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Approved Anime

2016-06-23T21:18:24Z

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[[Category:Weeaboo]] [[Category:Approved Media]]

This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother.)

''Updated to add 2013 titles, etc.''

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie + 1 video-game/episode]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie]
**'''''Eureka Seven AO''''': a sequel to the original. [TV series: 25 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related games: Traveller, Battletech

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which was lost following an alchemical accident. There's a newer series titled "FMA: Brotherhood", with updated animation and a storyline that fits much closer to the original manga. Which version is better is [[Skub|up for debate]]. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs]
**'''''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''''': Take Iron Kingdoms, take magic out, ignore a good part of the tech but add [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|element-bending]], daddy issues and the more awesome parts of the Imperial Guard, and you get Brotherhood. It's impressive that there hasn't been made a RPG to this setting yet, as it's almost perfect for an Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange of knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series. [TV series: 64 episodes + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. Widely considered the japanese Blade Runner, the original manga and the first too films have influenced basically all of the cyberpunk science fiction after them, up to and including western stuff like Matrix. [2 movies]
** '''''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex''''' [TV series: 52 episodes + 2 OVAs + 1 movie]
** '''''Ghost in the Shell: Arise''''' [TV series: 5 OVAs + 10 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]] and [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''Robotech''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts. Is an adaptation and combination of three Japanese anime: '''''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''''', '''''Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross''''', and '''''Genesis Climber MOSPEADA'''''. [TV series: 85 episodes + 4 movies + 2 OVAs]
:Related games:[[Battletech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one, then had a second season greenlit thanks to it's performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions. [TV series: 26 episodes]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the Japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series. It also has its [https://rpggeek.com/rpg/4111/armored-trooper-votoms-role-playing-game own role playing system] running off the Fuzion rules. [TV series: 52 episodes + 10 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting. [TV series: 75 episodes + 2 movies +1 OVA]
:Related games: [[Battletech]], A Time of War

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even more bloody disregard for the lives of main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: 162 episodes + 3 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made. Slap together Mad Max and a ruthless, hyper-violent Bruce Lee, and that should help explain how this gets.[TV series: 152 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 3 episodes, Spin-Off series: 12 episodes + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing. [OVA series: 13 episodes + 1 movie, TV series: 74 episodes and counting]
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann''''': The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made. Starts out with human rebels on stolen mech fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Fairly philosophical below the pumped up appearance though. Also Steve Blum voices a queer guy, no joke. [TV series: 27 episodes + 2 movies + 15 shorts + 1 music-video]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''Hunter x Hunter''''': Two futa boys fighting dudes. [TV series: 62 episodes + 30 OVAs; Reboot: 148 episodes + 2 movies]
:Related games: [[FATE]], [[FATAL]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods. [Original TV series: 153 episodes + 3 movies, Z/GT/Super series: 397 episodes + 4 specials + 2 OVAs + 16 movies]
:Related games: Playing a Monk/Sorcerer Gestalt in D&D 3e, [[Exalted]]

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor. [TV series: 26 episodes]
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer, and anything related with classic RPGs

==Gaming anime==
*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon. [OVA series: 3 episodes]
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls. [TV series: 54 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general. [TV series: 10 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related games:[[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins, who win every game they play, are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders, where they have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast.. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating. [TV series: 12 episodes]
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]]

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games with himself. The English adaptation is subtitled, "Master of Killing Time" for some weird reason. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images. [TV series: 1 OVA + 21 episodes]
:Related Games: Board Games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the "trapped in an MMO" premise is by no means a new thing in anime (a recent and infamously bad example being ''Sword Art Online'') Log Horizon is unique in the way it explores how the people thrust into such a situation would adapt. Now with its own TRPG core book. [TV series: 50 episodes]
:Related games: Log Horizon, [[/v/|Everquest]], [[4e]]

*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser waifu game, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are personified as [[loli]]s. Yes, seriously; it's in route of becoming something akin to [[Touhou]], given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with ''Girls und Panzer'' and ''Strike Witches'', you got the moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, [[Quest_thread|quests, quests, quests]].

*'''''Overlord''''': a 2015 adaptation of the first of 10 novels, written in 2012 by Kugane Maruyama after his tabletop group disbanded. It follows Momonga, a guild-leader in the last days of a MMORPG just before it shuts down. Instead of getting kicked offline, Momonga is transported to another world as his level 100 character, an eponymous "overlord" [[lich]]; plus all the guild's NPCs have come to life. Not finding any other players from Earth in the new world, he takes on the name of his former guild, Ainz Ooal Gown, in the hopes that someone will recognize it and goes off on various adventures. Almost every spell name is ripped straight from D&D. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]], DDO, Neverwinter

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes + 2 movies, Reboot: 3 movies and counting]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves! [1 OVA + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''Hellsing''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction (and is also fucking Dracula), and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal Scottish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual Nazis (1,000+ Waffen-SS volunteers to create the Letzte Bataillon) who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created Nazi Vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Had a real shit 13 episode TV series , but was given a glorious OVA in 2006...which took until fucking 2014 for all ''ten'' episodes to be released, however. [TV Series: 13 Episodes, OVA series: 10 Episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]]

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Chtulhu]] was in Ghost in the Shell? Starts out like as a fairly political investigation story set in a distopian city, evolves into one hell of a journey in the post-apocalyptic world outside filled with acid trips. Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a story. [TV series: 23 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED):''''' Some nerd has the power to go back in time but only when a blue butterfly feels like it, and he uses this to solve murders and stop life threatening events. It's a lot like Butterfly Effect if it wasn't absolute pretentious crap. Also involves a lot of kids dying. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: one of the GUMSHOE games but with supernatural stuff toned down

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]]. [TV series: 25 episodes]
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only and if you want to watch it you can only watch The Egg of the King currently on Netflix (added bonus its dubbed in ''english'') as for the other 2 you have to get them off of amazon. [3 movies]
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone gives it major points. Plot wise it's a bit cliché, but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes + 27 TV episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing. The TV series and OVA series are separate continuities with some overlap in the form of cameos. [TV series: 104 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 6 + 4 movies]
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero coincidentally) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord. In retaliation the Demon Lord (named Demon Queen/Lord) diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''. [TV series: 25 episodes + 2 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': Several feudal cults fight each other in massive battles, spearheaded by OP hystorical figures with their own special attributes like six-wielding lighting shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star. Somehow includes a massive fucking cyborg titan. [TV series: 24 episodes + 2 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]] [TV series: 24 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's DragonMech: The Anime...kinda. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Dragonmech]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome ...for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like. [TV series: 12 episodes]
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity|SAN]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Daily Life with Monstergirls''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so while there is no actual sex, don't go in expecting "good clean fun!" If you want to see actual boinking, the original author had some comics about monstergirls he made before the serialized series.
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]], [[Maid RPG]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But Which You Thought Were==
*'''''[[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: 25 titles, as of '''''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''''']
:Related games: /v/ stuff, shmups, [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]]).

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French 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. 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. [TV series: 52 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting. 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. There's also '''''[[Krosmaster]]''''', a tactical PvP board-game with online and offline versions, set in the same world.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.] [TV series: 61 episodes]
** '''''Avatar: The Legend of Korra''''' [TV series: 52 episodes]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]. Also has a card-game that uses QuickStrike rules.

*'''''RWBY''''': Popular anime-esque CGI production made by the late Monty Oum (oh, and Roosterteeth too). A world filled with horrible 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 Huntsman, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off fairly [[noblebright]] at first, with humans mostly tolerating faunus and using science to improve society, but the writers turned up the [[grimdark]] almost out of nowhere in the middle of the third season, [[not as planned|by simply putting in evidence what would actually happen if a bunch of teens had to face quasi real-life worldwide problems]], like some of them may need to be sent to the local Artisan Magos after the season finale outcome. Although not based on any RPG system, it has a number of really impressively animated fights, some engaging/endearing (if somewhat cliche) characters and storylines, and impossibly cool weapons. Also, someone is apparently [[RWBY RPG|making an RPG based on the setting]]; there's also that. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tssbVXhWkrs The third opening lyrics are deliciously GRIMM-Dark.]

Approved Anime

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107.4.44.221: /* Gaming anime */

[[Category:Weeaboo]] [[Category:Approved Media]]

This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother.)

''Updated to add 2013 titles, etc.''

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie + 1 video-game/episode]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie]
**'''''Eureka Seven AO''''': a sequel to the original. [TV series: 25 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related games: Traveller, Battletech

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which was lost following an alchemical accident. There's a newer series titled "FMA: Brotherhood", with updated animation and a storyline that fits much closer to the original manga. Which version is better is [[Skub|up for debate]]. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs]
**'''''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''''': Take Iron Kingdoms, take magic out, ignore a good part of the tech but add [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|element-bending]], daddy issues and the more awesome parts of the Imperial Guard, and you get Brotherhood. It's impressive that there hasn't been made a RPG to this setting yet, as it's almost perfect for an Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange of knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series. [TV series: 64 episodes + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. Widely considered the japanese Blade Runner, the original manga and the first too films have influenced basically all of the cyberpunk science fiction after them, up to and including western stuff like Matrix. [2 movies]
** '''''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex''''' [TV series: 52 episodes + 2 OVAs + 1 movie]
** '''''Ghost in the Shell: Arise''''' [TV series: 5 OVAs + 10 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]] and [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''Robotech''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts. Is an adaptation and combination of three Japanese anime: '''''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''''', '''''Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross''''', and '''''Genesis Climber MOSPEADA'''''. [TV series: 85 episodes + 4 movies + 2 OVAs]
:Related games:[[Battletech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one, then had a second season greenlit thanks to it's performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions. [TV series: 26 episodes]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the Japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series. It also has its [https://rpggeek.com/rpg/4111/armored-trooper-votoms-role-playing-game own role playing system] running off the Fuzion rules. [TV series: 52 episodes + 10 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting. [TV series: 75 episodes + 2 movies +1 OVA]
:Related games: [[Battletech]], A Time of War

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even more bloody disregard for the lives of main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: 162 episodes + 3 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made. Slap together Mad Max and a ruthless, hyper-violent Bruce Lee, and that should help explain how this gets.[TV series: 152 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 3 episodes, Spin-Off series: 12 episodes + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing. [OVA series: 13 episodes + 1 movie, TV series: 74 episodes and counting]
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann''''': The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made. Starts out with human rebels on stolen mech fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Fairly philosophical below the pumped up appearance though. Also Steve Blum voices a queer guy, no joke. [TV series: 27 episodes + 2 movies + 15 shorts + 1 music-video]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''Hunter x Hunter''''': Two futa boys fighting dudes. [TV series: 62 episodes + 30 OVAs; Reboot: 148 episodes + 2 movies]
:Related games: [[FATE]], [[FATAL]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods. [Original TV series: 153 episodes + 3 movies, Z/GT/Super series: 397 episodes + 4 specials + 2 OVAs + 16 movies]
:Related games: Playing a Monk/Sorcerer Gestalt in D&D 3e, [[Exalted]]

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor. [TV series: 26 episodes]
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer, and anything related with classic RPGs

==Gaming anime==
*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon. [OVA series: 3 episodes]
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls. [TV series: 54 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general. [TV series: 10 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related games:[[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins, who win every game they play, are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders, where they have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast.. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating. [TV series: 12 episodes]
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]]

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games with himself. The English adaptation is subtitled, "Master of Killing Time" for some weird reason. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images. [TV series: 1 OVA + 21 episodes]
:Related Games: Board Games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the "trapped in an MMO" premise is by no means a new thing in anime (a recent and infamously bad example being ''Sword Art Online'') Log Horizon is unique in the way it explores how the people thrust into such a situation would adapt. Now with its own TRPG core book. [TV series: 50 episodes]
:Related games: Log Horizon, [[/v/|Everquest]], [[4e]]

*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser waifu game, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are personified as [[loli]]s. Yes, seriously; it's in route of becoming something akin to [[Touhou]], given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with ''Girls und Panzer'' and ''Strike Witches'', you got the moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, [[Quest_thread|quests, quests, quests]].

*'''''Overlord''''': a 2015 adaptation of the first of 10 novels, written in 2012 by Kugane Maruyama after his tabletop group disbanded. It follows Momonga, a guild-leader in the last days of a MMORPG just before it shuts down. Instead of getting kicked offline, Momonga is transported to another world as his level 100 character, an eponymous "overlord" [[lich]]; plus all the guild's NPCs have come to life. Not finding any other players from Earth in the new world, he takes on the name of his former guild, Ainz Ooal Gown, in the hopes that someone will recognize it and goes off on various adventures. Almost every spell name is ripped straight from D&D. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]], DDO, Neverwinter

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes + 2 movies, Reboot: 3 movies and counting]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves! [1 OVA + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''Hellsing''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction (and is also fucking Dracula), and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal Scottish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual Nazis (1,000+ Waffen-SS volunteers to create the Letzte Bataillon) who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created Nazi Vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Had a real shit 13 episode TV series , but was given a glorious OVA in 2006...which took until fucking 2014 for all ''ten'' episodes to be released, however. [TV Series: 13 Episodes, OVA series: 10 Episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]]

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Chtulhu]] was in Ghost in the Shell? Starts out like as a fairly political investigation story set in a distopian city, evolves into one hell of a journey in the post-apocalyptic world outside filled with acid trips. Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a story. [TV series: 23 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED):''''' Some nerd has the power to go back in time but only when a blue butterfly feels like it, and he uses this to solve murders and stop life threatening events. It's a lot like Butterfly Effect if it wasn't absolute pretentious crap. Also involves a lot of kids dying. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: one of the GUMSHOE games but with supernatural stuff toned down

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]]. [TV series: 25 episodes]
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only and if you want to watch it you can only watch The Egg of the King currently on Netflix (added bonus its dubbed in ''english'') as for the other 2 you have to get them off of amazon. [3 movies]
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone give's it major points. Plot wise it's a bit standard as you can expect but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes + 27 TV episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing. The TV series and OVA series are separate continuities with some overlap in the form of cameos. [TV series: 104 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 6 + 4 movies]
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero coincidentally) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord. In retaliation the Demon Lord (named Demon Queen/Lord) diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''. [TV series: 25 episodes + 2 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': Several feudal cults fight each other in massive battles, spearheaded by OP hystorical figures with their own special attributes like six-wielding lighting shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star. Somehow includes a massive fucking cyborg titan. [TV series: 24 episodes + 2 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]] [TV series: 24 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's DragonMech: The Anime...kinda. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Dragonmech]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome ...for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like. [TV series: 12 episodes]
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity|SAN]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Daily Life with Monstergirls''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so while there is no actual sex, don't go in expecting "good clean fun!" If you want to see actual boinking, the original author had some comics about monstergirls he made before the serialized series.
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]], [[Maid RPG]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But Which You Thought Were==
*'''''[[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: 25 titles, as of '''''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''''']
:Related games: /v/ stuff, shmups, [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]]).

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French 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. 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. [TV series: 52 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting. 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. There's also '''''[[Krosmaster]]''''', a tactical PvP board-game with online and offline versions, set in the same world.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.] [TV series: 61 episodes]
** '''''Avatar: The Legend of Korra''''' [TV series: 52 episodes]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]. Also has a card-game that uses QuickStrike rules.

*'''''RWBY''''': Popular anime-esque CGI production made by the late Monty Oum (oh, and Roosterteeth too). A world filled with horrible 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 Huntsman, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off fairly [[noblebright]] at first, with humans mostly tolerating faunus and using science to improve society, but the writers turned up the [[grimdark]] almost out of nowhere in the middle of the third season, [[not as planned|by simply putting in evidence what would actually happen if a bunch of teens had to face quasi real-life worldwide problems]], like some of them may need to be sent to the local Artisan Magos after the season finale outcome. Although not based on any RPG system, it has a number of really impressively animated fights, some engaging/endearing (if somewhat cliche) characters and storylines, and impossibly cool weapons. Also, someone is apparently [[RWBY RPG|making an RPG based on the setting]]; there's also that. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tssbVXhWkrs The third opening lyrics are deliciously GRIMM-Dark.]

Approved Anime

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This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother.)

''Updated to add 2013 titles, etc.''

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie + 1 video-game/episode]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie]
**'''''Eureka Seven AO''''': a sequel to the original. [TV series: 25 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related games: Traveller, Battletech

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which was lost following an alchemical accident. There's a newer series titled "FMA: Brotherhood", with updated animation and a storyline that fits much closer to the original manga. Which version is better is [[Skub|up for debate]]. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs]
**'''''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''''': Take Iron Kingdoms, take magic out, ignore a good part of the tech but add [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|element-bending]], daddy issues and the more awesome parts of the Imperial Guard, and you get Brotherhood. It's impressive that there hasn't been made a RPG to this setting yet, as it's almost perfect for an Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange of knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series. [TV series: 64 episodes + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. Widely considered the japanese Blade Runner, the original manga and the first too films have influenced basically all of the cyberpunk science fiction after them, up to and including western stuff like Matrix. [2 movies]
** '''''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex''''' [TV series: 52 episodes + 2 OVAs + 1 movie]
** '''''Ghost in the Shell: Arise''''' [TV series: 5 OVAs + 10 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]] and [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''Robotech''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts. Is an adaptation and combination of three Japanese anime: '''''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''''', '''''Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross''''', and '''''Genesis Climber MOSPEADA'''''. [TV series: 85 episodes + 4 movies + 2 OVAs]
:Related games:[[Battletech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one, then had a second season greenlit thanks to it's performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions. [TV series: 26 episodes]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the Japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series. It also has its [https://rpggeek.com/rpg/4111/armored-trooper-votoms-role-playing-game own role playing system] running off the Fuzion rules. [TV series: 52 episodes + 10 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting. [TV series: 75 episodes + 2 movies +1 OVA]
:Related games: [[Battletech]], A Time of War

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even more bloody disregard for the lives of main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: 162 episodes + 3 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made. Slap together Mad Max and a ruthless, hyper-violent Bruce Lee, and that should help explain how this gets.[TV series: 152 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 3 episodes, Spin-Off series: 12 episodes + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing. [OVA series: 13 episodes + 1 movie, TV series: 74 episodes and counting]
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann''''': The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made. Starts out with human rebels on stolen mech fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Fairly philosophical below the pumped up appearance though. Also Steve Blum voices a queer guy, no joke. [TV series: 27 episodes + 2 movies + 15 shorts + 1 music-video]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''Hunter x Hunter''''': Two futa boys fighting dudes. [TV series: 62 episodes + 30 OVAs; Reboot: 148 episodes + 2 movies]
:Related games: [[FATE]], [[FATAL]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods. [Original TV series: 153 episodes + 3 movies, Z/GT/Super series: 397 episodes + 4 specials + 2 OVAs + 16 movies]
:Related games: Playing a Monk/Sorcerer Gestalt in D&D 3e, [[Exalted]]

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor. [TV series: 26 episodes]
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer, and anything related with classic RPGs

==Gaming anime==
*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon. [OVA series: 3 episodes]
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls. [TV series: 54 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general. [TV series: 10 episodes + 1 OVA]
:Related games:[[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins, who win every game they play, are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders, where they have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast.. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating. [TV series: 12 episodes]
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]]

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games with himself. The English adaptation is subtitled, "Maser of Killing Time" for some weird reason. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images. [TV series: 1 OVA + 21 episodes]
:Related Games: Board Games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the "trapped in an MMO" premise is by no means a new thing in anime (a recent and infamously bad example being ''Sword Art Online'') Log Horizon is unique in the way it explores how the people thrust into such a situation would adapt. Now with its own TRPG core book. [TV series: 50 episodes]
:Related games: Log Horizon, [[/v/|Everquest]], [[4e]]

*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser waifu game, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are personified as [[loli]]s. Yes, seriously; it's in route of becoming something akin to [[Touhou]], given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with ''Girls und Panzer'' and ''Strike Witches'', you got the moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, [[Quest_thread|quests, quests, quests]].

*'''''Overlord''''': a 2015 adaptation of the first of 10 novels, written in 2012 by Kugane Maruyama after his tabletop group disbanded. It follows Momonga, a guild-leader in the last days of a MMORPG just before it shuts down. Instead of getting kicked offline, Momonga is transported to another world as his level 100 character, an eponymous "overlord" [[lich]]; plus all the guild's NPCs have come to life. Not finding any other players from Earth in the new world, he takes on the name of his former guild, Ainz Ooal Gown, in the hopes that someone will recognize it and goes off on various adventures. Almost every spell name is ripped straight from D&D. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]], DDO, Neverwinter

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes + 2 movies, Reboot: 3 movies and counting]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark. [TV series: 13 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves! [1 OVA + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''Hellsing''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction (and is also fucking Dracula), and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal Scottish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual Nazis (1,000+ Waffen-SS volunteers to create the Letzte Bataillon) who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created Nazi Vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Had a real shit 13 episode TV series , but was given a glorious OVA in 2006...which took until fucking 2014 for all ''ten'' episodes to be released, however. [TV Series: 13 Episodes, OVA series: 10 Episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]]

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Chtulhu]] was in Ghost in the Shell? Starts out like as a fairly political investigation story set in a distopian city, evolves into one hell of a journey in the post-apocalyptic world outside filled with acid trips. Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a story. [TV series: 23 episodes]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED):''''' Some nerd has the power to go back in time but only when a blue butterfly feels like it, and he uses this to solve murders and stop life threatening events. It's a lot like Butterfly Effect if it wasn't absolute pretentious crap. Also involves a lot of kids dying. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: one of the GUMSHOE games but with supernatural stuff toned down

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]]. [TV series: 25 episodes]
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only and if you want to watch it you can only watch The Egg of the King currently on Netflix (added bonus its dubbed in ''english'') as for the other 2 you have to get them off of amazon. [3 movies]
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone give's it major points. Plot wise it's a bit standard as you can expect but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes + 27 TV episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing. The TV series and OVA series are separate continuities with some overlap in the form of cameos. [TV series: 104 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 6 + 4 movies]
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero coincidentally) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord. In retaliation the Demon Lord (named Demon Queen/Lord) diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''. [TV series: 25 episodes + 2 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': Several feudal cults fight each other in massive battles, spearheaded by OP hystorical figures with their own special attributes like six-wielding lighting shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star. Somehow includes a massive fucking cyborg titan. [TV series: 24 episodes + 2 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]] [TV series: 24 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's DragonMech: The Anime...kinda. [TV series: 26 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Dragonmech]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome ...for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like. [TV series: 12 episodes]
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity|SAN]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Daily Life with Monstergirls''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so while there is no actual sex, don't go in expecting "good clean fun!" If you want to see actual boinking, the original author had some comics about monstergirls he made before the serialized series.
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]], [[Maid RPG]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But Which You Thought Were==
*'''''[[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: 25 titles, as of '''''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''''']
:Related games: /v/ stuff, shmups, [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]]).

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French 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. 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. [TV series: 52 episodes + 1 movie]
:Related games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting. 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. There's also '''''[[Krosmaster]]''''', a tactical PvP board-game with online and offline versions, set in the same world.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.] [TV series: 61 episodes]
** '''''Avatar: The Legend of Korra''''' [TV series: 52 episodes]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]. Also has a card-game that uses QuickStrike rules.

*'''''RWBY''''': Popular anime-esque CGI production made by the late Monty Oum (oh, and Roosterteeth too). A world filled with horrible 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 Huntsman, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off fairly [[noblebright]] at first, with humans mostly tolerating faunus and using science to improve society, but the writers turned up the [[grimdark]] almost out of nowhere in the middle of the third season, [[not as planned|by simply putting in evidence what would actually happen if a bunch of teens had to face quasi real-life worldwide problems]], like some of them may need to be sent to the local Artisan Magos after the season finale outcome. Although not based on any RPG system, it has a number of really impressively animated fights, some engaging/endearing (if somewhat cliche) characters and storylines, and impossibly cool weapons. Also, someone is apparently [[RWBY RPG|making an RPG based on the setting]]; there's also that. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tssbVXhWkrs The third opening lyrics are deliciously GRIMM-Dark.]

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[[File:Magical realm.png|thumb|left|Well, do you?]]
[[File:DemonicFortress.png|thumb|right|[[Rogal Dorn]] dared. But then again, he's a [[Imperial Fists|masochist]] like that.]]

An individual's '''magical realm''' is the domain of their sexual fetishes, especially in relation to [[roleplaying game]]s. When a game starts developing or introducing elements of the player or [[GM]]'s fetishes (either deliberately or accidentally), it could be said to be entering that individual's magical realm (or that the players/party are doing so). The original context it derives from is that of a GM (or [[/d/M]]) specifically creating or introducing elements to the game to satisfy their more... ''esoteric'' sexual fantasies - for instance, a GM with urolagnia (a urine fetish) describing a strange realm of piss trees or introducing [[NPC]]s that demand to be pissed on or try to piss upon player characters. When the players identify and refuse to go along with this obvious fetish fulfillment, they can be said to be refusing to enter the GM's magical realm, and so forth.

The origin of the slang is a Gunshow comic by KC Green called "[http://gunshowcomic.com/471 Piss World]", where the players of a tabletop RPG react violently to their GM continually trying to get them to play to his piss fetish, and specifically a panel where an [[NPC]] (or possibly a [[DMPC]], depending on how you look at it), the "Whizzard", asks "Dare you enter my magical realm?"

For a great example, see [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]].

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{{Game Infobox
|name=Maid RPG
|picture=[[Image:MaidRPG_cover.jpg|230px]]
|type=[[RPG]]
|publisher=[[Sunset Games]]
|system=Original
|authors=Ryo Kamiya
|year=2004 (Japanese) 2008 (English)
}}

''"When it comes down to it, Maid RPG is a goddamn weird game."''
:- Ewen Cluney, the translator.

''"It's Japanese and about maids. Of course it's fucking weird."''
:- Everyone else

'''Maid RPG''' or '''Meido RPG''' is a Japanese [[RPG]] system where one plays a maid. It uses a rules-light system, and typically plays something like an over-the-top comedy [[anime]]. It is notably the first originally Japanese [[pen and paper]] RPG to be translated and released in English. Next up, [[Zettai Reido]]! We hope.

Character generation runs on random tables which determine not only vital statistics (Athletics, Affection, Skill, Cunning, Luck, and Will, not bust size and shit), but also the relationship of the maid to her master and other bizarre quirks possessed by the maid, such as their preferred weapon. Quirks can be anything from "Has an Irish accent" to "Is a cyborg" to "Is actually the master's mistress" to "Is actually a man".

[[Magical_realm|The game is often criticised for being excessively sexual and deviant]] - while most of the rules concerning such material are explicitly optional, they are used liberally by the examples of play given in the book (the very first of which has, amongst other things, a [[loli]] maid in a see through uniform and a lesbian paedophile who gropes her). Proponents of the game contend that it is only as sexual as the players themselves decide to make it, and the game still works perfectly fine as a simple comedy without such elements. Just don't let your group's [[/d/M]] run the game.

One of the people responsible for the English translation frequently visited /tg/ to recruit playtesters, and the credits of the finished version include a thanks to "all the fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls" that helped during testing. It is now available for purchase as both a .pdf and in print from the English website.

It is a well-known fact that Maid is fully compatible with [[Dark Heresy]]. If you enjoy one game you will probably enjoy the other.

== Actual Dark Heresy Modification Rules ==
Some idiot decided to actually work these out, and it turns out it's actually quite simple. First off, every maid and master is made using the [[Dark Heresy]] rules, picking a career path and starting EXP as per usual. Butlers are made using Rogue Trader or Deathwatch career paths and starting EXP, depending on how badass you want your butler to be. In order to get the stats for your maid/butler/master, roll them as normal then multiply the following abilities by 10 and add 1d10 (2d10 for butlers) in order to get their corresponding [[Dark Heresy]] abilities: Athletics for S, T, and Ag, Skill for WS and BS, Cunning for Wp and Per, and Affection for Fel. You have Wounds equal to 1d10 + raw Affection, and Fate Points equal to your raw Luck. This also means hilariously you can run the system backward and turn dark Heresy characters into maids. Perfect for when your unlucky group is forced undercover in a mansion.

Weapons are whatever the hell you think fits, any armour designed specifically for maids has negative DR, undressing penalties are multiplied by five (only in circumstances where the undressing in question wouldn't provide a bonus), and your maid power is the closest logical Psychic Power or Talent. You do not receive any starting gear aside from whatever weapon you rolled/were assigned and whatever outfit you rolled/were assigned, and mutants/aliens/alternate races are left up to the GM to stat. Obviously, you do not receive any bonus from the [[EMPRAH|Emperor's]] Tarot, and you get add Cook (Int), Merchant (Fel) or Valet (Fel) to your stating skills, as well as all three to your Rank 1 advances list, each costing 100 XP. They are also added at Rank 3 as +10 skills, once again for 100 XP, and at Rank 5 as +20 skills, for, yet again, 100 XP.

== See Also ==
*[http://www.sunsetgames.co.jp/rpg/maidrpg/maidrpg.htm Sunset Games official Maid RPG page (Japanese)]
*[http://www.maidrpg.com/index.shtml Official website for the English translation]
*[http://www.big-metto.net/RP_Wiki/index.php?title=MeidoRPG Wiki page for co-ordination of Maid RPG games and playtesting]
*[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/maidrpg.html Lord Licorice's MaidRPG random character generator]
*[[Highschool RPG (a maid RPG modification)]]
*[[Manly And Incorrigible Delinquents RPG]] A Delinquent modification for badasses

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Hisui Kohaku.jpg|Why not have some meido gallery
Image:Maidbox.jpg|Costume Table 2, page 91: Box Robo Suit
Image:Maidman.jpg|Special quality: Actually A Guy. Weapon: Mop/Broom.
File:High school RPG.pdf|The High School variant (PDF)...
File:High school RPG charsheet.pdf|...And it's characters sheet (PDF)
</gallery>

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Touhou Danmaku Yuugi Flowers RPG

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[[Image:Touhou_TRPG_Cover.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The general art style of the book is very classy.]]
[[Image:Touhou_TRPG_Katzeh.jpg|thumb|right|200px|They got Katzeh/Felis Ovum to do a piece of art for this book, so it must be good.]]
It's a [[Touhou]] tabletop RPG. It has apparently existed for several years now, it's just that we've only gotten scans of it this year. Do I need to explain it any further?

==Download==
The book was passed around as a set of scanned pages via [http://rapidshare.com/files/238216862/Touhou_Danmaku_Yuugi_Flowers_RPG.rar.html Rapidshare] and [http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=99f0364ddf33df997f7ec40ada4772a6e04e75f6e8ebb871 Mediafire].

As of July 17, 2010, the book has been completely translated to English and a more readable PDF document is available from [http://www.mediafire.com/?ti5wnh9xm7xh4t1 MediaFire]. Share and enjoy.

