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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arken" data-source="post: 954406" data-attributes="member: 3469">I must say that Amon Saga didn't really impress me at all, I too bought it because it looked DnDish (and I was in geneva and it was one of the few titles in English that they ahd in the shop <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />.)The style was not anime at it's best (to my tastes) and the story was formulaic and a little lame (who on earth was that bow guy anyway and why didn't he have any dialogue!?). It was certainly more 'high fantasy' than most anime but still I would reccommed other's first.For Example:The Slayers:I think that everyone that plays DnD and has a passing liking for Anime should watch The Slayers, it's well animated, cliched in all your favourite ways whilst being refreshing and distictly 'japanese' in others. The characters are likeable and the story is about as 'high fantasy' as you can get. Overall the combination of humor and hack and slash (with a good story behind) is one of the most entertaining I've found.Princess Mononoke:For obvious reasons this is epic and presents a some really nice ideas for treatment of Gods and the wilderness in your campaign.Samurai X:Want to know how to set up convincing tratment of warriors in your game or gain an insight into a part of japanese history (albeit a skewed one) then this is a good one, not any magic going on though really.Hellsing:Is quite good for getting the 'horror' angle if considered along with Blood.Currently I'm being influenced by the manga Aquaknight to possibly make a section of my campaign world based around island - hopping (also taking into account Gulliver's travels and a few other sources of course <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)Yep I take quite a bit from anime, but i also take quite a bit from everywhere else aswell so it'd not a HUGE deal.</blockquote>

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