Serious Fantasy Anime (European Style)

JoeGKushner

Adventurer

• Jul 25, 2003

• #1

So can anyone recommend any good fantasy anime?

I like Record of the Lodoss War, Berserk and Heroic Legend of Arslan. Escaflowne was prett good too if a little too 'romantic' for me.

While I love Ninja Scroll, I'm more interested in material based on knights as opposed to samurai.

No 'funny' anime either please.

 

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WayneLigon

Adventurer

• Jul 26, 2003

• #2

If you've seen those three... that's about it, without it being a comedy.

 

Anavel Gato

First Post

• Jul 26, 2003

• #3

You might want to try Aura Battler Dunbine--its similar to Escaflowne in that, the setting is medival yet there are mecha.
There is one coming out soon called the Wasting Continent which has a fantasy theme to it. Going along with Record of Lodoss War there is a Chronicles of Heroic Knights, unfortanetly, you can only get it as a boxed set which is expensive (over $100). There isn't much else that as WayneLigon said "is comedy." Eden's Bowey is supposed to be sword & sorcery, but comedy. That's all I can think of right now.

 

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Hopping Vampire

First Post

• Jul 26, 2003

• #4

u should also try Bastard!!!
i've been brainstorming a d20 version of this.

 

JoeGKushner

Adventurer

• Jul 27, 2003

• #5

Hopping Vampire said:

u should also try Bastard!!!
i've been brainstorming a d20 version of this.

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I forgot to mention Bastard and Berserk (of course!).

Nazca was interesting and not really western or asian. Very different.

 

The Blue Elf

First Post

• Jul 30, 2003

• #6

Revolutionary Girl Utena, but I don't know if thats Fantasy.

 

Tsyr

Explorer

• Jul 30, 2003

• #7

The Blue Elf said:

Revolutionary Girl Utena, but I don't know if thats Fantasy.

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Uh, no... Ok, there is a magic sword, but I think most of the fantasy in there is of the "too much drugs" type, not the mystic type...

Orphen is semi-comedic, semi-serious...

 

Olive

Explorer

• Jul 30, 2003

• #8

JoeGKushner said:

I like Record of the Lodoss War, Berserk and Heroic Legend of Arslan. Escaflowne was prett good too if a little too 'romantic' for me.

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Hows the voice acting in these? I'm interested in the idea, but even in what people say are the best anime (say Ghost in the Shell) the voices made me cringe.

 

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Geoff Watson

First Post

• Jul 31, 2003

• #9

Magic Knight Rayearth is a good fantasy adventure anime. It has some comedy elements (occasional SD transformations, etc.), but not a lot, and the Magic Knights aren't knights in the tradional sense, more like Magical Girls with magic armour and magic swords.

Geoff.

 

JoeGKushner

Adventurer

• Jul 31, 2003

• #10

Re: Re: Serious Fantasy Anime (European Style)

Olive said:

Hows the voice acting in these? I'm interested in the idea, but even in what people say are the best anime (say Ghost in the Shell) the voices made me cringe.

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I'm a very poor judge of voice acting.

I know that I enjoyed the series mentioned but never really thought about it from the voice acting side.