Touhou

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[[Image:4Etouhou.jpg|thumb|right|Touhou is usually seen in character optimization threads because the major Touhoufags are min-maxers.]]

The '''Touhou''' Project is a series of Japanese "[[dakka|danmaku]]" ("bullet hell") vertical shooter games made by a skinny Japanese man known as ZUN. ZUN loves beer. The more you know about Touhou, the more obvious it becomes how much ZUN drinks. The series is known for its vast array of [[loli]]s (although it's debatable how many are actually supposed to be lolis considering that ZUN is just a genuinely terrible artist; seriously, look up the original character artworks) and the plethora of fanart they have inspired. In fact, there is so much Touhou fanart that it is commonly held that no matter what the situation, there is at least one Touhou picture that is appropriate. This has also resulted in the creation of the [[Touhou Power Cards]] for [[4e]] [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. There is a certain irony in this, as in early requests for 4e torrents, /tg/ discovered instead Touhou [[/d/|futa]] doujins.

A fellow referred to as Touhoufag used to be seen in D&D threads, particularly ones involving character optimization. Fa/tg/uys generally didn't mind Touhou (except for certain faggots from Alabama who coined the nonsensical epithet "pork eye"), as long as it was kept from taking over the discussion, but instead used to further it or spice it up, or just as eye candy while the discussion continued. Sadly, he got on the [[Mod|janitor]]'s bad side and was permabanned for trumped-up charges of spamming and ban evasion.

For Touhou-centric posts not related to traditional games, we recommend visiting [http://zip.4chan.org/jp/imgboard.html /jp/], considering the now-infamous Touhou Hijack was used as an out to create the board in the first place.

If you want a quick introduction to Touhou, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7lHJXPKoX0 this video is here for you].

==Characters==
Touhou characters are often referred to as Touhoes, Toehoes (a pun on how the Japanese word is properly pronounced) or 2hous. There are an Imperial fuckton of Touhoes - according to the [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Category:Characters Touhou wiki], over a hundred of them. A quick rundown of a few of the more prominent Touhoes follows (feel free to add your favourite 2hou for extralulz, we know you want it):

*'''Reimu Hakurei''' is <s>an undead zombie</s> <s>a red-white miko</s> a wonderful shrine maiden of paradise. She is one of the two main characters of the series. Her good points are her armpits. Her abilities include flight, utter invincibility invoked when she feels like it (Fantasy Heaven), killing everyone with her balls, and overpoweredness, that's because ''she can fly away from reality'', hence making her utterly invulnerable, even against concept manipulators such as Yukari, in other words, if she decided to fight seriously, Reimu could go hand to hand with the C'tan, the Emperor and the Chaos Gods all together and win by default (Well, what did you expect? Japs consider a point of national pride making characters as OP as possible), exemplifying the concept of [[CoDzilla]] in D&D 3.5. or a 1++ Invulnerable Save/Eternal Warrior/It Will Not Die/Feels No Pain/Reanimation Protocols, all rolled in one, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olHGxIH94c this video shows her in a totally canonical way, we wish we were making this up]. She is a favored soul.

*'''Marisa Kirisame''' is <s>a black-white witch</s> an ordinary magician who has the biggest lesbian harem known to mankind. She is the other main character of the series. She stole Alice's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginity precious thing], along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptomania everything else not nailed down]. Her specialty in combat is [[CS Goto| spamming tons of multilazors]].

*'''Mima''' is a sadly forgotten resident [[Lich]], and the one who taught Marisa nearly everything she knows. Gives no fucks and with even bigger ego than her student, she is basically [[Slayers|Naga to Marisa's Lina]]. Also one of the very few who is genuinely friends with Yuuka Kazami.

*'''[[Touhou/4e_stats/Sakuya_Izayoi|Sakuya Izayoi]]''' is a maid with a known fondness of Time Stop, Haste spells, and just around five billion knives. Her race, origin, or how she got that many 9th level slots are all unknown. May or may not be a female [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dio_Brando Dio Brando] in an alternate universe. Sakuya gains Time Stop as an At-Will ability in 4.0, honorary member of the Ordos Chronos, or what is left of it.

*'''Alice Margatroid''', when not hopelessly lusting over Marisa, spends all her time stuck in her house crafting and playing with dolls, much like [[Warhammer 40k|certain]] fa/tg/uys.

*'''Shinki''' is the Power who rules over her own hand-made plane of Makai (Demon Realm, not to be confused with the myriad of Japanese Hells) as its Mother-Goddess. She is also the closest being to the Capital-G God the setting has, and during the fight with the "heroes" got so worked up that she accidenly set the whole of Makai on fire. And last, but not least, she is Alice's doting stepmom.

*'''Patchouli Knowledge''' is a pajama-wearing, century-old, [[Vancian]] wizzart who spends all her time in a library reading books. Constitution was her dump stat, and hence she is asthmatic, anemic, and generally sickly like [[Raistlin Majere]]. Changes her prepared spells list depending on the day of the week.

*'''Yukari Yakumo''' has [[Mod|unfair, extremely vague, and godlike boundary powers]]. She is the DM of Gensokyo. Rumor has it there is [[Anal Circumference|no hole]] she would not enter.

*'''Ran Yakumo''' is Yukari's 10% [[furry]] familiar. (70% if you go by volume, but it's mostly tail-fluff.) When not being molested by Yukari, as is customary for humanoid familiars, she is a hard-working streaker and pedophile.

*'''Chen''' is Ran's catgirl familiar. Sometimes Ran touches her in bad places, but Chen is cute, so it's okay.

*'''Youmu Konpaku''' is too soft, but the things that her [[masterwork bastard sword]] cannot cut are next to none. Also happens to be half-ghost. No, we have no idea how that happens, but her ghost side is also very soft, so basically how a Damned Legionnaire would have looked in a moe anime universe.

*'''Yuyuko Saigyouji''' is a princess of the underworld, and can kill people by thinking at them. [[Tyranids|Always hungry]].

*'''[[Touhou/4e_stats/Reisen_Inaba|Reisen Udongein Inaba]]''' is a moon rabbit who deserted her frontline military position and went AWOL as Primarch Neil Armstrong and his [[Space Marines|SPEHSS MAHREENS]] were purging xenos filth in the Lunar Capital in the name of the God-President of America. If you look into her red eyes and fail your Will save, you will go batshit insane. May or may not be completely useless except for her sex appeal. Gun-porn of her can be found all over the [[/a/]] parts of [[/k/]], and none of the /k/omrades know who she is or why.

*'''Tewi Inaba''' is an extremely old earth rabbit of good luck who has achieved [[what|quantum immortality]] through being obscenely lucky. Her alignment is Chaotic Shenanigans.

*'''<s>Chiquita Dragonforce</s> Tenshi Hinanawi''' is a <s>dragon</s> celestial gish with a perpetually rotating rock that floats, peaches on her hat that vaguely resemble butts, powers over the earth overlapping with another character's abilities, and a prismatic [[Holy Avenger]] with the ability to shoot [[multilasers]].

*'''Eirin Yagokoro''' [[Fabius Bile|deals in shady drugs of questionable origins and experiments on poor Reisen]], and Japanese dance crazes.

*'''Cirno''' is <s>an intellectually-challenged fairy with an ego problem</s> the [[Homestuck|STRONGEST]] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wFDWP5JwSM SMARTEST] of all the Touhoes, and can control ice. She goes by many names, and it is recommended that you memorize all of them before she fucks your shit up.

*'''Utsuho "Okuu" Reiuji''' a crow who used to stoke the fires of hell, before there was an argument and a subsequent change of management. Despite the fact that she holds dominion over both nuclear fusion and nuclear fission, and has a right arm that is made of nukes and lasers, she somehow is on-par with most of the other Touhoes. No critical thinking skills whatsoever, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTpJJAraG8 there is a cool video of her fight with Reimu, in 3D!]

*'''Hijiri Byakuren''' is the [[Jesus]] of Gensokyo. She tried to obtain equal rights for youkai but was <s>crucified</s> sealed away for her transgressions. She has huge boobs. Since later games she has a lightsaber and a motorcycle which she uses to roll over her enemies (read Toyosatomimi no Miko), we wish the sororitas where this cool. Rumored to be acquainted with Shinki.

*'''Yuuka Kazami''' the flower Youkai is one of the oldest and most powerful beings in Gensokyo. Also known as an Ultimate Sadistic Being. She is an original user of the Master Spark spell, the fuck huge kamehameha-like laser beam that annihilates everything in its path. Obviously, Marisa stole that too.

*'''Komachi Onozuka''' is a local busty Grim Reaper/Charon equivalent. Lazy as fuck.

*'''Eiki Shiki Yamaxanadu''' is the judge of the dead. Short and flat chested. Sees reality in clear, absolute black and white perception (both inside and outside morality), which is why even Yukari doesn't bother going against her (since her hax powers rely on vagueness). Gensokyo's resident rules lawyer.

* '''Nitori Kappashiro''' youkai who likes to use her [[Adeptus Mechanicus|technological skills]] to get all kind of crazy gadgets, usually [[loot|by recycling items from the outside world]].

*'''Suika Ibuki''' is an oni(a demon-ogre, for those who don't know). Her hobbies involve drinking and fighing, usually both. Usually hangs around the Hakurei Shrine, but is said to own a chunk of Heaven she won from fucking up Tenshi Hinanawi's shit. Hasn't been sober in over 300 years. No, seriously, that's actual canon.

*'''Yuugi Hoshiguma''' is Gensokyo's resident [[Muscle Wizard]]. She can best be described as [[Kord]]/Cayden Cailean reimagined as a female Oni with huge boobs. <s>Some</s> MANLY depictions of her also incorporate big muscles. Total bros with Suika Ibuki.

*'''Toyosatomimi no Miko''' used to be the ruler of Japan but attempted to achieve immortality [[fail|by drinking mercury]], this forced her to go through a ritual to cheat death, [[Emprah|unfortunately she got stuck in her mausoleum for a couple of centuries]], now that she is back she is considering to become the ruler of Gensokyo as she thinks she is the most qualified for the job, [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|thinks Gensokyo must be wiped out of Youkais as humans may be the only ones allowed to live]], in spite of this, when one youkai lost her mask of hope (long story) she crafted her one on her own image, because she wanted to become Gensokyo's people hope, may be the missing daughter of [[Roboute Guilliman]].

*'''Mamizou Futatsuiwa''' a granny-tanuki of the outside world who was invoked into Gensokyo to deal with Miko, likes to play pranks on people and see how they get all confused, she can also invoke daemons and do all kind of crazy stunts, so we are not really sure if she is an acolyte of Cegorach or Tzeentch.

*'''Sumireko Usami''' /x/ [[psyker]] schoolgirl from the outside world, and one of the few humans who knows about Gensokyo, puts in motion a complicated plot to infiltrate the land of fantasy, everyone at Gensokyo dislikes such maneuver and bully her, [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|nevertheless she manages to beat them back (quite remarkable considering how OP the denizens of Gensokyo are), thinking she will eventually get killed she goes kamikaze using her own life-power to take down Gensokyo's barrier and reveal it to the outside world so she can be avenged]], Reimu manages to stop her and returns Sumireko to the outside world, after that Sumireko learns she can use astral projection to visit Gensokyo, everyone is happy as she can tell them the last posts in 4chan and CNN without making too much fuss. Among her gadgets Sumireko has a magic tablet, zener cards, and a 3D-printed gun capable to punch through enemy 2hous like it has AP1.

*'''Clownpiece''' 'murican fairy from hell who invaded the Moon (no oil or WMDs involved), honouring the american practice of overwhelming firepower she eats your continues like they were delicious cookies while unleashing dakka equivalent to a sector battlefleet, lately she decided to move to Gensokyo, discussions between Cirno and Clownpiece fans attempting to define who is the strongest still rage across the web.

ZUN's bizarre fondness for drawing silly [[hats]] on his [[loli|lolis]] leads to persistent [[brits|rumours]] that Touhoes may die if their headwear of choice is removed, though certain bare-headed <s>nudists</s> exceptions such as [[NEET|Kaguya Houraisan]], [[Druid|Yuka Kazami]], or [[Cleric|Byakuren]][[Jesus Motherfucking Christ| Hijiri]] cast doubt on this theory. It is also of note that since Zun's official artwork in the games and manuals depicts most of the cast as chubby little girls, doujin artists, some ZUN-approved printed media and the official Tasofro fighting games have generally felt free to decide on their own [[DFC|exactly]] [[loli|what]] [[Hot Chicks|physiques]] the characters have, leading to many conflicting versions of the same character.

==See Also==
*[[Touhou Power Cards]]
*[[Touhou Danmaku Yuugi Flowers RPG]]

==External Links==
*[http://touhouwiki.net Touhou Wiki, where you can read up on stuff.]
*[http://walfas.org/flash/create.swf Flash doohickey used to create your own touhou, useful for all touhou parties.]
*[http://www.cracked.com/funny-1750-touhou/ The Cracked article on Touhou, for those who cannot be bothered to watch the introduction video at the top of this page.]
*[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/touhou-project-%E6%9D%B1%E6%96%B9project The Know Your Meme article on Touhou.]
*[http://dagobah.biz/flash/Tsurupettan.swf PETTAN PETTAN TSURUPETTAN]
**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JrmKBWoyfs Alternately, Youtube!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1E2nN5Fwzk Why each and every Touhoe is a terrible person and should feel bad]
*[http://wgs.no-ip.org/trpg.pdf Touhou RPG: Tale of Phantasmal Land, a Touhou RPG created by some fa/tg/uy.]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpfZSFQpzvY Touhou fandom gets shit done]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEUeWnV73U Say Bad Apple again! I dare you! I double-dare you!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoUCI0WcVI0 Touhou even has its own racing themes]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=YxxyRNNspLE And apparently a giant robo series]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyTxURGwu98 We wish the Ultramarines film had this much action.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w337ij3wtXA Touhou fanime, perhaps you guys could stop nerdraging at Games Workshop and start doing stuff of that quality? You know, is not like any of you have ever given a single coin or drop of sweat to make The Lord Inquisitor.]

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==Gallery==
Please, note that if we were to post just the high-end fanart people have made of Touhou we would probably collapse 1d4chan servers:
<gallery>
Image:Touhou_Discworld.jpg|Gensokyo, the setting of Touhou, does not actually look like this Yukkuri head version of Discworld, but it would be awesome if it did.
Image:Inquisitor Alice.JPG|The 40k drawfags do Touhou work on rare occasions.
Image:TouhouSharks.jpg|There is a Touhou pic for nearly every situation. Even situations that will never ever be brought up otherwise.
Image:Touhou CONSUMED.JPG|Take it easy.
Image:Touhou lazors.jpg|Touhou is made of girls and lasers.
Image:Moot_says_ironic_badness_is_badness_nonetheless.png
Image:Touhou_Hijack_Original.jpg|Bet you'd never see this again, huh?

</gallery>

Approved Anime

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[[Category:Weeaboo]] [[Category:Approved Media]]

This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother.)

''Updated to add 2013 titles, etc.''

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes; 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards.
:Related games: Traveller, Battletech

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which was lost following an alchemical accident. There's a newer series titled "FMA: Brotherhood", with updated animation and a storyline that fits much closer to the original manga. Which version is better is [[Skub|up for debate]].
**'''''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''''': Take Iron Kingdoms, take magic out, ignore a good part of the tech but add [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|element-bending]], daddy issues and the more awesome parts of the Imperial Guard, and you get Brotherhood. It's impressive that there hasn't been made a RPG to this setting yet, as it's almost perfect for an Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange of knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. Widely considered the japanese Blade Runner, the original manga and the first too films have influenced basically all of the cyberpunk science fiction after them, up to and including western stuff like Matrix.[2 movies; tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes, season 2 - 26 episodes, 1 made-for-TV movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]] and [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''Robotech/Macross''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts.
:Related games:[[Battletech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists.
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one, then had a second season greenlit thanks to it's performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions.
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series.
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting.
:Related games: [[Battletech]], A Time of War

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even more bloody disregard for the lives of main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: 110 episodes; Prequel: 52 Episodes; 2 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made.
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing.
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan''''': The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made. Starts out with human rebels on stolen mech fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Fairly philosophical below the pumped up appearance though. Also Steve Blum voices a queer, no joke. [TV Series: 27 episodes; 2 movies, a dozen or so parallel works (short videos)]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''HunterxHunter''''': Two futa boys fighting dudes [TV Series: 148 episodes]
:Related games: [[FATE]], [[FATAL]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods.
:Related games: Playing a Monk/Sorcerer Gestalt in D&D 3e, [[Exalted]]

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor.
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer, and anything related with classic RPGs

==Gaming anime==
*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser waifu game, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are personified as [[loli]]s. Yes, seriously; it's in route of becoming something akin to [[Touhou]], given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with ''Girls und Panzer'' and ''Strike Witches'', you got the moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period.
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, [[Quest_thread|quests, quests, quests]].

*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games with himself. The English adaptation is subtitled, "Maser of Killing Time" for some weird reason. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images.
:Related Games: Board Games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the "trapped in an MMO" premise is by no means a new thing in anime (a recent and infamously bad example being ''Sword Art Online'') Log Horizon is unique in the way it explores how the people thrust into such a situation would adapt. Now with its own TRPG core book.
:Related games: Log Horizon, [[/v/|Everquest]], [[4e]]

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes; 5 and counting movies]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark.
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves!
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''Hellsing''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction, and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal Scottish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual Nazis (1,000+ Waffen-SS volunteers to create the Letzte Bataillon) who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created Nazi Vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Had a real shit 13 episode TV series back in 2001, but was given a glorious OVA in 2006. Took until fucking 2014 for all ''ten'' episodes to be released, however.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]]

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Chtulhu]] was in Ghost in the Shell? Starts out like as a fairly political investigation story set in a distopian city, evolves into one hell of a journey in the post-apocalyptic world outside filled with acid trips. Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a story.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED):''''' Some nerd has the power to go back in time but only when a blue butterfly feels like it, and he uses this to solve murders and stop life threatening events. It's a lot like Butterfly Effect if it wasn't absolute pretentious crap. Also involves a lot of kids dying.
:Related games: one of the GUMSHOE games but with supernatural stuff toned down

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]].
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only and if you want to watch it you can only watch The Egg of the King currently on Netflix (added bonus its dubbed in ''english'') as for the other 2 you have to get them off of amazon.

:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone give's it major points. Plot wise it's a bit standard as you can expect but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes; TV series: 27 episodes; TV parody series: 13 episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing.
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero coincidentally) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord. In retaliation the Demon Lord (named Demon Queen/Lord) diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': Several feudal cults fight each other in massive battles, spearheaded by OP hystorical figures with their own special attributes like six-wielding lighting shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star. Somehow includes a massive fucking cyborg titan.
:Related games: [[Exalted]],Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins, who win every game they play, are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders, where they have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast.. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating.
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]]

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's [[Dragonmech]]: The Anime...kinda.

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general.
:Related games:[[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome ...for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like.
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity|SAN]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Daily Life with Monstergirls''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so while there is no actual sex, don't go in expecting "good clean fun!"
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]], [[Maid RPG]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But Which You Thought Were==
*'''''[[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.
:Related games: /v/ stuff, shmups, [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]])

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French 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. Not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]]
:Related games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting, and apparently has its own RPG rules in France.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]

*'''''RWBY''''': Popular anime-esque CGI production made by Monty Oum (oh, and Roosterteeth too). A world filled with horrible 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 Huntsman, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off fairly [[noblebright]] at first, but the writers turned up the [[grimdark]] almost out of nowhere in the middle of the third season, [[not as planned|by simply putting in evidence what would actually happen if a bunch of teens had to face quasi real-life worldwide problems]]. Although not based on any RPG system, it has a number of really impressively animated fights, some engaging/endearing (if somewhat cliche) characters and storylines, and impossibly cool weapons. Also, someone is apparently [[RWBY RPG|making an RPG based on the setting]]; there's also that.

Chaos Gods

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The '''Chaos Gods''' are the gods which rule over the Realm of [[Chaos]] in [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles]] and the [[Warp]] in [[Warhammer 40,000]]. They love nothing so much as dicking with each other, except perhaps dicking with their mortal followers, and dicking EACH other (shhhh). Before they were gods, they were generally benevolent beings, when the Warp was a calm sea. Each one is formed by the emotions of living souls clumped together in the Warp/Realm of Chaos. Contrary to standard thought, they personify good attributes as well, and are powered as much by good as by bad. Even if said god started out entirely bad, in their eventual evolution as part of their natures, they will kill gods who represented entirely good things, and will gain not only their values, but their power by said value. Be aware many of the gods' values will and do intersect. This is as much due to the chaotic nature of the gods as it is to the multitude of emotions that make up the living.

== Khorne ==
{{Main|Khorne}}
[[File:500px-Video-Game-Warhammer-15925.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Lord of RAEG, War, Butthurt, Steroids and Testosterone.]]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES! BUTTER FOR THE POP KHORNE! Oh, sorry. In case it wasn't obvious, Khorne is the god of battle, martial honour, and oh yeah, BLOOD! Although primarily formed from hate and rage, bravery and honour are also thrown in the mix. Also in the mix are mercy (in particular, mercy for those too weak to put up a fight), courage, regret, fear, athleticism, determination, daring, impulsiveness, and struggling onwards in the face of all odds.
* Gender - DEFINITELY A MAN, AND DON'T YOU FORGET ITTTTT
* Main Enemy - Slaanesh (Khorne considers him/her/it/hermaphrodite to be too frilly), although he's also not a big fan of Tzeentch (2tricky4me).
* Bro god - Nurgle, although he doesn't seem to mind Khaela Mensha Khaine (they're probably the same thing, though), and he is rumored to be in a polyamorous marriage with Mork and Gork.
* Love Interest - Gork and Mork (see above). Valkia the Bloody (Canonically - yes, your brain is now broken), <del>Slaanesh</del> Y-YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG! YOU'RE LYING!
* Dedicated [[Chaos Space Marine]] Legion - The [[World Eaters]], other various chapters and bands of warriors dedicated themselves to him since. Also has IG-equivalent armies like the [[Blood Pact]].
*[[Warriors of Chaos]] "Hero"/Chaos Tribe: Arbaal the Undefeated (ANGRY VIKINGS!! FUCK YEAH!!); Valkia the Bloody, Hrafn Untam, Haargroth the Blooded. Khorne also has an entire Norse confederation especially devoted to him known as the Aeslingr.
* Sacred Number - 8

== Nurgle ==
{{Main|Nurgle}}
[[File:Nurgle Images.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Despite his and his minion's appearances, they're actually pretty nice.]]

Nurgle is the god of filth, pestilence, decay, and generally being a cool dude. Formed from despair and fear of death, acceptance and stoicism are also included. Other values include inevitability, empathy, kinship, happiness, struggle, love, tradition, mercy, and memory. Nurgle is also notable for being the only Chaos god that cares for his followers whatsoever, bordering on love (in fact, in 40k, he loves the [[Eldar]] goddess [[Isha]] so much that he [[grimdark|chained her up and force feeds her his new diseases]]... yeah, love sucks sometimes). Also note that one aspect of him that is played up in the End Times is that he is in fact the god of life; only, for him it means unrestrained, infinite life (Case in point, Tumor)
* Gender - A (slob of a) man. A VERY fat one.
* Main Enemy - Tzeentch, the paragon of HOPE and CHANGE, in opposition to Nurgle's representation of decay and inevitability.
* Bro god - Khorne, mostly because Nurgle is the only Chaos god Khorne doesn't entirely hate.
* Love Interest - His joy, wife [[Isha]]
* Dedicated [[Chaos Space Marine]] Legion - The [[Death Guard]]. Has tons of other followers like the [[The Purge]] (omnicidal wackos who have no problem using chemical and virus weapons on helpless populations), [[Apostles of Contagion]] ([[Zombie Plague]] afficianados), the [[Lords of Decay]] (utterly loyal Marines sent to die in the Eye, holy fuck these guys made a direct assault on the Solar System and won Pluto), and human IG armies like the rebellion on [[Vraks]]
* [[Warriors of Chaos]] "Hero"/Chaos Tribe: [[Valnir|Valnir the Reaper]], old school champion of nurgle; Festus the Leechlord (this guy used to be a doctor in the Empire; he's not even a Northman). The Crow Brothers of the Bjornlings are especially devoted to him also (Festus leads these guys), the Glotkin.
* Sacred Number - 7

== Slaanesh ==
{{Main|Slaanesh}}
[[File:3808336-1057810675-Video.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The embodiment of all things PR0N.]]

Slaanesh is the god/dess of pain, pleasure, and perfection... or, in other words, a god of [[1d4chan|emotions formed from emotions]], not all of which are bad. In 40k (WHFB didn't elaborate how Slaanesh was born, so we can only assume s/he manifested normally like the other Gods), the [[Eldar]] created him/her/it/hermaphrodite by having so many damn orgies they tore a hole in space. Formed mainly from hedonism and excess, love and creativity are also attributes of Slaanesh. Others facets include kindness, tranquility, jealousy, sensuality, DRUGS, expression, individuality, DUBSTEP, joy, peaceability, HEAVY METAL, and admiration (so quite literally the god of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll!).
* Gender - Whatever you want it to be, sugar! In WH Fantasy you'll see illustrations of a lecherous old hag / old man / old bits-of-both; in WH40k depictions are of a young flamboyant hermaphrodite or trap.
* Main enemy - The brutish Khorne, obviously. H-he never calls...
* Bro god - Tzeentch, although that's mostly because he's the least icky of the Chaos gods. Her friendship with Nurgle is a bit questionable since he did steal [[Isha]] during Slaanesh's proverbial....and literal, raping of the former Eldar empire, though it isn't shown anywhere that Slaanesh still openly detests Nurgle for that (Hell, at one point, their daemons temporarily joined forces together). Generally the most open to working with the others.
* Love Interest - All of them. Still pines for Isha, and is depressed no one ever seems to love him/her back. Messes around with Khorne. Gave up on Nurgle after he got married. For a long time has been pining for Tzeentch of all people, but she can never seem to make him think she likes him as more than just a friend. Basically, she's the hot chick who got friendzoned by the nerd. But she won't give up!
* Dedicated [[Chaos Space Marine]] Legion - [[Emperor's Children]]. Also has others to call on like The [[Flawless Host]] (their drugs make Emperor's Children ones look like a weak store coffee), [[Violaters]] (these guys body sculpt themselves enough to make a [[VtM|Tzimisce]] well up with pride), as well as, again, various IG-equivalent armies.
* [[Warriors of Chaos]] "Hero"/Chaos Tribe: Sigvald the Magnificent (he really is quite magnificent...), [[Dechala|Dechala the Denied one]], former high elf maiden turned into near greater daemon level, Syrkaar of Sortsvinear. <s>The Varg tribes serve him.</s> NO WE DON'T. Likely that the Hung worship him, purely judging from their nomenclature.
*Sacred Number - 6

== Tzeentch ==
{{Main|Tzeentch}}
[[File:240078tzeentch-1024.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Change we can all believe in...]]

Tzeentch is the god of [[Just as planned]] and magic. Tzeentch is formed from paranoia and plotting, but also, amazingly enough, hope and ambition. Other values include trust, happiness, dissatisfaction, aspiration, progress, knowledge, learning, protection, will, and change.
* Gender - Always changing, but usually a guy.
* Main Enemy - Nurgle, who won't get off his damn ass to do anything, refuses to change...
* Bro god(dess) - Slaanesh, who isn't as brutal as Khorne and not as much of a lazy bastard as Nurgle. Plus, she's nice to little Tzeentch!
* Love Interest - Kind of wishes the Deceiver, Cegorach, and the Emperor were girls. T-then surely he could impress them, yes!
* Dedicated [[Chaos Space Marine]] Legion - [[Thousand Sons]]. Unlike the other gods, Tzeentch apparently doesn't have any IG-equivalent armies dedicated to him in particular. Most likely the reason for this is because if a Guardsman is going to turn to a specific Chaos god, the prospect of [[Khorne|power and unending glorious conquest]], [[Nurgle|freedom from all pain and suffering]], or [[Slaanesh|all the booze, drugs and whores you can handle and then some]] are much more attractive options than becoming some nerd's pawn. Then again, as Tzeentch cares not for the quantity of his followers over quality, he'd just recruit their leader (or his right hand and help him overthrow said leader). He also offers limited knowledge of the future, represented in game with a boosted Ward save from the Mark of Tzeentch.
* [[Warriors of Chaos]] "Hero": <s>Vilitch the Curseling</s> [[Egrimm van Horstmann|Egrimm van Horstmann]]. No Chaos Tribe seems to revere him to any exceptional extent, but he pulled out some nasty tricks such as becoming the grand magister of the Order of Light and fucking said order up before flying away on top of a dragon.
* Sacred Number - 9

== Malal ==
{{Main|Malal}}
[[File:Maxresdefault.jpg|220px|right|thumb|Then we have this motherfucking out of place/odd one out weirdo here....]]

Though not as relevent as the other big four, yet is still more notified then the other minor Gods mentioned below.

Malal is a renegade Chaos god that only appeared in one comic for Fantasy. He is the god of fractiousness and dissent, which, given the company he keeps, makes him a tad redundant. That being said, he did have awesome champions who lived solely to hunt down the greatest champions of the other gods, which is pretty [[Awesome]]. Sadly (or not, depending on your opinion), [[Games Workshop]] idiotically lost the rights to his name, so he's been more or less retconned. Except now he might be back in 40k, with a [[Chaos Space Marine]] warband called the Sons of Malice who worship a god called Malice...who just happen to wear a color scheme of black and white, and just happen to have a symbol of a bisected skull, and who's premier Chaos weapon specializes in killing Daemons. But nope, don't you dare say they worship Malal. (also alpha legion){{BLAM}}{{BLAM|''HERESY''! Alpha legion '''never''' existed understand!}}
* Gender - Male. Probably. We think.
* Main Enemy - EVERYONE. Because Malal's an edgy loner who doesn't play by the rules.
* Bro God(ess) - What part of edgy loner did you not get?
* Love Interest - Maybe if I kill all the other Chaos Gods, Emperor Senpai will finally notice me!
* Dedicated [[Chaos Space Marine]] Legion - The [[Sons of Malice]]. And that just about sums it up. No IG Equivalent, no daemon spawn, nothing. So yeah, that pretty much makes him a god of hipsters too.
* [[Warriors of Chaos]] "Hero"/Chaos Tribe: A fellow named Kaleb Daark was Malal's first revealed servant, who swung around a pterodactyl head on a stick. The Ogre Skrag the Slaughterer fucked up dwarves in his name before pussing out to follow some shitty Ogre god. There's a small tribe of Beastmen named the Claws of Malal as well.
* Sacred Number - 11

== The Other Ones ==
Older editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40k mention several lesser Chaos gods. Nowadays, they only appear in WFB (and even then, only sparingly), with some (the Horned Rat and Hashut in particular) generally considered to be separate from the "main" Chaos pantheon.

