Captioners, start your keyboards!

Only Temporary

This challenge is fairly simple: Use the following image; suppose the change is temporary, not permanent, and that the character depicted knows this. It's up to you exactly what kind of temporary the change is.

One at a Time

Your challenge here is with a picture of a group.



The challenge is to pick a specific person in the picture, and write a TG caption about that person. It obviously must include the others in some way, but your caption should make it evident that the one you've chosen is the main character (it should also be clear which of the people in the picture is supposed to be your main character). It's entirely possible that these people were changed by different means, at different times, and ended up here for different reasons, so perhaps this could even form something like a cooperative caption? (Don't let that stop you from using a character you've seen used before here, though.)

There may be more group challenges in the future.

Punishment

I tend to dislike captions where the change is supposed to be a punishment for something, and the reason for this is very simple: Often the punishment is way too harsh for the "crime". Like, 'you're a bit of a jerk and you broke up with me so I'm gonna make you a weak little girl now'. Or, 'you trespassed my ancient house that looked totally deserted, so you get to be my servant forever'. Things like that. So, this challenge is for you to make a believably just punishment caption with the following image of a dog/wolf girl with a collar and leash:



Generally there are two ways to make a punishment seem more fitting: Either the punishment is less bad than the image initially suggests, or the 'crime' that resulted in the punishment is indeed, really bad.

Simple Challenge 2

Another simple challenge--no special conditions. I suppose you could say the picture itself is the challenge of a simple challenge.



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Kitsune Embarrassment

Okay, time for the first actual challenge. The following picture is of an embarrassed fox-girl.



For the challenge, suppose that she was male previously, and that she is not embarrassed about having become female (embarrassment about wearing female clothing, being attracted to males, etc. also falls under this); reveal some other reason for the blush in your caption.

(As mentioned before, challenges are optional. Please say so if you've chosen not to go with the challenge. All previous challenges are still open to captioning, so don't stop making ones for the prior image if you were going to)

Simple Challenge 1

This is just a simple, generic challenge. No special conditions at all, just make a TG caption for the following image:



(As implied by the number, there will probably be more simple challenges in the future.)