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A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present)
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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 9169928" data-attributes="member: 7025997"><p><em>Arigato gozaimasu</em>, Iosue-<em>sama</em>! I'm happy to see the <em>Bihoruda</em> get some exposure. I'm only sorry I don't get to see the anime-style pictures of all the old-school D&D stuff!</p><p></p><p>One small correction: Nyarko is, in fact, implied to be the actual Nyarlathotep, though it's a race of beings rather than a single creature; she has a brother, Nyaruo, whose battle form is similar to the three-legged big-tongue monster that's the most famous avatar of Nyarlathotep. Others include Hasuta (Hastur), Kuuko (Cthugha), and Ghutatan (Ghatanathoa); the mythos deities are held to be races rather than individuals (they are from the 'planet Hastur', etc.) and visited HPL in-universe, but he got scared and turned them into monsters. It is, however, still implied their true forms would drive people nuts and cause a loss of sanity (complete with shot of character sheet recognizable as being from Call of Cthulhu and percentile dice), and all of them are in human form throughout the anime. There's also a scene where they're playing baseball and you see their stats, which are clearly the pre-7e Call of Cthulhu stats of the deities (Nyarko has INT 86 and POW 100, listed in the Latin alphabet).</p><p></p><p>Hasuta and Nyarko have crushes on the main character, Mahiro Yasaka, whereas Kuuko has a crush on Nyarko. (Yes, two of these are same-sex interactions.) The anime itself is a pretty standard harem anime from what little I can tell (haven't seen any others). It's reasonably funny and does include a bunch of references to the in-game Cthulhu Mythos, though all significantly less horrifying. It's quite on the silly side, though not unusually for anime (this is a medium that has 'reincarnated as a vending machine' as an actual series premise for instance).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 9169928, member: 7025997"] [I]Arigato gozaimasu[/I], Iosue-[I]sama[/I]! I'm happy to see the [I]Bihoruda[/I] get some exposure. I'm only sorry I don't get to see the anime-style pictures of all the old-school D&D stuff! One small correction: Nyarko is, in fact, implied to be the actual Nyarlathotep, though it's a race of beings rather than a single creature; she has a brother, Nyaruo, whose battle form is similar to the three-legged big-tongue monster that's the most famous avatar of Nyarlathotep. Others include Hasuta (Hastur), Kuuko (Cthugha), and Ghutatan (Ghatanathoa); the mythos deities are held to be races rather than individuals (they are from the 'planet Hastur', etc.) and visited HPL in-universe, but he got scared and turned them into monsters. It is, however, still implied their true forms would drive people nuts and cause a loss of sanity (complete with shot of character sheet recognizable as being from Call of Cthulhu and percentile dice), and all of them are in human form throughout the anime. There's also a scene where they're playing baseball and you see their stats, which are clearly the pre-7e Call of Cthulhu stats of the deities (Nyarko has INT 86 and POW 100, listed in the Latin alphabet). Hasuta and Nyarko have crushes on the main character, Mahiro Yasaka, whereas Kuuko has a crush on Nyarko. (Yes, two of these are same-sex interactions.) The anime itself is a pretty standard harem anime from what little I can tell (haven't seen any others). It's reasonably funny and does include a bunch of references to the in-game Cthulhu Mythos, though all significantly less horrifying. It's quite on the silly side, though not unusually for anime (this is a medium that has 'reincarnated as a vending machine' as an actual series premise for instance). [/QUOTE]
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