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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3244568" data-attributes="member: 3649">It is. This is why Netflix is your best friend in this regard. They have a ton of anime - way more than any normal video place - so you can try out stuff and see if you like it. I've found some very good series by renting from them, and tried some that sounded good but were terrible, terrible shows when I actually watched them. I'd have hated to spend $30 on a DVD to find that out.As far as western-style fantasy, there's only a handful of things to go on, most of what have been mentioned here.Slightly less traditional fantasy is a bit easier to find. Heroic Prince Arislan (aka Arslan) is a good set, but it will feel incomplete; I think they animated the middle chapters of a seven or eight book series, so of course it feels a bit disjointed.I'd like to put in a special word for Twelve Kingdoms. It's a complex series and you really do have to stick with it over the long haul. At first it appears to have some standard anime tropes, such as the person who does not want the power thrust upon them, but almost uniquely the heroine overcomes her problems and moves past them. It's also a marvelously done series. The mythology behind it would be a great setting for a campaign, and shows that even though the gods might be interventionist and such, that human nature will always conspire to screw up even the most perfect of worlds.</blockquote>