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No.38404
Discuss fantasy anime and manga. There hasn't been a series that peaked my interest like Slayers and Dragon Half. I recommend watching Slayers and reading the Dragon Half manga.
No.38408
Dragon Half and Slayers seem to be a similar flavor. Be nice if there were more fantasy anime like them, anime that isn't isekai.
No.38411
The first 15 episodes of Sword Art Online are a pretty good representation of a tabletop RPG made into a MMO. Especially the unique skills aspect. It's what got me interested in the games which then turned out to be shitty dating sims and destroyed the most interesting boss fight right in the tutorial when the skull reaper was wailed on by you all but solo.
No.38412
>>38408
Dragon Half only had an OVA, but the manga is really fun. I also think Dragon Half and Slayers share a similar vibe, I just can't put my finger on it.
No.38415
>>38412
late 80s, early 90's OAV and D&D vibe put together.
No.38417
>>38415
Yeah, I guess you're right. They are really good too and contain some of the fun elements that modern fantasy anime seem to be missing.
No.38419
>>38417
Well modern fantasy has utterly tanked in the west. It's tried to banter to trannies and literal autists instead of just making cool stuff. WOTC are funding gay pride parades and shit.
There's really no where this can go unless the industry collapses and there's a fresh fantasy movement. Japan has managed to preserve a little of the tradition with Dark souls but that's pretty niche (not the game popularity) and doesn't really do much with the concept outside of the usual stuff.
Lots of animes like Black Clover have tried to dig into fantasy as a setting but they take too much focus away from the world it's self. You would think people might take the hint from Tolkien where the world was much bigger than the characters were.
How were the modern Slayers OAVs?
No.38421
Why do I hear some people use the phrase OAV and others use the phrase OVA?
No.38422
>>38421
Never been a fixed way for it. Both work and everyone understands then so it doesn't matter.
Original video animation
Original animated video
No.38423
>>38404
i guess Isekai has ruined fantasy anime/manga a little. Yet you can still find stuff like Dungeon Meshi and Stravaganzza.
>>38421
OVA ?
No.38462
>>38408
>Be nice if there were more fantasy anime like them, anime that isn't isekai.
Here's some more older stuff that felt similar:
<Mahou Senshi Louie
<Gokudo
<Bakuretsu Hunters
<Hikyou Tanken
No.38464
Heterogeneous Linguistics
>A linguist travels among the world of monsters, learning how each species communicates.
This one's good. It's something different. It's fun to try to puzzle out what's causing the various difficulties in communication before the causes get revealed later, and the worldbuilding is quite decent.
No.38497
I'm really enjoying the Goblin Slayer novels, I'm eagerly awaiting the anime. I do miss Slayers though, I've been rewatching some of the movies recently.
No.38498
>>38462
>Hikyou Tanken
Seconding this, it's really fun, lighthearted and visually great. The manga is translated too.
No.38511
>>38464
How the every loving fuck has no one even talked about this before
No.38512
>>38511
It was mentioned in one of the other threads here.
>The cute nekomimi loli is the hybrid offspring of a human and a furry
No.38513
>>38512
>nekomimi
I mean *Inumimi
No.38534
>>38498
>Hikyou Tanken
i am not sure how truth is it, but i recall reading somewhere that the author stopped doing the mango cause he didn't know exactly were to take it plot-wise
No.38558
I wonder if a /tg/+/animu/ CYOA could work here if there's enough anons. The dice to roll is functional here.
No.38568
>>38558
Please don't. They're utter cancer.
No.38575
>>38568
Maybe we could manage a regular TTRPG group.
Tenra Bansho Zero sounds good. Or Motobushido.
No.38578
You can hear the dice rolling in Lodoss
No.38770
>>38534
It ends more or less where the OVA did, so I don't think that's true.
No.38817
>>38404
>There hasn't been a series that peaked my interest like Slayers and Dragon Half
Have you tried Gokudo? It's much more comedy-heavy than something like Slayers, but you might like it.
No.42736
It would be nice to have more fantasy that wasn't isekai that's for sure. Goblin Slayer is pretty good.
