Editing Approved Anime (section)

==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'''''

*'''''Kaiji''''': [[You|Shiftless loser]] and Lost Decade victim Kaiji Itou gets kidnapped by a loan shark to collect on an outstanding debt that isn't even his. Kaiji attempts to get the money through an illegal gambling tournament, with his life as the collateral. He gets repeatedly screwed over by the yakuza, loses and gains multiple fortunes playing [[Yu-Gi-Oh|some of the most bullshit games imaginable]], wins the friendship of similarly-trapped gamblers, and eventually grows up. An archetypal rags-to-riches-to-rags story, and a campaign leaning into the [[murderhobo]] side of things will appreciate lifting any of the "gambles" shown here. Also a goldmine of reaction images, thanks to the artist's exaggerated style and the fact that Kaiji spends any given moment either shitting himself in terror or laughing his ass off. [TV series: 52 episodes]
:<u>Related games</u>: [[D20 Modern]], [[Mahjong]], [[Paradox poker]]
 
*'''''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 fighting themselves/the allies/what are basically daemons of battles, islands and sunken ships. 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. Now with a second, unrelated series [TV series: 12 episodes + 1 movie, 8 episodes]
 
: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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