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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arcturion" data-source="post: 3851258" data-attributes="member: 54632">Last time I checked, anime was simply a medium with a whole slew of sub-genres (ranging from the ultra slick realism to the cutesy super deformed, with everything in between from serious drama to silly comedy). You might as well call D&D as television, or D&D as motion picture. And as a medium, anime is just Japanese made (a relative term since most in-betweening animation is done overseas in Korea anyway, both Japanese and American) or Japanese-inspired animation, and as animation, is just used to tell a story as any other medium like CGI or live action.If anything, the examples used are either inspired more by video games (most of which are made in Japan coincidentally) and/or comic books; I'd say those two have more an influence on the more recent D&D art than anime or manga.The first picture is of a fire and water gensai, as I recall, not tieflings. The fire gensai looks a bit like Akuma/Gouki from the Street Fighter games, if anything, but how much different can one draw a creature based on fiery elemental and/or fiendish progenitor? There's also a bit of Joe Madueira thrown in there (the Western artist of Battlechasers, Spawn, Spiderman, etc.), particularly with the oversized and exaggerated hands, and again, this is more comic book than anime.I don't see anything too distinctive anime-wise in the second picture with the tieflings, except maybe the dynamic poses, but this isn't an anime-only theme. The third is definitely has more in common with Western style comic book art than anime/manga art. The subject simply has Asian-themed clothing and a martial artist type stance to it, which do not automatically make it anime/manga, as someone already pointed out.The fourth picture seems more comic bookish to me, while the last one appears to be generic interior D&D art and nothing more.So unless WotC starts hiring well known (published) manga artists to start doing D&D art, I don't think anime is an issue at all in the artwork. As far as the rules are concerned, that's a whole other ball game (and having nothing to do with anime but rather D&D's strategic war game roots). The new direction with the new 4e classes (predefined niches and party roles and such) seems more video game-ish to me (ex. World of Warcraft), and again, is not necessarily tied with anime.I think people simply just see what they want to see.</blockquote>

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