Editing Approved Anime (section)

==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

*'''Sonic X''': An anime about Sonic the Hedgehog that centers around the "Adventure era". While 4kids butchered it, the Japanese and French versions are largely considered to be the least [[Emperors Children|molested]] by the [[Inquisition|censors]]. Decent character work, its claim to fame in Sonic media is the whole "Shadow removing his ring thingies to get stronger" thing. The third season earned appraise for being a cross of Sonic and Star Trek, and is just begging for a setting in it. Episodes 68, 77, and 78 are pretty intense, but the resolution is kinda ass. Good show, though the english dub and annoying characters really drag it down. Watch it for the Adventure 2 adaptation and the Metarex saga. 

*'''''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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