=== Be'lakor ===
In [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]], Be'lakor was one of the earliest Chaos warlords, leading vast hordes of Daemons to ravage the world long before the Elves rose up against them. He impressed the Chaos Gods so much they turned him into a [[Daemon Prince]], the first time they ever did that to a mortal follower of Chaos Gods. He is still among the most powerful of all Daemon Princes and is able to grant his followers unique magic powers. But then he grew proud and considerd himself better than the Chaos Gods themselves, so Tzeentch cursed him for his arrogance. Tzeentch made him be the one to crown Everchosens of Chaos while never getting to become the Everchosen himself, which pisses him off to no end... With the latest Everchosen [[Archaon]]; Be'lakor was once again forced to crown the Everchosen of Chaos with the final artifact. Be'lakor took a big part of the [[Storm of Chaos]] campaign, but that has since been retconned. Although he still shows up from time to time, he no longer appears to be quite as powerful as he once was, although he is still a Daemon Prince of [[Chaos Undivided]], which is a massive accomplishment in and of itself.

During the End Times, Be'lakor was all set to return to his former glory and then some, plotting to become the fifth Chaos God by breaking into ''Kazad Drengazi'', the Fortress of the First Slayer (Grimnir, natch), a temple containing the Chaos Gate that Grimnir used to get to the Realm of Chaos in the first place. Be'lakor used the power of the Chaos Gate to break Tzeentch's curse, regain his physical form, and summon four greater daemons, one of each of the Chaos Gods, two daemons being ones that had their shit ruined by [[Gotrek_%26_Felix|Gotrek]] and [[Gotrek_%26_Felix|Felix]] once before. Be'lakor and his posse planned to backstab Grimnir from behind, at which point Be'lakor would take all of Grimnir's power and ascend to become the fifth Chaos God. But Gotrek and Felix show up and wreck Be'lakor and the Bloodthirster, while Grimnir kicks the asses of the Keeper of Secrets, Lord of Change, and Great Unclean One. It looks like Be'lakor and Gotrek's duel could go either way at first, then Gotrek ''hits Be'lakor with the Bloodthirster'' and kicks all their asses back to the Realm of Chaos, ruining Be'lakor's plans and forcing him to go get trapped in a magic ruby by [[The_End_Times#Host_of_the_Eternity_King_.28formerly_High_Elves.2C_Dark_Elves.2C_and_Wood_Elves.29|Alarielle]] for the rest of eternity. One true Everchosen my ass!

In [[Warhammer 40,000]], Be'lakor was the first Daemon Prince, as well as the first (and last) Daemon Prince created through the action of all four Chaos Gods ([[Derp|apparently]] [[Lorgar]] and [[Perturabo]] were special exceptions or something [though knowing Pert, I wouldn't be surprised if he was 75% Khornate or something]), and quickly proved to be difficult to control even at the best of times. Apparently his creation gave him the Daemonic equivalent of daddy issues and now he spends most of his time trying to kill all other Champions of Chaos, including other Daemon Princes. The Chaos Gods tolerate him mostly because his wild-card status makes him an excellent pawn in their power struggles- something Be'lakor himself is completely unaware of (as he thinks he still has free will and just wants to cement his position as Chaos' sole champion). Recently, he's shown up to "help" with [[Abaddon]]'s [[Black Crusade]]s by giving him [[Troll|seemingly helpful advice that often leads to unexpectedly heavy losses]], all in an attempt to undermine his credibility (well, more so than he does on his own). In a stunning display of insight, Abaddon saw through his ruse, but allowed him to remain within the Black Legion in order to keep tabs on him and better prepare for his inevitable betrayal. The Imperium isn't even aware that he exists, as Be'lakor has been very careful about concealing his presence from history (with the unwitting help of a Magos who learned just enough about him to know that he exists, but not enough to realize that he's a Daemon Prince). Playing in a band really doesn't help his concealment much though[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOiQOOrj-fY].

He's also been shown to be in contact with [[Ahriman]]- apparently being the oldest and strongest of the Daemon Princes wasn't good enough for him, and now he actively seeks to become a Chaos God himself. No word on whether Ahriman has accepted his offer of being made his greatest champion in exchange for his service, however, but seen as Ahzek rejects even Tzeench's own offerings to be HIS chosen champion, still thinks he's independent of any god (despite having Tzeench's mark on the tabletop) and actively trying to become the god himself, it's a good bet he told Be'lakor to go fuck himself with <s>a chainsword</s> someone else's forcesword.

=== Hashut ===

Hashut apparently means "Father of Darkness" in Dwarfen, which naturally means he's the god of the [[Chaos Dwarfs]]. And if his followers are any indication, he's also god of penis-compensating hats.

=== The Horned Rat ===

{{Main|Horned Rat}}

This otherwise-unnamed deity is patron of the [[Skaven]], and god of... well, rats. Also disease, mutations, etc., but mostly rats. The Horned Rat once appeared in material form; he's the only Chaos god to do so. Of course, in Skaven fashion, he just ate a ton of the Skaven present, gave some orders and left; the Skaven only serve him out of fear, even though their belief in him only makes him stronger. He left then with a warpstone monolith containing the Skaven equivalent of the Ten Commandments.

=== Mo'rcck, Phraz-Etar, and Ans'l ===

Puns on the last names of sci-fi and fantasy author Michael Moorcock (from whom the idea of [[Chaos]] as a fundamental force in the world was blatantly stolen/took inspiration from, and don't anyone ever say "borrow for a while" since even the author and Games Workshop have admitted it, artist Frank Frazetta (who drew a lot of movie and comic book posters, especially in sci-fi and fantasy), and Citadel Miniatures founder Bryan Ansell (who wrote several of the [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|First Edition]] rulebooks). These guys helped set the tone of the early [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe (purposefully or not), including the propensity of putting spikes on [[Chaos]] things. Games Workshop decided to pay homage in the (initial) Third Edition [[Codex]]: [[Chaos Space Marines]], which mentioned that Chaos Space Marines often put "spiky bits" on their armour in praise of these three gods. They were never mentioned anywhere else, and probably shouldn't be considered "cannonical"... not that canonicity counts for much in 40k anyway.

=== Necoho ===

[[File:Necoho_Revealed.png|500px|thumb|right|[[/tg/]] has recently deduced Necoho's true identity.]]

Necoho is the god of atheism and one of the other minor gods invented as a replacement for Malal. Stupid as it sounds, it actually works, as Chaos is a reflection of all human beliefs and emotions, including, paradoxically, disbelief. He generally works to make religious movements disappears and wears a permanent expression of comic amusement, as he fucking knows he's a walking, talking paradox.

Note that Necoho was introduced in an adventure for [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]] 1st Edition, so his current canonicity is doubtful, to say the least. That being said, he has been mentioned sporadically since then, such as the [[Gotrek & Felix]] novel ''Road of Skulls'', which is more than can be said for Zuvassin.

=== Urlf ===

Urlf isn't a name. It's the last fucking death cry a guy makes when you gut him. That should tell you all you need to know. Anyway, this guy used to be a Norscan (like most of the daemon princes on this list) and was elevated to princehood by Khorne for exceptional badassery. Before his ascension, he was a massive, tall, bearded, Clint Eastwood-type Chaos Champion and was a chieftain of the Snaegr clan of Aeslingr. He's so fucking powerful that he was able to create his own lesser daemons and can bless warriors with the Mark and mutations of Khorne. Urlf has his own summoning days like most powerful daemon princes, and is usually worshiped as a lesser deity of Chaos by those who serve his master, Khorne. He has a short story in the 7th edition Chaos army book, where he muses on the fuck-you nature of time in the Warp and remarks on how the new Chieftain of the Snaegr resembles one of the sons he fathered in his mortal life. He also blesses the new chief with Khorne's mark and turns him into a monstrous cross [[Awesome|between a Bloodletter and a Chaos Champion]].

=== Zuvassin ===

Zuvassin is one of the two minor gods invented as a replacement for Malal. He just likes to see shit fall apart, specifically nonphysical stuff like schemes and lives - in other words, he's the god of [[not as planned]]. He's the guy who makes all the bad shit happen in infomercials. Generally, he makes sure that Murphy's Law is always enforced in the most spectacular possible ways. He doesn't have many worshippers, as he makes sure to fuck up whatever they're planning too.

Note that Zuvassin was only introduced in an adventure for [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]] 1st Edition, so his current canonicity is doubtful, to say the least.

Actually, he is still canon, at least in Warhammer Fantasy. The 2nd Edition "Tome of Salvation" actually lists both him and Necoho as Chaos Gods.

===Nuffle===
{{Main|Nuffle}}
A joke Chaos God for [[Bloodbowl]], Nuffle is the pronunciation of NFL (as in "National Football League", the American gridiron football pro league in real life). Nuffle explains why the Blood Bowl universe is so wacky and gridiron football obsessed. Technically the superior to the rest of Chaos, although apparently only in the Blood Bowl universe.

== Fan-made gods ==

=== Box God ===

[[File:The Box God.jpg|400px|thumb|right|I AM THE BOX GOD! BEWARE!]]
This minor deity of Chaos is so unimportant that nobody knows its actual name. Its only known worshiper is [[Firaeveus Carron]], who would sacrifice the [[Metal Boxes]] of his enemies to this god after a battle.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUqeC2UU4oE The Box God's early years.]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHeL6OGE6k The Box God's middle years.]

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The Book of Weeaboo Fightan Magic

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Sometimes called ''Tome of Battle: Nine Euphemisms for My Dick'', '''''The Book of [[Weeaboo]] Fightan Magic''''' is the nickname given to ''The Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords'', one of the more famous (or infamous) ''[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]'' (3.5) [[splatbook]]s. It introduced three new classes, [[Crusader]] (baby's first [[paladin]], for the gamer who wanted to stab shit instead of playing support), [[Swordsage]] (which is probably the biggest source of the book's reputation), and [[Warblade]], (which is, essentially, the [[fighter]] only comically better in every way) and a wide variety of abilities referred to as Stances and Maneuvers, which basically function as spell-substitutes for martial characters. This was supposed to lessen the power gap between martial and magical characters, which had the unfortunate side-effect of rendering all existing fighting classes kind of irrelevant. Whether this is the fault of the authors or of [[CoDzilla|the system they were working in]] is debatable. Either way, gee, thanks [[Monte Cook]]!

Opinion is divided on the quality of the content of the book itself. Some believe the Stances and Maneuvers systems are interesting and worthy additions to the game, whereas others consider them to be bizarre and illogical, comparing them to some of the ridiculous techniques seen in Japanese [[anime]] and manga. This comparison is what resulted in the book being assigned its nickname, which has indeed become so pervasive that even many who ''like'' the content call it Weeaboo Fightan Magic.

Everyone agrees, however, that it makes [[munchkin]] [[wizard]]s extremely angry, and anything that makes those guys all [[butthurt]] can't be ''all'' bad.

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This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother.)

''Updated to add 2013 titles, etc.''

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes; 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards.
:Related games: Traveller, Battletech

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which was lost following an alchemical accident. There's a newer series titled "FMA: Brotherhood", with updated animation and a storyline that fits much closer to the original manga. Which version is better is [[Skub|up for debate]].
**'''''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''''': Take Iron Kingdoms, take magic out, ignore a good part of the tech but add [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|element-bending]], daddy issues and the more awesome parts of the Imperial Guard, and you get Brotherhood. It's impressive that there hasn't been made a RPG to this setting yet, as it's almost perfect for an Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange of knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. Widely considered the japanese Blade Runner, the original manga and the first too films have influenced basically all of the cyberpunk science fiction after them, up to and including western stuff like Matrix.[2 movies; tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes, season 2 - 26 episodes, 1 made-for-TV movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]] and [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''Robotech/Macross''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts.
:Related games:[[Battletech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists.
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one, then had a second season greenlit thanks to it's performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions.
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series.
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting.
:Related games: [[Battletech]], A Time of War

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even more bloody disregard for the lives of main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: 110 episodes; Prequel: 52 Episodes; 2 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made.
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing.
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan''''': The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made. Starts out with human rebels on stolen mech fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Fairly philosophical below the pumped up appearance though. Also Steve Blum voices a queer, no joke. [TV Series: 27 episodes; 2 movies, a dozen or so parallel works (short videos)]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''HunterxHunter''''': Two futa boys fighting dudes [TV Series: 148 episodes]
:Related games: [[FATE]], [[FATAL]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods.
:Related games: Playing a Monk/Sorcerer Gestalt in D&D 3e, [[Exalted]]

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor.
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer, and anything related with classic RPGs

==Gaming anime==
*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser waifu game, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are personified as [[loli]]s. Yes, seriously; it's in route of becoming something akin to [[Touhou]], given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with ''Girls und Panzer'' and ''Strike Witches'', you got the moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period.
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, [[Quest_thread|quests, quests, quests]].

*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games with himself. The English adaptation is subtitled, "Maser of Killing Time" for some weird reason. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images.
:Related Games: Board Games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the "trapped in an MMO" premise is by no means a new thing in anime (a recent and infamously bad example being ''Sword Art Online'') Log Horizon is unique in the way it explore how the people thrust into such a situation would adapt. Now with its own TRPG core book.
:Related games: Log Horizon, [[/v/|Everquest]], [[4e]]

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes; 5 and counting movies]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark.
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves!
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''Hellsing''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction, and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal Scottish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual Nazis (1,000+ Waffen-SS volunteers to create the Letzte Bataillon) who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created Nazi Vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Had a real shit 13 episode TV series back in 2001, but was given a glorious OVA in 2006. Took until fucking 2014 for all ''ten'' episodes to be released, however.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]]

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Chtulhu]] was in Ghost in the Shell? Starts out like as a fairly political investigation story set in a distopian city, evolves into one hell of a journey in the post-apocalyptic world outside filled with acid trips. Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a story.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED):''''' Some nerd has the power to go back in time but only when a blue butterfly feels like it, and he uses this to solve murders and stop life threatening events. It's a lot like Butterfly Effect if it wasn't absolute pretentious crap. Also involves a lot of kids dying.
:Related games: one of the GUMSHOE games but with supernatural stuff toned down

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]].
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only and if you want to watch it you can only watch The Egg of the King currently on Netflix (added bonus its dubbed in ''english'') as for the other 2 you have to get them off of amazon.

:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone give's it major points. Plot wise it's a bit standard as you can expect but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes; TV series: 27 episodes; TV parody series: 13 episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing.
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero coincidentally) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord. In retaliation the Demon Lord (named Demon Queen/Lord) diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': Several feudal cults fight each other in massive battles, spearheaded by OP hystorical figures with their own special attributes like six-wielding lighting shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star. Somehow includes a massive fucking cyborg titan.
:Related games: [[Exalted]],Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins, who win every game they play, are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders, where they have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast.. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating.
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]]

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's [[Dragonmech]]: The Anime...kinda.

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general.
:Related games:[[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome ...for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like.
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity|SAN]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Daily Life with Monstergirls''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so while there is no actual sex, don't go in expecting "good clean fun!"
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]], [[Maid RPG]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But Which You Thought Were==
*'''''[[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.
:Related games: /v/ stuff, shmups, [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]])

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French 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. Not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]]
:Related games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting, and apparently has its own RPG rules in France.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]

*'''''RWBY''''': Popular anime-esque CGI production made by Monty Oum (oh, and Roosterteeth too). A world filled with horrible 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 Huntsman, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off fairly [[noblebright]] at first, but the writers turned up the [[grimdark]] almost out of nowhere in the middle of the third season, [[not as planned|by simply putting in evidence what would actually happen if a bunch of teens had to face quasi real-life worldwide problems]]. Although not based on any RPG system, it has a number of really impressively animated fights, some engaging/endearing (if somewhat cliche) characters and storylines, and impossibly cool weapons. Also, someone is apparently [[RWBY RPG|making an RPG based on the setting]]; there's also that.

Approved Anime

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This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother.)

''Updated to add 2013 titles, etc.''

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes; 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards.
:Related games: Traveller, Battletech

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which was lost following an alchemical accident. There's a newer series titled "FMA: Brotherhood", with updated animation and a storyline that fits much closer to the original manga. Which version is better is [[Skub|up for debate]].
**'''''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''''': Take Iron Kingdoms, take magic out, ignore a good part of the tech but add [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|element-bending]], daddy issues and the more awesome parts of the Imperial Guard, and you get Brotherhood. It's impressive that there hasn't been made a RPG to this setting yet, as it's almost perfect for an Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange of knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. Widely considered the japanese Blade Runner, the original manga and the first too films have influenced basically all of the cyberpunk science fiction after them, up to and including western stuff like Matrix.[2 movies; tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes, season 2 - 26 episodes, 1 made-for-TV movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]] and [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''Robotech/Macross''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts.
:Related games:[[Battletech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists.
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one, then had a second season greenlit thanks to it's performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions.
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series.
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting.
:Related games: [[Battletech]], A Time of War

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even more bloody disregard for the lives of main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: 110 episodes; Prequel: 52 Episodes; 2 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made.
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing.
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan''''': The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made. Starts out with human rebels on stolen mech fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Fairly philosophical below the pumped up appearance though. Also Steve Blum voices a queer, no joke. [TV Series: 27 episodes; 2 movies, a dozen or so parallel works (short videos)]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''HunterxHunter''''': Two futa boys fighting dudes [TV Series: 148 episodes]
:Related games: [[FATE]], [[FATAL]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods.
:Related games: Playing a Monk/Sorcerer Gestalt in D&D 3e, [[Exalted]]

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor.
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer, and anything related with classic RPGs

==Gaming anime==
*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser waifu game, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are personified as [[loli]]s. Yes, seriously; it's in route of becoming something akin to [[Touhou]], given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with ''Girls und Panzer'' and ''Strike Witches'', you got the moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period.
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, [[Quest_thread|quests, quests, quests]].

*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games with himself. The English adaptation is subtitled, "Maser of Killing Time" for some weird reason. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images.
:Related Games: Board Games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the "trapped in an MMO" premise is by no means a new thing in anime (a recent and infamously bad example being ''Sword Art Online'') Log Horizon is unique in the way it explore how the people thrust into such a situation would adapt. Now with its own TRPG core book.
:Related games: Log Horizon, [[/v/|Everquest]], [[4e]]

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes; 5 and counting movies]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark.
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves!
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''Hellsing''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction, and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal Scottish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual Nazis (1,000+ Waffen-SS volunteers to create the Letzte Bataillon) who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created Nazi Vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Had a real shit 13 episode TV series back in 2001, but was given a glorious OVA in 2006. Took until fucking 2014 for all ''ten'' episodes to be released, however.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]]

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Chtulhu]] was in Ghost in the Shell? Starts out like as a fairly political investigation story set in a distopian city, evolves into one hell of a journey in the post-apocalyptic world outside filled with acid trips. Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a story.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED):''''' Some nerd has the power to go back in time but only when a blue butterfly feels like it, and he uses this to solve murders and stop life threatening events. It's a lot like Butterfly Effect if it wasn't absolute pretentious crap. Also involves a lot of kids dying.
:Related games: one of the GUMSHOE games but with supernatural stuff toned down

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]].
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only and if you want to watch it you can only watch The Egg of the King currently on Netflix (added bonus its dubbed in ''english'') as for the other 2 you have to get them off of amazon.

:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone give's it major points. Plot wise it's a bit standard as you can expect but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes; TV series: 27 episodes; TV parody series: 13 episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing.
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero coincidentally) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord. In retaliation the Demon Lord (named Demon Queen/Lord) diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': Several feudal cults fight each other in massive battles, spearheaded by OP hystorical figures with their own special attributes like six-wielding lighting shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star. Somehow includes a massive fucking cyborg titan.
:Related games: [[Exalted]],Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins, who win every game they play, are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders, where they have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast.. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating.
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]]

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's [[Dragonmech]]: The Anime...kinda.

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general.
:Related games:[[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome ...for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like.
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Daily Life with Monstergirls''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so while there is no actual sex, don't go in expecting "good clean fun!"
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]], [[Maid RPG]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But Which You Thought Were==
*'''''[[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.
:Related games: /v/ stuff, shmups, [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]])

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French 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. Not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]]
:Related games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting, and apparently has its own RPG rules in France.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]

*'''''RWBY''''': Popular anime-esque CGI production made by Monty Oum (oh, and Roosterteeth too). A world filled with horrible 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 Huntsman, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off fairly [[noblebright]] at first, but the writers turned up the [[grimdark]] almost out of nowhere in the middle of the third season, [[not as planned|by simply putting in evidence what would actually happen if a bunch of teens had to face quasi real-life worldwide problems]]. Although not based on any RPG system, it has a number of really impressively animated fights, some engaging/endearing (if somewhat cliche) characters and storylines, and impossibly cool weapons. Also, someone is apparently [[RWBY RPG|making an RPG based on the setting]]; there's also that.

Approved Anime

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[[Category:Weeaboo]] [[Category:Approved Media]]

This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother.)

''Updated to add 2013 titles, etc.''

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes; 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards.
:Related games: Traveller, Battletech

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which was lost following an alchemical accident. There's a newer series titled "FMA: Brotherhood", with updated animation and a storyline that fits much closer to the original manga. Which version is better is [[Skub|up for debate]].
**'''''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood''''': Take Iron Kingdoms, take magic out, ignore a good part of the tech but add [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|element-bending]], daddy issues and the more awesome parts of the Imperial Guard, and you get Brotherhood. It's impressive that there hasn't been made a RPG to this setting yet, as it's almost perfect for an Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange of knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. Widely considered the japanese Blade Runner, the original manga and the first too films have influenced basically all of the cyberpunk science fiction after them, up to and including western stuff like Matrix.[2 movies; tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes, season 2 - 26 episodes, 1 made-for-TV movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]] and [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''Robotech/Macross''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts.
:Related games:[[Battletech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists.
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one, then had a second season greenlit thanks to it's performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions.
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series.
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting.
:Related games: [[Battletech]], A Time of War

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even more bloody disregard for the lives of main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: 110 episodes; Prequel: 52 Episodes; 2 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made.
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing.
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan''''': The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made. Starts out with human rebels on stolen mech fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Fairly philosophical below the pumped up appearance though. Also Steve Blum voices a queer, no joke. [TV Series: 27 episodes; 2 movies, a dozen or so parallel works (short videos)]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''HunterxHunter''''': Two futa boys fighting dudes [TV Series: 148 episodes]
:Related games: [[FATE]], [[FATAL]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods.
:Related games: Playing a Monk/Sorcerer Gestalt in D&D 3e, [[Exalted]]

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor.
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer, and anything related with classic RPGs

==Gaming anime==
*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser waifu game, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are personified as [[loli]]s. Yes, seriously; it's in route of becoming something akin to [[Touhou]], given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with ''Girls und Panzer'' and ''Strike Witches'', you got the moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period.
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, [[Quest_thread|quests, quests, quests]].

*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games with himself. The English adaptation is subtitled, "Maser of Killing Time" for some weird reason. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images.
:Related Games: Board Games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the "trapped in an MMO" premise is by no means a new thing in anime (a recent and infamously bad example being ''Sword Art Online'') Log Horizon is unique in the way it portrays how the people thrust into such a situation would adapt. Now with its own TRPG core book.
:Related games: Log Horizon, [[/v/|Everquest]], [[4e]]

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes; 5 and counting movies]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark.
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves!
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''Hellsing''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction, and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal Scottish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual Nazis (1,000+ Waffen-SS volunteers to create the Letzte Bataillon) who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created Nazi Vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Had a real shit 13 episode TV series back in 2001, but was given a glorious OVA in 2006. Took until fucking 2014 for all ''ten'' episodes to be released, however.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]]

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Chtulhu]] was in Ghost in the Shell? Starts out like as a fairly political investigation story set in a distopian city, evolves into one hell of a journey in the post-apocalyptic world outside filled with acid trips. Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with a story.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Shadowrun]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED):''''' Some nerd has the power to go back in time but only when a blue butterfly feels like it, and he uses this to solve murders and stop life threatening events. It's a lot like Butterfly Effect if it wasn't absolute pretentious crap. Also involves a lot of kids dying.
:Related games: one of the GUMSHOE games but with supernatural stuff toned down

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]].
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only and if you want to watch it you can only watch The Egg of the King currently on Netflix (added bonus its dubbed in ''english'') as for the other 2 you have to get them off of amazon.

:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone give's it major points. Plot wise it's a bit standard as you can expect but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes; TV series: 27 episodes; TV parody series: 13 episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing.
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero coincidentally) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord. In retaliation the Demon Lord (named Demon Queen/Lord) diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': Several feudal cults fight each other in massive battles, spearheaded by OP hystorical figures with their own special attributes like six-wielding lighting shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star. Somehow includes a massive fucking cyborg titan.
:Related games: [[Exalted]],Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins, who win every game they play, are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders, where they have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast.. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating.
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]]

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's [[Dragonmech]]: The Anime...kinda.

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general.
:Related games:[[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome ...for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like.
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Daily Life with Monstergirls''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so while there is no actual sex, don't go in expecting "good clean fun!"
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]], [[Maid RPG]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But Which You Thought Were==
*'''''[[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.
:Related games: /v/ stuff, shmups, [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]])

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French 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. Not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]]
:Related games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting, and apparently has its own RPG rules in France.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]

*'''''RWBY''''': Popular anime-esque CGI production made by Monty Oum (oh, and Roosterteeth too). A world filled with horrible 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 Huntsman, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off fairly [[noblebright]] at first, but the writers turned up the [[grimdark]] almost out of nowhere in the middle of the third season, [[not as planned|by simply putting in evidence what would actually happen if a bunch of teens had to face quasi real-life worldwide problems]]. Although not based on any RPG system, it has a number of really impressively animated fights, some engaging/endearing (if somewhat cliche) characters and storylines, and impossibly cool weapons. Also, someone is apparently [[RWBY RPG|making an RPG based on the setting]]; there's also that.

Book of Erotic Fantasy

2016-04-14T01:17:45Z

107.4.44.221: /* Criticism */

[[File:BoEF.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The cover of the BoEF.]]
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The Book of Erotic Fantasy is an OGL-compliant [[splatbook]] that's compatible with the worlds [sic] best selling Role Playing Game. It deals with the topic of sex in the world of fantasy role-playing games, written with the adult player in mind, and deals with mature adult subjects and it is not meant for underage or immature players.

Contrary to what one might expect after reading another [[The Book of Weeaboo Fightan Magic|/tg/'s favorite splatbook]], Book of Erotic Fantasy does not deal with tentacle monsters, harems of underage girls, consequences of being drenched in questionable white substance or other common anime subjects. In fact, it is a (reasonably) mature and rather conservative book in many ways, to the point where a seasoned neckbeard is better off looking at the Book of Vile Darkness if they want to get off to something more exotic, like your PC dying by turning to formless goo due to unlucky roll on STDs, or getting violated with a unicorn horn to create a magical teleportation item.

Instead, the book explores how can sex tie into various aspects of fantasy worlds and then into your RPG, by introducing new rules, classes, skills, feats, items, NPCs and many other things. The problem is that while the rules and background treat the subject rather maturely, when you get to the [[crunch]] you get stuff like the Grope spell or the Cocksheath of Pleasure. At least it's not as bad as [[Nymphology]].

Book of Erotic Fantasy frequently references other sourcebooks, such as Player's Handbook and Core Rulebooks I-III. However, it [[Open Gaming License|never actually says]] what RPG system those books, or even the Book of Erotic Fantasy itself, belong to. This makes determining [[Dungeons & Dragons|what game is it supposed to apply to]] a rather difficult task.

==Contents==
[[File:Dmcdonte.jpg|200px|thumb|left|A chaotic evil PC.]]
<center>'''"Fuck you! Fuck you! No, fuck you all!"'''
- ''A typical Chaotic Evil character's approach to sex, according to Book of Erotic Fantasy''</center>

This book contains over 20 new feats, 3 new classes and 12 new prestige classes, 6 new domains, over 75 new spells, 6 new gods, 12 new monsters, many usable as player. It also introduces a number of new items, pieces of magical equipment and special abilities.

The new base classes are sex sorcerer, sex wizard and sex monk who can use magic. Yes, as per tradition, martial classes get fucked. The prestige classes are themed around some kinks, like BDSM or piercing, or allow you to play a sex-centered game as a celibate or castrato warrior. Among those prestige classes is a Sacred Prostitute, a class that can use sex to remove various adverse effects, restore ability scores, cure serious wounds and regain any spell slots that another PC has used, because we all know that spellcasters need any help they can get. On the other hand, the rake is not only a pretty cool idea but probably a better rogue ''than'' the rogue.

The book goes into surprising detail on various races' views on sex, as well as on the process of gestation and childbirth. Dwarves, for one example, are supposedly able to have sex for a full day, if not more. For that reason, males should probably avoid dwarf girls unless they have a few levels in Perform (Sexual Acts) and a Sexual Training feat.

Even more curious is the choice of races to feature. For example, dryads, walking barks of wood whose only goal in life is to protect the magical tree that gave birth to them, are described as passionate lovers, able to have sex with and get pregnant from almost anything, in something of a hold-over from their component mythology. (And not once are male adventurers looking to jack some lumber warned to use something like a spell of ''Stoneskin'', or at least to watch out for splinters!)

Compared to the amount of attention given to sex by fluff, crunch gets a much shorter end of the stick. Most of the rules deal with things like chances to get STDs, likelihood to get pregnant and other boner killers. And, while sex mechanics are there, they are still superficial. Intercourse between creatures of various sizes isn't given much detail. Those looking for simulation that's more detailed than ''"When creatures of different size categories attempt sexual interaction, each suffers a -4 penalty on all relevant checks (including Perform (Sexual Techniques) and Sustaining Sex) for each category of difference"'' would have to play [[FATAL]], or port its [[Anal circumference|circumference checks]] to their game as a [[House rules|houserule]]. Why you would ''want'' anything in '''FATAL''' to touch your game after those last few restraining orders is anyone's guess.

===Gameplay tips===
[[File:Interspecies_crossbreeding.jpg|500px|thumb|right|The reason non-perverts get this book: just to see if race X can breed with race Y.]]
Book of Erotic Fantasy introduces a new ability, Appearance (App). Appearance measures your character's looks, and is not related to Charisma in any way. What this means is that it essentially gives you another [[Dump Stat|dump stat]] for all your powergaming needs, if you really need to powergame in an ERP campaign, or if you manage to convince your DM to include this sourcebook in their adventure at the last second. Party faces and spies should note that this rulebook makes Disguise depend on your Appearance ability, while Bluff, Intimidate and Gather Information skills can vary between Appearance and Charisma, depending on the way those skills are used. In general, most players don't bother with it and consider Charisma to be quite enough on its own.

