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{{topquote|Why are monstergirls better than a [[No Girls on the Internet|real woman]]?"<br>"Because the monster is on the outside.|Exchange posted on [[8chan|/monster/]]}}

==[[Meme|I'm 12 and What Is This?]]==
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==I'm Now 18 and Always Was and What Is This?==
[[File:FurryVsMonstergirl.png|thumb|right|400px|Anon explains the differences between furries and monstergirls.]]
Alright, you've probably heard of the [[Furry]] fetish - for all the absolute hate it gets on /tg/, it gets mentioned around here enough. Monstergirls aren't furries - /tg/ is '''very''' adamant about this, and if there's one thing more likely to get you ballbusted than bringing up furries, it's trying to argue about the difference/lack thereof between the two. Monstergirls are where [[/tg/]] and [[/d/]] have their greatest overlap - sexy, decidedly not-human, girls who happen to be among the things everyone on /tg/ loves the most. To put it simply, were [[Rule 34]] and a [[Dungeons and Dragons]] Monster Manual to have [[/d/|hardcore ball-busting sex]], monstergirls would be the product of their sweaty lust, and both parents would look upon their children with pride.

In essence: Take a monster and add bits of female human anatomy until you have something left that's fairly sexy. Then, for good measure, add a bit of behavioral changes similar to the creature before. The most common form of this, especially from [[Weeaboo]] artists, is basically a human girl with tails, ears, inhuman limbs, spikes, [[Abyssal Merfolk|tentacles]], or whatever; they often ending up looking like cosplay creations if not handled well. Ironically, more monstrous-looking monstergirls (lizardgirls with scaled human faces, for example) are just as likely to be blasted as being "furry scum" as they are to be defended by fa/tg/uys. 'Better' yet, animal monstergirls like centaurs, minotaurs and harpies suffer the most from the constant quarreling over where the line between monstergirl and female not-quite-so-furry lies, but /tg/ is generally willing to ignore the furriness of anything an actual furry would happily call a "20% or less furry".

The Japanese like to use the term "Kemonomimi" to describe this kind of girl, which literally translates as "animal ears". Most otherwise animalistic monsters fall under this category by giving them more human features than their original versions (i.e. harpies, minotaurs, sometimes sphinxes, etc). [[Gnoll]]s and [[kobold]]s occupy an uncertain place in particular, since even most MG fans can't really picture them without a bestial-looking face... except this is totally not the case. Go to ANY furry board, especially Fchan, and you will find long arguments about how monstergirls ARE furries. And oddly, lot of furries do not want this to be so, yet others insist on it.

In /tg/'s eyes, the difference is this: There's anthropomorphic fans; people who dig humans with animal features. This is common and HARMLESS, and these people can be found in dozens of different boards. Hell, there's even [[Touhou]]s with Cat Ears.
:''"Girls with cat ears are so cute!"
This is normal, and there's nothing wrong with this.

Then there's [[Furry|furries]] who have a sexual fetish for people-shaped animals, or who want to be people-shaped animals '''AND''' dress up as animals. These people are hated but they're usually not so ba- {{BLAM|<nowiki>*BLAM*</nowiki> Showing one atom of ''sympathy'' is '''HERESY!'''}}
:<s>''"Oh god, [[Chakat]]s are totally hot, I'd do them so hard"</s>
::{{BLAM|HERMAPHRODITE ALIEN FURRY EROTICA? {{BLAM}} {{BLAM}} Stevens? Yes, si- {{BLAM}} [[Extra Heresy|'''TRIPLE HERESY!''']]}}
As you can see from our friend the [[Commissar]], this is [[Heresy]] to be shunned.

Please, they are just a bunch of fu{{BLAM}} anyone who try to compare monstergirls with furries or otherwise using monstergirls to cover for furries, please contact the [[Inquisition]] as soon as possible.

A wide variety of monstergirls exist - a comprehensive list may be impossible, but some of the most common ones seen on /d/ and /tg/ alike are below:
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* [[Merfolk]]
* [[Tanar'ri|Demon]]/[[Baatezu|Devil]] Girls
* [[Daemonette]]s
* [[Naga]]s/[[Lamia]]s/[[Marilith]]s
* [[Centaurs]]
* [[Minotaur]]s
* [[Trollbloods]] - Delicious blueberry (beef)cake.
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* [[Medusa]]e - ''Keep that blindfold on tight!''
* [[Orc]]s
* [[Troll]]s
* [[Cyclops|Cyclopes]]
* [[Sphinx]]es
* [[Slime]]/Goo Girls
* [[Catfolk|Catgirls]] ''How the f- did nobody include them for all this time, tch.''
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* [[Elemental]] Girls - <br>Fire girls never get to cuddle T_T<br>([[/d/|AND THEN WE INVENTED FIREPROOF SUITS]])
* [[Warforged]]
* [[Succubus|Succubi]]
* [[Franken Fran|Undead Girls]]
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* Shapeshifters
* [[Scylla]]s
* [[Harpy|Harpies]]
* [[Space Harpies]]
* [[Tau]] - aka: ''Delicious blueberry pie''.
* [[Drider]] - Blessing or curse, baby, it's all the same to me.
* [[Goblins]]
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Suffice to say, there's ten shitloads. Monstergirls are one of the few things /tg/ will defend to the death - getting between a fa/tg/uy and his monstergirls will result in [[RAGE|fa/tg/uy rage]] that will give an Angry Marine pause. Note that there are other, decidedly-not-monstergirls that are seen in these threads too - elves aren't exactly Monstergirls and get fucked (over) [[Elf subraces|way too much]] - but they're still allowed, as are miscellaneous [[catgirl]]s, [[kitsune]]s, etc, in spite of the obvious [[Weeaboo]]. There's also a few more monstrous girls, such as [[Thri-Kreen]] or [[Illithid|Mindflayers]], thrown in the mix for both hilarity and [[Awesome|lulz]]. So if you happen upon some desert insect women in a Monstergirl thread? [[Thri-Kreen Erotica|Don't be afraid]] -- it's all good. [[Meme|Make a grapple check if you know what I mean]]. Btw, if you are a ca/tg/irl and are upset about the absence of monsterboys on this site, please note that you are free to just add them yourself.

==So, what's the difference between Furries and Monstergirls?==

This is a matter of some debate; we have a subsection of our [[Furry#Monstergirls_vs._Furries|Furry article dedicated to this]], but two of the main points are:
#Supercreepy (and actually, literally, DSM-5 diagnostically insane) furry fans are the problem the internet has with the fandom, to the point that even the worst monstergirl fans could manage ''usually'' pales in comparison.
#Monstergirls are a more "ordinary" (if porn-heavy) internet fandom, while Furrydom overlaps with being a "lifestyle", thus throwing any fucked shit associated with them into greater focus.

==What about Monsterboys?==
"Monsterboys" is a recognized term, if less famous, that serves to refer to '''male''' monsters who are given a similar "sexy revamp" to the females. Ironically, whilst monsterboys are fairly common in non-/tg/ media - the genre of "supernatural romance" is pretty much '''built''' around sexy male [[vampire]]s (and more rarely [[werewolf|werewolves]] or other mostly human monsters) seducing human women - they are generally not well liked by monstergirls fans. This is because A: most of the Anime monstergirl fans are straight men and thus couldn't care less about male versions, and B: monsterboys are often seen as a "challenge" or an "interference" to most. Whether this is immaturity about accepting there are other men competing for females or the wish to be left alone in our escapism to dream world, [[Skub|it's best not to discuss here]]. This is not to say that there aren't monsterboy artworks out there: some male consumers are bisexual or gay, and there is a small fandom of male yokai loving straight/bi women out there. But obviously, the monsterboy fandom is smaller than its monstergirl counterpart.

As a result, with monstergirls, either there is an extreme sexual dimorphism going on, where the females look like exotic but sexy humanoids and the males are ugly deformed brutes (something that [[Oglaf]] pokes fun of in one famous comic), or the monstergirls are just presented as an exclusively female race that either is totally dependent on human men to breed or has some way of breeding without humans (simply acknowledging the existence of males of a given monsterperson species without showing them naked is surprisingly rare).

The /monster/ board on [[8chan]] absolutely '''''despises''''' monsterboys, demanding that they be shunted off into their own remote splinter-board - /chaos/ - to avoid "contaminating" their precious waifus (yeah, sometimes we're almost as bad as [[furries]] here).

==Official Tabletop Games==
Despite their appeal to the fans of /tg/, monstergirls rarely get any sort of serious shake-down in actual tabletop games. Unfortunately, it's far too easy for such a setting to get derided as a [[magical realm]] (though not without reason) ,so many DMs are afraid to work homebrew settings featuring them, and official settings don't want the "overly sexualised" stigma.

In [[Dungeons & Dragons]], the closest one usually gets to any sort of monstergirl content is in the form of elves. Maybe because of their connection to [[The Lord of the Rings]], elf/human romances have a legitimacy that many other races lack. Demihumans and monstrous humanoids have, traditionally, been portrayed as very unappealing to human semblances; [[goblin]]s and [[orc]]s as wrinkled, warty, big-nosed and snaggle-toothed horrors, [[dwarf]] women as so heavy-faced and hairy that they're indistinguishable from their menfolk, she-[[gnome]]s as prematurely aged crones, [[halfling]]s as fat midgets, and so on. When they are beautiful, such as in the case of the [[succubus]] and the [[lamia]], they're usually described as pure evil, shattering men's minds for abusive sexual pleasure before sucking the life out of them or devouring their flesh. However... as time has passed on, and artists have improved, D&D artwork has slowly been sliding more towards a monstergirl-friendly interpretation. The days of hideously ugly [[demihuman]] women and irredeemably evil monstrous humanoids are dying, leaving more attractive forms and broader possibilities for racial relations than "axe to the head!" in their wake.

[[Pathfinder]], meanwhile, can't seem to make its mind up on the subject. It has a surprising array of attractive monstrous females, even a few monstergirl races; the [[Girtablilu]], a race of ruin-guarding scorpion-taurs, has a very hot female as its iconic bestiary artwork depiction, whilst the [[Thriae]] are a race of sexy bee-girls who explicitly need human men to serve as consorts for their queens and even the sterile non-queens often take human lovers. However, officially, these races tend to be given traits that make mating with them unappealing at best; the ironclad cultural standard amongst [[harpy]] flocks that they must eat the fathers of their children, [[thriae]] keeping their consorts as slaves until they're too old/weak to perform and then euthanizing & cannibalizing them, and so on. But in their adventure paths, they also sometimes throw bones at the fans of monstergirls; their 4th adventure path, "Legacy of Fire", has a non-cannibalistic [[harpy]] as a potential love interest; their 12th one, "Reign of Winter", has a polymorphed [[Winter Wolf]] female named Greta as another potential monstrous love interest; and ''Wrath of the Righteous'' has a ascending-[[succubus]] NPC whose road to redemption is explicitly easier if some kind PC is giving her some lovin'.

Funnily enough, [[GURPS]] embraces the idea, at least within the setting of [[Technomancer]]. Rather than go down the [[Shadowrun]] route of [[Elf|stock]] [[Dorf|fantasy]] [[Orc|races]], the writers instead went with various monstergirls (and one [[furry]]). Just like with everything else GURPS, serious thought is put into the worldbuilding, meaning [[Awesome|the world was written with the brain,]] [[Magical Realm|not the dick]]. And, thanks to GURPS' modular design, as well as ''Template Toolkit 2: Races'' and (ironically) ''Furries'', nothing stops you from simply having them in the next game you run in the system.

==Living With Monstergirl series==
Whenever a monstergirl thread starts, someone will inevitably start posting the "Living With _____" aka "My Life With _____" comics. These are one-page cute erotic stories of a man who has a monstergirl waifu. The author assures us (in an interview vignette) it's not the same guy two-timing these girls, but actually eight identical brothers who each happened to fall in love with a different monstergirl. The brothers sometimes meet one another (and their spouses) mid-comic.

The ones that have been seen/translated are:
* Living with [[Drider|Arachne]] & Living with [[Drider|Arachne]] 2
* Living with [[Merfolk|Mermaid]] & Living with [[Merfolk|Mermaid]] 2
* Living with [[Dullahan]] & Living with [[Dullahan]] 2 (Irish for "headless knight psychopomp")
* Living with [[Slime]] & Living with [[Slime]] 2
* Living with [[Harpy]] & Living with [[Harpy]] 2
* Living with [[Lamia]] & Living with [[Lamia]] 2
* Living with [[Minotaur]]
* Living with [[Centaur]] & Living with [[Centaur]] 2

For those of us who love this kind of thing, the original artist Inui Takemaru (aka Okayado, aka Crabman) has an ongoing monthly [[manga]] based loosely on this series. It's been tamed-down to ecchi for the most part -- you'll see tits at its most adult moments -- but the art style and writing is pretty much what it was back in his old stuff. Somehow it got turned into a harem manga, but that's cool and all. <s>It's not like they're going to do a story arc about the protagonist having to choose a girl.</s> As of now Lamia, Harpy, Centaur, Slime, Mermaid, Arachne, and Dullahan girls have joined the harem/happy family, but plenty others have made appearances, including [[Zombie]], [[Ogre]], [[Cyclops]] and [[Mimic]] girls in a paramilitary squad, a cowgirl, sheepgirl, and two [[wat|cotton girls]] out on a farm, a dryad, a kitsune, a scylla, a hallucinogenic mushroom girl that makes you see in JRPG-vision, and many ''many'' more.

It's going under the title '''Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou''' (''[[Life With Monstergirls|Daily Life with Monstergirls]]'') and is being scanned and translated as it's released. Not securing yourself a copy is considered treason. [[Paranoia|Treason is punishable by death.]] There are now officially translated print versions as well, for <s>purchase</s>plunder wherever <s>monstergirls</s> manga are sold. The official manga has sold so well that it [[awesome|always debuts at number 1 on the NYT best-sellers list]], and at one point was so popular it had a literary critic predicting [[wat|the return of printed porn]]. The translations are punnier in the official version, so [[weeaboo|truly invested fans]] may want to consider reading both the scanlated and official versions.

An anime for this series aired in 2015, with OVAs and sequel teasing. Buy tissues and hand lotion shares now.

As a side note, although the original one-shot comics and the ongoing print manga both use the same template ("X no Iru Nichijou" and "Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou", respectively) for their Moonspeak titles, the generally accepted English titles are "Living With Monstergirl"/"Living With X" for the originals and "Daily Life with Monstergirl(s)" for the current manga.

==The Monster Girl Encyclopedia==
This is the setting that provides a lot of the art in the gallery below, and it's one of the most well-known settings on /tg/ that isn't Monster Musume above. A guy named Kenkou Cross is writing and illustrating a [[NSFW]] encyclopedia on a world where all the monsters have been converted into hybrids between their old monstrous forms and [[Hot Chicks]]. Basically, they are all lustful and want to rape <s>and/or</s> {{Blam|'''AND'''}} '''<u>marry</u>''' whatever man they see <s>(mostly the former)</s> (through force if need be).

The setting is quite notorious on /tg/. Although KC gets a lot of credit for being one of the oldest and most prolific "devoted to publishing monstergirls arts/setting" artists (Felarya is technically older but much, ''much'' more niche, and so less popular), he also gets a lot of flak. Why? Well, for starters, the big problem is that his setting design attracts an ''assload'' of roasting. It is scarily simple to read the many complaints listed for [[Chakat|a certain pile of festering failure]] and substitute in the demonic race and its leader from this one.

To its credit though; unlike Monstergirl Quest below; none of the monstergirls in MGE would ever want to torture, kill, or ''vore'' you to death, and they do genuinely love you.

For more details, read the [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]] page.

==Monster Girl Quest==
[[File:MGQWhy.png|thumb|250px|Being gang-raped to death by a group of sentient zombie monsters is kind of one of the tamer aspects of this game. Believe it or not, more extreme things happen.]]
For those of you who prefer your Japanese content in [[video games|a more interactive medium]], this might just be the game for you. Go on a quest, slay monsters who are also girls, before they slay you. And by slay you, we mean milked to death or raped and then '''[[vore|full-on eaten]]''' upon defeat. The game has a surprising amount of work put into the story, and some very self-aware (and debatably good) jokes that take shots at its own genre, making it a well known and well-liked game amongst a special brand of /d/eviant.

The basic plot of the game is simple; you are a wanna-be hero sworn to the goddess Illias, who has made the destruction of all monstergirls (which are the only kinds of monsters that exist in this setting) her holy dogma. However, you believe that peace between monstergirls and humanity is possible, and want to fight for this. Much, much rape of your character ensues.

In fact, the rape-happy nature of the monstergirls is literally justified by the presence of Illias and her Church: monstergirls can only reproduce with human mates, and many species in fact require human semen as nutrition. Thusly, Illias' dogma of xenophobia drives the resident monstergirls to extreme measures; as far as each monstergirl is concerned, when she meets a Hero (read: Church-backed xenophobic murderhobo) like your character, she's in a battle to the death, whilst at the same time being a starving woman presented with a banquet AND a baby-crazy MILF-to-be given a potential sperm-donor. Thus, just about every monstergirl you encounter ''will'' molest you violently to the best of their abilities, even if they won't kill you.

And best believe they'll kill you. See, unlike MGE above, the [[grimdark]] in this game's setting was 100% the author's intention, and therefore much more visible upfront.

In Monster Girl Quest, you are warned from the start that most monster-girls will casually enslave, kill or eat humans after sex, and this is ''not'' anti-xenophile propaganda like it is in the MGE. As stated above, death or devouring are the most common outcomes if you lose. Even fan-favorite character, your PC's partner Alice, will casually swallow your character whole and digest him alive if you tick her off, and many monstergirls you encounter casually reminisce about their latest prey - one of them, Red Ooze, happily kills and eats the husband of a worried harpy woman desperately asking about her mate in the village. Per typical cringy Karma Houdini JRPG Custom, the murderous monstergirl is merely wounded and retreats.

This blatant murdersex thing is widely regarded as the '''dumbest''' element in the series, and often called a genuine blight on an otherwise really well-written story (for the given value of "well-written" were operating on). It's bad enough that the monstergirls are shown to eat male opponents after triumphing in legitimate life-or-death situations, because that just proves the Church correct when they say that monstergirls are dangerous monsters that must be killed to protect humanity, but it gets even worse when monstergirls will murderrape or vore guys they ''wrongfully assumed'' were hostile... or, worse still, rape-to-death or eat '''guys who legitimately wanted to be their lovers'''. The game tries desperately to justify this, but most fans admit it does a really fucking bad job of it.

For more information, see: [[Mon Musu Quest!]]

==Felarya==
Felarya is an... odd setting. One of the older fleshed out monstergirls settings, Felarya is perhaps the most loved-yet-hated of such settings to appear on /tg/, and in fact is usually driven off of /tg/ when it shows up, in comparison to [[Mon Musu Quest!]] Why is that? Well, every so often, you see something that is created with the root of appealing to a certain fetish. And Felarya is one of those settings. Now, this is nothing new; [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]] is basically built out of its author's obsession with femdom, corruption and [[Loli|loli's]]. But Felarya is built around a much more... [[Double Heresy|controversial]] branch of fetish fuel.

In a nutshell: Felarya is a [[vore]] world, built around a combination of Monstergirls, [[Giant]]ess, and Soft Vore. Or, in other words, the setting is full of oversized monstergirls who think it's perfectly reasonable, when hungry, to find a smaller humanoid, swallow it whole, and then giggle as they feel it digest alive in their stomach. There's a handwave about Felarya being some dimensional dumping ground, a lost [[demiplane]] which randomly opens portals to other locales throughout the [[multiverse]] to allow creatures to stumble into its deadly environs - or, more rarely, make raids outside of it.

Oh, and the setting is ''literally'' built to support and favor the local predators, complete with not only an array of super-powered [[Mary Sue]] OCs, but canonical [[Lady of Pain]]-esque uberdeities who will show up and curbstomp any fledgling nations or super-powered individuals who try to challenge the status quo and break the cycle of humans being eaten by giant monstergirls. This is only slightly balanced out by the fact that what societies are allowed to exist theoretically have the means to fuck off of Felarya via magic portals, but given the fact that the soil makes you immortal without any negative side effects, water has strong healing properties and there being a shitton of prized substances with unique properties makes humans attracted to the dimension like bees to honey, [[Tzeentch|which may be a deliberate dimensional design doctrine all things considered]].

Oh and there is an [[Warp|afterlife]], but the Angels and Demons (also giant nude women) basically feed on positive and negative emotions respectively so the people who are neutral on the alignment chart get to be a fought over resource as both sides attempt to sway them towards good or evil not out of (im)moral motives but just so they have more food. Only upside is that ¨Heaven¨ is more symbiotic with you getting to enjoy yourself until you get bored and fade away while ˝Hell˝ is a vore fest with you as either pathetic morsel or a delicacy, depending on how evil you were.

Yeah... it's kind of a shithole of a setting. The only bright side is that this setting is a prime example of [[Meme|there always being a bigger fish]]. The predators that eat humans? They're something else's dinner too. [[Grimdark|In fact, nearly everything in this setting is some sort of dangerous huge-boobed monstergirl that eats some other sentient creature for lunch.]]

TL;DR: It's <s>the [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]]</s> {{Blam|Warhammer Fantasy crossed with Corruption of Champions}} if you replaced the corruption with vore and giantesses.

If that description put you off (and why would it not?), there's probably not much for you there. The giant boobs get disturbing quick if you aren't into the concept of unrelenting lethal vore.

==What, no mentioning the Bard's Adventures?==
An artist named Frederik K. T. Andersson does a lot of interesting monstergirl (and monsterboy) artwork, sometimes in the form of comics. One of his recurring characters is a highly charismatic, lecherous fool of a bard who runs around like an animal in heat, sleeping with (and usually impregnating) every monstergirl he meets, much to the rage of his (implicitly jealous) female elf teammate. Perhaps his greatest achievement(?) was siring a human/'''rock''' hybrid. Not with a golem or earth elemental. Just, a rock. Even '''he''' wasn't sure how that had worked.

Andersson used to be on a site called ''Elfwood'', but sadly that site went under in the 2010s. [https://www.deviantart.com/derangedmeowmeow So he moved to Deviantart] under the username "DerangedMeowMeow" instead.

