Find the Anime Challenge

[Lonely Tylenol]

Then ignore the "game" completely, and just focus on the discussion of the relevant images. In the end, this is just a thread about people making arguments about the influence of anime on D&D art. All Hussar's game is doing is forcing people to post images in this discussion, rather than make arbitrary statements about the "obviousness" of anime influence without any proof. It is just an average "anime influence" thread where people are actually posting D&D art and discussing it.

The thread has indeed done what it set out to do, which is demonstrate that so-called "obvious" anime influences are anything but. We can't even get consensus on three pictures, so how can we generalize about the entire body of WotC artwork?

 

[Nifft]

That's got nothing to do with anime and everything to do with badly aging transvestite elf dudes.

I can't un-see it.

Darn you to heck, -- N

 

[Scribble]

That's got nothing to do with anime and everything to do with badly aging transvestite elf dudes.

Don't forget the weird fish love going on in that pic...

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

I think part of the problem in this thread is that it's almost submiting to the anime = bad crowd... They say it's anime influenced so it's bad, and you're saying nuh uh... It' almost as if the fans of anime are afraid of admitting there's influences for fear that it can be used against them somehow... (hrmmm a weird parallel to how D&D was can be sort of found there... )

I think it's just time for the Anime fans to stand up and say that an Anime influence is a good thing.

If you look, you'll see that I state early in the thread that I have a positive opinion of anime-style artwork, and would like to see more anime influence in WotC art, but am generally disappointed in that respect. I'd be the first to celebrate a move toward anime-styled artwork, as I did back when Races of Faerun gave me a taste of something they didn't follow up on, but there is no indication that they want to take the art in that direction.

 

[Anti-Sean]

Don't forget the weird fish love going on in that pic...

 

[Raven Crowking]

Going through the pages of this thread made me realize how many anime-influenced art are actually around in DnD.

Welcome to the boards!

I don't mean to be rude, but could you give us specific examples of where you see anime influence? Without specifics, your opinion is no better than that of anyone else on this thread, and I am especially leery of accepting the opinion of what might be an Alt of someone else in this discussion at face value. Especially given the appearance of such an Alt on the Tokyopop boards.

Thank you.

 

[Raven Crowking]

The thread has indeed done what it set out to do, which is demonstrate that so-called "obvious" anime influences are anything but. We can't even get consensus on three pictures, so how can we generalize about the entire body of WotC artwork?

If lack of consensus proved that anything wasn't "obvious", then the Interweb itself would prove that nothing is "obvious" (including that nothing is obvious, obviously).

Nice try, though!

Cheers!

RC

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Wow. That just shows how little I know of anime. I would never have called that picture anime. All I think of is Artesia (http://www.artesiaonline.com).

Indeed, looking at the Artesia site, it's the same artist. Never knew that qualified as anime. Live and learn, I guess.

/M

Someone had better let Mark Smylie know.

 

[Raven Crowking]

+Rep.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Yup.

I would personally like a larger number of voters, but I would have to say, based on the Tokyopop forum, that the first three pictures are not anime-ish enough to qualify. Tokyopop's forum validates Hussar on those.

I would be quite willing to agree, too, that if this thread doesn't contain it yet, it probably isn't going to found.

The only exception is the ravid, which looks a lot like an anime creature to me. I am specifically thinking of the dragon in Spirited Away.

Two points:
1. The ravid predates that movie by a year
2. It reminds me of a chinese dragon, which is probably the reason it reminds you of the chinese dragon from Spirited Away.