A new feat, Chaste Life, allows you to increase any one ability score by +2. You may take the feat multiple times, but each ability can only be increased once. All benefits are lost if you engage in a sexual act. However this only applies to consensual sex, and nonconsensual sex makes you immune to the negative effect. If your character were to lose it however you can restore the feat's ability bonus with ''Atonement'' spell. The effect that roleplaying a nonconsensual act has on this feat is unknown.

There are seven feats that grant a +2 bonus to one ability for the next 24 hours after 20 minutes of sex. Each of these feats can be taken up to three times, and provides a cumulative bonus of up to +6, although you must spend 20 minutes having sex for every +2 increment. And it has to be actual sex, so no jerking it for an hour. Also, theoretically, these feats stack with Chaste Life, if there is somebody to rape your character when needed.

===Sustaining Sex===
Sustaining sex requires a Constitution check. Sex between creatures of different sizes gets more challenging the bigger the difference between partners is. For example, a pixie (a 2.5 ft. small fey) and a mature storm giant (a 21 ft. huge giant) attempting to have sex will suffer a -12 penalty due to being 3 size categories apart. While barely a problem for the giant character due to racial bonus to Constitution, a pixie is likely to fail any checks with her average score of 11 Con. Some solutions to this predicament are:

*Focus on Constitution during character generation. It’s not necessary to put your highest roll there - a score of 14 or 15 points will already make you quite a trooper.
*The Endurance feat provides a +4 synergy bonus. (Which already makes it better than the "vanilla" Endurance feat by miles.)
*The Sexual Training feat offers a +2 Constitution bonus for the purpose of sustaining sex.
*As usual, spellcasters come to the rescue. An ''invigorate'' spell offers a +4 bonus to Constitution and grants you Endurance feat for its duration. However, while powerful enough, as per the 3.5 standard, to make entire other class builds mood, it is ''also'', in an unusual show of restraint, level 8 Druid magic, so it's best not to rely on its availability. It can be substituted with a wondrous item, a 6,000 gp acorn crafted by a dryad. Which still isn’t something to be relied upon, since, despite being massive sluts, dryads aren’t a listed playable race in the ''Book of Erotic Fantasy'', but one can argue they'll be trading the ''shit'' out of these things if the real world is any indicator. Remember that birth-control herb the Romans literally ate out of existence?
*Osquin Root, a pretty dangerous drug, increases your Con for the purpose of sustaining sex by 1d8 points. Eating it more than once per 24 hours can render you permanently sterile.
*Having 5 or more ranks in Perform (sexual techniques) provides a +2 synergy bonus.
*Your partner having 5 or more ranks in Perform (sexual techniques) provides a +2 synergy bonus as well. You can benefit from up to two partners with Perform (sexual techniques) in this way. So, if sex with one giant seems troublesome, try having another one join in! Three or more partners provide no additional benefit, but they don't get in the way as per rules, either, so might as well have as many as you can, since attempting to have sex more than once within 24 hours carries a further penalty to Con checks.

With some of the above bonuses and 18 Con, a pixie can pass the DC 10 check and enjoy successfully fucking two krakens (gargantuan creatures, -16 penalty) for 20 minutes, provided that they both have their sexual performance skill! (you can replace the kraken’s Diplomacy +7 with it, since, let's face it, a 100 ft. long squid is hardly the best ambassador, even with its 21 Int and 20 Cha). And if any or all of the participants took the a couple feats and/or are spell-casters with the right spells? ''That'' is when shit starts to get ''freak-ay''...

==Criticism==
One bit criticism thrown at this book is, obviously, lack of content. And we don't just mean the lack of weird Japanese porn stuff. The subject of rape is ignored completely, as stated by the authors in the book's introduction. There are no mechanics that add to your rape ERP experience (not really a bad thing - the world doesn't need a new FATAL; besides, you can just use Bluff, Intimidate, and grapple rules), and no classes that use sex as a martial weapon, even though it features plenty of sex mages, rogues and bards. Gangbanging is barely even mentioned, almost as if the authors (a man and a woman) expect campaigns that use this book to be played between two people of opposite genders looking to spice up their relationship (using dice and character sheets like fucking dorks), instead of the gathering of fat neckbeards that is your average [[RPG|tabletop RPG]] game.

On the one hand, good on them for trying assume we're not giggling thirteen-year-olds and treat us like mature adults. On the other hand, [[Pretend|we are totally giggling thirteen-year-olds]] and have you seen the average tabletop RPG group? Those looking for lulz should look elsewhere, and everyone else probably doesn't want the story to slow down while two characters make love.

Another visible flaw is the obvious caster supremacy. One would think that sex would be one thing where a Fighter or a Barbarian would finally be able to outdo a Wizard, but no. Wizards get spells that vary from increasing their own abilities, to making all the bitches swoon around them, to making Fighter's dick fall off while he's desperately looking to gain some pussy before his Appearance drops to the ground. It's not limited to performance in bed, either. All of the conventional birth control methods have a success rate of around 20% unless you decide to spend a coin. But even masterwork condoms (10 gp) only protect you 85% of times, and cumulative birth control success bonus cannot exceed 99%. For better protection, you must turn to alchemy (Birth Shield gives you 95% protection for 2 gp) or sorcery (100% protection with ''Block Seed'', a level 1 spell that any Cleric, Wizard or Bard can learn). This is one of the rare instances where a 3.PF author's hard-on for mages was completely literal and factual.

==Trivia==
* Apparently, gnomes are noted for creating pornography that is both extremely humorous and arousing in the same image. We always knew half of us were basement-dwelling gnomes, /tg/, but who knew it was quite so literal?
* The book states that all but the most chaotic and evil societies view child molestation and rape as reprehensible, inadvertently giving some modern day African societies Chaotic Evil alignment.
* Most of the racial write-ups got outdone with twice the coverage and half the word-count by a rival rulebook [http://carnal.orfinlir.de/9_races.php available for free over here].

==See Also==
*[[FATAL]]
*[[Magical realm]]

[[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]][[Category:Game Books]]

Not as planned

2016-04-06T01:00:30Z

107.4.44.221: /* Examples of not as planned */

[[Image:Angrymarines tzeentch.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Things are not always JUST AS PLANNED for [[Tzeentch]]. However, because Tzeentch is the grand schemer; a "Not as Planned" could have very well been just as planned for Tzeentch to be not as planned.]]

"'''Not as planned'''" is what you say when things are the exact opposite of being [[Just As Planned]].

The [[Imperium of Man|Imperium]] is a good example of Not as planned from the Emperor's point of view, who originally envisioned a secular empire based on logic and knowledge. See also the [[Fall of the Eldar]].

Expect to say it a lot if you worship [[Chaos Gods#Zuvassin|Zuvassin]] (who is the [[Chaos Gods|Chaos God]] of NOT AS PLANNED). Also, expect to say this if your unit is utterly outwitted by tactical geniu-
[[Creed|CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!]]

==Examples of not as planned==
* The outcome of the [[Great Crusade]].
* The [[Space Wolves]] surviving the Burning of [[Prospero]] due to [[Magnus the Red]] sitting out the fight ([[Tzeentch]] somehow didn't plan for that, so it "saved" the [[Thousand Sons]] as a reward).
* ''The Outcast Dead'' hints that the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]] learned something relevant to the duel with [[Horus]] that still manages to screw over the Chaos Gods after he is mortally wounded.
* The Imperium of Man in all its current [[Grimdark|unwholesome]] glory!
* The fall of the Eldar, perfect for lolz.
* [[Black Crusade]]s by a [[Abaddon|certain armless failure]]… (although canonically they actually were [[Just As Planned]]. Well, except maybe that one that tossed Abaddon right into the middle of a ton of [[ork]]s, but Abaddon still got something out of it).
* Loose [[C'tan]] shards (just roaming around the galaxy)
* Everything the [[Inquisition]] does to try and strengthen humanity (it all goes tits up, time after time).
* Playing [[Tau]] against [[Tyranids]] in cityfighting scenario.
* Playing [[Tyranids]] against [[Tau]] in anything BUT a cityfighting scenario.
* 7th Edition and all the non-[[Space Marines|Adeptus-Astartes]] codices for said edition (that said, the Daemonology powers are a nice addition, although trying to use them as a non-daemon or GK SUCKS BALLS).

==See also==
*[[Rocks fall, everyone dies]]
*[[Creed]]
*[[Tzeentch]]
[[Category:Meme]]

Book of Erotic Fantasy

2016-04-05T23:44:07Z

107.4.44.221: /* Criticism */

[[File:BoEF.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The cover of the BoEF.]]
{{Promotions}}
The Book of Erotic Fantasy is an OGL-compliant [[splatbook]] that's compatible with the worlds [sic] best selling Role Playing Game. It deals with the topic of sex in the world of fantasy role-playing games, written with the adult player in mind, and deals with mature adult subjects and it is not meant for underage or immature players.

Contrary to what one might expect after reading another [[The Book of Weeaboo Fightan Magic|/tg/'s favorite splatbook]], Book of Erotic Fantasy does not deal with tentacle monsters, harems of underage girls, consequences of being drenched in questionable white substance or other common anime subjects. In fact, it is a (reasonably) mature and rather conservative book in many ways, to the point where a seasoned neckbeard is better off looking at the Book of Vile Darkness if they want to get off to something more exotic, like your PC dying by turning to formless goo due to unlucky roll on STDs, or getting violated with a unicorn horn to create a magical teleportation item.

Instead, the book explores how can sex tie into various aspects of fantasy worlds and then into your RPG, by introducing new rules, classes, skills, feats, items, NPCs and many other things. The problem is that while the rules and background treat the subject rather maturely, when you get to the [[crunch]] you get stuff like the Grope spell or the Cocksheath of Pleasure. At least it's not as bad as [[Nymphology]].

Book of Erotic Fantasy frequently references other sourcebooks, such as Player's Handbook and Core Rulebooks I-III. However, it [[Open Gaming License|never actually says]] what RPG system those books, or even the Book of Erotic Fantasy itself, belong to. This makes determining [[Dungeons & Dragons|what game is it supposed to apply to]] a rather difficult task.

==Contents==
[[File:Dmcdonte.jpg|200px|thumb|left|A chaotic evil PC.]]
<center>'''"Fuck you! Fuck you! No, fuck you all!"'''
- ''A typical Chaotic Evil character's approach to sex, according to Book of Erotic Fantasy''</center>

This book contains over 20 new feats, 3 new classes and 12 new prestige classes, 6 new domains, over 75 new spells, 6 new gods, 12 new monsters, many usable as player. It also introduces a number of new items, pieces of magical equipment and special abilities.

The new base classes are sex sorcerer, sex wizard and sex monk who can use magic. Yes, as per tradition, martial classes get fucked. The prestige classes are themed around some kinks, like BDSM or piercing, or allow you to play a sex-centered game as a celibate or castrato warrior. Among those prestige classes is a Sacred Prostitute, a class that can use sex to remove various adverse effects, restore ability scores, cure serious wounds and regain any spell slots that another PC has used, because we all know that spellcasters need any help they can get. On the other hand, the rake is not only a pretty cool idea but probably a better rogue ''than'' the rogue.

The book goes into surprising detail on various races' views on sex, as well as on the process of gestation and childbirth. Dwarves, for one example, are supposedly able to have sex for a full day, if not more. For that reason, males should probably avoid dwarf girls unless they have a few levels in Perform (Sexual Acts) and a Sexual Training feat.

Even more curious is the choice of races to feature. For example, dryads, walking barks of wood whose only goal in life is to protect the magical tree that gave birth to them, are described as passionate lovers, able to have sex with and get pregnant from almost anything, in something of a hold-over from their component mythology. (And not once are male adventurers looking to jack some lumber warned to use something like a spell of ''Stoneskin'', or at least to watch out for splinters!)

Compared to the amount of attention given to sex by fluff, crunch gets a much shorter end of the stick. Most of the rules deal with things like chances to get STDs, likelihood to get pregnant and other boner killers. And, while sex mechanics are there, they are still superficial. Intercourse between creatures of various sizes isn't given much detail. Those looking for simulation that's more detailed than ''"When creatures of different size categories attempt sexual interaction, each suffers a -4 penalty on all relevant checks (including Perform (Sexual Techniques) and Sustaining Sex) for each category of difference"'' would have to play [[FATAL]], or port its [[Anal circumference|circumference checks]] to their game as a [[House rules|houserule]]. Why you would ''want'' anything in '''FATAL''' to touch your game after those last few restraining orders is anyone's guess.

===Gameplay tips===
[[File:Interspecies_crossbreeding.jpg|500px|thumb|right|The reason non-perverts get this book: just to see if race X can breed with race Y.]]
Book of Erotic Fantasy introduces a new ability, Appearance (App). Appearance measures your character's looks, and is not related to Charisma in any way. What this means is that it essentially gives you another [[Dump Stat|dump stat]] for all your powergaming needs, if you really need to powergame in an ERP campaign, or if you manage to convince your DM to include this sourcebook in their adventure at the last second. Party faces and spies should note that this rulebook makes Disguise depend on your Appearance ability, while Bluff, Intimidate and Gather Information skills can vary between Appearance and Charisma, depending on the way those skills are used. In general, most players don't bother with it and consider Charisma to be quite enough on its own.

A new feat, Chaste Life, allows you to increase any one ability score by +2. You may take the feat multiple times, but each ability can only be increased once. All benefits are lost if you engage in a sexual act. However this only applies to consensual sex, and nonconsensual sex makes you immune to the negative effect. If your character were to lose it however you can restore the feat's ability bonus with ''Atonement'' spell. The effect that roleplaying a nonconsensual act has on this feat is unknown.

There are seven feats that grant a +2 bonus to one ability for the next 24 hours after 20 minutes of sex. Each of these feats can be taken up to three times, and provides a cumulative bonus of up to +6, although you must spend 20 minutes having sex for every +2 increment. And it has to be actual sex, so no jerking it for an hour. Also, theoretically, these feats stack with Chaste Life, if there is somebody to rape your character when needed.

===Sustaining Sex===
Sustaining sex requires a Constitution check. Sex between creatures of different sizes gets more challenging the bigger the difference between partners is. For example, a pixie (a 2.5 ft. small fey) and a mature storm giant (a 21 ft. huge giant) attempting to have sex will suffer a -12 penalty due to being 3 size categories apart. While barely a problem for the giant character due to racial bonus to Constitution, a pixie is likely to fail any checks with her average score of 11 Con. Some solutions to this predicament are:

*Focus on Constitution during character generation. It’s not necessary to put your highest roll there - a score of 14 or 15 points will already make you quite a trooper.
*The Endurance feat provides a +4 synergy bonus. (Which already makes it better than the "vanilla" Endurance feat by miles.)
*The Sexual Training feat offers a +2 Constitution bonus for the purpose of sustaining sex.
*As usual, spellcasters come to the rescue. An ''invigorate'' spell offers a +4 bonus to Constitution and grants you Endurance feat for its duration. However, while powerful enough, as per the 3.5 standard, to make entire other class builds mood, it is ''also'', in an unusual show of restraint, level 8 Druid magic, so it's best not to rely on its availability. It can be substituted with a wondrous item, a 6,000 gp acorn crafted by a dryad. Which still isn’t something to be relied upon, since, despite being massive sluts, dryads aren’t a listed playable race in the ''Book of Erotic Fantasy'', but one can argue they'll be trading the ''shit'' out of these things if the real world is any indicator. Remember that birth-control herb the Romans literally ate out of existence?
*Osquin Root, a pretty dangerous drug, increases your Con for the purpose of sustaining sex by 1d8 points. Eating it more than once per 24 hours can render you permanently sterile.
*Having 5 or more ranks in Perform (sexual techniques) provides a +2 synergy bonus.
*Your partner having 5 or more ranks in Perform (sexual techniques) provides a +2 synergy bonus as well. You can benefit from up to two partners with Perform (sexual techniques) in this way. So, if sex with one giant seems troublesome, try having another one join in! Three or more partners provide no additional benefit, but they don't get in the way as per rules, either, so might as well have as many as you can, since attempting to have sex more than once within 24 hours carries a further penalty to Con checks.

With some of the above bonuses and 18 Con, a pixie can pass the DC 10 check and enjoy successfully fucking two krakens (gargantuan creatures, -16 penalty) for 20 minutes, provided that they both have their sexual performance skill! (you can replace the kraken’s Diplomacy +7 with it, since, let's face it, a 100 ft. long squid is hardly the best ambassador, even with its 21 Int and 20 Cha). And if any or all of the participants took the a couple feats and/or are spell-casters with the right spells? ''That'' is when shit starts to get ''freak-ay''...

==Criticism==
One bit criticism thrown at this book is, obviously, lack of content. And we don't just mean the lack of weird Japanese porn stuff. The subject of rape is ignored completely, as stated by the authors in the book's introduction. There are no mechanics that add to your rape ERP experience (not really a bad thing - the world doesn't need a new FATAL; besides, you can just use Bluff, Intimidate, and grapple rules), and no classes that use sex as a martial weapon, even though it features plenty of sex mages, rogues and bards. Gangbanging is barely even mentioned, almost as if the authors (a man and a woman) expect campaigns that use this book to be played by just two people of the opposite genders looking to spice up their relationship, instead of a gathering of fat neckbeards that is your average [[RPG|tabletop RPG]] game.

On the one hand, good on them for trying assume we're not giggling thirteen-year-olds and treat us like mature adults. On the other hand, [[Pretend|we are totally giggling thirteen-year-olds]] and have you seen the average tabletop RPG group? Those looking for lulz should look elsewhere, and everyone else probably doesn't want the story to slow down while two characters make love.

Another visible flaw is the obvious caster supremacy. One would think that sex would be one thing where a Fighter or a Barbarian would finally be able to outdo a Wizard, but no. Wizards get spells that vary from increasing their own abilities, to making all the bitches swoon around them, to making Fighter's dick fall off while he's desperately looking to gain some pussy before his Appearance drops to the ground. It's not limited to performance in bed, either. All of the conventional birth control methods have a success rate of around 20% unless you decide to spend a coin. But even masterwork condoms (10 gp) only protect you 85% of times, and cumulative birth control success bonus cannot exceed 99%. For better protection, you must turn to alchemy (Birth Shield gives you 95% protection for 2 gp) or sorcery (100% protection with ''Block Seed'', a level 1 spell that any Cleric, Wizard or Bard can learn). This is one of the rare instances where a 3.PF author's hard-on for mages was completely literal and factual.

==Trivia==
* Apparently, gnomes are noted for creating pornography that is both extremely humorous and arousing in the same image. We always knew half of us were basement-dwelling gnomes, /tg/, but who knew it was quite so literal?
* The book states that all but the most chaotic and evil societies view child molestation and rape as reprehensible, inadvertently giving some modern day African societies Chaotic Evil alignment.
* Most of the racial write-ups got outdone with twice the coverage and half the word-count by a rival rulebook [http://carnal.orfinlir.de/9_races.php available for free over here].

==See Also==
*[[FATAL]]
*[[Magical realm]]

[[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]][[Category:Game Books]]

Book of Erotic Fantasy

2016-04-05T23:41:42Z

107.4.44.221: /* Trivia */ /pol/ pls go thx; alignments don't work IRL

[[File:BoEF.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The cover of the BoEF.]]
{{Promotions}}
The Book of Erotic Fantasy is an OGL-compliant [[splatbook]] that's compatible with the worlds [sic] best selling Role Playing Game. It deals with the topic of sex in the world of fantasy role-playing games, written with the adult player in mind, and deals with mature adult subjects and it is not meant for underage or immature players.

Contrary to what one might expect after reading another [[The Book of Weeaboo Fightan Magic|/tg/'s favorite splatbook]], Book of Erotic Fantasy does not deal with tentacle monsters, harems of underage girls, consequences of being drenched in questionable white substance or other common anime subjects. In fact, it is a (reasonably) mature and rather conservative book in many ways, to the point where a seasoned neckbeard is better off looking at the Book of Vile Darkness if they want to get off to something more exotic, like your PC dying by turning to formless goo due to unlucky roll on STDs, or getting violated with a unicorn horn to create a magical teleportation item.

Instead, the book explores how can sex tie into various aspects of fantasy worlds and then into your RPG, by introducing new rules, classes, skills, feats, items, NPCs and many other things. The problem is that while the rules and background treat the subject rather maturely, when you get to the [[crunch]] you get stuff like the Grope spell or the Cocksheath of Pleasure. At least it's not as bad as [[Nymphology]].

Book of Erotic Fantasy frequently references other sourcebooks, such as Player's Handbook and Core Rulebooks I-III. However, it [[Open Gaming License|never actually says]] what RPG system those books, or even the Book of Erotic Fantasy itself, belong to. This makes determining [[Dungeons & Dragons|what game is it supposed to apply to]] a rather difficult task.

==Contents==
[[File:Dmcdonte.jpg|200px|thumb|left|A chaotic evil PC.]]
<center>'''"Fuck you! Fuck you! No, fuck you all!"'''
- ''A typical Chaotic Evil character's approach to sex, according to Book of Erotic Fantasy''</center>

This book contains over 20 new feats, 3 new classes and 12 new prestige classes, 6 new domains, over 75 new spells, 6 new gods, 12 new monsters, many usable as player. It also introduces a number of new items, pieces of magical equipment and special abilities.

The new base classes are sex sorcerer, sex wizard and sex monk who can use magic. Yes, as per tradition, martial classes get fucked. The prestige classes are themed around some kinks, like BDSM or piercing, or allow you to play a sex-centered game as a celibate or castrato warrior. Among those prestige classes is a Sacred Prostitute, a class that can use sex to remove various adverse effects, restore ability scores, cure serious wounds and regain any spell slots that another PC has used, because we all know that spellcasters need any help they can get. On the other hand, the rake is not only a pretty cool idea but probably a better rogue ''than'' the rogue.

The book goes into surprising detail on various races' views on sex, as well as on the process of gestation and childbirth. Dwarves, for one example, are supposedly able to have sex for a full day, if not more. For that reason, males should probably avoid dwarf girls unless they have a few levels in Perform (Sexual Acts) and a Sexual Training feat.

Even more curious is the choice of races to feature. For example, dryads, walking barks of wood whose only goal in life is to protect the magical tree that gave birth to them, are described as passionate lovers, able to have sex with and get pregnant from almost anything, in something of a hold-over from their component mythology. (And not once are male adventurers looking to jack some lumber warned to use something like a spell of ''Stoneskin'', or at least to watch out for splinters!)

Compared to the amount of attention given to sex by fluff, crunch gets a much shorter end of the stick. Most of the rules deal with things like chances to get STDs, likelihood to get pregnant and other boner killers. And, while sex mechanics are there, they are still superficial. Intercourse between creatures of various sizes isn't given much detail. Those looking for simulation that's more detailed than ''"When creatures of different size categories attempt sexual interaction, each suffers a -4 penalty on all relevant checks (including Perform (Sexual Techniques) and Sustaining Sex) for each category of difference"'' would have to play [[FATAL]], or port its [[Anal circumference|circumference checks]] to their game as a [[House rules|houserule]]. Why you would ''want'' anything in '''FATAL''' to touch your game after those last few restraining orders is anyone's guess.

===Gameplay tips===
[[File:Interspecies_crossbreeding.jpg|500px|thumb|right|The reason non-perverts get this book: just to see if race X can breed with race Y.]]
Book of Erotic Fantasy introduces a new ability, Appearance (App). Appearance measures your character's looks, and is not related to Charisma in any way. What this means is that it essentially gives you another [[Dump Stat|dump stat]] for all your powergaming needs, if you really need to powergame in an ERP campaign, or if you manage to convince your DM to include this sourcebook in their adventure at the last second. Party faces and spies should note that this rulebook makes Disguise depend on your Appearance ability, while Bluff, Intimidate and Gather Information skills can vary between Appearance and Charisma, depending on the way those skills are used. In general, most players don't bother with it and consider Charisma to be quite enough on its own.

A new feat, Chaste Life, allows you to increase any one ability score by +2. You may take the feat multiple times, but each ability can only be increased once. All benefits are lost if you engage in a sexual act. However this only applies to consensual sex, and nonconsensual sex makes you immune to the negative effect. If your character were to lose it however you can restore the feat's ability bonus with ''Atonement'' spell. The effect that roleplaying a nonconsensual act has on this feat is unknown.

There are seven feats that grant a +2 bonus to one ability for the next 24 hours after 20 minutes of sex. Each of these feats can be taken up to three times, and provides a cumulative bonus of up to +6, although you must spend 20 minutes having sex for every +2 increment. And it has to be actual sex, so no jerking it for an hour. Also, theoretically, these feats stack with Chaste Life, if there is somebody to rape your character when needed.

===Sustaining Sex===
Sustaining sex requires a Constitution check. Sex between creatures of different sizes gets more challenging the bigger the difference between partners is. For example, a pixie (a 2.5 ft. small fey) and a mature storm giant (a 21 ft. huge giant) attempting to have sex will suffer a -12 penalty due to being 3 size categories apart. While barely a problem for the giant character due to racial bonus to Constitution, a pixie is likely to fail any checks with her average score of 11 Con. Some solutions to this predicament are:

*Focus on Constitution during character generation. It’s not necessary to put your highest roll there - a score of 14 or 15 points will already make you quite a trooper.
*The Endurance feat provides a +4 synergy bonus. (Which already makes it better than the "vanilla" Endurance feat by miles.)
*The Sexual Training feat offers a +2 Constitution bonus for the purpose of sustaining sex.
*As usual, spellcasters come to the rescue. An ''invigorate'' spell offers a +4 bonus to Constitution and grants you Endurance feat for its duration. However, while powerful enough, as per the 3.5 standard, to make entire other class builds mood, it is ''also'', in an unusual show of restraint, level 8 Druid magic, so it's best not to rely on its availability. It can be substituted with a wondrous item, a 6,000 gp acorn crafted by a dryad. Which still isn’t something to be relied upon, since, despite being massive sluts, dryads aren’t a listed playable race in the ''Book of Erotic Fantasy'', but one can argue they'll be trading the ''shit'' out of these things if the real world is any indicator. Remember that birth-control herb the Romans literally ate out of existence?
*Osquin Root, a pretty dangerous drug, increases your Con for the purpose of sustaining sex by 1d8 points. Eating it more than once per 24 hours can render you permanently sterile.
*Having 5 or more ranks in Perform (sexual techniques) provides a +2 synergy bonus.
*Your partner having 5 or more ranks in Perform (sexual techniques) provides a +2 synergy bonus as well. You can benefit from up to two partners with Perform (sexual techniques) in this way. So, if sex with one giant seems troublesome, try having another one join in! Three or more partners provide no additional benefit, but they don't get in the way as per rules, either, so might as well have as many as you can, since attempting to have sex more than once within 24 hours carries a further penalty to Con checks.

With some of the above bonuses and 18 Con, a pixie can pass the DC 10 check and enjoy successfully fucking two krakens (gargantuan creatures, -16 penalty) for 20 minutes, provided that they both have their sexual performance skill! (you can replace the kraken’s Diplomacy +7 with it, since, let's face it, a 100 ft. long squid is hardly the best ambassador, even with its 21 Int and 20 Cha). And if any or all of the participants took the a couple feats and/or are spell-casters with the right spells? ''That'' is when shit starts to get ''freak-ay''...

==Criticism==
One bit criticism thrown at this book is, obviously, lack of content. And we don't just mean the lack of weird Japanese porn stuff. The subject of rape is ignored completely, as stated by the authors in the book's introduction. There are no mechanics that add to your rape ERP experience (not really a bad thing - the world doesn't need a new FATAL; besides, you can just use Bluff, Intimidate, and grapple rules), and no classes that use sex as a martial weapon, even though it features plenty of sex mages, rogues and bards. Gangbanging is barely even mentioned, almost as if the authors (a man and a woman) expect campaigns that use this book to be played by just two people of the opposite genders looking to spice up their relationship, instead of a gathering of fat neckbeards that is your average [[RPG|tabletop RPG]] game.

On the one hand, good on them for trying assume we're not giggling thirteen-year-olds and treat us like mature adults. On the other hand, [[Pretend|we are totally giggling thirteen-year-olds]] and have you seen the average tabletop RPG group? Those looking for lulz should look elsewhere, and everyone else probably doesn't want the story to slow down while two characters make love.

Another visible flaw is the obvious spellcaster bias. One would think that sex would be one thing where a Fighter or a Barbarian would finally be able to outdo a Wizard, but no. Wizards get spells that vary from increasing their own abilities, to making all the bitches swoon around them, to making Fighter's dick fall off while he's desperately looking to gain some pussy before his Appearance drops to the ground. It's not limited to performance in bed, either. All of the conventional birth control methods have a success rate of around 20% unless you decide to spend a coin. But even masterwork condoms (10 gp) only protect you 85% of times, and cumulative birth control success bonus cannot exceed 99%. For better protection, you must turn to alchemy (Birth Shield gives you 95% protection for 2 gp) or sorcery (100% protection with ''Block Seed'', a level 1 spell that any Cleric, Wizard or Bard can learn). This is one of the rare instances where a 3.5 author's hard-on for mages was completely literal and factual.

==Trivia==
* Apparently, gnomes are noted for creating pornography that is both extremely humorous and arousing in the same image. We always knew half of us were basement-dwelling gnomes, /tg/, but who knew it was quite so literal?
* The book states that all but the most chaotic and evil societies view child molestation and rape as reprehensible, inadvertently giving some modern day African societies Chaotic Evil alignment.
* Most of the racial write-ups got outdone with twice the coverage and half the word-count by a rival rulebook [http://carnal.orfinlir.de/9_races.php available for free over here].

==See Also==
*[[FATAL]]
*[[Magical realm]]

[[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]][[Category:Game Books]]

Roguelike

2016-04-04T23:03:11Z

107.4.44.221: /* Typical definitions for Roguelikes */

{{/vg/}}
{{Oldschool}}

A name used to describe random dungeon type video game [[RPG]]s, often using ASCII-like graphics. The name was coined from the eponymous 1980 computer game ''Rogue''. [[Neckbeard]]s have an inveterate fondness for these, and they are one of the few [[/v/|vidjyas]] one can mention on [[/tg/]] without generating apocalyptic nerd [[rage]].
== Typical definitions for Roguelikes ==
[[File:rogue.jpg|200px|thumb|Right| Rogue! Its the epic tale of some guy who needs to find some amulet. Why? Because ''fuck you''.]]
Roguelikes generally have minimalistic graphics, most often just using ASCII and colors to represent everything with a surprising amount of detail once you get used to it. Although the games differ greatly in scope and approach they generally have a few things in common. Levels and items are procedurally generated, usually starting unidentified so the player is forced to expend valuable resources IDing them or risk drinking poison like a retard. Combat is turn based, tactical and brutal. Death is swift and irrevocable, and just to add insult to injury the game usually deletes your save file for good measure.

