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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3763094" data-attributes="member: 32536"><p>Oh, Saint Seiya. Yeah, that is an anime. I never saw more than half of a single episode of it though, but I remember seeing chains. No <em>spiked</em> chains though (huge difference), and the chains the one guy had seemed to be functioning as a divining tool from what I saw... Not that I know much about the series. It seems old and campy, and unless you are a kid, something like that is hard to swallow without a good dose of nostalgia. I mean, it probably isn't very different from Ronin Warriors, which I loved as a kid, but mostly like out of nostalgia now.</p><p></p><p>As a side note, Ronin Warriors is the exact anime I was thinking about when I mentioned that anime doesn't need the Spiked Chain because it has the Kusari-Gama.</p><p></p><p>As for good fantasy anime...</p><p><strong>Record of Lodoss War</strong> The OVA is higher quality, but the TV series isn't bad.</p><p><strong>Berserk</strong> The anime is <em>very</em> incomplete, so get the manga. Is not for kids or work safe <em>at all</em>.</p><p><strong>The Twelve Kingdoms</strong> The result of a Japanese author unfamiliar with fantasy being told to make a fantasy story... Very different from D&D fantasy, but it is one of my favorite anime series of all time.</p><p><strong>Fushigi Yugi</strong> Also not D&D style fantasy, and is also a <em>shoujo</em> anime (girl's anime) focused on a girl and her group of magical prettyboys. I wish I could find more than the first few DVDs of this...</p><p><strong>Scrapped Princess</strong> This is D&D fantasy with a distinct twist.</p><p><strong>Tsubasa</strong> and <strong>xxxHolic</strong>, two stories about world-hopping heroes and myths in the modern world, respectively, are quite good (though I am making this recommendation based on the manga, not the anime). Tsubasa might be a bit unaproachable unless you have a good background in anime and manga made by CLAMP though...</p><p></p><p>Arguably, a few other good anime/manga series, like the brilliant <strong>Fullmetal Alchemist</strong>, qualify as fantasy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 3763094, member: 32536"] Oh, Saint Seiya. Yeah, that is an anime. I never saw more than half of a single episode of it though, but I remember seeing chains. No [i]spiked[/i] chains though (huge difference), and the chains the one guy had seemed to be functioning as a divining tool from what I saw... Not that I know much about the series. It seems old and campy, and unless you are a kid, something like that is hard to swallow without a good dose of nostalgia. I mean, it probably isn't very different from Ronin Warriors, which I loved as a kid, but mostly like out of nostalgia now. As a side note, Ronin Warriors is the exact anime I was thinking about when I mentioned that anime doesn't need the Spiked Chain because it has the Kusari-Gama. As for good fantasy anime... [b]Record of Lodoss War[/b] The OVA is higher quality, but the TV series isn't bad. [b]Berserk[/b] The anime is [i]very[/i] incomplete, so get the manga. Is not for kids or work safe [i]at all[/i]. [b]The Twelve Kingdoms[/b] The result of a Japanese author unfamiliar with fantasy being told to make a fantasy story... Very different from D&D fantasy, but it is one of my favorite anime series of all time. [b]Fushigi Yugi[/b] Also not D&D style fantasy, and is also a [i]shoujo[/i] anime (girl's anime) focused on a girl and her group of magical prettyboys. I wish I could find more than the first few DVDs of this... [b]Scrapped Princess[/b] This is D&D fantasy with a distinct twist. [b]Tsubasa[/b] and [b]xxxHolic[/b], two stories about world-hopping heroes and myths in the modern world, respectively, are quite good (though I am making this recommendation based on the manga, not the anime). Tsubasa might be a bit unaproachable unless you have a good background in anime and manga made by CLAMP though... Arguably, a few other good anime/manga series, like the brilliant [b]Fullmetal Alchemist[/b], qualify as fantasy. [/QUOTE]
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