Anime Madness

So I'm watching "Two-and-a-Half-Men" on CBS, which stars Charlie Sheen as a jingle writer/jigilo. Anyway, he gets a task to write a jingle for a "Japanese Comic Book" that is being turned into a TV series. He starts with a corny sounding jingle that resembles a Buddy Holly pop song of the early 60's. His nephew begins to freak out. "It's too cheery!" He then related the story of the comic, called "Oshikuru", about a teenage boy who dies and then comes back as a Samurai who must fight demons. "But the demons are just a reflection of the demons inside of him" adds the kid. "It's a dark story. Even though kids watch it, it's not written for kids."

Is it just me, or is this really sounding like a plausible anime?

Of course, it doesn't turn out good. The nephew and Charlie work on the theme song for hours and hours till they perfect it with all the emotion, darkness, and angst the story needs. We never hear it, we get it all behind a montage set to "I write the songs", but at the end, they watch the premiere... and the network picked the original, sucky, cheery version.

"What happened?" asks the kid.

"The network liked the other one better."

"But all that work! That one blows! What are they, idiots?"

"Welcome to showbiz!"