What anime and manga have influenced your gaming experience.

[DWARF]

Berserk, most definitely.

Most animes have a "comedy relief" style that really doesn't appeal to me. Like when the big tough protagonist gets those huge eyes and spouts fountains of tears when they get their foot stepped on. That kind of stuff really kills a series for me, I actually stopped watching Kenshin because of it...

I mean, take a cool character like Vash, from Trigun...

And turn him into... this?

No thank you.

I like my serious stories fairly serious, with a good consistent style. Berserk is great for that!

 

[Pants]

Aw, c'mon Vash is great

I think running a Modern campaign based partly on Hellsing would be cool. I'd love to steal bits and pieces from either Berserk or Inu Yasha, but most of my friends watch both shows so they'd detect it immediately.

PC1: He's a cambion... with a Greatsword and red MC Hammer pants?
DM: Uhhhh....
PC2: C'mon, lets go hunt down Naraku!
DM: *audible groan*

 

[Oni]

Funny you mention it Oni. I figured maybe this time around, I'd get some artists, start my own American Anime stuff and write a story based on the Irregulars of Hollowfaust. Course I'd have to change a lot. But hey city of the living dead! Can't go wrong there!

Well Falger's already kind of got the bishounin thing going on, so thats a good start.

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[BelXiror]

Our games get influenced by a few types of anime, nothing overt though.

Berserk is a definite for me, Inu-Yasha is great for an OA game stylisticly since Rumiko Takahashi seems to know her Japanese folklore. During a few of her anime series (Ranma included) I've gotten out the old OA book to look a critter up.

We mention once, long ago, to one of our DM's who was going to do an OA game a Jusenkyo Water Elemental... Fortunatly by the time the game got started, he'd forgotten about it. We havn't mentioned it since

Mahou Senshi Louie (or Rouie in Engrish) is great as well for the D&D style misfit adventurers.

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

urotsuki douji

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

urotsuki douji

 

[Psion]

I'm kinda surprised at how many people think Lodoss War is somehow a good anime. It's tedious, full of cliched and wooden characters, suffers from a confusing plot (as often happens when condensing lots of manga issues into a few anime episodes), and the animation isn't even that good.

I am so ashamed to have enjoyed wrong fun.

That's okay. People tell me D&D is wrong fun too. Guess I'll just have to learn to live with it.

 

[seasong]

For sheer style: Noir, Lain, Boogiepop Phantom.
For action: Noir, Blood, Slayers.
For sci-fi goodness: Lain, Cowboy Bebop.
For humor: Slayers, Dragon Half.
For music: Noir, Lain, Cowboy Bebop, Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Noir and Lain are definitely the most influential for me, but generally I absorb something from everything I watch, whether it's anime or something else. There's plenty I'm not thinking of, like the little horror manga The Spiral or the Sabre Marionettes series.

 

[AFGNCAAP]

Oddly enough, though I do enjoy watching some anime, very little of it actually infleunces my games.

D&D-wise, the only anime that could be said to affect my games is Record of Lodoss War (the original one, & not any of the later versions). However, I think it's because it has a strong "Basic" D&D feel to it (obviously).

Even still, the closest that this anime had as an influence on tabletop RPGs is that I made an NPC group that mirrors the Rules Cyclopedia-style D&D classes. And, for a friend's campaign, I made up a paladin character designed a bit after Parn from RoLW--a naive young human warrior, with short borwn hair, and wielding a bastard sword (then again, most of the "standard" swords in RoLW were depicted as bastard swords--light enough to be 1-handed, but with a long enough handle to be used 2-handed).

Otherwise, there's very little anime influence on my games. Cartoons from the days of my youth (such as He-Man & the Masters of the Universe, Thundercats, and, of course, Dungeons & Dragons) have a bit more impact on my games than anime/manga.

 

[hong]

I am so ashamed to have enjoyed wrong fun.

And so you should be.

When you die in 10 years from colon cancer brought on by excessive fibrous materials in your diet, don't say you weren't warned.