Andersson is also famous for starting (but never finishing) "Pawn", a webcomic about a xenophiliac lesbian sorceress who ventures deep into a long-abandoned dungeon in order to use her status as an unkissed virgin to free the sexy giant demon princess bound there... by forcibly binding her into her service so she can ultimately turn her into her sextoy. Yeah, it's a little bit romantic and a little bit fucked up.

==Monster Girls on Tour==
A humor comic with a cast composed entirely of monstergirls (and monsterboys); the protagonist is a Salamander warrior. [http://kukuruyo.com/comic/0-monster-girls-on-tour-cover/ The website] also has a lot of monstergirl artwork.

==Monster Harem Feverish Absolute Passion!==
[http://mhfap.com/ Monster Harem Feverish Absolute Passion!] is a monstergirls webcomic with a slight difference. This takes place in a world where humans and monstergirls once lived side by side. And monstergirls were slaves to men, because mankind compelled their lustful obedience through the power of DICK. But one powerful she-demon grew sick of her people being slaves to humanity. So she managed to whip them into a rebellion, destroying humanity utterly and creating a paradise for monstergirl lesbians - complete with unlocking the ability for monstergirls to knock each other up through the power of love/lust-fueled yuri sex. But the craving for DICK remains locked in the souls of monstergirls everywhere, and though she does her best to scour the world of remaining remnants of the Age of Man, there is a thriving black market for man-on-monstergirl pornographic relics.

Enter our heroine, Tali ([[Bioware|not that Tali]]); a hentai-hunting [[harpy]] who desperately wants to find a girlfriend. Or a dildo. Or just some way of being able to get off reliably, because feather-fingers are a fucking pain to try and schlick with. To her amazement, she unearths a crashed stasis capsule containing our hero... who goes unnamed in a shout-out to the famous gag of the protagonist of Daily Life with Monstergirls. He is the last human - and, we later learn, an attempt by humanity to create a last-ditch saviour for their species, sexually augmented and charged with defeating the Monster Queen in order to end her magical spell that keeps human men from being born, and then begin singlehandedly impregnating the world with a new generation of men.

The art is... well, it's an acquired taste, as is the humor, but if you want a monstergirls webcomic where the guy actually '''fucks''' his harem, this'll cover you.

==Interspecies Reviewers==
Otherwise known as, "Controversy: The Anime", Interspecies Reviewers is an anime/manga series with a simple premise: A human, an elf, an angel, and a couple of other dudes go to monstergirl brothels to write reviews on how good the sex was. The series is known for its surprisingly robust worldbuilding in a sea of worlds where when the question of, "why is X like Y?" comes up, the answer is usually, "because it gets the creator(s) dick(s) hard." Obviously, as a rather lewd series, there are some spots where that is still true, but more often than not, actual thought was put into the world instead of jerking off through the entire creation process. Different races have their own views on what is considered appealing (cyclopses value the size of their mate's eyeballs over anything else), and there are topics that are expressly taboo in their society (making a simulacrum of a person, and then fucking said simulacra is [[/d/| not something you should admit in polite company.]]) For the aspiring [[/d/M]] who wants to make a more balanced monstergirl world for your players to run around in, there's hardly a better starting point to get the noggin joggin.

As for the Controversy... long story short, in a twist of fate, the anime was actually made to be even raunchier than the manga series. Whereas the manga barely gets a couple of nipple slips in, the anime goes so far as to have full-on penetration shown onscreen. Funimation bought the rights to a dub, got two episodes completed, and it took them until the third episode to realize that there was no amount of censoring they could do to make this airable. Having realized that they were dubbing what was effectively a hentai sitcom, Funimation shut it all down, with several Japanese stations following suit. The entire debacle provides an interesting insight into what happens when dubs get made in this industry. It's also just fun to imagine a bunch of business suits getting flustered over a board meeting.

==Monster Girl Doctor==
A visual novel series (with a 12 episode anime adaptation) about a male human doctor named Glenn Litbeit, who has set up a clinic in the city of Lindworm, a multiracial city created in the wake of a recently ended (as in, our protagonist was a medic during it) war between humans and monstergirls. Lindworm was created to try and promote the idea that humans and monstergirls could live in harmony, and Glenn plays his part in that goal by offering treatment to all species with his cadre of monstergirl nurses... who, of course, all want to bang him. As the core trio of girls consist of a [[lamia]], [[centaur]] and [[drider|arachne]], it's sometimes described as "Daily Life with Monstergirls: Fantasy Hospital Edition".

==The K-Girls of DaiKaiju Academy==
Though it might be hard to imagine now, when the internet boom first took off in the late 90s, webcomics were originally a very rare thing. One of the first webcomics, debuting in the year 2000, was a little site called "Twisted Kaiju Theater", a raunchy, crass comedy series that used computer editing to apply speech bubbles and special effects to photographic backdrops, using various chibi kaiju figures as the protagonists. That webcomic is not relevant to this page.

What ''is'' relevant to this page is that Twisted Kaiju Theater had another draw: the K-Girls. These were galleries of hot female anthropomorphs, varying from monstergirl level to [[furry]] level but usually sitting around the [[Thundercats|Tigra Paradox]] level, based on the monsters of various kaiju films. In particular, G.I.N.A ("Godzilla Inspired Naked Anthropomorph", a name parodying the controversial "Godzilla In Name Only"/G.I.N.O from the American Godzilla film of the 90s), a sexy babe version of Godzilla, was basically the mascot for the website as a whole. The basic idea was that the K-Girls existed in a world in which various giant monsters were real, but so were female "sisters" for them, who were high school/college girls attending a school called the DaiKaiju Academy.

Kaiju fans ''loved'' them. Twisted Kaiju Theater was hotlinked from Rodan's Roost, one of the biggest (if not ''the'' biggest) original Kaiju fan-sites, and dozens of dififerent kaiju received hot babe interpretations. G.I.N.A got a family based on the different Godzilla incarnations (even one based on the much-loathed Zilla himself!) and even non-Toho kaiju began filtering in. The website literally had to devote every Wednesday to sorting out the week's upload of new K-Girl art. It got to the point in 2009 that DaiKaiju Academy was spun off into its own site to house all the art.

Then... came the end. Abruptly, in 2011, the owner and author of Twisted Kaiju Theater up and erased the DaiKaiju Academy website and all its galleries with no warning. Officially, the reason was that they wanted to dedicate themselves to pursuing photography "professionally", and they felt their association with the K-Girls would be an impediment to doing so. Many suspect the real reason was that he was butthurt over how the K-Girls were more popular than his webcomic by a vast margin.

The only known surviving form of the K-Girls is to be found in a group on Deviantart called "DaiKaiju-Academy", which attempts to preserve the universe despite the loss of pretty much every piece of artwork that was originally housed on Twisted Kaiju Theater.

==TOUCH FLUFFY TAIL==
[http://touchfluffytail.org We have an entire website] for monstergirls purely dedicated to written and drawn art.

The spicier tales from several artists can also be found in Literotica, often on both sites.

==Oh Dear God, There's More?==
Hell yeah, there's more. Besides lurking down the rabbit hole of [[/d/]] and [[/tg/|/d/-lite]] for singular artists and old one-off doujinshi, Daily Life with Monstergirls turned monstergirls from an undercurrent to an industry trend. There's more monstergirl works out there now than ever before, all with varying levels of lewdness. If you want in on the action, go read the artist lists on the back of the ''I Heart Monster Girls'' collaboration books, or just poke around the "related books" banners on your web-based literature purveyor of choice. Literotica's NonHuman section, AO3 and fanfiction.net has received quite a bit of monstergirl stories.

==See Also==
* [[Waifu]]
* [[Alistair's Cures and Remedies]], written in response to one of the 1d100 situation-generating tables.
* [[Abhuman]]s from Warhammer 40K, specifically Felinids
* [[:Category:Monstergirls]] for more in-depth articles
* [[Daemonette]]
* [[Harem guy's tales]]
* [[Harem Knights]]
* [[Harkness Test]], a very important metric in Monstergirl discussions.
* [[Cross Species Dating Advice]]
* [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=monstergirl sup/tg/ archived threads] tagged with 'monstergirl'
* [[Saharduin]]
* [[Jim]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nyHPIcbn88 The unofficial themesong] for '''Monster Girl Quest''' (Monmusu Quest! Zenshou ~Makereba Youjo ni Okasareru~)
* [[Towergirls]]
* [[Divinity: Dragon Commander]]
* [https://monster-girl.homelinux.net/] The Monster-girls Uploader, which was around well before the craze took off, and is still going.

==Gallery==
Hold on to your [[meme|robe and wizard hat!]]
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Image:monstergirl_manual_1.jpg|[[Derp|The 'Amazoness' is poorly named; Amazons are known for being all-female]]
Image:monstergirl_manual_2.jpg
Image:monstergirl_manual_3.jpg
Image:monstergirl_manual_4.jpg
Image:monstergirl_manual_5.jpg
Image:Monster_Manual_rule63.jpg|This is not a checklist you perverts. '''Ignore him it totally is!!!'''
Image:Classic_succubus.jpg|old-school fapbait
Image:Laidbacknurglette.jpg|Demongirls aren't all succubi.
Image:Doing_it_Wrong.jpg|"Mother told me there'd be knights like this."
Image:Koboldette.jpg|The monstergirl conundrum; you need to get a huge amount of experience points to lay the [[dragon]], but the [[kobold]]s are fine too.
Image:Illithid_prostitute.gif|She'll blow your mind
Image:SalamanderFootjob.png|[[Rule 34|NO EXCEPTIONS]] YOU IDIOT
Image:Furry chart.jpg|The difference.
Image:Buggy chart.jpg|A more gradual chart.
Image:Harem Knight.jpg|The greatest monstergirl lover to have ever lived.
Image:Arachne.jpg|An average /tg/ anon in a monstergirl thread.
Image:Undead Waifu.jpg|It's necrophilia if they're not sapient. Otherwise, it's monstergirls.
Image:Monster U Girl.png|/co/ and /tg/ can usually find common ground in montergirl threads.
Image:Thri-keen fire.png
Image:Spider Comic.jpg|Not only a great waifu, but overpowered as fuck on the tabletop!
Image:Doujinvespid.jpg|Even [[Vespid]] are not immune.
Image:DND 4e Cheesecake.jpg|Neither [[Tiefling]] nor [[Dragonborn]] is unappealing to the [[/d/|right minds]].
Image:Rule63 Doomgirl and Revenants.jpg|Not even [[Doom]] is safe from monstergirls.
Image:Mantisgirl 1.jpg|That mix of familiar, exotic, allure and threat is what makes monstergirls so appealing.
Image:Tauric Mantis Girl.jpg|Which is why even mantis-girls are a thing.
Image:Goblin Waitress.jpg|[[Shortstack]] greenskinned waitresses... The MG fan's argument for civilizing [[goblin]]s.
Image:Goblin Chieftain 2.jpg|Be honest, your party would [[Murderhobos|be much more likely to talk instead of fight]] if the [[goblin]] chieftain looked like this.
Image:Goblin Monk 2.png|Being [[shortstack|short, curvy 'n' cute]] in no way impedes her ability to kick your ass.
Image:High Society Goblin.jpg|Somehow, it's just so much easier for some fans to accept civilized versions of monsters when they look good.
Image:Cute Goblin Adventurer.jpg|Sexy or adorable, a monstergirl is a monstergirl.
Image:Marilith combat.jpg|Just because they look like hot women doesn't mean monstergirls can't be dangerous.
Image:FF9 Marilith.jpg|Videogames have more than their fair share of monstergirls.
Image:Chultian Lamia.png|The [[Yuan-ti]] Malison is D&D's attempt to do a legit [[lamia]].
Image:MGNaga.png|The line between [[monstergirl]] and [[furry]] can grow quite thin.
Image:Halfling Barwench 1.jpg|Monstergirls can be more subtle than you'd think; who looks twice at a curvy [[halfling]] waitress?
Image:Halfling Swashbuckler.jpg|Although a halfling in [[Female Fantasy Armor]] will get a bit more look.
Image:Tel-Amhothlan Female 2.png|Monstergirls are a true melting pot of races and species. For example, [[elf]] and [[orc]].
Image:Goblin and Gnome Bosom Buddies.png|[[Warcraft]] fans have been in love with sexy female nonhumans for a long time.
Image:Shy Minotaur.jpg|A [[cowgirl]] with a big club can still break your bones if you get too grabby.
Image:Catgirl Qipao.jpg|The humble [[catgirl]] is one of the most recognized monstergirl species.
Image:Disheveled Catgirl.jpeg|For reasons that don't really need explaining.
Image:Sphinx in Library.jpg|Hot librarians in a fantasy world can really be exotic.
Image:Red and Blue Oni Sisters.jpg|According to [[oni]] lore, actually pretty mythologically accurate.
Image:Monster Musume Ruka the Orc.png|When p'orc, green orc, and sexpot meet.
Image:Amazon Orc.jpg|When you think about it, [[amazon]]ian [[orc]]s really make a lot of sense.
Image:Half-Faerie Dragon 1.jpg|[[Pixie]]s are cute, [[dragon]]s can be cute, so why not put 'em together.
Image:Half-Faerie Dragon 2.jpg|Besides, when you take [[Faerie Dragon]] habits into account...
Image:Reindeer Faun.jpg|Never shall there be peace on /tg/ about the thin line between female [[beastfolk]] and monstergirl.
Image:Armless Egyptian Naga.jpg|When you got a cute human face and stonking huge tits, who cares that the rest of you is a snake?
Image:Wild Western Lamia.jpg|Well, they always say that saloon maids are like rattlesnakes but prettier...
Image:Cute Jiangshi 1.png|When a [[Jiangshi|Chinese Vampire]] crosses into Japanese territory, it's fair game to render cuter.
Image:Sexy Rust Monster.jpg|Even a [[Rust Monster]] isn't immune to the call of monstergirlification.
Image:Fem.jpg|Why slay the dragon when you can lay the dragon instead?
Image:Sexualyeti tzeentch daemonette.png|She's willing to do things other than reading with you.
File:Risque Catgirl.jpg|She wants to <s>play with you.</s> <s>spay</s> Bob Barker you.
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Life With Monstergirls

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[[Image:True Daily Life With Miia.png|thumb|right|500px|The real question is, what would it be like to snuggle with a snake girl?]]
'''Daily Life With Monstergirls''', also called "Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou" or just plain "'''Monster Musume'''", is an ecchi (as close as possible to smut without actually getting there so the artist can make more money) harem-comedy [[manga]] themed around [[monstergirl|monstergirls]]. Created by Inui Takemaru (who goes by the pen name Okayado), the series began with his more hentai-flavored "My Life with Monstergirls" oneshot doujins and the similarly lewd "Monstergirl Report" series.

Origin of many /tg/ memes, the most common of which is images of Monstergirls with various facial expressions stating what kind of genitals their race has (see the gallery).

==My Life With Monstergirls==
The original comics featured several identical young men (later revealed to be septuplet brothers), each in a relationship with a type of Monstergirl; [[Centaur]], Dullahan (a kind of Irish psychopomp that carries its own severed head), [[Slime]], [[Lamia]], [[Harpy]], [[Drider|Arachne]], [[Merfolk|Mermaid]], and [[Minotaur]]). None of these men or the Monsters are named. The various characters are early prototypes that would be refined and featured in Everyday Life with Monstergirls, sharing many designs and personalities as their later incarnations. However, these one-off comics feature far more straight-up sex than the more famous ecchi series.

==Monstergirl Report==
After the immense popularity of the previous comics, the creator went on to make a sequel series called Monstergirl Report which focuses on a single character, known as Mr. Smith, and his adventures through the Monstergirl world, while having sex with every kind of Monstergirl ''FOR SCIENCE!'' The differences between the really real world and the world of Monstergirl report are never fully explained, as apparently humans are aware these races existed to an extent, but these girls are still exotic and relatively unknown to modernity, and yet some races (like Harpy and Lamia) have no males and could only have reproduced with human males. Only very recently have the "two worlds" begun to organize diplomatic relations; it is unknown whether these monstergirls are literally coming from somewhere off-Earth or not. Not that it really matters, but /tg/ is nothing if not poised to over-think everything.
Notable from this series is it must exist as a prequel of sorts to the others, since Mr. Smith actually creates Slimegirls out of ordinary garden pest slimes which even by the next work are still largely an unknown to the world at large and not covered (or protected) by laws regarding monsterfolk.

==Everyday Life With Monstergirls==
This is the most recent of the Okayado comics, and the first to be made into a fully-fledged manga! In the summer of 2015 it was adapted into an [[anime]] (to literally everyone's surprise). It features [["Excuse Me" Guy|a man whose name is so forgettable]] that everyone calls him pet names (aka "Darling" or "Master" (in the master and apprentice sense, not the sexual sense)) or just assumes he doesn't have one, who lives in a world where various monster races are beginning to coexist alongside humans (for the curious among you, his real name is Kimihito, loosely translated as "you person", probably as another jab at him existing solely as a surrogate for the reader). Due to an exchange program (and a lazy government worker named Ms. Smith that may or may not be related to Mr. Smith) he finds himself living with a Lamia that just so happens to be in love with him. Unfortunately, strict rules regarding inter-species relationships prevent anything coming from this one-sided attraction due to serious legal consequences. This is the excuse for the series being ecchi. After the appearance of various other monstergirls he is <s>forced</s> ''compelled'' to similarly adopt, harem anime shenanigans ensue. In addition to the aforementioned Lamia, our hero's harem so far includes a Harpy, a Centaur, an Arachne, a Slime, a Mermaid, and a Dullahan. A large number of other monstergirls also appear, acting as minor supporting characters, in particular Ms. Smith's police/paramilitary team made up of a Zombie, a Doppelganger(her species is technically shapeshifter, she just uses doppelganger because more people have heard of that word than shapeshifter), an Ogre, and a Cyclops who handle incidents involving violence caused by monsters. This touches on an aspect of the setting, monsters by law cannot harm humans (but can harm each other) and vice-versa since it significantly increases the legal consequences, necessitating entirely monster law enforcement.

Notably, for the genre, it includes monster men as well as the traditional monstergirls, and not all of them are ugly as sin (with a humorous version of Mermaids where fish-bottom Mermen are popular with humans, while a second Mermen ethnic group of human-bottom fishheads are resigned to second-class in interspecies romance). The manga actually does a bang-up job of investigating the various quirks of monstergirl biology. Points to Okayado for pandering to the over-analyzing fa/tg/uys he knows will be reading (and now watching).

On the flipside, several species are explicitly stated to be biologically compatible with humans, with lamias and harpies in particular being all-female and entirely dependent on human men for reproduction. In fact, nearly all of the girls are stated to have human fathers. Initially this begged the question on why monstergirl sex is banned in the first place, although an in-universe explanation is later provided via a political crisis regarding mass eloping of human/monster couples in one of the Mermaid kingdoms. Even though, after the crisis is resolved, the government frowns on sex without marriage first, the cultural exchange festivals feature an area with soundproof booths where human men and women can write down on a piece of paper on the door the <strike>fetishes</strike> traits in monstergirls and monsterboys they want to "meet". Longterm relationship couples are also shown that ignored the ban.

And in case you're wondering, yes, there's tits aplenty - in the manga and DVD version only, not on Crunchyroll and sometimes not even in the official manga translations by Seven Seas due to censorship in the raws they get from the Japanese publisher. That's right, [[/v/|they're punishing you for buying their products.]] Best stick to the scanlations, which are based on the serialized version and are far less heavily censored as a result.

