Teenagers From Outer Space

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what is it?

From a Dark Era of Gaming, when a multi-book franchise could be successfully marketed on the basis of a single joke. The kind of joke that only adenoidal, pimply, milk-smelling weirdoes find funny.

That was unhelpful and unfunny

Well speaking as somebody who has a PDF of the thing: here's what it is. It's basically an RPG of a harem/magical girl friend/cliche riddle anime, thing and that may be a thing some people like, but they don't often come around this parts, hence the disdain up there.

The setting is this: humans unlike the rest of the galaxy have stages to our mental development. We don't just go from baby (egg or maggot or even chest burster) to functional adult over night. Humans of course have a gradient to our development: and that middle ground between adult and child, teenager, was like a cultural lighting bolt. The idea that you could have near adult resources but not the responsibility was a hell of an idea. Over night earth became a cultural hot spot, being THE place to be in the galactic cultural scene and now the planet exists as a kind of tourist destination and as the place to send your children (or maggots or something) to for an education, if only to shut them up about it.

Unfortunately for the earthlings aside from being technologically behind, we are also biologically behind. Aliens can have a vast assortment of super powers, if you read comics books and have ever thought that all the aliens in the galaxy have powers and human's don't it's like that. So you have human children going to school along side people who can bench press a truck. Fortunately for humanity, because we are the cultural center of the galaxy, all humans are thought to be the coolest thing on two legs and have something mechanically called "the Human Fake Out" where you can convince any alien of anything, repeat, ANYTHING, without a roll. This can back fire though in ways, if your new firend with a zap gun figures out that your 'traditional' human greeting dance is just to make him look stupid well. . . you'll get what you deserve. Additionally if we follow how this works in comics, cartoons and anime to it's final conclusion, ultimately humanity will with enough time be able to hybridize it self with all the alien races meaning that the human race will end up have the powers of all the other aliens in the galaxy, combined. Mind you that is a very generous setting summery, the actual book favors a more comedic less informative tone then this, focusing on all the things alien teens do, but that is still the setting summarized.

That's no so bad if you think about it, like a PG-13 version of Humanity Fuck Yeah, the problem of course is that it's wrapped up in a tortilla that smells like weeaboo. The thing is explicitly inspired by comedy anime's, It's light on mechanics favor frantic silly role play for engagement, it supports and recomend a kind of 'go with the flow ad libbed comedy vib, consequences for failure is low, death is impossible and I'm not sure it even has a 'fail state', it encourages physicality, In other words it's the exact thing that turns 1d4 chaner's off, it's basically our kryptonite. About the best thing we can say for it's mechanics (what few it has) is that given the emphasis on ad libbed it could work to play settings that are more appealing to people who don't like anime, but are still inherently very random settings. Adventure Time comes to mind and the similarity's to Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (an approved anime so does not count) are almost too obvious not to mention but that's about.

Bottom line: just from the description alone you can likely tell if this a game you would like, if not give it a pass.