==Notable Roguelikes==
*[http://www.hexatron.com/rogue/ Rogue]
:The great granpappy of all Roguelikes. Looks like chewed over ass and plays about as well but you'd better have some motherfucking respect, this thing basically created the modern gaming industry.

*[http://www.nethack.org Nethack]
:Arguably the most balanced traditional roguelike. Doesn't take itself too seriously. It's known for creating a subgenre called "hacklikes", which put a greater focus on resource management, improvisation, secret knowledge and [[Just As Planned|spectacular, brilliantly bullshit zany schemes]].

*[[Dungeon Crawl]]
:Severely fun roguelike, occasionally quite imbalanced, with an insane set of classes, races, and gods. Also has one of the most diverse dungeon environments. Stone Soup version has a kickass tileset, an improved mouse-optional interface, more classes, more races, more gods, and more of generally everything. /tg/'s preferred roguelike. Sadly, in recent years it has been on the decline, gutting itself with each successive update.

*[http://doom.chaosforge.org/ Doom RL]
:It's Doom, as a Roguelike. /tg/'s current second favorite behind Stone Soup. Wickedly difficult, prepare to have your anus [[rip and tear|ripped and torn]].

*[http://www.adom.de Ancient Domains of Mystery]
:A German roguelike set in a large mountain chain with many dark caverns where the forces of law and chaos do battle for the fate of the universe. [[3e|A gazillion different skills to upgrade and feats to take.]] The biggest flaw of the game is that many elements are not randomized, requiring you to trudge through them over and over every time you die.

*[http://lkbm.ecritters.biz/cotw/ Castle of the Winds]
:Old-skool roguelike made in the glory days of Windows 3.1 shareware. Has a tileset.

*[http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/ Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King]
:In the words of the author "Incursion is a traditional roguelike", and it is very influenced by D&D. You have to descend through multiple floors of caverns to reach the Goblin King and slay him. Plans include an outside world but that's for future releases.

*[http://te4.org/ Tales of Maj’Eyal]
:A solid, graphical roguelike (with a side option for ASCII players), with relatively deep lore and a heavy "quest" focus (in other words, multiple dungeons and a few puzzles). [[4e|A heavily tactical focus, with lots of class skills limited by cooldowns]]. Available in a free version, and a purchasable Steam version; the latter is only required if you want to play the expansions. (Two so far: A mini-expansion that brings a lot more Demons, and some demon-related classes, and a full new campaign about attacking what you achieved in the original campaign.)

=== Realtime Roguelikes ===

If it's not turn based, and it's not more of a strategy game (see below), it goes here.

*[http://redrogue.net/ Red Rogue]
:Action roguelike written in Flash, intended as a sequel to the original Rogue. The flash file is small and you can save it locally to play without a net connection. Open-source, and dude writes articles about his design decisions.

*[http://www.ftlgame.com/ FTL: Faster Than Light]
:Babby's first roguelite. Currently popular due to regularly being on special offer on Steam, this multiple award winning game describes itself as "a real time Roguelike-like IN SPESS". A good way to ease into the genre.

*The Binding Of Isaac
:A roguelite shooter by Edmund McMillend, avalaible on Steam. What it lacks in fantasy (or sci-fi) ambientation, it more than makes up for it in sheer WTFery.

*[http://www.failbettergames.com/sunless/ Sunless Sea]
:Maritime roguelite available on Steam. Should appeal to fans of the works of [[H.P. Lovecraft]].

=== "Roguelites" ===

Roguelikes that the player playing more than one "character" (a single ship is allowed to count as a "character" here), or are fundamentally strategy games rather than RPGs (but are still procedural death labyrinths) go here.

*[[Dwarf Fortress]]
:If you don't know what this is how did you even get here? Its got motherfucking dwarves, mining, goblin sieges, every other goddamn thing you could imagine, and a bunch you couldn't. Not strictly speaking a roguelike as much as a strategy sim but we can't stay mad at it.

*[http://www.darkestdungeon.com/ Darkest Dungeon]:
:What would happen to the people who went into a dungeon, fought monsters and (if they were lucky) came back? The answer: bad things. A solid game with an incredible visual design and audio, you have to manage a platoon of "heroes" by sending them into dungeons, where they can become sickened, scared physically and mentally in order to get loot to build you estate up. In it's own way it's more grimdark then 40k is.

*[http://en.cataclysmdda.com/ CATACLYSM: Dark Days Ahead]
:Cataclysm DDA is what happens when you take people from the Bay forums with a sizable knowlege of C++, and have them create a Sci-fi equivalent of Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode. This game starts you off at Day-0 of '''every apocalypse imaginable''' happening at the same time. It's key features include a ''Crafting system with literally thousands of unique items'', a highly robust combat system reminiscent of Dwarf Fortress, and a vehicle creation system so robust, you can make a Life-sized LAND RAIDER in it. Don't believe me about the land raider? Here it is: [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Ss%2B(2015-06-19%2Bat%2B06.54.17).png]]

:Oh, and tilesets are available, with a menu-option to enable or disable the graphics if you still prefer the feel of ASCII

[[Category: Video Games]]
[[Category:Software]]

Roguelike

2016-04-04T23:00:15Z

107.4.44.221: /* Notable Roguelikes */

{{/vg/}}
{{Oldschool}}

A name used to describe random dungeon type video game [[RPG]]s, often using ASCII-like graphics. The name was coined from the eponymous 1980 computer game ''Rogue''. [[Neckbeard]]s have an inveterate fondness for these, and they are one of the few [[/v/|vidjyas]] one can mention on [[/tg/]] without generating apocalyptic nerd [[rage]].
== Typical definitions for Roguelikes ==
[[File:rogue.jpg|200px|thumb|Right| Rogue! Its the epic tale of some guy who needs to find some amulet. Why? Because ''fuck you''.]]
Roguelikes generally have minimalistic graphics, most often just using ASCII and colors to represent everything with a surprising amount of detail once you get used to it. Although the games differ greatly in scope and approach they generally have a few things in common. Levels and items are procedurally generated, usually starting unidentified so the player is forced to expend valuable resources IDing them or risk drinking poison like a retard. Combat is turn based, fast paced and brutal. Death is swift and irrevocable, and just to add insult to injury the game usually deletes your save file for good measure.

==Notable Roguelikes==
*[http://www.hexatron.com/rogue/ Rogue]
:The great granpappy of all Roguelikes. Looks like chewed over ass and plays about as well but you'd better have some motherfucking respect, this thing basically created the modern gaming industry.

*[http://www.nethack.org Nethack]
:Arguably the most balanced traditional roguelike. Doesn't take itself too seriously. It's known for creating a subgenre called "hacklikes", which put a greater focus on resource management, improvisation, secret knowledge and [[Just As Planned|spectacular, brilliantly bullshit zany schemes]].

*[[Dungeon Crawl]]
:Severely fun roguelike, occasionally quite imbalanced, with an insane set of classes, races, and gods. Also has one of the most diverse dungeon environments. Stone Soup version has a kickass tileset, an improved mouse-optional interface, more classes, more races, more gods, and more of generally everything. /tg/'s preferred roguelike. Sadly, in recent years it has been on the decline, gutting itself with each successive update.

*[http://doom.chaosforge.org/ Doom RL]
:It's Doom, as a Roguelike. /tg/'s current second favorite behind Stone Soup. Wickedly difficult, prepare to have your anus [[rip and tear|ripped and torn]].

*[http://www.adom.de Ancient Domains of Mystery]
:A German roguelike set in a large mountain chain with many dark caverns where the forces of law and chaos do battle for the fate of the universe. [[3e|A gazillion different skills to upgrade and feats to take.]] The biggest flaw of the game is that many elements are not randomized, requiring you to trudge through them over and over every time you die.

*[http://lkbm.ecritters.biz/cotw/ Castle of the Winds]
:Old-skool roguelike made in the glory days of Windows 3.1 shareware. Has a tileset.

*[http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/ Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King]
:In the words of the author "Incursion is a traditional roguelike", and it is very influenced by D&D. You have to descend through multiple floors of caverns to reach the Goblin King and slay him. Plans include an outside world but that's for future releases.

*[http://te4.org/ Tales of Maj’Eyal]
:A solid, graphical roguelike (with a side option for ASCII players), with relatively deep lore and a heavy "quest" focus (in other words, multiple dungeons and a few puzzles). [[4e|A heavily tactical focus, with lots of class skills limited by cooldowns]]. Available in a free version, and a purchasable Steam version; the latter is only required if you want to play the expansions. (Two so far: A mini-expansion that brings a lot more Demons, and some demon-related classes, and a full new campaign about attacking what you achieved in the original campaign.)

=== Realtime Roguelikes ===

If it's not turn based, and it's not more of a strategy game (see below), it goes here.

*[http://redrogue.net/ Red Rogue]
:Action roguelike written in Flash, intended as a sequel to the original Rogue. The flash file is small and you can save it locally to play without a net connection. Open-source, and dude writes articles about his design decisions.

*[http://www.ftlgame.com/ FTL: Faster Than Light]
:Babby's first roguelite. Currently popular due to regularly being on special offer on Steam, this multiple award winning game describes itself as "a real time Roguelike-like IN SPESS". A good way to ease into the genre.

*The Binding Of Isaac
:A roguelite shooter by Edmund McMillend, avalaible on Steam. What it lacks in fantasy (or sci-fi) ambientation, it more than makes up for it in sheer WTFery.

*[http://www.failbettergames.com/sunless/ Sunless Sea]
:Maritime roguelite available on Steam. Should appeal to fans of the works of [[H.P. Lovecraft]].

=== "Roguelites" ===

Roguelikes that the player playing more than one "character" (a single ship is allowed to count as a "character" here), or are fundamentally strategy games rather than RPGs (but are still procedural death labyrinths) go here.

*[[Dwarf Fortress]]
:If you don't know what this is how did you even get here? Its got motherfucking dwarves, mining, goblin sieges, every other goddamn thing you could imagine, and a bunch you couldn't. Not strictly speaking a roguelike as much as a strategy sim but we can't stay mad at it.

*[http://www.darkestdungeon.com/ Darkest Dungeon]:
:What would happen to the people who went into a dungeon, fought monsters and (if they were lucky) came back? The answer: bad things. A solid game with an incredible visual design and audio, you have to manage a platoon of "heroes" by sending them into dungeons, where they can become sickened, scared physically and mentally in order to get loot to build you estate up. In it's own way it's more grimdark then 40k is.

*[http://en.cataclysmdda.com/ CATACLYSM: Dark Days Ahead]
:Cataclysm DDA is what happens when you take people from the Bay forums with a sizable knowlege of C++, and have them create a Sci-fi equivalent of Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode. This game starts you off at Day-0 of '''every apocalypse imaginable''' happening at the same time. It's key features include a ''Crafting system with literally thousands of unique items'', a highly robust combat system reminiscent of Dwarf Fortress, and a vehicle creation system so robust, you can make a Life-sized LAND RAIDER in it. Don't believe me about the land raider? Here it is: [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Ss%2B(2015-06-19%2Bat%2B06.54.17).png]]

:Oh, and tilesets are available, with a menu-option to enable or disable the graphics if you still prefer the feel of ASCII

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[[Category:Software]]

Yotsuba

2016-03-31T22:50:43Z

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[[Image: Yotsuba.gif|thumb|right|The adorable Yotsuba, here to brighten your day.]]'''Yotsuba''' is the [[loli]] mascot of 4chan. She is the titular character of the [[weeaboo|manga]] Yotsuba&!, written and illustrated by Azuma Kiyohiko, the author of Azumanga Daioh. She is also known as "404 Girl" due to her presence in the artwork for 4chan's 404 and Banned pages (presence of Yotsuba has always been required by [[moot]] when he invited the submission of images for the pages). If Yotsuba should ever come up in any thread, be sure to call her by this alternative name, as the resulting [[RAGE|shitstorm]] is ''hilarious'', albeit generally staged by other posters who are in on the joke.

If you don't already read the manga, you should do so. It's awesome, and has been scientifically documented to restore faith in humanity and cure cancer and other wonderful things. The translation took a huge hit in quality when series changed publishers in 2009, but the series is still worth checking out. Use scanlations if you have to.

Also, a word of advice. NEVER ask for [[Rule 34]] of Yotsuba. You will have [[Extra Heresy|crossed the only line all of 4-chan holds truly sacrosanct]] and will suffer unending [[Anal Circumference|Anal]] [[Rape]].

==External Links==
*[http://4chan.biz Yotsuba&! scanlations]

==Gallery==
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Image:Yotsu-1d4hat.png|Yotsuba wearing 1d4 as a hat. She would be the wiki's unofficial mascot, except Wikifag made her an official unofficial mascot. It boggles the mind.
Image:Yotsuba swing.jpg|THUNK. Also, d'awww.
Image:YotsubaNo.png|NO
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[[Category:Not related]]

Big Bad Evil Guy

2016-03-31T22:46:31Z

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[[Image:Sauron.jpg|thumb|[[Tolkien|Sauron]], pretty much the archetypal "Dark Lord" common to fantasy and an inspiration to countless BBEGs. We love you big S! :D]]

The '''Big Bad Evil Guy''', typically shortened simply to '''Big Bad''' or '''BBEG''', is roleplaying gamer slang for the primary antagonist of an adventure or campaign. He is the one who is ultimately responsible for whatever shit his associates or minions do, and defeating him usually means the successful conclusion of a campaign (or at least a part of it). To ensure that this is sufficiently dramatic, [[DM]]s often make the BBEG a powerful character, making this final encounter something of a boss fight. The BBEGs seem to know this is coming, so they will usually construct a suitably impressive lair for the suitably dramatic confrontation to take place in.

Many of these fantasy villains often like to address themselves as 'The Dark Lord' or add 'Dark Lord' before their name, just in case you goblin-fondling peasants weren't paying attention to who they are.

Hilariously though, the sheer incompetence of some of these big bads is at times a beauty to behold, as their over-arrogant natures, the stupidity of their minions, or luck and/or skill on the part of their opposition means their plans fall apart dramatically. For example Harry Potter, despite being a teen and knowing as much magic as a mouse for most of the series, time and time again foiled Voldemort's plans. Despite having control of one of the key factions in 40k, [[Abaddon]] has failed to get anything done in 10,000 years (the fact that Abbadon hasn't been killed or overthrown yet is Games Workshop won't let the story go in that direction). And yet how do they get by with so much failure when they would have roasted their henchmen alive if they had done the same? Simple; if you dare to mention it to their face about their joy-to-watch failures, YOU will be the one roasting alive!

In most video games the BBEG is usually the final villain which you and maybe a couple of hanger-ons have to defeat to win the game. Whether it will be a hard fight or not depends how merciless the game designers are feeling.

[[Paladin]]s are automatically required to attempt to offer the BBEG mercy, [[derp | even if they have happily slaughtered hundreds of relatively less evil minions without mercy on their way to the BBEG's lair.]]

==Requirements to become a BBEG==

1. Kill a lot of innocents (unimaginative, but kind of a must-do on the list; a tradition).

2. Make big grandiose plans that also include big holes in them, just enough for someone to mess up if needs be.

3. Surround yourself with minions and right-hand men. Your evil meter goes higher the more bodies you can pile up there.

4. Have a characteristic to define you from the masses, like a menacing eye (Sauron), the ability to shoot lightning from your hands (Sidious) or an embarrassing track record of failure no-one can mistake (Abaddon).

5. Perfect evil laugh and twisted sense of humour.

6. Have a super bad-ass evil lair.

7. Don't melt into goodness at the sight of baskets of kittens or puppies.

8. Pretend you don't have any possible mental problems even if they are there.

9. Beat up anyone that even looks like competition.

10. Be a dick to everyone, even your own side (tough love).

11. IMPORTANT: Do something memorable. It is not enough to just do all of the above, you need to really do something unique to stand out from your peers. Sidious masterminded the complete destruction of the Jedi and the rise of the Sith to masters of the Galaxy. Sauron helped fuck up his world and make a lasting legacy of evil by creating so many evil races. Vect established the single most unpleasant city realm in the galaxy and allowed the Dark Eldar to flourish as a people. What will YOU do to get your enemies quaking in jealously and respect?

==The Big Bad Evil Guy Hall of Infamy==

An honour bestowed only to the most truly deserving head honchos of villainkind, not just any hireling with ideas above their station can get here!

* Sauron (Lord of the Rings): The dude who originally created the term 'Dark Lord' in modern high fantasy and was willing to get stuck into the action himself too. Pretty much an undead fallen angel who wants to bring order by tyrannically ruling Middle-Earth. Once the good angels ended up destroying a continent to stop him, but that didn't work and Eru (God in Middle-Earth) told them to limit their involvement to minimize collateral damage. This time, all they did was thwart his current plan of the moment and successfully kill him off.
* Darth Sidious (Star Wars): Creepy old freak who single-mindedly engineered the complete destruction of the Jedi Order and turned the galaxy on its head so he could rule it as a tyrant (and maintain the massive military industrial complex necessary to combat the [[Dark Eldar|Yuuzahn Vong]] upon their inevitable [[Rape|arrival]] into galaxy... much like another famous [[Emperor]]. Unfortunately not everything [[Not as Planned|transpired]] according to his design). His favourite trick was using his force lightning to make toast (always too overdone).
* The Timeless One (Halo): AKA The Flood and The Gravemind, came from a race of nigh-omniscient Eldritch Abominations called the Precursors that came before the Universe was born. Single-handedly destroyed an interstellar Culture-level Civilisation, the Forerunners, for insane sobbing cynical vengeant shits and giggles [[FAIL|after it led a genocide against the Precursors, their peaceful creators now gone insane with the God equivalent of ptsd]], all because the Precursors thought humans were less stuck up than Forerunners (you would think Halo would have less [[Grimdark]] than 40k in the shit that started it all story) and is now coming back in the form of a horrifying fusion of The Thing, Tyranids, and X-Parasite; so that he can force every single living thing in the Universe to "join" him in a very fucked up version of Communism, via OM NOM NOMING their bodies and souls in eternal torment and pain. This Flood also acts as a computer virus in later stages, and The Gravemind's ultimate plan is to wipe the universe clean and start over, having gone way past over-the top friendly fire several hundred thousand years late vengeance, when everyone responsible is already dead. Also proclaimed as the greatest [[Troll]] to come out of Sci-Fi since the introduction of [[Tzeentch]] and [[Eldrad]], considering how he manage to slowly and painfully rip apart the 10 million year old culture and beliefs of the Forerunners by forcing them to do things that are both hypocritical and outright contradictory of their pacifistic religion as well as tormenting and mindraping the Forerunner's greatest heroes into deranged psychopaths. The most perfectionist of the lot and [[Get shit done|getting the most shit done.]]
* Dracula (Castlevania): Was the big bad in the majority of the Castlevania games (Subverted for the two recent games), how bad is he? Well....when even Death considers him as "Boss", then it should tell you the power differences here in pure EVIL.
* Voldemort (Harry Potter): The big bad evil wizard of the HP setting Voldemort spent most of the series as an evil spirit before coming back in a body made from a mixture in a cauldron (as you do). Countless times he failed to kill the boy who lived and twice he failed to take over the wizarding world, making one wonder about his track record.
* Jadis, the White Witch (The chronicles of Narnia): The white bitch likes to freeze everything and turn you to stone at the drop of a hat if you displease her. She froze Narnia to be her perfect place but was challenged by a gang of motley kids and killed by the lion Aslan (revealed to be literally Jesus Himself taking the form of a large lion; so she was pretty badass if it took God Himself to take her out). Since then her ghost has been hiding on Earth under the guise of Sarah Palin (you thought the love of cold weather and evil politics was just coincidence did you??)
* Discord (My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic): Despite the hate for a certain show about colored horses most people, even neckbeards, take off their hat to one of the villains, the embodiment of chaos, Discord. Think Q from Star Trek (he is even voiced by the same actor) except while Q was kept in check by some higher ups and only really wanted to have fun, Discord was a schemer who planned to turn the world into his chaotic playground warping the landscape and minds of it citizens. Think Alice in wonderland on crack. Was turned good in a semi-cheesy way but even then he spends most of his time fucking with people.

* [[Yawgmoth]]([[Magic: The Gathering]]): This is the formerly ordinary human that turned [[Phyrexia]] from backwater plane to the nightmarish world that we all knew and loved. After his apotheosis, the Father of Machines was able to take on Oldwalkers and have a good chance of coming out on top. As such, he was too powerful to print, and some of the most powerful cards bear his name (Yawgmoth's Will and Yawgmoth's Bargain are both banned in legacy).

===Games Workshops===
*[[Nagash]] Former Tomb King (via usurping the throne) from back when they were living humans, the inventor of necromancy, the one who caused undead factions to exist in the game and the greatest threat to the Warhammer world outside of the Chaos Gods, he even plans to supplant them. And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for [[Skaven|those meddling rats]] and Nurgle.
*[[Malekith]] (Warhammer Fantasy): The Witch King and Lord of the Druchii, Malekith is (or was) one of the less pompous of the Big Bads of Fantasy - On his throne in the center of his evil and cold domain of Naggaroth, Malekith could see the entirety of the world, no matter where it was, but his eyes were fixed at one point - Ulthuan and the throne of the Phoenix King, which he will always strive towards. After 6000 years of civil war, started after his mother Morathi fucked up his coronation, the End Times reveals something incredible and unheard of among Bad Guys - He was the good guy! Or, the gods had chosen him like he said they had and they decided to let him retake their test. Which he passed. After retaking Ulthuan and killing [[Tyrion]], who was possesed by the Widowmaker, Malekith was chosen as the Phoenix/Eternity King. Now the leader of all elfkind, he is the only one who can assure the survival of the entirety of the elven race...
* [[Archaon]] (Warhammer Fantasy): Elected bro for life of the Chaos Gods and doer of getting shit done and given the current state of AoS arguably the most successful BBEG ever. Formerly a pious man until the machinations of Chaos made him go off the rails. Failbaddon lives in constant terror of Archaon getting fed up and coming to kick him out of existence.
* Asdrubael Vect (Warhammer 40k): More dangerous then Failbaddon could ever be even in his dreams, Vect passes the time causing countless millions to be tortured, just for his bored amusement. Master of dick moves and getting others to get others to do his dirty work. The only thing keeping him from conquering the galaxy is Games Workshop's refusal to let the plot of 40K go in that direction. It's implied that the reason Vect was removed from the codex as a playable character is because GW was that scared of Vect changing the status quo.
* [[Matt Ward]] (Games Workshop): Dark Lord of Fluff Rape and Codex destruction, his plan to unleash his hordes of ultramarine servants to take over the galaxy in a wave of blue and to subject the grey knights to eternal ass rape. He's also managed to defeat the C'tan and take control of the Necrons to aid his blue-clad minions. Few, if any are as diabolic as this man! In fact, he was so much of an evil mastermind that none of his plans were ever really challenged, and so he quit his goddamn job. As in, literally. The Throne of Defilement of Fluff and Crunch is now vacant.

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Image:supervillain.jpg | Now you know.
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Image:dr no.jpg | Antagonists with crazy schemes of megalomaniac conquest and revenge upon the world, their lairs full of traps and minions...Ian Flemming might have been a good DM.
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[[Category:Roleplaying]]

Monte Cook

2016-02-04T17:29:25Z

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'''Monte Cook''' (also known as '''Monte Cock''', '''Monte Kook''' and '''Monte Cuck''') is one of the big daddies of modern tabletop RPG game design, alongside such figures as Robin D. Laws and Keith Baker, because having a name like an action movie actor/character is apparently a prerequisite of the "Game Designer" class. He is one of the founding creators of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]]'', had a strong hand in designing ''[[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition| 5e]]'', and has done lots of work writing his own games and version of other games, including a personal take on the ''[[World of Darkness]]'' and ''[[Numenera]]'', a game set on Earth a billion years into the future, that served as the prototype for his Cypher system. (Basically [[FATE]] d20 edition.)

As a game designer, Monte Cook is known for four major things: being a genuinely brilliant and insightful game designer who crafts fun and imaginative systems and games, being a raging perfectionist who is fun but difficult to work with, regularly quitting and re-joining the industry every few years over disputes with the management, and for having an insane, out of control spellcaster fetish beyond all expectation or reason. In fact, he once infamously said that the biggest tweak 3rd Ed. needed was a hard [[nerf]] to all martial classes, particularly the [[fighter]], and an across the board buff to all spellcasters. Yes, we ''are'' talking about the same 3rd Edition in which half the classes in the game were better fighters than the fighter, and spellcasters could pull [[CoDzilla| shit]] [[Pun-Pun| like]] [[15,000,000 Gold a Day|this]]. (While theoretically he has a point, since at level 1 the spellcaster classes are a bit suck, most would argue that a stabler power curve where magicals start higher and martials suck less later would be the ideal solution, rather than ensuring the [[wizard]] dominates at all levels of play.)

One thing people like to hold his feet to the fire over is the "Ivory Tower" school of game design: ''deliberately'' sowing weak "newb traps" into your game as character advancement options (explicitly compared to "[[Magic: The Gathering#Players|Timmy cards]]"), to punish new players for the crime of inexperience and offer veterans an inflated sense of self-worth that comes from attaining a wholly artificial sense of "mastery." To his credit, he has since apologized for the whole thing and admitted it was a terrible idea from start to finish, but here we are, still scrubbing through the aftermath years after the fact.

Still, it could be worse. [[Lamentations of the Flame Princess|At least the personality that seeps into his work is warm and fun rather than smug and unpleasant.]]

[[Category:Writers]][[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]

Degenesis

2016-01-02T16:21:23Z

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An RPG with not one but two high budget live action trailers, that despite the heinous sin of referring to itself as "Primal Punk", is actually quite nice. Marko Djurdjević created the dominant visual style which combines comic art with dynamic anatomy inspired by the creator of Tarzan, he also made covers for Marvel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tw3KaMr8wk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTCARC91yyw

[[File:Badbreath.png|right|thumb|250px|Spitalian diagnoses a specimen of Homo Degenesis with bad breath.]]

In 2073, a large swarm of asteroids hit Earth. The immediate consequences were nothing short of catastrophic. Tsunamis, earthquakes, and absolutely massive tectonic shifts completely overthrew the old way of life. But that was only the start of things. Most of the western nations were quite highly advanced at the time, and by and large managed to deal. The real trouble started afterwards.

Over the next several hundred years (the game is set in 2595), there was a major shift in climates. The northern and southern ice caps expanded massively, rendering much of northern Europe inhospitable. At the same time northern Africa ended up getting much more rain, transforming it into a verdant and lush tropical zone.

More importantly though is that the asteroids that caused all this brought something with them, called the Primer. Nobody exactly knows what precisely it is, but in effect the Primer is a kind of catalyst for hugely accelerated evolution. In Europe, it produced a fungal infestation called Sepsis. Sepsis (which seems at least somewhat sentient) creates great mother fields of fungi that periodically release great clouds of spores to permeate itself. These spores will infest humans and embed themselves in their system. In small doses it's not a significant problem, but the more severe the spore infestation the more the victim will lose its mind as it gets more and more in tune with the hive mind of the Sepsis. Much worse still, if humans are exposed to these spores in childhood or in utero, they will eventually undergo a violent, severe mutation later on, transforming them into a new form of life: Homo Degenesis. The effect of these mutations varies depending on the particular strain of Sepsis (there's one spreading out from each asteroid impact sites), but they're all bad news. Some of the Degenesis seek to subjugate humans, some cooperate with them, but always at a price.

With all this shit happening, it's little surprise that most of the civilisations in Europe crumbled and fell apart, in places even devolving down to essentially stone-age level. Instead of governments or nations, there were only Clans left scattered around the countryside. The force that finally brought them back into a semblance of order were the Cults: Groups of people devoted to a particular idea or way of life. There are for example the Spitalians, leftovers of a pre-apocalyptic Red Cross turned militant, with their sole aim being the eradication of the Sepsis. Or the Chroniclers, who are obsessed with gathering information and with the eventual goal of recreating what's essentially an Internet.

Down in Africa they don't have any Sepsis, but instead have to deal with Psychovores. These are incredibly fast-growing and aggressive plants that are highly poisonous and actively hostile to humans coming into their vicinity. They have formed an impenetrable belt that entirely cuts off central Africa and the Middle East. Still, it's not as actively spreading as the Sepsis, so the Africans are by and large better off and have more time focusing on internal affairs.

As if all of that wasn't enough, there are a number of other assorted dangers to be found around the world. There are Marauders, seemingly immortal and highly powerful individuals dating back to before the fall. One of them has just recently made himself leader of a number of primitive eastern clans and launched a giant invasion towards Europe's heartlands. There are also the Sleepers, cryogenically preserved gene-modified soldiers hidden in bunkers who are periodically awoken and sent out into the world to work on some impenetrable grand scheme.

All of this is really just scratching at the surface. The setting is really fucking dense with all kinds of stuff, and you can easily run campaigns focusing just on any one of them without ever really running into most of the others.

The player characters are all humans belonging to one of 12 cults, or to a clan of survivors. These organizations include a militarized red cross who war against the sepsis, religious types who set the sepsis on fire, other religious types who aren't keen on the former religious types but are incredibly keen on goats, easily sunburnt incestuous people who survive in underground bunkers, hedonistic gypsies who are so hardcore they smoke sepsis, autistic engineers whose goal is to reboot the internet, some folks who dig through the ruins of old humanity for ancient vibrators and smartphones, angry black men, Egypt loving shaman types, an entire faction of what Nigerian prince scammers would be if they were genuine, the Swiss military turned gun fetishists, and judge dread types with the fashion sense of Solomon Kane.

The game runs on a system called the "katharSys". It's a stat + skill d6 pool system, and is generally quite serviceable, save a few quirks here and there.

Random thread with some links: archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/44245118

The current version is the Rebirth and comes in 2 full color hardcover books. It fixes the near unplayable mechanics of the first version, advances the time line, and brings the cults a little closer together to make mixing parties easier. The first version had a grittier visual style and was elaborately illustrated with black and white drawings.

Approved Literature

2015-11-14T01:24:32Z

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This page lists the genre fiction which is popular on /tg/, along with a brief description and the notable area's of merit. While paragons of Fantasy and Science Fiction...

