Editing Approved Anime (section)

== Things That Aren't Anime, But You Thought Were ==
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*'''''[[Touhou]]''''': An arcade-style, shoot-em-up vidya series, featuring a 100% [[loli]] cast, barring one or two NPCs here or there. Its fandom is incredibly large and kooky, and so fanart of its characters get plastered all over 4chan, causing newfags to ask what anime they are from and incite much derision. It has however, received several official manga spinoffs. [Video-game series: 27 titles, as of '''''Hidden Star in Four Seasons''''']
 
:Related games: [[Video games|/v/ stuff, shmups,]] [[Exalted]], [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]].)
 
*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French (and therefore absolutely cringe) cartoon about a kid named Yugo who discovers he is part of a long-lost race of people with the ability to create portals.  A fun world with fun characters and a surprisingly deep BBEG that is not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]]  [TV series: 52 episodes + 6 specials + 27 episode mini-series]
 
:* '''''Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim''''': Is an episodic series about a retired adventurer who runs an item shop, set around 1000 years before the '''''Wakfu''''' timeline and 200 years before the game.  [TV series: 52 episodes + 1 movie]
 
::(Both Dofus and Wakfu stem from flash-made MMOs of the same names, both games have multiple classes that decide players' abilities and base appearance so homebrews are very possible.)
 
:Related Games: [[Krosmaster]], which features the same characters and races. Wakfu had an [http://docs.google.com/document/d/14WGhmgmK_tW9LJEQfwFAbpMeja7csNb-zt__3H7SDzQ/ unofficial early beta RPG] and the company Ankama has [http://www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg/news/announcements/265763-would-you-be-interested-tabletop-rpg-set-dofus-world asked if anyone is interested] in an official RPG.
 
*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': In a world where creatures are able to manipulate the elements through martial arts, a child capable of controlling air who froze himself in ice awakens to find that he is the last of his kind. This child is also the Avatar, a person with potential to manipulate all elements and multiply their power by communing with past lives. His adventure involves traveling with friends to master the elements in hopes of unlocking his powers and overthrowing the evil emperor of the Fire Nation that seeks to conquer the world. Is awesome and is famous for having some of the best written characters/character development in any medium. [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.] [TV series: 61 episodes, Live-Action: 1 movie, 1 TV Show this summer.]
 
:* '''''Avatar: The Legend of Korra''''': The sequel to the above set sixty years in the future. The next Avatar (Korra, a delicious brown girl from the water-manipulating tribe) struggles to make peace between the normals and the element-fu-wielding upper class amid the setting's equivalent of the Roaring Twenties. There's also some stuff about [[Chaos|a god of darkness disrupting the spirit world.]] Incredibly skubtastic on /co/ due to various hamhanded attempts at character development. Is also nowhere near as good as the previous series. Still decent, though, especially when you consider how Nickelodeon consistently fucked its creators sideways. [TV series: 52 episodes]
 
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]. Also has a card-game that uses QuickStrike rules.
 
*'''''RWBY''''': <strike>[[Skub|Anime-esque CGI production]]</strike> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjmBDfulaGk Not anymore, and lo behold the official anime adaptation!] Made by the late Monty Oum and RoosterTeeth, pronounced "ruby". The world is filled with creatures known as Grimm that seek to destroy humanity, stemmed back by a pseudo-magical substance known as Dust and an order of protectors known as Huntsmen, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off [[noblebright]] with themes of tolerance and improving society, then got more [[grimdark]] by the middle of the third season and kept going down from there. [[Skub|Depending on who you ask, it's either an enjoyable (if flawed) series with good characters, an interesting setting and ideas, and cool weapons, or a dumpster fire of bootleg anime tropes smashed together with hackneyed writing.]] Pretty much everyone agrees that the fight choreography is amazing in the first two seasons (and most of the third, till Monty unexpectedly died), which lends itself to some popularity among fa/tg/uys. Has an official card game / RPG hybrid called [https://store.roosterteeth.com/products/rwby-combat-ready-board-game Combat Ready], alongside a few [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HWX9FOcdIfQI6-QijGcXaZ4yoyzfURpa/view fan] [https://www.reddit.com/r/a:t5_3j7g7/comments/8uzvzy/rwby_heroes_of_remnant_version_34_june_30_2018/ RPG] [http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?p=1927268#post1927268 systems] [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VJNOPRl7ku5yM-6GBkRoVhF5aJUdf4u06DR5F77L5-I/pub|and]] [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VJNOPRl7ku5yM-6GBkRoVhF5aJUdf4u06DR5F77L5-I/pub conversions]. Most are dead, as always. There's also a D&D campaign using RWBY models by Roosterteeth.
:Also notable for being widely hated on both [[/co/]] and [[/a/]], unlike most of the things on this list,<ref>A really big reason for this is that the creators really wanted to avoid doing the needed worldbuilding for such a setting, with the usual plot holes and inconsistencies that happen as a result of that approach. For reference, see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fdKWOHrdE this overlong video] going into some details of why.</ref> so tread carefully when discussing it. Also, someone wrote a surprisingly touching crossover with 40k. [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/for-those-we-cherish-40k-rwby.408155/ Lamenters on Remnant] works better than you think. [TV Series: 116 episodes and counting + 74 Chibi episodes + crossover film with [[DC Comics| the Justice League,]] of all things (with a second part announced)<small><sup>[[WTF]]</small>] [Anime: 12 Episodes]

:Related games: low-level [[Exalted]], [[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]]

*'''''[[Transformers]]''''': Due to originating as imported Japanese toys, it was inevitable that the global franchise of robots that turn into other things would have some [[weeaboo]] in it. Most notable are the actual anime produced in Japan, such as the various original series branching off of G1 and other continuities, to the Unicron Trilogy of the early-to-mid 2000s that revitalized the franchise long enough for [[Skub|Bayformers]] to happen in spite of most of the trilogy being [[FAIL]]. Even without those, though, the brand owes its existence to its forefathers in the mecha genre, since without them we wouldn't have robots that can change shape, much less robots that can combine into bigger ones. Also has a pretty funny fan wiki with Darth Vader.

:Also, [[Rage|Gundams keep getting mistaken for them]].
:Related games: [[Battletech]]
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