Approved Anime

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

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− /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:

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• 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.)

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• Does it feature traditional gaming? (If it's an important part of the show, add it.)

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• Is it fantasy or sci-fi? (We have a huge boner for that, but explain how it's relevant first.)

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• 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.)

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• 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.)

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• Is this just /a/'s flavor of the month bleeding over into /tg/? (NO. Your addition will likely be reverted, so don't bother. As a general rule wait a few months after it shows up.)

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• is it yugioh? (if so get out.)

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− 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.

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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]

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Related games: Street Fighter the RPG (by White Wolf), playing a monk in D&D

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• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The singular manliest, and most FABULOUS! show ever made. Men with weird and convoluted superpowers hunt vampires. Hop in the car, loser, we're going posing. [READ THE MANGA][OVA series: 13 episodes + 1 movie, TV series: 74 episodes and counting]

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

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• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The singular Orkiest show ever made. Starts out with human rebels on stolen mech fighting bio-engineered beastmen, gets progressively more and more out of hand. Exceedingly, gloriously out of hand. Fairly philosophical below the pumped up appearance. Steve Blum also voices a queer guy, no joke. Notable for the fact that by the final episode the main characters achieve Enuff Dakka by shooting at an enemy from EVERY POINT IN SPACE AND ACROSS TIME. [TV series: 27 episodes + 2 movies + 15 shorts + 1 sexy ass music-video]

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Related games: Mekton, Toon

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• Hunter x Hunter: Two shota boys fighting dudes. 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), Kurta the last of its clan of special humans that seeks vengeance against a group of super-strong psychopathic bandits, and Leorio who's the weakest of the group but wields THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP (and still ends up doing awesome things later in the show). HxH builds worlds like One Piece, which is a huge commendation. It also created somewhat balanced and unique power level system called "nen", a downright rare accomplishment in a genre of OVER 9000 nonsense. [TV series: 62 episodes + 30 OVAs; Reboot: 148 episodes + 2 movies]

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Related games: FATE

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

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Related games: Legends of the Wulin, Exalted

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• Samurai Champloo: A show about two samurai with completely differing fighting styles being forced together along with a token female to fight for their personal goals. Combines crazy fight sequences with a very 80's-style feel, along with quite a few moments of both slapstick and gallows humor. [TV series: 26 episodes]

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Related games: Derailed D&D quests, allying Necrons, Blood Angels, and Tau in a game of Warhammer

• KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World!: A 2016 parody of the Isekai (another world) genre. The main character dies and gets reincarnated into a generic fantasy world *yawn*, but he ends up with an incredibly un-optimized party of rejects. Starting with "the weakest" generic Adventurer class himself, he's joined by a brain-dead Priest who spent most of her skill points on party tricks, a Wizard who can only cast one spell per day because she absolutely refuses to learn any new spells, and a Fighter who's only good as a meat-shield, which suits her just fine as she's extremely masochistic. Plus a complete lack of teamwork, tactics, or luck. Not to mention their horrible personalities. It is reminiscent of new players stumbling though their first RPG campaign, run by an experienced GM who is laughing his ass off. [TV series: 20 episodes + 2 OVAs]

• KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World!: A 2016 parody of the Isekai (another world) genre. The main character dies and gets reincarnated into a generic fantasy world *yawn*, but he ends up with an incredibly un-optimized party of rejects. Starting with "the weakest" generic Adventurer class himself, he's joined by a brain-dead Priest who spent most of her skill points on party tricks, a Wizard who can only cast one spell per day because she absolutely refuses to learn any new spells, and a Fighter who's only good as a meat-shield, which suits her just fine as she's extremely masochistic. Plus a complete lack of teamwork, tactics, or luck. Not to mention their horrible personalities. It is reminiscent of new players stumbling though their first RPG campaign, run by an experienced GM who is laughing his ass off. [TV series: 20 episodes + 2 OVAs]

Related games: MMORPGs, Dungeons and Dragons, any RPG that allows ineffective character builds

Related games: MMORPGs, Dungeons and Dragons, any RPG that allows ineffective character builds

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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 vigilante called Zero who may remind you of a certain someone 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/hypnosis). The mechs of the series are known as Knightmares which serve as the main fighting force for Brittania and the rebels. If you want a show that has qualities even the Emperor's Children would appreciate then watch it. [TV series: 25 episodes]

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• • Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2: Follows as a continuation of the first season. Just as fabulous. [TV series: 25 episodes]

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• • Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection: A third season announced for 2017. Widely considered to be the producers milking the franchise but all the fanboys will no doubt end up watching it anyway.

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• Eureka Seven: A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie that you shouldn't watch because it is bad.]

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• • Eureka Seven AO: A sequel to the original that shits on basically everything the first series was about in the most aggravating manner possible. Avoid. [TV series: 25 episodes + 1 OVA]

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Related games: Traveller, Battletech

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• Robotech: One of the most well-known anime series of all time, it basically revolves around humanity fighting against multiple alien invaders with transforming mecha. It helped influence the Transformers franchise and is a must-watch for mecha/sci-fi enthusiasts. Also the reason why many of the original BattleTech designs can never be remodeled again; FASA licensed the designs from Japan first but Harmony Gold didn't want to share. Is an adaptation and combination of three Japanese anime: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, for which the term "Macekre" was coined, referring to producer Carl Macek. [TV series: 85 episodes + 4 movies + 2 OVAs]

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

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• 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]

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Related games: Mekton, Dungeons & Dragons: Eberron, Spirit of the Century

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• 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 own role playing system running off the Fuzion rules. [TV series: 52 episodes + 10 OVAs]

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Related games: Heavy Gear

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• 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]

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Related games: BattleTech, A Time of War

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• 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 Space Nazis 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 psyker 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 there are at least [TV series: 43 episodes + 3 movies]

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Related games: BattleTech, Warhammer 40000

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• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: One of the latest (and most awesome) iterations of the Gundam franchise, IBO focusses on a group of young 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 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, 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 brought up in the plot, such as slavery and neo-colonialism). The main crew will fight pirates, mercenaries, and a huge military organization along their journey, and the show also features a charismatic soldier trying to manipulate people on both sides of the conflict to bring balance to the Force the aforementioned military organization. Ignore the fact that he is technically married to a kid despite being a fully-grown adult. [TV series: 50 episodes]

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Related games: See above

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Things That Aren't Anime, But You Thought Were, but are still Approved

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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: 25 titles, as of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom]

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

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

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• • 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]

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(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.)

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Related Games: /v/ stuff, generic mid-Europe fantasy setting. Wakfu had an unofficial early beta RPG and the company Ankama has asked if anyone is interested in an official RPG. There's also Krosmaster, a tactical PvP board-game with online and offline versions, set in the same world.

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• 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.we argued about it once. No we didn't. [TV series: 61 episodes]

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• • Avatar: The Legend of Korra [TV series: 52 episodes]

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

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• RWBY: Anime-esque CGI production made by the late Monty Oum and RoosterTeeth. 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. Generally considered to have a good (if somewhat flawed) story, good characters, and cool weapons; however, not all anons will agree. Currently someone is trying to make 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 Meta things are fun.

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Related games: low-level Exalted

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