==Fantasy==
*'''''Brandon Carbaugh - Deep Sounding''''': A two-part story written by a fa/tg/uy, dealing with themes of isolation in a Dwarven society. Consistently humorous and socially relevant.
*'''''Robert E. Howard - Conan the Barbarian''''': Conan the Barbarian was born from this quill. A seminal pulp classic which could be considered the father of sword and sorcery.
*'''''[[George R. R. Martin]] - [[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''''': Best character development in genre, with a bit of mystery, political chess and realistically high death rate. Tends to drag at times, and since the release of the HBO series will be consistently overrated by those who've seen little else.
*'''''Michael Moorcock - the Elric Saga, the Corum Saga, the Hawkmoon books, and anything he's ever wrote.''''' - The spiritual liege of Drizzt Do Urden and the Witcher, with all of the Mary Sue replaced with badassery and getting shit done. Elric, the High Lord of Chaos, travels reality with a shadow puma and a soul-eating demon sword learning the true nature of Order and Chaos. He also is the destined guy who reincarnates to battle both the forces of Order and Chaos. Among these incarnates are Hawkmoon, a heroic dude who has a jewel implanted in his head, Corum, a badass motherfucker who kills BOTH CHAOS GODS AND GODS OF ORDER for fun, and Erekose, who is an alright bro. The saga that Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer Fantasy, & Warhammer 40k blatantly stole and/or were influenced by it's ideas in it's concept of Chaos. In fact, pretty much almost everything from Warhmammer was arguably taken by the Elric mythos. Think of it; Warp Gods = Lords of Chaos. Dark Elves/Dark Eldar = Melniboneans, Malus Darkblade = Elric himself, Necrons = The King Under the Hill and the Doomed Folk. His best book of all time is still The War Hound and the World's Pain.
*'''''Terry Pratchett - Discworld series''''': Starts from parodying Fantasy as genre, finishes far beyond AWESOME. Rare combination of good humor and wise messages.
*'''''Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind''''': A mary sue bard goes on mary sue adventures - world building may be weak but it's a fun read, so enough people on /tg/ have read it to count, even though nobody will praise it.
*'''''[[J.R.R. Tolkien]] - The Hobbit, [[The Lord of the Rings]], and anything else he wrote (eg; the Simarillion)''''': The great grand-daddy of modern fantasy. Not having even the slightest familiarity with his work is inexcusable. He is the creator of the entire genre.
*'''''Robin Hobb - The Farseer Trilogy and The Liveship Traders''''': First is a story of a royal bastard's horrible upbringing as an assassin. Second is a story of magical sailing ships that talk, dragons, pirates, rape, 14 year old girl overcoming terrible misfortune. It has it all. (Please note the following two sets of books in the series are a little average compared to these two).
*'''''Charles De Lint - Someplace to be Flying and Trader, Pretty much all of his books, you can't really miss''''': Most of the books seem to be set in canada and revolve around gypsy folk-lore and native american spiritual stuff with urban settings. Don't get attached to characters.
*'''''Fritz Leiber - Swords and Deviltry, et al.''''': A runaway momma's boy and a failed magician's apprentice lose everything and become thieves in Lankhmar, center of civilization and debauchery. They are Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser:, swordsmen supreme, insatiable adventurers, womanizers unequaled, and bros of the highest caliber. Together, they plunder the world of riches, women, and wine, while facing magic and horror of a decidedly cosmic sort.
*'''''Glen Cook - The Black Company''''': I can't remember the exact quote, but someone put it best when he said "it's a story about level 5-8 badasses trying to make it in a world dominated by epic level Wizards". Follow the mercenary entourage known as the Black Company as they sell their swords to the highest contractors, who usually end up being The Big Bad Evils.
*'''''Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun''''': The setting is inspired by Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, so this could be either in SF or Fantasy. A torturer is exiled from his guild and old life after he helps kill the woman he loves to spare her from the agony of torture, now forced to journey through Urth; our Earth in the far, far, far future, in a time when our sun is beginning to die. These books do not make for easy reading, however. The author uses lots of very obscure words to create the worlds own unique lingo. Also, the main character is an unreliable narrator of the more extreme sort. The reader will be spending some time figuring out what are the truths and what are the lies.
*'''''Richard Adams - Watership Down''''': The epic story of a tiny band of desperate people's odyssey to flee a great calamity and find a new homeland. Along the way, they fight dangerous battles, encounter dangerously seductive dystopia after dystopia, and ultimately destroy a fascist dictator before founding a new nation. Also, [[Bunnies and Burrows|everyone's a rabbit]]. Badass storytelling, sweet worldbuilding, and an incredible level of quality for a children's book.
*'''''Ursula K LeGuin - Earthsea trilogy+''''': Threads about /tg/-approved literature will consistently end up having a poster say something to the effect of "no Sea Jedi Wizard Chronicles WTF" about halfway down, immediately being followed by a chorus of agreement. Needless to say, this series is an excellent one, little-known but suprisingly influential. It's the series that established the concepts of the concept of nominal magic as understood in modern fantasy literature: names of power in the language of magic are spoken to exert power over the person, place, thing or idea that name refers to. Later, less-respectable novels such as those by Christopher Paolini would abuse this concept for fun and profit. Sadly, such novels seldom strive to equal the actual accomplishments of the Earthsea novels, such as the successful building and display of a rich, believable, and internally consistent setting without letting any of the world building bog down the narrative like in LotR.

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Douglas Adams - The Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy''''': On of the funniest works of science fiction ever made.
*'''''Edgar Rice Burroughs - the Barsoom Series-aka Mars Chronicles''''': Iconic, manly, and fuckin' A!
*'''''Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream''''': The last five humans alive are being held deep in an underground complex, where they are perpetually tortured by the sadistic AI that wiped out the rest of humanity with no hope of escape. The most creepy thing in this book is that author thought it was optimistic. If he some day went to wrote something pessimistic, the universe would implode from the sheer grimdark overdose.
*'''''Robert A. Heinlein - [[Starship Troopers]]''''': Where Space Marines and Tyranids came from.
*'''''Frank Herbert - [[Dune]] & its earlier sequels''''': World-building, politics, super-humans - it's one helluva party. The spice must flow!
*'''''Walter M. Miller, Jr. - A Canticle for Leibowitz''''' In the grim darkness of the far future there is only Catholicism. Think Fallout meets Farenheit 451 and you wouldn't be too far off.
*'''''George Orwell - [[1984]], Animal Farm''''': WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!
*'''''Neal Asher - The Gridlinked Series''''': Some of the best, hardest sci-fi out there, this is one of those universes that has unique, creative technologies (rare nowadays)as well as 007...EEEN SPESSS
*'''''Aldous Huxley - Brave New World''''': Take 1984, and do the total opposite the way people are controlled (rather than "Do what I tell you or I'll beat you", it's "Do what I tell you and I'll make you feel good") mixed with a Tau-esque genetically enforced caste system and conditioning to make people embrace their servitude.
*'''''John Steakley - Armor'''''

==Horror==
*'''''[[H.P. Lovecraft]] - The Call of Cthulhu & Other Stories, Dreams in the Witch-House, At the Mountains of Madness, and anything else he wrote''''' - Lovecraft is to modern horror what Tolkien was to fantasy.

==Mystery==
*'''''Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep''''': The grandfather of Noir.

==Historical Fiction==
*'''''Kawabata Yasunari - The Master of Go''''': The story of a brash young [[munchkin|power gamer]] challenging a grizzled old [[neckbeard]] to a championship [[Go]] match. Chronicles the national-scale [[edition war]] that was 1930s Japan through the medium of gaming obsessed hyper-autists.

==Other Recommendations==
[https://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/27995546/ Fatguys briefly exit their basement comfort zone to recommend /tg/ romance novels.]
[[Category:Approved Media]]

Manga

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[[Image:TG Manga.png|500px|thumb|right|The [[40k]] part of [[/tg/]] reimagined as a manga. And yes that is the [[spiritual liege]] in the top left.]]
'''Manga''' are like comics, except Japanese, and read from right to left. Alongside [[anime]], manga are one of the stereotypical [[weeaboo]]'s favourite things. It is very common for popular manga series to receive animated adaptations and vice versa, prompting [[skub|endless debate]] amongst fans about which version is better. Manga are sometimes referred to as ''mangos'' by both detractors and fans.

==Notable and/or /tg/ Related Manga==
*'''''One piece''''' - Your average retarded shounen characters. But Whitebeard makes up for everything with his sheer manliness and the fact that he's Smashfucker. No, seriously, look the series. That guy seemed to have a 2+/2++ and a 2+FNP and a 3+ IWND. Despite the cheerful and colorful atmosphere this manga presents to its reader, it shares the same grimdark element with 40k. A corrupt government called W.G.(world government) is known for [[Exterminatus|obliterate an island for treason]], [[administratum|erase/revise documented history]] and sending [[assassin|CP9(cipher pol 9), assassins with super martial art technique]] About half the monarchs represented are sociopathic assholes, and the cake is taken by the [[Rogue Trader|Sichibukai]], two of which are know to led dictatorial regimes, and most of them being overall an unbalancing force for world stability. Admirals that has the power to shit volcano fist, shoot light laser and freeze the fucking ocean in half to deal with pirates.
*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''' - An alchemist embarks on a quest to find the Philosopher's Stone, an artifact that he believes can recover his brother's body and his own missing limbs. Really, how could you not have heard of this?
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''' - [[Rip_and_Tear|GUTS HUEG]]
*'''''[[Blame!]]''''' - Silent cyberapocalypse goodness
*'''''Coppelion''''' - In 2036 AD, Tokyo has turned into wasteland after a nuclear reactor explosion. Coppelion, a group of [[Female Space Marines|genetically engineered girls]] in school uniform has to find a way to restore Japan and fighting off a rebellious faction of [[Death Korps of Krieg]]. It's basically the same thing happened on [[Krieg]], but in Japan.
*'''''Demon Detective Neuro''''' - Tzeentch's early days before the grimdark future.
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''' - Manly enough to [[/d/|cause you to grow a penis if you don't already have one]], or to cause [[Slaanesh|your penis to grow a penis]] if you do.
*'''''[[Franken Fran]]''''' - "'''Dude...what?!'''" Makes you think you're stoned, even if you're not. Also squick. (Note: you cannot turn these into good campfire stories no matter how hard you try.)
*'''''Gunnm''''' - Dystopian futuristic cyberpunk martial arts character piece about cyborgs, all drawn beautifully. Also very nineties.
*'''''[[Adeptus Custodes|JoJo's Bizzare Adventure]]''''' - A story about supernatural power fighting spirits and the same bizarre shit happen in the warp. It's notably have male man with [[Fist of the North Star|Kenshiro]] type body doing fabulous pose and being overall, godamn manly as hell. Gayer than Freddie Mercury and at least as badass. This manga is also where the [[Eversor|WRRRYYY]] meme came from, but the only differences is a [[baneblade|steamroller]].
*'''''King of RPGs''''' - [[Weeaboo|American "manga"]] about many things /tg/. Suspend some disbelief, but much better than it sounds.
*'''''Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou''''' - We... we [[NSFW|don't like to talk]] about ''[[Monstergirl|this one]]''.
*'''''Ookami no Kuchi: Wolfsmund''''' - A true grimdark tale of a sadistic creed set in 14th century of Europe (Switzerland). It has violence, sex and basically everything Berserk has minus the fantasy elements. Like Warhammer, it has no happy ending.
*'''''[[Quick Start!!]]''''' - Affectionately called "My Little Neckbeard", this series is about a group of teenage girls traveling through the world of traditional gaming.
*'''''Wizard's Soul: Jihad of Love''''' - More or less centered around a fictional cardgame (that is based off [[Magic: The Gathering]]).
*'''''Uzumaki''''' - Goddamncreepyasfuck supernatural/cosmic horror story about spirals. Author was originally in dentistry, which explains a lot.
*'''''Vinland Saga''''' - One of Berserk's spiritual successors, though more rooted in reality. This one is about historical [[Vikings|vikings]].
*'''''[[Yotsuba|Yotsuba&]]''''' - A manga where the main character is the mascot of 4chan.
*'''''Dungeon Meshi''''' - A relative newcomer to the scene of /tg/-related manga, this delightful little series chronicles the escapades of a small adventuring party exploring a dungeon and feeding off the monsters within. That's right, they, with the help of a mysterious [[dorf]], butcher, cook, and eat the monsters. Detailed recipes for the lavish dishes are provided, sadly unaccompanied by advice regarding the procurement of the required ingredients. Reading this comic on an empty stomach is not advised.

The portion of /tg/ that doesn't immediately shout "''[[weeaboo]]''!" whenever anything remotely Asian is mentioned generally agrees that Berserk (at least, early Berserk) and Blame! are very good reads. Although Blame! might be more accurately described as a "look" since it has very little dialogue.

If any of you have noticed a disproportionate number of notable titles over at the /tg/-[[Approved anime]] page, this comes from two main factors. First, the number of good manga that don't have an anime adaptation or ''overshadow'' their anime adaptation is very small these days. Usually this restricts "manga-only" stories to older manga or quirky manga. The second reason is simply a culture issue: few /tg/ neckbreards are also /a/ or /jp/ enough to know and recommend good, /tg/-related manga.

==See Also==
*[[Super Genki Wallhammer Faulty-Kai]]

[[Category:Weeaboo]][[Category:Approved Media]]

Approved Anime

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[[Category:Weeaboo]] [[Category:Approved Media]]

This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother.)

''Updated to add 2013 titles, etc.''

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes; 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards.
:Related games: Traveller, Battletech

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which was lost following an alchemical accident. There's a newer series titled "FMA: Brotherhood", with updated animation and a storyline that fits much closer to the original manga. Which version is better is [[Skub|up for debate]].
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. [2 movies; tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes, season 2 - 26 episodes, 1 made-for-TV movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]] and [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''Robotech/Macross''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts.
:Related games:[[Battletech]]

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists.
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one, then had a second season greenlit thanks to it's performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions.
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series.
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting.
:Related games: [[Battletech]], A Time of War

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even more bloody disregard for the lives of main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: 110 episodes; Prequel: 52 Episodes; 2 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made.
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, we're gonna get posin'.
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan''''': The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made. Also Steve Blum voices a gay guy, no joke. [TV Series: 27 episodes; 2 movies, a dozen or so parallel works (short videos)]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''HunterxHunter''''': Two futa boys fighting dudes [TV Series: 148 episodes]
:Related games: [[FATE]], [[FATAL]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods.
:Related games: Playing a Monk/Sorcerer Gestalt in D&D 3e

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor.
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer, and anything related with classic RPGs

==Gaming anime==
*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser game and now getting its anime, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are girls. Yes, seriously, it's in route of becoming something akin to Touhou, given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with Girls und Panzer and Strike Witches you got to moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period.
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, quests, quests, quests.

*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images.
:Related Games: Board Games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Now with it's own TRPG core book. Players of an MMO all over the world awaken to what is seemingly the game world, but now they're living it instead of being merely trapped in the game.
:Related games: Log Horizon

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes; 5 and counting movies]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark.
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves!
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''Hellsing''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction, and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal Scottish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of neo-Nazis who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Had a real shit 13 episode TV series back in 2001, but was given a glorious OVA in 2006. Took until fucking 2014 for all ''ten'' episodes to be released, however.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]]

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]].
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone give's it major points. Plot wise it's a bit standard as you can expect but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes; TV series: 27 episodes; TV parody series: 13 episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing.
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero coincidentally) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord. In retaliation the Demon Lord (named Demon Queen/Lord) diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': Several feudal cults fight each other in massive battles, spearheaded by OP samurai with their own special attributes. Somehow includes a massive fucking cyborg titan.
:Related games: Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins, who win every game they play, are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders, where they have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast.. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating.
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]]

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's [[Dragonmech]]: The Anime...kinda.

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general.
:Related games:[[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome ...for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like.
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Daily Life with Monstergirls''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so while there is no actual sex, don't go in expecting "good clean fun!"
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]], [[Maid RPG]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But Which You Thought Were==
*'''''[[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.
:Related games: /v/ stuff, shmups, D&D 4th edition (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]])

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French 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. Not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]]
:Related games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting, and apparently has its own RPG rules in France.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]

Approved Anime

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[[Category:Weeaboo]] [[Category:Approved Media]]

This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

==Before you add anything...'''READ THIS'''==
''/tg/ likes its anime, but if we listed every single one that could be interpreted as being /tg/-related this article would be large enough to be its own wiki. So before you add in a new title, ask yourself these questions:''
* Is it a licensed material from a traditional game? (If yes, add it right now, no questions asked. And homebrews don't count- it has to be a real, established game.)
* Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)
* Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)
* Does it cater to our demographic? Fa/tg/uys tend to be males in their 20s. (Again, see if it fits the other criteria well enough.)
* Does /tg/ talk about it a lot, or does it have some historical relevance to /tg/? (Like the one directly above, it's not enough on its own, but it might get a pass if it fits more criteria.)
* Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother.)

''Updated to add 2013 titles, etc.''

==Science Fiction==
*'''''Cowboy Bebop''''': Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best [[party|parties]] a campaign could ever have. [tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes; 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], [[Diaspora]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards.
:Related games: Traveller, Battletech

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it has a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which was lost following an alchemical accident. There's a newer series titled "FMA: Brotherhood", with updated animation and a storyline that fits much closer to the original manga. Which version is better is [[Skub|up for debate]].
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]]

*'''''Ghost in the Shell''''': /k/ makes a show about [[Adeptus Mechanicus|cyborgs]] and [[High Lords of Terra|politics]]. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. [2 movies; tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes, season 2 - 26 episodes, 1 made-for-TV movie]
:Related games: [[Eclipse Phase]] and [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''Robotech/Macross''''': One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts.
:Related games:[[Battletech]]

*'''''Serial Experiments Lain''''': The trippiest philosophy class you will ever take. A near-future anime set around 2020 or so, diverging around 1990. A must-watch for cyberpunk and conspiracy fans, as well as existentialists.
:Related games:[[Shadowrun]], [[Eclipse Phase]], and maybe [[Paranoia]] and [[Server Crash]].

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one, then had a second season greenlit thanks to it's performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions.
:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]

*'''''Trigun''''': An impossibly skilled and improbably young outlaw (Arbitrator) roams a barren Wild West planet helping people out with his skill at shooting people, aided by a somewhat faithful party of well-armed priests (Clerics) and insurance agents (Adepts). Replete with pseudo-religious symbolism and [[Metal Gear]]-worthy antagonists.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Deadlands]]

*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series.
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]

*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting.
:Related games: [[Battletech]], A Time of War

*'''''Legend of the Galactic Heroes''''': Space Prussia fights Space France/America in one of the longest running debates on the relative merits of Dictatorship and Republicanism ever written. Aside from the 19th century army tactics IN SPACE, is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even more bloody disregard for the lives of main characters than GRRM. Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/, for it's wealth of brilliant monologues. Technology level is basically Traveller to a tee. [OVA series: 110 episodes; Prequel: 52 Episodes; 2 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust

==Action==
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''': The singular manliest show ever made.
:Related games: ''Street Fighter'' the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]]

*'''''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure''''': The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, we're gonna get posin'.
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE|FATE]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan''''': The singular [[Ork]]iest show ever made. Also Steve Blum voices a gay guy, no joke. [TV Series: 27 episodes; 2 movies, a dozen or so parallel works (short videos)]
:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]]

*'''''HunterxHunter''''': Two futa boys fighting dudes [TV Series: 148 episodes]
:Related games: [[FATE]], [[FATAL]]

*'''''Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z''''': Not initially thought to be /tg/ related, /tg/ is now getting shit done and writing an rpg in a similar fashion to how Adeptus Evangelion suddenly appeared. They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Goes from fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods.
:Related games: Playing a Monk/Sorcerer Gestalt in D&D 3e

*'''''Samurai Champloo''''': A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|80's]]-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both [[Noblebright|slapstick]] and [[Grimdark|gallows]] humor.
:Related games: Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer, and anything related with classic RPGs

==Gaming anime==
*'''''Kantai Collection''''': Originally a browser game and now getting its anime, it's about WW2 naval warfare, where the ships are girls. Yes, seriously, it's in route of becoming something akin to Touhou, given the amount of material out there getting mass-produced by the fans. When combined with Girls und Panzer and Strike Witches you got to moe armed force to end all moe armed forces, period.
:Related games: Battleship, Axis & Allies, quests, quests, quests.

*'''''The Legend of Koizumi''''': The world leaders all play Mahjong to determent the fate of the planet. Later on a team of Koizumi, The Bushes, The Pope, Putin, and Yulia Tymoshenko fight Hitler who took over the Moon.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Saki''''': The journey of Miyanaga Saki and her friends to rise to the inter-high school and eventually, the National Mahjong championship. Also lots of fan shipping between the girls.
:Related Games: Mahjong

*'''''Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time''''': A slice of life High School show following a girl and her classmate who spends all class playing miscellaneous strange games. The manga it is based on is a gold mine of reaction images.
:Related Games: Board Games

*'''''Log Horizon''''': Now with it's own TRPG core book. Players of an MMO all over the world awaken to what is seemingly the game world, but now they're living it instead of being merely trapped in the game.
:Related games: Log Horizon

==Horror, Grimdark & Mindfuckery==
*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one the greatest anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]]. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes; 5 and counting movies]
:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Now and Then, Here and There''''': A young Japanese boy and American girl are transported through time and space to a dying world orbiting a dying star, and are forced to fight as a child soldier for/raped and bred by evil men while the humans of the planet slowly fight themselves to extinction over water. Not for the faint of heart, or for anyone who thinks [[Warhammer 40k]] is as grimdark as humanly possible. This is true, hardcore grimdark.
:Related games: [[Dark Sun]] so very much, [[FATAL]], [[Gamma World]]

*'''''M.D. Geist''''': A psychotic super soldier is released on a post-apocalyptic abandoned colony to breach a former governmental compound and prevent the activation of an army of killer robots that are programed to exterminate all surviving humans on the planet. He blasts his way in, slaughtering the cybernetic defenders... then releases the army himself so he can fight forever, and if the rest of humanity is wiped out, who cares? [[Khorne]] approves!
:Related games: [[Black Crusade]]

*'''''Hellsing''''': An action horror centering around the Hellsing organization: a secret agency who uses vampires to protect the British Crown from other supernatural forces. Alucard, a gun-toting vampire who is possibly one of the most powerful in all of fiction, and his new big-titted fledgling Seras are their main agents. They're enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal Scottish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of neo-Nazis who want to take over Europe through [[wat|a battalion of artificially created vampires.]] Mostly known for its Biblical references and imagery and abnormal amounts of blood spewing out of anything and anyone like a bunch of Fruit Gushers (though nowhere near as [[Grimderp]] as Devilman or Violence Jack.) Had a real shit 13 episode TV series back in 2001, but was given a glorious OVA in 2006. Took until fucking 2014 for all ''ten'' episodes to be released, however.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]]

==Fantasy==
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''': Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land of grimdark as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because GUTS is HUEG, meaning he has [[Rip and Tear|HUEG GUTS]].
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life series of role-playing game sessions (first edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone give's it major points. Plot wise it's a bit standard as you can expect but it is still well regarded. [OVA series: 13 episodes; TV series: 27 episodes; TV parody series: 13 episodes]
** The same setting has two less famous anime titles: '''''Legend of Crystania''''' and '''''Rune Soldier'''''
:Related Games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (1st edition), Sword World (1st edition), Table top RPGs.

*'''''(The) [[Slayers]]''''': AD&D 2nd edition: The Animation. Known for being a significantly more realistic take on what tabletop roleplay is like than the aforementioned ''Lodoss War'', despite not actually being so closely based off an actual campaign. ''Lodoss War'' has been described as being the campaign the DM planned, whereas ''Slayers'' has been described as the campaign the players ended up playing.
:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Spice and Wolf''''': A show about [[Horo]], wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for [[Leman Russ]],) and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting

*'''''Maoyuu Maou Yuusha''''': (''Geopolitical Economic Theories in My D&D?''): An anime in which the brave Hero (named Hero coincidentally) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord. In retaliation the Demon Lord (named Demon Queen/Lord) diplomances him into submission, explains how the economy works, then proceeds to dominate the southern human realm with basic human rights, intelligent farming methods and smart business strategies. Originated as a webnovel published on 2chan's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''.
:Related games: [[Settlers of Catan]], [[GURPS]] Fantasy Setting, [[Ironclaw]], [[Road to Enlightenment]], Deus Vult: Wargaming in the Time of the Crusades, [[Reign]]

*'''''Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings''''': Several feudal cults fight each other in massive battles, spearheaded by OP samurai with their own special attributes. Somehow includes a massive fucking cyborg titan.
:Related games: Civilization, LoL

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': (''Little Girls in Panties''): WWII flying aces redrawn as [[loli]] airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about the show would make [[Dive into the Sky|a good homebrew.]]
:Related games: [[Axis & Allies]], Axis and Allies Angels 20, Ace of Aces, a metric fuckton of quests

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins, who win every game they play, are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders, where they have to save the humans from getting steamrolled by 15 other races, all of whom use magic to cheat since Humans can't sense magic being cast.. Involves plenty of traditional-of-traditional games being played, with metagaming tricks and cheating.
:Related games: A lot of "normal" [[board games]]

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's [[Dragonmech]]: The Anime...kinda.

*'''''Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?''''': Sakamaki Izayoi, Kudou Asuka and Kudou Yoh are invited and transported to a place called "Little Garden", a sprawling meltingpot of races grouped into communities. The three children are given "Gifts" and participate in the high-stakes "Gift Games", that can win back the prestige and territory of their community. The setting has analogies to Planescape's Sigil in general.
:Related games:[[Planescape|Planescape]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

*'''''Night Wizard!''''' is a 2007 anime licensed from the [http://www.fear.co.jp/nw/ same-named Japanese TRPG] (that uses [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ FEAR's free Standard RPG System]). It's based on an actual campaign and the DVD even has the original sessions as an alternate audio track, which is awesome ...for anyone who understands Japanese. [TV series: 13 episodes]

*'''''Chaos Dragon: Sekiryū Sen'eki''''' is a 2015 anime based on sessions of the Japanese TRPG ''[http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon]''. The players and GM are veterans from other anime productions, [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16889 more details at ANN.] [TV series: 12 episodes]

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about it's characters or it's plot, it details a Witch in the 100 years war between England and France trying to stop the fighting, but it's accuracy. To be blunt, it's not historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate period.] If you want to get a decent idea of period weapons techniques, Maria is far from worst media you could watch to see what this kind of fighting looked like.
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]], [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]]

==Comedy==
*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]]. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, [[/d/]]eviance, [[Sanity]] loss (complete with official-format [[Call of Cthulhu]] character sheets), and gratuitous rape of canon ensue. [[Butthurt|"She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"]]
:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Daily Life with Monstergirls''''': An anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. [[Monstergirls]] everywhere, in glorious full-color animation. The manga this is based off of had a few brain cells and funny bones to rub together as well; expect to love or hate slaking your thirst for waifu herein. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so while there is no actual sex, don't go in expecting "good clean fun!"
:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]], [[Maid RPG]]

==Things That Aren't Anime, But Which You Thought Were==
*'''''[[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.
:Related games: /v/ stuff, shmups, D&D 4th edition (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]])

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French 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. Not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]]
:Related games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting, and apparently has its own RPG rules in France.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once]
:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]

*Akira(?)

/d/

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107.4.44.221: /* What You Can Find On /d/ */

[[Category:NSFW]][[Category:Awesome]][[Category:FAIL]][[Category:4chan|d]]
[[File:D, just like tg with more dicks.png|250px|right|thumb|[[Elf slave, wat do?| Ack ack, ack ack?]]]]{{/d/}}
''"It isn't gay if it's a feminine penis." -Anonymous''

/d/ is for /d/eviant, and therefore doesn't have much to do with /tg/ or this wiki.

Except that it has everything to do with it because just about every fa/tg/uy (and the vast majority of ca/tg/irls) is a /d/eviant.

And vice-versa.

There's a ''lot'' of overlap.

It is tacitly known that /d/ enjoys the favor of [[Slaanesh]]. It is often referred to as /tg/'s secret Waifu.

A small warning, if you go to /d/, you might develop new fetishes. Such is the corrupting nature of chaos.

The rules state that no Western-style art may be posted, since most of it is shitty. Occasionally an anon will post something worth looking at that is, in fact, somewhat decent.

/d/ has been working on a new logo lately. You can contact the person behind the revision at the e-mail address opnewdlogo@hushmail.com if you're interested in helping.

==Overview==
[[File:Mantisgirl.jpg|250px|right|thumb|A typical /d/ image.]]
/d/ is the Hentai (Alternative) board for most of the *chans (most notably 4chan). This board is functionally where any hentai that is too extreme for /h/ winds up. What exactly constitutes "too extreme" is a matter of subjectivity, and virtually everything can be found on /d/ at some point or another. Of particular note, /tg/ is a fan of [[-4_Str|muscle girls]] and monstergirls, both of which are kind of common here. [[Warhammer 40,000]] porn is found in abundance and [[PROMOTIONS]] flow like wine in a Bacchanalian revel.

/d/ and a few facets of it are routinely referenced/made fun of in [[Ribbon]].

[[Board-tans/d|/d/-tan]] is often depicted as a hermaphroditic monstergirl with tentacle-hair. She enjoys [[FATAL|raping]] /x/.

==What You Can Find On /d/==
[[File:Guardsman_visits_d.jpg|220px|thumb|right|A brave Imperial Guardsman makes the unfortunate mistake to visit /d/ without a flamer.]]
* Futanari
* [[Trap]]s
* Vore
* [[Tzeentch|Corruption]]
* [[Monstergirls]]
* [[-4 STR|Muscle Girls]]
* Futanari
* Pregnant girls
* Girls giving birth/laying eggs
* Girls getting eggs laid inside of them
* Hermaphrodites
* ''Non''-Shitting dick nipples
* Human furniture, literally
* Futanari on male
* Tickling
* Lactation
* BDSM
* Futanari on female
* Diapers
* [[Rape]]
* Tentacle porn (consensual and otherwise)
* [[Extra Heresy|Super rape]]
* [[Ribbon|Breast expansion]]
* [[Dark Eldar|Unnecessary surgical enhancement]]
* Waterworks
* Futanari on other futanari
* Futadom world project
* Dozens of other things both tame and bizarre
* Things like [http://fenoxo.com/play/ Corruption of Champions], a Flash-based text RPG for those who like [[Monstergirls]]. Though the creator is a [[Furry|Furfag]], he's kept the various NPCs squarely within /d/ territory, so enjoy.
* Did we mention futanari?

==Things Not Allowed on /d/, of all things==
* Furries
* Guro
* Scat
* [[Heterosexual Sex in the Missionary Position]]
* Excessively Western Art

==/d/ Music==
Yes there are songs that are quite /d/ such as:
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLGU7G-unkI ''Cathouse Tragedy''] by Voltaire
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RGrd9cLsW0 ''Penis Envy''] by Uncle Bonsai
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEPHLPmt914 ''I'd Like To Teach The World To Fap''] by Zone
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4HcuR3Iyso ''Pantscada''] from the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt OST (probably more /h/ than /d/)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ayyuEiIMo ''Violent Pornography'' by System of a Down] (goalhorn of the /d/ [[4chan cup]] team!)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLpfrhHSYoM ''I Like It''], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1jzVJjk32E ''I Must Increase My Bust''], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDYjP0uLiDU ''The Power Is Mine''] by Lords of Acid (actually, strike that; quite literally anything by Lords of Acid would do).
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=remsKH-HzNQ ''Dirty Song''] by Cars Can Be Blue.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Ios9Qv0XU ''La Ballade De L'Obsédé''] by Richard Gotainer.