No.42739
>>42736
>Goblin Slayer is pretty good.
No.42741
No.42752
No.42753
>>42752
Why is this way better then it has any right to be?
No.42757
>>42753
Because :
>gorgeously detailed art
>badass old man MC
>great worldbuilding
No.42791
>>38578
>record of lodoss
>not pic related
come on, its like you hate fun.
No.42795
>>42791
I love the OVA they were classics but since we are going full on /tg/ Lodoss pretty much helped kick start the fantasy craze in Japan.
No.42821
>>42736
So you want isekai without the isekai?
No.42842
>>42757
Way better then it has any right to be.
No.43686
>>38417
Her father slayed the dragon but with the wrong sword.
No.44161
How much has Tolkienism influenced fantasy anime&manga?
No.44169
>>44161
everything, but at least the whole fairy that looked like tiny people with bug wings was Shakespeare idea.
No.44171
>>44169
I don't mind Tolkeinism but I like when an anime or manga takes a completely different route with it's fantasy such as going Persian like or it's own imagination.
No.47514
No.47602
Nobody mentions Drifters?
No.47616
>>44169
Actually it's not. It's a Victorian idea. There was a resurgence in the popularity of faires at the same time as there was a growing interest in the study of insects and many other things, so they ended up fusing.
No.50101
>>42821
He wants worlds of fantasy where no loser from our world stumbles into them, baka.
>>44171
My beef with tolkeinism is that it's not all that fantastic–it's 90% realistic medieval warfare fanfiction with a scant few otherworldly elements. I mean fuck, if the only distinct physical characteristic separating your good guy races is height then you have problems.
On that note, anyone got any Conan-esque series or one-shots they'd recommend? I watched Amon saga earlier and it hit most of the sword and sorcery high notes for me.
No.50115
>>38407
I played that shit once on a forum a few years ago, it was the gayest thing I've ever done because sometimes I'd step back and realize I was just rping as little girls with a bunch weebs. But at the same time it was really fun
No.50597
>>47602
Was that shit any good? i remember seeing that trailer at the end of one of Hellsigns' OVAs years ago, but i haven't heard much since
No.50606
>>50597
I liked it, it was interesting and has a lot of potential.
No.50610
>>50597
Interesting premise, but kinda boring since the bad guys are as intelligent as a sack of potatoes.
No.53222
>>38404
Any of you up for a /comfy/ romp through a medieval/fantasy countryside with Ryuutama? (may or may not end in starvation and/or freezing to death, it's my first time running this system)
Plan would be to start the game this Saturday(09/15), somewhere between 1000 and 2000 UTC, and go for about 2-3 hours, if everything goes right.
We'd be creating the characters then, too.
I'll use MapTool with VoIP in tox, probably.
You don't have to have a microphone if you don't want it. I'll use it due to it being far easier to improvise that way.
No.53223
>>53222
Rules can be found here, under Translated/Ryuutama since 8chan continues to sperg out if I try to post the pdf directly:
https://mega.nz/#F!KA1DHRRL!MGkoDoBdnehHG7D2iXOwXQ
No.53260
>>53227
God I fucking love Lodoss.
No.53276
>>38578
Was kind of disappointed with Lodoss recently. It's a series of events with hardly any character development.
No.58413
is there an isekai where people get transpoerted to a non-fantasy-esque world?
like to a sci-fi world, or a different themed world? (like in El Hazard, where there was sci-fi/fantasy/pseudo arabian nights theme)
No.58415
No.58594
Slime Life
A slice of life about a mage and her slime.
No.58629
>>58413
NGNL is game board themed, if that's different enough. It does have the typical fantasy races, but there's interesting spins on each of them.
No.58639
>>58326
>orc looks like pig
>doesnt fuck wife
pass
>>58390
>look it up
>it ended
>someone in the comments is saying its going to have a pornographic version
cant fucking wait
No.63084
I haven't watched anime in a few months, I just tried to get Amon Saga from bakabt and apparently its private now? I checked nyaa.eu and it's trying to get me to download some shady binary client.
What is going on