===The Cast===
====Kimihito and his Girls====
* '''Kimihito Kurusu''': The protagonist of the story. A staggeringly average guy taking care of his ever-increasing harem although in typically harem anime style he excels at domestic tasks including cooking and managing interpersonal relationships with the fucked up characters that make up his harem. The only sane man by far, he is unusual for a protagonist within the genre in the way that he actually is sexually interested in the girls that fall for him. However, because of a law, he cannot have sex with any of the girls at the start of the series, made more difficult by the fact that all of them would very much love to jump his bone. Later on, that law is repealed (likely due to inability to enforce it, as human/monster exchanges seen later involve quite a bit of sex) although he then is given a government mandate to marry one of them which as expected causes drama for many chapters. Forced into being a host for the girls by the overworked/lazy monster/human affairs social worker, he nevertheless takes his predicament in stride, even taking in other girls that would otherwise be forced to return to their homelands. His dedication is to the point where when a [[succubus]] arrives and "[unleashes his] true desires" in an attempt to make him [[PROMOTIONS|do his go/d/-given /d/uty,]] this backfires because his only true desire was for her to ''put some fucking clothes on'' (someone sign this guy up for the [[Grey Knights]] already). He works an undefined part-time job to make ends meet (his parents are out of the country for business, in typical harem anime fashion), which can get difficult because of how much they all eat. He is a low-key [[anime]]/[[manga]] fan, quoting from a variety of works. A running joke has him crushed, mauled, trampled, scratched, drowned, tied up or harmed in other hilarious ways, all occupational hazards of having to take care of the half-monster girls, with him shrugging it off rather quickly; the girls, later on, realize this and have various beliefs or jokes regarding his seeming invulnerability. Fans joke that because of how average he is nobody remembers his name and instead call him by a variety of nicknames used by the other girls, with "Darling" and "Darling-kun" being favorites. While not exceedingly bright, he's willing to put his life in danger for others and has also physically fought other humans without hesitation.
* '''Miia''': The [[Lamia]] of the group and something of the "main" girl as the first monstergirl character in the series. Being assigned to Kimihito by mistake, he took her in regardless. She fell head over heels for her darling and is frequently trying to get intimate with him, much to his dismay. She is cheerful and a bit ditzy, but has shown bouts of ruthless calculation and rivalry (so she's the Ryoko Hakubi of the series). Very possessive of her darling, she frequently lashes out at the other girls (and even him by mistake) when she feels they get too close. Yet, as dictated by the genre, whenever he accidentally does something that could be seen as sexual or perverted she smacks him about as a knee-jerk reaction. Yet her attraction to Kimihito is genuine and he in return has shown signs of being interested in her as well. Which is probably a good thing since it was later revealed she was set by her tribe to kidnap him for use as a breeding bull, but she abandoned that plan when she decided wants him all to herself. Her '''VERY''' aggressively sexual mother later appears to finish the job until deciding to let her daughter only have to compete with her current rivals instead of the entire tribe.
* '''Papi''': The group's loli [[Harpy]]. Despite looking about half their age Papi is just as old (as in: legal) as the rest of the group. A complete birdbrain for whom the myth of birds forgetting things after taking three steps is applied literally (when she flies, she retains memories but the comic will point out when she takes three steps followed by a joke about forgetting her current situation), she tries to do good but often forgets important things. As the [[loli]] her [[DFC|figure is the most modest of all the girls]], but this doesn't stop certain perverts. As a bird-creature she frequently lays eggs, but she has no qualms about them being eaten. Being intellectually something of a child herself she really gets along with other children, and this lets her get along great with Suu (see below). But don't underestimate her: she can fly rather fast even when holding Kimihito, and her razor-sharp claws aren't there just for show. Papi's mother appears as a darker-skinned version of her, and is actually capable of remembering things including the fact that she is married (although she needed to retrieve a photograph of her husband that she gave to Papi to remember what he looks like when he's not around; still, remembering that she gave it to her at all is impressive given what is shown of Harpy memory).
* '''Centorea "Cerea" Shianus''': The resident [[Centaur]]. She is rather old-fashioned and noble, putting great pride in proper behavior. This makes her the most composed of all the girls, yet is easily flustered when something [[:File:THE LEWDNESS.gif|lewd]] happens. Because of this, she can be freaking adorable in spite of her stoicism bordering on [[LARP]]ing. She is a trained knight, comfortable in [[armor]] and skilled with all sorts of weapons but with a preference for her [[sword]]. Because of her adherence to the old ways she considers Kimihito to be her master, who found out after the fact that riding on the back of a centaur makes you her master in cliche harem fashion. In fact, like Kimihito she's a low-key anime fan, though she takes anime cliches seriously as though they're traditions, and she's also a bit of a fantasy genre nerd. Despite her traditional mannerisms she's rather attracted to Kimihito and would love to elope with him. The massive size of her breasts is a running joke, with them bouncing around as she runs and Cerea being unable to fit a bra (despite there being girls with larger boobs - shown to be due to bras not being designed to withstand a full gallop) and her shirt is frequently undone, soaked, or damaged to reveal her breasts. Her mother secretly bred with a human rather than the Centaur he was supposed to get her hot and bothered enough to tolerate (Centaur females require teasers just like real horses due to their males acting like Greek myth Centaurs AKA fratboy slobs), and pretended to have difficulty accepting her daughter doing the same in order to use a sneaky plan to help kick-start a centaur women's lib movement.
[[File:LawSuu.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Suu says hi to Lala.]]
* '''Suu''': A [[slime]] and [[Wat|the most adorable serial rapist you'll ever meet]]. Officially Slimes have not been categorized as Monsterfolk (the porn comics which preceded the manga show a researcher accidentally creating the first sapient one by introducing his DNA to garden pests by poking them when bored), but when one appeared in Kimihito's house Ms. Smith did not give enough of a fuck to put effort into getting her to be there officially. Her body consists of a blue mass of semi-transparent blue slime with three yellow-tipped green head tentacles sprouting out of her head to serve as "hair". She does not speak a lot and tends to use simple words with poor grammar, but isn't unintelligent. In fact, she appears to be only playing dumb most of the time, with occasional flashes of brilliance. Because of her child-like behavior, Papi took her under her wing (the writer of that pun has been {{BLAM|'''*BLAMMED*'''}}), with the two becoming best friends. Suu mainly survives on water, and when she takes in enough of it her body grows from that of a small, modestly-curved woman to a far more matronly form. This is a weakness of hers though: if she were to be exposed to too much water at once (like falling into a river), she would become too diluted and dissolve (although she managed to grow to an enormous size when exposed to experimental fertilizer and brainwashed into thinking of herself as a Gelatinous Cube). If she gets too thirsty, she'll aggressively seek out any source of moisture, including sweat and ''other fluids'' - [[rape|personal boundaries be damned]]. Taking in other things than clear water changes her personality: poisonous plants make her more abrasive and lustful for example, while mineral water makes her smarter (and crass). Being a Slime allows her great control over her body, as well as an ever-increasing list of [[Mary Sue|bullshit powers,]] from shapeshifting to mind reading, voice mimicry, and eidetic memory. Suu's origin is unknown prior to Kimihito saving her from dying via dilution in a rainstorm. While an ongoing series of arcs dealt with the backstories of the harem before coming into the series, Suu's instead focused on the race itself; Slimes merge with one another to reproduce, the offspring inheriting memories and evolved powers but the parent Slimes die in the process. When a giant unintelligent but powerful Kaiju-sized Slime wanted to reproduce with Suu (almost turning the rapist into the victim) she herself grew to giant size and fought back, with Kimihito defeating the opponent and saving the life of Suu by removing their Slime cores from the bodies, as the core is where their personality remains when the body turns back into water.
* '''Meroune "Mero" Lorelei''': The group's [[merfolk|Mermaid]]. Born into royalty, Mero's upbringing has produced a kind, caring and proper young woman with a royal aura surrounding her. She's quite the "romantic", too. After reading [[Perpetual|Hans Christian Andersen's ''The Little Mermaid'']] she decided she wanted exactly that: a tragic romance like how the character in the story dies and turns into seafoam rather than lives happily ever after (in practice she initially wants to be cuckolded, die in a lover's embrace a la Romeo & Juliet, or else have Kimihito posthumously father her children; generally most Bad Ends are exciting Good Ends to her). This isn't unique just to Mero, as its implied that all Mermaids tend to fall in love on a whim and are thrilled by tragedy or drama. However, after spending some time with Kimihito and the others, as well as realizing that tragedy fucking sucks when it's ACTUALLY happening to you, Mero decided that she wanted a more happy ending to her "tragedy" and some time after that decided that she just wants to be Kimihito's wife with all the others as his mistresses for the purpose of maximum drama. Aside from being her fetish for soap opera plots she seems to somehow enjoy Miia's horrible cooking and being restrained by Rachnera, suggesting she's some kind of masochist. Her royal mother was the reason that humans and monsters weren't legally allowed to marry or have sex early in the comic; the queen drug the cast into her political drama of scapegoating an octopus woman as the one causing their race to increasingly elope with humans out of seemingly nowhere (in reality both male and female Merfolk just really love humans and the more it was forbidden the more it happened) almost ending the legal mingling of human and monsterfolk entirely, all just to make her own personal elopement with a new man (after Mero's father, a human, left her for another Mermaid) more thrillingly tragic than that of any other Merperson. After seeing how serious her daughter was about being willing to die for Kimihito's survival, the queen publicly confessed everything but her own involvement. Afterwards just about anything either Mermaid royal can think of has been purchased and applied to the living space of the cast (without anyone else being informed).
* '''Rachnera "Rachnee" Arachnera''': The [[Arachne]] of the house. Rachnee is a cruel mistress, taking enjoyment in tying people up and dominating them to the point of, as one annoying and lusty Devil found out, minor [[/d/|mindbreakage]]. She is by far the largest of the girls, with her large abdomen and long legs making her take up more space than even Miia or Cerea, ironically her biggest rivals for Kimihito's affection (his leg fetish gives him a great deal of interest in her). The only girls she doesn't know what to make of are Suu, given that she can't tie up the Slime girl, and to a lesser extent Papi, who's childishness doesn't blend with Rachnee's adult worldview; the two have repeatedly turned her self-spun bondage setups into play equipment (given Suu's possible normal intelligence, this could mean she just enjoys trolling her). She is extremely seductive and is more than willing to use her womanly wiles to get what she wants (or mess with people, male and female alike). She uses her webbing to great effect: she can tie people up in various ways with but a movement of her hand (though this is likely for comedic effect rather than making her look awesome) and enjoys knitting. She also dislikes dishonesty and would rather have an ugly truth rather than a pleasant lie, something that caused her to take interest in the naive and good-natured Kimihito. It has been hinted that her vicious dominatrix persona is just an act and she wants to not get emotionally hurt due to a life full of rejection from both humans and other monsters, something Rachnee will violently disagree with (giving it a grain of truth). She's quite protective of Kimihito or the other girls (when her past dealings aren't getting them into a situation) as she's far more than willing than the others to threaten violence and even murder. Also, she gets drunk off coffee (real life spiders are far more affected by coffee than any other non-lethal chemical alteration), something nobody else has figured out yet.
* '''Lala''': A Dulluhan and the last to join the main cast, although she only appears rarely. Lala is a very serious but shy woman who calls herself an "agent of death", something that apparently all of her race do. As a Dulluhan she can detach her head and function normally on both sides. Her neckstump can casually ingest anything from (terrible) soup to a large amount of chips without her really caring. However, if the two get separated she needs help to reunite the two, which is how she met Kimihito. Once her head and body were reunited she warned him that he was on the brink of death. Kimihito suspected she was full of shit and quoted several famous last words of a few anime/manga characters without dying. It was then revealed that Lala was not an agent of death but rather an ordinary psychopomp, a ferrier of souls. She can still, however, teleport around seemingly at will, but only in accordance with horror movie tropes (vanishing only when out of sight, even momentarily, and only appearing behind someone's back, Grudge-style). She also does manage to dispel a ghost later on in the series, and every time Kimihito is near death he appears near the Sanzu River (the River Styx for the Shinto religion) which is why she became interested in him in the first place. She kept running away from her families (because they were all too healthy - Ms. Smith knew about her obsession with death) but was content with staying with Kimihito. After this she was reduced to a minor recurring character, showing up only a few times. While she's not crushing on him as the other girls are, she has stated that once Kimihito dies his soul shall be hers, making her the most patient member of the harem. Aside from being able to detach her head and the color of her skin and eyes she is by far the most human looking of the group, with many fans lusting after her generous but not oversized form. And the fact that her head can separate from her body has lead to all kinds of creative fanart smut - some more horrifying than others. [[/d/|Ever heard of a "neckjob"?]]. She pretends to be calm and cool, but becomes flustered easily when someone calls her out on something... or when Rachnee ties her up, which is apparently a fetish of hers given her reactions.

====MON====
* '''Miss Smith ''': Kimihito's case officer and that of several others, the liason of MON (Monster Ops: Neutralization) and all-round troubleshooter, Miss Smith is a competent but highly irresponsible woman. "Chronically overworked", she slacks off as much as possible, frequently crashing at Kimihito's place. Her fuckups kickstarted the plot, bringing Miia and several other girls to him due to his competence at managing trouble cases. She has taken a liking to Kimihito and relentlessly teases him, much to the dismay of the other girls. Despite trying to avoid as much work as possible she is actually skilled in a variety of fields, from leadership to a squad commander and can be intimidating to boot. Is chronically addicted to coffee. Did we mention she always wears shades? Like, indoors too? Doesn't it remind you of a certain other agent in a suit? Yes, subtle. At least her name doesn't sound like a twelve-year-old made it up.
[[File:Dump Dex Buff Con.jpg|thumb|right|300px|With high enough CON, you don't need DEX.]]
* '''Zombina''': The squad leader of MON, Zombina is a [[zombie]]. Because of what she is she can easily take several bullets to the chest, even dismemberment, and get back up (after some repairs). A highly-trained commando with near ninja-like command of her body she is a very competent soldier. Her physique allows her to remove parts of her body and sew new ones back on: this can include arms, legs, [[wat|boobs]] and more. She's quite chipper and lives for the moment, reveling in fully-automatic small to medium calibre violence, ensuing gore and works about her people (aka, zombie movies). She also enjoys [[Gay|Yaoi]] because of a pun that doesn't translate into English, which netted her quite the hatedom. She requires maintenance on her body, including preservation techniques such as use of embalming fluid, to stay functional and at human-speed (early Zombies apparently are now more Romero due to improper techniques when the virus first began to spread) and is a very active, and lusty, woman. Her bites are contagious but are later revealed to have a low chance of spreading (more Resident Evil than Walking Dead). In one of the translations, her dogtag indicates she served MON since the mid-8o's. This makes her the oldest character, and as much as your mom.
* '''Manako''': A monoeye (think a small [[Cyclops]]) and MON's sniper. Her eye gives her amazing detailed vision, allowing her to snipe weapons out of the hands of suspects without harming them. However, because she's got only one she has trouble seeing depth, causing her to run into things at times. Her single huge eye makes her feel incredibly self-conscious, giving her a shy and distant personality. She's also (in typical anime fashion) shy about [[DFC|her modest curves]], especially when compared to Cerea's huge size. Despite this when things get serious she knows how to focus and can take a perfect shot without too much effort.
* '''Tionishia''': The largest of all the girls, Tio is an [[Ogre]] of the Japanese type: large human body with a single horn sticking out of her forehead. Standing at a staggering 7'5" she towers even over Cerea and Rachnera, and has a matching full figure to boot. She works as MON's living battering ram and tool of entry, being able to run through walls in her full armor while casually hauling ''two'' siege shields. No, not the plexiglass riot ones, we are talking fridge-sized slabs of ballistic steel. Tio is immensely strong and can casually pick up a vending machine and toss it dozens of yards without breaking a sweat. Despite this she's also [[meme|a beautiful cinnamon roll, too good for this world.]] She's a huge sweetheart and very girly, wearing long, proper dresses and all sorts of cute hats and hair decorations. [[DOOM: Repercussions of Evil|She is huge, therefore she has huge]] <s>tracts of land</s> calorie needs and is frequently seen eating. She's somewhat self-conscious about her weight and even more so about her height, which paired with her strength allows her to walk through door frames without noticing in time. She's also a very huggy person, which given her staggering 160P cup size, strength, and enthusiasm can make it very dangerous. Tio is also a very calming presence, being able to make stubborn people relent and calm the restless without any effort on her part (think of Chien-Po (the fat guy) from Mulan). Because of her adorableness and massive curvy body, she's a fan favorite.
* '''Doppel''': An incredibly skilled infiltrator, borrowing from her abilities as a Shapeshifter. She calls herself a [[Doppelganger]] because more people tend to know them, but a Doppleganger in the setting is still just a premonition of death resembling the viewer whereas Shapeshifters are a distinctly Lovecraftian race of Monsterfolk. She walks around "naked" in a humanoid form, her white "hair" covering her brown skin just enough to keep her modest. When her shape changes she can change her voice and even her scent to fool pretty much anyone. She's a notorious prankster, has something of a sadistic streak and is willing to inflict horrible punishment on those she feels deserve it. It has been (heavily) suggested she's something even more alien than just a Shapeshifter, being able to turn into some kind of eldritch horror straight outta [[Lovecraft]] although the worldbuilding pages imply her entire race have disturbing mysterious properties known only to themselves. According to her, seeing her sleeping would cause SAN loss and her "just woke up" face has eyes and teeth inside her modesty locks of hair.

====Other Girls====
*'''Draco''': A Dragonewt (supposedly a dragon, but scrawnier, more like a lizardman with wings) who is constantly trying to steal Miia away from Kimihito. At first Draco appears and acts like a stereotypical bishie male, but in reality is just a really flat woman, which is revealed by exposing her lingerie. Draco's a narcissist with no sense of personal boundaries, or taking no for an answer. Spends a lot of time under Polt's watch for community service while under prohibition for her actions.
*'''Kii''': A [[Dryad]] living in the forests near the girls' house. She's very protective of her forest, but made friends with Papi, and thus tolerates the others. Like Suu, Kii's overall size and bustiness grows with the amount of nutrients she takes in. During her first encounter with Kimihito, she abducted Papi and tried to kill Kimihito; she was only defeated by Papi and Kimihito sucking the nutrients out of her. [[/d/|Take a wild guess where they sucked them from]].
*'''Lilith''': A loli devilgirl who likes to play pranks on people. She's able to hypnotize Cerea into attempting to have sex with Kimihito, but eventually she gets captured by Rachnee and becomes totally submissive to her after a few hours of hardcore bondage games. She also attempted to brainwash Kimihito as mentioned above, assuming that he would immediately jump her bones because in her experience men are lolicons, but she discovers that some men just aren't into [[DFC]].
*'''Polt''': A hyperactive [[Kobold]] who owns her own gym. Polt is a fan favorite for her eternal perkiness and the shenanigans she gets into with the girls. Obviously she's the most furry of the cast, but so far hasn't been that involved in the series' more lewd moments. Polt is a recurring character (appearing more than Lala) although whether there to cause a joke or deliver some deus ex machina to move the plot along depends on the story.
*'''Cathyl''': A tall, busty, and short-tempered [[Minotaur]] (of the 10% furry variety) who works as a farmhand out in the country. She puts the girls to work on her farm, but requires that Kimihito milk her because she can't do it herself and the farm owner is away. Of course, Kimihito takes no joy from it because Cathyl could easily squish him like a bug if he gets any funny ideas.
*'''Merino''': A sheep-like faun and Cathyl's sidekick. She grows a lot of wool and needs regular sheering, which can be awkward as that it includes down under. She's also started getting milked too.
*'''Yukio''': A Yuki-Onna (Japanese Ice Spirit) who works at a hotspring, which draws in a lot of business by inviting monstergirls after the girls' suggestion. Because she doesn't handle heat very well, her human boyfriend/fiance made her a modified divesuit to use while working. Despite her icy facade she sometimes gives away how much she loves her boyfriend. She can accidentally turn the hotsprings into ice if she's not careful.
*'''Liz and Kinu''': A [[Lizardfolk]] and [[Oni]] working for a private security company. They're a pair of idiots who fuck up constantly. Basically Manako and Tionishia minus competency.
*'''Octo''': A [[Scylla]] who's been accused of using witchcraft to trick mermaids into eloping with humans, as well as kidnapping Mero, but was instead the victim of a plot by Mero's mother to create the "ultimate tragedy." Octo is apparently the only sane member of the Mermaid kingdom, though she also rivals Rachnee in bondage skills and the two bond over the shared interest after a bondage game "duel" (ends in Suu appearing and winning by molesting both).
*'''ShiiShii''': A Jiangshi (Chinese zombie) who keeps trying to force Japanese men into ghost marriages in order to get citizenship so that she can go to manga conventions all the time. She's also frenemies with Zombina, even going so far as telling her when she's arriving so that they can do battle and then make up over cartoon porn.
*'''Kiira''': A pissed-off wasp girl who has a vendetta against Rachnee for getting caught in her web. Her flipout got her race labelled a dangerous species, so she had to smuggle herself in to get revenge by luring Kimihito into a trap. Was stopped by trapping her in a sauna and was eventually apprehended.
*'''Kino''': A Matango (mushroom) girl whose spores have hallucinogenic affects. Because she has no control over them, she has a hard time making friends and is very lonely, resulting in Papi immediately being drawn to her. Was sent to Kimihito's house by an unknown man along with the other two dangerous species.
*'''Kyurii''': A [[vampire]] and the third dangerous species. She has no desire to prey upon other beings and has a distaste for blood, but she was possessed by the ghost of her monomaniacal father and was forced to kidnap Kimihito. But some timely intervention and an emotional speech by Papi (also Lala banishing the ghost) helped Kyurii to live a more normal life (for a vegan vampire anyway).

====Other Guys====
*'''Sebastian & Potempkin''': The butlers employed by the queen of the Merfolk at the hotel owned by Mero's family to facilitate Merfolk/human mingling. Unlucky enough to be born with fishheads and human bodies rather than the other way around, they are unhappy at being unable to attract human women like "prettyboy" Mermen, (on the other hand: They at least they don't suffer from the "Mermaid Problem") . Most of their staff are also fishhead Mermen, while the maids are humanhead Mermaids (no pun intended). Both butlers are more concerned with keeping their job than anything else and are prone to overreacting comically. Potempkin, the taller of the two, is the head butler of the staff while Sebastian is his subordinate.

==12 Beast==
Another work by the same creator, shares the style and Monsterfolk of the other series. Not specified to be an alternate universe (although never referring to any other canon), in the distant past a human warrior named Eita managed to unite armies of Monstergirls under his command to liberate the world from evil. Essentially a combination of [[Total War]] and Monster Musume.
[[File:Life With Monstergirls Minis.jpg|thumb|300px|right]]

==As A Tabletop Game==
Currently no tabletop game exists of Life With Monstergirls (although a vidya was made with the protagonist as something of a truant officer for monstergirl felons), although there was talk on /tg/ of a modification of the [[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]] system and a statting of the characters to make it a fully playable game. This coincides with the previews for the Life With Monstergirls licensed merchandise which includes chibi figures of the main cast which resemble the miniatures from [[Super Dungeon Explore]] and [[Krosmaster]]. Further threads on the subject have involved [[Maid RPG]] as a possibility as well. [[GURPS]] [[Technomancer]] is somewhat promising given its setting, race selection, and insane flexibility by virtue of being GURPS, but it does have a very strong emphasis on magic
Here's [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?795041-necro-ARRPG-How-far-have-you-pushed-the-system-It-s-way-more-flexible-than-it-might-look! an RPG.net thread statting the Monstergirls in Atomic Robo RPG].

==See Also==
* [http://www.mangahere.co/manga/monster_musume_no_iru_nichijou/ The Everyday Life With Monstergirls manga, translated.]
* [http://www.crunchyroll.com/monster-musume-everyday-life-with-monster-girls Subtitled first season on cruchyroll]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFaElC_YZN8 The opening song and sequence for Everyday Life with Monstergirls, which is adorable.]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJLjyAEP7aA The ending song for Everyday Life with Monstergirls, which is a FUCKING MARCH. And a metal one at that.]

