Editing Approved Anime (section)

==Fantasy==
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*'''''[[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).

*'''''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

*'''''[[El-Hazard]]''''': A proto-[[isekai]] from 1995, El-Hazard sees a set of two high school rivals - all-around ace and genuinely good guy Makoto Mizuhara and crazed, scheming, wanna-be villain Katsuhiko Jinnai - transported to a strange world of vaguely Arabian-themed [[Science Fantasy|science and sorcery]], alongside Katsuhiko's sister Nanami and their school's history teacher Masamichi Fujisawa. On arriving in El-Hazard, Katsuhiko throws his allegiance in with the aggressive Bugrom Empire, whilst Makoto, Nanami and Mr. Fujisawa side with the defending nation of Roshtaria. The lore shifts between the OAV and TV continuities, but either way expect a beautiful spectacle, plenty of action and laughs, and stunning visuals, showing the best of what proto-isekai was before the cookie-cutter mary sue protagonists and empty fanservice ruined it. [OAVs: "The Magnificent World" (7 episodes), "The Magnificent World 2" (4 episodes), "The Alternative World" (13 episodes) TV Series: 26 Episodes]
::Related games: El-Hazard: The Roleplaying Game, [[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]], [[Dungeons & Dragons]] - [[Al-Qadim]]

*'''''Sorcerer Hunters''''': In a world where the defeat of the God of Destruction has imbued select humans with the power to wield world-shaping magic, these elites reign as god-kings over a population of magicless menials. But though their abuses are great, they don't have it all their own way, for there is a hidden organization of elite hunters who will battle the sorcerers - if you pay the price! Combining Slayers-esque action-comedy with a little extra raunchyness and genuinely grimdark worldbuilding, Sorcerer Hunters is great inspiration for any DM who wants to run a "hunt the magical" type campaign or a "muggles fuck yeah" one. [TV Series: 26 episodes, 3 OAVs]
::Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]], [[Hunter: The Vigil]], [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]], [[Dark Heresy]]

*'''''Inuyasha''''': Rumiko Takahashi's first unchallenged hit in the west, this was one of ''the'' big shonen fantasy animes of the early 2000s. After accidentally traveling back in time to the Sengoku Era, when civil war wracked the land and monsters preyed freely on defenseless mortals, ordinary high school girl Kagome Higurashi must team-up with a ragtag band of misfits - a surly [[tiefling|half-dog-demon]] with a tragic background, an orphan [[kitsune]], a perverted Buddhist monk with a black hole in his hand, and a buttkicking ninja-woman wielding a giant boomerang - in order to track down the shards of a wish-granting jewel and defeat the manipulative son-of-a-bitch demon lord behind so much misery. Highlights include genuinely fun action and comedy, and a rare "Japanese Fantasy" setting that actually uses ''Japanese folklore'' as its basis, rather than just mishmashing [[Dungeons & Dragons]] with a few Japanese history textbooks, so it's highly recommended for anyone wanting to run an [[Oriental Adventures]] type game. Downside is that this is ''also'' one of the best anti-lessons for DMs in how to '''not''' do a "hunt the macguffin" campaign. [TV series: 167 episodes, plus a 26 episode sequel series "The Final Act" that actually shows the climactic showdown. Also 4 movies.]
::Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Exalted]]

*'''''Rune Soldier Louie''''': Created by the same minds that gave us [[Record of Lodoss War]], and similarly starting as a series of novelizations of [[Sword World RPG]] game sessions, Rune Soldier Louie (also known as simply "Rune Soldier") is best described as a kind of midpoint between Lodoss War and Slayers in terms of being a fantasy adventure-comedy. It revolves around a band of three female adventurers - a towering redheaded [[musclegirl]] warrior who carries a giant sword, a child-like thief, and a priestess of the God of War - who try to add some magical might to their team by recruiting a magician. Unfortunately, the only one they can get is Louie; a fight-loving lug who would much rather beat the shit out of ogres with his fists than practice his spells. Hilarity ensues, but somehow, this unlikely alliance goes on to achieve great heroic feats.
::Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Sword World RPG]]

*'''''[[Dungeon Meshi|Delicious in Dungeon]]''''': [[awesome|Studio Trigger]] [https://2d4chan.org/wiki//tg/_Gets_Shit_Done gets shit done] once again. The archetypical DnD party (human fighter, elven wizard, halfling rogue, and dwarven barbarian) are setting off into a dungeon in order save the party cleric from being eaten by a dragon. Their ulterior motive, however, is that they're also going down there specifically to eat the monsters that they kill and turn them into [[List of /tg/ Cuisine|delicious food]]. Though its premise is initially pretty silly and clearly meant to parody Gygaxian tropes, it pulls it off with some really compelling and thoughtful world-building, inventive genre writing, and is an absolute ideas buffet for any DM who is even thinking of running a dungeoneering adventure.[TV Series: 19 Episodes and counting]
::Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Pathfinder]]

*'''''Bosco Adventure''''': Old as fuck anime that, if not being an adaptation of a children's book, might easily pass as someone's campaign turned into an animated series. Life is good in the fairy land of Fountain, ruled by the just king and populated by fantasy creatures and humanoid animals. Or was good, until an evil entity simply known as Scorpion attacked, killed the royal family, and took the remaining princess Apricot prisoner, planning to cement his rule with either marriage or magic if she resists. But the princess managed to pass a message to three adventurous types to help her escape: the brave Frog, the inventive Tutty the turtle and the oddball Otter. They bust the princess from the dungeon, and from there they have their adventures together while trying to subvert Scorpion's evil reign, stop him from taking Fountain for good, and being on a run from his cronies. It's exactly what it sounds. [[awesome|It's exactly like it sounds]]. And despite being about as old as your average grog, still perfectly watchable.
::Related games: [[Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], [[BESM]], OVA, [[Tunnels & Trolls]], Mausritter

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