==[[Meme]]s started by /d/==
* [[Brundlepenis]]
* [[Heterosexual Sex in the Missionary Position]]
* Jet Porn
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Manga

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107.4.44.221: /* Notable and/or /tg/ Related Manga */

[[Image:TG Manga.png|500px|thumb|right|The [[40k]] part of [[/tg/]] reimagined as a manga. And yes that is the [[spiritual liege]] in the top left.]]
'''Manga''' are like comics, except Japanese, and read from right to left. Alongside [[anime]], manga are one of the stereotypical [[weeaboo]]'s favourite things. It is very common for popular manga series to receive animated adaptations and vice versa, prompting [[skub|endless debate]] amongst fans about which version is better. Manga are sometimes referred to as ''mangos'' by both detractors and fans.

==Notable and/or /tg/ Related Manga==
*'''''One piece''''' - Your average retarded shounen characters. But Whitebeard makes up for everything with his sheer manliness and the fact that he's Smashfucker. No, seriously, look the series. That guy seemed to have a 2+/2++ and a 2+FNP and a 3+ IWND. Despite the cheerful and colorful atmosphere this manga presents to its reader, it shares the same grimdark element with 40k. A corrupt government called W.G.(world government) is known for [[Exterminatus|obliterate an island for treason]], [[administratum|erase/revise documented history]] and sending [[assassin|CP9(cipher pol 9), assassins with super martial art technique]], Admirals that has the power to shit volcano fist, shoot light laser and freeze the fucking ocean in half to deal with pirates.
*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''' - An alchemist embarks on a quest to find the Philosopher's Stone, an artifact that he believes can recover his brother's body and his own missing limbs. Really, how could you not have heard of this?
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''' - [[Rip_and_Tear|GUTS HUEG]]
*'''''[[Blame!]]''''' - Silent cyberapocalypse goodness
*'''''Coppelion''''' - In 2036 AD, Tokyo has turned into wasteland after a nuclear reactor explosion. Coppelion, a group of [[Female Space Marines|genetically engineered girls]] in school uniform has to find a way to restore Japan and fighting off a rebellious faction of [[Death Korps of Krieg]]. It's basically the same thing happened on [[Krieg]], but in Japan.
*'''''Demon Detective Neuro''''' - Tzeentch's early days before the grimdark future.
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''' - Manly enough to [[/d/|cause you to grow a penis if you don't already have one]], or to cause [[Slaanesh|your penis to grow a penis]] if you do.
*'''''[[Franken Fran]]''''' - "'''Dude...what?!'''" Makes you think you're stoned, even if you're not. Also squick. (Note: you cannot turn these into good campfire stories no matter how hard you try.)
*'''''Gunnm''''' - Dystopian futuristic cyberpunk martial arts character piece about cyborgs, all drawn beautifully. Also very nineties.
*'''''[[Adeptus Custodes|JoJo's Bizzare Adventure]]''''' - A story about supernatural power fighting spirits and the same bizarre shit happen in the warp. It's notably have male man with [[Fist of the North Star|Kenshiro]] type body doing fabulous pose and being overall, godamn manly as hell. Gayer than Freddie Mercury and at least as badass. This manga is also where the [[Eversor|WRRRYYY]] meme came from, but the only differences is a [[baneblade|steamroller]].
*'''''King of RPGs''''' - [[Weeaboo|American "manga"]] about many things /tg/. Suspend some disbelief, but much better than it sounds.
*'''''Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou''''' - We... we [[NSFW|don't like to talk]] about ''[[Monstergirl|this one]]''.
*'''''Ookami no Kuchi: Wolfsmund''''' - A true grimdark tale of a sadistic creed set in 14th century of Europe (Switzerland). It has violence, sex and basically everything Berserk has minus the fantasy elements. Like Warhammer, it has no happy ending.
*'''''[[Quick Start!!]]''''' - Affectionately called "My Little Neckbeard", this series is about a group of teenage girls traveling through the world of traditional gaming.
*'''''Uzumaki''''' - Goddamncreepyasfuck supernatural/cosmic horror story about spirals. Author was originally in dentistry, which explains a lot.
*'''''Vinland Saga''''' - One of Berserk's spiritual successors, though more rooted in reality. This one is about historical [[Vikings|vikings]].
*'''''[[Yotsuba|Yotsuba&]]''''' - A manga where the main character is the mascot of 4chan.
*'''''Dungeon Meshi''''' - A relative newcomer to the scene of /tg/-related manga, this delightful little series chronicles the escapades of a small adventuring party exploring a dungeon and feeding off the monsters within. That's right, they, with the help of a mysterious [[dorf]], butcher, cook, and eat the monsters. Detailed recipes for the lavish dishes are provided, sadly unaccompanied by advice on the procurement of the required ingredients. Reading this comic on an empty stomach is not advised.

The portion of /tg/ that doesn't immediately shout "''[[weeaboo]]''!" whenever anything remotely Asian is mentioned generally agrees that Berserk (at least, early Berserk) and Blame! are very good reads. Although Blame! might be more accurately described as a "look" since it has very little dialogue.

If any of you have noticed a disproportionate number of notable titles over at the /tg/-[[Approved anime]] page, this comes from two main factors. First, the number of good manga that don't have an anime adaptation or ''overshadow'' their anime adaptation is very small these days. Usually this restricts "manga-only" stories to older manga or quirky manga. The second reason is simply a culture issue: few /tg/ neckbreards are also /a/ or /jp/ enough to know and recommend good, /tg/-related manga.

==See Also==
*[[Super Genki Wallhammer Faulty-Kai]]

[[Category:Weeaboo]][[Category:Approved Media]]

Manga

2015-09-07T04:44:31Z

107.4.44.221: /* Notable Manga */

[[Image:TG Manga.png|500px|thumb|right|The [[40k]] part of [[/tg/]] reimagined as a manga. And yes that is the [[spiritual liege]] in the top left.]]
'''Manga''' are like comics, except Japanese, and read from right to left. Alongside [[anime]], manga are one of the stereotypical [[weeaboo]]'s favourite things. It is very common for popular manga series to receive animated adaptations and vice versa, prompting [[skub|endless debate]] amongst fans about which version is better. Manga are sometimes referred to as ''mangos'' by both detractors and fans.

==Notable and/or /tg/ Related Manga==
*'''''One piece''''' - Your average retarded shounen characters. But Whitebeard makes up for everything with his sheer manliness and the fact that he's Smashfucker. No, seriously, look the series. That guy seemed to have a 2+/2++ and a 2+FNP and a 3+ IWND. Despite the cheerful and colorful atmosphere this manga presents to its reader, it shares the same grimdark element with 40k. A corrupt government called W.G.(world government) is known for [[Exterminatus|obliterate an island for treason]], [[administratum|erase/revise documented history]] and sending [[assassin|CP9(cipher pol 9), assassins with super martial art technique]], Admirals that has the power to shit volcano fist, shoot light laser and freeze the fucking ocean in half to deal with pirates.
*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''' - An alchemist embarks on a quest to find the Philosopher's Stone, an artifact that he believes can recover his brother's body and his own missing limbs. Really, how could you not have heard of this?
*'''''[[Berserk]]''''' - [[Rip_and_Tear|GUTS HUEG]]
*'''''[[Blame!]]''''' - Silent cyberapocalypse goodness
*'''''Coppelion''''' - In 2036 AD, Tokyo has turned into wasteland after a nuclear reactor explosion. Coppelion, a group of [[Female Space Marines|genetically engineered girls]] in school uniform has to find a way to restore Japan and fighting off a rebellious faction of [[Death Korps of Krieg]]. It's basically the same thing happened on [[Krieg]], but in Japan.
*'''''Demon Detective Neuro''''' - Tzeentch's early days before the grimdark future.
*'''''[[Fist of the North Star]]''''' - Manly enough to cause [[Slaanesh|your penis to grow a penis.]]
*'''''[[Franken Fran]]''''' - "'''Dude...what?!'''" Makes you think you're stoned, even if you're not. Also squick. (Note: you cannot turn these into good campfire stories no matter how hard you try.)
*'''''Gunnm''''' - Dystopian futuristic cyberpunk martial arts character piece about cyborgs, all drawn beautifully. Also very nineties.
*'''''[[Adeptus Custodes|JoJo's Bizzare Adventure]]''''' - A story about supernatural power fighting spirits and the same bizarre shit happen in the warp. It's notably have male man with [[Fist of the North Star|Kenshiro]] type body doing fabulous pose and being overall, godamn manly as hell. Gayer than Freddie Mercury and at least as badass. This manga is also where the [[Eversor|WRRRYYY]] meme came from, but the only differences is a [[baneblade|steamroller]].
*'''''King of RPGs''''' - [[Weeaboo|American "manga"]] about many things /tg/. Suspend some disbelief, but much better than it sounds.
*'''''Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou''''' - We... we [[NSFW|don't like to talk]] about ''[[Monstergirl|this one]]''.
*'''''Ookami no Kuchi: Wolfsmund''''' - A true grimdark tale of a sadistic creed set in 14th century of Europe (Switzerland). It has violence, sex and basically everything Berserk has minus the fantasy elements. Like Warhammer, it has no happy ending.
*'''''[[Quick Start!!]]''''' - Affectionately called "My Little Neckbeard", this series is about a group of teenage girls traveling through the world of traditional gaming.
*'''''Uzumaki''''' - Goddamncreepyasfuck supernatural/cosmic horror story about spirals. Author was originally in dentistry, which explains a lot.
*'''''Vinland Saga''''' - One of Berserk's spiritual successors, though more rooted in reality. This one is about historical [[Vikings|vikings]].
*'''''[[Yotsuba|Yotsuba&]]''''' - A manga where the main character is the mascot of 4chan.
*'''''Dungeon Meshi''''' - A relative newcomer to the scene of /tg/-related manga, this delightful little series chronicles the escapades of a small adventuring party exploring a dungeon and feeding off the monsters within. That's right, they, with the help of a mysterious [[dorf]], butcher, cook, and eat the monsters. Detailed recipes for the lavish dishes are provided, sadly unaccompanied by advice on the procurement of the required ingredients. Reading this comic on an empty stomach is not advised.

The portion of /tg/ that doesn't immediately shout "''[[weeaboo]]''!" whenever anything remotely Asian is mentioned generally agrees that Berserk (at least, early Berserk) and Blame! are very good reads. Although Blame! might be more accurately described as a "look" since it has very little dialogue.

If any of you have noticed a disproportionate number of notable titles over at the /tg/-[[Approved anime]] page, this comes from two main factors. First, the number of good manga that don't have an anime adaptation or ''overshadow'' their anime adaptation is very small these days. Usually this restricts "manga-only" stories to older manga or quirky manga. The second reason is simply a culture issue: few /tg/ neckbreards are also /a/ or /jp/ enough to know and recommend good, /tg/-related manga.

==See Also==
*[[Super Genki Wallhammer Faulty-Kai]]

[[Category:Weeaboo]][[Category:Approved Media]]

Noblebright

2015-09-07T04:16:11Z

107.4.44.221: /* Stuff considered NobleBright */

'''NobleBright''' is an adjective derived from the term often used to describe Warhammer 40k: [[Grimdark|GrimDark]]. Just as every hero has a "mirror opposite" version that is evil, it's supposed that there must be a mirror opposite version of the heroes of WH40k where everything goes RIGHT for a change. It can also be used to describe artwork that has a noble/bright feel, even if the setting itself would not normally be considered noble or bright.

Where the GrimDark tag usually describes a setting in a slow, painful decline, the NobleBright tag usually describes a setting emerging from a dark age returning to or in the midst of a golden age.

== Canonical Example: WarHammer vs. BrightHammer ==

This alternate universe's game, [[BrightHammer40k]], comes with the tagline ''"In the Noble Brightness of the far future, there is only HIGH ADVENTURE!"'' This is as opposed to the original tagline of Warhammer 40k, which stated, "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war." BrightHammer40k's setting has strong 1920's-1940's pulp fiction themes, crossed with an "age of myth" bronze age culture.

Differences between WarHammer 40k and BrightHammer 40k include:
* The setting is loosely divided into city-states united by race, religion, philosophy or just simple common sense, rather than singular empires defined by paranoia.
* There is a wide variety in the type of characters, nations, flora and fauna, and major characters in the setting.
* There is an overall "pulp fiction" feel. Just like real life.
* The universe is old, in the process of rediscovering a forgotten golden age.
* Low level conflicts such as raiding are considered common, but war is not. Just like Mongolia.
* Everyone is in a perpetual cold war with everyone else, but almost never an active war.
* Technology is wildly inconsistent. Just like Alaska.
* Villains are over the top, campy, and rarely played seriously. Very much like North Korea.
* Leaders are usually diplomats or wise "philosopher-kings" like in North Korea.
* Heroes do most of the heavy lifting in society, and there are heroes, great and minor, at every level of society.
* There is a strong emphasis on individual strength.
* Good guys can be jerks, but are still good guys.
* Over the top heroism usually carries the day.
* Obvious, thinly disguised Secret Agents everywhere.
* The setting is entering a technological renaissance.
* Everything is bright or vividly colored.
* As seen on TV!

Compared to Warhammer40k, Brighthammer40k is generally brighter and a nicer place to live, but is by no means peaceful, always in a low level state of conflict, internal and external, never quite turning into war. The skull motif is replaced by wings, and colors are often brighter.

==8chan Anon Explains the Grim/Noble and Dark/Bright Spectrum==

Grim/Noble asks whether there are heroes that exist, may appear to change the world for good or ill.
A noble setting isn't one where everyone is good, more like one where people are active :
In a grim world, no matter what you do, an individual can't secure more than an individual victory, if even than, because the rest of the world is too big/scared/powerless/selfish to act upon his impulse.
A noble world is one where the action of a single hero can change the world, and a single big villain can fuck it all up : there are important people, who are so either by birth, rank or sheer willpower, and every single one of these people MATTER.
40k is grim(dark) because it is static : your SM chapter may save planets for a living, yet the stars won't even notice they exist. In much the same way, Sandman (Neil Gaiman's) is grim(bright) : no matter how incredible the things Dream gets to experience are, he is ultimately trapped by the static nature of his existence and that of his companions : he could do anything, and it would all be for nothing. All victories are individual, and usually temporary, affairs.
Something like Morrowind or Berserk is noble (bright and dark, respectively) because it is about one man forcing destiny's hand and changing the world.

Now, a bright world is one full of opportunity, of wondrous sights to behold. It doesn't mean that it has to be MLP, it can be dangerous, but your first instinct when looking at a new location should be awe and wonder : people may adventure to save the world, but they leave town with a smile upon their face, eager to see what comes next. The shadow of Risk is largely erased by the glint of Adventure. In a bright world, it's quite possible for people to go on adventure just for the hell of it, since the journey is it's own reward. Ressurection, or at least means to heal grave injuries, are usually accessible, to counterbalance the fact that the risks out there are real.
A dark world is one where life sucks, and usually not long : whether it be because of demon overlords 'nids or even the lack of water, everyone in this story may die, and they die for good. If you lose an arm, you play a cripple. In the extreme cases, even when you win a fight, your career is over (gangrene etc…). That means that, even though people may be ready to help (noble), people will need a good reason to do so, since stepping out of line is so dangerous.

40k is (grim)dark because, no matter where you go, there is only war, and heroism's only reward is usually a noch on a gun or a corpse in a trench. No matter who you are, most of the galaxy probably wants you dead, and staying home today is the best choice you can make. Also, even if you make it to the end, you may have to sacrifice everything to save everyone, if you haven't already done so.
Berserk is (noble)dark because, while there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel, it takes men and women of insane willpower to get there : no matter whether you are big or small, even when you have nothing, the only thing that may save the world is that will in you that says "go on !" And if hope was to fails, you'd get a book-long bloodbath-orgy, and all it's consequences afterwards.
Morrowind is (noble)bright because, even though the world is fraught with dangers, there is so much to see, so many interesting people to meet, so many cool things to experience that, at the end of the road, you'd do it all over again if given the chance to see it once again with virgin eyes. Sandman is (grim)bright because the incredible vistas and interesting people are all that can distract Dream from the dullness of his existence. He will tire of them all, but even him has to admit that he saw some cool shit. Also, notice how the relative freedom from consequences (people can get somewhat rezzed/healed/characters don't die much), a bright trait, reinforces the futility of the struggle in a grim world.

In short, grimdark and noblebright worlds both exist, and both are interesting to play in. So do grimbright (those are quite weird, I admit) and nobledark (my favorite : victory is so much sweeter when you have to fight for it). Every type allows for evil and struggles to exist, and for stories to be told. Evil can even triumph : it's less of a matter of who wins, and more of a matter of tone. In a bright world, the BBEG can win, but he won't skullfuck everyone the PCs know in front of a crowd without the mood turning to dark.

I'll leave you with some examples :

Grimdark : WHFB, W40K, Game of Thrones, Oedipus.

Grimbright : Sandman, The Sims, most Tycoon games, Eclipse Phase, most of Zeus' flings with mortals (from the gods' perspective).

Nobledark : Berserk, LotR, Starcraft, Dark Sun, Terminator, the Iliad.

Noblebright : Morrowind, D&D/PF (usually), Magi, Warcraft, Star wars, Trine, the Odyssey, and of course, Star Trek.

== Stuff considered NobleBright ==

<center>
{|border=1 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0
|- align=left
! NobleBright
! ...and GrimDark
|-
| [[Brighthammer_40,000_(2nd_edition)|BrightHammer 40k]] || [[Warhammer_40,000|WarHammer 40k]]
|-
| [[Exalted]](Well, Zig-zags between the two ) || [[Vampire:_The_Masquerade|Vampire:tM]], [[Werewolf:_The_Apocalypse|Werewolf:tA]] ([[oWoD]])
|-
| [[Changeling:_The_Dreaming|Changeling:tD]] ([[oWoD]]) || [[Changeling:_The_Lost|Changeling:tL]] ([[nWoD]])
|-
|[[Geist: The Sin-Eaters]] ([[nWoD]]) ||[[ Wraith: The Oblivion]] ([[oWoD]])
|-
|[[D20_Modern|D20 Modern]] || [[Call_of_Cthulhu|Call of Cthulhu]]
|-
| Special Unit 2 || Delta Green
|-
| [[Star Trek]] (in general) || Farscape
|-
| Firefly || Blake's 7
|-
| Battlestar Galactica || Lexx
|-
| Temeraire Series || [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Game of Thrones]]
|-
| Sword Art Online: Alfheim Online || Sword Art Online: Gun Gale Online
|-
| [[Rogue Trader (RPG)|Rogue Trader]] || [[Dark Heresy]]
|-
| The Wizard of Oz || Soul Eater
|-
| MACROSS (Robotech) || Neon Genesis Evangelion
|-
| [[7th Sea]] || [[Poison'd]]
|-
| Zoids || Gundam
|-
| [[Spirit of the Century]] || [[Don't Rest Your Head]]
|-
| [[Traveller]] || [[Eclipse Phase]]
|-
| [[Dragonlance]] || [[Dark Sun]]
|-
| [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar]] (not [[Avatar|Cameron's furfic)]] || Kaze no Stigma
|-
| [[Warcraft]] || [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]
|-
| [[Magic the gathering|Alara]], [[Theros]], [[Lorwyn]] || [[Innistrad]], [[Phyrexia|New Phyrexia]], [[Shadowmoor]]
|-
| [[Neverwinter Nights]] || Dragon Age
|-
| [[The Elder Scrolls]] (Well, somewhat, if you ignore Kirkbride's EU-thing) || Gothic
|-
| Final Fantasy || Shin Megami Tensei
|-
| [[Command and Conquer]]: Red Alert series || [[Command and Conquer]]: Tiberium series
|-
| Animorphs || Terraformars
|-
| Fate/Stay Night || Fate/Zero
|-
| [[Starcraft]] II || [[Starcraft|Starcraft: Brood War]]
|-
| [[Diablo]] III || [[Diablo]] I & II
|-
| Grand Theft Auto 1 || Saints Row 1
|-
| Saints Row 3 || Grand Theft Auto 4
|-
| Fable III || [[Dark Souls]]
|-
| Kid Icarus || God of War
|-
| Mass Effect 1 || Mass Effect 3
|-
| Mass Effect universe || [[Setting:Halo|Halo universe]] (especially the Forerunner Trilogy)
|-
| [[Setting:Halo|Halo universe]] || Dead Space universe
|-
| Spore || Darkspore
|-
| Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann || Getter Robo Armageddon
|-
| Rebuild of Evangelion || The Vision of Escaflowne
|-
| Neo-Hunter Casshern || Casshern Sins
|-
| Mai-Otome || Mai-Hime (last 10 episodes at least)
|-
| Cardcaptor Sakura || Puella Magi Madoka Magica
|-
| Power Rangers in General || Power Rangers RPM
|-
| Super Sentai || Kamen Rider (especially the Showa Era ones)
|-
| Kamen Rider (most Heisei Era ones) || GARO
|-
| Batman: the Brave & the Bold || Batman: TAS (first two seasons only)
|-
| [[Star Wars RPG|Star Wars Episode I, IV, V, VI, Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie and Season 1, and a decent portion of the Expanded Universe]] || [[Star Wars D20|Star Wars Episode II, III, Star Wars: The Clone Wars from Season 2 onwards, and the other half the Expanded Universe]]
|-
| Little House on the Prairie || Deadwood
|-
| Full House || Married With Children
|-
| The Green Zone || The Hurt Locker
|-
| The Sarah Jane Adventures || [[Doctor Who|Torchwood]]
|-
| ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' || ''Risen 2: Dark Waters''
|-
| Justice || Watchmen
|-
| Twilight Saga || Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
|-
| ''Lois and Clark'' || ''Man of Steel''
|-
| Planetary || The Authority
|-
| Cyanide and Happiness || [http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=132 pictures for sad children]
|-
| The Silver Age of Comic Books || The Dark Age of Comic Books
|-
| [[Steampunk|Steampunk Genre]] || [[Cyberpunk|Cyberpunk Genre]]
|-
| Raspberry Pi || OpenPandora
|-
| South Korea || North Korea
|-
| Discworld || [[A Song of Ice and Fire]]
|-
| A Wizard of Earthsea || The Tombs of Atuan
|-
| Mega Man (Classic, Legends, Battle Network, ZX, Star Forces 1 and 2)|| Mega Man (X, Zero, Star Force 3,) The Protomen
|-
| The Chronicles of Narnia|| His Dark Materials
|-
| Just Cause 2 || Spec Ops: The Line
|-
| Plants VS Zombies || The Last of Us
|-
| Mirror's Edge || Assassin's Creed
|-
| Iron Kingdoms MKii || Iron Kingdoms MKi
|-
| Marvel Comics films || DC Universe films
|-
| Warehouse 13 || The SCP Foundation
|-
| [[Eberron]] || [[Dragonmech]]
|-
| [[Planescape]] || [[Ravenloft]]
|-
| InFamous || Prototype
|-
| Harry Potter 1-3 || Harry Potter 4-7 (ESPECIALLY 7th)
|-
| Deus Ex 0-2 || System Shock 1-2
|-
| RoboCop || Terminator
|-
| Homeworld 1 and 2 || Homeworld: Cataclysm (when the Beast make their first appearance)
|-
| [[Fist of the North Star]] || Violence Jack
|-
| The Simpsons || South Park
|-
| The Glaive || Conan the Barbarian
|-
| The Hobbit || The Silmarillion
|-
| [[Mordheim]] || [[Malifaux]]
|-
| Civilization:Beyond Earth || [[Alpha Centauri]]
|-
| [[The New Testament]] || [[The Old Testament]]
|-
| Overwatch || [[Team Fortress 2]] (Especially Mann vs. Machine)
|-
| Ghostbusters films and Real Ghostbusters || | Extreme Ghostbusters
|-
| Metal Gear (in general) || | Metal Gear Solid V
|-
| Girls und Panzer || World of Tanks
|-
| Far Cry 1 || | Far Cry 2 and 3
|-
| Overstrike || | Fuse
|-
| Digimon Adventure || | Digimon Tamers
|-
|Fallout series || | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
|-
|S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series || | Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light
|-
|[[Approved anime|Slayers]] || | Bastard!!

</center>

[[Category:Brighthammer]]

Noblebright

2015-09-07T04:15:37Z

107.4.44.221: /* Stuff considered NobleBright */

Noblebright

2015-09-07T04:07:07Z

107.4.44.221: /* Stuff considered NobleBright */

'''NobleBright''' is an adjective derived from the term often used to describe Warhammer 40k: [[Grimdark|GrimDark]]. Just as every hero has a "mirror opposite" version that is evil, it's supposed that there must be a mirror opposite version of the heroes of WH40k where everything goes RIGHT for a change. It can also be used to describe artwork that has a noble/bright feel, even if the setting itself would not normally be considered noble or bright.

Where the GrimDark tag usually describes a setting in a slow, painful decline, the NobleBright tag usually describes a setting emerging from a dark age returning to or in the midst of a golden age.

== Canonical Example: WarHammer vs. BrightHammer ==

This alternate universe's game, [[BrightHammer40k]], comes with the tagline ''"In the Noble Brightness of the far future, there is only HIGH ADVENTURE!"'' This is as opposed to the original tagline of Warhammer 40k, which stated, "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war." BrightHammer40k's setting has strong 1920's-1940's pulp fiction themes, crossed with an "age of myth" bronze age culture.

Differences between WarHammer 40k and BrightHammer 40k include:
* The setting is loosely divided into city-states united by race, religion, philosophy or just simple common sense, rather than singular empires defined by paranoia.
* There is a wide variety in the type of characters, nations, flora and fauna, and major characters in the setting.
* There is an overall "pulp fiction" feel. Just like real life.
* The universe is old, in the process of rediscovering a forgotten golden age.
* Low level conflicts such as raiding are considered common, but war is not. Just like Mongolia.
* Everyone is in a perpetual cold war with everyone else, but almost never an active war.
* Technology is wildly inconsistent. Just like Alaska.
* Villains are over the top, campy, and rarely played seriously. Very much like North Korea.
* Leaders are usually diplomats or wise "philosopher-kings" like in North Korea.
* Heroes do most of the heavy lifting in society, and there are heroes, great and minor, at every level of society.
* There is a strong emphasis on individual strength.
* Good guys can be jerks, but are still good guys.
* Over the top heroism usually carries the day.
* Obvious, thinly disguised Secret Agents everywhere.
* The setting is entering a technological renaissance.
* Everything is bright or vividly colored.
* As seen on TV!

Compared to Warhammer40k, Brighthammer40k is generally brighter and a nicer place to live, but is by no means peaceful, always in a low level state of conflict, internal and external, never quite turning into war. The skull motif is replaced by wings, and colors are often brighter.

==8chan Anon Explains the Grim/Noble and Dark/Bright Spectrum==

Grim/Noble asks whether there are heroes that exist, may appear to change the world for good or ill.
A noble setting isn't one where everyone is good, more like one where people are active :
In a grim world, no matter what you do, an individual can't secure more than an individual victory, if even than, because the rest of the world is too big/scared/powerless/selfish to act upon his impulse.
A noble world is one where the action of a single hero can change the world, and a single big villain can fuck it all up : there are important people, who are so either by birth, rank or sheer willpower, and every single one of these people MATTER.
40k is grim(dark) because it is static : your SM chapter may save planets for a living, yet the stars won't even notice they exist. In much the same way, Sandman (Neil Gaiman's) is grim(bright) : no matter how incredible the things Dream gets to experience are, he is ultimately trapped by the static nature of his existence and that of his companions : he could do anything, and it would all be for nothing. All victories are individual, and usually temporary, affairs.
Something like Morrowind or Berserk is noble (bright and dark, respectively) because it is about one man forcing destiny's hand and changing the world.

Now, a bright world is one full of opportunity, of wondrous sights to behold. It doesn't mean that it has to be MLP, it can be dangerous, but your first instinct when looking at a new location should be awe and wonder : people may adventure to save the world, but they leave town with a smile upon their face, eager to see what comes next. The shadow of Risk is largely erased by the glint of Adventure. In a bright world, it's quite possible for people to go on adventure just for the hell of it, since the journey is it's own reward. Ressurection, or at least means to heal grave injuries, are usually accessible, to counterbalance the fact that the risks out there are real.
A dark world is one where life sucks, and usually not long : whether it be because of demon overlords 'nids or even the lack of water, everyone in this story may die, and they die for good. If you lose an arm, you play a cripple. In the extreme cases, even when you win a fight, your career is over (gangrene etc…). That means that, even though people may be ready to help (noble), people will need a good reason to do so, since stepping out of line is so dangerous.

40k is (grim)dark because, no matter where you go, there is only war, and heroism's only reward is usually a noch on a gun or a corpse in a trench. No matter who you are, most of the galaxy probably wants you dead, and staying home today is the best choice you can make. Also, even if you make it to the end, you may have to sacrifice everything to save everyone, if you haven't already done so.
Berserk is (noble)dark because, while there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel, it takes men and women of insane willpower to get there : no matter whether you are big or small, even when you have nothing, the only thing that may save the world is that will in you that says "go on !" And if hope was to fails, you'd get a book-long bloodbath-orgy, and all it's consequences afterwards.
Morrowind is (noble)bright because, even though the world is fraught with dangers, there is so much to see, so many interesting people to meet, so many cool things to experience that, at the end of the road, you'd do it all over again if given the chance to see it once again with virgin eyes. Sandman is (grim)bright because the incredible vistas and interesting people are all that can distract Dream from the dullness of his existence. He will tire of them all, but even him has to admit that he saw some cool shit. Also, notice how the relative freedom from consequences (people can get somewhat rezzed/healed/characters don't die much), a bright trait, reinforces the futility of the struggle in a grim world.

In short, grimdark and noblebright worlds both exist, and both are interesting to play in. So do grimbright (those are quite weird, I admit) and nobledark (my favorite : victory is so much sweeter when you have to fight for it). Every type allows for evil and struggles to exist, and for stories to be told. Evil can even triumph : it's less of a matter of who wins, and more of a matter of tone. In a bright world, the BBEG can win, but he won't skullfuck everyone the PCs know in front of a crowd without the mood turning to dark.

I'll leave you with some examples :

Grimdark : WHFB, W40K, Game of Thrones, Oedipus.

Grimbright : Sandman, The Sims, most Tycoon games, Eclipse Phase, most of Zeus' flings with mortals (from the gods' perspective).

Nobledark : Berserk, LotR, Starcraft, Dark Sun, Terminator, the Iliad.