===Gallery===
====Lore====
<gallery>
Image:Life With Monstergirls Kobold.jpg|Kobold case study.
Image:Dragonewt Lore.png|Dragonewt case study.
Image:Arachne Lore.png|Arachne case study.
Image:Mermaid Lore.png|Mermaid case study.
Image:Beastwomen Lore.jpg|Case study on the farm races.
Image:Doppleganger Lore.png|Doppleganger case study.
Image:Dullahan Lore.png|Dulluhan case study.
Image:Cyclops Lore.png|Cyclops case study.
Image:Ogre Lore.png|Ogre case study.
Image:Zombie Lore.png|Zombie case study.
Image:Devil Lore.png|Devil case study.
Image:Dryad Lore.png|Dryad case study.
Image:Slime Lore.jpg|Slime case study.
Image:Onna Lore.png|Yuki Onna case study.
Image:Lamia Lore 2.png|Lamia anecdotal habits.
Image:Centaur Lore 2.jpg|Centaur anecdotal habits.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Lamia Lore Updated.png|Lamia lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Harpy Lore Updated.png|Harpy lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Centaur Lore.png|Centaur lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Slime Lore.png|Slime lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Mermaid Lore.png|Mermaid lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Arachne Lore.jpg|Arachne lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Monoeye Lore.png|Monoeye (Cyclops) lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Zombie Lore.jpg|Zombie lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Ogre Lore.png|Ogre lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Doppelganger Dragonewt Lore.png|Doppleganger (Shapeshifter) and Dragonewt lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Dullahan Plants Lore.png|Dullahan and Plants lore.
Image:Life With Monstergirls Kobold Devil Lore.png|Kobold and Devil lore.
</gallery>

====MEME PUSSY====
<gallery>
Image:Centaur Vagoo.png|The birth of a meme.
Image:Mon Meme Human.jpg| Knowing Miss Smith she doesn't shave down there and rarely showers. So there is proper reason to be horrified.
Image:Mon Meme Miia.png
Image:Mon Meme Zombie.png
Image:Mon Meme Arachne.jpg
Image:Mon Meme Arachne 2.png
Image:Mon Meme Mermaid.jpg
Image:Slimememe.png
Image:Dullahanmeme.png
Image:Mon Meme Kii.png
Image:Mon Meme Doppel.png
</gallery>

====Other====
<gallery>
Image:Best Girl Snek.jpg
Image:I_might_you_never_know.jpg
Image:Daily Life With Monstergirls Miia Fans.jpg|Yes, this exists. [[Awesome|It's 30 feet long and costs 300 dollars.]]
Image:Daily Life With Monstergirl Miia Dance.gif
Image:Lamia Reproduction.gif
Image:Arachne Family.jpg
Image:Snek Da Best.jpg| Miia is totally unbiased. Srsly.
Image:Southrisingagain.jpg
</gallery>

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Approved Anime

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This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres. For /tg/-approved manga, [[manga|go here]].

= 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 flavour of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (If your answer is yes, DO NOT ADD IT TO THE PAGE. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother. As a general rule wait a few months after it shows up; if it's still being discussed by that point, add away.)

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets. Furthermore, follow the formatting in general, we beg you. Also keep in mind that anime gets adapted from manga far more often then cartoons in the west get adapted from comics, so there is liable to be overlap with the "approved manga" page linked above.

=Genres=
When we say [READ THE MANGA] we fucking mean it. We are not responsible for the butthurt caused by watching that overly-truncated (yet visually stunning) ''Akira'' movie or, saints preserve us, ''Berserk'' 2017.

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*'''''[[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 show became the legend it is today. ['''READ THE MANGA'''][TV series: 152 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 3 episodes, Spin-Off series: 12 episodes + 4 OVAs]

:Related games: ''Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game'', playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest ''and'' most FABULOUS! show ever made. Unreasonably beautiful men with weirdly convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing. Character designs appear in [[TTS]], so you know it's good. The anime is currently at part 6 as a Netflix exclusive, but the previous 5 parts that have been animated are available elsewhere. ['''READ THE MANGA'''][OVA series: 13 episodes + 1 movie, TV series: 152 episodes and counting]

:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE]], low-level [[Exalted]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann''''': <span style='color:green'>'''Da singulah [[Ork]]iest show evah made.'''</span> Starts out with human rebels on looted mechs fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Surprisingly well-written and philosophical below the pumped up appearance. Steve Blum also voices a queer guy, no joke. Notable for the fact that by the final episode/the second movie the main characters achieve Enuff [[Dakka]] by shooting at EVERY POINT IN SPACE AND ACROSS TIME. [TV series: 27 episodes + 2 movies + 15 shorts + 1 sexy ass music-video]

:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]], playing [[Ork]] Mechs in [[40k]]

*'''''Hunter x Hunter''''': <s>Two shota boys fighting dudes.</s> In all seriousness, there are four major characters introduced in the series: Gon, the country raised kid who wants to find his awesome dad (shota #1); Killua, the young assassin raised in an assassin family who wants to befriend Gon just to escape his assassin duty (shota #2); Kurapika, the last of <s>her</s> his clan of [[psyker|special humans]], seeking vengeance against the super-strong psychopaths that killed them; and Leorio, who's the weakest of the group (in the anime, anyways) but wields THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP! ''HxH'' builds worlds like ''One Piece'', which is a huge commendation. It also created somewhat balanced and unique [[stat|power/class/level system]] called "nen", a downright rare accomplishment in a genre of [[meme|OVER 9000]] nonsense. [TV series: 62 episodes + 30 OVAs; Reboot: 148 episodes + 2 movies]

:Related games: [[FATE]], [[Exalted]], [[Quest thread|quests, quests, quests]]

*'''''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. (There's also the cash-in RPG, if that counts.) They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Among THE most popular anime to ever exist, it goes from "Journey to the West" pastiche fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods. ['''READ THE MANGA'''] [Original TV series: 153 episodes + 3 movies, Z/GT/Super series: 397 episodes + 4 specials + 2 OVAs + 16 movies]

:Related games: [[Legends of the Wulin]], [[Exalted]], [[Dragon Ball PNP RPG|Dragon Ball Z: The Anime Adventure Game]]
[[Image:LotGH_Faces.jpg|thumb|You will meet all these people, and three quarters of them will die.]]
*'''''[[Legend of the Galactic Heroes]]''''': Space Prussia/Britain 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, it is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even-more-bloody disregard for the lives of said characters than GRRM. To sum it all up, grand and gruesome galactic battles rivaling 40K in scale, manly marines hacking others to bits, and Kaiser Reinhard (who's like a combination of Napoleon and Alexander the Great). Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/ for its wealth of brilliant monologues. The anime is actually an adaptation of a series of books (not manga, actual book-books) from the early 1980's that are now available in english. Technology level is basically Traveller to a T. It has two series with a space opera super series from 1980's and an ongoing remake with a good soundtrack and modernized animation in the 2010's [OVA series: '''162''' episodes + 3 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust, [[Battlefleet Gothic]]

*'''''One Punch Man''''': The adventures of an in-universe [[Muscle Wizard]] superhero who can literally take down anything (ANY-FUCKING-THING) with a single, low-effort punch. Naturally, he's bored shitless and only seeks a worthy fight. An instant classic despite its anaemic twelve episodes thanks to its sense of humour, surprisingly smart character and genre writing, and utterly off-the-fucking-wall levels of batshit insane action -some of which gives even [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|JoJo]] and Gurren Lagann a run for their money. Also a great lesson in writing an OP character without sacrificing fun. [TV Series: 24 episodes + 9 OVAs and [[https://youtu.be/sfFv3MTPdkw| one fucking badass opening theme]].

:Related games: Playing an epic-level character in D&D (especially a monk), most superhero RPGs.

*'''''My Hero Academia''''': Take X-Men. Make almost everybody a mutant, but give most people [[Fail|mediocre]] or incredibly specific powers. Then make Xavier's school an actual school for learning how to use your powers. That's My Hero Academia, the anime that launched over 9000 low-PL Mutants and Masterminds games. While the general plot is a standard "audience surrogate claws his way to the top" affair, it's still achieved widespread acclaim on both /co/ and /tg/ for avoiding the traps that make most shonenshit and capeshit insufferable, putting a reasonable amount of thought into how large numbers of people with superpowers would affect society and focusing on relatively tame and limited powers applied creatively over cheesy super-kill-everything moves, which makes it a goldmine for anyone looking to run their own supers game. [[Warhammer High|One of the side characters also looks like a Daemonette, which has got to count for something.]] [TV series: 38 episodes and counting + 2 OVAs + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]] or any other superhero game with a flexible powers system

*'''''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 <i>very</i> [[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: [[L5R]], Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer

*'''''Youjo Senki - Saga of Tanya the Evil''''' ''(My Little Nazi or [[Ciaphas Cain]]: Isekai Loli Edition)'': Strike Witches if it was actually about war instead of lesbians. A high functioning sociopath salary-man is murdered by one of his disgruntled former employees and gets reincarnated into alt-fantasy 1910s Germany as the smuggest of [[Loli|lolis]]. Follows the general rhythms of the 21st-century-wargame-nerd-gets-transported-back-in-time genre, with the twist that God is actively fucking with Tanya to ruin all her carefully-planned attempts to escape the war and lead a cushy rear echelon life. While the premise may sound silly, the military action and writing are good enough to make it work. Tanya is more likable by miles than the stuffed-shirt protagonists of [[Isekai|similar shows]], despite a level of sociopathy that should make her the automatic villain. This makes her a wonderful inspiration for anyone who wants to play a Lawful Evil character with a personality beyond "rule the world with an iron fist." If you want frequent comedic misunderstandings, read the manga. If you want a bunch of elaborate explanations read the light novel. Also contains a fair amount of background for using modern concepts in WW1 for those GMs who have to live Darth and Droids/DM of the Rings on a weekly basis. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]. Fun Fact: Page 142 of the 1st light novel has the phrase "[[SAN|Sanity Checks]]"

:Related games: [[Magical Burst]], [[GURPS]] Infinite Worlds, [[Only War]], Torg

*'''''Blood Blockade Battlefront''''': A portal to another dimension opens in the middle of New York, transforming it in a combination of the two worlds. The city is renamed Hellsalem's Lot and become inhabited by both humans and the so-called beyonders. The series follow the members of Lybra, a clandestine organization made of people with special abilities that protect the city, and prevent lunacy from affecting the rest of the world. Special mention to Lybra's leader, Klaus Von Reinherz, a guy with looks and the strength of an ogre, the demeanor of a true gentlemen, and attacks with [[awesome|giant crosses of destruction made with his own blood and created through manly punches]]. As an added /tg/ bonus, one episode revolves around a boardgame called Prosfair, which is basically what you would get if [[Tzeentch]] decided to write homebrew rules for [[Chess]]. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 OVA]
**'''''Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond''''': Sequel continuing the story. [TV series: 12 episodes]

:Related games: [[Esoterrorists]], [[World of Darkness]], [[Chess]]

*'''FLCL''': Have you ever asked yourself what a [[Noblebright]] Evangelion might look like? Well, FLCL is the result of this. Many consider FLCL to be the "Anti-Evangelion" of sorts, alongside Gunbuster and Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan, but this doesn't mean fans of Evangelion can't enjoy it. The term is used because while Evangelion mindrapes you into being horrified, FLCL mindrapes you into laughing out loud and feeling [[Dawww|fuzzy]] all over yourself. Long Story short, a small boy, Naota, meets an alien girl and giant robots [[what|start appearing out of his head]]. From there on, many unusual and surreal events happen in his town, leading to bizarre and hilarious antics with him, his family and friends, and a surprisingly great "Coming of Age" story that completes all of this. And the robot/mecha designs are cool as hell and can inspire some great Mecha designs (Even [[Ork Snipers|if they don’t make any sense]]) (TV series: 6 episodes. Has 2 sequel seasons, but [[skub|they are more divisive than the original]]. Also has a manga adaptation that is darker and somehow even more weird.)

:Related games: [[Lancer]] (If it snorted even more coke before being created)
[[Image:Outlaw_Star.jpg|thumb|This is a legit [[Starfinder]] party.]]
*'''''Outlaw Star''''': The show that Josh Whedon ripped off to make Firefly, down to the frozen chick in a suitcase. Follows the adventures of a far-future band of literal murderhobos with a stolen military spaceship ''designed for melee combat'' as they hunt treasure, come in third in a space grand prix, slum it for a while working as a port tugboat, fight magic wielding chinese space pirates, and then chase after some ancient big dumb object. Party includes a cocky gunfighter with a gun that shoots spell cartridges, a geisha-esque ninja assassin, a catgirl who can transform into wookie-sized werecat, a 12 year old engineer, and an android copilot who strips down to fly the ship from a fishtank.

:Related games: [[Starfinder]]; no [[Traveller]] DM would stomach this much space magic
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==Comedy==
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*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': 2009 flash animations, [http://www.crunchyroll.com/nyarko-san-another-crawling-chaos still on crunchyroll.] [Web series: 21 shorts.]
**'''''Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos''''': A 2012 anime, 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!"]] Canonically ends with the protagonist losing whats left of his SAN points as Nyaruko has her way with him during their "honeymoon". Seriously. [TV series: 24 episodes + 3 OVAs]

:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!''''' (''KonoSuba''): A 2016 parody of the [[isekai]] meme that hit flavor-of-the-month status after the anime adaptation hit Crunchyroll. The main character dies and gets reincarnated into a generic fantasy world *yawn*, but he ends up with an incredibly un-[[Powergamer|optimized]] party of dumbasses. Starting with "the weakest" generic Adventurer class, he's joined by a brain-dead Priest who [[Derp|spent most of her skill points on party tricks,]] a Wizard who can only cast ''one'' spell per day because [[Munchkin|she absolutely refuses to learn anything other than the top-tier attack spell]], and a Fighter who's [[Magical realm|built as a pure meatshield because she's a hardcore masochist.]] They're also joined by a [[awesome|big-tittied lich]] who is actually competent but keeps getting nearly purged by the priest due to being undead. It resembles a group of new players stumbling though their first RPG campaign, run by an experienced GM who is laughing his ass off. Now getting a dub(it's here), so be prepared for mistranslated memes to be quoted ad nauseam. [TV series: 20 episodes + 2 OVAs + 1 film]

:Related games: [[World of Warcraft|MMORPGs]], [[Dungeon World]], [[Knights Of The Dinner Table]], [https://yenpress.com/9781975316426/konosuba-gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world-trpg/| Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! TRPG]

*'''''[[Life With Monstergirls|Everyday Life with Monster Girls]]''''': A 2015 anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite-ful 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. The manga is also a goldmine of reaction images. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so the artist gets as close as he can to actual sex without the sex, thus stringing along the wallets of horny otaku without losing the support of high-profile publishers. [[Games Workshop|So you should be right at home.]] Also expect older /d/eviants to call you a normie if you like this series, thanks to its comparative tameness and the number of lightweights who only discovered monster girls when this series stripped out the [[/d/|"weird"]] and then get triggered by something like [[Mon Musu Quest!]] If you want to see actual boinking, the original author had some webcomics about monster girls he made under the same name before the manga and anime; [[Weeaboo|weeaboos]] collectively call them '''Daily Life with Monster Girls''' to avoid confusion. [TV series: 12 episodes + 2 OVAs]

:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]], Low-stakes [[GURPS]] [[Technomancer]], [[Quest thread|quests, quests, quests]]

*'''''Those Who Hunt Elves''''': A movie star, a champion martial artist, and a teenage gun nut are pulled into generic fantasy world during a fight with a big bad, whom they immediately beat up. The elf priestess who inadvertently summoned them tries to send them back but rolls a critical fail, blasting the return spell into fragments embedded on other elves which the "heroes" must now track down. Which they do but in the most expedient way possible, gaining a reputation as infamous [[Adventurer#Murderhobos|murderhobos]] with terrifying powers who roam the world stripping elves on sight. ''Those Who Hunt Elves'' is one of the few shows to lampoon isekai as a genre. Airi, Junpei, and Ritsuko are fully aware they've become Ash Williams meets Sengoku Rance, even 4th walling on occasion; but they don't care, they just want to get back to modern Japan. They didn't choose to be here, they don't want to be here, and they will strip every goddamn elf they have to in order to get home. It isn't a hentai series outright but it gets about as close as you could in the 90's.

:Related games: Virtually anything with fantasy elves ([[Dungeons and Dragons]], [[Pathfinder]]) crossed with Army of Darkness RPG
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==Fantasy==
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[[Image:Record_of_Lodoss_War.jpg|thumb|Cleric, Wizard, Fighter, Elf, Thief, Dwarf]]
*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life as a series of role-playing game sessions (Basic edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone gives it major points. Sometimes known as [[meme|''Record of Loads of War'']]. 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]] (Basic), Sword World (1st edition)

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it follows a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which were lost following an alchemy accident where they attempt to [[Grimdark|revive their mother]]. The story eventually diverges from the manga to the point of characters having completely different roles in the story and which is polarizing when compared with the later series. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs] [Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa]
**'''''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 a Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange for knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series and skipping some unimportant but still interesting filler. [TV series: 64 episodes +1 movie + 4 OVAs] [Movie:The Sacred Star of Milos]
***'''''Fullmetal Alchemist (film)''''': This is a live action movie that covers the first four volumes of the original storyline and is a dark fantasy, science fiction, and adventure film. It can be seen on Netflix.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]], [[Eberron]]

*'''''(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]], [[BESM]]

*'''''[[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) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord (named Demon Lord). In retaliation the Demon 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 2ch's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''. [TV series: 12 episodes]

: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''''': A retelling of the Sengoku Era of feudal Japan, spearheaded by OP historical figures with varying accuracy and their own special attributes like six-wielding lightning shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star and somehow includes a fucking cyborg titan, steam-punkesque machinery, and magic. Sengoku Basara itself is a series of video games that predate and proceed the story of the anime (not to be confused with Samurai Warriors due to the same setting, same characters, and similar gameplay). [TV series: 24 episodes + 2 OVAs]

:Related games: [[Exalted]], Civilization, LoL

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's DragonMech: The Anime... kinda. Series follows a girl from IRL Earth getting teleported to a magical world, a hotheaded prince who pilots the titular Escaflowne, a large cast of other interesting characters as they deal with the Zaibach Empire. The movie is its own continuity but parallels some of the major arcs of the anime. [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]

:Related games: [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ Standard RPG System] obviously

*'''''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]

:Related games: [http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon] obviously

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about its characters or its plot detailing 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 just historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate <u>period</u>.] If you want to get a decent idea of the Hundred Years War weapons and 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]]

*'''''Izetta the Last Witch''''': A witch gets thrown into a pandemonium of a world. The year is 1939 and the Empire of Germania has just invaded the small principality of Elystadt. Includes: Magic, World War 2, actual fucking trench warfare (and its failure to blitz tactics) and pretty much all things 1939 (also has moe lovechild of the SAS and a Vindicare temple). It's not quite ''Valkyria Chronicles'' and it's not quite ''Pumpkin Scissors'', but if you liked either one you'll probably like this too. It also has Imperial Guard-tier holding the line long enough for the MCs to take all the credit. The amount of detail may be enough to compensate for the admittedly weak story, [[-4 STR|dodgily written]] female characters, and the fact MC is a full blown [[Mary Sue]]. That said, she rides a fucking fuckhueg Anti-Tank Rifle (a derivation of the Boys and Type 97) as a broom and makes swords fly like any respectable rogue psyker. [TV series: 12 episodes]

:Related games: [[Warhammer 40k]], [[Warhammer]], [[Bolt Action]],[[Flames of War]], [[Axis & Allies]]

*'''''First Squad: The Moment of Truth''''': This is set in the eastern front during the Second World War where a group of "gifted" Soviet youth are trained to be a countermeasure to the Schutzstaffel trying to reanimate (through dark arts) an army of Teutonic Knights from a 12th century invasion of Russia (specifically, it's probably the Battle of Peipus (Battle of the Ice)). It has Soviet and Nazi Paranormal Tech, Panzers, and short but well made battle scenes, and what is probably a progenitor of the Ordo Malleus. What more is there to say? [Movie, Japanese Audio: 1:00:28 + Russian Audio with "interview" cutscenes: 1:12:53]

:Related games: [[Warhammer 40k]], [[Warhammer]], [[Bolt Action]], [[Flames of War]], [[Axis & Allies]]

*'''''[[Queen's Blade]]''''': An ecchi anime full of [[Hot Chicks]] ripping apart each other's clothes. There's a plot involving a tournament to become the ruler of the world and claim the titular Queen's Blade, but [[PROMOTIONS|you're not going to care about it.]] Based on an old-school gamebook series that became big in Japan by stealing their secret art of hoovering up NEETbux with gratuitous nudity. [TV Series: 24 episodes + 6 OVAs + 12 specials]
**'''''Queen's Blade: Rebellion''''': A sequel to the previous. After Claudia won the Queen's Blade, she abolished the tournament and became a ruthless tyrant. The series follows rebels trying to overthrow her. Grinds against the line between ecchi and hentai like it was a table corner. [TV Series: 12 episodes + 2 OVAs + 6 specials]

:Related games: [[Fighting Fantasy]]

*'''''Dororo''''' (1969) and '''''Dororo''''' (2019): A pair of adaptations of a manga by the legendary Osamu Tezuka. Hyakkimaru, a now young man whose feudal lord dad sold the various body parts of to 48 separate demons before he was born. With the help of some really advanced prosthetics, given to him by his adoptive father, he travels Sengoku era Japan to kill all the demons and reclaim his body. He's joined by Dororo, a reverse trap loli thief (better executed than it sounds). Thanks to the original manga being canceled mid-way with no ending, the two take the basic premise into ''wildly'' different directions (and there's some non-anime adaptations that diverge in ''even more'' directions) that are both worth a watch. [TV series: 26 episodes. 24 episodes.]

:Related games: [[L5R]] (or any [[Oriental Adventures]] setting), especially when taint is played up, [[Promethean: The Created]] (2019 version).

*'''''The Rising of the Shield Hero''''' (2019): From ''Tate no Yūsha no Nariagari'' published 2017. Naofumi Iwatani gets isekaied with three others. The quartet are assigned their legendary weapons: Spear, Sword, Bow, and... Shield. Naofumi gets the Shield and a companion, the princess... who proceeds to ''totally fuck him over'' by lying to everyone and claiming he had (literally) [[Rape|fucked ''her'']]. Now disgraced, the "false hero" plays ronin: by helping villagers clean up after the heroics of the other three, usually because they'd moved on from some temporary victory without finishing the job. Naofumi acquires the usual anime isekai harem of loli, the [[tanuki]] Raphtalia, whom Naofumi redeems from slavery; and Filo the blonde chicken-girl shapeshifter. Can almost be seen/read as a response to the poorly-written [[Cavalier]] in the 1980s [[D&D Cartoon]]. [TV series: 25 episodes. More planned 2022.]

:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (Basic)

*'''''Interspecies Reviewers''''': Arguably the most infamous animu of 2020, the premisse is both stupid and genius: A group of adventurers, more specifically a human, an angel, an elf and the ocasional guest visit brothels made up of [[monster girl]]s of the most varied fetishes and themes possible while rating them based on how enjoyable the experience was. Did we mention that the angel is an [[/d/|hermaphrodite]]? In spite of seemingly being create to satisfy the creator's pants (and to be fair, it probably was), the series is noted for having a surpising depth of research when it comes to worldbuilding in... well, [[derp|interspecies]] relationships and monster girl anatomy and biology, going in-depth on ''why'' some species value and feel attracted to some aspects as opposed to others (the standards of [[loli|old and young]] between humans and elfs is quite different for example) while also having the ocasional look into non-monster girl details of the setting like the political systems and economy and can be very useful for DMs who want to go into biological detail of their fantasy races and their sexual relationships/reproduction without coming off as as a [[/d/M]]. [TV series: 12 episodes]

:Related games: [[Towergirls]], [[Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Pathfinder]], [[Maid RPG]], any fantasy game one could plausibly depict [[PROMOTIONS|sexy monster gals]] as a "norm" really
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==Gaming==
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* For the same reasons that Western cinema has [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_chess too many movies about chess], anime has a number of titles dedicated to classic board games:
** Go: '''''Hikaru no Go'''''
** Mahjong: '''''Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai''''', '''''Furiten-kun''''', '''''Legendary Gambler Tetsuya''''', '''''Mahjong Hishō-den: Naki no Ryū''''', '''''Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku (The Legend of Koizumi)''''', '''''Saki''''', '''''Ten: Tenhoudouri No Kaidanji'''''.
** Shogi: '''''March Comes in Like a Lion''''', '''''The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!''''', '''''Shion no Ō'''''.
** Uta-garuta: '''''Chihayafuru'''''

*'''''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 melting pot 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]], [[Quest thread|quests]]

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins [[OP|who win every game they play]] are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders. 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]], [[Monopoly#Metanopoly|Metanopoly]]

*'''''After-School Dice Club''''': A high-school club of mostly cute girls who play Eurogames, with each episode featuring an actual Eurogame.
:Related games: A ton of [[Eurogames]], including of course [[Settlers of Catan]]

*'''''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]], bored games

*'''''[[Log Horizon]]''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the [[Isekai|"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 without skipping straight to the shitty cliches. Now with its own TRPG core book. [TV series: 50 episodes]

:Related games: Log Horizon TRPG, [[/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 2015-2018 adaptation of the novels written by Kugane Maruyama, after his tabletop group disbanded. It follows Satoru Suzuki, a leader of the guild Ainz Ooal Gown, on the very last day of the [[/v/|MMORPG]] ''Yggdrasil'', just before it shuts down. Instead of getting kicked offline, he [[wat|turns into his level 100 character]], the eponymous [[lich|undead]] "overlord" Momonga and discovers he has entered ''another world''. Sigh, yes, it's yet another [[Isekai]] setting; but! there are a few twists: he's ended up in a new world that's not ''Yggdrasil'', in the middle of three countries at war, and has an entire castle full of guild [[NPC]]s that are suddenly alive ''Night at the Museaum''-style. Its highly recommended to read the light novels after finishing season one if it interests you, as the anime begins skipping a lot of important details and becomes a CG fest after that point (the anime even skips stuff in season one but its far less). Also, almost every spell name is ripped straight from D&D. [TV series: 39 episodes + shorts]

:Related games: High-level [[3.5e]]

*[[Girls und Panzer|'''''Girls und Panzer''''']]: As mentioned by the Kantai Collection entry above, this show rounds out the 'Holy Moe Armed Forces Trinity' by having schoolgirls actually fight each other in historic World War II tanks (tanks manufactured slightly after World War II, such as the British Centurion, are also featured, and the most recent add-on puts in FV tanks and a FUCKING MK V LANDSHIP) in a war game blown up to real proportions. The main story follows a ragtag Japanese high school 'tankery' team as they try to beat the more elite (and powerful) teams competing on the international level. Featuring towns built on oversized aircraft carriers, plenty of World War II references, and a diverse cast of characters, this show panders to anime fans and World of Tanks/War Thunder players alike (In fact, GuP and WoT are cross-promoting each other's materiel and GuP skins make up a massive proportion of War Thunder user skins, in fact I make them myself) [TV series: 7 OVAs, 12 episodes and 2 recap episodes]

:Related games: [[Flames of War]]

* '''''Mythbreakers''''': Mythbreakers is a series of livestreams by Hololive EN following an ongoing [[Hunter: The Vigil]] campaign. [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpEk-_NkG-YVvkKP5I2LoARyHI1HQTTty| The full list of VODs can be found here.] [Please expand] [5 session zero streams + 6 proper sessions + various other streams]

:Related Games: [[Hunter: The Vigil]]

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==Horror, Grimdark, & Mindfuckery==
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*'''''Akira''''' - Famous for being THE Japanese animation that introduced its kind into the West, as well as being a cornerstone in the foundation of the cyberpunk genre. Japan gets nuked again, but not by an actual nuke but by the eponymous [[Psyker|psionic superhuman]]. A dystopian Neo-Tokyo is created from the ashes, only to be destroyed again due to one of the MCs becoming a psychic as well and [[Exterminatus|unleashing another death blast]]. Unfortunately the movie gimps a lot of content from the manga to fit into the standard 2-hour runtime of a film and thus compresses a lot of themes, and also came out before the manga actually concluded, so it's best to bust out those reading glasses if you want the full story. It's a huge inspiration for many works internationally including several tabletop games, and broke the Western mold of animation being only for kids - it's only natural /tg/ enjoys it. ['''READ THE MANGA'''] [1 movie]
:Related games: [[Shadowrun]], [[Mutants and Masterminds]], playing [[Psyker]]s in [[40k]]

*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness and awful budgeting, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]], obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes + 2 movies, Reboot (Rebuild of Evangelion): 4 movies]

:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Psycho-Pass''''': Classic cyberpunk dystopia from Gen "The Butcher" Urobochi. Japan has once again isolated itself from the world after a poorly defined apocalypse and is now governed by the SYBLE System, which tracks everybody based on their "Crime Coefficient," [[Grimdark|imprisoning anybody who shows the potential for antisocial behavior.]] The series follows a squad of investigators and the "latent criminals" forced to work with them as they hunt down the people at the margins of the system with guts and giant fuck-off handguns that can disintegrate solid steel but are programmed to only kill bad people. An absolute goldmine for cyberpunk imagery somewhere in between the black-trenchcoat look of [[Cyberpunk 2020]] and the post-cyberpunk iPod future. [TV series: 22 episodes + 1 movie (named ''Mandatory Happiness'' of all things)]
**'''''Psycho-Pass 2''''': Sequel series without Urobochi. Takes away everything that made Psycho-Pass interesting and replaces it with guro. Avoid.
:Related games: [[Paranoia]], [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''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 evil men who rape and breed them, 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 (basically he's fucking Dracula at full power and not stuck in a shitty old man body; at one point they give him an SR-71 to possess into his personal batplane), and his new big-titted, former cop, fledgling Seras are their main agents. Their enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal <s>Scottish</s> Irish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual OG 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.) Divided into two continuities; the original, 13 episode, TV series (which overtook the manga and so went in an entirely different direction, and has lackluster animation, but also deeper characters, a more even theme, and a rocking soundtrack) and the "Ultimate" OVA series (totally faithful to the manga, but that also means it keeps ping-ponging between beautifully animated guro and cutesy-poo chibi "comedy" sections). [TV Series: 13 Episodes, OVA series: 10 Episodes]

:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]], [[Vampire: The Requiem]] + [[Hunter: The Vigil]] + [[Deviant: The Renegades]] (TV series only), some batshit insane fusion of [[Vampire: The Masquerade]] and [[Scion]] or [[Exalted]] (Ultimate)

*'''''[[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]]. Includes copious amounts of rape, extreme violence, a guy ([[Magnus the Red|who did nothing wrong]]) selling the souls of his friends to the local version of the Chaos Gods and tons of general badassery. [TV series: 25 episodes]['''READ THE MANGA''']
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only. The whole trilogy is currently on Netflix (added bonus: it's dubbed in ''english''). [3 movies]
**'''''Berserk (2016)''''': Building largely on the achievements of the aforementioned movie trilogy, the latest incarnation of Berserk finally explores a more monstrous and demon-infested setting set two years after the Golden Age Arc. While despised by many fans for its terrible CG animation and skipping major character moments, it's the only thing you're going to get for a long while. Made by the same people that gave you Teekyuu, the ''nine season'' shitpost. (also shows you one of the many ways of how to not introduce characters to a fanbase that would ''probably'' have given their organs to the author to keep him alive.)
**Unfortunately the author of the manga died prematurely in May 2021, leaving the story ''technically'' unfinished (though the point at which it ended conveniently was "good enough", making some think he saw his demise coming) - any adaptations now will have to take liberties if they plan to go beyond where the manga stopped. Keep that in mind for any adaptations below this.
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Cthulhu]] 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]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Death Note''''': A random high schooler finds a book that lets him kill anyone whose name is written in it. What does he do with it? He tries to become a god by killing criminals. Only one dares oppose him: the mysterious detective L. An exciting game of "He knows that I know that he knows," ensues. Originator of [[Just as planned]] thanks to an especially shitty translation. [TV Series: 37 episodes + 2 movies + 2 live-action movies + [[wikipedia:Manga Murder|one real-life murder case]]]

:Related games: [[Esoterrorists]], [[Kult]], [[Hunter: The Reckoning]], [[Delta Green]]

*'''''Puella Magi Madoka Magica''''': A middle school girl gets approached by a magical girl mascot animal with an offer to join a secret war between the grotesque witches and the magical girls that fight to curb their destructive influence. Naturally, it's a trap. Also the music is great (while the composer has been known to use Kajiuran (a gibberish language she made that sounds nice), quite a few people have manged to translate and even make covers in other language for some of the music, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu98k5vVP-Y German] sounds especially good.)! [TV Series: 12 episodes + 2 compilation movies and one expansion movie][watch the first compilation movie or first 3 episodes. If you aren't hooked, drop it]

:Related Games: [[Liberi Gothica]], [[Magical Girls - The Game]], [[Magical Burst]], [[Princess: The Hopeful]], [[Quest:Magical Girl Noir Quest]]

*'''''Made in Abyss''''': What happens when you cross Studio Ghibli with the lovecraftian horror of ''Madoka Magica'', the brutality of ''Berserk'' and the psychological horror of ''Digimon Tamers''? You get Made in Abyss that's what! Made in Abyss is set in a pseudo-fantasy/adventure genre that is populated by <u>''a lot''</u> of [[Loli|moe lolis]] mining and excavating ancient relics of a past civilization found scattered in a giant, deep fucking hole in the middle of the island. Like Digimon Tamers and Madoka Magica, it starts off cute and whimsical with absolutely ''gorgeous'' background art that would make the Great Hayao Miyazaki proud. But partway through the plot, the series turns into a very dark turn, and we mean <u>'''DARK'''</u>. The way the anime (and manga) handled its mature themes, its art design, the musical score, a well paced story progression and conclusion as well as not treating its audience like they are a bunch of mindless, horny basement dwellers earned it critical acclaim to not only anime elitists, but normal plebs as well. Furthermore, the fantastic world building of Made in Abyss has made it popular for D&D conversions. That and the fact that it gave /tg/ a bucket load of [[Meme|memes]] thanks to a certain bunch of characters, the series also hosts the only [[furry]] you should not kill on sight... [TV Series: 13 episodes + upcoming second season]

:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]]

*'''''[[Goblin Slayer]]''''': I'm Goblin Slayer, I hunt goblins. The epic tale of a hardcore autistic adventurer who refuses to fight anything other than goblins, even when the BBEG is about to take over the world. Notable for its "realistic" take on medieval adventuring: D&D-style darkvision monster spam is a plot point, weapon lengths are taken into account, what magic exists is highly limited and time-consuming, and the titular goblins are [[Tucker's Kobolds]] gone grimdark with the shit-covered prison shankings and whatnot. Also lots of rape. Started as a web story on 2ch that immediately took off and transformed into the modern inheritor to Berserk's grimdark crown. [TV Series: 12 episodes and counting]

:Related games: [[The Riddle of Steel]], [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]], a theoretical good version of [[FATAL]]

*'''''Gantz''''': Most often written off as [[Khorne|guro porn]] and for delving into [[Slaanesh|taboo subject matter]], but there IS meaning behind the madness, otherwise it wouldn't have the cult following it has. People get revived by a mysterious spherical machine upon death, and are free to return to their normal lives on one condition: they kill an alien hiding on Earth once a week. Said aliens range in motivation from just trying to live in hiding on Earth to being actually malicious, but most have lethal tricks up their sleeve that can, and often will, result in [[TPK|high casualties]]. Many are also abominations worthy of being [[Chaos Spawn]]-AGHADAKJAGJ {{BLAM}} And since the sphere picks indiscriminately, fucked up situations can and will ensue - be it getting a child involved, [[That Guy|working with sociopathic assholes who would gladly sacrifice you for their own survival]], and [[/d/|degeneracy]]. It isn't a total loss though - if someone gains enough points from [[Blam|purging enough]] [[xeno]]s, they can choose to leave the death game permanently (though the trauma will most definitely haunt them). A tale of [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|humans surviving against nigh-insurmountable odds]] and people making the best of a truly horrible situation. Borders on Grimderp at times, but is usually as grimdark as an average Guardsman's life, just with Khorne levels of blood being constant. Can be [[Skub]]by for /tg/ and any other place on the Internet, but there's a significant group on the board who like it for being [[Deathwatch]] but with normal people. ['''READ THE MANGA'''] [TV: 26 episodes] [If you dislike large amounts of blood & gore, body horror, and themes/scenes that would trigger the local [[SJW]], avoid]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Delta Green]], [[Call of Cthulhu]], [[Monster of the Week]]
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==Mecha==
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*'''''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion''''': When you take terrorism, high school, chess and a protagonist smoother than a dwarf (mine)shaft then throw in some mech suits you get Code Geass. The plot focuses on a masked [[Batman|vigilante]] called Zero <s>[[Alpharius|who may remind you of a certain someone]]</s> and their efforts to fight back against the Brittanian Empire but that's not all. The power of geass plays a major role (explaining it properly would be a spoiler but it's basically [[magic|magic]]/hypnosis). The mechs of the series are known as [[meme|Knightmares]] which serve as the main fighting force for Brittania and the rebels. If you want a show that has [[Heresy|qualities even the Emperor's Children would appreciate]] then watch it. [TV series: 25 episodes]
**'''''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2''''': Follows as a continuation of the first season. Just as [[Pretty Marines|fabulous]]. [TV series: 25 episodes]
**'''''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection''''': An alternate timeline based on the compilation movies made of R2, which had slight but ''significant'' changes to series events (like, oh, Shirley being ''alive''), it follows C.C's life after the end of R2, as well setting up Lelouch's return (as the compilation movies didn't have him "dead"-dead). Series writers have stated that any continuation of the series will use this timeline moving forward.

:Related games: [[Battletech]], playing with Imperial Knights in [[Warhammer 40,000]]

*'''''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. Noted for having references to vintage rock music. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie in an alternate universe setting]
**'''''Eureka Seven AO''''': A sequel to the original that shits on basically the themes of the first series was about in [[Rage|the most aggravating manner possible]] (the reason being, the writer absolutely loathes the TV series ending and has made it his duty to make ''each'' following iteration in the franchise much more closer to his vision -- i.e. as depressing as possible). However, it has fans that didn't care for the first series and it got praised for having better mechs and monsters so if you're more into that take a stab at it. Like the first series it retains its vintage rock music references. [TV series: 25 episodes + 1 OVA]

:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[Battletech]]

*'''''Macross''''': One of the best mecha franchises of all time, this show revolves around fighter jets that transform into mecha. Started with ''Super Dimension Fortress Macross'', and spawned multiple series and movies afterwards. Kinda took a left turn into the idol-genre (especially after the 'Do You Remember Love?' OVA), but overall pretty decent. Involves humanity fighting giant aliens with the help of transforming starfighters called Variable fighters. It should stand on it's own merits, rather than on my explanation of the plot. (4 TV series, 6 OVAs, 8 Full-length animated movies)
:Related games: [[Battletech]], [[Star Frontiers]]

*'''''[[Robotech]]''''': An abomination born out of the early days of the US anime market, Robotech is a composite localization of '''''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''''' (see previous), '''''Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross''''', and '''''Genesis Climber MOSPEADA''''' into a single work. This isn't as crazy as it sounds, the same thing was done to make ''Power Rangers''. Anyway, here's where it gets interesting. The original [[FASA|creators]] of [[BattleTech]] were lazy and couldn't be bothered to actually design any giant robots; instead they licensed designs from Macross franchise. But Harmony Gold (owner of Robotech) called it infringement and sued FASA, which spiraled into suing Microsoft due to ''Mechwarrior''. Robotech used to be pretty well known but since ''Macross Frontier'' the Macross-vs-Robotech fight has ceased to be a thing. [TV series: 85 episodes + 4 movies + 2 OVAs]

:Related games: [[BattleTech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''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 due to poor ratings, then had a second season greenlit thanks to its 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]]

*'''''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

*'''''Mobile Suit Gundam''''': The mecha anime that not only helped popularize Real-Robots in the first place but also started one of the longest-running sci-fi franchises in Japan and in time would help influence the [[Tau]]. Set in the midst of a bloody "One Year War" between the Earth Federation and <s>Space Nazis</s> oppressed colonists called the Principality of Zeon, it follows the trials of a whiny teenager who quickly grows a spine, the titular Gundam and the crew of the White Base as they generally try to win the war in one piece, with some <s>psyker</s> Newtype hijinks along the way. Also known for its grey morality, gritty portrayal of war, intrigue, lots of mass-produced robots dying in droves and even more deaths. Basically, the Japanese equivalent of Star Wars if it deconstructed Star Trek. Had poor ratings at its initial airing in 1979, only really gaining popularity with successive reruns. Now known for its massive library of spinoffs ranging from "Romeo & Juliet (with giant robots)" to "Top Gun (with giant robots)" to "Mortal Kombat (with giant robots)". Also, when we mean death, we mean death - the series creator, Yoshiyuki Tomino is known as "Kill-Them-All Tomino" not only for this series but pretty much any series he touches seeing large parts of the main cast and numerous side characters getting offed, often in just plain brutal ways. [TV series: 43 episodes + 3 movies + many spinoffs]

:Related games: [[BattleTech]], [[Warhammer 40000]], [[Mekton]], [[Battle Century G]]

*'''''Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans''''': One of the latest (<s>and most [[Awesome|awesome]]/[[FAIL|failed]] (terrible plot pacing, wonky villain motive)</s> ([[Skub|It's complicated]])) iterations of the Gundam franchise, IBO focusses on a group of young [[Imperial Guard|orphans-turned-soldiers]] and their struggle to protect a princess trying to bring peace to the land. There are only 72 Gundam suits ever produced in this post-apocalyptic setting, and a good bunch of them appear in the hands of both the antagonists and the protagonists. As expected of a Gundam show, the [[Rip and Tear|deaths are aplenty]] and there are a ton of intense mecha-on-mecha action scenes to enjoy. What differentiates this Gundam series from the others is how the protagonists suffer extraordinarily painful events throughout the show, [[Grimdark|despite the fact that they are children barely approaching their teen years]] (as expected, this has generated much debate on the topic of child soldiers and other more [[Serious Business|serious business]] brought up in the plot, such as slavery and neo-colonialism). The main crew will fight [[Freebooterz|pirates]], mercenaries, and a huge military organization along their journey, and the show also features a charismatic soldier [[Tzeentch|trying to manipulate people on both sides of the conflict]] to bring balance to <s>[[Star Wars|the Force]]</s> the aforementioned military organization. <s>[[What|Ignore the fact that he is technically engaged to a kid despite being a fully-grown adult.]]</s> Also, unlike…hell, most anime in general, there’s a semi-legit reason for the child soldiers here. The kids have special spinal implants that are basically 40k mind-impulse links, allowing them to control mobile suits and mobile workers with their minds, as extensions of their own bodies, and thus giving them much faster and more fluid control than any normal pilot. The catch is that only the still developing bodies of kids can safely accept the implants. Then we go into derp territory when these mind-impulse link child soldiers are [[wat|treated as disposable trash by their commanders, considered worthless beyond the fact that they have "whiskers."]] Oh, also, unlike any other Gundam series, this one is not only an on-Earth exclusive one, but (due to advances in armor rendering lasers almost completely impotent) the use of ranged weapons is much more sparse, with XBOX HUEG melee weapons as the main instrument of fighting. [TV series: 50 episodes]

:Related games: See above

*'''''Getter Robo:''''' the granddaddy of the combining mecha and crazy ride even when it started in the 70s. Got a bombastic start being inspired after seeing a minor car pile up. They came up with a mech powered by evolution rays that combined by crashing three jets into one another at Mach 8 piloted by three crazy bastards as they fight off an underground empire of [[repdoids|dinomen]] and their mech-dinosaurs. Then things go more unhinged as time goes on as we get increasingly larger robots, Time travel, body horror, existential dread, cosmic horror, and some of the bolerest of anime opening songs. MANGA timeline: Getter Robo, Getter Robo G, Getter Robo go (don't use anima version), Shin Getter Robo, Getter Robo Arc (original Getter Robo author dead before writing an ending so see anime for a conclusion) ['''READ THE MANGA'''][TV series: 82 episodes + _ movie, OVA series: 13 episodes]

:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]](a mecha related [[GARPS]] supplement)

*'''''Acrobunch''''': A family of six go on a treasure hunt while being chased by an underground kingdom of goblins that want revenge on humanity. This anime was created in 1982 by Kokusai Eiga-sha, the same people responsible for the 80s ''Tetsujin 28'' series (aka ''The New Adventures of Gigantor'' for you 90s kids) and ''God Mars'' with the same staff as the ''J9'' trilogy (consisting of ''Braiger'', ''Baxingar'', and ''Sasuraiger''). Before the late 2010s this remained under most people's radars and even [[/m/]] saw it as just "that one anime that premiered with ''Escaflowne'' and ''Betterman'' in ''Super Robot Wars Compact 3'' and wasn't ''Mechander Robo''". Since its fansubbing completion this hidden gem is notable for being one of the few series that consists of the titular super robot going against real robots. While it includes a lot of ancient alien tech, [[Tzeentch]] having a cameo eating virgin goblins in Ireland, and even [[What|God smiting both sides for disturbing Noah's Ark]], it has enough war gaming minutia: Mass produced units, subfactions, cannon fodder vehicles, combat tactics, and parallels to real life history and religion. In the last quarter we get a red shirt army that doesn't suck ass at their job (shocking!). Also neo Nazis are confirmed to be a rogue goblin group in this timeline, call Goblin Slayer and the Inglorious Bastards. The ending, despite being a happy one, is said to be on a level of bonkers even ''Evangelion'' was unable to reach. No spoilers, but we will say you can't skip any episodes because even the standalones come into play at the end. [TV series: 24 episodes]

:Related games: [[Battletech]]
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== Things That Aren't Anime, But You Thought Were ==
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*'''''[[Touhou]]''''': An arcade-style, shoot-em-up vidya series, featuring a 100% [[loli]] cast, barring one or two NPCs here or there. Its fandom is incredibly large and kooky, and so fanart of its characters get plastered all over 4chan, causing newfags to ask what anime they are from and incite much derision. It has however, received several official manga spinoffs. [Video-game series: 27 titles, as of '''''Hidden Star in Four Seasons''''']

:Related games: [[Video games|/v/ stuff, shmups,]] [[Exalted]], [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]].)

