But the point with regards to the anime issue is not just "I don't want it at my table". It's "Should it be at anyone's table."
You're well and truly within your right to say what you do and do not allow at your table. But where is the line in deciding what is in D&D as a whole?
As Cadfan pointed out, Big Tent D&D vs. Small Tent: smaller tastes be accommodated in various splatbooks without it causing a huge uproar. D&D being more than just what you like but what others likes too.
The only people who will use it are those that want it. Why can't they have it?
I know I saw it in this post, but where it went I have no idea.....
The idea it shouldn't be a staple part for many, but being in a supplement like PHBIV that was mentioned in that post isn't a problem, so long as it is not a core part of the game.
There should be allowance for many things, so long as they fit the genre, but really anime is not just something that could be added to D&D and needs it's own game.
Record of Lodoss Wars, and Slayers are not all that anime is, and when you mention adding anime to D&D you get ALL anime in that such as DBZ, Mecha's, Mahou Shoujo, etc that just doesn't fit with everything else in D&D.
There should be an anime RPG, but even d20 didn't work well for it, as the Trigun books showed.
It doesn't really have to do with peanut butter cups and mixing chocolate and peanut butter, but more to what makes sense.
So some would prefer to have a game clean and free of those silly things such as kamehamahe blasts, catgirls, furries, mechas, etc.
I mean what point is a crossbow or bow with all the power structure of 4th when you have someone that can fire a GumGum blast from 300 yards away just to punch you and your weapons can't even hurt a rubber man because of some cursed fruit?
So not all things will translate directyl to D&D, but they don't have to at its core. They can have their own games, or have a nich set of books to expound them into the game just fine, like non-anime but oriental things, or even psionics.
Not everyone will like them, but a place CAN be made for them without upsetting people that feel they violate the original genre.
You also have to allow for those people liking to anime or other aspects to understand that not everyone wants them, so as to why it should be extremely optional as many groups may not allow them.
I don't think the current game can support them, or any RPG that does not set out intent on adding them all from the beginning will ever really be able to support them, but your wishes are valid to you as to what you want in it.
D&D will never be the all inclusive genre game, that was what GURPS was made for. Sadly when D&D tries to add that it will lose everything and fall because the system just wasn't made for it as the Trigun, Bleach, Naruto, etc d20 books showed in lack of players. Those games also weren't D&D, and didn't work so well in the d20 framework. The physics for the anime universes are really too diverse.
. I suppose I can see it coming though. I just don't like the idea of warping a "normal" physics. By this I mean that my "fantasy" world assumes regular realworld physics. If you want to defy this, magic or divinity is involved. To try and pass off magical or divine things as just mechanical such as "jumping", just ruins my suspension of disbelief. The parts of 4E like this are obviously the parts I don't like. However, I will defend anybody's right to completely disagree with me on this one obviously - we can't all like the same things.