Noblebright : Morrowind, D&D/PF (usually), Magi, Warcraft, Star wars, Trine, the Odyssey, and of course, Star Trek.

== Stuff considered NobleBright ==

<center>
{|border=1 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0
|- align=left
! NobleBright
! ...and GrimDark
|-
| [[Brighthammer_40,000_(2nd_edition)|BrightHammer 40k]] || [[Warhammer_40,000|WarHammer 40k]]
|-
| [[Exalted]](Well, Zig-zags between the two ) || [[Vampire:_The_Masquerade|Vampire:tM]], [[Werewolf:_The_Apocalypse|Werewolf:tA]] ([[oWoD]])
|-
| [[Changeling:_The_Dreaming|Changeling:tD]] ([[oWoD]]) || [[Changeling:_The_Lost|Changeling:tL]] ([[nWoD]])
|-
|[[Geist: The Sin-Eaters]] ([[nWoD]]) ||[[ Wraith: The Oblivion]] ([[oWoD]])
|-
|[[D20_Modern|D20 Modern]] || [[Call_of_Cthulhu|Call of Cthulhu]]
|-
| Special Unit 2 || Delta Green
|-
| [[Star Trek]] (in general) || Farscape
|-
| Firefly || Blake's 7
|-
| Battlestar Galactica || Lexx
|-
| Temeraire Series || [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Game of Thrones]]
|-
| Sword Art Online: Alfheim Online || Sword Art Online: Gun Gale Online
|-
| [[Rogue Trader (RPG)|Rogue Trader]] || [[Dark Heresy]]
|-
| The Wizard of Oz || Soul Eater
|-
| MACROSS (Robotech) || Neon Genesis Evangelion
|-
| [[7th Sea]] || [[Poison'd]]
|-
| Zoids || Gundam
|-
| [[Spirit of the Century]] || [[Don't Rest Your Head]]
|-
| [[Traveller]] || [[Eclipse Phase]]
|-
| [[Dragonlance]] || [[Dark Sun]]
|-
| [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar]] (not [[Avatar|Cameron's furfic)]] || Kaze no Stigma
|-
| [[Warcraft]] || [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]
|-
| [[Magic the gathering|Alara]], [[Theros]], [[Lorwyn]] || [[Innistrad]], [[Phyrexia|New Phyrexia]], [[Shadowmoor]]
|-
| [[Neverwinter Nights]] || Dragon Age
|-
| [[The Elder Scrolls]] (Well, somewhat, if you ignore Kirkbride's EU-thing) || Gothic
|-
| Final Fantasy || Shin Megami Tensei
|-
| [[Command and Conquer]]: Red Alert series || [[Command and Conquer]]: Tiberium series
|-
| Animorphs || Terraformars
|-
| Fate/Stay Night || Fate/Zero
|-
| [[Starcraft]] II || [[Starcraft|Starcraft: Brood War]]
|-
| [[Diablo]] III || [[Diablo]] I & II
|-
| Grand Theft Auto 1 || Saints Row 1
|-
| Saints Row 3 || Grand Theft Auto 4
|-
| Fable III || [[Dark Souls]]
|-
| Kid Icarus || God of War
|-
| Mass Effect 1 || Mass Effect 3
|-
| Mass Effect universe || [[Setting:Halo|Halo universe]] (especially the Forerunner Trilogy)
|-
| [[Setting:Halo|Halo universe]] || Dead Space universe
|-
| Spore || Darkspore
|-
| Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann || Getter Robo Armageddon
|-
| Rebuild of Evangelion || The Vision of Escaflowne
|-
| Neo-Hunter Casshern || Casshern Sins
|-
| Mai-Otome || Mai-Hime (last 10 episodes at least)
|-
| Cardcaptor Sakura || Puella Magi Madoka Magica
|-
| Power Rangers in General || Power Rangers RPM
|-
| Super Sentai || Kamen Rider (especially the Showa Era ones)
|-
| Kamen Rider (most Heisei Era ones) || GARO
|-
| Batman: the Brave & the Bold || Batman: TAS (first two seasons only)
|-
| [[Star Wars RPG|Star Wars Episode I, IV, V, VI, Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie and Season 1, and a decent portion of the Expanded Universe]] || [[Star Wars D20|Star Wars Episode II, III, Star Wars: The Clone Wars from Season 2 onwards, and the other half the Expanded Universe]]
|-
| Little House on the Prairie || Deadwood
|-
| Full House || Married With Children
|-
| The Green Zone || The Hurt Locker
|-
| The Sarah Jane Adventures || [[Doctor Who|Torchwood]]
|-
| ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' || ''Risen 2: Dark Waters''
|-
| Justice || Watchmen
|-
| Twilight Saga || Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
|-
| ''Lois and Clark'' || ''Man of Steel''
|-
| Planetary || The Authority
|-
| Cyanide and Happiness || [http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=132 pictures for sad children]
|-
| The Silver Age of Comic Books || The Dark Age of Comic Books
|-
| [[Steampunk|Steampunk Genre]] || [[Cyberpunk|Cyberpunk Genre]]
|-
| Raspberry Pi || OpenPandora
|-
| South Korea || North Korea
|-
| Discworld || [[A Song of Ice and Fire]]
|-
| A Wizard of Earthsea || The Tombs of Atuan
|-
| Mega Man (Classic, Legends, Battle Network, ZX, Star Forces 1 and 2)|| Mega Man (X, Zero, Star Force 3,) The Protomen
|-
| The Chronicles of Narnia|| His Dark Materials
|-
| Just Cause 2 || Spec Ops: The Line
|-
| Plants VS Zombies || The Last of Us
|-
| Mirror's Edge || Assassin's Creed
|-
| Iron Kingdoms MKii || Iron Kingdoms MKi
|-
| Marvel Comics films || DC Universe films
|-
| Warehouse 13 || The SCP Foundation
|-
| [[Eberron]] || [[Dragonmech]]
|-
| [[Planescape]] || [[Ravenloft]]
|-
| InFamous || Prototype
|-
| Harry Potter 1-3 || Harry Potter 4-7 (ESPECIALLY 7th)
|-
| Deus Ex 0-2 || System Shock 1-2
|-
| RoboCop || Terminator
|-
| Homeworld 1 and 2 || Homeworld: Cataclysm (when the Beast make their first appearance)
|-
| [[Fist of the North Star]] || Violence Jack
|-
| The Simpsons || South Park
|-
| The Glaive || Conan the Barbarian
|-
| The Hobbit || The Silmarillion
|-
| [[Mordheim]] || [[Malifaux]]
|-
| Civilization:Beyond Earth || [[Alpha Centauri]]
|-
| [[The New Testament]] || [[The Old Testament]]
|-
| Overwatch || [[Team Fortress 2]] (Especially Mann vs. Machine)
|-
| Ghostbusters films and Real Ghostbusters || | Extreme Ghostbusters
|-
| Metal Gear (in general) || | Metal Gear Solid V
|-
| Girls und Panzer || World of Tanks
|-
| Far Cry 1 || | Far Cry 2 and 3
|-
| Metroid series || | Metroid Prime 2
|-
| Overstrike || | Fuse
|-
| Digimon Adventure || | Digimon Tamers
|-
|Fallout series || | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
|-
|S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series || | Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light
|}

</center>

[[Category:Brighthammer]]

Mekton

2015-08-24T03:49:56Z

107.4.44.221: /* Editions of Mekton */

==Mekton==
Mekton is a [[role-playing game]] made by the same guys who did [[Cyberpunk 2020]] which centers on the conventions of mecha anime and science fiction (although it can easily enough be adapted to other genres like police drama or high fantasy). It has seen several editions since its introduction in 1984, the most recent, Mekton Zeta (メクトン Z; a reference to the influential mecha anime ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'') being first published in 1994.

==Mekton is batshit crazy==
As you read through the most recent book (Mekton Zeta Plus), it might seem as a normal, if modular, RPG. The weapons seem a bit silly but well within the bounds of what you see in [[Anime|your Japanese animes]]. There's energy weapons, projectile weapons, missiles; just like [[BattleTech]] except there's also shields and more melee weapons. There's all sorts of modifications to be found, ranging from drones and extra armor to EWAR and ECCM. But around the time you hit the Thought Control rules ([[Titans_40k|plugging your brain directly into your mech]]) you might start to suspect there's something going on. Then you hit the rules for Lightspeed and Teleportation, where you realize this is not just a real robot game. Then you hit the Transformation and Combiner rules (including turning into motorcycles and what the guy in Not-Voltron's left leg does when they're in the big robot form).

And then, Stupid Mekton Tricks.

This pulls out all of the anime stops. Hammerspace, merging with your Mekton, super jumping skills, hijacking other Mekton, absorbing and reusing parts from other mechs you just tore off, transforming into buildings, gadgets, guns (yes, there are specific rules for building [[Transformers|Megatron]]), rules for super-deformed Mektons [[Weeaboo|including the new "Kawaii" and "Kowoi" stats]] and even for building yourself a [[Xeno|moe robot waifu]].

So in other words, you can build [[Wat|a robot girl who leaps across the battlefield and turns into a gun to hijack kawaii enemy mechs by holding their pilots at gunpoint,]] ''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann'' style. Yes, you just read that.

Suffice to say, Mekton is Batshit Crazy.

As such, it is STRONGLY advised that its [[GM]]s clearly define the do's and don'ts, lest you get a batshit crazy game consisting of several mechs that should not exist, alone or in a group.

No, scratch that. Do it. Give your players the book, a number of points and let them go to town. Then GM that shit. It will make for the most memorable game of your life.

==Automated Mekton Zeta Mek Sheet Maker==
An Excel sheet on Google Drive which functions with entirely too much horribly put together code to automatically calculate all the things needed to make a Mek for Mekton Zeta (plus Technical Manual), so you have to do as little work as possible in making a Mek and even less math. No autism required here!

* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HrqFYexa2QrbEBJi0EeCmK5Fa8B1nD63aLHygAnLVvM/edit?usp=sharing Automated Mek Sheet]

And you'll want this if you wish to use the above properly.

*[http://pastebin.com/23Qrpp59 Mekton Zeta Automated Mek Sheet Readme]

Additionally, there is a Mekton Zeta character sheet as well. Currently. it only supports stats up to 10. It automatically tallies hits, EV, weight and everything.

* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15HoA7laZEhLslI15f60V7ybARbEkUqPzF6lAdPMFNO0/edit?usp=sharing Automated Character Sheet]

==Editions of Mekton==
* "White Box" ''Mekton'' (1984) - this was closer to a board game than to the RPG we know today. It had a large hex map representing the terrain of an entire planet.
* ''Mekton'' (1984) - softcover book using a custom percentile-based task resolution system.
** ''Roadstriker'' (1986) - rules for human-scale transformable vehicles and power suit mecha, more advanced transformable mecha design options, and a police drama adventure
* ''Mekton II'' (1987) - converted ''Mekton'' to run on the ''Interlock System'', later used in ''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]''. Cover art by [[Ben Dunn]].
** ''Mekton Techbook''/''Mekton Technical System'' (''MTB''/''MTS'') (1991) - a major conversion of the mecha-building system of ''Mekton''
* ''Mekton Zeta'' (メクトン Z) (1994) - general update and improvement of ''Mekton II''. Significantly more animu. [[Weeaboo|This is very much an improvement.]]
** ''Mekton Zeta Plus'' (メクトン Z プラス) (1994) - general update and improvement of the ''Mekton Techbook''
*''Gundam Senki'' (2000) - Japanese language ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' RPG using the ''Mekton'' system. A US release is in development hell.

Another edition of Mekton has been announced and funded on Kickstarter. According to the head designer, this game will be the game that he originally envisioned Mekton to be. It will be what Mekton was like when it was a homebrew he and his buddies went nuts with before its animu-ness was watered down for a commercial release for the then-uninitiated western public, hence its name, "Mekton Zero".

Get hype.

==Official Settings==
* Algol - A "grab bag" setting in an alternate universe, mixing many different styles of anime together. This setting originated with the first edition of ''Mekton'', but fell into disuse after line editor Michael MacDonald left R. Talsorian. Algol was the default setting for ''Mekton'' and ''Mekton II'', and remains in ''Mekton Z'' for legacy purposes. Algol is a long-lost human colony of the Bendar Galactic Empire, where the various factions are locked in a cold war and must deal with an impending ice age and the possible return of their ancient alien enemy, the fearsome Aggendi lizard warriors.
* Mekton Empire - A space opera setting taking hints from ''[[Captain Harlock]]'', ''[[Gundam]]'' and ''[[Voltron]]'', set in the distant Bendar Spiral Galaxy. It added rules for playing aliens (including non-humanoids), space combat, psionics and creating new alien creatures.
* [[Jovian Chronicles]] - A heavily ''[[Gundam]]''-inspired licensed setting created by ''[[Dream Pod 9]]'', set in the 23rd Century. This would later become a separate game using Dream Pod 9's ''[[Silhouette System]]'', a system that constantly reassures you of how simple it is whilst providing you even less context then the do it yourself manual for a helicopter.
* Invasion Terra - A ''[[Macross]]''-like setting in the future of 2105. Inasmuch as there is a default campaign setting for ''Mekton Z'', this is it.
* Imperial Star - Very similar to Mekton Empire but set in the Milky Way Galaxy.
* Quicksilver Blues - Unreleased as of 2004 (complete since at least 2000). As of 2005, Quicksilver Blues is being reworked into a new and separate role-playing game called "Era³" by its original developers, [http://www.atomicrocketgames.com Atomic Rocket Games].
* Starblade Battalion - Another ''[[Gundam]]''-like setting, set in the far future of the ''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]'' world ([[Anno Domini|AD]] 2180).

==Notable Fan Settings==
Because ''Mekton'' has a relatively low amount of official support, and because it is designed as a universal "tool kit" role-playing system rather than being themed around a particular anime series (though fans of the system note that it is decidedly skewed toward "[[hard science fiction|hard SF]]" type mecha anime, like ''Gundam'' and ''Macross''), many fan settings have appeared for it since its release. Some of the most notable are indicated below.

* [http://www.meta-earth.com/metal/index.html Metal Storm 2380] - Mark Chase; a particularly notable early fan setting, including an original story based on its campaign setting.
* [http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/mekton/index.html Nova Team Arcol] - Christian Conkle; based on the official Algol campaign setting.
* [http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/dk/index.html Mekton F: Dragon Knights (Bubblegum Conundrum 2050)] - Christian Conkle; based on ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''.
* [http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/mekton/powersuitcity/index.htm Powersuit City]; based primarily on a cross between ''[[Galaxy Fraulein Yuna]]'' and ''[[Teenagers from Outer Space (role-playing game)|Teenagers from Outer Space]]''.
* [http://members.tripod.com/virtualmekton/ Virtual Mekton] - A semi-official setting created by the ''Mekton Z'' Mailing List and its spin-off, the Virtual Mekton Mailing List. Loosely based on the video game ''[[Virtual On]]'' and the manga ''[[Break-Age]]''.

==I guess you're gay now==
It is possible for your character to be outed as homosexual during character creation (one of the "friends" listings is "ex-lover," and since you roll gender for your friends randomly...)

[[Category:Roleplaying]]

Mekton

2015-08-24T03:42:15Z

107.4.44.221: /* Editions of Mekton */

==Mekton==
Mekton is a [[role-playing game]] made by the same guys who did [[Cyberpunk 2020]] which centers on the conventions of mecha anime and science fiction (although it can easily enough be adapted to other genres like police drama or high fantasy). It has seen several editions since its introduction in 1984, the most recent, Mekton Zeta (メクトン Z; a reference to the influential mecha anime ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'') being first published in 1994.

==Mekton is batshit crazy==
As you read through the most recent book (Mekton Zeta Plus), it might seem as a normal, if modular, RPG. The weapons seem a bit silly but well within the bounds of what you see in [[Anime|your Japanese animes]]. There's energy weapons, projectile weapons, missiles; just like [[BattleTech]] except there's also shields and more melee weapons. There's all sorts of modifications to be found, ranging from drones and extra armor to EWAR and ECCM. But around the time you hit the Thought Control rules ([[Titans_40k|plugging your brain directly into your mech]]) you might start to suspect there's something going on. Then you hit the rules for Lightspeed and Teleportation, where you realize this is not just a real robot game. Then you hit the Transformation and Combiner rules (including turning into motorcycles and what the guy in Not-Voltron's left leg does when they're in the big robot form).

And then, Stupid Mekton Tricks.

This pulls out all of the anime stops. Hammerspace, merging with your Mekton, super jumping skills, hijacking other Mekton, absorbing and reusing parts from other mechs you just tore off, transforming into buildings, gadgets, guns (yes, there are specific rules for building [[Transformers|Megatron]]), rules for super-deformed Mektons [[Weeaboo|including the new "Kawaii" and "Kowoi" stats]] and even for building yourself a [[Xeno|moe robot waifu]].

So in other words, you can build [[Wat|a robot girl who leaps across the battlefield and turns into a gun to hijack kawaii enemy mechs by holding their pilots at gunpoint,]] ''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann'' style. Yes, you just read that.

Suffice to say, Mekton is Batshit Crazy.

As such, it is STRONGLY advised that its [[GM]]s clearly define the do's and don'ts, lest you get a batshit crazy game consisting of several mechs that should not exist, alone or in a group.

No, scratch that. Do it. Give your players the book, a number of points and let them go to town. Then GM that shit. It will make for the most memorable game of your life.

==Automated Mekton Zeta Mek Sheet Maker==
An Excel sheet on Google Drive which functions with entirely too much horribly put together code to automatically calculate all the things needed to make a Mek for Mekton Zeta (plus Technical Manual), so you have to do as little work as possible in making a Mek and even less math. No autism required here!

* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HrqFYexa2QrbEBJi0EeCmK5Fa8B1nD63aLHygAnLVvM/edit?usp=sharing Automated Mek Sheet]

And you'll want this if you wish to use the above properly.

*[http://pastebin.com/23Qrpp59 Mekton Zeta Automated Mek Sheet Readme]

Additionally, there is a Mekton Zeta character sheet as well. Currently. it only supports stats up to 10. It automatically tallies hits, EV, weight and everything.

* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15HoA7laZEhLslI15f60V7ybARbEkUqPzF6lAdPMFNO0/edit?usp=sharing Automated Character Sheet]

==Editions of Mekton==
* "White Box" ''Mekton'' (1984) - this was closer to a board game than to the RPG we know today. It had a large hex map representing the terrain of an entire planet.
* ''Mekton'' (1984) - softcover book using a custom percentile-based task resolution system.
** ''Roadstriker'' (1986) - rules for human-scale transformable vehicles and power suit mecha, more advanced transformable mecha design options, and a police drama adventure
* ''Mekton II'' (1987) - converted ''Mekton'' to run on the ''Interlock System'', later used in ''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]''. Cover art by [[Ben Dunn]].
** ''Mekton Techbook''/''Mekton Technical System'' (''MTB''/''MTS'') (1991) - a major conversion of the mecha-building system of ''Mekton''
* ''Mekton Zeta'' (メクトン Z) (1994) - general update and improvement of ''Mekton II''. Significantly more animu. [[Weeaboo|This is very much an improvement.]]
** ''Mekton Zeta Plus'' (メクトン Z プラス) (1994) - general update and improvement of the ''Mekton Techbook''
*''Gundam Senki'' (2000) - Japanese language ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' RPG using the ''Mekton'' system. A US release is in development hell.

Another edition of Mekton has been announced and funded on Kickstarter. According to the head designer, this game will be the game that he originally envisioned Mekton to be. It will be what Mekton was like when it was a homebrew he his buddies went nuts with before its animu-ness was watered down for a commercial release for the then-uninitiated western public, hence its name, "Mekton Zero".

Get hype.

==Official Settings==
* Algol - A "grab bag" setting in an alternate universe, mixing many different styles of anime together. This setting originated with the first edition of ''Mekton'', but fell into disuse after line editor Michael MacDonald left R. Talsorian. Algol was the default setting for ''Mekton'' and ''Mekton II'', and remains in ''Mekton Z'' for legacy purposes. Algol is a long-lost human colony of the Bendar Galactic Empire, where the various factions are locked in a cold war and must deal with an impending ice age and the possible return of their ancient alien enemy, the fearsome Aggendi lizard warriors.
* Mekton Empire - A space opera setting taking hints from ''[[Captain Harlock]]'', ''[[Gundam]]'' and ''[[Voltron]]'', set in the distant Bendar Spiral Galaxy. It added rules for playing aliens (including non-humanoids), space combat, psionics and creating new alien creatures.
* [[Jovian Chronicles]] - A heavily ''[[Gundam]]''-inspired licensed setting created by ''[[Dream Pod 9]]'', set in the 23rd Century. This would later become a separate game using Dream Pod 9's ''[[Silhouette System]]'', a system that constantly reassures you of how simple it is whilst providing you even less context then the do it yourself manual for a helicopter.
* Invasion Terra - A ''[[Macross]]''-like setting in the future of 2105. Inasmuch as there is a default campaign setting for ''Mekton Z'', this is it.
* Imperial Star - Very similar to Mekton Empire but set in the Milky Way Galaxy.
* Quicksilver Blues - Unreleased as of 2004 (complete since at least 2000). As of 2005, Quicksilver Blues is being reworked into a new and separate role-playing game called "Era³" by its original developers, [http://www.atomicrocketgames.com Atomic Rocket Games].
* Starblade Battalion - Another ''[[Gundam]]''-like setting, set in the far future of the ''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]'' world ([[Anno Domini|AD]] 2180).

==Notable Fan Settings==
Because ''Mekton'' has a relatively low amount of official support, and because it is designed as a universal "tool kit" role-playing system rather than being themed around a particular anime series (though fans of the system note that it is decidedly skewed toward "[[hard science fiction|hard SF]]" type mecha anime, like ''Gundam'' and ''Macross''), many fan settings have appeared for it since its release. Some of the most notable are indicated below.

* [http://www.meta-earth.com/metal/index.html Metal Storm 2380] - Mark Chase; a particularly notable early fan setting, including an original story based on its campaign setting.
* [http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/mekton/index.html Nova Team Arcol] - Christian Conkle; based on the official Algol campaign setting.
* [http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/dk/index.html Mekton F: Dragon Knights (Bubblegum Conundrum 2050)] - Christian Conkle; based on ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''.
* [http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/mekton/powersuitcity/index.htm Powersuit City]; based primarily on a cross between ''[[Galaxy Fraulein Yuna]]'' and ''[[Teenagers from Outer Space (role-playing game)|Teenagers from Outer Space]]''.
* [http://members.tripod.com/virtualmekton/ Virtual Mekton] - A semi-official setting created by the ''Mekton Z'' Mailing List and its spin-off, the Virtual Mekton Mailing List. Loosely based on the video game ''[[Virtual On]]'' and the manga ''[[Break-Age]]''.

==I guess you're gay now==
It is possible for your character to be outed as homosexual during character creation (one of the "friends" listings is "ex-lover," and since you roll gender for your friends randomly...)

[[Category:Roleplaying]]

Mekton

2015-08-24T03:40:51Z

107.4.44.221: /* Mekton is batshit crazy */

==Mekton==
Mekton is a [[role-playing game]] made by the same guys who did [[Cyberpunk 2020]] which centers on the conventions of mecha anime and science fiction (although it can easily enough be adapted to other genres like police drama or high fantasy). It has seen several editions since its introduction in 1984, the most recent, Mekton Zeta (メクトン Z; a reference to the influential mecha anime ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'') being first published in 1994.

==Mekton is batshit crazy==
As you read through the most recent book (Mekton Zeta Plus), it might seem as a normal, if modular, RPG. The weapons seem a bit silly but well within the bounds of what you see in [[Anime|your Japanese animes]]. There's energy weapons, projectile weapons, missiles; just like [[BattleTech]] except there's also shields and more melee weapons. There's all sorts of modifications to be found, ranging from drones and extra armor to EWAR and ECCM. But around the time you hit the Thought Control rules ([[Titans_40k|plugging your brain directly into your mech]]) you might start to suspect there's something going on. Then you hit the rules for Lightspeed and Teleportation, where you realize this is not just a real robot game. Then you hit the Transformation and Combiner rules (including turning into motorcycles and what the guy in Not-Voltron's left leg does when they're in the big robot form).

And then, Stupid Mekton Tricks.

This pulls out all of the anime stops. Hammerspace, merging with your Mekton, super jumping skills, hijacking other Mekton, absorbing and reusing parts from other mechs you just tore off, transforming into buildings, gadgets, guns (yes, there are specific rules for building [[Transformers|Megatron]]), rules for super-deformed Mektons [[Weeaboo|including the new "Kawaii" and "Kowoi" stats]] and even for building yourself a [[Xeno|moe robot waifu]].

So in other words, you can build [[Wat|a robot girl who leaps across the battlefield and turns into a gun to hijack kawaii enemy mechs by holding their pilots at gunpoint,]] ''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann'' style. Yes, you just read that.

Suffice to say, Mekton is Batshit Crazy.

As such, it is STRONGLY advised that its [[GM]]s clearly define the do's and don'ts, lest you get a batshit crazy game consisting of several mechs that should not exist, alone or in a group.

No, scratch that. Do it. Give your players the book, a number of points and let them go to town. Then GM that shit. It will make for the most memorable game of your life.

==Automated Mekton Zeta Mek Sheet Maker==
An Excel sheet on Google Drive which functions with entirely too much horribly put together code to automatically calculate all the things needed to make a Mek for Mekton Zeta (plus Technical Manual), so you have to do as little work as possible in making a Mek and even less math. No autism required here!

* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HrqFYexa2QrbEBJi0EeCmK5Fa8B1nD63aLHygAnLVvM/edit?usp=sharing Automated Mek Sheet]

And you'll want this if you wish to use the above properly.

*[http://pastebin.com/23Qrpp59 Mekton Zeta Automated Mek Sheet Readme]

Additionally, there is a Mekton Zeta character sheet as well. Currently. it only supports stats up to 10. It automatically tallies hits, EV, weight and everything.

* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15HoA7laZEhLslI15f60V7ybARbEkUqPzF6lAdPMFNO0/edit?usp=sharing Automated Character Sheet]

==Editions of Mekton==
* "White Box" ''Mekton'' (1984) - this was closer to a board game than to the RPG we know today. It had a large hex map representing the terrain of an entire planet.
* ''Mekton'' (1984) - softcover book using a custom percentile-based task resolution system.
** ''Roadstriker'' (1986) - rules for human-scale transformable vehicles and power suit mecha, more advanced transformable mecha design options, and a police drama adventure
* ''Mekton II'' (1987) - converted ''Mekton'' to run on the ''Interlock System'', later used in ''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]''. Cover art by [[Ben Dunn]].
** ''Mekton Techbook''/''Mekton Technical System'' (''MTB''/''MTS'') (1991) - a major conversion of the mecha-building system of ''Mekton''
* ''Mekton Zeta'' (メクトン Z) (1994) - general update and improvement of ''Mekton II''. Significantly more animu. [[Weeaboo|This is very much an improvement.]]
** ''Mekton Zeta Plus'' (メクトン Z プラス) (1994) - general update and improvement of the ''Mekton Techbook''
*''Gundam Senki'' (2000) - Japanese language ''Mobile Suit [[Gundam]]'' RPG using the ''Mekton'' system. Scheduled for US release, release date unspecified at this time.

Another edition of Mekton has been announced and funded on Kickstarter. According to the head designer, this game will be the game that he originally envisioned Mekton to be. It will be what Mekton was like when it was a homebrew he his buddies went nuts with before its animu-ness was watered down for a commercial release for the then-uninitiated western public, hence its name, "Mekton Zero".

Get hype.

==Official Settings==
* Algol - A "grab bag" setting in an alternate universe, mixing many different styles of anime together. This setting originated with the first edition of ''Mekton'', but fell into disuse after line editor Michael MacDonald left R. Talsorian. Algol was the default setting for ''Mekton'' and ''Mekton II'', and remains in ''Mekton Z'' for legacy purposes. Algol is a long-lost human colony of the Bendar Galactic Empire, where the various factions are locked in a cold war and must deal with an impending ice age and the possible return of their ancient alien enemy, the fearsome Aggendi lizard warriors.
* Mekton Empire - A space opera setting taking hints from ''[[Captain Harlock]]'', ''[[Gundam]]'' and ''[[Voltron]]'', set in the distant Bendar Spiral Galaxy. It added rules for playing aliens (including non-humanoids), space combat, psionics and creating new alien creatures.
* [[Jovian Chronicles]] - A heavily ''[[Gundam]]''-inspired licensed setting created by ''[[Dream Pod 9]]'', set in the 23rd Century. This would later become a separate game using Dream Pod 9's ''[[Silhouette System]]'', a system that constantly reassures you of how simple it is whilst providing you even less context then the do it yourself manual for a helicopter.
* Invasion Terra - A ''[[Macross]]''-like setting in the future of 2105. Inasmuch as there is a default campaign setting for ''Mekton Z'', this is it.
* Imperial Star - Very similar to Mekton Empire but set in the Milky Way Galaxy.
* Quicksilver Blues - Unreleased as of 2004 (complete since at least 2000). As of 2005, Quicksilver Blues is being reworked into a new and separate role-playing game called "Era³" by its original developers, [http://www.atomicrocketgames.com Atomic Rocket Games].
* Starblade Battalion - Another ''[[Gundam]]''-like setting, set in the far future of the ''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]'' world ([[Anno Domini|AD]] 2180).

==Notable Fan Settings==
Because ''Mekton'' has a relatively low amount of official support, and because it is designed as a universal "tool kit" role-playing system rather than being themed around a particular anime series (though fans of the system note that it is decidedly skewed toward "[[hard science fiction|hard SF]]" type mecha anime, like ''Gundam'' and ''Macross''), many fan settings have appeared for it since its release. Some of the most notable are indicated below.

* [http://www.meta-earth.com/metal/index.html Metal Storm 2380] - Mark Chase; a particularly notable early fan setting, including an original story based on its campaign setting.
* [http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/mekton/index.html Nova Team Arcol] - Christian Conkle; based on the official Algol campaign setting.
* [http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/dk/index.html Mekton F: Dragon Knights (Bubblegum Conundrum 2050)] - Christian Conkle; based on ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''.
* [http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/mekton/powersuitcity/index.htm Powersuit City]; based primarily on a cross between ''[[Galaxy Fraulein Yuna]]'' and ''[[Teenagers from Outer Space (role-playing game)|Teenagers from Outer Space]]''.
* [http://members.tripod.com/virtualmekton/ Virtual Mekton] - A semi-official setting created by the ''Mekton Z'' Mailing List and its spin-off, the Virtual Mekton Mailing List. Loosely based on the video game ''[[Virtual On]]'' and the manga ''[[Break-Age]]''.

==I guess you're gay now==
It is possible for your character to be outed as homosexual during character creation (one of the "friends" listings is "ex-lover," and since you roll gender for your friends randomly...)

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