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French (and therefore absolutely based) cartoon about a kid named Yugo who discovers he is part of a long-lost race of people with the ability to create portals. A fun world with fun characters and a surprisingly deep BBEG that is not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]] [TV series: 52 episodes + 6 specials + 27 episode mini-series]

:* '''''Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim''''': Is an episodic series about a retired adventurer who runs an item shop, set around 1000 years before the '''''Wakfu''''' timeline and 200 years before the game. [TV series: 52 episodes + 1 movie]

::(Both Dofus and Wakfu stem from flash-made MMOs of the same names, both games have multiple classes that decide players' abilities and base appearance so homebrews are very possible.)

:Related Games: [[Krosmaster]], which features the same characters and races. Wakfu had an [http://docs.google.com/document/d/14WGhmgmK_tW9LJEQfwFAbpMeja7csNb-zt__3H7SDzQ/ unofficial early beta RPG] and the company Ankama has [http://www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg/news/announcements/265763-would-you-be-interested-tabletop-rpg-set-dofus-world asked if anyone is interested] in an official RPG.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': In a world where creatures are able to manipulate the elements through martial arts, a child capable of controlling air who froze himself in ice awakens to find that he is the last of his kind. This child is also the Avatar, a person with potential to manipulate all elements and multiply their power by communing with past lives. His adventure involves traveling with friends to master the elements in hopes of unlocking his powers and overthrowing the evil emperor of the Fire Nation that seeks to conquer the world. Is awesome and is famous for having some of the best written characters/character development in any medium. [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.] [TV series: 61 episodes]

:* '''''Avatar: The Legend of Korra''''': The sequel to the above set sixty years in the future. The next Avatar (Korra, a delicious brown girl from the water-manipulating tribe) struggles to make peace between the normals and the element-fu-wielding upper class amid the setting's equivalent of the Roaring Twenties. There's also some stuff about [[Chaos|a god of darkness disrupting the spirit world.]] Incredibly skubtastic on /co/ due to various hamhanded attempts at character development. Is also nowhere near as good as the previous series. Still decent, though, especially when you consider how Nickelodeon consistently fucked its creators sideways. [TV series: 52 episodes]

:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]. Also has a card-game that uses QuickStrike rules.

*'''''RWBY''''': <strike>[[Skub|Anime-esque CGI production]]</strike> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjmBDfulaGk Not anymore, and lo behold the official anime adaptation!] Made by the late Monty Oum and RoosterTeeth, pronounced "ruby". The world is filled with creatures known as Grimm that seek to destroy humanity, stemmed back by a pseudo-magical substance known as Dust and an order of protectors known as Huntsmen, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off [[noblebright]] with themes of tolerance and improving society, then got more [[grimdark]] by the middle of the third season. [[Skub|Depending on who you ask, it's either an enjoyable (if flawed) series with good characters, an interesting setting and ideas, and cool weapons, or a dumpster fire of bootleg anime tropes smashed together with hackneyed writing.]] Pretty much everyone agrees that the fight choreography is amazing in the first two seasons (and most of the third, till Monty unexpectedly died), which lends itself to some popularity among fa/tg/uys. Currently someone is trying to make [[RWBY RPG|an RPG based on the setting]] and RT's game development group recently expressed interest in making tabletop games of the series, supposedly based off a tabletop game played in the series, because [[recursion|Meta things are fun.]] Also notable for being widely hated on both [[/co/]] and [[/a/]], unlike most of the things on this list,<ref>A really big reason for this is that the creators really wanted to avoid doing the needed worldbuilding for such a setting, with the usual plot holes and inconsistencies that happen as a result of that approach. For reference, see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fdKWOHrdE this overlong video] going into some details of why. (Warning: video is by a Breadtuber (for the unfamiliar, think an academic leftist, with ''slightly'' lower [[SJW]] tendencies than that phrase usually implies, who does a lot of media commentary), but this particular video mostly avoids politics; just don't click on his channel unless you want [[Skub]]).</ref> so tread carefully when discussing it. Also, someone wrote a surprisingly touching crossover with 40k. Lamenters on Remnant works better than you think.
:Related games: low-level [[Exalted]], [[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]]
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==Things That Aren't Approved but Merit a Footnote==
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*'''''Aura Battler Dunbine''''': Tomino made this after Gundam. A trainwreck to some, a classic to others. Some guy and his motorcycle gets transported to a fantasy world Ash Williams style, only to discover it's full of fantasy giant robots with fantasy missiles and fantasy laser beams. Imagine guys in armor with swords piloting bug-like mecha against castles defended by spearmen and rock throwing catapults; it's like they deliberately set out to be more [[Gamma World]] than Gamma World. If it came out today it'd be a steaming pile of [[skub]] but the same is true for most things from the 80's. Halfway through the series the whole mess gets transported from fantasy world to Cold War Earth and the Cold War goes hot. Everybody dies and the final battle mimics ''Acrobunch''. A three part OVA called ''Tales of Neo Byston Wells'' was released years later and took a more traditional fantasy approach, ditching the guns and other contemporary elements. [TV series: 49 episodes + 3 OVAs]

:Related games: Army of Darkness RPG, [[Gamma World]]

*'''''Sword Art Online''''': Though not the first [[Isekai|portal fantasy]] that dealt with the whole "being trapped in a video game" shtick, SAO is definitely the one the made it incredibly popular in recent years. Starting off with an incredibly ridiculous premise to begin with, that being that not just one person or even a small group of people are stuck in the video game world but several thousand are because the creator is some freak wanting to test the resolve of humanity. As such, he set it up the VR helmets (which render users immobile while playing) used to enter SAO to microwave their user's brains if they attempt to remove them while logged in or die in the game. How this design feature managed to slip past health and safety regulations is not explained. The main character of the show is Kirito, a [[Mary Sue|Beta Tester]] who uses his incredible fighting prowess and knowledge of the game from being a "beater" (that's a portmanteau of "beta tester" and "cheater") to soar in both levels and varying amounts of prestige/infamy. May or may not have been responsible for several peoples deaths in the game world. Quickly acquires a waifu and harem, which expands as seasons go on all the more to [[Skub|mixed reactions]]. The first season is generally accepted to be alright, if by the numbers, though the second season onward is where many argue the show starts to take a [[Skub|nose-dive in quality]] still making money by Beating its Corpse in the form of games and ANOTHER anime "Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online" thats still ongoing. If you MUST watch it, do yourself a favor and stick to the Hilariously Awesome Abridged series instead.
:Related games: It's own line of board, card games and video games, [[BESM]], OVA RPG, Gratuitous Anime Gimmick, a whole slew of poorly written fan-made RPGs

*'''''Banner of the Stars''''': Grand space opera with space ships and space battles and space elves and fukkin nukes 'n lazorbeamz. Should be right up the /tg/ & /m/ alley, right? Wrong. Because the main character, Lin Jinto, is a [[Horus|fucking traitor]] who sells out his homeworld and species for the supposed affection of a [https://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Priorities_ba536b_6833904.jpg <s>space elf princess</s>] raging tsundere ''who left him to die on at least one occasion''. After fighting a war against his own people (how dare they resent him being appointed their hereditary planetary lord), he has the gall to whine about how he's hated by everyone and so can't go see the places he cared about growing up. It's not his fault, he didn't ''choose'' to become a space prince, he was picked, see? He didn't ask for this; but having been made space prince, will he give it up and stand with his kin? Fuck no. Watch this show, and by the end you'll agree that the only thing Jinto deserves is the noose he whines about his people saying he deserves.
:Related Settings: [[Traveller]], Star Army of Yamatai (if you're a cretin who thinks Lin and the Abh are actually the good guys), and frankly any system with space elves

*[[/m/#For_the_war_gamin.27_crowd|/m/'s list of recommendations for war gamers]]

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': 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

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Approved Anime

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This is a list of [[/tg/]] '''approved [[anime]]''', organized loosely into genres. For /tg/-approved manga, [[manga|go here]].

= 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 flavour of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (If your answer is yes, DO NOT ADD IT TO THE PAGE. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother. As a general rule wait a few months after it shows up; if it's still being discussed by that point, add away.)

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets. Furthermore, follow the formatting in general, we beg you. Also keep in mind that anime gets adapted from manga far more often then cartoons in the west get adapted from comics, so there is liable to be overlap with the "approved manga" page linked above.

=Genres=
When we say [READ THE MANGA] we fucking mean it. We are not responsible for the butthurt caused by watching that overly-truncated (yet visually stunning) ''Akira'' movie or, saints preserve us, ''Berserk'' 2017.

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*'''''[[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 show became the legend it is today. ['''READ THE MANGA'''][TV series: 152 episodes + 1 movie, OVA series: 3 episodes, Spin-Off series: 12 episodes + 4 OVAs]

:Related games: ''Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game'', playing a [[monk]] in [[D&D]], [[Dark Sun]]

*'''''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''''': The singular manliest ''and'' most FABULOUS! show ever made. Unreasonably beautiful men with weirdly convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing. Character designs appear in [[TTS]], so you know it's good. The anime is currently at part 6 as a Netflix exclusive, but the previous 5 parts that have been animated are available elsewhere. ['''READ THE MANGA'''][OVA series: 13 episodes + 1 movie, TV series: 152 episodes and counting]

:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]], [[FATE]], low-level [[Exalted]], [[The Ballad of Edgardo]]

*'''''Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann''''': <span style='color:green'>'''Da singulah [[Ork]]iest show evah made.'''</span> Starts out with human rebels on looted mechs fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Surprisingly well-written and philosophical below the pumped up appearance. Steve Blum also voices a queer guy, no joke. Notable for the fact that by the final episode/the second movie the main characters achieve Enuff [[Dakka]] by shooting at EVERY POINT IN SPACE AND ACROSS TIME. [TV series: 27 episodes + 2 movies + 15 shorts + 1 sexy ass music-video]

:Related games: [[Mekton]], [[Toon]], playing [[Ork]] Mechs in [[40k]]

*'''''Hunter x Hunter''''': <s>Two shota boys fighting dudes.</s> In all seriousness, there are four major characters introduced in the series: Gon, the country raised kid who wants to find his awesome dad (shota #1); Killua, the young assassin raised in an assassin family who wants to befriend Gon just to escape his assassin duty (shota #2); Kurapika, the last of <s>her</s> his clan of [[psyker|special humans]], seeking vengeance against the super-strong psychopaths that killed them; and Leorio, who's the weakest of the group (in the anime, anyways) but wields THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP! ''HxH'' builds worlds like ''One Piece'', which is a huge commendation. It also created somewhat balanced and unique [[stat|power/class/level system]] called "nen", a downright rare accomplishment in a genre of [[meme|OVER 9000]] nonsense. [TV series: 62 episodes + 30 OVAs; Reboot: 148 episodes + 2 movies]

:Related games: [[FATE]], [[Exalted]], [[Quest thread|quests, quests, quests]]

*'''''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. (There's also the cash-in RPG, if that counts.) They both share an entry since they're essentially just part 1 and 2 of the same story. Among THE most popular anime to ever exist, it goes from "Journey to the West" pastiche fantasy adventure to science fiction aliens and space gods. ['''READ THE MANGA'''] [Original TV series: 153 episodes + 3 movies, Z/GT/Super series: 397 episodes + 4 specials + 2 OVAs + 16 movies]

:Related games: [[Legends of the Wulin]], [[Exalted]], [[Dragon Ball PNP RPG|Dragon Ball Z: The Anime Adventure Game]]
[[Image:LotGH_Faces.jpg|thumb|You will meet all these people, and three quarters of them will die.]]
*'''''[[Legend of the Galactic Heroes]]''''': Space Prussia/Britain 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, it is well regarded for the enormous amount of very well-written characters and an even-more-bloody disregard for the lives of said characters than GRRM. To sum it all up, grand and gruesome galactic battles rivaling 40K in scale, manly marines hacking others to bits, and Kaiser Reinhard (who's like a combination of Napoleon and Alexander the Great). Also quite possibly the single most screencapped anime on /tg/ for its wealth of brilliant monologues. The anime is actually an adaptation of a series of books (not manga, actual book-books) from the early 1980's that are now available in english. Technology level is basically Traveller to a T. It has two series with a space opera super series from 1980's and an ongoing remake with a good soundtrack and modernized animation in the 2010's [OVA series: '''162''' episodes + 3 movies]
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[GURPS|GURPS Space]], Full Thrust, [[Battlefleet Gothic]]

*'''''One Punch Man''''': The adventures of an in-universe [[Muscle Wizard]] superhero who can literally take down anything (ANY-FUCKING-THING) with a single, low-effort punch. Naturally, he's bored shitless and only seeks a worthy fight. An instant classic despite its anaemic twelve episodes thanks to its sense of humour, surprisingly smart character and genre writing, and utterly off-the-fucking-wall levels of batshit insane action -some of which gives even [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|JoJo]] and Gurren Lagann a run for their money. Also a great lesson in writing an OP character without sacrificing fun. [TV Series: 24 episodes + 9 OVAs and [[https://youtu.be/sfFv3MTPdkw| one fucking badass opening theme]].

:Related games: Playing an epic-level character in D&D (especially a monk), most superhero RPGs.

*'''''My Hero Academia''''': Take X-Men. Make almost everybody a mutant, but give most people [[Fail|mediocre]] or incredibly specific powers. Then make Xavier's school an actual school for learning how to use your powers. That's My Hero Academia, the anime that launched over 9000 low-PL Mutants and Masterminds games. While the general plot is a standard "audience surrogate claws his way to the top" affair, it's still achieved widespread acclaim on both /co/ and /tg/ for avoiding the traps that make most shonenshit and capeshit insufferable, putting a reasonable amount of thought into how large numbers of people with superpowers would affect society and focusing on relatively tame and limited powers applied creatively over cheesy super-kill-everything moves, which makes it a goldmine for anyone looking to run their own supers game. [[Warhammer High|One of the side characters also looks like a Daemonette, which has got to count for something.]] [TV series: 38 episodes and counting + 2 OVAs + 1 movie]
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]] or any other superhero game with a flexible powers system

*'''''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 <i>very</i> [[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: [[L5R]], Derailed [[D&D]] quests, [[Matt Ward|allying]] [[Necrons]], [[Blood Angels]], and [[Tau]] in a game of Warhammer

*'''''Youjo Senki - Saga of Tanya the Evil''''' ''(My Little Nazi or [[Ciaphas Cain]]: Isekai Loli Edition)'': Strike Witches if it was actually about war instead of lesbians. A high functioning sociopath salary-man is murdered by one of his disgruntled former employees and gets reincarnated into alt-fantasy 1910s Germany as the smuggest of [[Loli|lolis]]. Follows the general rhythms of the 21st-century-wargame-nerd-gets-transported-back-in-time genre, with the twist that God is actively fucking with Tanya to ruin all her carefully-planned attempts to escape the war and lead a cushy rear echelon life. While the premise may sound silly, the military action and writing are good enough to make it work. Tanya is more likable by miles than the stuffed-shirt protagonists of [[Isekai|similar shows]], despite a level of sociopathy that should make her the automatic villain. This makes her a wonderful inspiration for anyone who wants to play a Lawful Evil character with a personality beyond "rule the world with an iron fist." If you want frequent comedic misunderstandings, read the manga. If you want a bunch of elaborate explanations read the light novel. Also contains a fair amount of background for using modern concepts in WW1 for those GMs who have to live Darth and Droids/DM of the Rings on a weekly basis. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie]. Fun Fact: Page 142 of the 1st light novel has the phrase "[[SAN|Sanity Checks]]"

:Related games: [[Magical Burst]], [[GURPS]] Infinite Worlds, [[Only War]], Torg

*'''''Blood Blockade Battlefront''''': A portal to another dimension opens in the middle of New York, transforming it in a combination of the two worlds. The city is renamed Hellsalem's Lot and become inhabited by both humans and the so-called beyonders. The series follow the members of Lybra, a clandestine organization made of people with special abilities that protect the city, and prevent lunacy from affecting the rest of the world. Special mention to Lybra's leader, Klaus Von Reinherz, a guy with looks and the strength of an ogre, the demeanor of a true gentlemen, and attacks with [[awesome|giant crosses of destruction made with his own blood and created through manly punches]]. As an added /tg/ bonus, one episode revolves around a boardgame called Prosfair, which is basically what you would get if [[Tzeentch]] decided to write homebrew rules for [[Chess]]. [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 OVA]
**'''''Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond''''': Sequel continuing the story. [TV series: 12 episodes]

:Related games: [[Esoterrorists]], [[World of Darkness]], [[Chess]]

*'''FLCL''': Have you ever asked yourself what a [[Noblebright]] Evangelion might look like? Well, FLCL is the result of this. Many consider FLCL to be the "Anti-Evangelion" of sorts, alongside Gunbuster and Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan, but this doesn't mean fans of Evangelion can't enjoy it. The term is used because while Evangelion mindrapes you into being horrified, FLCL mindrapes you into laughing out loud and feeling [[Dawww|fuzzy]] all over yourself. Long Story short, a small boy, Naota, meets an alien girl and giant robots [[what|start appearing out of his head]]. From there on, many unusual and surreal events happen in his town, leading to bizarre and hilarious antics with him, his family and friends, and a surprisingly great "Coming of Age" story that completes all of this. And the robot/mecha designs are cool as hell and can inspire some great Mecha designs (Even [[Ork Snipers|if they don’t make any sense]]) (TV series: 6 episodes. Has 2 sequel seasons, but [[skub|they are more divisive than the original]]. Also has a manga adaptation that is darker and somehow even more weird.)

:Related games: [[Lancer]] (If it snorted even more coke before being created)
[[Image:Outlaw_Star.jpg|thumb|This is a legit [[Starfinder]] party.]]
*'''''Outlaw Star''''': The show that Josh Whedon ripped off to make Firefly, down to the frozen chick in a suitcase. Follows the adventures of a far-future band of literal murderhobos with a stolen military spaceship ''designed for melee combat'' as they hunt treasure, come in third in a space grand prix, slum it for a while working as a port tugboat, fight magic wielding chinese space pirates, and then chase after some ancient big dumb object. Party includes a cocky gunfighter with a gun that shoots spell cartridges, a geisha-esque ninja assassin, a catgirl who can transform into wookie-sized werecat, a 12 year old engineer, and an android copilot who strips down to fly the ship from a fishtank.

