New Anime : Treaty

Slogan

"You Can Either Treat People Well, Or You Won't Be Able To Treat With Them At All."

Premise

• Lance (short for Lancelot) is a drifter. He is a nice guy, with noble ideas and a good heart, but he just can't seem to get his act together. He's also kind of clumsy...
• The world of Treaty is multifaceted. Different layers of awareness and intelligence. Some layers comprised of more evolved human beings, some with less. Lance is part of our layer (less evolved human beings). Human beings in the higher layers have been called "Gods" in the past. They sometimes "meddle" in the lower layers...but that's a story unto itself.
• One day Lance encounters Cassandra, a girl in distress. He helps her. She grants him a unique power.
• Lance finds himself given the gift / curse of Ultimate Treaty : effectively, he cannot be treated badly. Cannot. Period. This power is the source of great action, comedy, and tragedy.
  
• Lance is always getting himself into trouble because he insists on being treated well, even though by society's standards he's just a drifter-nobody.
  
• In the 1st episode, he offends a powerful group of Gangsters because he refuses to pay them protection money for his friend's store. So, the action begins. The Gangsters try to make an example of him to the neighborhood, but they cannot touch him. He has Infinite Dodge / Infinite Anticipation. They cannot punch, tackle, grab, stab, trap, run over, or even shoot him, no matter how hard they try, no matter how many of them there are. The action is fast, intense...but funny.
  
• Lance is a nice guy. Non-violent. He just believes in being treated with respect. He clumsily dodges and avoids everything the Gangsters throw at him, completely shocked at the new power himself. It's like he's invincible, although his body moves itself out of the way of harm, he is not an impenetrable colossus. [I'm a big fan of Spider-Man's amazing dodging abilities.]
  
• Eventually, the Gangster's have to give up, and Lance insists on lecturing them on their miscreant ways. The Gangsters have no choice but to treat him with respect, what else can they do? The Gangsters agree to leave Lance's friend alone.
• Lance secures a victory!...but it has a price.
• Lance cannot "fight" anyone. It's part of his nature, and his power.
• Lance can only be treated with respect, but the people around him can still be walked over, and he can't stop bullies from doing so physically. Only with his words...and whatever else he can think of.
• Lance is a nice guy, with a good heart, and an incredible power. He will continue to be himself, and use his power to have treaties with people that are respectful. Further, he can't help but want to use his power to help other people. He can't save them directly...but maybe there are ways he can intercede on their behalf...
• All the while, the other layers of human awareness are watching. What do other human beings think of a super human with a good heart trying to help people around him to evolve? the plot thickens...