:Related games: [[Starfinder]]; no [[Traveller]] DM would stomach this much space magic
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==Comedy==
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*'''''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san''''': 2009 flash animations, [http://www.crunchyroll.com/nyarko-san-another-crawling-chaos still on crunchyroll.] [Web series: 21 shorts.]
**'''''Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos''''': A 2012 anime, 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!"]] Canonically ends with the protagonist losing whats left of his SAN points as Nyaruko has her way with him during their "honeymoon". Seriously. [TV series: 24 episodes + 3 OVAs]

:Related games: [[Call of Cthulhu]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]]

*'''''Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!''''' (''KonoSuba''): A 2016 parody of the [[isekai]] meme that hit flavor-of-the-month status after the anime adaptation hit Crunchyroll. The main character dies and gets reincarnated into a generic fantasy world *yawn*, but he ends up with an incredibly un-[[Powergamer|optimized]] party of dumbasses. Starting with "the weakest" generic Adventurer class, he's joined by a brain-dead Priest who [[Derp|spent most of her skill points on party tricks,]] a Wizard who can only cast ''one'' spell per day because [[Munchkin|she absolutely refuses to learn anything other than the top-tier attack spell]], and a Fighter who's [[Magical realm|built as a pure meatshield because she's a hardcore masochist.]] They're also joined by a [[awesome|big-tittied lich]] who is actually competent but keeps getting nearly purged by the priest due to being undead. It resembles a group of new players stumbling though their first RPG campaign, run by an experienced GM who is laughing his ass off. Now getting a dub(it's here), so be prepared for mistranslated memes to be quoted ad nauseam. [TV series: 20 episodes + 2 OVAs + 1 film]

:Related games: [[World of Warcraft|MMORPGs]], [[Dungeon World]], [[Knights Of The Dinner Table]], [https://yenpress.com/9781975316426/konosuba-gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world-trpg/| Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! TRPG]

*'''''[[Life With Monstergirls|Everyday Life with Monster Girls]]''''': A 2015 anime that tickles the fancy of anyone who claims /tg/ can become /d/-lite-ful 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. The manga is also a goldmine of reaction images. Be warned: this is an ecchi show, so the artist gets as close as he can to actual sex without the sex, thus stringing along the wallets of horny otaku without losing the support of high-profile publishers. [[Games Workshop|So you should be right at home.]] Also expect older /d/eviants to call you a normie if you like this series, thanks to its comparative tameness and the number of lightweights who only discovered monster girls when this series stripped out the [[/d/|"weird"]] and then get triggered by something like [[Mon Musu Quest!]] If you want to see actual boinking, the original author had some webcomics about monster girls he made under the same name before the manga and anime; [[Weeaboo|weeaboos]] collectively call them '''Daily Life with Monster Girls''' to avoid confusion. [TV series: 12 episodes + 2 OVAs]

:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]] PC race expansions, [[Mon Musu Quest!]] (barely), [[Maid RPG]], Low-stakes [[GURPS]] [[Technomancer]], [[Quest thread|quests, quests, quests]]

*'''''Those Who Hunt Elves''''': A movie star, a champion martial artist, and a teenage gun nut are pulled into generic fantasy world during a fight with a big bad, whom they immediately beat up. The elf priestess who inadvertently summoned them tries to send them back but rolls a critical fail, blasting the return spell into fragments embedded on other elves which the "heroes" must now track down. Which they do but in the most expedient way possible, gaining a reputation as infamous [[Adventurer#Murderhobos|murderhobos]] with terrifying powers who roam the world stripping elves on sight. ''Those Who Hunt Elves'' is one of the few shows to lampoon isekai as a genre. Airi, Junpei, and Ritsuko are fully aware they've become Ash Williams meets Sengoku Rance, even 4th walling on occasion; but they don't care, they just want to get back to modern Japan. They didn't choose to be here, they don't want to be here, and they will strip every goddamn elf they have to in order to get home. It isn't a hentai series outright but it gets about as close as you could in the 90's.

:Related games: Virtually anything with fantasy elves ([[Dungeons and Dragons]], [[Pathfinder]]) crossed with Army of Darkness RPG
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==Fantasy==
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[[Image:Record_of_Lodoss_War.jpg|thumb|Cleric, Wizard, Fighter, Elf, Thief, Dwarf]]
*'''''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''''': Particularly noteworthy because it actually started life as a series of role-playing game sessions (Basic edition D&D!) that were turned into novels and then an Anime, that alone gives it major points. Sometimes known as [[meme|''Record of Loads of War'']]. 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]] (Basic), Sword World (1st edition)

*'''''Fullmetal Alchemist''''': Forever among the ranks of the most popular anime EVER (and maybe the best, too, but you know, [[Skub]]), it follows a young alchemist trying to recover both his missing limbs (his right arm and left leg) and his brother's ENTIRE BODY, which were lost following an alchemy accident where they attempt to [[Grimdark|revive their mother]]. The story eventually diverges from the manga to the point of characters having completely different roles in the story and which is polarizing when compared with the later series. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie + 4 OVAs] [Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa]
**'''''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 a Dark Heresy-esque game. Includes copious amounts of blood without becoming gore, genocides and unholy powers taking your body in exchange for knowledge. Has better animation and the original manga's story in exchange for being less grimdark than the 2003 series and skipping some unimportant but still interesting filler. [TV series: 64 episodes +1 movie + 4 OVAs] [Movie:The Sacred Star of Milos]
***'''''Fullmetal Alchemist (film)''''': This is a live action movie that covers the first four volumes of the original storyline and is a dark fantasy, science fiction, and adventure film. It can be seen on Netflix.
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy|Dark Heresy]], [[Warmachine]], [[Eberron]]

*'''''(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]], [[BESM]]

*'''''[[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) enters the Demon Realm in an attempt to kill the evil Demon Lord (named Demon Lord). In retaliation the Demon 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 2ch's text boards, and matriculated into the spiritual successor to ''Spice and Wolf''. [TV series: 12 episodes]

: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''''': A retelling of the Sengoku Era of feudal Japan, spearheaded by OP historical figures with varying accuracy and their own special attributes like six-wielding lightning shooting katanas. It is also nearly as manly as Fist of the North Star and somehow includes a fucking cyborg titan, steam-punkesque machinery, and magic. Sengoku Basara itself is a series of video games that predate and proceed the story of the anime (not to be confused with Samurai Warriors due to the same setting, same characters, and similar gameplay). [TV series: 24 episodes + 2 OVAs]

:Related games: [[Exalted]], Civilization, LoL

*'''''Escaflowne''''': What you get when you combine Dungeons and Dragons with Mecha anime. Or simply say that it's DragonMech: The Anime... kinda. Series follows a girl from IRL Earth getting teleported to a magical world, a hotheaded prince who pilots the titular Escaflowne, a large cast of other interesting characters as they deal with the Zaibach Empire. The movie is its own continuity but parallels some of the major arcs of the anime. [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]

:Related games: [http://www.fear.co.jp/srs/ Standard RPG System] obviously

*'''''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]

:Related games: [http://sai-zen-sen.jp/special/reddragon/ Red Dragon] obviously

*'''''Maria the Virgin Witch''''': What makes us add Maria to this list is not anything about its characters or its plot detailing 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 just historically accurate for an anime, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFOJFyTl1U but it's historically accurate <u>period</u>.] If you want to get a decent idea of the Hundred Years War weapons and 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]]

*'''''Izetta the Last Witch''''': A witch gets thrown into a pandemonium of a world. The year is 1939 and the Empire of Germania has just invaded the small principality of Elystadt. Includes: Magic, World War 2, actual fucking trench warfare (and its failure to blitz tactics) and pretty much all things 1939 (also has moe lovechild of the SAS and a Vindicare temple). It's not quite ''Valkyria Chronicles'' and it's not quite ''Pumpkin Scissors'', but if you liked either one you'll probably like this too. It also has Imperial Guard-tier holding the line long enough for the MCs to take all the credit. The amount of detail may be enough to compensate for the admittedly weak story, [[-4 STR|dodgily written]] female characters, and the fact MC is a full blown [[Mary Sue]]. That said, she rides a fucking fuckhueg Anti-Tank Rifle (a derivation of the Boys and Type 97) as a broom and makes swords fly like any respectable rogue psyker. [TV series: 12 episodes]

:Related games: [[Warhammer 40k]], [[Warhammer]], [[Bolt Action]],[[Flames of War]], [[Axis & Allies]]

*'''''First Squad: The Moment of Truth''''': This is set in the eastern front during the Second World War where a group of "gifted" Soviet youth are trained to be a countermeasure to the Schutzstaffel trying to reanimate (through dark arts) an army of Teutonic Knights from a 12th century invasion of Russia (specifically, it's probably the Battle of Peipus (Battle of the Ice)). It has Soviet and Nazi Paranormal Tech, Panzers, and short but well made battle scenes, and what is probably a progenitor of the Ordo Malleus. What more is there to say? [Movie, Japanese Audio: 1:00:28 + Russian Audio with "interview" cutscenes: 1:12:53]

:Related games: [[Warhammer 40k]], [[Warhammer]], [[Bolt Action]], [[Flames of War]], [[Axis & Allies]]

*'''''[[Queen's Blade]]''''': An ecchi anime full of [[Hot Chicks]] ripping apart each other's clothes. There's a plot involving a tournament to become the ruler of the world and claim the titular Queen's Blade, but [[PROMOTIONS|you're not going to care about it.]] Based on an old-school gamebook series that became big in Japan by stealing their secret art of hoovering up NEETbux with gratuitous nudity. [TV Series: 24 episodes + 6 OVAs + 12 specials]
**'''''Queen's Blade: Rebellion''''': A sequel to the previous. After Claudia won the Queen's Blade, she abolished the tournament and became a ruthless tyrant. The series follows rebels trying to overthrow her. Grinds against the line between ecchi and hentai like it was a table corner. [TV Series: 12 episodes + 2 OVAs + 6 specials]

:Related games: [[Fighting Fantasy]]

*'''''Dororo''''' (1969) and '''''Dororo''''' (2019): A pair of adaptations of a manga by the legendary Osamu Tezuka. Hyakkimaru, a now young man whose feudal lord dad sold the various body parts of to 48 separate demons before he was born. With the help of some really advanced prosthetics, given to him by his adoptive father, he travels Sengoku era Japan to kill all the demons and reclaim his body. He's joined by Dororo, a reverse trap loli thief (better executed than it sounds). Thanks to the original manga being canceled mid-way with no ending, the two take the basic premise into ''wildly'' different directions (and there's some non-anime adaptations that diverge in ''even more'' directions) that are both worth a watch. [TV series: 26 episodes. 24 episodes.]

:Related games: [[L5R]] (or any [[Oriental Adventures]] setting), especially when taint is played up, [[Promethean: The Created]] (2019 version).

*'''''The Rising of the Shield Hero''''' (2019): From ''Tate no Yūsha no Nariagari'' published 2017. Naofumi Iwatani gets isekaied with three others. The quartet are assigned their legendary weapons: Spear, Sword, Bow, and... Shield. Naofumi gets the Shield and a companion, the princess... who proceeds to ''totally fuck him over'' by lying to everyone and claiming he had (literally) [[Rape|fucked ''her'']]. Now disgraced, the "false hero" plays ronin: by helping villagers clean up after the heroics of the other three, usually because they'd moved on from some temporary victory without finishing the job. Naofumi acquires the usual anime isekai harem of loli, the [[tanuki]] Raphtalia, whom Naofumi redeems from slavery; and Filo the blonde chicken-girl shapeshifter. Can almost be seen/read as a response to the poorly-written [[Cavalier]] in the 1980s [[D&D Cartoon]]. [TV series: 25 episodes. More planned 2022.]

:Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (Basic)

*'''''Interspecies Reviewers''''': Arguably the most infamous animu of 2020, the premisse is both stupid and genius: A group of adventurers, more specifically a human, an angel, an elf and the ocasional guest visit brothels made up of [[monster girl]]s of the most varied fetishes and themes possible while rating them based on how enjoyable the experience was. Did we mention that the angel is an [[/d/|hermaphrodite]]? In spite of seemingly being create to satisfy the creator's pants (and to be fair, it probably was), the series is noted for having a surpising depth of research when it comes to worldbuilding in... well, [[derp|interspecies]] relationships and monster girl anatomy and biology, going in-depth on ''why'' some species value and feel attracted to some aspects as opposed to others (the standards of [[loli|old and young]] between humans and elfs is quite different for example) while also having the ocasional look into non-monster girl details of the setting like the political systems and economy and can be very useful for DMs who want to go into biological detail of their fantasy races and their sexual relationships/reproduction without coming off as as a [[/d/M]]. [TV series: 12 episodes]

:Related games: [[Towergirls]], [[Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Pathfinder]], [[Maid RPG]], any fantasy game one could plausibly depict [[PROMOTIONS|sexy monster gals]] as a "norm" really
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* For the same reasons that Western cinema has [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_chess too many movies about chess], anime has a number of titles dedicated to classic board games:
** Go: '''''Hikaru no Go'''''
** Mahjong: '''''Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai''''', '''''Furiten-kun''''', '''''Legendary Gambler Tetsuya''''', '''''Mahjong Hishō-den: Naki no Ryū''''', '''''Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku (The Legend of Koizumi)''''', '''''Saki''''', '''''Ten: Tenhoudouri No Kaidanji'''''.
** Shogi: '''''March Comes in Like a Lion''''', '''''The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!''''', '''''Shion no Ō'''''.
** Uta-garuta: '''''Chihayafuru'''''

*'''''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 melting pot 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]], [[Quest thread|quests]]

*'''''No Game No Life''''': Two basement shut-ins [[OP|who win every game they play]] are dropped into a world where everything is decided with games, even national borders. 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]], [[Monopoly#Metanopoly|Metanopoly]]

*'''''After-School Dice Club''''': A high-school club of mostly cute girls who play Eurogames, with each episode featuring an actual Eurogame.
:Related games: A ton of [[Eurogames]], including of course [[Settlers of Catan]]

*'''''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]], bored games

*'''''[[Log Horizon]]''''': Players of popular MMORPG awaken in the game world itself. While the [[Isekai|"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 without skipping straight to the shitty cliches. Now with its own TRPG core book. [TV series: 50 episodes]

:Related games: Log Horizon TRPG, [[/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 2015-2018 adaptation of the novels written by Kugane Maruyama, after his tabletop group disbanded. It follows Satoru Suzuki, a leader of the guild Ainz Ooal Gown, on the very last day of the [[/v/|MMORPG]] ''Yggdrasil'', just before it shuts down. Instead of getting kicked offline, he [[wat|turns into his level 100 character]], the eponymous [[lich|undead]] "overlord" Momonga and discovers he has entered ''another world''. Sigh, yes, it's yet another [[Isekai]] setting; but! there are a few twists: he's ended up in a new world that's not ''Yggdrasil'', in the middle of three countries at war, and has an entire castle full of guild [[NPC]]s that are suddenly alive ''Night at the Museaum''-style. Its highly recommended to read the light novels after finishing season one if it interests you, as the anime begins skipping a lot of important details and becomes a CG fest after that point (the anime even skips stuff in season one but its far less). Also, almost every spell name is ripped straight from D&D. [TV series: 39 episodes + shorts]

:Related games: High-level [[3.5e]]

*[[Girls und Panzer|'''''Girls und Panzer''''']]: As mentioned by the Kantai Collection entry above, this show rounds out the 'Holy Moe Armed Forces Trinity' by having schoolgirls actually fight each other in historic World War II tanks (tanks manufactured slightly after World War II, such as the British Centurion, are also featured, and the most recent add-on puts in FV tanks and a FUCKING MK V LANDSHIP) in a war game blown up to real proportions. The main story follows a ragtag Japanese high school 'tankery' team as they try to beat the more elite (and powerful) teams competing on the international level. Featuring towns built on oversized aircraft carriers, plenty of World War II references, and a diverse cast of characters, this show panders to anime fans and World of Tanks/War Thunder players alike (In fact, GuP and WoT are cross-promoting each other's materiel and GuP skins make up a massive proportion of War Thunder user skins, in fact I make them myself) [TV series: 7 OVAs, 12 episodes and 2 recap episodes]

:Related games: [[Flames of War]]
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==Horror, Grimdark, & Mindfuckery==
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*'''''Akira''''' - Famous for being THE Japanese animation that introduced its kind into the West, as well as being a cornerstone in the foundation of the cyberpunk genre. Japan gets nuked again, but not by an actual nuke but by the eponymous [[Psyker|psionic superhuman]]. A dystopian Neo-Tokyo is created from the ashes, only to be destroyed again due to one of the MCs becoming a psychic as well and [[Exterminatus|unleashing another death blast]]. Unfortunately the movie gimps a lot of content from the manga to fit into the standard 2-hour runtime of a film and thus compresses a lot of themes, and also came out before the manga actually concluded, so it's best to bust out those reading glasses if you want the full story. It's a huge inspiration for many works internationally including several tabletop games, and broke the Western mold of animation being only for kids - it's only natural /tg/ enjoys it. ['''READ THE MANGA'''] [1 movie]
:Related games: [[Shadowrun]], [[Mutants and Masterminds]], playing [[Psyker]]s in [[40k]]

*'''''Neon Genesis Evangelion''''': A philosophical character drama and Lovecraftian Horror Mindrape that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Either one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) anime ever produced, or an overrated piece of tripe that collapsed under the weight of its own pretentiousness and awful budgeting, depending on who you ask; there is no middle ground. Inspiration for [[Adeptus Evangelion]], obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes + 2 movies, Reboot (Rebuild of Evangelion): 4 movies]

:Related games: [[Adeptus Evangelion]], [[JAEVA Project]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Psycho-Pass''''': Classic cyberpunk dystopia from Gen "The Butcher" Urobochi. Japan has once again isolated itself from the world after a poorly defined apocalypse and is now governed by the SYBLE System, which tracks everybody based on their "Crime Coefficient," [[Grimdark|imprisoning anybody who shows the potential for antisocial behavior.]] The series follows a squad of investigators and the "latent criminals" forced to work with them as they hunt down the people at the margins of the system with guts and giant fuck-off handguns that can disintegrate solid steel but are programmed to only kill bad people. An absolute goldmine for cyberpunk imagery somewhere in between the black-trenchcoat look of [[Cyberpunk 2020]] and the post-cyberpunk iPod future. [TV series: 22 episodes + 1 movie (named ''Mandatory Happiness'' of all things)]
**'''''Psycho-Pass 2''''': Sequel series without Urobochi. Takes away everything that made Psycho-Pass interesting and replaces it with guro. Avoid.
:Related games: [[Paranoia]], [[Shadowrun]]

*'''''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 evil men who rape and breed them, 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 (basically he's fucking Dracula at full power and not stuck in a shitty old man body; at one point they give him an SR-71 to possess into his personal batplane), and his new big-titted, former cop, fledgling Seras are their main agents. Their enemies include rogue vampires, [[Ecclesiarchy|a homicidal <s>Scottish</s> Irish priest]] from the Catholic Church, and Millenium: a psychotic group of <s>neo-Nazis</s> Actual OG 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.) Divided into two continuities; the original, 13 episode, TV series (which overtook the manga and so went in an entirely different direction, and has lackluster animation, but also deeper characters, a more even theme, and a rocking soundtrack) and the "Ultimate" OVA series (totally faithful to the manga, but that also means it keeps ping-ponging between beautifully animated guro and cutesy-poo chibi "comedy" sections). [TV Series: 13 Episodes, OVA series: 10 Episodes]

:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], maybe [[Achtung! Cthulhu]], [[Vampire: The Requiem]] + [[Hunter: The Vigil]] + [[Deviant: The Renegades]] (TV series only), some batshit insane fusion of [[Vampire: The Masquerade]] and [[Scion]] or [[Exalted]] (Ultimate)

*'''''[[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]]. Includes copious amounts of rape, extreme violence, a guy ([[Magnus the Red|who did nothing wrong]]) selling the souls of his friends to the local version of the Chaos Gods and tons of general badassery. [TV series: 25 episodes]['''READ THE MANGA''']
**'''''Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Movie Trilogy''''': This focuses on the Manga's Golden Age Arc only. The whole trilogy is currently on Netflix (added bonus: it's dubbed in ''english''). [3 movies]
**'''''Berserk (2016)''''': Building largely on the achievements of the aforementioned movie trilogy, the latest incarnation of Berserk finally explores a more monstrous and demon-infested setting set two years after the Golden Age Arc. While despised by many fans for its terrible CG animation and skipping major character moments, it's the only thing you're going to get for a long while. Made by the same people that gave you Teekyuu, the ''nine season'' shitpost. (also shows you one of the many ways of how to not introduce characters to a fanbase that would ''probably'' have given their organs to the author to keep him alive.)
**Unfortunately the author of the manga died prematurely in May 2021, leaving the story ''technically'' unfinished (though the point at which it ended conveniently was "good enough", making some think he saw his demise coming) - any adaptations now will have to take liberties if they plan to go beyond where the manga stopped. Keep that in mind for any adaptations below this.
:Related games: [[Warhammer Fantasy]]

*'''''Ergo Proxy''''': What if [[Cthulhu]] 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]], [[CthulhuTech]]

*'''''Death Note''''': A random high schooler finds a book that lets him kill anyone whose name is written in it. What does he do with it? He tries to become a god by killing criminals. Only one dares oppose him: the mysterious detective L. An exciting game of "He knows that I know that he knows," ensues. Originator of [[Just as planned]] thanks to an especially shitty translation. [TV Series: 37 episodes + 2 movies + 2 live-action movies + [[wikipedia:Manga Murder|one real-life murder case]]]

:Related games: [[Esoterrorists]], [[Kult]], [[Hunter: The Reckoning]], [[Delta Green]]

*'''''Puella Magi Madoka Magica''''': A middle school girl gets approached by a magical girl mascot animal with an offer to join a secret war between the grotesque witches and the magical girls that fight to curb their destructive influence. Naturally, it's a trap. Also the music is great (while the composer has been known to use Kajiuran (a gibberish language she made that sounds nice), quite a few people have manged to translate and even make covers in other language for some of the music, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu98k5vVP-Y German] sounds especially good.)! [TV Series: 12 episodes + 2 compilation movies and one expansion movie][watch the first compilation movie or first 3 episodes. If you aren't hooked, drop it]

:Related Games: [[Liberi Gothica]], [[Magical Girls - The Game]], [[Magical Burst]], [[Princess: The Hopeful]], [[Quest:Magical Girl Noir Quest]]

*'''''Made in Abyss''''': What happens when you cross Studio Ghibli with the lovecraftian horror of ''Madoka Magica'', the brutality of ''Berserk'' and the psychological horror of ''Digimon Tamers''? You get Made in Abyss that's what! Made in Abyss is set in a pseudo-fantasy/adventure genre that is populated by <u>''a lot''</u> of [[Loli|moe lolis]] mining and excavating ancient relics of a past civilization found scattered in a giant, deep fucking hole in the middle of the island. Like Digimon Tamers and Madoka Magica, it starts off cute and whimsical with absolutely ''gorgeous'' background art that would make the Great Hayao Miyazaki proud. But partway through the plot, the series turns into a very dark turn, and we mean <u>'''DARK'''</u>. The way the anime (and manga) handled its mature themes, its art design, the musical score, a well paced story progression and conclusion as well as not treating its audience like they are a bunch of mindless, horny basement dwellers earned it critical acclaim to not only anime elitists, but normal plebs as well. Furthermore, the fantastic world building of Made in Abyss has made it popular for D&D conversions. That and the fact that it gave /tg/ a bucket load of [[Meme|memes]] thanks to a certain bunch of characters, the series also hosts the only [[furry]] you should not kill on sight... [TV Series: 13 episodes + upcoming second season]

:Related games: [[Dungeons and Dragons]]

*'''''[[Goblin Slayer]]''''': I'm Goblin Slayer, I hunt goblins. The epic tale of a hardcore autistic adventurer who refuses to fight anything other than goblins, even when the BBEG is about to take over the world. Notable for its "realistic" take on medieval adventuring: D&D-style darkvision monster spam is a plot point, weapon lengths are taken into account, what magic exists is highly limited and time-consuming, and the titular goblins are [[Tucker's Kobolds]] gone grimdark with the shit-covered prison shankings and whatnot. Also lots of rape. Started as a web story on 2ch that immediately took off and transformed into the modern inheritor to Berserk's grimdark crown. [TV Series: 12 episodes and counting]

:Related games: [[The Riddle of Steel]], [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]], a theoretical good version of [[FATAL]]

*'''''Gantz''''': Most often written off as [[Khorne|guro porn]] and for delving into [[Slaanesh|taboo subject matter]], but there IS meaning behind the madness, otherwise it wouldn't have the cult following it has. People get revived by a mysterious spherical machine upon death, and are free to return to their normal lives on one condition: they kill an alien hiding on Earth once a week. Said aliens range in motivation from just trying to live in hiding on Earth to being actually malicious, but most have lethal tricks up their sleeve that can, and often will, result in [[TPK|high casualties]]. Many are also abominations worthy of being [[Chaos Spawn]]-AGHADAKJAGJ {{BLAM}} And since the sphere picks indiscriminately, fucked up situations can and will ensue - be it getting a child involved, [[That Guy|working with sociopathic assholes who would gladly sacrifice you for their own survival]], and [[/d/|degeneracy]]. It isn't a total loss though - if someone gains enough points from [[Blam|purging enough]] [[xeno]]s, they can choose to leave the death game permanently (though the trauma will most definitely haunt them). A tale of [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|humans surviving against nigh-insurmountable odds]] and people making the best of a truly horrible situation. Borders on Grimderp at times, but is usually as grimdark as an average Guardsman's life, just with Khorne levels of blood being constant. Can be [[Skub]]by for /tg/ and any other place on the Internet, but there's a significant group on the board who like it for being [[Deathwatch]] but with normal people. ['''READ THE MANGA'''] [TV: 26 episodes] [If you dislike large amounts of blood & gore, body horror, and themes/scenes that would trigger the local [[SJW]], avoid]
:Related games: [[Dark Heresy]], [[Delta Green]], [[Call of Cthulhu]], [[Monster of the Week]]
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==Mecha==
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*'''''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion''''': When you take terrorism, high school, chess and a protagonist smoother than a dwarf (mine)shaft then throw in some mech suits you get Code Geass. The plot focuses on a masked [[Batman|vigilante]] called Zero <s>[[Alpharius|who may remind you of a certain someone]]</s> and their efforts to fight back against the Brittanian Empire but that's not all. The power of geass plays a major role (explaining it properly would be a spoiler but it's basically [[magic|magic]]/hypnosis). The mechs of the series are known as [[meme|Knightmares]] which serve as the main fighting force for Brittania and the rebels. If you want a show that has [[Heresy|qualities even the Emperor's Children would appreciate]] then watch it. [TV series: 25 episodes]
**'''''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2''''': Follows as a continuation of the first season. Just as [[Pretty Marines|fabulous]]. [TV series: 25 episodes]
**'''''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection''''': An alternate timeline based on the compilation movies made of R2, which had slight but ''significant'' changes to series events (like, oh, Shirley being ''alive''), it follows C.C's life after the end of R2, as well setting up Lelouch's return (as the compilation movies didn't have him "dead"-dead). Series writers have stated that any continuation of the series will use this timeline moving forward.

:Related games: [[Battletech]], playing with Imperial Knights in [[Warhammer 40,000]]

*'''''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. Noted for having references to vintage rock music. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie in an alternate universe setting]
**'''''Eureka Seven AO''''': A sequel to the original that shits on basically the themes of the first series was about in [[Rage|the most aggravating manner possible]] (the reason being, the writer absolutely loathes the TV series ending and has made it his duty to make ''each'' following iteration in the franchise much more closer to his vision -- i.e. as depressing as possible). However, it has fans that didn't care for the first series and it got praised for having better mechs and monsters so if you're more into that take a stab at it. Like the first series it retains its vintage rock music references. [TV series: 25 episodes + 1 OVA]

:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[Battletech]]

*'''''Macross''''': One of the best mecha franchises of all time, this show revolves around fighter jets that transform into mecha. Started with ''Super Dimension Fortress Macross'', and spawned multiple series and movies afterwards. Kinda took a left turn into the idol-genre (especially after the 'Do You Remember Love?' OVA), but overall pretty decent. Involves humanity fighting giant aliens with the help of transforming starfighters called Variable fighters. It should stand on it's own merits, rather than on my explanation of the plot. (4 TV series, 6 OVAs, 8 Full-length animated movies)
:Related games: [[Battletech]], [[Star Frontiers]]

*'''''[[Robotech]]''''': An abomination born out of the early days of the US anime market, Robotech is a composite localization of '''''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''''' (see previous), '''''Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross''''', and '''''Genesis Climber MOSPEADA''''' into a single work. This isn't as crazy as it sounds, the same thing was done to make ''Power Rangers''. Anyway, here's where it gets interesting. The original [[FASA|creators]] of [[BattleTech]] were lazy and couldn't be bothered to actually design any giant robots; instead they licensed designs from Macross franchise. But Harmony Gold (owner of Robotech) called it infringement and sued FASA, which spiraled into suing Microsoft due to ''Mechwarrior''. Robotech used to be pretty well known but since ''Macross Frontier'' the Macross-vs-Robotech fight has ceased to be a thing. [TV series: 85 episodes + 4 movies + 2 OVAs]

:Related games: [[BattleTech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''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 due to poor ratings, then had a second season greenlit thanks to its 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]]

*'''''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

*'''''Mobile Suit Gundam''''': The mecha anime that not only helped popularize Real-Robots in the first place but also started one of the longest-running sci-fi franchises in Japan and in time would help influence the [[Tau]]. Set in the midst of a bloody "One Year War" between the Earth Federation and <s>Space Nazis</s> oppressed colonists called the Principality of Zeon, it follows the trials of a whiny teenager who quickly grows a spine, the titular Gundam and the crew of the White Base as they generally try to win the war in one piece, with some <s>psyker</s> Newtype hijinks along the way. Also known for its grey morality, gritty portrayal of war, intrigue, lots of mass-produced robots dying in droves and even more deaths. Basically, the Japanese equivalent of Star Wars if it deconstructed Star Trek. Had poor ratings at its initial airing in 1979, only really gaining popularity with successive reruns. Now known for its massive library of spinoffs ranging from "Romeo & Juliet (with giant robots)" to "Top Gun (with giant robots)" to "Mortal Kombat (with giant robots)". Also, when we mean death, we mean death - the series creator, Yoshiyuki Tomino is known as "Kill-Them-All Tomino" not only for this series but pretty much any series he touches seeing large parts of the main cast and numerous side characters getting offed, often in just plain brutal ways. [TV series: 43 episodes + 3 movies + many spinoffs]

:Related games: [[BattleTech]], [[Warhammer 40000]], [[Mekton]], [[Battle Century G]]

*'''''Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans''''': One of the latest (<s>and most [[Awesome|awesome]]/[[FAIL|failed]] (terrible plot pacing, wonky villain motive)</s> ([[Skub|It's complicated]])) iterations of the Gundam franchise, IBO focusses on a group of young [[Imperial Guard|orphans-turned-soldiers]] and their struggle to protect a princess trying to bring peace to the land. There are only 72 Gundam suits ever produced in this post-apocalyptic setting, and a good bunch of them appear in the hands of both the antagonists and the protagonists. As expected of a Gundam show, the [[Rip and Tear|deaths are aplenty]] and there are a ton of intense mecha-on-mecha action scenes to enjoy. What differentiates this Gundam series from the others is how the protagonists suffer extraordinarily painful events throughout the show, [[Grimdark|despite the fact that they are children barely approaching their teen years]] (as expected, this has generated much debate on the topic of child soldiers and other more [[Serious Business|serious business]] brought up in the plot, such as slavery and neo-colonialism). The main crew will fight [[Freebooterz|pirates]], mercenaries, and a huge military organization along their journey, and the show also features a charismatic soldier [[Tzeentch|trying to manipulate people on both sides of the conflict]] to bring balance to <s>[[Star Wars|the Force]]</s> the aforementioned military organization. <s>[[What|Ignore the fact that he is technically engaged to a kid despite being a fully-grown adult.]]</s> Also, unlike…hell, most anime in general, there’s a semi-legit reason for the child soldiers here. The kids have special spinal implants that are basically 40k mind-impulse links, allowing them to control mobile suits and mobile workers with their minds, as extensions of their own bodies, and thus giving them much faster and more fluid control than any normal pilot. The catch is that only the still developing bodies of kids can safely accept the implants. Then we go into derp territory when these mind-impulse link child soldiers are [[wat|treated as disposable trash by their commanders, considered worthless beyond the fact that they have "whiskers."]] Oh, also, unlike any other Gundam series, this one is not only an on-Earth exclusive one, but (due to advances in armor rendering lasers almost completely impotent) the use of ranged weapons is much more sparse, with XBOX HUEG melee weapons as the main instrument of fighting. [TV series: 50 episodes]

:Related games: See above

*'''''Getter Robo:''''' the granddaddy of the combining mecha and crazy ride even when it started in the 70s. Got a bombastic start being inspired after seeing a minor car pile up. They came up with a mech powered by evolution rays that combined by crashing three jets into one another at Mach 8 piloted by three crazy bastards as they fight off an underground empire of [[repdoids|dinomen]] and their mech-dinosaurs. Then things go more unhinged as time goes on as we get increasingly larger robots, Time travel, body horror, existential dread, cosmic horror, and some of the bolerest of anime opening songs. MANGA timeline: Getter Robo, Getter Robo G, Getter Robo go (don't use anima version), Shin Getter Robo, Getter Robo Arc (original Getter Robo author dead before writing an ending so see anime for a conclusion) ['''READ THE MANGA'''][TV series: 82 episodes + _ movie, OVA series: 13 episodes]

:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]](a mecha related [[GARPS]] supplement)

*'''''Acrobunch''''': A family of six go on a treasure hunt while being chased by an underground kingdom of goblins that want revenge on humanity. This anime was created in 1982 by Kokusai Eiga-sha, the same people responsible for the 80s ''Tetsujin 28'' series (aka ''The New Adventures of Gigantor'' for you 90s kids) and ''God Mars'' with the same staff as the ''J9'' trilogy (consisting of ''Braiger'', ''Baxingar'', and ''Sasuraiger''). Before the late 2010s this remained under most people's radars and even [[/m/]] saw it as just "that one anime that premiered with ''Escaflowne'' and ''Betterman'' in ''Super Robot Wars Compact 3'' and wasn't ''Mechander Robo''". Since its fansubbing completion this hidden gem is notable for being one of the few series that consists of the titular super robot going against real robots. While it includes a lot of ancient alien tech, [[Tzeentch]] having a cameo eating virgin goblins in Ireland, and even [[What|God smiting both sides for disturbing Noah's Ark]], it has enough war gaming minutia: Mass produced units, subfactions, cannon fodder vehicles, combat tactics, and parallels to real life history and religion. In the last quarter we get a red shirt army that doesn't suck ass at their job (shocking!). Also neo Nazis are confirmed to be a rogue goblin group in this timeline, call Goblin Slayer and the Inglorious Bastards. The ending, despite being a happy one, is said to be on a level of bonkers even ''Evangelion'' was unable to reach. No spoilers, but we will say you can't skip any episodes because even the standalones come into play at the end. [TV series: 24 episodes]

:Related games: [[Battletech]]
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*'''''[[Touhou]]''''': An arcade-style, shoot-em-up vidya series, featuring a 100% [[loli]] cast, barring one or two NPCs here or there. Its fandom is incredibly large and kooky, and so fanart of its characters get plastered all over 4chan, causing newfags to ask what anime they are from and incite much derision. It has however, received several official manga spinoffs. [Video-game series: 27 titles, as of '''''Hidden Star in Four Seasons''''']

:Related games: [[Video games|/v/ stuff, shmups,]] [[Exalted]], [[4e]] (that's a joke, a joke [[Touhou_Power_Cards|someone made terrifyingly real]].)

*'''''[[Wakfu]]''''': A French (and therefore absolutely based) cartoon about a kid named Yugo who discovers he is part of a long-lost race of people with the ability to create portals. A fun world with fun characters and a surprisingly deep BBEG that is not to be confused with [[Waifu|your waifu.]] [TV series: 52 episodes + 6 specials + 27 episode mini-series]

:* '''''Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim''''': Is an episodic series about a retired adventurer who runs an item shop, set around 1000 years before the '''''Wakfu''''' timeline and 200 years before the game. [TV series: 52 episodes + 1 movie]

::(Both Dofus and Wakfu stem from flash-made MMOs of the same names, both games have multiple classes that decide players' abilities and base appearance so homebrews are very possible.)

:Related Games: [[Krosmaster]], which features the same characters and races. Wakfu had an [http://docs.google.com/document/d/14WGhmgmK_tW9LJEQfwFAbpMeja7csNb-zt__3H7SDzQ/ unofficial early beta RPG] and the company Ankama has [http://www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg/news/announcements/265763-would-you-be-interested-tabletop-rpg-set-dofus-world asked if anyone is interested] in an official RPG.

*'''''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''''': In a world where creatures are able to manipulate the elements through martial arts, a child capable of controlling air who froze himself in ice awakens to find that he is the last of his kind. This child is also the Avatar, a person with potential to manipulate all elements and multiply their power by communing with past lives. His adventure involves traveling with friends to master the elements in hopes of unlocking his powers and overthrowing the evil emperor of the Fire Nation that seeks to conquer the world. Is awesome and is famous for having some of the best written characters/character development in any medium. [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/23320304/ we argued about it once. No we didn't.] [TV series: 61 episodes]

:* '''''Avatar: The Legend of Korra''''': The sequel to the above set sixty years in the future. The next Avatar (Korra, a delicious brown girl from the water-manipulating tribe) struggles to make peace between the normals and the element-fu-wielding upper class amid the setting's equivalent of the Roaring Twenties. There's also some stuff about [[Chaos|a god of darkness disrupting the spirit world.]] Incredibly skubtastic on /co/ due to various hamhanded attempts at character development. Is also nowhere near as good as the previous series. Still decent, though, especially when you consider how Nickelodeon consistently fucked its creators sideways. [TV series: 52 episodes]

:Related games: [[Exalted]], [[Legends of the Wulin]]. Also has a card-game that uses QuickStrike rules.

*'''''RWBY''''': <strike>[[Skub|Anime-esque CGI production]]</strike> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjmBDfulaGk Not anymore, and lo behold the official anime adaptation!] Made by the late Monty Oum and RoosterTeeth, pronounced "ruby". The world is filled with creatures known as Grimm that seek to destroy humanity, stemmed back by a pseudo-magical substance known as Dust and an order of protectors known as Huntsmen, which the four main female characters are training to be. Started off [[noblebright]] with themes of tolerance and improving society, then got more [[grimdark]] by the middle of the third season. [[Skub|Depending on who you ask, it's either an enjoyable (if flawed) series with good characters, an interesting setting and ideas, and cool weapons, or a dumpster fire of bootleg anime tropes smashed together with hackneyed writing.]] Pretty much everyone agrees that the fight choreography is amazing in the first two seasons (and most of the third, till Monty unexpectedly died), which lends itself to some popularity among fa/tg/uys. Currently someone is trying to make [[RWBY RPG|an RPG based on the setting]] and RT's game development group recently expressed interest in making tabletop games of the series, supposedly based off a tabletop game played in the series, because [[recursion|Meta things are fun.]] Also notable for being widely hated on both [[/co/]] and [[/a/]], unlike most of the things on this list,<ref>A really big reason for this is that the creators really wanted to avoid doing the needed worldbuilding for such a setting, with the usual plot holes and inconsistencies that happen as a result of that approach. For reference, see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fdKWOHrdE this overlong video] going into some details of why. (Warning: video is by a Breadtuber (for the unfamiliar, think an academic leftist, with ''slightly'' lower [[SJW]] tendencies than that phrase usually implies, who does a lot of media commentary), but this particular video mostly avoids politics; just don't click on his channel unless you want [[Skub]]).</ref> so tread carefully when discussing it. Also, someone wrote a surprisingly touching crossover with 40k. Lamenters on Remnant works better than you think.
:Related games: low-level [[Exalted]], [[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]]
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*'''''Aura Battler Dunbine''''': Tomino made this after Gundam. A trainwreck to some, a classic to others. Some guy and his motorcycle gets transported to a fantasy world Ash Williams style, only to discover it's full of fantasy giant robots with fantasy missiles and fantasy laser beams. Imagine guys in armor with swords piloting bug-like mecha against castles defended by spearmen and rock throwing catapults; it's like they deliberately set out to be more [[Gamma World]] than Gamma World. If it came out today it'd be a steaming pile of [[skub]] but the same is true for most things from the 80's. Halfway through the series the whole mess gets transported from fantasy world to Cold War Earth and the Cold War goes hot. Everybody dies and the final battle mimics ''Acrobunch''. A three part OVA called ''Tales of Neo Byston Wells'' was released years later and took a more traditional fantasy approach, ditching the guns and other contemporary elements. [TV series: 49 episodes + 3 OVAs]

:Related games: Army of Darkness RPG, [[Gamma World]]

*'''''Sword Art Online''''': Though not the first [[Isekai|portal fantasy]] that dealt with the whole "being trapped in a video game" shtick, SAO is definitely the one the made it incredibly popular in recent years. Starting off with an incredibly ridiculous premise to begin with, that being that not just one person or even a small group of people are stuck in the video game world but several thousand are because the creator is some freak wanting to test the resolve of humanity. As such, he set it up the VR helmets (which render users immobile while playing) used to enter SAO to microwave their user's brains if they attempt to remove them while logged in or die in the game. How this design feature managed to slip past health and safety regulations is not explained. The main character of the show is Kirito, a [[Mary Sue|Beta Tester]] who uses his incredible fighting prowess and knowledge of the game from being a "beater" (that's a portmanteau of "beta tester" and "cheater") to soar in both levels and varying amounts of prestige/infamy. May or may not have been responsible for several peoples deaths in the game world. Quickly acquires a waifu and harem, which expands as seasons go on all the more to [[Skub|mixed reactions]]. The first season is generally accepted to be alright, if by the numbers, though the second season onward is where many argue the show starts to take a [[Skub|nose-dive in quality]] still making money by Beating its Corpse in the form of games and ANOTHER anime "Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online" thats still ongoing. If you MUST watch it, do yourself a favor and stick to the Hilariously Awesome Abridged series instead.
:Related games: It's own line of board, card games and video games, [[BESM]], OVA RPG, Gratuitous Anime Gimmick, a whole slew of poorly written fan-made RPGs

*'''''Banner of the Stars''''': Grand space opera with space ships and space battles and space elves and fukkin nukes 'n lazorbeamz. Should be right up the /tg/ & /m/ alley, right? Wrong. Because the main character, Lin Jinto, is a [[Horus|fucking traitor]] who sells out his homeworld and species for the supposed affection of a [https://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Priorities_ba536b_6833904.jpg <s>space elf princess</s>] raging tsundere ''who left him to die on at least one occasion''. After fighting a war against his own people (how dare they resent him being appointed their hereditary planetary lord), he has the gall to whine about how he's hated by everyone and so can't go see the places he cared about growing up. It's not his fault, he didn't ''choose'' to become a space prince, he was picked, see? He didn't ask for this; but having been made space prince, will he give it up and stand with his kin? Fuck no. Watch this show, and by the end you'll agree that the only thing Jinto deserves is the noose he whines about his people saying he deserves.
:Related Settings: [[Traveller]], Star Army of Yamatai (if you're a cretin who thinks Lin and the Abh are actually the good guys), and frankly any system with space elves

*[[/m/#For_the_war_gamin.27_crowd|/m/'s list of recommendations for war gamers]]

*'''''[[Strike Witches]]''''': 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

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Votann

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[[File:Votann.jpg|thumb|"Forty-Two"]]

{{Topquote|Never forget I am not this silver body, Mahrai. I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a [Votann]. We are close to gods, and on the far side. ‘We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too. Never forget I have had the chance to compare and contrast the ways of dying.|An ancient Votann speaking with a (soon to be dead) tech-priest}}

{{Topquote|Behold the One Commandment: God Needs <s>booze</s> RAM.|An ancestor after speaking with the Votann for the first time.}}

The Votann (also known as Ancestor Cores) are massive AI constructs that are venerated like ancestors by [[Leagues of Votann|Leagues that share their name]]. These are closely guarded secret, for [[Adeptus Mechanicus|reasons]] that should be obvious, and while the word itself might be known to outsiders, the precise meaning is know only to the Kin.

Each Votann is a massive repository of knowledge. This knowledge concerns topics all the way from [[Necrons|Science and Engineering]], to [[Just as planned|Military theory]] and [[Creed|Strategy]], and even [[Orks|Philosophy]] and [[Hobbits|Genealogy]]. They're even some [[Standard Template Construct|STC]] fragments in there, big 'uns too, from the sound of it. Basically, if you have a question, then these things can probably answer it. All these constructs are absolutely priceless relics, essential to their League, and the members of each League are more than willing to lay down their lives to protect their League's Votann, and probably another League's too, if push comes to shove.

Unfortunately, even these majestic devices were not designed to last forever, and over time, more and more of their memory has been used up. This has caused many Votann to slow, and develop idiosyncrasies, even what you might call personalities, and response times have become painfully long, sometimes taking decades or even centuries for them to answer complex questions. Their minds may have a bandwidth greater than sneaker-net, but that bandwidth comes at the expense of three hundred billion millisecond ping times (to all the IT guys in the audience, just ignore how tortured this analogy is).

There's no mention of why the Kin haven't asked the Votanns ''themselves'' how to fix them, attach more hard drives, or run the de-fragmentation tool. So, we'll just have to wait and see about that.

==Trivia==
The name Votann is pretty obviously derived from Wotan, the German name for the god most famously known as Odin (remember that Germans pronounce W's as V's). Presumably this is a reference to his role as a god of runes and wisdom.

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